The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-18

lies escaping on RATS after their dwell
ingS had been carried away. Mo
inches of rain have fallen in II days
and many people have been drowned.
In the movement at Denver. Col. to
send troops from Colorado to fight for
Cuba. over 1000 had been enrolled on
the 14th. John McAndrew>. populist
candidate for attorney-gener, ia the
recent ection, has been chosen COM
mander.
THOMAS STARKEY, junior member OF
the firm of Starkey & Son. proprie'ors
of the city roller mills at North BenJ,
Neb., met instant death. by be ny
wound around shaft in the m IT,
Starl1ey was placing be t. when his
clothing caught in co r-wheel.
EDWARD HALE, of countr Antrim,
Ireland, won the six DAVIS bicycle
championship of the world in the race
at New York. lie made 1.91O mile and
s laps. vim .ng a purse 81 300. + ce
was second. with lSS2 miles ami 6
laps, purse $500, and Read ng third,
with .S55 miles and laps. purse $500
Twenty eight men started in the race
and Is rode at the finish.
A WHOLESALE raid of downtown pool
rooms at Chicago was made on the I2i h
and upward of 1000 prisoners were
taken TO the central station
THE boundary line between Missouri
and Iowa was TO be settled bv the fed
eral supreme court, it was reported. by
a formal decree sustaining the conten-
ton of Missouri and Mercer county,
Mo-, will acquire slice of territory
heretofore claimed by Decatur county,
Ia.
a SPECIAL from Fort Smith. Ark,
stated that the Choctaw delegates had
agreed with the Dawes commission for
the allotment of lands and abolition of
tribal government in eight years.
TownsitPs will be set apart and sold
and the balance of the land equally di-
vided among citizens
THE executive committee of the ma
tional democratic party met at Indian
apolis. Ind. on the 10th and gave out
the statement that the party would
permanently maintain its organizat ton
and would at once open national head
quarters in New York
MARSHALL J. MILLER was hanged at
the state PRISON at San Quentin. Cal,
on the 18th for the murder of Joseph
Pierre.
BRAKEMAN SCHoGLE nut a tramp of
a train of the Chicago & Erie at Gallon,
O., and was shot dead Officers were
trying to trail the murderer by blood
hounds
THE failures for the week ended the
18th (Dun's report) were $50 in the
United States, against 333 last year,
and 43 in Canada. against 81 last wear.
A CoLLIERY was flooded at Abernant,
in the south of Wales, and 100 men who
were in the mines had race for the r
lives. Six of them were drowned.
j. K. EMMETT, the actor, has been
granted divorce at New York from
his wife, whom he married in 1894
CHARLES SCoTT, of Lincoln, Neb.,
quarreled with his wife and started to-
wards her with knife when she fatal
~ shot him.
DR. ZERTUCHA, the personal phvsi-
clan of Antonio Maceo. surrendered to
the Spanish commander at San Felipe,
Cuba. The doctor confirmed the report
of Maceo's death and desert bed the
wounds received by the insurgent chief.
The Madrid newspapers were greatly
excited over the references to Cuba in
the presidents letter and declared that
the intervention of the United States
would be un Learably humiliating.
A WHISKY jointist in Pontotic county,
- laov
the country. when he was attac ked by
two men for the purpose of rob berv.
The jointists killed them both and
made his escape.
A DISPATCH from Boise. Ida, of the
18th stated that the supreme court had
handed down an opinion, in which it
was held that the equal suffrage
amendment voted on at the recent cleo
tion in Idaho had been adopted and
hereafter women will vote in that state.
MRS SARAH B. COOPER and her
daughter, Harriet, committed suicide
at San Francisco by turning on the
gas. Mrs Cooper was president of
many women's organizations and she
and her daughter took a strong stand
against their pastor, DR.. Brown, in the
church scandal, which caused much
bitterness among their friends and
probably led to their suicides.
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred at
Here's. Spain, through a building coll
lapsing and burying IS persons. Eleven
dead bodies were taken out of the
wreckage, besides 46 persons seriously
injured. The work to recover the 9TH
ers buried was going on as rapidly as
possible.
A VERDICT was given to Mrs. Rugga-
Der against the supreme lodge, Knights
of Pythias, in the superior court at
Milwaukee for the insurance on her
husbands life, who committed suicide.
This was a test case to decide others
like it all over the United States. the
order claiming that members forfeited
their rights by suicide.
ANexpert has gone over the books Of
Miller & Vaughan. the insolvent bank
ers at Providence, r. l., and found the
liabilities amounted to SlS2. 600 and the
assets to $1,000. OUT of which the as
signees. attorneys and others must ne
paid. leaving nothing to the creditors.
DAN CREEDoN, of Australia. fought
Dick O'Brien, of Boston. at the Broad