The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02

RE adversely to the judges and divorces
the court denying the right of probate
judges to grant divorces and declaring
sll such null and void, and any subse
quent marriage of the parties illegal
Hundreds of eastern people who have
secured Oklahoma divorces from pro
bate courts will be compelled to have
their cases retired in the district courts
IN New York city on the 2sth fire
Quilted the establishments of Scharles
Bros, dealers in toys, and Joaquin q
Co, dealers in French millinery. The
buildings fronted on West Twenty
third street. The loss will be about
5000, 600
JUST after midnight of the eth the
executive board of the Brotherhood OF
Tailors, at New York, ordered strike.
The effect will be that 1000 coat tai
lors of New York, Brooklyn and
Brownsville will quit their machines
and refuse to work any more until the
/. 900 contractors employing them sign
the new agreement
A NEGRO has swindled the colored
people in Memphis, Tenn, by stating
that he was the ''muck-a-muck" of the
Society of the Hidden Treasure, whose
secret was the existence of hidden
treasure worth thousands of dollars.
He charged $40 for initiation fees and
so cents a month dues. After he had
collected several thousands of dollars
from about $50 members he skipped
out.
A REPORT was current on the night of
the 2sth at Memphis, Tenn, that the
steamship Belle. of the Anchor line,
| bound from St Louis to Memphis, had
sunk about 60 miles north of the latter
city and that forty lives had been lost.
There was no Geographic communica-
| ton near the scene of the disaster and
/ the rumor could not be confirmed or
. denied.
CHEROKEE BILL got his hands on a
revolver and attempted to liberate the
/ prisoners confined in murderers' row
of the United States Jail at Fort Smith,
Ark, on the Goth. Larry Heating the
oldest guard was killed. The desper-
ado finally surrendered his revolver to
Henry Starr.
AT Bochua, Westphalia, an explosion
of fire damp and coal dust occurred in
the Prinz Won Pruessen mine and
twenty-five dead and eleven injured
men were found in the pit and there
was possibility of there being more.
There was heartrending scene at the
mouth of the pit, relatives of the dead
and injured being congregated there.
WILLIAM FREDERICKs, who murdered
Cashier Herrick in an attempt to rob
the San Francisco Union savings bank
in March, 1894, was hanged at the San
Quentin penitentiary on the 26th.
The failures for the week ended
July 20 Dun's report) were zoe in the
United States, against 249 last year,
and % in Canada, against 80 last year.
Mrs. ELIZABETH WmDGRUB, of Lake
Bay, Wash, made desperate attempt
recently to murder her two daughters,
aged and 10 years, respectively.
While the children were sleeping the
mother went to their bedside and at
tackled them with Ratchet, cutting
and hacking them with the strength
/ born of insanity. The children strug-
| gled for their lives and succeeded in
| escaping out of doors.
AT Hoboken, n. J., after battle of
/ three-quarters of an hour, during
which he stood off three officers who
tried to arrest him, John Spellisy was
| killed in his own house. Spellisy was
| As years old and one of the most desper-
] ate men in that section of New Jersey.
| He was ending a carousal by beating
| his wife when the officers interfered.
MARION MILLER, a pioneer ranchman
residing at Azusa, Cal, fell asleep
while his 5-year-old granddaughter was
| playing with matches. She set her
clothes on fire and when the mother
returned, she found her dying child
kneeling by her sleeping grandfather
\ Miller was blamed for the child's con-
dition and he shot himself through the
head, killing himself.
THREE fatalities were reported from
Oklahoma on the 25th. George Salmon.
from Ponca, was drowned in pond on
! Sylvester Soldani's ranch, in the Usage
country. An S-year-old son of James
Burke, near Norman, was drowned
while bathing, and at Pawhuska the
little daughter of Barney Plowondon
was fatally scalded by falling into a
kettle of boiling water.
AT Denver, Col, as a result of the
democratic state convention an address
has been issued by committee appeal
ing to democrats to get together and
reorganize. The address asserted that
a vast majority of the advocates of BIZ
metallism were democrats and that the
restoration of silver could come only
through the agency of the democratic
party.
PETER MAHER and Steve ODonnell
have been matched to fight at Dallas,
Tex, during the week of the Corbett-
| Fitzsimmons mill.
THE Iowa Indians, whose reserva-
ton is located east of Guthrie, visited
the Poncas and the Otoes, few miles
above Perry, Ok. When the visitors
| left for their home the 0toes held what
they call a pony smoke. The whole
tribe met at one place and in turn
they would smoke the big pipe with
their visitors and when they were
ready to depart each Iowa was given
from one to three fine ponies as token
of regard and friendship. In all the
Otoes gave away about 200 ponies.
AT Freeport, Ill, on the oath 10000
people witnessed the mile trotting race
between John z. Gentry and Joe
Patchen for purse of $4,000. Gentry
won easily, making the mile in 2:O4%.
THE steamer Dove bound from Mon
roe to Toledo, O., with $50 excursionists
on board, went aground on a shoal
just outside of Turtle light on the
! evening of the 23d. She DISPLAYED sig