The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-17


Bushnell made his inaugural speech.
which was somewhat lengthy. A num-
| Der of recommendations in regard to
/ the affairs of the state were suggested
/ POLICE OFFICER GIBBONS. of Chicago,
| received a letter on the 18th from Peter
/ Houggard. of Englewood, informing
| him that by the time IL was received
/ the writer would be dead. An officer
was sent to HougCari's house, where
! he found the dead bodies of Houggard,
his wife and FIVE children who had
been asphyXiated by gas No motive
/ for the crime was known.
4 DISPATCH from London stated upon
/ good authority that Lord Salisbury
was underwriting throu IN a neutral
/ power to come to direct negotiations
with Venezuela about the appointment
of joint commission to delimit the dis
/ puted frontier.
THREE men were afloat on an ice foe
on Lake Erie. near Cleveland, O., on
/ the 18th. and efforts to rescue them
failed. the life saving crew putting out
after them, but failing TO find them.
THE mixing up of hats caused Tom
Ross to shoot Frank Meade and John
/ Higgins in Carter county, Ky, on the
18th. Meade was killed and Higgins
was fatally wounded.
NEAR Alachua, Fla. Harry Jordan, a
noted desperate. barricaded himself in
an unoccupied house and vigorously
resisted arrest. Finally the officers set
fire tn the building hoping to drive Jor-
dan out. but he preferred death to sur
render and was incinerated
Two painters were killed and an
other fatally injured at Philadelphia
by the breaking of scaffold on which
they were at work.
The Danish steamer Dania has ar
rived at Copenhagen from New Orleans
after fearfully rough voyage, in the
course of which she was extensively
damaged and three of her crew were
washed overheard and drowned.
THE steamer Royal was burned to
the waters eige at Evansville, Ind.
She was valued at SD, 900; partially in
sured.
II Wise county, Va, William Wells
and Gus Osborn fought hand to hand
Henry Williams over two women. The
fight lasted for 80 minutes, when Wells
and Osborn fell dead and Cox was
mortallv wounded. Williams was not
hurt
An engagement between Spanish
troops and a band of 500 insurgents at
Managua, 70 miles southwest of Ha-
vana. was reported on the 18th. Go
enez was south of the town of Guara
through the burned cane fields and
passing Providencia and Guinez- At
Banes the insurgents had plundered
and burned the great stores. Three
clerks were burned and the mayor was
killed
SERGT. CANTLIN. of the Buffalo. y. Y,
police, had searched for Patrolman
SammOn on his beat and could not find
him, when he finally discovered him
coming out Of questionable resort
The sergeant suspended the patrolman
at once. when the latter shot the SER
geant. Cantlin afterwards was discov-
cred dying and just had sufficient
strength to tell who his aSSailant was.
A TERRIBLE fight between officers
and horse thieves occurred at Inland.
10 miles west of Perry, Ok. recently.
jeff Coates, the leader. was shot dead
from his horse and three others of the
band were 80 badly wounded that they
were ca ptured. One man of the sher-
ifs posse was seriously wounded. Six
of the horse thieves escaped.
THE repu blicaus held caucus at
Frankfort. Ky, on the 18th to nomi-
nate candidate for United States sem
ator and DR.. Hunter was chosen by &C
clamation. As the death of Represent
alive Isaac Wilson breaks the tie in the
legislature, DR.. Hunter will probably
be elected.
THE strained relations between En-
gland and Germany over the Transvaal
incident were reported on the 18th as
disappearing and there was less appre-
hension of war over the matter.
The tug Tyee arrived at Seattle,
Wash, recently, with Il members of
the Inflated crew of the English ship,
the JeaEtee Cowan, which had been
wrecked on Vancouver island in he
racine OCEAN Ou DcCcm OcE 0L ne
captain and six of the crew had died
from suffering and exposure and the
survivors were found in a sad state by
the rescuing party.
PATRICK NORRIS and his wife lived
in a hatboat near New Orleans On
account of their difference in color, as
well as the charge that they kept a
iisorderly place, there has been a
growing sentiment against them. They
were sitting up in their boat. when a
body of men came down and set fire to
the hull They sought refuge on shore,
and as soon as they made their ap-
pearance they were riddled with bull
let's The woman was killed outright,
but the man fell crippled. and the two
were burned to ashes with the boat
WHILE George Bolton and Ed Huff.
employees of the Cimarron stamp mill
at Telluride. Col, were going home
early on the morning of the 18th they
were waylaid BY two highwaymen,
and Bolton was shot and instantly
killed Huff was robbed and allowed
to go
D. SSOD6BAss. chief justice of the
xunreme cOurf Of Tennessee has haan