The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-14

A TORNADO Struc1 Wiaona uarix, rear
Warsaw. Ind, on the 1Uth and d.mo.-
ished the amDhi'h heater and desolated
the assembly grounds Two re sons
were injured
THE courthouse of Dav county. Ok,
at Grande was destroyed By fire. to-
gether VITA al contents of booxs,
blanks. records. furn iture. etc.
THERE was t ip e lynching in Hahn
vile, La, at midnight and on the
morniny OF the 9Th the bodies of three
Italian murderers were found swinging
from the r4fiers of a shed near the
courthouse. The men lynched were
Lorenzo Saladino, Decino Soeorro and
Angelo Marcuso.
Robert HOPPER and Matte Johnston,
whose bodies were found on the Louis
vile Southern tracks near Harrods-
burr, Ky. were murdered. 1t has been
discovered, 10y Eve negroes, who were
| playing craps At the time. Both were
shot and their bodies carried several
huudred yards and placed on the track.
A negro man who witnessed the muir
der has told all aboutit Robbery was
the motive
COTTON fields were reported burning
up In Loneoke county. Ark. on the eth
through the hot and dry weather.
Many fences and farm hou.es had been
destroyed. Convicts had been sent to
the scene TO fight the fire.
AT Franklin. Ind. the two-year-old
son Of John Walters fell from q hay
loft and received fatal injuries The
father in going after a physician over
heated himself ami his life was de-
SPARED of. and the horse which he
rode was sun.truck and fell dead on
bis return from the physicians house.
Two farmers, Tom Hall and Terry
james. became involved in difficult
near Greenville. Ky. They came 10
blows and 10th pulled their knives
Terry James was stabbed five times
and has died. Hall was cut in seven
q ,fer~nt places and cannot live. The
men Tough; in the Trolling hot sun and
were alone When the fight occurred. no
witnesses being present
The boiler of a traction engine ex-
Ploded at Anderson. Ind. killing one
man and iniuring several others.
The mining camp of New Pittsburg.
q, was reported 10 be the scene of the
most intense religious excitement.
Families hive been broken up and nu-
merOus fights have occurred over the
matter Three of the leaders were ar
restei and when arraigned they spat
upon the justice Two were placed in
jail aud the third taken to an asylum.
The trouble, it was feared, would end
IN bloOdshed.
SEVENTEEN advocates of the Henry
George theory of the single tax were
languishing in the Dover, Del, Jail on
the 9th and single tax leaders have
called for 100 more speakers to 90 tn
the place until the Jail is filed The
call has been responded to by 800 vol
uDteers, who are bent on vindicatin1
the freedom of speech in Dover The
authorities of the city ore opposed to a
discussion of the question
In Thomas Hurd's animal show at
Chillicothe. O.. Eddie Hurd, is months
old, came within reach of lion who
was chained near the entrance TO a
tent as catchy advertisement. and be-
fore the parents of the child could in
terfere, the lion seized the child by the
head and shook it like a terrier would
rat When the lion dropped the
child 1t was a corpse. The affair
caused a panic in the grounds and
soon emptied them.
TWELVE persons lost their lives
through the burning of a gliding fac
tory in Christiana, Norway. on the eth.
Three of the victims were children
who were burnet to death.
BILL DOOLIN. the outla W who escaped |
from the United States Jail in Guthrie.
Ok. was surrounded by deputy mar
shais at Newoka on the night of the
9Th A desperate fight took place. and !
during fusillade of shots Doolin es.
capped Deputies T. NJ. Gregor and |
Horace Reynolds were killed.
TERRIBLE hurricanes ACCOMPANIED bv
destructive hailstorms occurred in va
rious parts of Hungary on the 7th.
MANY persons were known to have per
shed In the floods from the mountains
and it was feared that the reports
would show much loss of life. TIE
y
districts was very heavy.
A BLOODY fight occurred amonp =
crowd of schoolboys at Buckville. Ark.
Robert Chew and Beaure-
yard Poole became involved in a rougb
md tumble fight and friends of both
7el!igerents joined in the frav. Pocket
Knives were used and several of the
Joys were wounded. Poole was
tabled in the breast and died of his
Wounds
The Park theaier. Tugby's museum
nd other buildings at Niagara Falls
\. Y, were destroyed by fire early on
he It'll The International hotel was
N fire several times, and the guests
led to the streets The loss will reach {
ESQ. COO
DISPATCH from Little Rock. Ark,
n the 5th stated that a water famine I
xisted in large portion of Arkansas. 7
nd in some sections human beings G
Tere actually suffering from the pan0s i
I thirst In jefferson, Cleveland and c
'radley counties some people were t
auling water for drinking purpose, c
/ barrels distance of Is miles.
The American line steamer ST. Louis IL
-hiCh arrival in Got- ~ 4 n