The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-07-03
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS
EARNIE FRENCH and Will Hoeppner,
of St Paul, Mimi, had fight with
four-ounee gloves before a select audi
ence for the hand of girl with whom
they were both in love. At the end of
the seventh round they were so ex-
hausted that the spectators interfered
and the referee decided the fight q
draw.
Two performing bears got loose and
trotted on to the mountains near Ha.
zleton, Pa. and the huckleberry pick
ers of the section were said to be afraid
to work.
THE Bradley wire works at Pitts
burgh, Pa. has been closed down by
the nail trust to keep up prices and
nearly Loo men were thrown out Of
work
A FISHING crew at Long Branch, n.
J., brought Gp two corpses in their net
recently
NEAR Lawson, Ok, the house Of
John Clark, a farmer, was struck by
lightning and his wife and two small
children were killed
brutality murdered near Riverdale, Ga F.,
and her husband was arrested for the
deed. Fears were entertained that he
might be lynehed
Ar the L A. w. races at Peoria, Ill =,
on the eth H. c. Wood, of Chicago, re.
duced the worlds bicycle half mile
record from IS seconds to Sc As.
A. c Vanhess and G. C. Bicker, of Chi.
cago. reduced the worlds half mile
tandem record from SO seconds to
81 2-5
AT Beirstadt station near Colorado
Springs, Col. passenger train on the
Gulf road ran into an engine standing
at the water tank Both engines were
wrecked and Engineer shannon killed.
Engineer O'Rourke and Fireman Con.
nors were seriously injured No as
sengers were harmed.
Two freight trains eollided near
Birmingham, Ala, and a tramp was
killed Both engines were badly dam.
aged and six cars demolished
MARK HANSA's villa at Lakewood
O., was entered by a burglar at AT
early hour on the Goth. The thief Sc
cured $500 worth of jewels and SO ir
money.
ARTHUR TAYLOR. colored- was hanged
at Mariana, Ark, on the 26th for the
murder of his wife last October
FIR started ia the millinery store
of Annie Denton at Point Pleasant W.
Va. recently. and spread to the HORT
opera house and five or six other
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sumed-. Loss. slO3 600; insurance small
THE failures for the week ended
June % (Dun's report) were 2l7 in the
United States against $50 last year.
and "a in Canada. against 90 last year.
IRWIN FORD, colored. was hanged in
the District OF Columbia jail on the
26th for the murder of a white girl
The crime was committed on May 4.
LYMAN TRUMBULL, ex-United States
senator, died at Chicago on the 18th
after long illness, aged S.
A CYCLONE struck Creston, Ia. late
on the Path. The high school building
was damaged and the Methodist
church and other buildings suffered
Property loss amounted to about Sl0,-
600. and the streets were blocked with
debris No lives were lost so far as
known.
LARGE areas of Marinette county,
Wis, have been devastated BY grass
hoppers. whole fields of wheat oats
and other grain having been eaten up.
THE two trsmps who murdered
Sheriff Rogers were caughton the 25th
in a swamp Two hundred and fifty
men surrounded them The trampt
were taken to Glencoe, Mimi, where
they were locked in jail There was
talk Of lynching and q special train
with company d, of the Second regi.
ment of Minnesota militia, was sent &c
Glencoe to prevent any mob law.
The North Carolina democratic state
convention met at Raleigh on the 25th.
The platform instructed the delegates
TO Chicago to advocate and vote as g
unit for the restoration of silver and
use all their efforts 70 abrogate the
two-thirds rule, If necessary to secure
the nomination of a candidate.
p. b. EVANS, of Utica, O., on the
night of the 25th shot and killed James
Arlington, of a party which came &c
ring bells Oh account of the marriage
Of Evans daughter. The party had
been ordered off the premises, but said
they would go only when the bride
and groom appeared and this angeret
Evans