The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-19

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ground while coupling cars at Rock |
Island, ILL.,. and was killed by an en-
CINE.
CUBAN sympathizers at Tacoma, |
Wash. recently denounced the Spanish |
premier and trailed the Spanish flag in |
the mud and then burned it.
ALFRED Son was convicted at Ell
Reno. Ok, of the murder of Fred Hotf-
man. Nells-Fargo detective, and sem
fenced to 80 years in prison.
THE international chess tournament |
at New York between Great Britain
and the United States was won 10y
Great Britain by score of So to AZ.
FIRE broke out in the Roosevelt hos |
pital at New York on the 18th and did
$40. 000 damage. Two firemen were
hurt. but the rigid discipline of the
hospital prevented any excitement
among the patients.
THE New York Post denied that there
was any combination between the Car
negie Steel Co. and John d. Rockefeller
in regard to iron and said that there
was no foundation whatever for the
report.
J. r. SOVEREIGN, grand master K. OF
L.. has written d letter declaring that
secret revolutionary societies. known
as the Iron Brotherhood and Industrial
Army. are being organized in every
part of the country, with their MEM
| bers leagued together TO resort to civil
war as a means of obtaining remedies
for the populace which they cannot
secure by the ballot.
Mrs JANE NUBY. aged 1913 years. was
| found frozen to death on the 14th in
her farm dwelling in Arlington town
! ship. Mich. where she had lived alone
| for 40 years.
A REPORT comes from Salem. Ark,
| that an insane man in the asylum in
| that city is believed to be George Tay-
! lor. the escaped murderer of the Meelks
family of Missouri.
FIRE at an early hour on the 18th
caused loss of S1OO. 600 in the building
! 172 and ia Madison street. Chicago
| Schimpferman' wholesale liquor store
and GOster's uniform factory were the
heaviest losers.
! JOSEPH HUDEBRANDT died at Chicago
recently from cancer of the throat. He
was formerly farmer near Marysville,
Kan. and his wife poisoned her eight
children and then strangled herself,
on account of her husbands sickness,
only one child surviving
THE medical institute at Lancaster,
O., burned on the 18th. DIR. Julius
Simon, of jackson. W. Va, lost his
life.
PAUL WAGNER and his wife were
found asphyXiated by coal gas at Mil
waukee on the 18th.
THE national convention of the l.. A.
w. in session at Albany, n. V. elected
Isaac b. Potter, of New York, for pres
ident
MORTON SHEPPARD. residing near
Muncie, Ind. had his barn burned
down and 40 tons of hay. % head of
sheep and lambs. IS head of hogs two
mu4es, 100 bushels of wheat, 200 bush
els of corn and oats and all his farm
implements burned. The insurance
policies had recently expired.
LINCOLN's birthday on the 18th was
celebrated by republicans with ban
DUETS at GAINESVILLE. o.. Chicago. In
dianapolis, Ind, Grand Rapids, Mich,
| OF. L dul. Nlllll.. anu AllCihN OOAlCl k'AuNOo
throughout the country.
The statement that the capi-
toll at Springfield, H., is unsafe
badly frightens members of the legis-
lature. Architects have declared that
the foundation is weak and the dome is
likely to fall any moment.
THE Pittsburgh and western selling
agencies of the window-glass man
ufacturers will advance prices 215 per
cent. beginning March l in the central
and western districts.
GEORGE FOwEE, aged %, son of Squire
Joseph Powee. blew up his fathers
home at Vincennes, Ind. by putting
gunpowder into the stove. The stove
was blown to pieces and the house
shattered. but no one was killed. The
son said he wanted to kill his father
and stepmother.
A COMPLETE canvass of the Ohio as
sembly was made by Joe Smith, the
confidential secretary of the president
elect. The result was that the sup
porters of National Chairman Hanna
were convinced that if a special session
of the assembly is called to elect a sue
cessor to Senator Sherman Hanna will
| VIC ClCCOCO ny q AoA &c inquiry
THE 21st annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, depart
ment of Nebraska, opened at Hastings
on the 10th. Norfolk was chosen as
the place for holding the encampment
of 1898. Senior Vice Commander John
A. Earhardt, of Stanton, was unani-
mously chosen department commander.
THE boiler of Wyrick Bros sawmill,
near Magnolia, Ark, exploded and Cal
houn Wyrick, white, and John Lewis,
colored, were killed outright. John
Wyrick, one of the owners, was fatally
scalded and six other mill hands were
seriously injured. The explosion was
due to want of sufficient water in the
boiler.
THE executive committee of the ma
tional reform party has issued a call
for state conference at Harrisburg,
Pa, on June 5, 1897, for the purpose of
uniting all reformers and preparing
plans for the calling of a national con-