The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-30

start, at Youngstown, o.. on the 33th.
riding the distance in 80 3-5 seconds.
She was paced by tandem and the
course was straight away.
Bob PAYNE, negro desperate. shot
and killed Mrs. Lulu Tyres at Birming-
ham, Ala. He was wanted on some
charges and he thought some boarders
at Mrs. Tyres house had informed on
him and entered the place and tried
to shoot them. but missed and killed
Mrs. Tyres.
WILHELM FISCHER, aged rs and very
infirn. was jailed at Nebraska City,
Neb., charged with horse stealing. He
confessed the theft of a team at Lin
coin, one at Berlin and two in Kansas.
THEODORE HAvEMEYER, vice presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Co., died in New York on the Goth.
IsADORE WEBER shot his four-year-
old daughter and then killed himself
at New York on the Goth. Weber was
hard drinl1er and used his wife badly
and she had been obliged to turn him
out of doors.
The big Iowa elevator at Peoria. ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire the other night,
entailing a loss of S200, 900. About 1O0,-
600 bushels of grain and 30 box cars
were burned.
A DISPATCH on the 27th said that the
most serious feature of the Gr9co-Turl1-
ish emergency was the revolutionary
feeling displayed at Athens. A feel
ing of anger against the palace party
in the conduct of the campaign was in
creasing and arrangements it was re-
! ported, were being made to enable the
royal family to leave the country
hastily in case of necessity.
THE managers of Peter Maher and
Tom Sharkey on the Goth met repre-
sentatives of sporting club and ac-
cepted a proposition for fight be-
tween the principals for $40. OJO purse
to take place in the vicinity of New
York between May p and June 1Onext.
THE Connecticut house on the oath
passed a bill prohibiting all Sunday
labor or sport.
A FIRE at Whitney's Point, near Bing-
hamton, n. V, recently destroyed prop
erty to the value of $3.50, O0O
Col. ROBERT MCREYNOLDs. of Guth-
RE, Ok, has been commissioned re-
cruiting officer for Oklahoma for the
American Volunteer legion. an organi-
cation recently formed for the invasion
of Cuba in behalf of the insurgents.
THE town of Omer. "a miles north of
Bay City, Mich, was visited by a tor
nado on the night of the oath. Mr..
and Mrs. Hagley were blown 60 feet
into the air and were fatally injured.
Many buildings were blown down.
SOPHIE Boswell was recently crowned
queen of the gypsies of the United
States in an open field near East st.
Louis in the presence of several hum
dred gypsies and many visitors.
The annual dinner of the Reform
club took place at New York on the
oath. Ex-PreSident Cleveland respond
ed to the toast of Present Problems"
eX-Secretary Carlisle to that of Sound
Currency and observation-disclosures
Wilson to that of Tariff Reform"
Several other speeches were made by
noted gold democrats.
THE man who was hypnotized and
buried in the ground for three days at
Simcoe, Ont, was disinterred when the
time had elapsed and great crowds fol-
required five men to control the SUBJ
iect in his struggles while he was be-
ing brought back to consciousness and
the box was smashed to pieces.
The Cook County QlL) Business
Mems association is getting up a big
demonstration for May 90 for the pur-
pose of arOusing sentiment against the
big department stores.
THE paper mills at Ellsworth, Ind,
were totally destroyed by fire entail |
ing a loss of $75, ZOO.
FIRE broke out on the 22d in the |
town of Pottersville, near Homestead, |
Pa, and SO houses were burned. Pot |
tersville is within the Carnegie yards |
and consisted of about 400 frame |
dwellings, which were built at the |
time of the strike in 1892 The place |
is the home of about 300 or 400 families, |
and has a population of about 1000. |
No household effects were saved by |
the residents
THE Paris Journals correspondent
at Odessa, Russia, telegraphed on the
22d that all the necessary measures
had been taken at Sebastopol for the
eventful Intervention of Russia in the
THE corner stone of the Transmissis-
sippi exposition arch of the states was
laid on the 22d at Omaha, Neb., after a
long parade of military and civic soci-
cites. Grand Master Phelps, of the
Nebraska masons, officiated Addresses
were made by Mayor Broatch, Lieut.
Gov. Harris and eX-Secretary of Agri-
culture Morton.
EDITOR HINTON. of the Abba Qa) De-
fender, was fatally assaulted by John
Jamison, a coal miner. who had taken
offense at an item in Hinton's paper
DR.. W. GODFREY HUNTER published
card at Frankfort, KY, on the a1st
formally withdrawing as the caucus
nominee for United States senator.
THE Western Baseball league season
of 80 opened in indianapolis, Ind, on
the 21st with the Grand Rapids club.
The score was 10 to in favor of In
dianapolis.
THE 22d was the eighth anniversary