The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-13

prOvlQlng severe pendlticS lof SehAh5
cigarettes to any person, except by
jobbers to parties outside the state,
also fixing a fine of $500 and six
months Imprisonment for running an
opium den.
THERE were renewed demonstrations
of hostility to the United States at
Valencia, Alicante and Dolores. The
news of the insult offered to the Span
ish flag by the students of Princeton
(N. j. university produced the great
est indignation in Madrid.
Mrs. E. ODEN, farmers wife near
Geneva, Ala, was burning some trash
on the Sth, when a spark ignited her
skirt and burned her so that she died.
While she lay suffering agonies she
was forced to witness three large hogs
devour her two-months-oldc child, which
she had laid on the ground while she
worked.
THE clearing house returns for the
week ended March for the following
cities were: New York, S611, 0ss 92s;
Chicago, S92, 4O5, 23s; st. Louis, S23, 22s,.
53I; Kansas City, 537, 29l; St Joseph,
81. 4s3 529; Topeka, s414,O56; Wichita,
s436, ESQ; Omaha, 81. 2s6. 495.
PHILIP ]. A. HARPER, the retired
senior member of the celebrated pub
fishing firm, died at New York on the
9th of heart and kidney troubles, aged
70 years.
FIRE destroyed the main stable OF
the Hudson River Driving park, near
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, in which were SO
blooded horses valued at 81 900 to S., 00O
each. The stablemen turned the horses
loose. The loss on the stable amount
ed to $3.50
THE failures for the week ended
March Oun's report) were 2s5 in the
United States, against 234 last year,
and 6S in Canada, against So last year.
THE undergraduates of Pri uceton,
n. J., on the 5th burned in effigy the
king of Spain in a demonstration in
which several hundred took part. The
flag of Spain was drawn through the
main street and later was torn to
pieces in the center of the campus.
A STEAMER from Japan has brought
news of a coup d'etat at Seoul, Corea.
the king forming a new government
and beheading eight of his former cab
met ministers. The Japanese papers
attribute the kings action to the in
6uence of the Russian minister.
THE Italian ministry announced its
resignation in the chamber of deputies
on the 5th and Prem Ter Crispi added
that it had been accepted by the king.
THE New York chamber of commerce
has sent out an appeal to the CONNER
cial bodies and business men of the
United States to unite in a vigorous eff
fort to send delegates to the political
conventions who will advocate clear
and distinct platform utterances in
favor of the maintenance of the gold
standard.
In the United States court at Ell
Reno, Ok, Juan Rose and John
Thomas were each fined 1900 for go.
ing upon the Comanche Indian reserva-
ton without leave They came under
the intruders clause. This is the first
fine ever imposed and the prosecution
was begun at the direction of the In
dian agent
A CROWD at Leadville, Col, recently
got Spanish flag and burned it, sing
ing patriotic tunes while the operation
was going on.
THE high school building at Chatta-
! nooga, Tenn, costing over $75, 900 has
been destroyed by fire.
A SPECIAL to the New York World
from Washington on the 5th said that
it was likely that President Cleveland
would send a military commission to
Cuba to report on the condition of af.
fairs there, and that Gen. Wesley Mer.
rift, commander of the department of
the Missouri, was likely to be detailed
for the purpose.
ALL over Italy on the 4th there were
riotous meetings and open resentment
against the government for its man
agement of the Abyssinia campaign.
The ministry had resolved to resign
rather than face the crisis Some sol
diers being sent to the relief OF the
army in Abyssinia were forced out of
the cars at Pavia and the rails torn up
and the soldiers made to promise not
to leave town.
THE Keely Motor Co., held a meeting
at Philadelphia aud announced that
the mysterious inventor wanted to
have his discoveries patented and that
his vibratory engine would soon be on
the market
SEVERAL fine blocks and a number Of
residence were burned at JohnstowR,
Pa, at midnight of the 4th. Twelve
fire companies were called out and sew
eral firemeD were injured. The losses
amounted to over slO0,O0O.
THE National Association of Whole
sale Lum Der Dealers convened in an
nual session at Saginaw, Mich, on
the 4th.
JAMES GALLAGHER, a telegraph oper-
ator, who was the cause of a fatal
train wreck that occurred while he was
stationed at Warrenton, Mo, was found
insane at Chicago on the 5th. The
charge that he was murderer through
carelessness shattered his reason.
THERE were renewed disturbances
at Madrid on the 4th and demonstra-
tions of popular anger against the
United States. The students assem- bled
before the university and there pub
licly burned an American flag. The
police dispersed the meeting, after
making several arrests