The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-07-03
BECAUSE Miss Mary Kane. at Aurelia.

DBCAOsk MISS MARY name. dL AuTcilh-
la, would not accept his attentions
James Mahoney shot her three times
II was thought she could not recover.
Mahoney was jailed.
Four choir boys and the choirmaster
Of St Johns Episcopal church of
Charlestown. Mass, were drowned 10
Lake Matappan by their boat capsiz-
ing on the 29th.
THE members of the notification
committee appointed By the republican
national convention went to Canton,
O., on the 2eth and formally notified
Gov. Mckinley of his nomination for
the presidency, Senator Thurston max
ing the speech Gov. Mckinley re-
sponded by saying he upqualifedly APP
proved the national platform, that
protection and reciprocity must be en-
couraged and sufficient revenue must
be raised to meet the expenses of the
government, and that the money of
the United States. of whatever kind,
must be as good as the best in the
world.
THREE fleeing whisky peddlers cap
tured a locomotive at Mikesukey, l.
T., and forced a Waterman to run
them westward into Oklahoma They
then knocked the Waterman on the
head and turned the engine loose and
after a mad run of so miles it stopped
near Oklahoma City, Ok.
HERMAN COLE, an aeronaut tried to
ascend in his balloon at Grand Rapids,
Mich, on the 29th, but the wind dashed
it against building and he fell out,
landing on his head, and died an hour
after.
IL the federal court at Paris, Tex,
on the 9th five men were sentenced to
be hanyed on Friday. September 4, for
murders committed in the Indian ter
ritory.
An attempt was made upon the life
of the shah at Teheran, Persia. on the
eth. 1t was unsuccessful and the as
sassin was arrested on the spot He
proved TO be a member of the Babi
Mohammed secret society.
THE preliminary federal election oc-
Cured on the 9th all over Mexico.
The electors will meet July and vote
for the president and members of con-
gress There is no doubt of the cleo
ton of President Diaz.
THE Tippecanoe club, of Cleveland,
O., went to Canton. the home of Gov.
Mckinley, and inaugurated a big pa
rade on the eth to ratify his uomiua-
ton for the presidency. Congressman
Taylor and Grosvenor were among the
speakers and Gov. Mckinley responded
by enunciating and defining republican
principles
AT Pittston, Pa, the roof of the Red
Ash vein of the Twin shaft gave way
and 100 miners were buried alive. The
mine was known to be unsafe and the
men were sent down to brace it with
timbers 1t will be days be ore the
men can be reached and the belief
was that all OF them were crushed to
death. Women and girls tainted at
the mouth of the shaft when told that
there was no hope for the miners
buried.
The United States authorities have
seized the steamer City of Richmond
and taken her to Key West, Fla Those
on board were charged with fiji buster
ing and being engaged in a military
expedition to Cuba against Spain.
THREE young children of Joseph
Wise. a Cincinnati butcher, were ia
tally poisoned by chewing gum
a YACHT containing party of nine
pleasure seekers was capsiz I'd in Shaw
nee lake, near Shawnee, Wis, and six
of the party were drowned
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY, in a recent in
terview at New York, said that if a
free coinage candidate was nominated
by the democrats at Chicago on a free
coinage platform it would disrupt the
democratic party as no power on earth
could persuade the New York sound
money democrats to accept the free
silver idea and a compromise was i'm
possible.
THE state silver convention was
called to order at Denver. Col, on the
25th- The platform declared for dis
tinctly American system of finances,
uualterably opposed to the single gold
standard and for an immediate return
20 the unrestricted coinage of both
gold and silver at the ratio of sixteen
~ JIG ~ aASO AbdOESC0 SCbdeOE CT
Ter for president
Ben BRUSH easily won the Latonia
derby at Cincinnsti on the oath.
HEAVY damage was done at Willis
Point and Waco. Tex, by tornado on
the oath. Details were meager.
LoUIs RosKLAND. an employee of the
Pullman Palace Car Co at Chicago,
gave his six-year-old daughter cyanide
of potassium and then committed sui
eide by the same means Domestic
difficulties were the alleged cause.
CARL ALBRIGHT was hanged at
Marshfield. Ore. on the goth for the
brutal murder of his wife last January.
The Chicago Tribune said on the
26th: "a canvass of the delegates of
every state and territory on the cur
rency question shows that SIS dele
gates TO the democratic national con-
vention are either by instruction or
personal preference for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at sixteen
to one against 32s delegates instructed
for or fsvoring the continuance of the
present gold standard
CoSGREssMAN HARTMAN was given