The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-04-19

AT Cleveland, o., John SSjhar, n 10
hemian laborer, shot and instantly
killed Carl Richter and fatally wound
ed Albert Richter, the brother of the
first victim Two hours later the muir
der was found dead in cell at the
police station, where he had been
taken.
PROF. JAMES DWIGHT DANA. author
and scientist of Yale university, died
at New Haven, Conn, on the l4th,
aged So.
Mrs. WILLIAM BALDWIN. wife of the
foreman of the Choctaw company coal
shaft at Hartshorne, i. T., committed
suicide by the use of strychnine She
had also administered the drug to her
child, girl of years. Mrs. Baldwin
died and the chilfs life was de-
SPARED of.
IN WilkesbGrre. Pa, the oil plant Of
the Atlantic Refining Co. was totally
destroyed 10y fire. Shortly after the
fire broke out one of the large tanks,
containing 1000 gallons of oil, ex-
ploded, but fortunately no one was in
jured. The loss will reach fully S5O,-
600. The origin of the FIRE was I'M
known.
ANEW national organization of street
railway employees has been formed in
Cleveland, o.. to take the place of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees which, it was
claimed, was practically dead. The
new society will be known as the Ma
tional Street Railway Employees
league. Organizers were to start out
at once and visit all the principal
cities. The resolutions adopted by the
new association said that municipal
ownership of street railways was the
only means whereby the objects sought
could be obtained.
T. T. HUTCHINsoS's big brick four
story wholesale hardware building at
Wheeling, w. Va, collapsed on the
9th, carrying with it w. II. Chapman &
Sons and A. L. Rice e Co.'S building
on either side. Seven persons in the
Hutchinson building were killed and
a Catholic clergyman who was going
up the alley 1t the side of the building
at the time, was also buried in the
ruins. The buildings adjoining caught
fire, but the fire was subdued. The
cause of the accident was the defective
construction of the Hutchinson build
ing. The loss will reach S2OO,O0
THE failures for the week ended
April IL (Dun's report were 2O7 in the
United States against PTS last year,
and - in Canada against Il last year.
AT Gainesville, Fla, Grant Griffin,
colored, who murdered William Tibbs,
a negro gambler. at La Crosse. on No
vember 6, was hanged privately in the
county Jail.
AT Scranton, Pa, on the 10th the
jury in the case of Anna Dickinson
against DIR. Underwood and others,
after being out seventeen hours, was
discharged. being unable to agree.
The majority of the jurors, it was said,
favored a verdict for the plaintiff.
Miss Dickinson sued to recover $50
600 damages for being incarcerated
five weeks in the Danville asylum in
1891.
AT Susquehanna, Pa, the iron bridge
was washed away on the 10th through
the river being so high.
A LETTER has been sent out by Com
mander Tanner, of the Union Veteran
legion, requesting the various encamp-
ments to contribute TO a fund to be
used in testing in the courts the valid
ity of the action of the commissioner
of pensions in reducing or suspending
pensions.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Sloan
Springs, Ark, recently. Four men
were killed and several others seriously
hurt. For some months there had been
trouble among the men, who were en-
ployed on the railroad construction
work, and were made up of foreigners
and natives, and race prejudices at last
broke out.
a MEETING was held in the province
of Matanzas, Cuba, and a proclama-
ton was promulgated by the insur-
gents declaring that Cuba was free
and independent republic. The procla-
nation was modelled after the Amer
lean Declaration of independence.
THE bodies of Sadie Singer, aged 19
years, and William Bradley, aged Is,
were found at Philadelphia under a
tree Both were terribly burned, and
it was supposed that they were struck
by lightning during a recent heavy
storm. They left their home to search
for wild flowers and, being caught in
the storm, it was thought they sought
shelter beneath the tree.