The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-23

mouse. haZer managed 10 get MS WIG
and two children out safely, but be-
fore he could rescue another daughter
the roof fell in, carrying the child
down. C-azed with grief Kazer re.
sisted the efforts of neighbors to drag
him from the burning structure and
his life was lost with that of his daugh-
ter.
EA CHICAGO newspaper recently pub
Ilished interviews with national COM
mitteemen of both the republican and
democratic parties, which indicated
that each were in favor of short pres
idential campaign in 1896.
The eighth biennial session of the
supreme lodge of the colored Knights
of Pythias of North America, South
America, Europe, Asia and Africa con-
vened in Chicago on the 10th and will
continue in session four days Aside
from the regular routine business
there was the important question of
unifcation of the various branches of
the order among colored men to be
considered.
A GANG of Creek Indians and ne
yroes, with several white outlaws,
raided Samuel Norford's store, near
Arbeca, /. T., and, after quitting the
place, assaulted and otherwise mis-
treated FIVE women in the neighbor-
hood, several of whom were likely TO
die.
The schooner Ellen, British vessel,
was recently fred upon by a Vene-
zuelan gunboat in the Caribbean sea
and although the captain sent the
British flag to his mizzenmast head,
the gunboat ignored it and continued
firing until the schooner hove to and
the Venzuelans searched the vessel
and then allowed her to continue her
voyage. The matter has been reported
to London.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Lex
ington, KY, on the 10th and a lynch
ing was highly probable. Mrs. Mary
| Hudson, wife of a prominent farmer,
was assaulted by negro named Henry
Smith, who was captured and placed
in Jail. A large mob of angry people
surrounded the Jail and it was said
hundreds of others were on the way
there to do violence to the negro.
IN the presence of 5000 persons at
Dublin. Ireland, Peter Maher, the Irish
champion, knocked out Johnson, of
London, in half minute, and the Lon
don Sporting Life said that Maher de-
served to 60 in the first rank of boxers.
A DISPATCH from Clearfeld, Pa, on
the 10th said that eight men were
killed and ten seriously hurt by the
premature explosion of a blast near
Mehaffy on the Pittsburgh & Eastern
railway.
]. C. THOMPSON. the fugitive cashier
of the defunct First national bank of
Sedalia, Mo-, has taken out naturaliza-
ton papers and has become a citizen
of the republic of Mexico.
ONE person was killed and score of
others injured in a rear end collision
at Camden. Y. j., on the 18th. An ac1
commodation train crashed into an ex-
cursion train carrying a lot of colored
Sunday school children and the latter
train caught fire and young colored
! boy was burned to death.
AT Asbury Park n. j.. on the 18th,
James ]. Corbett was married to Miss
Jessie Taylor, of Omaha, Neb. The
bride was known by the name of Vera
Stanwood and was named as CO.
respondent in the recent divorce case
of Mrs Corbett against her husband.
The Maryland ublican state con-
vention assembled at Cambridge on
the 18th and nominated Lloyd Lown-
ders for governor, Harry NJ. Clabaugh
for encouragement and L. E. p Den
mis- for comptroller. The platform has
twelve planl1s. the two principal ones
| favoring a protective tariff and op-
posing any legislation to create diff
ferent standard than that of the gold
dollar. The other planks were on
state issues.
A BENzINE tank exploded at the
Peerless foundry at Findlay, O., on the
18th and in an instant the building was
wrapped in flames Two men, Will
liam Adams and William Bemis, were
probably fatally burned. Ten oil stills
caught next. and one after the other
exploded. Next two tanks of crude,
containing $4,000 gallons, took fire,
sending up red columns of flame 200
feet into the air. A mammoth tank of
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cannon, letting the oil run out.
AT the Yankton Indian agency in
| South Dakota, on the 18th, Agent
Smith distributed $40 gold pieces,
struck off for the occasion, as souve-
Mrs of the signing of the treaty ceding
the land to the United States, which
recently went into effect About 450
| Indians received souvenirs. They are
now full-fedged citizens
AT Pierre, S. D., eX-Treasurer w. w.
Taylor, who stole 1854, from the
state, was arraigned by Judge Gaffney
in court on the 14th. He had pleaded
guilty and the judge gave him the
| limit of the law, five years at hard
labor in the penitentiary.
AT Morgantown, w. Va. the boiler
of threshing engine exploded, killing
three men and injuring four others
One man was literally torn to pieces.
A WAR was in progress on the 14th
among laundrymen on the north side
of Chicago, and as result the price of
laundrying shirt. plain, fancy or neg
ligee, was cut from 10 and Is cents to
cents. Collars, cuffs and underwear
took a corresponding drop.
Ex-MAYoR NJ. D. VAN HORN, of Den
yer, Col, was killed on the 14th by
falling from third story window of
the Grand Central hotel, of which he
was proprietor. He had been mayor
of the city from 1898 to 1895 and was a
veteran of the late war.
THOMAS HovENDEN, a well known
American artist, ran on to the Penn
sylvania tracks at Norristown, Pa, to
pull a little girl off who did not notice
an on-coming train, and both were
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