The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-06

wall, aged nine and seven years re-
spectively, were killed by car while
crossing the Chicago & Alton tracks at
Chicago on the I'd. The girls were on
their way to school.
AT Buena Park, Cal, Harvey r.
Moon attempted to lead bull out to
pasture, but the animal knocked him
down and soon stamped his life out
Moon was an old soldier and served in
the One Hundred and Sixteenth Tndi-
ana infantry.
The city of Guayaquil, in South
America, was recently visited by one
of the greatest fires IN history. The
blaze lasted 40 hours and five people
where known to have lost their lives.
The custom house was burned with
81, OoO,O 600 worth of goods and about
two-thirds of the business property
was destroyed. 1t was estimated that
5000 persons were rendered homeless
and 30. 600, 600 sucres' worth of property
was consumed by the flames A bill has
been introduced into the Colon ian
congress, appropriating $50. 600, 900 in
gold for the benefit of the uff ererS
A GANG of 80 Italian lahorers became
panic stricken on an electric car at
Newark, n. j.. on the ID. through the
flashing of battery, and they tum-
bled out while the car was under full
Roadway and one man was killed, one
fatally injured and four others seri.
ously hurt.
T'1-o r,,aY, ,,,oro l,;llo1 o,,5 g.. IL -.
badly injured by an explosion in Pack
er No 2. colliery at Ashland. Pa They
were engaged in driving a tunnel and
the blast went off.
ToUGHs armed with rifles, clubs and
canes terrorized the residents and
pedestrians of Ashland boulevard, Chi.
cago, on the night of the 3lst. After
throwing lampblack and pepper in o
the faces of pedestrians and breaking
hundreds of dollars worth of window
glass, the gang wound up in the
Eighteenth ward, where there where
three riots before midnight
JUDGE ELMER S. DUNDY, for 80 years
federal district judge for Nebraska,
died at Omaha.
THE greater part of the business por-
ton of the town of Manila, Ind, was
wiped out on the 1st by fire. Two
blocks of frame business houses were
consumed. The town had no fire de.
partment. The total loss will be over
$4,000, on which there was but 81, 200
insurance.
The Dallas, Tex. county grand jury
have found an indictment against Mark
Hanna for corruption and bribery. 1t
is charged that he telegraphed an offer
of $4,000 here for the electoral vote of
Texas. The grand jury is endeavoring
to get the Western Union Telegraph
Co. to give up certain kilograms in or
der that it may prosecute Others on
similar charges
The schools at Galesburg, Ill, have
been closed on account of the preva-
lence of diphtheria.
An accident occurred on the Wyo-
ming Valley traction line near Wilkes
barre, Pa, in which one woman was
killed and two women and boy were
seriously injured. The car jumped the
track and turned over, pinioning the
four passengers under the wreck.
Two masked men entered Christian
Hanschild's saloon at Cleveland, O., and
held up the proprietor and three men
who were drinking. After rifling the
pockets of their victims and the cash
drawer, Hanschild got possession of his
revolver and shot one of the thieves,
but they both escaped.
On a railway train running from a
Beattyville, KY, repu blican rally Jerry
town marshal of Jackson,
and John G. Hargis fought with pis-
tolls Hargis was killed and Cardwell
badly wounded. Hargis was a son of
ex-State Senator Hargis, and Cardwell
is the son of ex-senator Thomas Card
we'll.
julius MANNow was hanged at Chi
cago on the 3Oth for the murder of
Carey B. Birch, cashier of the West
railway.
THE district court of Denver, Col,
on the SOth granted divorce to Mrs.
Eleanor Mix from Charles Mix, of
Albany, n Y, on the grounds of deser-
ton and non-supporG The woman
was the widow of J. z. Emmett, the
famous actor. when she met and mar
ried Mix in 1894.
THE failures for the week ended the
SOth Dun's report were 246 in the
United States, against 299 in the CORE.
spond ding week last year. and 81 in Cam
ada, against 81 last year.
A DISCOVERY has been made that
hundreds of Italians in New York
have been fraudulently naturalized.
The papers are stamped with a forged
seal of the superior court by a man
who has since returned to Italy, TAX
ing with him $40 from each of his VIC
Tins.
The schooner Samuel P. Ely struck
The breakwater at Two Harbors, Mimi,
and sank on the 3Oth. The crew, con-
sisting of the captain, mate and seven
'eamen, chung to the rigging, but it
vas thought they would be swept off
before help could reach them as there
vas terrible gale raging on Lake SUI
oerior.
SUSAN CHILDREss. of Elkhorn, KY,
'ecently gave birth to triplets. two
rirls and a boy. The boy weighed
light pounds and the girls four each.
Mrs. Childress has / cen married five