The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05

In a fire at Worcester, Mass, on
the Goth, two fremen were killed and
many injured.
PROF. HUXLEY, the eminent scientist,
died at London on the 29th, aged 20
years.
A LEHIGH Valley freight train ran
over three men on the track on Green's
bridge, near Phillipsburg. n. ]. The
men were intoxicated. Their bodies
were badly mangled.
THE international penitentiary con-
gress was opened at Paris on the 29th
by the minister of the interior with a
brilliant ceremony. President Faure,
Ribot, minister of finance, and other
ministers and diplomats and 700 dele
gates were present, representing twen-
ty-five different countries, including
America and England
EX-PREsIDEST PEIXoTo, of Brazil. is
dead. He was distinguished for sup
pressing the revolution which broke
out in Brazil in 1898.
AT birmingham, Ala, an entire
block of seven business houses and
three Offices were destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of nearly S4O,O
The Spanish government has voted
s120, ,O00. 900 to put down the Cuban in
surrection.
AN internal machine was sent from
Fuertstenwald to Berlin, addressed to
the chief of police. The nature of the
parcel was discovered by leakage of
benzine before any harm was done.
AT Richmond, Va, Miss Minnie Will
kinson shot herself through the heart
in an anteroom of the Second Presby-
terian church while services were be-
ing held Oh the 3Oth. She had been
suffering from melancholia.
A GASOLINE stove exploded in the
home of Christopher Brown, 1341 Well
ington avenue, Chicago, causing the
death of Miss Agnes Brown and the
fatal injury to her mother, Mrs. Mary
Brown, and her brother, Arthur
Brown.
In Harris county, Ga, Henry Thomas,
a 11-year-old negro boy, deliberately
murdered a i-year-old baby which had
been left with him to take care of for
time.
INDIGNANT citizens congregated in
the council chamber at Denver, Col,
on the night of the 2sth to prevent the
aldermen passing an ordinance favoring
the water company. Threats of lynch
ing were openly indulged in. The mob
were given to understand that the or
dinance would not be passed and they
hn 1oil hov
obnoxious ordinance. Almost the en-
tire police force had to guard the resi-
dences of the aldermen, but no overt
acts were committed.
ALBERT BEAvY, aged 16, of Salem,
Mo-, who was stealing a ride to Texas,
fell from a Santa Fe train at Guthrie,
Ok, and had both arms cut off.
THE experts have concluded the ex-
animation of the accounts of the late
city treasurer of Butte, Mont, Jacobs,
who committed suicide recently. His
defalcations amounted to $50, ,519 His
bondsmen will make the loss good.
AT Peach Springs, Ariz, a bowlder
of pure silver has been found weighing
about half ton and its value was re-
ported anywhere from SIS, 900 to $40, 600.
MICHAEL MCDoNoUGH, the Kenton
wife murderer, was hanged at Column
bus, O., on the 27th. The execution was
a sickening one. The rope cut deep into
the neck when the body dropped, sew
ering the trachea and jugular vein.
McDonough exhibited the utmost in
difference to his fate up to the time he
went on the scaffold. On the scaffold,
however, he became very nervous and
his knees were trembling very notice
ably when the trap was sprung.
The Union league, of Philadelphia,
at largely attended meeting, adopted
resolutions opposing the free coinage
of silver at an arbitrary ratio of 16 to
/.
AN attempt was made on the Goth 10
assassinate the family of Matto Gerod,
of Hazleton, Pa, by placing dynamite
under the house. Gerod, who conducts
a cigar manufactury, recently dis
several men and it was be-
lieved that they Matched plot for re-
venge. Fire followed the explosion,
destroying three buildings.
SEVEN persons were killed and sew
eral wounded on the 2sth by the ex-
plosion of boiler of steam launch
belonging to the German warship Kur-
fuerst Frederick Wilhelm at Holtenau.
The United States and other warships
there had their flags at half-mast as
of ha