The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24


seven years, with Harry Baker. q
neighbor, were fatally hurt; john
Rhodes seriously injured. and Mrs.
Sheets badly bruised by large tree
falling across the sled in which thew
were out riding.
JOE CHOYNsKI. of California, knocked
out Jim Hall, of Australia, in the 18th
round at Maspeth, L. l., on the goth.
1t was slugging match up to the 18th
round and Hall seemed to have the
best of it, when Choynski seemed to
improve wonderfully.
ALMOST the entire population OF
Cuba, village in the western part OF
Putnam county, o., was engaged on
the goth dragging blanchard river for
the bodies of five children, a girl and
four boys. drowned the previous after
noon. They were playing on the ice,
when it broke and they disappeared.
The burning out of an air shaft at
midnight in the Wellington hotel at
Chicago caused a panic on the Goth
among the guests of the place. Little
damage was done, however.
THE Lehigh Valley passenger train
from Wilkesbarre was precipitsted
into the depths of a coal mine near
Hazleton, Pa, on the GOTH The en-
gineer was wedged in between the
baggage car and the ground and was
crushed to death. The fireman es-
capped with lacerated scalp, but will
probably die. Several passengers were
also more or less I'M ured.
A SPECIAL from Philadelphia on the
Goth said that James j. Corbett had
stated his willingness to sign articles
of agreement to fight Fitzsimmons 25
rounds provided he put up $40, 600 to
guarantee that he would appear in the
ring at the time fixed upon.
The fight for the presidency of the
League of American Wheelmen was
said in dispatch from Baltimore, Nd.
to have narrowed down 70 Archibald
{. Wilson, of Maryland, and Sterling
Elliot, of Massachusetts, and promised
to be one of the hottest in league an
nails.
By the explosion of gasoline tank
at Cincinnati on the Goth, Jacob Bruhl,
q barber, his wife Rosa, and a 12-year
old son were probably fatally burned.
The house in which they lived was en-
tirely consumed, entailing q loss of
$4,000
Gov. RENFRow, of Oklahoma, has Of
fered a reward of 5000 for the arrest of
the assassin who shot down William
Wyancke in his own yard at Guthrie.
SHARON FULLER and George Holt,
colored, were fatally shot, and Frank
Stewart, white, dangerously injured in
a quarrel over cards at Dingess, w. Va.
The German empire celebrated on
the 18th the anniversary of the crown
ing of King William of Prussia, grand
father of the present emperor, as en-
peror of Germany and the consequent
re-esta blishment of the German em-
pire. Emperor William delivered an
decree granting amnesty to offenders
whose sentences did not exceed six
weeks imprisonment or $50 marks fine.
BERNARD GILLIAN, the noted cartoon
list of Judge, died at the home of his
ex-senator James Arkell,
of Canojaharie, n. y, of typhoid fever.
MAY BEAN, a girl IL years. old, delib-
erately committed suicide at Cincin-
natl by taking strychnine.
NJ FLoQUET. the eminent French
statesman. died at Paris on the 18th.
THE subcommittee to secure options
for a national park on the 1000 acres
of land surrounding Vicksburg, occu-
pied by Gen. Grant and Gen. Pember-
ton during the siege, have completed
their work and returned to Washing
ton. They will recommend the pur-
chase of the 1900 acres at SIP, 900.
THE post office department has pre-
pared a statement showing the re-
ceipts of the 30 largest post offices of
the United States for the last quarter
ended December 81, 1895, and a COM
parison of the same period for 1894.
show increases, while
one, indianapolis, shows a decrease.
THE Cincinnati Tribune said on the
goth that John G. Carlisle was an
avowed candidate for president.
THE Indiana Liquor league will OPP
pose the Matthews presidential boom,
because the governor signed the Mich
olson bill.
EX-REGIsTER OF DEEDS CHARLES
RIDER, was arrested at FL Reno, Ok,
with embezzlement and for
county records.
CHICAGO democrats think that the
location of the democratic convention |
at Chicago has vastly improved the |
chances of Col. William R. Morrison as
a presidential possibility, and unless a
radical change in the local sentiment |
occurs Morrison will have the Illinois |
instructed for him. The |
same claim was made in behalf of |
Vice President Stevenson.
FIVE masked men entered the house |
If Joseph Day, an old farmer, in Jack
ION county, Tenn, and demanded his
reasure. On his refusal to give it up |
ne was taken outside and hanged to a
rec The men then attempted to make
Mrs. Day tell where the money was
hidden, and when she refused they /
rushed her head with a club. No ar
'ests have been made.
A DISPATCH from Key West, Fla, on
he 10th said that there was great
leal of friction between the two insur-