The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-07

sions at Marash and Kharput. He also
asked for the immediate granting of
firmans for rebuilding them.
WALTER NmLoUGHBY was instantly
killed and two other boys badly hurt
by trolley car at Pittsburgh. Pa.
The boys were stealing a ride behind a
butchers wagon and the trolley car
struck it while it was crossing the
track.
A HORRIBLE murder has come to light
near Wewoka, Ok. Two Frenchmen,
aged 60 and 65 years, were found dead
in their home on farm The theory
was that robbers hanged the men and
took their wealth.
NEAR Lawrenceburg. Ind, a freight
train was derailed by broken wheel
and 80 cars crashed into the bridge
and the bridge and cars went down
toge Their. Five tramps were fatally
| injured. The damage done amounted
to $4,000.
In secluded place about so yards
from the road near Fort Thompson,
KY, some workmen discovered the
body of a young woman. She had
been beheaded and the head was miss
! ing. There were evidences of fierce
struggle having taken place.
THE Iowa senate has passed an anti
| cigarette bill which amounts to almost
prohibition.
REPORTS from over 80 points in diff
| ferent parts of Texas on the I'd showed
the heaviest rains known in that state
at this season for years Streams were
reported out of their banks and much
damage was apprehended.
A CONFERENCE of representatives
from all the principal universities and
colleges in the eastern states took
place at Columbia College, New York,
on the 1st to secure a uniform method
of entrance and examinations.
A MEMORIAL has been sent to Presi-
dent Cleveland by the bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal church of the
United States begging most earnestly
for action to be taken in regard to the
massacre of Christians in Armenia.
FRANK THOMPSON and Willis Sanders
met on the street at Johnson City, ILL.,,
and began shooting at one another.
Both were mortally wounded. Sanders
suspected Thompson of intimacy with
his wife.
THOMAS COMBS, fratricide and con-
vict of Perry county, KY, went homo
drunk and Drained his wife with
club A lynching party was reported
as being after the culprt.
A MOB of 30 Infatuated men at Glen
dora, Mich, on the Goth hunted for
George Tic, who was alleged to have
caused his wife's death by inhuman
treatment They refrained, however,
from lynching him on his promise that
he would leave the county. Tic had
been arrested, but was released after
his wife died, she being the only prose-
cutting witness.
DR.. WILLIAM II. FURNEss, Harvard's
oldest alumnus and the Oldest Unitarian
minister in the United States, has died
at his home in Philadelphia, aged 81
years.
A MEXICAN named Aureliano Cas-
tello was shot to death and his clothes
saturated with coal oil and burned on
the Medina river, near San Antonio,
Tex. Hugh Stanfeld and Watson STAN
field have been arrested charged with
the murder. The Mexican had been
working for the Stanfields and several
days ago assaulted their sister, a 1G-
year-old girl of unsOund mind.
THE clearing house returns for the
week ended January 81 for the follow
ing cities were: New York, S4ol .9O9. 3l2;
Chicago. SO, 752. 40; st. Louis, S24 $780,
us; Kansas City. 50, 411.OO7; st. Joseph,
81, 4O5, Sig; Topeka, 1907 1923; Wichita,
1926. 005; Omaha, S4,3l0. $50
a New YORK paper stated on the 31st
that the sleeping and dining car priv
ileges on the Santa Fe railway had
been virtually awarded to the Pullman
company.
THOMAS DwYER, aged &c, a wealthy
man, was assassinated at Houston,
Tex, by unknown parties, the motive
being robbery His body was found
horribly mutilated in an underground
cistern.
AT the meeting on the Goth of the
grand lodge Tennessee masons at
Nashville a strong appeal to all masons
throughout the world to lend their aid
in preserving peace and averting war
was adopted.
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the both in the Pettibone shaft at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, by laborer crossing
the danger line with his lamp lighted. |
A portion of the working caught fire |
and large force of men was put to |
work fighting the flames. Shortly |
afterward second explosion occurred |
and five of the fire fighters were seri-
ously injured.
BURGLARS entered Giesing's hard
ware store at Calmar, Ia, and one OF
them was shot dead by the proprietor's
son.
AT Providence, r l., fire in Nara
ganset park burned IA valuable race
horses.
AT Newport News, Va, on the sOth
the gunboat Helena was christened by
Miss Agnes Steel, daughter of the
mayor of Helena, Mont, a distin-
guished party being present. Half an
hour before the Helena was launched
the third largest steamer ever built in
this country was christened the Grand
Duchess by Miss Nellie Eldridge. of
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