The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-19

Geld, Of Roodhouse, Ill was burned 70
death through playing with matches
THE steamer Bertha was sunk of
Southwold, Eng, by collidiug with
the steamer C.aveler and six OF her
crew were drowned, the remainder be.
| ing rescued.
UNKNOWN persons poisoned the wells
on the places OF Henry Weaver and his
son at Weaverstown, Pa. and one
child has died and another was very
sick through drinking the wateF.
IT was rumored at New York on the
18th that President Cleveland. Speaker
Reed and Secretary Carlisle will form
partnership aud practice law in that
CITY after the 4th of March.
ST VINCENT's sanitarium at Santa
Fe. n. NJ. was burned recently. Loss,
800. 600. 1t was crowded, but no lives
were lost
MONROE JACKSON ami ]. w. Yes.
quarreled at Hartzelle, Ala. and the
former drew a knife and the latter a
pistol. jackson was shot through the
body three times and Vest was cut in
several places Both men finally fell
to the ground and died soon after
|
ward.
THE railway brotherhood of en-
gineers, firemen, traiumen and tele'
graph operators, which recently moved
their headquarters to Peoria, Ill,
asked the republican committee on
resolutions at St Louis for an arbitra
ton plank in the platform.
CHARLES HILDEBRANDT, the we'll
known sport of johannesburg, South
Africa, has arrived at New York to try
and make match between Corbet'
and Fitzsimmous. He is ready to put
up $1,000 Should he fail TO make 6
match letween the above mentioned
pugilists, he will try and get up &
fight between Corbett and Denver E.
Smith.
In quarrel over baseball game a
Coruishville, KY, Keller Block fatally
cut his brother and seriously stabbed
three others Realizing his crime ht
then tried to hang himself, but was Gu
down. He afterwards disappeared anC
it was thought lac had committed sui
eide.
THERE was said to be a wide differ
ence of opinion between the sounC
money democrats in the east and thos'
of Illinois and other middle western
/ states. Eastern leaders of the part,
look for no bolt in Chicago on the Fl
nancial plank. Western leaders, &C
cording to Judge Vincent. of Chicago
, have already engaged the Auditorium
for second convention
The reported bursting of the bank
of Congress lake, near Canton, O., ant
, the destruction of two villages, re
Gently photographed over the country
: was without foundation.
: WITH the disbanding on the night o
the 18th of Parson Davies "Wicklov
Postman" company John L. Sullivan
: bids farewell to the stage. About fivt
nights out of six during the pas
six months the eX-champion of tn
world has been so much under the in
: f1uence of liquor that his three-rount
: bout with Paddy Ryan has been little
l more than a farce What he will nov
do for living he does not himsel
know, nor do any of his associates
Financially. as well as physically, he il
dead broke"
4 Ar ten O'Clock on the night Of tn
, 14th 800 striking quarrymen marched
! out of the Village OF Der rea, near Cieve
t lauG, O.. bound for North Amherst
The strikers were accompanied By tel
wagons loaded with provisions an,
other supplies and il was their pur
) pose to lay siege to the North Amhers
quarries and induce the men there t
quit A large force of deputy sheriff
has been sworn in for duty at Nortl
|, Amherst.
A DISPATCH from Bombay stated tina
the British warship Bonaventure
. while making passage from Colon ba
, Ceylon, to Pondicherry, capital of the
French settlement ia India, lost 20 met
by sunstroke-
THE boiler of the Michigan salt work
at Marine City, Mich. exploded, kill
ing William Mowbray. night foreman
and John F. Haley Peter Booth, ,
> fireman, and Cyrenius ONeill wer
= badly injured. Flames broke out afte
, the explosion and the property was de
) stroyed. Loss, $4,000
q THOMAS WHITE, after a brief quarre
| at Chillicothe. O.. with Miss Edith Me
Kelvey, his sweetheart. shot her fatal
i " and then killed himself
A TELEGRAM from New York ON tn,
18th stated that the six leading manu-
: facturers of fireworks in the United
: States were planning q trust to saw
: themselves from ruin because prices
had gone below cost.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
stated that the Turks had invaded
Acrotiri and Kydonia in the island O
> Crete and deserated the churches
: The Turks had also destroyed village.
in the western district and 5000 ref
ugees had fed TO the mountains anC
were suffering extreme privations
AS soon as it was known that Har
ward had defeated Princeton at base
ball there was roar that shook every
window at Cambridge, Mass. and fire
works and horns made the night hide
GUS The police finally arrested three
students, when the rest numbering
about 5000. attempted to rescue them
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