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

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A COLLISION occurred on the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois railroad near Shell
byville, H., between two engines and
an engineer and fireman were killed
and switchman probably fatally in
jured. Running without orders was
the cause.
Two negroes were drowned on the
Green river near Congleton. KY, their
frail craft being crushed by some huge
logs which they were trying to secure.
THE compress at Sheffield. Ala, was
burned with 700 bales of cotton. Loss,
$4,000. Boys smoking about the place
caused the fire.
AT Dover, Tenn, the Jail was de-
stroyed by fire early on the morning of
the 18th and two men and woman,
all colored, were burned to death.
THREE negroes. who had been ar
rested for double murder for the pur-
pose of robbery, were taken from the
sheriff at Tallahassee, Fla, on the 18th
and strung up to trees by mob and
their bodies riddled with bullets.
THE big dry goods firm of the Ely
Walker company at St. Louis was
burned out on the 18th, throwing LOCO
persons out of employment. The loss
by fire was roughly estimated at ST.
100000. A falling wall killed George
Gutewald. a fireman, and fatally in
jured Patrick CardmOre and Jerry Nc
CahOn, two other firemen.
A BUGGY containing a man and
woman, while crossing the Erie rail-
road tracks at Bath, n. V, on the
18th, was struck by a train and the
woman was killed.
EX-COUNTY TREASURER FAIR was ar
rested at Butler, Ind. for embezzle-
ment. He turned his Office over to his
successor s12, 900 short.
INVITATIONS to be guests of the city
of New York and take part in the cere-
monies attending the dedication of the
Grant monument April % have been
sent to President Mckinley and the
governors of all the states.
CONGRESSMAN w. GODFREY HUNTER
was nominated on the first ballot on
the 18th at the caucus of the republic
L.
KY, for United States senator. the
vote being IS to 81 against the field.
Senator Blackburn and his friends
We're said to be preparing to make
contest.
THE trestle approach TO the high
bridge over the Etowah river near
Rome, Ga, gave way under mixed
train a,J fiva fraicrbt oorC o7d tba boor
gage and the smoker fell into the cut
and the engine plunged into the river
60 feet below. The wreck caught fire
and the seven cars were burned. Four
trainmen and two passengers were in
jured.
A FIRE which broke out in furni-
ture store at EllIins, w. Va, on the
14th burned almost the entire business
portion of the place. The buildings
were mostly frame and the place had
no fire department.
GEORGE MATTHEWS was hanged in the
Jail yard at La Plata, Nd, on the 18th
for the murder of James j. Irwin.
A DISPATCH from Trenton, n. j.. on
the 18th stated that Vice Chancellor
Reed bad dismissed the case against
the American Tobacco Co. and the trust
was victorious in the big fight to de-
stroy it.
THE Wabash river dyke in Sullivan
county, Ind. broke on the 18th and
over 10000 acres of farming land were
flooded. together with two big coal
mines.
STEPHEN HORTON, wealthy farmer
Of Do H. 8,
found dead in their house on the 18th
from poison. 1t was thought that Mrs.
Horton poisoned her husband and then
herself while temporarily deranged.
CAPT. H. d. BAKER, for many years a
power in Kansas politics. died at Guth-
RE, Ok. on the 18th. During the In
dian hostilities of 1S68-1S69 he COM
manded a company of Col. Crawford's
Nineteenth Kansas volunteer infantry.
In 1889 he removed to Oklahoma, where
he served in the territorial council.
THE plant of the Jenney Electric Co.,
at Indianapolis, Ind, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss, SIS, 900; insur-
ance, SS5, ZOO. About 75 employees were
thrown out of work.
ALBERT Morn, of Baltimore, Md. has
been appointed national chairman of
the L. A. W., to succeed George D.
Gideon, who declined the office.
THE federal grand jury at Louisville,
KY, on the 18th returned 81 separate
and distinct counts against J. NJ. Me-
Knight. the late president of the de-
funct German national bank of that
city. The Indictment specified VIOLA
tions of the national banking laws,
embezzlement, and false entry and
false reports to the comptroller.
MGR. MARTINELLI, the papal dele
gate to the United States, recently had
to leave New Orleans in a hurried man
ner because he had stirred up the Ital-
ian Malta and they howled for his life.
The eminent Catholic had made some
structures on the Italian immigrants
who come to this country.
SEVERAL hundred miners employed
in the Citizens Coal & Coke Co. 5 mines
at Baldwin, Gunnison county. Col,
struck on the 18th for higher wages.
THE total number Of cases Of bubonic
plague in Bombay up to the 10th was