The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-09

ing escapes OF the guests ana seVerat
persons were seriously injured. There
was a strike among the chambermaids
and it was said that one of them
started the fire in a spirit of revenge.
Miss MINNIE LUTH was probably IA
tally injured and her five-year-old
niece, Anna Schniedermeyer. was seri-
ously hurt by train at st. Louis.
They were walking on the railroad
tracks viewing the food when the ac-
cident occurred.
A FREIGHT train, consisting of an en-
CINE and 10 cars loaded with coal and
iron. broke through trestle in lower
Allegheny City. Pa, and fell to the
street below. The fireman was taken
out dead and the engineer was fatally
hurt. About $50 feet of the trestle was
destroyed.
CAPT EDWARD p. DoHERTY, who was
detailed with 80 men to capture Wilkes
Booth. Lincoln's assassin, died at New
York recently of heart disease.
THE Richardson building, the largest
in Chattanooga. Tenn, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the Sd. and Boyd Ew-
ing, one of the wealthiest men in that
section. and 5. NJ. Patton, leading ar
chitect, lost their lives. The total loss
was about $500, 900.
A MADRID dispatch stated that Gen.
Ruis Rivera. the Cuban insurgent COM
mander would be taken to Havana for
trial before an ordinary court-martial,
the Spanish government 50 directing.
1t was said that it was not likely that
the death penalty would be imposed
upon him.
ALL records for long distance horse
back riding were broken on the Sd by
Harrison X. Gamer and Tristan Colket,
of Philadelphia, who rode about 100
miles on relays of horses from New
York to Philadelphia in hours and SO
minutes
WILLIAM C. PLUNKETT. Protestant
archbishop of Dublin. died in that city
on the lst after brief illness. aged al.
A CHINESE Equal Rights league has
been formed at Chicago to Americanize
Cinnamon in the United States and get
them the rights of citizenship.
A BATCH of IL convicts was working
in field at Waynesboro. Ga, when a
storm came up and the keeper strung
the convicts on a chain and secured
them to u tree. Lightning struck the
tree and shocked the convicts. killing
one named Dent, who was the 18th and
end man.
COUNT RADENI, prime minister of
Austria. rendered to the emperor on
the I'd the resignation of himself and
the entire cabinet The reason was
that Count Radeni found it impossible
to maintain a liberal majority in the
recently-elected reichsrath.
THE four members of the Button
gang" named Francisco Gonzales v
Borrego, Antonio Gonzales V BOrrego,
Sauriano Alarid and Patricio Talencia,
condemned to death for the murder of
ex-Sheriff Frank Chavez, were hanged
together on one scaffold at Santa Fe,
n. NJ, on the I'd
II was stated at New York that all
the kinetscope pictures of the Carson
fight were practically ruined. They
were developed at the Edison works
and were so defective as TO be useless.
THE steamer Griggs struck an OBJ
struction on the Chattahoochie river
near Columbia, Ala, on the night of
the 1st and soon sank. The engineer
and four deck hands were drowned.
There was a panic among the passen-
gers and some jumped overheard be-
fore the boats could be lowered.
AT the Fifth Avenue Athletic club at
New York on the 1st Oscar Gardner, of
Kansas City, knocked out Jack Grant,
of New York, in the ninth round.
THE Oldest veteran of the g. A. R.,
William Harding, celebrated his Tooth
birthday recently at his farm near Wa
seka, Mimi. He is also veteran of both
the war of 1919 and of the Mexican
war, and in 1862, when over IS years OF
age, he enlisted in the Fifth Minnesota.
A DISPATCH from San Antonio, Tex,
said that the cattle grazing season had
opened and rush of shipments to the
Indian territory began on the 1st from
many different points in southwest
Texas. 1t was estimated that no less
than 5000 car loads of cattle would be
shipped from the section around San
Antonio to the Indian territory graz
ing lands by April ID.
THE diplomatic representatives Of
the powers at COnstantinople have re-
ceived instructions from their respec-
tive governments to open negotiations
with the porte for a definite with
drawal of the Turkish troops from
Crete.
HUGH MILLER, % years old, under ar
rest for setting fire to a four-story
brown-stone apartment house in Brook
Ign, admitted that in 1891 he had fired
eight houses in which ten people had
been burned to death. Miller coolly
related the details of his awful crimes
and then declared that he was a victim
of pyromania. caused by excessive ciga-
rette smoking.
The boycott on Chicago-brewed
beers, which was to take effect April
1, has been postponed pending a prob
able settlement of the controversy be-
tween the Brewers association and the
COopers' union in that city.
ALARMING reports were received from
South Dakota points on the 31st-
Huron reported that the James river
was higher than ever known before
and all trains were held because of