The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-15


and burned down she l.. The total
loss was estimated at $50 90: the loss
was pretty we'll insured.
SPECIAL from e. Pa>o. Tex. said
that Dan Stuart h I'd arrived in that
city to arrange for the fight between
Corbett and Fitzs;mmon~. and was 90
irg to Chihuahua to see Gov. Ahumada.
and get concession to fight in Juarez.
/ The ii hit il to occur between Decem-
Der 10 and 20. if not in November
THE bean king" William Lamor-
eaux. committed suicide at his home
in Grand Rapids. Mich. in fit of de-
/ spondency. by shooting himself in the
/ head He was the largest opera or in
beans in the country. He suffered
stroke of apoplexy last summer which
affected his mind.
WHEN the United States cruiser New
I York was a Hampton Roads recently
i've marines were granted shore leave.
/ They entered bar-room. where they
were insulted by several drunken SOL
/ diers. One of the latter. John Crow
/ ley. attempted to strike one of the ma
/ rines but was promptly hoOred. lie
/ then got revolver and enptied the
/ seven chambers and five of the ma
/ rines were wounded. two seriously.
| a DOG entered the home of p. X.
| Stanley, wealthy stock raiser on Buff
/ falo creek. Wayne county. W. Va.
| carrying in its mouth dead child. APP
4 parently weeks old. investigation
disclosed the fact that it had been MUIR
dered and that the dog had unearthed
| it in the back yard. where it had been
buried
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the great iron
manufacturer. has made known his
plans for presenting the town of
Homestead. Pa. with free library. to
cost 100000. 1t will be completed
within year.
\ FREIGHT train on the Kentucky
Central division of the Louisville &
Nashville railway was wrecked by an
open switch at Moruingview. l. miles
from Cincinnati William Headman,
who was in a box car with Eugene
Leigh's valuable vearlingS. was killed.
seven cars were demolished. including
two filed with hogs. most of which
were killed.
FIRE started from gas jet in a tene-
ment house at Brooklyn shortly after
o'clock on the morning of the eth.
and a family of six persons. name
RYAN. lost their lives. They were
found in their beds by the firemen
lfter the fire had been extinguished
A MESSAGE from Tahlequah. |. T.. On
the sth stated that much excitement
and intense feeling between political
factions was prevailing and bloodshed
was likely to result unless compro-
missed. The conditions were similar to
those of eight years ago when MANY
men were killed. The national party
was contesting the election of Sam
Mayes a. chief of the Downing ticket.
and the Indians were collected in the
capital armed to the teeth. determined
to aid their friends
THE failures for the week ended No
vember (Dun's report were $50 in the
United States. against Pei last year,
and ~ in Canada. against IL last year.
LIN Dock DUNN. Chinese laundry
man at Chicago. was shot by an irate
American father for insulting his
daughter. who had been sent to the
laundrvman'S place To get some wash
ing.
EX-SENATOR ALLEN q. THURMAN. OF
Columbus. o.. was reported seriously
sick on the sth with but little hope OF
his recovery The venerable states
man recently fell and hurt his hip
THE British prime minister. in his
speech at the lord mayors banquet at
London declared that the European
powers were harmonious in their de-
termination to correct the evils in the /
sultan of Turkeys Iomininn>
Mona MCDONALD. the Is-vcar-old son !
of IL. ID. McDonlld. proprietor of the /
Oxford Kan lie ulster. was muir tered |
in Chicago an the eth by one of three |
burglars whom he surprised while at I
tempting to rob house where he Was
staying. Mcdonald entered the house |
alone and fouad the bur rlarS ut work /
One of them sho; him through the /
head "a soon a. he stepped inside lie 7
lived only few moments All the men /
escaped.
GEORGE r. SHEENNN expired Sudden- /
Ivwith heart disease al Port Henry. y. 4
Y. on the IN. lie was th. richest I.
iron man ir northern New York. being 4
worth SlO.O1O.Oa0.
INDEPENDENT reports received from ,
Armenia do not confirm the official I
statement that the Armeuiau> pro-
volled the different disturbances which .
have taken place there recently. At
Erzeroum alone the bodies of 500 Ar
meuiau> have been found aud ONLY
the corp>eS of six Turks were among
them.
THE Chicago Evening Post asserted
on the Sth that the Nicaragua canal
would be built by New York and Lon
don capitalists and that all attempts to
secure financial aid from the United
States government would be aban-
doned. Between SO. 900. 600 and So.
OoO. 900 had been guaranteed.
AN accident happened to freight
train on the burlington. Cedar Rapids
K Northern railroad between Spirit
Lake and Superior. Ia. in which Brake
man King was instantly killed and the
engineer and another brakeman badly
injured
\ DISPATCH 10 the London Globe said
that the Greek vessel Mahdi had been
struck by waterSpOut near Tunis and
sunk. Seven persons on board of her
were drowned