The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-06-25

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6:31 to 6:3O:3O. He rode from Denver to
Evans and return, making his ride
actually 1O2 miles.
QUEEN VICTORIA started from Wind
sor castle for London at noon on the
21st for the celebration of her diamond
jubilee. Loyal greetings were extended
to her all along the route. which was
gaily decorated by triumphal arches,
banners and notices. AT four o'clock
she received the imperial, and royal
ENJOYS in the throne room of Bucking
ham palace. At night the diplomatic
and distinguished special guests were
received in the grand salon.
In head-end collision on the Inter
national & Great Northern railway
near ConrOe, Tex, three white and
three negro men, tramps, were killed.
Several other persons were more or
less injured. The engine. mail car and
six freight'cars were demolished.
DURING an electrical storm lightning
struck and set fire to the natural his
tory building on the ground of the
university of Illinois at Champaign,
Ill, and before the flames were got
under control damage estimated at
$50. 900 to SIS, 900 resulted.
RIOTS have broken out in the province
of Kiang-Si, China, against foreigners.
The English mission at Wa-Chang was
destroyed by a mob and Mr.. Blandford,
the missionary. and five English women
had to fee for their lives, losing all
their possessions. The rioters also at
tackled the French Catholic mission at
Wa-Chang.
WHILE 24O graduates of the county
schools were on the stage at Ottawa,
Ill, for the purpose of having their
photographs taken the structure gave
way and they were precipitated ten
feet to the ground below. Many were
rather severely hurt
MEAN whisky was the cause of excit-
ing riot among negroes at Gadsden,
Ala. One man was fatally shot and
several others injured.
The Pickwick hotel and several
buildings adjoining were destroyed by
fire at New Orleans the other morning.
All the guests escaped. Loss, $3.50. 900.
A CYCLONE shook up Duncan, Neb.,
on the Goth and a number of people
were hurt by flying debris.
Two sharp shocks of earthquake
were felt throughout California on the
Goth.
ABOUT 800 pounds of condemned dy-
Mantle was given to Joseph Foster at
the city dump in Decatur, Ill, and he
was ordered to bury it in the ground
by the authorities, but instead of do
ing so he piled the stuff on a heap of
refuse and set fire to it and there was
a terrible explosion. Chimneys top
pied, ceilings and walls were cracked
and much damage done to buildings,
and suits against the city will prob
ably result
A DISPATCH from Calcutta on the 18th
said that earthquake shocks still con-
tinued to be felt in Assam and that the
ruin in that province was appalling;
that courts, treasures, jails and hos
pitfalls had collapsed; that crops were
mostly ruined and a number of roads
had been completely demolished.
JACOB GRINER, of Ayresville, O., was
killed by lightning while in his barn
and Peter Tabler was killed by the
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was consumed by fire.
JUDGE WALTER c. ONG, of the COM
mon pleas bench at Cleveland, O., was
nearly killed on the 18th by being
caught on his bicycle between a wagon
and a motor. He was struck by the
motor and crushed by the lifeguard.
His spine was badly injured.
THERE were 226 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 18th, according to Bradstreet's re-
port, against 265 for the corresponding
week last year.
JIMMY MICHAEL, the Welshman, beat
Eddy McDuffee on the Charles river
track at Cambridge, Mass, on the 18th
in the hottest 15-mile bicycle race
ever run in America, and at the same
time establishing a new 15-mile paced
competition record of 30 minutes IL
seconds.
MORE tea was reported afioat on the
Pacific ocean on the 18th than ever be-
fore at one time, the importers of New
York and other eastern cities having
made large purchases in China and
Japan for immediate delivery and
were having it hurried across the Pa
cific in order to enter it before the
Dingley bill goes into effect.
A LITTLE whirlwind the other day in
New Orleans blew the roof off of a pub
lie market, damaged about so houses
and spent itself in about six squares.
Nobody was seriously hurt.
WHILE bathing in a pool near Green
vile, Tex, Miss Austin, Miss Ida
Schenck and Cashier King, of the
First national bank of that city, were
drowned.
THE Adirondack express the other
afternoon struck carriage containing
Samuel Stimson and Miss Shermer-
horn at street crossing in Herkimer,
n. Y, and Stimson was instantly killed
and Miss Schermerhorn was fatally in
jured.
ED KILGoRE, a contractor and build
er, was fatally shot by Miss Fanny
Jackson. and her three brothers at La
donia, Tex, for slandering the young
woman.
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