The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-29

6remen lost their lives All except the
captain were colored men. They went
down with the floor of the rotunda and
were horribly mangled and burned.
There were les guests in the hotel, all
of whom escaped uniniured. The dam
age by fire amounted to $40. 900.
THE three receivers of the whisky
trust-Messrs. Lawrence, Mitchell and
McNulta-presented their designations
to Judge Grosscup at Chicago on the
23d, which were accepted. After a
lengthy discussion between the judge
and attorneys and other interested par
ties Gen. McNulta was appointed as
sole receiver.
A LEPRosY case in New York city has
been brought to the attention of the
board of health. The man had been
living in a tenement house for six
years.
JACK MCAULIFFE, lightweight cham
pion of the world, and Hugh Behan,
representing Young Critic, of Australia,
signed articles at New York of agree
ment for a finish fight for a private
stake of $4,000 a side, the fight to be
decided before the club offering the
largest purse.
THREE masked men went to the
county Jail at Woodward, Ok, with
Winchesters and liberated all the
prisoners Then they marched the
jailer about y mile over the prairie
and kept him long enough for the
prisoners to get away before the alarm
could be given.
IT was reported at New York that
the Chinese Six Companies were to
form an organization of laundrymen,
in opposition to the one talked of by
employees to put a stop to the cutting
of rates. 1t was proposed to secure a
charter from the legislature. Each
laundry will contribute from so cents
to 81 a month and branches will be
established all over the country.
WALTER BARK was hanged in the Jail
yard at Tahlequah, l. T., on the 22d
for the murder of Johnson Reese in the
Goingshake district several years ago.
EVERY COW of the herd at the Cali
fornia state university dairy has been
condemned by the inspector of the
board of health on account of tubercu-
losis in an adva need stage. The pro-
prietor admitted that he had been
serving customers with milk although
he knew the cows were diseased.
The japanese fleet has attacked the
Pescadore (Fisheries) islands, between
Formosa and the Chinese mainland.
1t is the intention of the Japanese to
make the Pescadore islands the base of
operations against the island of For
moSa-
JAMES BALL was ambushed near
Perry, Ok, and filed with buckshot.
His body was soon afterwards found.
William Stoval was arrested, charged
with the crime, and there was con-
siderable talk of lynching him by the
excited people.
THE total number now known to
have persisted in the mine disaster at
Red Canon, Wyo., on the goth, is sixty,
of which fifty-one were married men
and nine young men and boys. There
are fifty-one widows and $50 orphaned
children as a result of the disaster.
AT Hominy Post, near Guthrie, Ok,
Charles Wah-Re-Ihe and Dick Hi-Kah-
Mah-Kah, full-blood Osages, quarreled,
and the former struck the latter on the
head with a club with such force as to
crush his skull and break his neck.
The murderer was arrested.
ADDITIONAL news continues to be re-
ceived from Cuba of insurgent victories
in the east. The latest and most start
ling is that Guillermon Moncada, the
negro leader of a band near Guantan-
amo, wants to turn the revolution into
a race war. 1t is also reported that he
surprised large detachment of Span
ish troops near Guantanamo recently
and completely routed them. In this
battle, it is said, 200 Spaniards were
killed and wounded.
AZ Cripple Creek, Col, Fremont and
Solen McCloslzey, brothers, who have
been in the employ of the Union Min
ing Co., were arrested on the charge of
having stolen from the company dur
ing the past year $4,000 to 100000
worth of ore.
AN explosion of gas occurred in a
coal mine at Red Canon. Wyo., with
terrible results. The deaths number
fifteen and many more miners were
still confined below and thought to be
dead.
THE ninety-first anniversary of the
birth of Gen. Neal Dow, the American
temperance reformer, was celebrated
by all the temperance societies of Lon
don. The meeting, which was remark
able for enthusiasm, passed a resolution
warmly congratulating Gen. Dow upon
the attainment of his ninety-frst birth
day and recording the deep apprecia-
ton of the meeting of his immeasura-
able service in the cause of temperance
and prohibition to humanity.
FIRE broke out on the 10Th at Bur-
lington, VT, in the wood working shops
of J. r. Booth and spread to the
Pioneer lumber mills, the large store
house of the Baldwin Refrigerator Co.
ard to the shops of the Vermont Roller
Shade Co., and practically wiped out
those buildings, containing a large
amount of stock and much valuable
machinery. During the fire w. L.
Millington. aged 65 years, Waterman,
was burned to death. The total loss
was $500. 900.
The explosion of a saw mill boiler
near Eight Mile creek, south of
Carthage, Tex, was reported to have
killed six persons and MANNED many
more. Particulars of the affair have
not been received.
\ TORNADO visited Augusta, Ga, on
the Goth. The first house struck was
hurled across the street and thrown
against the house on the opposite side.
Its sole occupant. a c6lored woman,
was badly hurt In the next house de-
molished negro woman and five chill