The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-06
GENERAL NEWS.

AT an early hour on the 1st fire broke
out at the Franklin house at Manistee,
Mich, and cut off all communication
with the street. Fifteen guests were
compelled to jump from the second
story in their night clothes and several
were severely burned. The fire depart
ment soon put out the fire.
AT Farmingdale, Ill, the Boggs ele-
vator, Goods grocery store and Tripp's
lumber yard were destroyed by fire
which started in the elevator and was
supposed to have been caused by a
spark from passing train.
The Lutheran League of America is
called to meet at Chicago Novemb Der II.
AT Bellaire, O., on the Cd Scott Lin
ton shot and fatally wounded William
Metzler and Belle Gray and then killed
himself at Georgetown.
Two men were killed and one fatally
injured by a premature explosion in a
tunnel of the Wyoming Coal Co. at
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
THE 31st was generally observed as
flag day in all the principal cities of
the country by both of the big parties
and in many places political parades
were held.
Mrs. j. BYRNEs, of New York, be-
came suddenly insane and, declaring
that her friends had Matched plot to
kill her two infant children, grabbed
them from their bed, and, running
wildly down the street, threw them in
front of an electric car, and had it not
been for the prompt aid of passers-by
they would have been crushed under
the wheels
In New York city on the Slst there
was monster republican parade, 1885,
600 men being in line 1t took the pro-
cession seven hours to pass a given
point
A LEADING miller of Montreal, Can,
has received a letter from a Liverpool
grain firm respecting the rise in wheat
by the cessation of shipments from
Russia, India and Rio de la Plata. and
saying: I'VE are now particularly de-
pendent on America for our supplies
for the next six months. WHAT the
price will be will be fixed by America"
THE Chicago Trade and Labor assem-
bly, was formally disbanded on the 1st
in pursuance of a resolution passed a
month ago. The action was due to
friction among the members A meet
ing viii soon be held looking to re-
organization under the auspices of the
Federation of Labor.
15-YEAR-oLD boy named Harris fell
beneath the wheels while trying to
steal ride on a Santa Fe train at
Nulhall, Ok, and had both arms and
legs cut off.
JAY EToN. of Eliza beth, n. j., low
cred the mile paced indoor record of
1853 2-5, held by Tom Cooper. of De-
troit. making the distance in f:5S 2-5,
at Memphis, Tenn, on the 3Oth. He
was paced by tandem
AN oil stove in the house of William
Alien bach at Milwaukee exploded and
scattered the burning fluid over the
family in the kitchen. Altenbach, his
wife and babe in arms were fatally
burned
By an explosion of natural gas at
Avalon, Pa, Bessie Osborne, aged Is,
was instantly killed and her younger
brother and sister seriously injured.
The house was wrecked. Walter
Ritchey, age "a. cousin of Bessie Os-
borne. has gone raving mad at the
girls death.
MRS J. w. ALLEN shot and accident
ally killed her ten-year-old son and
fatally shot her husband at Marysville.
Mont, on the 29th. He was whipping
the boy and she interfered, when he
turned on her She took a rife and
shot at him, but killed the child by ac-
dent She then shot him in the head.
He may die.