The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
GENERAL NEWN


v, on the Sd Alchemist fell at hurdle
and broke his neck, dying instantly.
Veach, his rider, was pulled out from
under the horse, unconscious.
The acting secretary of state has
again cabled Ambassador Eustis in
Paris to press the request for the rec
ord of Walters trial at Madagascar,
and has instructed him at some length
as to TIE position which he should take
in pre- 1enting it. 1t is also stated that
the instructions to Mr.. Eustis direct
him 10 say that refusal to furnish a
complete transcript will be accepted
BY this government as a denial of JUS
tice
JUDGE GILDERsLEEvE, of New York,
has approved the referees finding in
the Corbett divorce case. This gives
Mrs Corbett an absolute decree, with
the right to assume her maiden name,
Ollie Lake. She is to receive $500 a
year alimony, payable semi-annually.
She may marry again, but Corbett is
forbidden to do SO during the life of
his wife.
JACOB S. CoXEY, of Massillon, the
late leader of the commonwealers, was
nominated by the populist state con-
Teation for governor of Ohio.
Mrs. E. I. GARDINER of Arcadia,
Neb., who went to Boston as a dele
gate to the Christian Endeavor conven-
ton. has not yet returned TO her home
and no trace of her can be found any
where. She was IS years old.
HENRY G. CLARK, Is years old, has
been arrested at Chelsea, Mass. By
his own confession he is one of the
most dangerous firebugs in Massachu-
sets, having caused loss of over $50
900 last spring.
A DISPATCH from Denver on the 1st
two days with the most destructive
rains and cloudbursts in the history
of the state. At Boulder, inches of
rain fell in four hours, damaging
crops. irrigation bitches and fumes.
At Loveland, the biggest ditch in
northern Colorado broke through the
sides flooding the country in the
neighborhood. At Golden, the Gulf
trains were all tied up because the
washed out in several places and four
bridges carried away. In Central City
and Blackhawk mining operations were
interfered with on account of the
washing away of fumes.
A BAD fire occurred at Menominee,
Mich, on the 31st 1t started in a pile
of lath in a lumber yard and brisk
wind famed the flames. Conservative
estimates place the lumber burned at
30, O00, 900 feet, which, added to the
buildings destroyed, makes the loss
about $500, 900. For two or three hours
the inhabitants of the district were
in q state of panic and every available
wagon of the town was employed in
saving household effects from threat
ened destruction.
WATER rushed down the eastern
slope of the Magdalena mountains late
on the 30th through the principal
streets of Socorro, n. NJ. More than
fifty houses were destroyed and al
most every residence damaged. Six
persons in a family named Duran were
drowned and many other people were
missing. The Santa Fe tracks were
washed out in several places, and a
branch road was practically destroyed
for 10 miles, FIVE bridges being washed
away besides the damage to the track.
The Spanish cabinet, at its meeting
on the 51st. formally approved the
amount of the indemnity to be paid in
settlement of the Mora claim.
AT Boston on the 3Ist George Dixon,
champion featherweight pugilist, won
on foul in the fourth round in his
contest with Tommy Connolly.
AT Lorain, o., a terrific explosion
took place in the blackmsith depart
ment of the Johnson Steel plant on the
5lst Gas accumulated in a forge,
owing to an impact of cinders which
znited with the hot air blast from the
boiler, causing an explosion which
shook the entire plant Four men
were badly injured.
ACCORDING to steamship advices from
Honolulu. pressure WAS being brought
10 bear on the legislature to secure the
passage of a joint resolution instruct
ing President Dole to reopen annexa-
ton negotiations with the United
States The native Hawaiian organi-
Zation especially favors this
A FREIGHT train on the Florence &
Cripple Greek railroad was caught in
freshet and derailed on the night of
the seth near Adelaide, Col Six per-
sons were known to have been drowned
and two Others were reported missing.
The railroad for 10 miles near Wilbur
was washed away. All the wires were
Frustrated