The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-07-24

MANY families were reported with
astrous FIRE at Malvern. Ark, and an
appeal for aid has heen issued. Dona-
tons will be received by W. D. Leiper,
chairman relief committee.
As result of dependency over fall
ure in business, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis S.
Gradke, of Galesburg, H.. took NOR
phine, and were discovered by their
daughter Jennie, in dying condition.
Doctors were summoned but could do
nothing.
NEAR Harrodsburg. KY, while Philip
Board was on his way to church he
was shot in the back by Silas Bugg
and instantly killed. They had quar-
relied over Bugg's wife. Bugg was
jailed.
A. j. CALL and his daughter Nettie
were killed in a shanty boat near
Huntington. w. Va, on the goth. Lot
tie Call and several other small chill
dren were also reported at the point of
death. Eta Robins has been accused
of the crime. An ak was used on the
victims. No cause was assigned for
the deed
SENATOR TELLER and IL of his asso-
ciates who bolted the national reuub-
Iican convention have made pull C at
Denver, Col, an address to silver re-
publicans setting forth their views of
the situation.
HARRY mexican. a fireman at the
Frisco yards at Vinita, L T., was scald-
ed TO death. The man was under the
engine, cleaning out cinders, when q
valve blew out.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND attended the
funeral services of the late ex.Gnv.
William E. Russell in Cam bridge, Mass,
on the Goth.
The wife of Phillip Tague, of White
Plains. KY, gave birth to triplets, all
girls, healthy and weighing six, seven
and eight pounds, respectively
SPECIAL to the Cincinnati Enquirer
on the 10th indicated a reign of terror
in the counties of Scioto, Meigs and
Gallia. o. At Portsmouth the Second
Presty terrain church was badly daua-
aged by dynamite. Attempts were
also made 10 blow up other buildings.
evading all efforts of the officers and
posse to capture them. The large
stock barns of Judge Fl. A. KentE
have also been burned by the iacen-
diaries.
A SERIOUS collision took place on
the Chicago, darlington & Quincy rail-
road near Quincy, ILL.,, on the 15th. At
the Sand cut, where the road makes
sharp curve a switch engine crashed
into the engine of a freight train.
Both engines were totally demolished
and Engineer Fred Hammer, of the
freight train was killed at his post and
Frank Athey, his fireman, died soon
after Fireman Smith will also die.
Won Stein berg, the other engineer,
was also seriously injured, but will re-
cover.
CHARLES MARGRAvE, the postmaster
at Emory Gap Tenn, was shot from
ambush while going home and fatally
wounded. William Lefew is under ar
rest on suspicion. Lefew's brother
was shot and killed last Christmas in
Margrave's store. Margrave was
charged with the crime.
MARY SNoDGRAss. a white woman,
was hanged at Coeburn, Va. recently
for cremating her negro girl baby.
She was detected while in the act of
pressing the baby's body on the flames
with large shovel
LIGHTNING struck a gas we'll on the
farm of Michael Whitney, at Muncie,
Ind, and ignited it. All efforts to put
the blaze out have been futile AID it
was said ia be impossible to go closer
than so feet to the roaring monster.
The Hallet & Davis Co., dealers in
pianos and organs at Chicago, have
made an assignment. A statement
was filed showing assets of S2sS. 600;
liabilities, $4,000
WHILE bathing at Lake Minnetonka,
a summer resort'in Minneapolis, Flor
ence Bird. aged Il, Birdie Mills, aged
IL, and Helen CLANCY, aged Is, were
drowned
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, of New York,
has formally bolted the ticket nomi-
mated at Chicago. He said nothing
could induce him to vote for Bryan or
to assist in any way in his election.
Beyond that he was silent
RANh JUNE, MS VIE ana child left
Grand Haven, Mich, in a small sloop.
The boat was found afterEard up-
turned on the beach at Lake Harbor
and it was supposed all three were
drowned
JOHN GoNsALvEs a0d John Gasparri,
italian sailors, quarreled in a cabin of
the fishing smack Leaora at Charles
ton. s c., on the 18th and Gasparri
plunged a knife into the stomach of
GoRsalves, disem boweling him. Gas
parri afterwards ran into the cabin
and committed suicide by drawing the
same knife with which he had killed
his victim across his throat, severing il
from ear to ear.
Ex-Gov. w. E RUSSELL, of Massa-
ehusetts, was found dead at the camp
of B. F. Dutton at ST. Adelaide, Que,
on the 10th. The cause was thought
to have been heart disease. He was
SO years old.
MORE than 100 replies had been re-
ceived up to the 10th by the committee
at Chicago which issued the call for
sound money democratic convention.
The replies came from Maine, Michi-