The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-16

MRS. PHILIP ONEARA, the oldest
resident "a q: aw4 and PR n lF of
Canada, diei or he l2th. ag d Ill
year.. Eisnt hi ere !. 81 grandchil-
dren ant over 2pO great grandchildren
survive her.
EIGHT persons We're injured by the
deraiiin< of al electric ar on the
Madison streetline at Chicago recently.
Some of them may not survive their
wounds.
FRANKLIN H. WHITNEY died on the
nth at Atlantic, la. He had lived in
Cass county 40 years and founded the
city of Atlantic.
SOME one recently poisoned 40 jack
rabbits at the state far grounds at
Dallas. Tex. They were located there
to run races as a fair attraction
AGENT WISDOM. of the five civilized
tribes In the Indian territory, began
the payment to the Shawnees and Del
awares on the 12th of the Cherokee
strip money, each member of the tribe
receiving $266
A CALL has been issued for a meeting
Of the National Educational associa-
ton to be held at Milwaukee during
the first week in July, 1897.
BUFoRD OvERToN was hanged at Har-
Ian, KY, on the 18th for the murder
on June 81, 1895, of Gustsve and Julia
Loeb, Jewish peddlers A great crowd
from all the surrounding country gath
cred to see the hanging.
A BosToN dispatch on the 18th stated
that Helen Kellar, the blind and deaf
girl, had passed the Harvard examine
ton with credit and will enter the Har-
ward annex at a younger age than most
freshmen.
A HURRICANE swept along the At
lantic coast on the 18th and did much
damage. At Coney Island, N. Y, the
beach was swept clean and bathing
houses and board walks were carried
out to sea-
AT the final day of the Christian AL.
lance convention in Carnegie hall,
New York on the 18th the subscrip-
tons secured for missionary work
amounted to $4,000
A DOUBLE execution took place on
the 18th at Wewoka, capital OF the
Seminole nation, Charles Hadworth
and Henry Welsh, half-breed Indians,
being shot to death by four Indian po-
lice, standing 20 feet distant Both
murderers fell back into their collins
dead. Two days before a full-blood
Indian was legally shot for a murder
committed six months ago.
REPORTS ted that 100 women are
engaged in selling whisky to the Osaye,
Otoe. Ponca aud Creek Indians on the
border of Oklahoma and that it was
dangerous for deputy marshal to APP
pear in that country alone. A party
of deputies brought to Guthrie, Ok,
on the 10th a dozen whisky sellers,
mostly Indians
FORTY special train loads of people
visited Maj. Mckinley at Canton, O.,
on the 10th. They came from Iowa,
New York, Kentucky, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Indiana. Illinois. Missouri,
West Virginia, Maryland and Oh o.
c. T. COLE. cashier of the National
bank of Corning, Ia, has been ar
rested by the United States marshal on
a charge of ENLIGHTENMENT. The deficit
IS about $4,000.
MOST REV. EDWARD WHITE BENSON,
D. D., archbishop of Canterbury and
primate of all England, was stricken
with apopleXv while attending church
on the 1Ilh and died almost immedi-
ately.
J. D. SAIR, one of the men WHO
robbed the bank of Sherburne. Mimi,
and shot the cashier and a bvstander,
was surrounded in a farmhouse by
posse, when he jumped through II win
dow and fatally shot Marshal Gallon
and got into cornfield. Then seeing
that there was no chance of esaaoe the
robber shot his owl, brains out. AL
most the entire amount OF money
stolen was found on the dead maI,.
THE JaSner county Jail burned at
Paulding, Miss, during the night of
the 9th, and two prisoners, E. A.
charged with forgery. and
Mollie Daniels, a crazy negress, were
cremated. Strickland had stated that
unless opium was brought to him he
would burn the Jail.
JOSEPH PENTACosT, of Guthrie, Ok,
was reported as lying very low from
the effects of a bite from a spider.
Within a short time four people have
been bitten in that city and a dozen at
other points in that territory. all suf-
fering greatly and one dying. Those
who are bitten suffer bad effects for
after the first sickness is gone
A NOTICE was posted on the doors of
the Cape Ann Savings bank on the sth
at Gloucester. Mass, stating the insti-
tuition had been closed Soon after
came the news that George ]. Marsh,
for more than quarter of century
the trusted treasurer of the bank, had
shot himself at his summer home at
He was short in his &C
counts
A LARGE boiler in the Reading iron
works at Danville, Pa, exploded on the
sth, killing two persons instantly and
njuring score or more of others The
house of John Burns, close by, was
demolished. The cause of the explo-
,ion was unknown.
CHAIRMAN BABCoCK, of the repub-
lean congressional committee, has is
sued statement based on detailed re-
ports. claiming the next house of rep
as republican by at least
2 majority.