The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-06

1HE CubanS at Key West, Fla, In
cited by Americans, who were indig-
nant over the stoning of the Ameri-
can consulate at Barcelona, made a
movement to retaliate in kind on the
Spanish consulate at Key West, but the
mayor massed a strong police force and
spoke to the crowd of the harm they
would do their cause. They needed
the mayors advice and paraded the
streets, cheering the action of con-
gress.
FIVE persons were run over by trains
after midnight of the 1st on the tracks
of the Pennsylvania railroad near
Pittsburgh.
Or the 1st the Spaniards at Barcelona
stoned the United States consulate and
shouted Down with the Yankees!"
The police had to charge the mob to
disperse them. The students of Alvin
cia also paraded the streets and gath
cred before the American consulate in
that city, shouting their threats and
showing their luminosity to America
on account of the passage of the Cuban
resolution by the United States senate.
Active preparations were being made
in Spain for possible war with the
United States.
Much damage was done throughout
Connecticut by continuous rain. The
Connecticut river was swollen to three
times its normal proportions. The
Coppermine dam in Bristol broke and
people living along the banks of the
Pequaback river lost everything they
possessed and were obliged to leave
their homes in the darkness Many
bridges were washed away. In New
York state three dams at Schuylerville
and the large flume of the Champlain
silk mills were swept away and also
many bridges.
FIRE broke out on the 1st on the
British steamship Capella at New Or
leans. She was loading for Liverpool
and had on board 5000 bales of cotton,
600 tons of oil cake, 300 tons of cotton
seed and about 100 tons of sundries.
The damage was estimated at S25, 900;
insured.
In an uprising of Moplah fanatics in
India the British killed 100.
AT Chicago the foundry of Kurtz &
Buhrer was burned, entailing a loss
of $4,000.
HALIFAX, n. s., suffered confagra-
ton on the 1st that entailed loss of
about S25O,OO and an indirect loss
much greater. The fire started in the
furniture factory of Gordon s. Keith
by sparks from stove igniting a mass
of imflammable material.
A TERRIBLE whirlwind recently
passed through the towns of Rodas and
Los Aureus in Cuba, doing an immense
amount of damage. In Rodas the wind
destroyed 40 houses and injured large
number of persons. In Los Aureus
the damage to life and property was
even greater. A large number of
houses were shattered and all traces of
them obliterated. The inha bitants
were in a pitiable condition.
THE New York journal has called
attention to a decision of the federal
supreme court in the case of Laing VS.
Rigney and asserts that persons under
the ban of divorce in one state, who
have married in another state are
criminals and can be arrested for
bigamy, and that the decision illegiti-
matizes children born of such unions.
THE Chicago Review, Catholic pa
per, published recently an important
decree of the Roman propaganda,
which considerably modifies the one
previously issued condemning the Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pvthias and Sons
of Temperance. Catholics who be-
longed to those societies before the
condemnation decree are now allowed
to leave their names upon the rolls
and to pay their dues and assessments,
but not to take part in the proceedings
of the societies.
THE town of Momotombo, Nicaragua,
was bonn barded and laid in ashes by
the government and an insurgent gun
boat was sunk by shells and fully 20
of the rebels were drowned. Ameri-
leans had charge of the government
guns.
On account of the dissatisfaction over
the west in Pythian circles over the de-
cision to take the biennial conclave
from Minneapolis, Mimi, and give it
to Cleveland, o., a proposition was be-
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an independent western encampment
next August in Minneapolis
The grand jury at Chicago found
true bills against 2s2 persons in that
city for conducting or being connected
with bucket shops.
The Atlas line steamer Ailsa was
run down by the French line steamer
Burroyne recently. The former was
anchored off Fort Hamilton, n. Y, on
account of the heavy fog at the time
Fortunately large tug arrived and
all the passengers and crew were
saved. In 20 minutes after the col
lision the Ailsa sunk
EDNA KAUsMAN. three years old. ran
in front of Cincinnati trolley car and
her head was cut entirely off.
As train on the Ferries s. Cliff
House railway at San Francisco was
on its way to the beach on the 27th, a
tunnel near the ocean terminus csved
in. No one was seriously injured, al
though two coaches were buried in the
debris Several passengers were bruised
and the road was impossible all day.
MARSHAL FRANK ELLIS, who killed
young Murphy at Junction City, KY,
year ago, was shot and probably