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


Battiest, of Cedar county. Both are
full blood Choctaws Reuben claims
that Battiest fired two shots at him
with pistol. that he then shot out
the sheriff's brains with his Winches-
ter, and then dismounted and kept on
firing and reloading till he put 81 bull
let's into the corpse.
AN explosion of chemicals in the
four-story building at 33s to 344 Wa
bash avenue. Chicago, completely de.
stroyed the building together with its
contents. Loss, Sa25,O00.
PIER of the Erie railway at Jersey
City, n. J., was burned on the 30th, to-
gether with three barges Loss S56,0 900.
Peter Hogan, captain of one of the
barges, was burned so badly that he
will probably die, and his son, who
jumped into the river to escape death
by fire, was drowned.
WHAT may develop into strike that
will paralyze the building industry in
Chicago for long period was begun
on the 3Oth. About 500 carpenters
went out, but the trouble was expect
ed to spread until every one of the 49,
| 600 carpenters in the city had ceased
work The trouble was about an
eight-hour day agreement between
bosses and carpenters.
A LONDON syndicate was negotiating
for the purchase of the Chino ranch in
Southern California, containing 40, 600
acres The price asked was said to be
SO, 600, OOO The property will be di-
vided and sold to English farmers.
One hundred families were expected
this year.
BY a collision between a car on the
Evanston electrical line and a heavy
express wagon near Homan avenue,
Chicago, on the 3Oth one man was in
stantly killed and five persons were in
jured.
MELVIN o. DENNIS, of Denver, COL,
rode a mile unpaced on the Mont Clair
straightaway course in the phenomenal
time of Ill 3-5. 1t was the fastest time
ever made on a wheel. The wind was
at his back, blowing at the rate of near
ly so miles an hour
FORTY masked men, armed with
clubs and shotguns, marched to the
Jail at Crown Point, Ind, on the night
of the 29th with the expressed deter
mination of lynching Albert Knaus,
who attempted to murder Mrs. Nicholas
Hoan. Sheriff Hays was prepared for
them and his threatening attitude
baffied the mob.
A FIRE broke out in Weston, w. Va
shortly after midnight on the Goth and
destroyed property to the value of
! $3.50, 900, only about one-third of which
is covered by insurance. The property
burned was about half the business
portion of the town. During the fire
suspension bridge which spans the
West Fork river gave way with crowd
of people and number of persons
were injured in the fall
A CYCLONE passed south of Alton,
ILL.,, recently and 20 box cars were
wrecked. Fences and telegraph poles
were blown down, but no fatalities re-
suited.
THE repu blican convention of Okla
homa territory, to select delegates to
st. Louis, met in Oklahoma City and
decided to send an uninstructed dele
CATION to the national convention.
The delegates were said to be one for
Mckinley and five against. The reso-
lutions adopted favor the free coinage
of silver at ratio fixed by congress.
DISPATCHES reported that 300 armed
men held possession of the town of
Palmetto, La, on the 2sth. Their
presence was to prevent the negroes
from registering, and not one negro
registered. A mob attacked the house
of a colored man, who retaliated by
firing. Other shots were fred and four
negroes were killed.
THE United States battleship Iowa
was successfully launched from
Cramps ship yard at Philadelphia on
the 2sth before distinguished party.
Miss Mary Lord Drake, daughter of
Gov. Drake, of Iowa, broke the bottle
of champagne over the vessels prov
and gave it its name.
THE worst windstorm experienced in
Denver, Col, in two years prevailed on
the eth, the wind reaching a velocity
of 90 miles an hour. The telegraph
lines on all the railroads in the south
ern part of the state were demoralized.
At Cripple Creek the shaft house on
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ing John May and severely injuring
John Harmon.
A FIGHT occurred between cattle
thieves and cowmen near Frevlis lake,
Lynn county, Tex, in which two
thieves were killed and two wounded.
One cowmsn was wounded, but not
seriously.
THE report of the death of President
Hippolyte, of Hayti, has been con-
frmed.
FRANK SCoTT, the keeper of the big
elephant Gypsy, attached to travel
ing circus at Chicago, on the 25th had
been giving the brute her daily exer-
else, when he accidentally jammed an
iron hook into her flesh above the eye.
With a scream she seized the man and
threw him against a shed door, killing
him, and then roamed up and down
the streets on the west side for hours
with an army of police after her, try
ing to capture her.
BY an explosion of in the Nickerson
& Spence grease extracting works at
Newark n i on the o6th tyo man