The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-07-09

lives by pleasure steamer running
down their skiff at Little Rock. Ark,
and throwing them into the water.
THE national conference of the peo-
pies party commenced at Nashville,
Tenn. on the 5th, about 400 delegates
being present. The anti-fusion senti-
ment was reported as being strong.
AT Cincinnati on the 5th there were
1e deaths from the hot weather, max
ing 81 fatalities in three days.
AT Gloversville, n. Y, on the 5th
Arthur A. Zimmerman, paced by a
triplet, made an exhibition mile in
300 He also went half mile against
time in :5715.
THE suns rays beating down through
a skylight at Detroit, Mich, the other
afternoon caused the blowing out OF
two automatic fire plugs and the tor
rent of water released damaged the
dry goods stock of Sloepel & Co and
the clothing stock of the Peerless Man.
ufacturing Co. to the extent of 500, 900.
The plugs were set to escape at tenn
perature of 100 degrees.
SPECIAL dispatches from Bombay on
the 5th stated that from 600 to 1000
rioters were killed during the recent
rioting in the vicinity of Calcutta Ma
tive officers put the death roll as high
as 1900
THE business portion of Erie, Ill,
village of about 500 inhabitants, was
almost entirely wiped out by flames,
caused with the explosion of a fire
cracker in a grocery. Thirteen bust
ness houses were destroyed.
AT Leadville and several other places
in Colorado heavy snow fell on the Sd
and covered the ground to the depth
of an inch.
AT Hollenwood, Tenn, ]. D. Blank
ship was killed instantly and three
others were shot fatally in fight 1t
was the result of feud.
LAKE ANN, Mich, a village of 500
people, was almost totally destroyed
by fire on the 4th. Seventy-fve fami-
lies were made homeless and, as every
store in town was burned, there was
not food enough for even one meal
for half of them.
The grand high priest of the Royal
Arch Masons of Virginia has issued
a circular denying admittance to Penn
sylvania Royal Arch Masons into any
Virginia chapter. The trouble was
brought about by a Pennsylvania chap
ter refusing to admit member of a
Virginia chapter.
Ex-Gov. JOHN EVANS died at Denver,
Col. on the Sd. He had long been
identified with the states interests
GEN. WooDFoRD, the new minister to
Spain. will leave New York for his
post on July IS.
JUDGE CLAYTON has handed down an
opinion at South McAlester, l. T., IN
the Indian citizenship cases He says
all white persons married to Choctaws
in accordance with their laws are en-
titled to be enrolled.
JAMES VI. BURGIN and his wife were
found murdered in their home near
Bentonville, Ark Robbery was pre-
sumed to have been the motive. There
was no clew to the murderers.
A WILD man which haunted the pine
forests in Dawes and Sioux counties,
/ Neb.. was captured the other day
while asleep. He apparently knew
nothing when examined by the board
of insanity.
WHILE a revival was recently in pro-
. gress at the church at Grassy Plains
/ y. Y. Julius Whitehead, aged u, and
. other youthful unbelievers. attended
+ to make sport. Julius began to sneeze
arti6cially. and after pulpit rebuke
sneezed the harder, but when he tried
to stop he could not, and physicians
said that he was liable to sneeze him
1 self to death.
4 VOLCANIC eruption occurred six
miles from cambridge, O.. on the ID
First came rumbhngs like distant thun'
der and the earth began to tremble
and crack in innumerable places and q
number of small trees were swallowed
up in the assures and large volumes OF
smoke issued from them The resi-
dents of the neighborhood were badly
frightened
EMMA 0CHsNER, a ten-year-old girl
I threw her hand across an electric ERh
guy wire while watching a funera
procession pass at Joliet, Ill. and wa
Instantly killed Her father was hor
ribly burned N an effort to rescue her
! LAKE BRATIsCH. near Galatz. Rou
mania. became swollen by rains ant
burst its embankment and so soldier
and many women and children wer,
carried away by the torrent ant
drowned.
FIVE Indians were reported dead a
Malone's Point. on Mile Laos lake
Minnesota. on the 1st, and several 9th
ers were expected to die, as the resul
OF drinking pain killer. hair oil ant
other preparations containing alcohol
The Indian payment had been goini
on there and the redskins gorged them
selves with this stuff, which wa
bought from Malone's trading post.
JONAS WILDER. an emigrant, and hi
wife and two little girls were burne'
TO death in a cabin near Rochester
Ky. They had stopped in the cabil
for a few days rest They were sup
posed TO be from Benton, Mo.
THE vicinity of Belmont, Ind, /
greatly excited over the extermins
ton of the family of John Stephens