The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-05-15

Associate Subtlc0 Brewer, OF the
United States supreme court, died at
San Antonio. Tex, on the 18th of con-
sumption.
The cutworm was reported as play
ing havoc with young cotton round
Duval, Tex.
Mr. JOSEPH MANLEY and Congress
man Aldrich said in their recent state
ment of the situation of Mckinley and
Reed that $50 out of 9Is delegates had
been elected. They allowed 361 votes to
Mckinley, excluding the contest cases
They said SO were yet to be elected,
and il Mckinley got all he would fall
short of the necessary majority.
They also stated their belief that the
sentiment of the people would change
yet in favor of Speaker Reed for pres
ident
THE boiler of the large towboat
Harry Brown exploded rs miles below
Vicksburg. Miss, on the 18th and the
vessel sank in less than a minute.
Eleven persons, all white, were prob
ably lost Three bodies were recov-
cred. 1t was valued at $50, 600 and
was not insured
Az excursion train jumped the track
near Savannah, Ca, on the 18th and
one child was killed and 40 other per-
sons were more or less injured
Two sealing vessels were thought to
have been lost In the straits of Belle
isle Their crews aggregated 40 men.
FIRE at Jersey City on the 18th de-
stroyed the Lehigh Valley Co.'S hay
sheds and 20 or so cars loaded with
hay. Loss, $4,000,
A FIGHT over q widow occurred in
Calhoun county, Fla, in a room and
three men were killed and one wound
ed.
FOREST fires around Egg Harbor
City, n. j., were in full blast on the
18th and the farmers were nearly pros
trated fighting them. Thousands of
acres of timber had been destroyed.
WALTER MAYN, employed on the
new Santa Fe bridge at Guthrie, Ok,
stepped off the bridge backwards, fall
ing 20 feet and sustaining fatal inter
nal injuries.
MICHAEL WELSH, Dan Morrison, Mary
Berry and Maggie Calder went out in
a boat on the lake at Chicago and Mr..
Welsh and Miss Berry were drowned
and the other two were only saved
after an exciting struggle in the water.
The overturning of the boat was due
to the hilarity of Welsh, who persisted
in rocking the craft in fun.
NEAR Eastman's Mills, Ala, Redden
81. Williams, prominent white farm
er, was lynched by mob of 40 masked
white men for making an assault on
his 16-year-o,d daughter. The man
was being taken back to jail by an Of
fcer, after preliminary hearing, when
the mob took the prisoner from him
and hanged him to tree.
No CARS were run. at Milwaukee on
the 10th and there was no rioting. The
strikers, nearly 1000 in number, pa
raded the streets in the morning. The
strike was believed to be practically
over, the company having all the men
it required to operate its cars and re-
fusing to treat with the strikers in any
way.
THE steamer Monowai has brought
news to San Francisco of the whole
sale massacre of traders and mission
aries by natives of the islands of Man
ming straits and Solomons The mas
sacre was followed by acts of cauni-
balism. Many missions have been
abandoned as the result of the atroci-
ties of the natives.
HALF million dollars worth of mill
ing property and lumber went up in
flames at Ashland, Wis, on the 10th.
II is presumed that a spark from some
employees pipe started the fire. Three
men were burned in the fire and their
bodies afterward recovered. A fourth
man was also thought to have been
burned.
A SEVERE storm passed over Clark, S.
D., recently. j. Ii. Lindland's house,
IL miles south, was taken up by the
wind and carried distance of so feet
aud destroyed. There were ten per-
sons in the house, and Mrs. Lindland
was killed. while other members of
the family were more or less injured.
Upwards of two inches of rain fell in
three hours
II. H HOLMES, the murderer recent
ly hanged at Philadelphia. was buried
on the sth in cement, his tom b being a
solid wall of rock in the Holy Cross
cemetery.
MRS RoxBY, of Lexington, Ok,
while filling lamp spilled consider
able oil on the floor and on her
clothes When she struck match to
light the lamp, her clothes took fire |
and she was burned to death.
AT Butte, Mont, $50 miners, COM |
prising all the employees of the Rarus |
mines, struck because the foreman re- |
signed on account of dislike for Time |
Keeper Applegate. General Manager |
Heinze put new men to work and the |
strikers drove them from the mines |
with threats of violence A threat was |
made to hang the new forman, Glib |
bons, and he was forced into a carriage |
and driven away. Trouble was feared.
FAILURES for the week ended the sth |
were, according to Dun's Review, 23s |
in the United States, against 227 last |
year, and "a in Canada, against "a last |
year.
AT the Methodist general conference
at Cleveland, O., the lay delegates
showed their purpose to curtail the |
in he