The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-05-01

has been elected president and treas.
urer of the Theo>ophical society in
America.
CARL FEIGENBAUM was electrocuted
at Sing Sing. n. Y. on the eth for the
murder of Johanna H"ffman. his land
lady. Feigen baum went to the death
chair asserting that he was innocent
Roy WITCHER, ten-year-old boy.
and Clyde Fox. Is years old, were scuf-
fling over Witcher's hat, at Perry, Ok.
Fox attempted TO tie the little boy
with a rope when Witcher stabbed him
over the heart with penknife. The
doctors do not think Fox can live and
young Witcher is in Jail.
A CYCLONE did heavy damage in
Faulkner county, Ark. A cloud burst
occurred near Conway and at other
places hail covered the ground TO
depth of from three inches to five feet
in drifts. A church and cotton gin
were blown half mile, many farm
houses, barns and other buildings were
totally demolished and stock killed.
An entire flock of sheep was blown
away.
sanely jealous of his stepsister, with
whom he was in love, fatally shot Ida
Clark, friend of the girls, with re-
volver, at Louisville, Ky. Brumley
then shot himself and cut his throat
from ear to ear.
BUFFALO, n. Y, has a Pearl Bryan
case. The head of a woman was found
on the farm of John Hoag, near Or
chard park. He had been drawing ma
nure from the city, and while spread
ing it out discovered the head. 1t was
wrapped in a Buffalo newspaper and
had bullet hole in the occipital re-
gion. The police are trying to find a
body to fit it.
REPUBLICANS at Boston, New York,
Pittsburgh, Rochester and other places
commemorated Grants birthday on
the eth by banquets and eulogies of
the dead general.
THE bronze equestrian statue of Gen.
Q. S. Grant, erected by the Union
League club, was unveiled at Brook
lyn on the 25th. There was splendid
military pageant, United States sol
dIers and sailors and the state militia
and G. A. r. veterans parading to the
number of 10000. q. S. Grant, the
generals grandson, unveiled the statue
amid cheers from the multitude. Gen.
Horace Porter delivered the Grafton.
Mrs. LUDWIG GEORGE, an elderly
German of Laramie, Wyo., became in
sane over the action of the state land
board in dispossessing her of a section
of leased school land, and was captured
while on her way to the state capitol
with a revolver to shoot Gov. Richards,
president of the land board.
FAILURES for the week ended the cath
were, according to Dun's Review, 23s
in the United States, against $50 last
year, and A in Canada, against 81 last
year.
The dead bodies of Mrs. Joseph Cock
ing and Miss Daisy Miller, her niece,
and the unconscious form of Joseph
Cooking, were found early on the cath
in the village store kept by the Cock
ings at Hill Top, Nd. Robbery had
been the incentive for the murders.
The women were on the upper floor of
the store and were struck dead with a
blunt instrument supposed to have
been an iron bar Cooking vas left
| for dead in the cellar He had been
bound with a heavy rope and brutally
treated, but will probab bly, recover.
JOHN LOVE. of Milton, w. Va, arose
from his bed and fired two shots at his
wife, killing her instantly. He then
entered his father-in-faw's bedroom
and fired two shots at him. fatally
wounding him. He wound up by firing
a bullet into his own brain.
AT a meeting iR N. A. Hanna's office
at Cleveland, O., the official Mckinley
badge to be worn by supporters OF the
presidential candidate at the St Louis
convention was adopted. 1t is bright
red satin ribbon, four inches in
length In the center of the ribbon
a photograph of Mckinley will ap.
pear, and in golden letters above and
below it will be the words: Patriot
ism. Protection, Prosperity. William
Mckinley, the Peoples Choice"
Two empty sleepers attached to q
freight train broke loose on the Penn
sylFania road recently near Allegrip-
| pus Pa. and started down the
| du Guy ttlC
drawing a freight train, denolishing
it and probably fatally injuring the
engineer and fireman The sleepers
afterwards took fire and were con-
sumed
AT Sing Sing, n. Y, Louis Herman
and Charles Pustalka, both wife muir
derers, were killed in the electric chair.
The Presbyterian women's board Oh
missions was in session at Oklahoma
City, Ok. on the 23d delegates being
in attendance from Missouri, Kansas,
| Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklaho-
ma and Indian territory. Prominent
missionaries of the Presby terrain
church from all parts of the world
| were also present.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. Secretary OF
Agriculture Morton and Commissioner
| of Internal Revenue Miller spent the
Odd fishing among the trout streams OF
Leesburg, Va
THE Eighteenth Street Baptist church
at Detroit. Mich, was the scene of a
fight on the night of the 22d. One man
| vvas strucl- across the face bv a woman