The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-04

30th. Robert Van o trand and joe
Lang. fremen, were burned to death
and the stewardssS was missing and
il was believed she was de al. The loss
on the steamer was $4,000; the lnsur-
anee. on her had Pxpired.
WILLIAM STEINwAY, the noted piano
manufacturer. died at his home in
New York of typhoid fever on the
Both.
SAM HENDERsON's house and his five
children were burned at Conway, Ark.
on the 30th When the fire was dis
covered it was too late to effect res
cue.
THREE girls, going home from school
at Lyons, Mich, in their buggy, were
struck by a train an two were instant
ly killed and one di vigorously injured
AT Altus, Greer county, Ok, Claude
Kinball and William Dallas, young
business men. quarreled over small
account Dallas drew knife and
Kim hall shot him dead.
REV. NJ. b. HILL was stricken with
paralysis while delivering a sermon at.
the Southern Metho list church at
BentoaVil'e, Ark, on the 29th-
PRESIDENT PATTERSON. of the Prince
ton university, has denied the report
that President Cleveland was to be-
come dean of the Princeton law
school,
TIE national council of administra-
ton of the G. A. R. with Commander
in-Chief I. S. Clarkson in the chair,
met at Buffalo, N Y, on the 30th and
it was decided to have the encampment
in Buffalo the last week in August,
beginning August %.
The First national bank of Tyler,
Tex, failed on the S0th.
A FErE organized at Baroda, India,
in honor of the visit of the viceroy OF
India, has had terrible outcome IN
the killing of 20 persons and the inJur-
ing of many others by panic which
occurred in the course of the fete.
A TRAMP was released from lumber
car at Plainfield, n. j., on the 26th who
had been standing up for seven days
without food or water. The man was
unconscious, but will recover. The car
was locked at Ottawa, Can.
AT ball of a militia regiment at
Newark, N j., Spanish flag was torn
down and the Cuban banner raised IN
its place. The incident has been re-
ported to the Spanish embassy.
SALES of No. 2 red wheat for May
delivery were made on the Toledo, o.,
produce exchange on the 2Sth at 81 per
bushel amid loud cheering.
THE Indians of Red River and Eagle
counties, Choctaw nation, T., who
were playing a game of baseball, quar-
relied and used the butt end of their
bats on one another, 20 or 80 being in
iured. Two have died and several
more were in a serious condition.
P. j. KELLEY, jeweler at San Jose,
CAL, and his wife were fatally
wounded and one of his children got
bullet in her arm, caused by Kelley's.
attempt to murder his family through
| jealousy. :
Tom SHARPE, the town marshal of
Sadieville, Ky, got drunk on Thanks
| giving night and went to dance and,
because there were not enough women
present TO suit him, demanded his
money back. On being refused by the
proprietor, Sharpe shot him through
the head.
A NUMBER of drunken Polanders at
| Duryea, Pa, who were celei rating
Thanksgiving, got into a fight and be-
gan shooting at one another. Three
men were fatally wounded.
A CONsTANTINOPLE dispatch to the
London Daily News on the 27th said
that fresh massacre with 500 victims
was rumored to have occurred near
| Diarbekir.
FAILURES for the week ended the
9th (Dun's report) were 800 in the
United States. against 279 last year,
and 80 in Canada. against AZ last year.
AT Athens, Greece, terrible storms
and floods have occurred and many
persons have been drowned.
A DISPATCH from Breslau said that 30
persons were killed in a colliery explo-
eien at Zengerzs, Russian Poland.
SIXTIES planning mill and lumber
yard ut Washington was destroyed by
fire Loss. ESQ, ooo
As the result Of some of the football
gansa played Oh the 26th by the uni
vsratties Of Missouri Kansas. Iowa and
NebFAskA, the psAnant of the Western
intercollegiate league, embracing the
states named. goes to Iowa The pen
nent rsvSFts 10 the team against
which the fswest points have been
scored. Iowa's games this season re-
suited: With Missouri, 10 to o; with
KausaA- 9 70 o, with Nebraska, o to O.
Kansas will finish second.
/ CAPT GEN. WgILER, has issued or
ders to the farmers in the provinces of
Piuar del Rio, Havana and Matanzas to
carry their corn to the garrisoned
towns and sell it to the commanders of
the Spanish columns, who will use it
for military purposes. After Deem
Der 20 all corn found stored on the
farms or elsewhere without the knowl-
edge and consent of the military COM
manders will be considered contra
band Of war.
]. w. BURNEY was shot and killed by
his 17-year-old son at Stratton, Neb.
The deed Was provoked by the elder
Burney, who threatened the life of the
youth and his mother.
GEN. WEYLEE, replying TO memori-
al addressed to him by a committee OF
Cuban farmers, Informed the memo
-. - oO,ld not autb0r-iza the