The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-16
GENERAL NEWS.


THE bridge over Paint creek, near
and let ten loaded freight cars and the
engine into the creek. Three train
men were killed.
GEN. MASo has been elected head of
the provisional government formed in
Cuba All the other men selected were
said to be capable and brilliant and
Cuban patriots all over the country re-
gard their election as significant of
glorious epoch.
On the sth Urban Els, at Baltimore,
Nd, shot his brother-in-law, Charles
A Pfefer, in the right arm, then shot
Mrs. Margaret Pfeffer in the left breast
and finally shot himself in the fore
head. The wounds of Mr.. and Mrs.
Pfeffer are slight, but his is probably
fatal. 1t was thought Els was tenn
porarily demented.
JACOB GIGAX. a retired banker who
had been suffering from illness and
was so weak he could barely walk, tot
tered to the depot of the Cincinnati &
Muskingum railroad at GAINESVILLE, O.,
on the 9th and got down on his knees
beside the track as train started and
placed his head on the rail, and before
anyone could reach him the wheels had
passed over his head, crushing it and
severing it from the body.
AT Ogdensburg, Y. Y, early on the
sth, Tire started in the lumber piles of
the Skillings, Whitney & Barnes Lum-
ber Co., in the eastern part of that
town. The loss was put at $50, 900 to
$50, 600: insurance, S95, 600.
THE works of the Tuscarora Adver-
tising Co. at Coshocton, o., were badly
damaged by fire recently. Loss, about
$4,000
4 CROWD at Buffalo, y. Y, on the Sth
witnessed the struggle between Joe
Patchen and Robert J. for the su-
premacv. Patchen repeated his Cleve-
land victory on Roberts own stamp
ing ground, but was forced to put in
four faster heats than he did before.
The four heats averaged 2:053+. The
purse was $1,000
The school census of Nashville,
Tenn. shows the population to be ST.
314, of which 81, 654 are negroes. an in-
crease in one year of S,26s. This in
crease was causing much comment
THE white miners at Spring Valley,
Ill, held a mass meeting on the 9Th and
passed resolutions declaring peace with
the negroes, although there was feel
ing that if the Italian who was shot
should die there would be trouble
The house of w. NJ. Brown, of Co
lumbia, Ok, was burned to the ground
by vigilantes who found stolen horses
in his barn and suspected him of horse
stealing. The family was notified to
leave the country in twenty-four
hours. The county attorney has or
dered full investigation.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Atlantic & Pacific railroad at Grant
station, about 100 miles west of Albu-
querque, n. NJ. on the night of the
9Th, two sleepers and two coaches of a
train from San Francisco being
ditched. II was reported that twelve
people had been killed aud twenty-five
wounded.
Mrs. ANNIE T. GARDINER, the miss
ing Christian Endeavor delegate of
Arcadia, Neb., to Boston, who was
found living as a domestic at Norwich,
Conn, returned home with her hus-
bands friend who found her. She
stOutly maintained that she was not
insane.
SENATOR PETER of Kansas, was the
principal speaker at the meeting of
populists in Fort Worth, Tex, on the
7th. He arraigned the present admin
istration for its financial policy and ae-
cused Carlisle of law breaking in issu-
ing bonds; spoke in favor Of the Omaha
platform, and denied that he was in
FAVOR of new party.