The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-29
GENERAL NEWS.

ANsON GREGORY was on the 25th or
dered by the coroner's jury at Gales
burg, Ill. to be committed to Jail for
the murder of his wife. While drunk.
he beat her to death while holding her
on a stove. There was some talk of
lynching.
A SPECIAL from Bellevue. Neb.. on
the 25th said that a man was found I'M
der a haystack near there so badly
frozen that he may die. He was dis
charged from hospital in Omaha and
started to walk to the southern part of
the state. Being refused shelter by a
farmer, he crawled under the haystack.
A MAN, supposed to be hunter, was
found frozen to death near Prairie du
Chene. Wis. on the 25th. 1t was sup
posed he got lost in the blizzard.
THE first thing the Oklahoma legis-
lature did on the 18th was to slaughter
the woman suffra ge bill, the election
committee of the house unanimously
recommending that it do not pass. 4
vigorous effort was made to pass the
bill, and a lobby composed of ladies.
headed by Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns, of
Kansas. was on hand to stiffen up the
lawmakers.
The residence of Charles J. Barnes.
at 223S Calumet avenue. Chicago. was
destroyed by fire at two a. m. on the
25th and Mrs. Barnes and four servants
had to flee from the flames in scant at
tire while the mercury was 10 degrees
below zero. Mr.. Barnes library. the
finest in the United States. was de-
Stroyed. Loss. over 100000
THE house of William Croyle at,Bed-
ford, Pa. was destroyed by fire and
Mrs. Croyle and two children were
burned TO death. Another child was
so badly burned that it will die.
A LARGE boiler in the Florida South
ern railway shops at Palatka exploded
with terrific force. The engineers
head was blown off and a carpenter
was fatally injured and another man
badly hurt. The shops were wrecked
and every building in the city shaken
to its foundation.
THE story published recently in
San Francisco paper to the effect that
the island of St John, in the South sea,
was inhabited solely by women who
were pining for husbands, has borne
fruit in the Incorporation of the United
Brotherhood of South Sea Islanders
Over so men have subscribed to the
capital stock.
The planning mill and lumber of the
Colorado Lumber Co. at Hartshorne. l.
T, has been destroyed by fire.
A RIOT was precipitated at Urbana,
Ill. on the night of the 21st by the
sophomores of the university of Hi
nois attempting to break up the annual
sociable of the freshmen. The sophie
mores were finally squelched by the
fire department playing an icy cold
stream of water upon them and then
the police arrested them.
MINGo JUNCTION. near Steubenville.
O.. was nearly wiped out ny fire early
on the morning of the 22d. over dozen
stores being destroyed.
THE Jail at Jacksonville. Ga. was
broken open by mob Of masked men
and two negroes. William White and
Charles Forsvthe. implicated in the
murder of Mrs. Rowland were taken
out and hanged To a limb and their
bodies riddled with bullets
LYMAN J. GAGE. of Chicago. was men
toned on the 21st as the latest addi-
ton to the president-elect's official
family. He may be secretary Of the
treasury.
THREE masked men held up train
on the Southern railway near Berry
station. 20 miles west of Birmingham,
Ala. on the night of the 21st and the
safe in the express car was looted Of
its contents. This was the second time
that a train had been held uP in that
within a month.
THE Worlds Madrid correspondent
said that it was believed by the Span
isb officials that Cleveland and 0lney
had decided to let all questions relat-
ing TO Cuba 90 over to McKinley's ad-
and that the present ad-
would do nothing beyond |
the nerfunctory endorsements of the
laws.