The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-26

A DISASTROUS Gre at West Cartha-e.
y. Y, wipe,i out a furniture factory. =
butter tut factory and shinyle mill.
Loss, SIS. on. with hut little insurance
The Presbyterian convention, which
has recently been holding its sittings
at Glasgow. Scotland, has decided to
hold the next convention in Washing
ton in 1929.
EIGHTY railroad workmen have en-
tered suits for damages against Chi
cago railroads for being blacklisted on
account of their connection with the
strike of 1894
In Tyler county, w. Va, an electric
storm set several tanks of oil on fire,
doing much damage.
AT Doucette. Tex, the tram engine
boiler of the Nebraska Lumber Co. ex-
ploded, killing seven men outright and
seriously, If not fatally, injuring three
others The victims were mutilated
beyond recognition.
A BUILDING at the corner Of Fifth
street and Mint avenue. San Francisco,
collapsed on the ED. burying 80 per-
sons in the ruins Five dead bodies
were recovered and II injured rescued.
To add to the horror the debris caught
fire and the engines had to play on it,
thus adding to the peril of those un-
derneath-
Ex-Gov. WILLIAM E RUSSELL of
Massachusetts,, has issued a statement
in which he positively states that his
name will not be presented to the Chi
cago convention; that he will GO to
Chicago, not as a delegate, but as a
citizen interested in the declaration of
his party for a gold standard; and,
furthermore, he will urge all his
friends to secure the selection of Will
liam C. Whitney as the presidential
| nominee.
A REPORT has been brought from
Cnba that Mr. Gonzales, who was said
to be an American citizen, his wife
and five children were all shot TO death
by Spanish troops. They had been or
dered to remain in their house, but
the troops set fire TO the place and
they walked out of the door to escape
being burned to death and were shot
down the official report stating they
disobeyed orders in leaving the house
A LONDON dispatch from Madrid on
the 22d stated that the Spanish govern
ment had declared that the claims for
damages made by Americans in Cuba
were unteua BILE and some of them RI
diculoGs
LOUIS DAVID, after being warned by
a policeman against touching a live
wire at Toledo. O., in spirit of bravado
took hold and was instantly killed.
CoNsUL-GENERAL LEE, at Havana,
has denied that he has senta report to
President Cleveland.
AT Bayou Goula, La, Mrs Landry,
a widow was stabbed and killed, aud
her adopted daughter received two
terrible gashes across the face. Bust
ness was suspended at the place and a
search instituted for the murderers.
The eastbound Atlantic express on
the Pennsylvania railway ran into a
freight wreck Is miles east of Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the goth derailing the
two engines, two express cars and a
com bination car and sleeper. Engineer
Mcintyre was badly bruised by Jump
ing, but none of the passengers were
injured
Two women and a man were drowned
in the Muskingum river near Zaues-
vile, O., on the 21st They attempted
to cross the river in an old skiff and it
capsized.
SIX masked men broke into the resi-
dence of George Kolb near Garrett,
Ill, recently, beat him into insensibil-
itv, bound the mem hers of his family,
robbed his safe and escaped unframed.
The fireman noticed the failure OF
Engineer Giddings on c., B. & Q
train TO signal for the closing of the
draw on the bridge across the Missis-
sippi at Burlington, Ia. and on investi-
cation he found the engineer dead at
his post with great cash in the side
of his head How long he had been
dead or how he came by his death was
a mystery
FIRE destroyed the finest business
block in Tilbury, Ont, on the 18th.
Loss, S5O,O00
AN unknown man was recently
killed by a Chicago & Alton train
near Bloomington, III.
The latest reports from Yokohama
as to the loss of life by the recent
earthquakes and tidal wave in the
northern province of Japan show that
10. 900 persons were drowned by the
tidal wave which accompanied the
shocks
MAHER and Slavin were the attrac-
ton at Madison Square, New York, on
the 18th in four-round bout Maher
showed that he was the cleverest box
er. He seemed to hit Slavin when and
where he pleased. In the third round
Slavin was almost put to sleep with a
couple of swings, and in the fourth
the bout was stopped by the referee,
the Australian being too groggy for
business
A DAM at the head of Goodrich creek,
near Baker, Ore, burst recently and
Clark French, his wife and five chill
dren were drowned. Some of the
bodies were found several miles from
the scene of the fatality and out of the
course of the stream
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Ohio, was
nominated for president by the nation
al republican convention at St. Louis