The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-10
THE lola REGISTER FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1896.

IATHlCh OALVIN, supposed to be IN.
sane, began to shoot his neighbors al
indianapolis, Ind, on the 9th. His
first bullet fatally wounded Samuel
Paul. Before he could be disarmed he
had shot Mrs w. B. Murphy, proba bly,
fatally. Mr.. Murphy went to the de-
Tense of his wife and shot Calvin dead.
THE British ship Avoca was burned
at sea in the Indian ocean recently.
Nineteen of the crew were missing. in
Guiding the captain and his wife. Ten
men, the balance of the crew, reached
Penang, China.
A DISPATCH from Havana to a news
agency at Madrid on the 9th stated
that band of rebels exploded dyna.
mite under a train on the Neuvitas
Puerto line containing 800 passengers,
several of whom were injured Troops
arrived and dispersed the rebels, who,
the dispatch asserted, were about to
massacre the passengers.
BETWEEN $50 and 300 guests OF the
Royal hotel at Chicago were driven
from their beds at two o'clock on the
morning of the 9th by fire, many of
them jumping from the windows with
bundles of clothing in their arms. The
fire was caused by an explosion in the
saloon under the hotel.
THE laundry attached to the Cook
county, Ill. poorhouse and insane
asylum at Dunning was destroyed by
fire at one o'clock on the morning of
the 4th. Loss, $4,000.
TUE Norfolk &c Western railroad gen.
eral offices at Roanoke, Va, were
burned to the ground recently.
A LARGE audience filed Central
Music hall at Chicago on the 9Th and
listened to various practical sugges-
lions offered to aid the suffering Ar
menians. Cablegrams to the queen
and czar requesting the intervention
of England and Russia to prevent fur
ther outrages by Turkey were read and
directed to be sent. Immigration to
the United States of the Armenians
was advocated in heartily applauded
resolution.
JACQUES OCHs, travelling represent
alive of a New York tobacco house,
was arrested at Chicago charged with
selling bogus masonic charters The
proceeds of his operations amounted
to 500, 900.
A RUMoR was current about the stock
exchange at London on the Sd that Dr.
Jameson, who invaded the Transvaal
and was defeated, had been tried by
court martial and shot. 1t was also
rumored that the second body of men
belonging to the British chartered
company, numbering about 400, which,
it was said. had started out to rein
force DIR. Jameson's troops, had been
cut TO pieces by the Beers
The second step in the elaborate
ceremony of elevating Francis Satolli,
archbishop of Lepanto and apostolic
delegate to the United States, TO the
rank of cardinal took place in the
cathedral at Baltimore, Md, on the
5th. The ceremony consisted of con-
ferring the beretta. The preceding
steps have been the comforting of the
zuchette, or red skull cap, and the add
ministering Of the oath. The remain
ing step IS the comforting of the red
hat. which must be done in Rome by
the pope himself
AT Racine, Wis, all the union print
ers in the newspaper and job offices
went on strike for higher wares.
Printers from Chicago and Milwaukee
took the strikers places.
". j. II. TRAYNCE. the supreme pres
ident of the American Protective asso-
citation. has issued to the councils of
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circular reviewing the progress of the
and the political situa-
ton. Mr.. Traynor stated in his cir
cular that 4 large number of members
of congress were mem bers of the A. p
A, pledged to certain measures. most
of which would be introduced into the
house during the present session.
THE Solicitors Loan e Trust Co, of
Philadelphia. which has about 81 2OO.-
900 tied up in western mortgages, made
an assignment on the 3D.. The COM
pany was formed in 1856 with paid
up capital of $500, 600.
CRESTON, Ia. sustained calamity on
the Sd when fire destroyed block Of
business buildings. including the Sum-
nit house. The flames originated in
Norton & Dauielson's furniture store
by an employee overturning a lamp.
Thirteen merchants lost their mer-
chandise and two brick and three frame
buildings were lost The total loss of
property was estimated at 5000, 900,
with about $50. 600 insurance
JUSTICE JARVIS BLUME. of Chicago,
was on his way home at 1870 o'clock on
the morning of the I'd when two
masked men stopped him, one putting
his arms around Mr.. Blume's neck,
the judge pulled ont his revolver and
shot the man dead.
FIRE destroyed over half the busi-
ness portion of West Palm Beach, Fla
The loss will reach $3.50. OOO
WHILE Mrs. Thomas +. Bebb was
making call on the 1st at Palmyra,
O., her husband was burned and her
two baby boys cremated in the ruins.
She almost lost her life in an attempt
at rescue and has become insane as a
result of the shock.
A DISPATCH from New York on the
I'd stated that Mrs. Alva S. Wander
bilt had announced to her friends that
she was engaged to be married to
Oliver Belmont. Mrs Willie f." as
Mrs. Vanderbilt Is known in society, is