The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-25

destroyed BIZ fire. Loss. s75, no; inspr-
anee. S2a.mC0.
THE Nati' nal i nix of Illinois at Chi
cago, w tn assets amounting 10 5 5.O0O-
OOa has su>pendei. The causes. as
given hv the eiearin hou~' commit re,
were 'unwarIantatle and njudi, ions
loans" through whic the capital au1
surplus had cen inns eFled.
The failure was annnurc d of the
Ro>eland Savings bank at Chica q ON
the 2lst. The bank did business with
the National Bank of illinois.
MEETING in memory of Gen. An
tonic Msceo was held at New York on
the 18th under the auspices of the -
Cuban societies of that city. The great
est excitement prevailed and, when the
collection boxes were passed women,
who composed half the audience. took
off their rings and other jewelry and
threw them in.
In railroad collision on the Texas
& Pacific road near Sodus. La. three
men were killed and seven badly in
jured.
A WAGON was struck while crossing
the track of the Chicago & Northwest
ern road at Denison, Ia. and Mr..
Krual farmer, was fatally hurt and
his w fe was killed.
THE gold fever was said to be rum
ming high at Guthrie, Ok, and there
was talk of an organized rush to cap
ture the rich gold discover es in the
Wichita mountains
Two Proctors, Dink aud Arch. father
and son, were taken from the Jail at
Russellville, Ky, on the night of the
18th and lynched and Arch's brother,
Bill, was shot to death in his cell
They were all charged with the muir
der of Doc and Aaron Grafton. The
mob came from Adairville and was
composed of about Is m-n.
EX-CoNGREssMAN ROSWELL g. Horn
died at Plainfeld. n. j., on the 18th of
bronchitis and Brignrs disease, aged &c.
TWENTY EIGHT of the anarchists inn
plicAted in the throwing of bomb in
the religious procession at Barcelona
on June E. whereby six persons were
killed and 50 others injured. have been
sentenced to death and 50 others TO
/ penal Serviiude.
THERE wa much excitement around
Langsi on and Perkins. Ok. on the 18th
over the murder of Freeman Morrow
and his daughter, white men wanting
to lynch the alleged negro murderer
and negroes declaring that there should
be no lvnching.
The supreme court of Nebraska has
declared that the payment by State
! Auditor Moore of SAC 600 in warrants
for sugar bounties to the Oxnard com
pany was illegal.
HENRY KILLBNs, under death sem
tence in the Jail at Alexandra, La,
set the. place on fire and but for its
| timely discovery he and 40 other pris.
oners would have been burned.
THE big prize in the Panama lottery,
at Paris, amounting to 500, 600, has
been won by a Marseilles markell
woman, the widow Boissiere.
The recent annual charity ball by
the Young Mems Hebrew association
| in Chicago yielded over S25, 900.
THE most violent earthquake ever ex-
perienced in England shook that coun-
try from Durham to Surrey and from
London to the Welsh coast about $3.50
O'Clock on the morning of the 18th,
/ lasting from four to thirty seconds.
| At many points two distinct shocks
were experienced. No great damage
was done.
| E. R. MOSES. of Great Bend, Kan,
vas elected chairman of the executive
committee at the irrigation congress al
Ph9nix. Ariz, on the 18th. J. Emery,
| of Kansas, and |. w. Fort, of Nebraska
were chosen national lecturers. h. Lin.
coin, Neb., was fixed upon for the next
meeting place.
IT was officially announced at Bonn
bay on the 18th that there had been
1,5l1 cases of plague in that city and
1.O94 deaths from the disease up to
date The exodus from Bombay con.
tiuues. 1t was stated that 200, 900 per-
sons had fed from the city.
JAMES SMITH, a mulatto, was hanged
at Upper Marlborough, Md, on the
18th for the murder of Margaret Brown,
a white girl, with whom he claimed to
be in love. He cut the girls throat be-
cause she repulsed him.
A LOUISVILLE dispatch stated that
the repu blicans would contest the
election of Kentucky's single Bryan
elector.
| WHITE men were reported as intimi
dating colored mill hands in Lafayette
county. Ark, in order to drive them
out of the county.
AN ammonia cylinder in the Casino
skating rink and summer theater in
Schenly park, at Pittsburgh, Pa, ex,
ploded at 2:15 a. m. on the 18th and the
whole handsome structure was soon in
flames. The losses were placed al
| 500. 900, with S75, 900 insurance.
A BURLINGTON, Ia, dispatch said that
the anti-cigarette law passed by the
| legislature was virtually dead letter
in that city, owing to the recent deci-
sion of the supreme court regarding
original packages.
AN accident by which six men were
believed to have lost their lives oc-
Cured on the 10th in the tunnel of the
Holy Cross mine near Red Cliff, Col. A
blast caused great fall of earth and
it was believed the men were buried
under it.
The explicit announcement was
made at Madrid that Senior Depuy de
LONE. the Spanish minister at Wash