The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-08-13

ing ground as having been located at
the place The bodies were not buried
in any collins.
LIZZIE HOFFMAN, threw her baby,
sewed in bag, into the Hudson river
at New York, but the bag filed with
air and f1oated, saving the child's life.
The mother was arrested.
THIRTY thousand people witnessed
the final contests of the national meet
of the League of American Wheelmen
at Willow Grove, Philadelphia, on the
It'll. The finishes were all intensely
exciting, but only one record was
broken, Fred Schade covering one-third
mile in 80 As seconds.
The discovery of new diamond fields
was reported in the district west of
the Kimberly mines in Africa. the
find being said to be fully equal to
those OF Kimberly.
SENIOR CAEovAs DEL CASTILLO, the
prime minister of Spain. was shot and
killed by an anarchist at Santa Agueda,
Spain, on the sth- The assassin was
arrested. Great excitement prevailed
In the place.
THE sensational story sent out from
Ottumwa, Ia, to the effect that Gov.
Drake was on his death-bed at his
home in Centerville was denied by his
son-in-law and physician. who said that
the governor had never been in crit
ical condition, and that he was improv-
ing rapidly.
The grand stand at the White Horse
race track near Lancaster, Pa, gave
way just as the winning horse passed
under the wire. There were fully o.
600 men, women and children on it and
hundreds of them were buried in the
debris. Over 200 were injured and four
killed.
A NIGHT Waterman at Homestead,
N. j., heard woman shrieking 81 am
burning up; save mer' He rushed to
her rescue, beat out the flames and
picked her up, but she was dead. 1t
proved to be his wife. who was the
victim of lamp explosion.
JURsE PERUVIAN was legally hanged
at Hattiesburg, Miss, for assaulting a
woman.
BY an explosion at the cartridge fac
tory of Rustchuk, Bulgaria, IS persons
were killed and many others injured
and the lives of 60 of the latter de-
SPARED of.
THERE were five victims of the heat
at Cincinnati on the 4th and 90 prostra-
tions.
FIVE lives were lost and scores of
persons sustained serious injuries. 81
of them being fremen, in an explosion
which took place during the burning
of the Northwestern grain elevator at
Chicago. Either the bursting of a
boiler or the explosion of mill dust
caused the awful havoc. The build
ing was of composite construction and
the explosion caused a perfect bonn
bardment of thing, bricks, etc, at al
most white heat. leaving little of the
building save the framework and a
great pile of blazing wheat. The loss
was estimated at $500, 900, fully in
sured.
OFFICERS of the Florida Fruit ex-
change, who keep themselves posted
on the condition of the orange crop
throughout the state, estimate that the
crop this fall will amount to between
$50. 900 and 200, 900 boxes.
A NEGRO farm laborer, named George
Turner, attempted to assault his en-
ployer's daughter in Barbour county,
Ala, was caught by a posse a few
hours after his escape and then
promptly hanged to tree in a swamp.
THE two largest silver mines in Utah
the Ontario and Daly-have been
ordered closed. owing to the decline of
silver. The mines gave employment
to 700 men.
GRACE BUXTON, five years old, of
Pleasant Ridge, O., was instantly
killed by lightning and branch of a
tree with leaves which fell on the lit
tie one as she was struck was photo
graphed in black across her breast.
THE driving rod of the locomotive of
a fast Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
train out of Las Vegas, N. NJ, broke
and killed Fireman Dankston and
painfully injured Engineer Under
wood.
The Illinois coal miners convened at
Springfield on the 9Th, passed scale
of wages and resolved to endeavor to
organize all miners now working and
to get them to come out.
The sensational information was re-
ceived at San Francisco by a steamer
from Honolulu that if the first steamer
from the United States brought the
news that congress had adjourned with
out annexing the Hawaiian islands the
American flag would be placed on all
government buildings and the Hawaii
an republic declared to be under the
protection of the United States.
FORTY-Two houses, many farm build
ings, quantity of grain and a number
of cattle were destroyed by fire at the
village of Polbach, in Germany. Tires
of the inhabitants of the village also
lost their lives during the conf1agra-
ton.
ANNIE WHITENING, a Pawnee Indian
squaw, has filed a suit at Guthrie, Ok,
for divorce from Allen Whitening, and
asks to have restored her maiden name
of Annie Comerunning. She charges
Allen with cruelty and with failing to
properly clothe and provide for her
A ST. LOUIS dispatch on the 4th
stated that operators on change who
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