The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-03

been opened in Chicago. The division
controls 10000 votes and proposes to
inaugurate an aggressive campaign for
good roads.
THE New York Herald has made
canvass of its correspondents and
stated on the 10th that on the first
ballot Mckinley would poll double the
vote of any other candidate and would
poll 60 votes short of the nomination.
The total number of delegates to the
convention will be 909 and ASS will be
required to nominate. Reed will be
second, with l52; Morton third, with
60, and Allison fourth, with 3S.
THREE hundred Chinese were re-
Gently blown to atoms by the explosion
of a magazine at the fort at Kiangy in
China The disaster was the work of
mutinous soldiers, who were preparing
to join secret society rebels in an at
tack on an adjacent town.
AT late hour on the 29th a masked
man entered the farm house of Alvin
NJ. Stone, near Talmadge, o., and COM
mitted horrible butchery. When he
took his departure Stone and his wife,
both aged people, were lying dead in
bed and Ira Stillson, the hired man,
and Emma Stone, the eldest of three
daughters, were unconscious from
blows dealt by the murderer. Hattie,
with the blood streaming from wounds
in her head, managed to reach a neigh
boris house. The crime was a mystery.
THE clerk Of the Oklahoma supreme
court has received a telegram from At
| torney General Harmon to call special
session of that court for the purpose of
including what was known as Greer
county, Tex, within the judicial dis
trict of Oklahoma
PULASKI DUCKwoRTH, a prominent
farmer near Bentonville, Ark, on the
29th killed his wife by striking her on
the head with an AK. He then attacked
his four-year-old child and inflicted
fatal injuries, after which he cut his
own throat, dying almost instantly.
Duckworth was undou btedly insane.
FRED GoRRELL, molder of West Co.
lumbus, O., aged 81, shot his wife, who
was but II, and then stood before a
mirror and cut his throat with a razor.
| The wife will recover. Jealousy was
the cause of the affair.
MATT MOoTRY, a negro, was hanged
at Georgetown, Tex, on the 9th in the
presence of 1000 people for the murder
| of Andrew Pickrill, Bohemian farm
er, last May. Attended by two negro
preachers. he sang hymn and prayed,
and then made long talk, confessing
his crime, but did not seem to think it
| justified hanging.
AT the Massachusetts, republican
state convention at Boston on the eth
the boom of Speaker Reed for the NOM
ination for the presidency was launched
amid great enthusiasm. The principal
resolutions denounce the present tariff
law and call for a new one for protec-
ton and reciprocity; denounce the sill
yer agitation; oppose free silver COIN
age: oppose state banks and uphold
national banks; demand the restriction
of immigration, the entire separation
of church and state, the enforcement
of the Monroe doctrine and express
sympathy with Cuba
AT Benton, Ark, a recent fire de-
stroyed dozen residences and nearly
all the business part of town. Loss,
| $40, 900.
AT least 400 of the ., 900 Italian i'm
migrants who were landed on Ellis
island, n. Y, a few days ago, will be
deported, as they have no means to
subsist upon for 80 days The law re-
quires each immigrant to have at least
$40 or to have some relative in Amer
lea before he is admitted.
Four people were killed and two in
jured in a fire which started early on
the morning of the 10Th in the three
story business and tenement house, 374
Hudson street. New Y ork.
Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have died at
Port Jarvis, n. Y. from being poisoned
and the daughter, Mrs. Martha Whit
taker. was under guard, suspected of
the crime
Two warehouses of the Pleasure
Ridge Park Distillery Co., at Louis
vile. KY, were destroyed by fire re-
Gently with all their contents, consist
ing of upwards of 80. 600 barrels of
whisky. The total loss was about
$4,000.
THE provisional national executive
committee of the new national reform
party has issued call for the national
convention, to be held in Pittsburgh,
Pa, May %
THE failures for the week ended
March % (Dun's reporD were $50 in the
United States. against 234 last year,
and SO in Canada, against ~ last year.
In several towns in the Indian terri
tory smallpox was prevailing on the
9th in a malignant form and the peo-
Pile were greatly excited. The places
were rigidly quarantined and business
was at a staudstill.
By direction of the officials of the
uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, the
arrangements to hold the national en-
campment in Minneapolis have been
declared off and Cleveland has been
selected as the place for the coming
| event.
The clearing house returns for the
week ended March 81 for the following
cities were: New York, S5O2, ESQ, 574;
Chicago. ST., 300, 7O3; st. Louis, 2O,5s2,-
SIS: Kansas City. s9.119,4l6: St Joe,
81. OBS O96; Topeka, S447.267: Wichita,
1887, 725; Omaha, 81, 45s.O74.
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