The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-19
GENERAL NEWS.

GILBERT BROCK Drained his father
with an AK at Pineville. Ky. The
father was opposed TO the sons mar
riage.
w. GRA8sON. a farmer, was shot to
death in Sewer county, Tenn, by
gang of whitecaps.
In hard fought 20-round fight in
the Broadway Athletic club house at
New York on the 18th George Dixon,
of Boston. and Jack DOwney, of Brook
lvn. worked so fast that the referee de-
clared the bout a draw. Dixon was
the favorite, but Downey's showing
placed him in the front rank of feather
weights.
ANNE BEsANT. the theosophist, will
arrive in this country in March from
India to lecture six months on theoso-
ply.
AN immense tank used in rendering
tallow exploded in the packing house
of b. Franz at Springfield, Ill. and
half the plant was wrecked and two
employees injured.
Mrs. REBECCA CHRISTIAN, aged as
wears, was burned to death at Normal,
Ill. while attempting to light her
fire.
IT was semi-officially announced at
Paris on the 18th that all the powers
will firmly persist in the agreement to
maintain peace and the attempts of
Greece to disturb it cannot, therefore,
prevail. The joint forces of the foreign
warships have occupied the town Of
Canea. Crete.
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federate general, died at Adrian, Mo-,
on the 18th. aged 66 years.
PROF. J. EDWARDS was arrested near
Waco. Tex. on the charge of having
murdered d. Luca~ and John Day near
Blackburn, Ok, year ago by shooting
them through window at night.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN SMEDLEY DARLING
TON has been arressed at Westminster,
Pa, on a charge of ENLIGHTENMENT aris-
ing from the financial troubles of the
Westchester Guarantee, Trust & Safe
Deposit Co., of which he was recently
president Darlington is well known
in Kansas and Missouri, having loaned
thousands of dollars on real estate in
those states.
THE Alabama legislature passed a
bill and the governor has signed it ex-
empting cotton factories hereafter to
be built in that state from taxation for
ten years.
A DELEGATION representing the
Transmississippi and International eX-
position left Omaha, Neb., on the 18th
to appear before the legislatures of
Kansas. Colorado Wyoming and Utah
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the coast states.
THE most malignant type of measles
has been epidemic for over month
throughout Jasper, Clark, Cumberland
and adjoining counties in Illinois and
was reported on the 18th as growing
more serious The public schools at
Toledo and many country schools had
been closed.
A DISPATCH from Canton, O., stated
that Chauncey NJ. Depew, the noted
New Yorker, had been practically de-
cided upon as ambassador to Great
Britain.
MALVERN, Ark, has been almost
wiped out by fire.
LEWIS MILLER, living near Okmulgee,
1T. was cremated by his house burn
inc down. He had quarreled and Sepa-
rated from his wife and it was sup
posed he bad set the house on fire and
Shot himself. Others thought it was a
case of murder
ADARING robbery of burro train
loaded with 5000 worth of silver,
which was being sent from Sombrete
TO San Felipe, Mex, was reported.
The train was accompanied by an
armed band. The robbers captured
the burros and no trace could be found
of them.
THE board of trustees of Washington
and Lee university at Lexington, Va,
on the 18th unanimously elected Post
master-General Wilson president in
Mace of G. w. c. Lee, who recently
RESIGNED. It was understood that Mr..
Wilson will accept the position and
enter upon the duties of his office on
July next