The Iola register., 1896-05-29

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at midnight of the oath doing much
damage and killing mum ber of people
and iniuring a great many others Ia
Jasper ten persons were killed. in Polk
county nine; at North McGreror, II
were reported dead and at Durango
five. Six towns were partially de-
stroyed, namely, Bondursnt, Vsierla,
Mingo, Ankeny, Polk City and Slater.
JOSEPH HACERECK, of South Chicago,
sent his son with ten cents to buy a
pail of beer The boy lost the money
under the sidewalk, where it was
found By one of Vonzel Eisenhamer's
children. HacereclS insisted on the re-
turn of the coin and a fight ensued,
during which Eisenhamer shot Hac-
creek three times through the head.
A CAR on the Agate avenue line at
Denver, Col, got out of the control OF
the motorman about midnight on the
alth and jumped the track at curve
when going down hill at high speed
aud turned over. There were "a pas
sengers on the car, q dozen of whom
were more or less badly injured
GEN. LUcIUs FAIRcHILD died sudden
" at Madison, Wis, on the 23d, though
he had been in bad health for some
time, aged 65 In 1886 he was elected
commander-in-chief of the G. A. r
Miss BERTHA MYERS, q native OF
Switzerland, soaked her clothing with
coal oil at atJeffersonville, Ind. and then
applied match. She was burned to 3
crisp. The cause of her suicide was
dependency and Inconsistencies
THE 18th guadrennial general con-
ference of the Methodist Protestant
church of the United States adjourned
at Kansas City. Kan. on the Esd.
Among the resolutions passed was one
against the use of tobacco and favor
ing instru ction In Sunday schools and
church societies on the evil effects OF
narcotics on the human body.
BY the explosion of a gasoline stove
on Townsend street at Chicago on the
gath family of six persons was almost
exterminated. The dead are Otto Malm,
a carpenter, and his three children; an
other child will probably die; Mrs
Malm was badly burned, but will re-
cover. Mrs. Malm had arisen to pre-
pare breakfast and lighted gasoline
stove, when the reservoir exploded,
throwing the burning fluid about the
rooms and the sleeping members of
the family were shut in by flames and
burned almost to a crisp.
PORTIONS of Iowa were visited by
terrible storms of wind, rain and hail
on the Esd. Near Van Horne hail fell
to the depth of two feet. At Wapello
a tornado demolished two churches
and growing crops were beaten into
the ground.
THE Methodist general conference at
| Cleveland, O., made the following elec-
tions on the ED: DIR. Buckley, editor
of the New York Christian Advocate;
Dr. Moore, editor of the Western Chris
tian Advocate at Cincinnati; DR.. Ed.
wards, editor of the Northwestern
Christian Advocate at Chicago; DIR.
Jesse Bowman Young, editor of the
| Central Christian Advocate at st. Louis.
DR.. Hurlbut was reelected secretary
of the Sunday School and Tract
society and DR.. Payne of the board OF
| education.
A UNION encampment by the brigades
of the Knights of Pythias of Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Da-
kotas and probably several other north.
western states will be held at Mime
apolis, Mimi, during the first week in
September. A similar encampment
will be held about the same time at
Columbus, O., for the middle states, and
probably another for the southern
| states at Nashville, Tenn.
| THE 1OSth Presbyterian session
opened at Saratoga, N. Y, on the 21st.
DR.. John L. Witherow was elected
moderator, which was regarded as a
decided victory for the liberal ele-
ment.
FREIGHT train No. 13, south bound, on
the Omaha road, was derailed by col
liding with a cow near Lemars, Ia.
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest Hildebrand, OF
Beatrice, Neb., were in the caboose,
and were killed. The caboose turned
over and the death of the victims was
caused by the collapsing of the car.
THE report was recently current in
San Antonio, Tex, that Dan Stewart
had succeeded in making a match be-
tween Corbett and Fizsimmons and
that the fight would take place on
Mustang island, near Corpus Christi,
Tex. The report also said that the
kinetoseope company was putting up a
large purse for the winner of the fight
AT Buffalo, n. Y. the Brown build
ing at Main and Seneca streets col.
lapsed on the 21st, carrying a score OF
people in the ruins Three persons
were instantly killed and several
others were supposed to be dead in the
| ruins
A QUARANTINE has been declared at
Paris and Greenville, Tex, by the
mayor of Bonham on account of small
| pox
THE boiler in the Davidson Bros
sawmill, near Marietta, Ind, exploded
recently and three persons were fatal.
! ly injured and six others more or less
injured The boiler head was blown
200 feet away.
THE Iowa state democratic conven.
tion at Dubuque was controlled by the
silver men The delegates-at.large to
Chicago are: Horace Boies, S. D.
Evans, H Genung and William Wells
The resolutions adopted stronghold
vOcated free silver and Boies for nres.