The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-23


w. A. JONES. of Wisconsin. and Rob-
ert V. Bell, of Maryland. have accepted
the respective offices of commissioner
and assistant commissioner of Indian
affairs.
A SNOWsLIDE occurred at the mines
near Brigham City, Utah. on the 10Th
and three men lost their lives Two
men were also killed at the mines near
Redcliff, Col, from the same cause and
it was feared that three other miners
were buried under the avalanche.
THE Australian baseball team made
its first appearance at San Francisco
in a game and suffered defeat at the
hands of the Olympics; score. 20 to 9.
The Australians batted and ran bases
well, but were slow in the field. They
also showed lack of knowledge of the
fine points of the game. The Olympic
team was composed of amateurs.
Provision rates from Kansas City to
New York were said to be on the
ragged edge on the 18th and little
provOcation was needed to cause a
great row. The rates were thought to
be too high and some of the roads were
shading them down.
THE pictures of the recent Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight. taken for exhibit
ton with what is called the verascope,
were ready for printing on the 18th.
The picture of the moment in the 14th
round following the Knockout blow
was said to be excellent, according to
a New York dispatch.
FIRE broke out in the vacant frame
Shumway block in the central portion
of the business part of Berea, o., on
the 18th, possibly having been started
by incendiaries. In three hours, seven
business places, the city hotel, the Mil
Ter block and Is other structures were
burned. The loss was 100000.
THE Hamilton syndicate powerhouse
at st. Louis was partially destroyed by
fire the other night While the loss
was not more than SO, 900, about half
dozen car lines depending upon it
were tied up.
A COMMITTEE of the National Reform
Press association appointed at the
Memphis convention February 90, 1897,
met at Girard, Kan, recently and is
sued call for national populist con-
vention for the purpose of formulating
plans for the reorganization of the
party. The convention is called to
meet at Nashville, Tenn, July 4.
JAMES L. MAFFIT, the actor, known
to theater-goers as the lone fisher
man" in ''Evangeline," died recently
in Johns Hopkins hospital at Balti-
more, Md.
THE grand jury in Franklin county,
Ky.. returned a true bill against DR..
W. Godfrey Hunter, republican nomi-
nee for the United States senate, and
several other prominent politicians,
charging them all with conspiracy to
bride.
Gov. ADAMS, of Colorado, has given
out signed statement about women
being eligible for the militia. The |
governor quotes the first section of the |
bill which he signed. which reads |
every able-bodied male citizen, but |
the printer left out the word male"
in printing it.
CAssIMER ZEGLEN, a monk of the Or |
der of Resurrectionists at Chicago. has /
invented a bullet-proof cloth of silk |
and wool. treated chemically. A piece |
of the cloth stopped a steel jacketed |
bullet fired into it from a regular
United States rifle at a distance of $50
yards.
POLICEMAN CRAFTS was cleaning his
revolver at Chicago in the presence of
his sweetheart, Miss Lottie E. Jacobs,
when it was discharged and the bullet
entered Miss Jacobs left arm near the
elbow. followed the bone upwards and
pierced the heart. She fell to the floor
dead.
DUBLIN, KY, was recently worked
10 over the whitecapping of widow
named Goley by four unknown men.
It appears that Mrs Cooley has been
conducting herself in a manner not ad-
nired by the community and, re-
using to comply with the request to
cave. she was taken from her home
It night and given severe whipping. /