The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-17


THE Bay City team won the l00-mile
relay bicycle race at San Francisco.
Time, 4:56:12X.
AT San Francisco Robert w. Edgren
threw a 16-pound hammer from the
regulation seven-foot ring the aston
ishing distance of las feet S inches.
JOHN o. HUMPHREY, of Springfield,
Ill, received a telegram on the 18th
from Senator Cullom at Washington
that he (Cullom) had not withdrawn
from the presidential race and did not
intend to withdraw.
OAKI, under arrest at Denver, Col. ,
for the murder of Mrs Minnie Miller
and her nephew, is believed to be the
mysterious strangler whom the police
of Denver have been looking for for
three years
A SINGULAR phenomenon was a
shower in Lander, Wyo., on the 18th.
First red and then yellow clay fell,
followed little later by almost black
mud. People who were out in the
storm looked as though they had been
churned in tub of mud.
By the explosion of 200 pounds of
powder in a magazine at the St. Law
renee mine at Butte, Mont, six men
lost their lives. 1t will be necessary
to tunnel and timber through the
wreckage before the bodies can be
reached.
LAvISA JONES, a colored domestic,
~ years of age, was arrested at Nor
folk, Va, charged with attempting to
poison the entire family of F. L. Hol-
land, by placing a quantity of poison
in the coffee pot One person had died
and four others were made intensely
sick.
ATTEMPTS were recently made by
incendiaries to burn the Savannah,
ga post Office and also some of the
large business houses in different sec
tions of the city.
HERMAN BoAK, a stonemason of New
Hampton, Ia, on the 18th shot and
killed Mike Bartz and fatally wounded
the latter's son and young daughter.
Boak's wife recently secured divorce
from him and he laid in wait in the
bush for them while they were on
their way home from church, and dis.
charged both barrels of shotgun at
them at short range. He mistook the
girl for his wife.
DEPUTY GAME WARDEN BREWSTER, of
Grand Haven, Mich, began wholesale
arrests of fishermen and seizure of
their nets, upon the charge that the
meshes used were smaller than the
lawful size. Nearly every fishing firm
in Grand Haven was complained
against. The seizures throw many men
out of employment, as fishing in Lake
Michigan is a big industry there. 1t
was asserted that the total value of the
nets seized will amount to S25,OO0
AT Pentwater, Mich, S. B. Minshall,
an attorney. shot and probably fatally
wounded William B. o. Sands, a
wealthy citizen. Minshall then went
home and shot his wife and three chill
dren and then blew his own brains
out No motive for the tragedy has
developed.
THE clearing house returns for the
week ended April 10 for the follow
ing cities were: New York, S521, 1861
900; Chicago, ST.. O6S O96; St Louis, S22,-
919, 736; Kansas City, 50, 39G, lie; St Jo-
seph, 81, 1s2, sos; Topeka, 1914, 47O; Wich-
tia, 1853, GAS; Omaha, 81, POS, SEQ.
ALL the Cree Indians in the United
States, who largely inhabit Arizona
and the northwest, will soon be de-
ported to Canada
SPORTING men were reported as try
ing to arrange limited glove contest
between Corbett and Peter Maher to
take place at San Francisco in May.
THE Cuban insurgents under Maceo
were said to have defeated the Spanish
troops four times recently in the prov
ince of Pinar del Rio, the Spanish loss
being L 500 killed and wounded, but
the government suppressed all infor-
nation about the battles
The barns of Mark Hickey and ]. B.
Wallace, near Hillsboro, Tex, were
destroyed by fire with their contents.
One horse of Wallace's was burned to
death, and another badly injured. The
fire was of incendiary origin and Sher-
iff Bell sent some deputies out with
bloodhounds to investigate. The dogs
followed a trail when word was
brought that a suspected negro, Henry
had shot himself He
was supposed to have killed himself
rather than su bmit to arrest.
A RECENT dispatch to the London
Daily News from a resident of Cuba
drew lameHtable picture of the fero-
cious character that the war had as
sumed under Gen. Weyler. 1t was be-
lieved, however, that the rebels would
eventually shake off the Spanish rule.
The dispatches also stated that a
band of volunteers, Infatuated by the
of the American congress,
had shot six sons of an American
farmer at Casigaus- The United States
was said to be inquir-
ing into the matter.
AT Milestone, w. Va, the house of
Jackson Martin was burned and he
and his wife and child were cremated
IN the ruins
AT Klang Gin two regiments of Chi
nese soldiers revolted and, at signal
from their leader, seized the guns of |
the forts and proceeded to kill all of
the officers and a new regiment of SOL |
iiers recently arrived. In the midst |
If the massacre a magazine exploded |
md all xrara blown m riaaaS Tuo