The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-11

ton train in which three persons were
killed and several injured. It was
caused by q misunderstanding of or
ders.
GUIsEPPI DEsARIo killed francesca
and James Garriulla at New York in a
quarrel caused through jealousy. All
are Italians
THE tollgate raiders again broke out
in Mercer county, KY, and chopped
down six pixies.
HENRY DUPONT will renew his con-
test for the place of United States sem
ator from Delaware.
COL JOHN r. FELLOWS, district attor-
ney and ex-congressman, died at New
York on the 7th from gastritis and a
complication of diseases
IT was reported in Minneapolis,
Mimi, on the 18th that Arch bishop Ire
land had made an assignment of his
private property, but it was denied by
those acquainted with the archbishop's
affairs.
WILLIAM DRURY, of Mercer county,
ILL.,, multimillionaire, and the largest
land owner in the United States, died
at his home in New Boston, Ia, on the
| 9TH.
CITIZENS of Berne, Ind, have been
losing many things from their stores
and places and posse of 100 citizens
laid in wait for the robbers and at
about four a. m. on the 7th they de-
tectsd is men robbing a store. Then
commenced a pitched battle between
the two parties, the robbers shooting
their way out and escaping. One rob-
Der was afterwards found by log
fatally wounded.
THE plant and building of the With
ington & Russell company, covering
about six acres near Nashville, Tenn,
was destroyed by fire on the 7th. The
company manufactured agricultural
implements, employing lis hands. The
loss was SIPS. 600
THE Minnesota state game warden
seized and declared confiscated to the
state of Minnesota 30 tons of venison
claimed as being illegally shipped out
of the state from st. Paul. The fines
for the alleged illegal transportation
of the game will reach somewhere in
the neigh borhood of $40, 600 or $50, 600
A MISPLACED switch at Justin, Tex,
caused the wreck of freight train and
the deaths of brakeman and fireman
and the proba BILE death of the engineer.
WHITECAPs logged and warned a
number of negroes to leave the neigh
borhood of Reel Foot lake in Tennessee
on account of considera BILE stealing go
ing on. One negro was so badly beaten
that he will likely die.
POSTMASTER DAVID c. IRONS. of
Yates, Ok. was convicted of making
false returns to the government in or
der to increase his salary.
THE Potomac river near Washington
has been lined with torpedoes for the
protection of the national capital
ARCHIE STEVENS, infant son of Mrs.
Marion Stevens. of Farmingdale, ILL.,,
was burned to death. The little fell
low, with two other children, was left
alone a short time and, while playing
with the fire, his clothes were ignited.
A LETTER of appreciation was sent
to Maj. Mckinley by the corresponding
secretary of the National w. c. 7. u.
concerning the total abstinence princi-
pies which the major is said to have
maintained for many years and as to
the belief entertained that Intoxicating
liquors will be excluded from the white
house during his administration.
A GIGANTIC deal, involving a revolu-
ton in the telephone and electric
lighting business of st. Louis has been
consummated. Three big companies,
with an aggregate paid up stock of
nearly So, 900, 900, have been organized
by about 20 of the most prominent and
wealthy citizens of st. Louis.
HIRAM JEPPEsON, James Christian
son, ST., and his son James were buried
in a snowslide on the Sd in Logan cam
yon, Utah. Jeppeson finally extricated
himself, but the father and son were
both killed.
THE official footing of the presi-
Dental vote in South Dakota had not
been made on the Sd, but the canvass
on counties was completed. The I'M
official vote was as follows: Mckinley,
41,042; Bryan, Al, 224: lowering, $50
THE sentence of Roy Waddle and -
other citizens of Oklahoma, for default
of fines and costs for illegal timber
cutting, has been committed to 81 fine
and costs by President Cleveland.
A SPECIAL to the New York Herald
from Guimaro Camaguey reported that
Maj. Dana Osgood, the noted Cornell
university half back football player,
who commanded a Cuban battery DUR
ing the recent siege of the town Of
Guimaro, was killed in battle.
THE steamer Whitney brought news
from Havana to Key West, Fla, on the
9th. Weyler was said to be completely
surrounded. Small bands of insur.
gents had crossed the trocha into Ha-
vana district and were attacking the
outposts and villages of that province.
A movement was on foot to capture
Weyler if he should attempt to go to
Havana by rail
IT was discovered at Des Moines, Ia,
that large part of the original records
relating to the work of the state sem
ate last winter, in the direction of re-
vising the code of the state, cannot be-
found. Secretary of State Mcfarland,
who made the discovery, admits that
the work of the senate during nearly
all of the last session has been sacri.