The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-05

stone In the Ohio river Is miles below
Parkersburg. W. Va, on the 3lst and
sank. The boat was valued at SCI, 600.
No lives were lost.
AT London on the 1st kid" Lavigne
fought Dick Burge for the lightweight
championship Of the world. The fight
was limited 10 % rounds, but Lavigne
won in is.
A NAN was found in box car al East
ST. Louis on the 3lst with his throat
cut from ear to ear. There was no
knife near and it was believed he was
murdered. The dead man was not
identified.
A GANG Of gypsies clmped with three
bears near Hudson, Mich. on the 31st
and one of the bears broke loose and
badly mangled one of the gypsies. a
severe conflict taking place he fore the
animal was subdued. After the
gvpsieS had broken camp farmers in
the neirh 'snracod were Mortified to see
unm >taS1 he evidences that a child
had been nearly eaten by the bear.
SAMUEL HARRIS. of Walz county,
Ind, vino was the favored sutton of
Mrs. Charles Kessler, was am pushed
and shot in the back by Jealous rivals
for the widows affections.
RECENT private advices from Cuba
announced that yellow fever was rag
ing and greatly decimating the Span
ish soldiers.
AT Chicago nearly 200. 900 people
gathered to witness the finish of the
bicycle race from Wheeling to Chicago,
24L miles. The race was won BY O.
P. Nelson in 1:l2:53. He had been
given nine minutes in the handicap
A CABLE message has been received
at Chicago that Miss Kate Field died
at Honolulu of pneumonia. She was
in the Sandwich islands as the special
correspondent of the Chicago Times
Herald.
HARRY FISHER a son of one of the
most prominent citizens of Austin.
Tex, has been arrested for incendiar-
ism. He confessed to having fired a
dozen buildiu rs and also to robbing
the United States street mail boxes.
THE bolt of the free silver prohib:-
tionists from the regular national con-
vention at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, is
now claimed to be the first move of sill
yer men to bolt all the political con-
ventions.
A SPECIAL from Fiat, a small place
near Canton, Ill, said a man answer
ing perfectly the description of George
Taylor, Missouri's escaped murderer,
passed there on the night of the 31st,
walking on the railroad track. The
man appeared uneasy and in great
hurry He was identified from a pic
ture bv five citizens.
BRICK" POMERoY, the noted journal
list and author, died at his Brooklyn
home on the 30th from dropsy.
DURING a performance of Lockhart's
American circus at Antwerp a stair
case gave way and the audience was
panic-stricken and 20 persons were
more or less injured by being squeezed
or trampled upon.
DURING a recent entertainment in
the town hall at Belmond, Ia, given
by mem bers of the high school a lamp
in the wings was overturned and the
scenery caught fire, precipitating a
panic. The hall was crowded and the
people struggled, fought and trampled
each other in their efforts to get out
Miss Cecilia Finch, who was on the
stage, had her clothes burned off and
it was feared that she would die from
her injuries
THE bill for submitting a woman
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
ton which passed the Rhode Island
senate was killed in the house and
the legislature adjourned until Sep
TENDER.
WHILE NJ. Jenkins and II. Barnes
were cutting grass in a cemetery at
Breckenridge, Ill, they were struck
by lightning and killed.
RETURNS from the mass conventions
in Kentucky to select delegates to the
state convention show that the latter
body will be made up of $50 free silver
delegates and 300 gold standard men,
with IL doubtful.
A FIRE which started in the candy
factory of Williams Sc Bower at Sher-
man, Tex, burned several other stores
and entailed loss of probably S125, O00
There was no insurance on the stock
of Williams & Bower.
THE trustees of the college of New
Jersey have filed certificate in court
to change the name to Princeton uni
versity.
THE filibustering steamer Three
Friends, which recently left Jackson
vile. Fla, with cargo of arms and
ammunition for Cuba, was said to have
been chased by revenue cutter and
ran ashore on one of the Florida keys
IT has been decided that the Luther
an college, to cover the southern states,
shall go to Charlotte, n. c. For some
time it has been hanging between Char
lotte and Colum bia, 5. c. 1t was ru.
mored that $1,000, 900 was backing the
enterprise.
THE prohibition convention at Pitts
burgh, Pa, nominated Joshua P. Lev
ering, Maryland, for president, and
Hale Johnson, of Illinois, for vice
president The free silver plank was
rejected and a narrow gauge platform,
embodying merely the principle of
prohibition and emitting woman suf-
frage, was adopted. The broad gaugers
and women suffragists bolted and re-