The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-24


both trains. Engineer Buck was in.
stantly killed and William Sanders, hi.
fireman, terribly burned. The con
ductor of the coal train was severely
cut and scalded.
BONDS to the amount of S11 ZOO. OOt
were being sold to build an electric
railway from st. Louis to Chicago.
Mrs. BELLE RICHMOND, colored, liv-
ing near Hillsboro, O., became insane
and hanged her 10-months-old child
till it died Then she ran across fields,
beating the ground with its dead body.
Another child, years old, she threw
in the well and jumped in after it. She
climbed out again with the child, who
was dying. Alarmed neighbors pin
toned the frantic woman and carried
her to jail.
THREE negroes were lynched recent
~ in a swamp on the Suanee river near
Ellaville, Fla, for assaulting a young
white woman. The body of the girl
was found dead in clump of woods
and evidences were all around showing
that fearful struggle had taken place
A negro was suspected and threatened
with instant death if he did not con-
| fess and he implicated two others, and
the three were taken to the swamp,
tortured, hayed alive and then burned.
AT Louisville, KY, military and
civic parade was held on the 18th in
honor of the arrival from Washington
of the historic cannon donated by the
United States government to the citi-
zens and Grand Army committees.
Business was generally suspended, and
the people of Louisville turned out en-
masse to receive the relics One of the
cannon was in service on the federal
side and the other on the confederate
side during the war 1t is the inten-
ton of the committee to have the can
non melted down and made into
souvenirs for distribution during the
coming encampment next September.
A STIRRING political debate on the
financial question took place at Chi
cago on the 18th between J. Lawrence
Laughlin, professor of political econ
omy in the university of Chicago, the
favorite authority of President Cleve-
land, and William II. Harvey, author
of Coins Financial School" Not
half the people could get in to hear the
speakers.
Gov. TURNEY has issued a call for an
extra session of the Tennessee legisla-
ture to meet May - and last twenty
DAYS.
Mrs. KATE REED and her 3-year-old
son were found dead in bed in Pine
Bluff, Ark, from the effects of chloro-
form.
THE elimination of the charges
against ]. Il. Greenhut, ex-president
of the whisky trust, was reached in a
bill filed in the United States circuit
court at Chicago by Receiver John B.
McNulta. Greenhut and Nelson Nor
ris were accused of having used the
fund of the trust for outside specula.
tions of personal character. in which
they met with loss of $500, 900
IN an attempt to recover a heaving
line worth IS cents the tug Mogul OF
Victoria, valued at S25, 900, was wrecked
on the 18th off Port Townsend, Wash.
MGR SATOLLI has made answer to
the Christian Endeavorers' memorial
petitioning him to unfrock Father
Phelan, of st. Louis, for his utterances
touching the young people of that or
ganization. He regretted that ques-
ton of that kind should have arisen
and said that the matter did not be-
long to him but to the archbishop of
St. Louis.
JUDGE PRIEST, United States Judge
for the Eastern district of Missouri,
has resigned, and Elmer b. Adams has
been appointed in his place. The
cause of Judge Priests resignation was
that the salary was insufficient for him
to support his family.
THE glycerine house of the Hancock
Chemical Co. at the Woodside dynamite
factory near Houghton, Mich, was
blown up on the 10th. Nearly all the
other buildings comprising the plant
were destroyed. So far as known, only
one life was lost, though several per-
sons were severely injured. Frank
Shopper, an employee, was in the build
ing when the explosion occurred and
he was blown to atoms.
AT Loveland, O.. on the 18th, Frank
Hill and George Myers collided while
going at full speed on their bicycles,
fracturing each others skulls. Both
were unconscious and not expected to
live.