The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-05-01


his fist under the left eye, killing him
instantly.
THOUSANDS of citizens met at Galena,
Ill, on the 18th to do honor to the
memory of her most renowned citizen,
Gen. Grant Gen. John c. Black de-
livered the principal address.
At Rnsedale, Va, Mr.. Outer and his
son quarreled about money matters
and the father shot his son through
the breast, and the son as he fell shot
his father through the heart. Both are
dead.
THE boiler of a saw mill in Greene,
O., exploded on the 27th, wrecking the
mill and fatally injuring two men and
seriously injuring two others.
EUGENE CAMBURN, at Upton, Mich. ,
objected to Henry Luce, aged II, keep
ing company with his daughter. when
Luce stepped outside the house and
fred a shot at Camburn through a
window, inflicting probably a fatal
wound, Luce then put bullet into
his own brains.
THE greater part of Cripple Creek,
COL, the famous mining town, was
burned on the 25th. All the theaters,
dance halls and sporting resorts were
destroyed, together with the post Of
| fee, the First national bank. the Mid
land railroad depot and trestles, the
Times newspaper Office and many
stores. An angry woman in dance
hall threw a lamp at her lover and
started the fire. The loss was roughly
estimated at over 81. 600, 600.
AT midnight on the Goth mob o.
armed men entered the Jail at McMinn
Vile, Tenn, dragged the jailer from
his bed and forced him to give up the
KEYS William and Victor Hills were
then taken from the Jail, carried or
setback five miles from McMinnvillt
and hanged. The Hills boys were
guilty of murder and the work of the
mob was the result of feeling tha
the courts were too slow in disposing o.
the men.
The Vieja mine in the Santa Eulalii
district, Mexico, caved in a few day!
ago when IS men were at work. o
these IS escaped and GO were buried
Thirty-seven have since been taker
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seriously crushed. and many will no
live. There was very little chance o
recovering the other 80 miners unde
the earth.
PETE EGBERT, a carpenter at Rock
Vile, Ind, without apparent eaus'
shot and killed Mrs. Herman Hask'
and two children, next door neighbors
He then went up town and met Sheriff
Null and Deputy Sweem and killed
them. Egbert then escaped to the fai
grounds and posse was organized ant
went after him, but Egbert refused t.
surrender and fired a load of shot int
his own breast and expired. 1t wa
thought that he was insane, as he ha'
once been in lunatic asylum.
JESSIE LINDLEY and Bette Black
ford, prisoners in the county Jail a
Oklahoma City, Ok, committed suicide
by taking large quantities of cocaine
NEARLY 100 Moplah fanatics, who
had risen in rebellion, were caught b,
the rajah's militia in temple at Man
geri, in Southern India, recently, Gk
rats ia a trap, aud the militia fire,
volley after volley at them until the,
were nearly all down. The most re
voting spectacle was to see tn,
wounded Moplahs having their throat
| cut by those of their comrades VIII,
were able to stand.
A DISPATCH from Cleveland, o., OF
the 2Sd stated that the proposition t,
admit women as lay delegates to tn
| general conference of the Methods
II, L, L., 1,~fDr I l.,
! the narrow margin of Is votes.
The congress of bimetallists at Brus
selr closed by adopting NJ. Beernaert'
! proposal that the congress should b,
declared permanent until the question
of bimetallism had been solved.
R. T. ANDERSON was recently dis
charged by his employer, HoratiC
Buckley, because he did poor work OIL
his farm in Greer county, Ok. Ander
son then went to town, bought Win
chester and shot Buckley, and when
posse attempted to arrest him he sho
two of the leaders and kept the other
at bay for four hours, surrenderin!
only when his ammunition ran out
He was jailed at Mangum, but Their
were threats of lynching.
Miss FRANCES Z. WILLARD sailed TO
England on the 23d to attend the an
nual convention of the World
Women's Christian Temperance union
of which she is the president Befor
sailing she issued an appeal in behal
of the prosecuted and suffering peopl
of Armenia, urging that the w. c. 7
u. of the United States raise $50. 600 t.
aid in the relief work which is being
carried on through Miss Clara Barton
The returns on the 23d from The
Louisiana election indicated the cleo
ton of Foster, the democratic candi
date for governor. by good majority
although the populists claimed tn,
| state.
THE republican state convention held
at Staunton, Va, on the 23d elected
delegates to the national convention a
st. Louis, instructing them by strong
resolutions to support Mckinley.
EDWARD KARLEsKIND shot his wifi,
in the head three times and then GU
his own throat at Meadville, Pa ON tn,
29d Jealousy was the cause for tn,
trouble.
THE Bourgeois cabinet resigned a