The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-24
GENERAL NEWS.

THE Vale Manufacturing Co. will
shut down its mills at Nashua, n. H.,
as soon as the stock on hand is worked
up. Dull times is given as the reason.
Many hands will be thrown out of en-
ployment
THE act granting to the Atehison &
Nebraska and the Chicago & Burling-
ton roads the right of way over the
Sac and Fox and Iowa Indian reserva-
ton in Kansas and Nebraska has be-
come a law without the presidents
signature.
Mrs. HANNAH CHARD celebrated her
1OSth birthday at her home at Terrell,
n. J., on the Goth. There were pres
ent three sons, the youngest of whom
was &C years, 30 grandchildren, 81
great-grandchildren and u great
great-grandchildren
A TORNADO on the Goth in Sandusky
county, o., caused much damage to
buildings. Several persons were killed
and others seriously injured
WHISKY selling to Indians is causin G
a great deal of trouble in various parts
of Oklahoma since the courts have held
that Indian allottees are citizens of
the United States At Blackburn, citi-
zens held Indignation meetings against
saloons selling Indians whisky. Bust
ness men of the town and other citi-
zens have signed petitions to the sa-
loonists begging them to desist- In
dams go to Blackburn in droves
after night, get drunk and make the
town hideous
POWELL & HoLLINGsW ORTH's tobacco
factory at Princeton, KY, burned on
the goth The house was the largest
in that section and contained 900,O0
pounds of tobacco, the greater part of
which was in strips ready for market
Loss on tobacco. $40, 900: insurance,
SIC, 800; on building, $4,000; insurance,
s., 900. A dozen small residences in
proximity were burned.
NINE Gloucester fisherman were lost
of Long Island recently by the fishing
schooner. w. Campbell, of Gloucester,
Mass, sinking in squalL They were
brought into New Bedford, Mass, by
the Gladiator from the schooner
Norman, which picked them up after
they had spent an entire night and day
in an open boat without food.
IT has finally been decided to hold
the national encampment of the uni
form rank. Knights of Pythias, in
Cleveland, O., August "a to 81.
Miss ELLA SOMERvILLE, of Richmond,
Tex, was shot and killed by her cousin,
Albert Somerville, whom she was lead
ing to her fathers residence from a
drunken carousal down town The
man was a visitor from New York.
Prominent Knights of Labor in Phila-
delphia state that war between Gen
eral Master Workman Sovereign and
General Secretary-Treasurer Hayes,
which has been waged under cover for
some time, will probably result in the
withdrawal of both off Gals from
Office. 1t was also said that Mr.. Sow
ereign had not been paid his salary of
So, 600 year by the secretary.
PROF. II. P. PRATT and Prof. Hugh
Wightman, of Chicago, announced to
the world on the 10th that diphtheria
and typhoid germs were absolutely
killed by the Roentgen ray. The state
men was made without reserve.
The Rocky Mountain News said on
the 10th that the representatives OF
Colorado in the national gathering OF
the democratic party would walk out
of the hall and out of the party unless
the platform contained an unqualified
declaration for free coinage and the
candidate was suited to the platform.
The republicans of New Jersey met
in state convention at Trenton and I'M
animously instructed the delegates to
the national convention to secure the
nomination of Garrett A. Hobart for
the vice presidency. The delegates
were not instructed regarding the
presidentional nomination. The money
plank was for gold.