The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-16

the Refrigerator & Wooden Gutter Co.
at St. Louis was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Estimated loss. $50. 900: par
tally insured Two fremen and boy
were badly injured by falling walls.
IN conformity with law passed by
the Indiana legislature making the
southern penitentiary at Jeffersonville
into a reformatory and making the
Michigan City prison the penitentiary
for the state. about 800 men were taken
from Michigan City to JeffersOnville
and 356 men were transferred from the
latter place to the former.
THE grand duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin committed suicide by throw
ing himself from the parapet of a
bridge near the house he was stopping
at in Cannes, France. 1t was thought
he was delirious from illness when he
committed the act.
RECENT adviees received from Ichang,
China, stated that owing to the failure
of the main crop in that section hun
dreds of natives are dying of starva-
ton. Owing to the difficulty of trans
porting rice in the famine districts.
only those living along the waterways
were being aided.
WHILE the family of John Atchison.
of Arapahoe. l. T., was burning trash
in the garden the wind blew the fire
upon a three-year-old son and he was
burned to death.
An unknown woman. evidently in
sane. threw her two little children in
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Louis. and then plunged in after them.
The children were rescued but the
woman was drowned.
AT the finish of the six-day 12-hour-
a-day woman's bicycle race at Detroit,
Mich. the score stood: Tillie Anderson,
264 miles IA laps, first; Helen Baldwin,
264 miles IA laps, second; Dottie Farms
worth, 264 miles IA laps, third.
A NORTHBoUND Florida special on the
South railway collided with a south
bound passenger train at Harrisburg,
n. c.. on the 18th and three persons
were killed and six wounded. The two
express cars were shattered and the
postal of the passenger caught fire.
THE mayor of Fargo. y. D.. on the 9th
telegraphed to Secretary of War Alger
that the water there was subsiding fast
and that the people were in no need of
assistance.
THE safe OF the Fairfield Qll.) Lum-
Der Co. was blown open early the other
morning and about SIS in cash and the
same amount of county and town or
ders We're secured. Bloodhounds were
brought from Seymour. Ind. and an
effort was made to track the burglars.
THE battleship Iowa earned on the
9TH for her builders. William Cramp 81
Son, of Philadelphia, 5000. by maxi
ing Il knots an hour over the regular
government course off the Massachu-
sets coast in the four hours speed trial
required under the contract. The Iowa
proved herself TO be the most formid-
able battleship afioat.
A MAN and his wife named Gage
were found dead in bed at Chicago on
the eth. Gage was a mechanic. An
empty bottle labeled laudanum was
found on the floor near the bed. Gage
had previously announced his and his
wife's intention of committing suicide.
A STATE organization of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy was perfected
at Montgomery, Ala. recently, most OF
the larger towns of the state being
represented. The organization deter
mined that its first work should be the
purchase of the old house which was
occupied by jefferson Davis while the
seat of the confederate government
was in Montgomery and transform it
into home for INDECENT confederate
veterans.
Ed NEwCoMB. a desperate outlaw,
was shot and mortally wounded by
Deputy Marshal Bud Ledbether the
other evening a few miles west of
Caney. Kan.
DEVELOPMENTS have strengthened
the belief that the affairs of the Globe
savings bank, which recently closed its
doors at Chicago, are in much worse
shape than the directors were willing
to admit. Bonds to the value of $780,
600 belonging to the Illinois university
were said to be missing.
AN immense amount of damage has
been caused by the explosion of car
loaded with fireworks at Buenos Ayres.
The accident occurred near block of
buildings adjacent to the bourse and
the buildings almost Immediately
caught fire Ten persons lost their
lives from the explosion or during the
confagration.
THREE masked men entered early the
other morning the residence of Mr..
and Mrs James Ford. an aged couple
living at Parkertown. O., and, after
binding and gagging them, attempted
at the point of revolvers to make them
reveal the hiding place of their money.
The robbers got 500 in money and
other valuables. The old people were
in a critical condition from the rough
DELEGATES to the convention of the
Association of the Y. w.
c. A. began their sixth biennial con-
vention at Detroit, Mich. with an at
tendance of over 200 young women pres
ent.
ALARGE meteor measuring about two
feet in diameter fell on the night of |
the Sth Just north of the stockade at |
south McAlester. l. T.. during the |
downfall of rain. It would have buried |