The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-12

OF the cabOOSe. went into the StreaI2.
One uaa- said to be a tramp, wg=
ki:led.
: NEW YORK special from IndianaTo-
lis on the Sth said that the appoi11-
u, NJ rs minister to Mexico had been
given 20 Powell Clayton OF Arkansas.
WHITG Constable Lawyer was 1t .Jo-
sepl Whites farm in AIlegan county,
Mich. making an investigation of
cruelty to animals. White became il
dig1ant and made an attack upon Law
yer with a saw, when Lawyer drew
revolver and shot White dead. Law
ve- was seriously wounded.
IT the dance given at the welding
of Henry Wood and Carrie PEBBLES.
near Jacksonville, Fla. Albert Thur
man. a rejected sutton. insisted ON
dancing with the bride and b. waited
in such manner as to excite the jeal-
ousv OF the groom. who shot Thurman
down d he waltzed past him
CHARLES LEWIS came into Pierre, s.
D.. the other day with the bodies of his
wife and one child who were killed by
the falling of the dirt ROOF of their log
house. Lewis. two children and two
hired men were in the house at the
time and managed to crawl out.
Two sections of q freight train col
lided on the B. & O., near Davisville.
W. Va. and Engineer Richardson was
killed, Fireman Hughill fatally injured
and two brakemen badly hurt.
IL a fit of desperation. after quar-
rel with her husband, the wife of Rob
ert Cort, d rancher near Big Timber.
Mont. picked up her three small chill
drcn and rushed to the Yellowstone
river and threw them in and then
jumped in herself They were all
drowned.
4 HEAD-END collision occurred be-
tween two freight trains on the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad near Mont
gomery, Ala. ON the 9TH through a
mistake OF the telegraph operator and
the engineer and brakeman We &c killed
and the fireman fatally hurt. The
operator has disappeared.
4 LARGE portion of the business sec
ton of ShellOck- La. including the
post office has been destroyed by fire.
Loss. estimated AT $4,000.
have been SEES cases of plague in Bonn
bay up to the 9Th and 3. Sal deaths.
A PAssENGRR train ran into a tree
which had rolled on the track at Wood
house, Pa. and the engine was thrown
across the track and the rest of the
train rolled down an embankment into
a creek. The fireman was fatally
crushed and several others were badly
injured.
An ice gorge - feet high and 30 miles
long gave way at Louisville. KY. on
the 18th Several New Orleans and
Memphis packets were caught in the
ice and heavy loss by damage was
feared
The ship yards of the Fairfield Ship
building Co. at Govan- near Glasgow,
were destroyed by fire. The damage
done is estimated at $3.50. 900. Four
thousand persons were thrown out of
employment.
NICHOLAS SHAFFER. of Burlington,
y. j.. shot his wife and then turned
the weapon on himself in the street on
the 5th. Mrs. Shatfer it was thought
would recover. while the husbands
wounds will prove fatal
ANDERSON PARKER, farmer of Rock
castle county. KY. in a drunken rage
fractured his wife's skull with a club,
shot his son through the wrist and in
hicted scalp wound and killed his
father with a revolver. The rest of
the family escaped during the fight
THE Connecticut legislature voted
down a resolution calling upon con-
gress to recognize the independence of
abe Cuban republic.
WALLACE HARRISON and Charles Lin
quist skated into air holes on Lake
Michigan at Chicago on the 4th and
were drowned. Assistant Corporation
Counsel Burling made desperate eff
fort to save Harrison and came near
being drowned himself.
EXPERT accountants have found
shortage of nearly SIS, 900 in the ae-
counts of Cashier c. E. BREEDER. of the
First national bank of Bethlehem. Pa
BREEDER has sbsconded He had been
cashier for 20 years
I. J. LEyAN, of Dubuque, Ia. has
a. lead-bearing crevasSe in
the cellar OF his house. 1t is a six-inch
vein and promises a big yield of mineral.
The police of Nebraska City. Neb.,
b ad a desperate fight with a gang of
Il drunken tramps, but the officers
finally arrested the principal offenders.
ROBERT MORTON, a negro, wrote an
note to Miss Tommie john |
son, popular young white woman of |
Rockield. KY. and when it became |
known officers arrested him, but mob |
them and carried the |
prisoner three miles from town and |
hanged him.
The breaking ice gorges of the Lick
ing river sunk 25 coal barges at Pom |
erOy, o., and vicinity and damages |
we're reported at other points along |
the Ohio river
THE senatorial deadlock in Oregon |
was unbroken on the 5th and as each /
contestant stood firm it seemed prob
able that Oregon will have but one
senator for the next two years.
SHERIFF LEWIS, of Carrollton, Mo-,
has telegraphed to the California Off
,ers to release the man they suspected
If being George Taylor, the escaped
murderer of the Meeks family. as the
received of the man looks