The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-09

Miners convention. to be held in Den
yer, Col. on the 18th and 10th of June.
The exhibitions will consist of refined
gold and gold ores and general min
ing display. Miners organizations are
and movement Each county in the
mining states is asked to hold mass
convention not later than May so, and
elect delegates to the gathering.
FRED ACoCK. an ex-soldier in the
regular army, will start from Topeka,
Kan. June Is to carry Old Glory
around the world. He will go to
Europe first and return by the way of
the Pacific.
THE Globe savings bank at Chicago
suspended on the 5th.
HENRY LEE was shot and killed by
Bob Cheatham over game of marbles
at Rockport. Ind. Both are cOlored.
ORRINGTON LUNT. founder of Evans
ton, H.. and one of the founders of
the Northwestern university. died at
Evanston on the 5th. He located in
Chicago in 1870.
A DISPATCH from Musllogee, l. T.,
on the 5th said that Jim Cook. one of
the members of the notorious Cook
gang, who escaped from the Cherokee
national prison last December, had
been recaptured and placed behind the
bars.
The Spanish government has in
structed Gen. Weyler to introduce in
Cuba the reforms which the cabinet
recently agreed to for the island. The
Madrid Epoca. a semi-official organ,
stated on the 9Th that negotiations for
the restoration of peace in Cuba were
in progress with every prospect of sue
cess.
THREE men were asphyXiated by car
bonic acid gas while cleaning beer
tunnel at Doves brewery in Montreal,
Can.
a sIX-RoUND bout took place at Phila-
delphia on the 5th between Owen Ieig-
Ter and Charles McKeever. No deci-
sion was rendered. but Zeigler APP
peared to be the best man.
ANOTHER disastrous break in the
Mississippi levee occurred at Fowler
lake. near Tunica, Miss. which will
inundate, the dispatch said, the coun-
ties of Cohoma, LAHORE, Quitman and
Tallahatchie and lay waste the newly
planted corn crops. The levee near
Helena, Ark, had also broken, for
which the people had made such des
perate fight to save.
THE forest fires in the mountains
near Bellefont. Pa. were spreading at
an alarming rate on the 4th and many
thousands of acres of valuable timber
land were going up in smoke.
A FIRE in George +. Cites carpet
store in Cincinnati did damage to the
amount of over 100000
The steamer Fuerst Bismarck
brought nearly 1000 Italian immi-
grants to New York on the 4th.
THE Jim river in South Dakota had
overfiowed its banks on the 4th and a
steamer was sent from Yanl1ton to res
cue the sufferers. Thousands of acres
of farm lands were under about six
feet of water.
JOHANNES BRAHMS. the well-known
musical composer, died at Vienna re-
Gently, aged 81.
A FAREWELL banquet to eX-Ambassa-
dor Bayard is to be given at London
on May Z. when a gold loving cup,
worth s., 500, will be presented to him
by the American colony in London and
elsewhere in Great Britain.
WILLARD SPENCER, farmer living in
Chautauqua county, n. Y, fatally as
saulted a stepdaughter and young
lady who was visiting her, set fire to
his barn and burned Is head of stock
and then cut his own throat.
THE steamer r. T. Cole, loaded with
merchandise, sank near GAINESVILLE,
Tenn. the other day. Three roust-
abouts were drowned and one man was
reported missing. The boat was a
total loss.
THE Texas house passed the senate
bill appropriating $4,000 to buy the
San Jacinto battlefield and improve ii
for a state park. 1t was understood
the governor would approve the bill
NEARLY So, 900 had been raised in
St Louis up to the I'd to aid the flood
sufferres in the south.
AT Kansas City. Mo-, the other night
DR.. jefferson D. Goddard shot and
killed Frank J. Jackson, laundry
HILL. L was Odo O1OOu OClWCCh
the two men, Jackson being jealous OF
Goddard on account of the latter's
many visits to Mrs. Jackson. DIR. God
dard ran a drug store for Mrs Jackson
and his visits were said to be on bust
ness. Jackson was fond of morphine
and whisky and did not live with his
wife, but managed her laundry on
salary.
FIVE hundred employees of clothing
manufacturers in st. Louis struck on the
ID Last fall the price paid for making
coat was reduced from Go to so cents.
1t was promised that the old rate
would be restored in the spring, but as
this has not been done the workers
struck.
4 HURRICANE struck Peoria. H.. on
the Sd and did considerable damage to
buildings. The roof of Wards overall
factory was ripped off, taking along
two smokestacks and a section of stone
wall. Over $50 girls were at work and
many of them tainted.
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