The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-24

drowned.
SOME unknown persons went to the
stable of Capt. Harry Shafer, proprie-
tor of the celebrated Peytonia stock
farm at Gallatin, Tenn, and killed one
of his valuable brood mares, Lacy
Prince, which was worth $4,000. The
stable in which Bishop, worth $4,000,
was kept was also burned and the
horse persisted.
EZEKIEL SMITH, wealthy contractor
at Chicago, who was recently sued by
Miss Ella Donaldson for $50, 900 for
breach of promise, has compromised
the suit by marrying the plaintiff and
starting for California on wedding
trip.
PADEREwsKI made his final appear
ance at New York on the 18th. The
audience went wild. Men yelled and
women rushed down the aisles. The
virtuoso played three encores and was
called out u times besides
A FIRE on the river front at Evans
Vile, Ind, caused loss of 100000.
ALL the union plumbers employed
by the beer pump houses in Chicago
went on a strike on the Goth. They
demanded that master plumbers employ
none but union men and pay none but
So IS per day.
AN issue of 81, 900. 600 in Cuban bonds
payable ten years after the Spanish
forces evacuate Cuba, has been offered
| for sale in New York.
| STERLING SAVAGE was taken from
his bed at Irving college, near McMinn-
vile, Tenn, by a mob Of men and
hanged to a tree. The man was
suspected of being a "spotter" for
United States officers by the moon.
sinners.
AN explosion occurred in the Broad
water mine at Niehart, Mont, on the
18th by which seven men lost their
lives and six others were seriously
hurt 1t was supposed that an en-
plove in the magazine must have ig-
nited some powder by his candle.
A YOUNG man living in Jefferson
county, Ia, who has been experiment
ing with the Y rays, believes that he
has discovered the way to transform
the base metals into gold. 1t is said
that he took piece of metal worth a
few cents and in three hours time
change it into pure gold worth Sl54.
CHANDLER, the county seat of Lincoln
county, Ok, has suffered great loss by
fire, which burned the post Office and
nearly all the business portion of the
town.
JAMES NEwMAN's barn, near Mil
housen, Ind, was burned by supposed
incendiary, consuming 10000 bushels
of corn and 1000 tons of hay. Eighteen
valuable horses and mules were ere
mated, together with 40 head of cattle
and hogs.
THE notorious Jimmie Jack has beer
convicted of numbering Jimmie Brown
both rich Indians, in Judge f. Mar
shalrs court for the Okmulgee, /. T..
district, and sentenced to be shot
which among the Indians is the lega
mode of death.
THE Kentucky republican conven
ton completed its labors at Louisville
after indorsing the presidential can
didacy of Gov. Bradley, with second
instructions for Maj. Mckinley, adopt
ing a platform declaring for the golC
standard, protection and reciprocity
and expressing sympathy with Cuba
Two BOYS, Isham Strobe and james
McNeal, were charged at Guthrie, Ok.
on the 18th with holding up and rob
bling Allen Howard in regulation high
wayman style. They took from How
ard his toy bank, containing S4.2O, in
timidating him by club and a toy
revolver The crime is punishable il
the territory by imprisonment for life
A NEW comet has been discovered BY
Prof. Swift, of the Mount Lowe obser
vatory in California.
C. o. DAVIS, in jail at Winterset, Ia.
charged with bank wrecking at Peru
escaped recently by tunneling under
the Jail.
CONGRESSMAN w. S. LINTON, who ha
been urged by certain of the A. P. A
leaders as a possible candidate fol
president, has denied that he is or ha!
been a candidate, and said that the ust
of his name in connection with the re
publican nomination for president wa.
unauthorized. He is candidate fol
denomination to congress from thu
Saginaw, Mich, district.
CHARLES VEITH, baker, suffocate(
himself with molasses at Chicago OF
the 10th. He was very fond of the
stuff, and in order to get enough he
lay fat on his back on the floor, 81
that when he opened the clip on the
barrel the strip would flow into hi.
mouth. He was literally drowned by
the sirup He was found dead will
his mouth open and the molasses pour
ing into it
Two persons were killed, two prob
ably fatally injured, and two other:
seriously hurt by two bolts of light
ming, which successfully struck the
dwelling of Andrew Olson at Wallace
Mich, on the 18th.
JAMES E. ALsoP. alias A. A. Austin
who was arrested on the 10th in Seat
tie. Wash, on the charge of numbering
Lena Olson near Duluth, Mimi, il
order to get possession of $780, com
mitted suicide in the Jail on the 18th
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the
United Mine Workers convention al
Columbus, O., on the 10th recommend
ing the nomination of Eugene V. Debs
for president by the populist national