The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-26

AT AuOTCWS. ABOss IWO ETOCcIy
stores. meat market, a warehouse and
residence were destroyed by fire on
the 22d. One man was fatally burned.
The fire was supposed to have been in
cendiary.
AN epizootic of glossitis recently
broke out among the horses of st.
Louis Thousands of horses were af-
flicted and the veterinarians reaped q
rich harvest in consequence.
AT the recent meeting of the Central
Labor union at New York a delegate
from the BARRIERS union offered reso-
luton urging congress to impose tax
on wbiskers. The resolution would
have been adopted but for the interior
ence of the chairman, who advised
against such action.
RICHARD MANSFIELD. his wife and
six children were drowned in Henry
county. Ala. They lived on the river
bank and the waters rushed into their
cabin and all were lost.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over sec
ton of Georgia and Alabama on the
22d. The town of Blakeley, Ga, was
almost lifted out of existence and many
people were injured by falling timbers.
The academy at Arlington, Ga, was
wrecked and eight children were taken
out dead and five other persons were
mortally wounded. The scenes around
the school were heart-rending. A
family of five was also reported killed
near Geneva, Ala.
IT was reported from Camaguey,
Cuba. recently that Salvador Cisneros,
president of the Cuban republic. was
dead; that Vice President Bartloeme
Masso has succeeded him as president,
and that DIR. Capott, eX-professor of
Havana university, was to be appointed
vice president.
DAVID j. SACHsEL, the treasurer of
the Christopher Columbus Building
and Loan association at Chicago. was
reported missing on the 22d and his
accounts were being investigated.
a DISASTROUS fire occurred at Ottum-
wa. Ia, on the 21st in business block
on Main street which destroyed prop
ertv valued at SlSO.OOO.
GEN. j. T. FULLERTON, of st. Louis,
was killed in the wreck of the express
train near Oakland. Md, on the Goth.
He was an officer in the confederate
army and was member of the Chicza-
manga park commission.
\ DISPATCH from Memphis. Tenn. on
the 21st stated that many breaks in the
levees along the Mississippi river had
occurred between that city and Osceola,
Ark, and that the rush of the waters
at Sans Souci could be heard for miles.
In Marion, Ark. all the houses were
surrounded by water.
The boiler of the locomotive which
was hauling the Chicago and Boston
train on the Lake Shore IL Michigan
Southern railroad blew up at Chicago
on the 21st, killing the engineer and
fireman and completely demolishing
the engine.
DAVE PENNINGTON, of Odebolt, Ia,
started out to kill number of persons
who had incurred his enmity. He killed
Luther Traver and dangerously shot
Mrs. johnson and Mrs. StOlt, and after
daring a policeman who had cornered
him to shoot he committed suicide by
blowing the top of his head off.
81.
San Francisco on the 10Th. The sailor
pugllist claimed. that he was the
champion of the world and he intended
to hold the championship until his
colorS were lowered. He said he had
deposited forfeit for bet of $4,000
and would fight Fitzsimmons, Maher,
Goddard or any one else. Shar5ey said
that he had whipped Corbett and had
got the decision over Fitzsilnmons and
nobody had any better right to the
worlds championship than he had.
THE failures for the week ended the
10Th in the United States were 216,
according to Dun's report, against POI
last year.
RECENTLY two men entered the home
of d. Jones near Wymore, Neb., and
frightfully tortured him by burning
him to make him tell where his money
was. Jones crawled the next morning
to a neighbours house, where he died in
horrible agony.
THE Austrian government received
advices on the 18th that the Austrian
gunboat Sebenico had sunk a Greek
schooner with a cargo of munitions of
on board. The schooner was hailed
by the gunboat and the insurgents on
board in reply opened fire on the Sc
benico, whereupon the latter turned
her guns on the schooner and sank her.
A YOUNG woman, who was descend
ing from a window of hotel at New
York by means of a patent fire escape,
lost control of the apparatus and fell
to the ground, suffering internal in
juries. The inventor of the fire escape
was arrested to await the result OF
the girls injuries.
NEAR Marion, Ark, Eta Lix and her
four children were trying to make
their way to Marion for shelter, and
while attempting to cross a railroad
trestle the strong current caused by
the great flood overwhelmed the party
and all persisted. The oldest child was
a girl aged IL and the youngest an in
FAINT of eight months.
THE schooner Hilda came into New
York on the 18th bearing four surviv-
ors of the steamer Vile de St Nazaire,
which sailed from New York for Port
au Prince, Hayti. on the 9th. The men
were picked up in boat and were the
only ones living out of 81 souls which