The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-10

tricity. All went we'll and they were
being lowered when the rope of the
bucket in which they were caught
and the men were pitched headlong
down the shaft to instant death.
MCCoRKLE and Fisher, two boys liv-
ing at Dorseyville. Pa, got a can of
giant powder. when Fisher, in sport,
threw some of the powder in a lamp
carried by McCorkle, who dropped the
lamp into the can of powder. causing
an explosion which killed McCOrkle
and fatally injured Fisher
MARITAL law has been proclaimed in
the provinces of Havana and Pinar del
Rio in Cuba, owing to the near ap-
proach of the insurgeut general, Max
limo Gomez The Spanish troops
seemed utterly unable to prevent the
advance of the insurgents, owing to the
skill and generalship of Gomez and his
lieutenants in avoiding all traps for a
pitched battle.
THE two children of Abram Leonard
were left alone in their house near Dali
las, Tex. and the place caught fire
and they were cremated.
TwENTY-EIGHT persons were killed
and % dangerously wounded in train
accident near Durham, Natal.
THE Artesian Ice & Brewing Co, of
Brunswick, Ga, the largest establish
ment in the state, burned on the 9th.
Loss, 500, 900
THE 9th was given over to rejoicing
by the people of Utah. The great
tabernacle at Salt Lake was filed by
a crowd of from 1900 20 $4,000 people
to witness the swearing in of Gov.
Wells. At two o'clock the special ses-
sion of the first legislature was
opened. 1t is composed of 43 repub-
licans and 30 democrats, and will elect
two United States senators.
\ DISPATCH received from Pretoria
said that DIR. Jameson, who invaded
the Transvaal republic and was de-
feated and taken prisoner, had been
sat at liberty.
SIX persods were killed and two 9th
ers were injured through a switch be-
ing left open, by which an express
train dashed into a freight train at
Chillicothe, o.
A FIRE at Hermann, Mimi, destroyed
the Frogner and Washburn hotel, the
Enterprise newspaper Office and several
other buildings. All the secret orders
of the town lost everything.
TIE monster Park No. . collierv, at
Trenton. Pa. owned by Lent, Lilly
81 Co, was destroyed by fire. The
origin of the fire was unknown. 1t
was valued at about 500, 900. and gave
employment to 1000 men and boys.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the
Anna Lee mine of the Portland COM
pany on the Battle mountain near
Victor, Col. Nine men were caught in
a big cavern. Four of them were on
the cage when the ground gave way.
The others were working in the mine.
All were supposed to lie dead.
Two persons lost their lives by fire
at Wheaton. a suburb of Chicago.
Two houses were burned and the in
mates escaped with nothing but the
clothing they had on.
THE recent massacre at Oraah, in
Asia Minor, was stated to have been a
terrible affair The official dispatches
admit that 9O1 Christians were killed.
but. according to private accounts,
about 1000 Christians were killed. 4
massacre was said to have occurred at
Biredjik. an important town on the
Euphrates. The ambassadors received
word that the bloodshed there was ex-
ceptionallv serious.
II was said that the lantern factories
of the country. located at Wheeling. W.
Va, Tiffin. Warren, O., Detroit, Roch-
ester, Syracuse and New York city had
signed an agreement to regulate prices
and production and that advances in
goods averaging SO per cent. had been
ordered.
THE Central hotel of Altoona, Pa,
was destroyed by fire early on the 5th.
Many of the guests were taken out of
the upper windows by the firemeu, and
it was thought all escaped safely. One
fireman was killed by a falling wall.
The loss will reach close to S2OO.O
RUssIAvILLE, Ind, had an exciting
time with a mailman on the 5tb. Jo-
seph Calkins, who has been mentally
unbalanced for some time, attempted
to kill his wife and child with an AK.
The victims escaped after receiving a
terrible beating. Constables and
neighbors then undertook to capture
the maniac but Calkins swung his AK
with terrible effect, Officer Sims being
killed and several badly injured.
ANDREW Brown, a negro ex-convict
and notorious cattle thief, was lynched
in Simpson county, Miss. Brown at
tempted to sell three fat cattle at
Westville and was arrested. A con-
stable started with him to justice of
the peace near where the theft was
committed. On the way he was taken
from the officer by a mob, swung up
to tree and riddled with bullets.
AT Roxabell, o., the westbound pas
accommodation train on the
Baltimore Il Ohio Southwestern rail-
way, collided with freight train go
ing at 40 miles an hour and made
complete wreck of both engines. One
man was killed and seven injured
ALFRED ELY BEACH, editor of the
Scientific American, died at his home
in New York on the I'd of pneumonia.
Mr.. Beach was born in Springfield,
Mass, in 1926.
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