The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-19

ride from Staunton TO Edwerusville,
I'LL, on freight train, jumped of and
i wss horribly manpled.
RUFUS hartley, saddler Of
Weightsburg, KY. severed the main
artery of his arm while IN bed and bled
to death. Disappointment in love was
the cause
The four-story warehouse of the
White Mills Distilling Co. at Louisville,
KY, was destroyed bv fire recently aud
6. coo barrels of whisky were consumed
Loss. S125. 600
Mrs MoLLTE GAINES went TO the
house of Mrs Robert Gresham. a
widow, at Clermoat Fla. and found
her husband there. The wife then
sprang at the womau's throat with
razor and, after a desperate conflict,
the widow had her jugular vein severed
and the wife was rendered unconscious
by hating her skull fractured.
JOHN X TpRNER shot and killed his
cousin. Greene Turner. at the Halfway
house, near NJ ddleboro, KY, recently.
Greene's brother, Sam Turner, was
killed At the same place ten days ago.
All the parties are connected with the
Turner family of the Parlin-Turner
feud. Fifteen of the family have died
of violence.
CHAIRMAN HARRTTY and his associ-
ates held business conference in re-
gard TO the democratic convention on
the 18th. Harrity clinQs to the hope
that the silver men and gold men in
the national convention may be more
evenly divided than many seem to an
ticipate. OF one thing M. Harritv
spoke with feeling of certainty, and
that is that there would be no bolt
from the convention.
Two business blocks, containing
half a dozen stores in Lamar, Col,
were destroyed by fire. The total
loss was $4,000.
s p. SHERIN, secretary of the ma
tional democratic committee, said
there were 2.OG0 applications on file
for seats in the section reserved for
newspaper men, while but 400 seats
have been provided.
AT Houston, Tex, Archie Hall shot
his wife and her companion, c. I. OAR
bv. Neither were seriously wounded
Hall was arrested.
II was TepOTltu Tue A-IH thdb OH0
Turks had pillaged and burned 90 ham,
lets in the interior of the island OF
Crete.
Four miles north of Courtner Flat,
/. T., Jasper Moore shot and killed
Dick Graham. Moore is brother to
the girl who was arrested recently,
charged with killing her child Moore
accused Graham of rejecting on the
character of his sister, which led to
the killing.
THE town of Tobac, Mex, was re-
Gently visited by tornado, accompa-
MED by a waterspout Three-fourths
of the place was utterly destroyed and
Is dead bodies were taken out from the
debris and 30 more people were miss
ing and supposed to have been killed.
Many others were SO badly injured
that the last rites of the church were
administered to them. Some of the
streets were eight feet in mud and
rocks that rolled down from the noun
tains.
AT the Crystal Palace dance hall at
Lake City, Col, Jessie Landers attempt
ed to shoot Frank Mcdonald. of whom
she was jealous, and fired three shots,
one of which killed Louis Estep. a
young man. The woman then shot
herself, inflicting a probably fatal
, wound
A BARREL of oil in the basement OF
: Garisches bakery at Allegheny, Pa,
exploded early on the morning of the
18TH and enveloped the structure in
, Il imes. Mrs Garische, aged 81. jumped
out of a window and was instantly
killed. The fremen found child dead
in his crib and I2-year-old girl was
so badly burned that she will die
JOHN WoLTER, at Chicago, went
home drunk, drew a revolver and shot
at his wife. The bullet struck his
stepdaughter Mamie and she fell to
the floor in a dying condition. He
then aimed at his other stepdaughter,
Jennie, and she was hit in the stomach
and may die.
FIRE destroyed the building of the
American Horse exchange at New
York on the 18th. About $50 valuable
horses persisted and 100 fine carriages
were also burned. The value of the
property consumed was estimated at
$500. 600 Among the horses destroyed
> was Elisha g., q trotting horse worth
1850, with q record of 2:l9x.
The mayor of Odell, H., has issued
. a proclamation forbidding all public
J gatherings and closing down the
schools and churches on account of the
preEalenoe of diphthsria in an epidemic
form.
TEE failures for the week ended
June l2 ADun's report were 246 in the
, United States, against 24l last year,
and % in Canada, against "a last year.
CONGRESSMAN HEPBURN (rep) has
been reuominated for the Eighth Iowa
congressional district
FREE ADVICE won the handicap race
and 81 500 at St Lonis on the 18th and
clipped a half second off the world 5
record held by Libertine-
E. F. TYLER a son of President John
Tyler. was a prisoner in Richmond,
Va, on the 10th. charged with shoot
ing with intent to kill Jack Carr, a
young negro Tyler is dairyman.