The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-19
GENERAL NEWS.


TWENTY boats are being constructed
at Black burn, Usage City, Ralston and
other small towns in Oklahoma on the
Arkansas river to haul corn to New
Orleans. The builders figure that each
boat will carry 1000 bushels of corn,
for which they expect to get a good
price in New Orleans.
A COLORED brakeman on freight
train was attacked by two tramps near
Argo, Ala, and dangerously wounded
with their knives. After cutting the
brakeman the tramps jumped off the
train and one was ground to pieces by
being run over.
THE Pigeon river overlooked it banks
on the 18th and Pigeon, Mich, was
flooded and many acres of fields and
orchards were covered with water. 1t
was also feared that the railroad bridge
would be carried away.
SEVERAL men on a family boat near
Vanceburg, Ky. were run down by
towboat on the 18th and all were
drowned.
REPORTS from Wyoming stated that
the recent cold weather had been very
disastrous to stock and that wolves
were very troublesome and killed even
full-grown steers. Reports from Mon
tana also stated that stock was having
a hard time and heavy losses to cattle
men were certain.
WILLIAM DRURY, died on the 14th at
his magnificent home, Verdurett, near
Keithsburg, III. He was the largest
individual landowner in the United
States, having hundreds of thousands
of acres in Colorado, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Texas, beside 5000 acres of the
richest farming land in Mercer county,
III. He was 81 years old.
THE American Woman Suffrage asso-
citation has established its headquar-
tiers in New York, in charge of Mrs.
Carrie Chapman-Catt.
A DISPATCH from London stated that
80, 900 ship engineers, besides a large
number of kindred workers, were on
the verge of a strike because Sunder-
land company insisted on keeping one
unskilled workman at a boring ma
chine.
A wHIRLwIND visited the town of
Mingo Junction. o., early on the morn
ing of the I4th and blew off the iron
roof of the cast house OF the iron and
steel works and the tall brick walls
fell in. Three men were fatally
crushed under them.
A CHURCH with seating capacity of
5000 persons, heated by three fur
naces and lighted with electric lamps,
was built between daylight and mid
night of the 18th at RavenswoOd, Ill,
and was dedicated on the 18th by Rev.
NJ. b. Williams. of Atlanta. Ga. as
sisted by nearly every clergyman in
RavenswOOd
IL the Nebraska house on the 18th
bill to extent the franchise, giving
women the right to vote at municipal
elections. was defeated
THE secretary of the Bee Hive Saw
inps association of Indianapolis, Ind,
voluntarily went before the grand jury
ON the 18th and confessed TO embezzle-
ment. The grand jury indicted him,
he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
two years imprisonment.
The Texas senate on the 10th passed
a Joint resolution providing for the
calling of an international cotton con-
xention August ?, 1897, at Galveston.
The purpose of the convention is to Sc
cure concerted legislation throughout
the world looking TO the abolition of
bucket shops and cotton exchanges
EXPERT diamond nippers, who were
probably en- route from the east to Car
son to relieve the sports of their jewels
during the big fight, remained at Los
Angeles, Cal, long enough to accumu-
late 81 900 worth of gems among the
crowd that went to San Pedro TO
celebrate the decision Of the harbor
board.