The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-08-20

a ferry steamer at Dresden was cap
sized by the wash of large steamer
and so persons were thrown into the
water and it was feared the loss OF life
would turn out to be heavy.
THIRTY-FIvE houses on the main
street of Jellico, Tenn, were swept
away in a destructive confagration,
and over 100 people were made home
less. A lamp overturned in a gam
bling den started the fire. The dam
age aggregated 100000.
Michel. ANGIOLLLo, alias Coli"
the anarchist who assassinated the
Spanish premier, Canovas del Castillo,
was tried by court-martial at Vergara,
found guilty and sentenced to death.
He will be garroted within the prison.
BY the breaking of a coupling pin on
a chain of cars in the mine of the Wa
pello company at Hiteman, Ia, 20 men
were more or less badly injured, three
of them fatally.
THE potato blight is ravaging the
counties of Clare and Limerick, Ire
land. Prices have quadrupled and
there is only a supply for two months.
| WGub W 1EACSO hoA ASO-
Korr, a negro, charged with murder.
| at Palarm station, near Little Rock,
Ark, when Korr and half a dozen
other negroes opened fire and there
| was a pitched battle, which resulted
in two negroes and one of the officers
being killed and two other officers
seriously wounded. A posse started
after the other negroes in order to
| lynch them.
A DISPATCH to the New York Herald
from Havana said that Capt-Ge Wey-
Ter, the commander of the Spanish
forces in Cuba, had sent his resigna-
ton to Madrid.
THE northbound passenger train OF
the NJ, K. & T. was derailed near Cad
do Mills, Tex, early on the 18th and
w. H. Rollins, baggageman, was killed
and three negro passengers slightly
injured. The rails of the track had
been misplaced by somebody.
BALD, Cooper, Loughead, kiser and
Sanger have been matched for a bicycle
race on the Buffalo, n. Y, athletic
field, August "a, for a $1,000 purse.
The race is to be in mile heats, best
two out of three.
A BIG gold strike has been made in
the Moon Anchor mine near Colorado
Springs. Col, the ore running in the
neighborhood of SIS, 900 to the ton.
ALL the prisoners in the Jail at
Olney, Ill, recently made their escape
by cutting the bars with files.
PETER MoNoHAN, aged 60 years, was
| % po1fi,nnyo Md
the 18th for the murder of his wife.
A SWEEPING and far reaching injunc-
ton was issued on the 18th in the coal
miners strike in the Pittsburgh, Pa,
district which tended TO make the
situation a strained one. Judge
Collier granted a preliminary in
junction restraining the defendants
from marching or encamping in
proximity to the mines and houses
of the miners for the purpose, by
intimidation and opprobrious words, Of
preventing the miners of the plaintiff
from working. 1t further restrained
the defendants from inducing or com
polling any miner to quit work.
FIRE on the 18th burned four build
ings at Ironwood. Mich. Henry Lenso
was suspected of starting the fire anC
a crowd gathered and attempted Il
throw him into the burning buildings
but the fremen turned the hose or
them and they desisted and the pris
oner was taken to Jail. 1t was sale
that he made full confession that h'
was hired by Charles Ross, who owned
the buildings, to set them on fire
! 10 ole Eaa,, a,.y.aSfa1
kid" Mccoy knocked out Dan Bay
lift, of Lima, o., in the third round a
DAYTON, O., on the 18th. Bayliff wa!
no equal to Mccoy as a scientific
fighter.
MILTON PARK, the chairman of the
national organization committee of the
populist party, has issued a lengthy
address from Dallas, Tex, in which h'
! urges all populists to reject fusion OF
alliance with democrats or republicans
HAROLD MORLEY, the 15-year-old Sol
of W. W. Morley, division superintend
eDt of the Kansas City, Pittsburg i
: Gulf, with headquarters at Kansa
City, was found hanged to tree nea
: his fathers ranch, near Chamberino
n. NJ. The murder was supposed t
nave Oeen committed DV mexican
? neighbo-s of the Morleys, with whom
they have had trouble over their ranch
boundaries.
D THE 14-year-old son of Richard Bell
= living south of st. Charles, Ia, wa
, moving weeds when he struck mes
of rattlesnakes and was bitten thre
: times. His father went to the httl
town to get a supply of whisky t
r counterfeit the effects of the poison
! but was unable to do so, the county
: being strictly prohibition. The DO!
died.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and his part,
paid special visit on the 18th to tn
grave of John Brown, near Lake Placid
!, n. Y. Mckinley is the first presi
dent to ever visit the last resting plac
of the great abolitionist and father o
T, the republican party.
4 Fusion with the democrats was re
pudiated by the Ohio populists in stat
convention at Columbus on the 18th
: Jacob 5. COxey, of ''commonweal
{ fame, was nominated for governor an