The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01

| The Windsor hotel, four saloons, two
clothing stores, three restaurants, one
grocery store, two livery stables and
two barber shops. composing a large
portion OF the business section of Potts
dam, n. Y, were destroyed by fire.
| The damage was estimated at 500, 900;
partially insured.
GREGOR KREICHBAUN and his aged
wife were burned to death by fire in
grocery store under their rooms at
Providence. r. l.
A LANDSLIDE destroyed the village Of
Santa Ana de Pelago, Italy. demolish-
ing lis houses and rendering $50 faHi-
lies homeless.
THE large furniture house of Julius
La nsburg and some adjacent Struc-
lures at Washington were destroyed by
fire on the 2sth. Loss. 5000. 600
THOSE on board the flibustering
steamer Three Friends were much
alarmed on the 9th over the conse-
quences OF their firing on a Spanish
punboat 1t was reported that the
United States government had ordered
an investigation into the matter and if
it is found to be as reported Spain NAV
make a requisition upon this govern
ment for their delivery as pirates and
this government would have no alter
native but to turn them over to the
Spaniards.
A TERRIFIC explosion of fire damp oc-
CURED in the mine of the Maule Coal
Co. at Princeton. Ind, on the Goth and
six miners were killed. one was re ported
missing and eight others were rescued
almost lifeless. The scenes around the
mine were most pa hectic. wives, moth
ers and children stood weeping bitterly
and with blanched faces. waiting for
the bodies to be brought up.
A PASSENGER train on the RirminC.
ham Mineral railroad went through a
bridge - miles from Birmingham,
Ala, and 20 people were killed, five
fatally injured and two badly wounded.
The entire wreck then took fire aud
most of those killed were burned he
vond recognition. The accident was
thought to have been caused by the re-
moval of rail on the bridge. A relief
train sent to the scene was run into by
a construction train and one man was
crushed 70 death and several others
were more or less hurt
CHARLES II. HOFFMAN. librarian of
the United states supreme court since
1875. died at his home in Frederick. Nd,
on the 9th Of pneumonia. aged 81.
THE decomUosed bodies of Charles
Bectler. his wife and three children,
were found by hunters in their house
near Hewitt. MINI. Murder was sus-
pected.
GEORGE WHITToN, the marshal Of
Stamping Ground. Ky. was shot and
fatally wounded by Tom Drummer.
Whisky was the cause.
RAwLING & HAYNES department
store and the Column oia club at Ander.
son, Ind, were destroyed by fire on the
Path. Loss, 500, 600; one-third insured.
THE crown prince of Corea made an
unsuccessful attempt at suicide re-
Gently. Poverty and political troubles
were the cause.
CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANsEN has been
convicted of wife murder at Clarke, ).
D., and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life.
4 MOONsHINE distillery was located
about l. miles from Corsicana. Tex.
and United States Marshal Warden ar.
rested John Reese and mis- three sons,
and took them to Dallas. where they
will be tried by the federal court The
officers captured 500 gallons of moon.
shine whisky and the entire apparatus.
WHITECAPPERS burned a negro
church and exploded a stick OF dvua.
mite under a residence on the Burrow
place in Perry county. Ark, the other
night The trouble was on account of
the election of two negroes and one
white man as directors Of the school
district. The negroes had been warned
to leave. The trouble Is not vet ended. /
ABOUT half of the :, ZOO men employed
in the coal mines of St. Clair county.
III. have gone on a strike for higher
wages. The men claimed that, al. /
though there had been a material ad. /
vance in prices of coal in the market. |
there had been no advance in wages. |
They also claimed that they were now
working at starvation wages and would /
force a new and higher scale.
AT Burnet, Ok, the charred body of /
an unknown man was found in a burn.
ing log heap The man had evidently /
been shot through the head and the 1
body then piled over with brush and |
logs, which were set on fire in hopes of 1
destroying al traces of the crime.
Mrs II. ESTBY and her daughter 1
Clara, 19years old, the transcontinental /
completed their journey
from Spokane, Wash. to New York
city on the 23d. They left the western
city May on a wager with a New
York woman that they could cross the
continent in less than seven months
SUCCI. the Italian faster, VINO has
given exhibitions of his endurance in
the United States, became insane after
a performance at Paris and was taken
to hospital
CHARLES HERSDOS, of Williams burg,
Ky, shot and killed his wife because
she would not live with him on account
Of MS brutal treatment of her.
WILLIAM II. HATCH died at Hannibal,
Mo-. on the 23d aged sc. He serged in
congress and was the author of the
bill and was mentioned By
the press for the democratic nomina.