The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-29

OIcu btlI DONS dI lue OIdTeHuea HOOel
at Lexington. KY, became involved in
difficulty and Fisher threw an ice
pick. striking Gill in the abdomen. in
| ficting fatal wound.
IRA Lands. proprietor of a meat
market at Huntington, Ind. and Henry
Kuester. switchman. had a dispute
over % cents in the settlement of a meat
bill, and Lands shot Kuester inflicting
dangerous wound.
EARLY on the morning of the 25th
the temperature fell to 80 degrees be-
low zero in Manitoba.
JACK EvERHARDT. of New Orleans.
and Matt Matthews. of Brooklyn.
fought a 14-round draw at the Union
Park Athletic club at New York on the
25th. Jacks left hand was injured in
the seventh round. Matthews made
an excellent showing.
TIE first steps have been taken at
Omaha. Neb.. for the consolidation OF
all the German turner's between the
Mississippi river and the Rocky noun
tains into one big association for hold
ing grand tournament at Omaha
while the exposition is being held.
Mrs. MARY ABRAMS. aged a.. was
burned to death at Mckeesport. Pa.
She arose to start a fire in the room.
when her clothing was ignited. She
ran to her bed. where two young grand
children were asleep. and set the bed
clothing on fire. The two children.
though badly burned, will recover. but
Mrs. Abrams was so badly injured that
she soon died.
THE air brakes refused to work on
passenger train on the Pittsburgh &
Western road and it plunged over a
trestle near Clarion. Pa. killing the
engineer. fireman and mail clerk and
injuring about Is others.
AT French Lick Springs. Ind. Sam
uel Kirby and his wife We're discovered
murdered in their house. They had
evidently been killed with an AK and
there were signs of an awful struggle.
Bloodhounds were put on two tell-tale
tracks in the snow and the dogs struck
trail with a posse of men following
them.
GEN. GEORGE II. THOMAS died at Ok
lahoma City. Ok. on the 23d of car
buncle. aged go years. He served with
President-elect Mckinley during the
war and had large interests in the ter
ritOry.
THE big stable of Tracy & Williams.
the famous hOrsemen's headquarters at
Lexington. Ky, was burned on the
night of the Odd. There were 100 thor
oughbred trotters and runners in the
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A PASSENGER train was wrecked
on the Cincinnati Southern railway
near Lemo. Tenn. A rock had fallen
on the track. which caused the engine
to crash down an embankment. The
mail car was demolished and the eX-
press and baggage cars badly damaged.
The engineer and firemen were dan
gerously hurt and several passengers
more or less injured.
MAYOR SWIFT. of Chicago. has signed
the ordinance prohibiting women from
wearing high hats in theaters.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Santa Fe rail
road collided with hand car at Sealy.
Tex. and two men were killed and an
other fatally injured.
GEORGE DIXON. champion feather
weight pugilist of the world. defeated
Australian Billy Murphy. of Cincin-
natl. in six rounds at the Broadway
Athletic club at New York on the odd.
THE white intruders in the territory
of the five civilized tribes must go. Sec
rotary Francis having officially signed
an order on the 22d that all persons
who are not on the citizen rolls of the
five tribes will be unceremoniously
ousted.
THE deaths from the bubonic plague
at Bombay for the week ended the 2lst
numbered 40.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the ed. ac-
429, being IS more than in the CORE
spending week last year.
The Bradshaw block at WaXahachie.
Tex. was destroyed by fire. The block
and stocks were insured for SIS, 900.
The loss will reach S65. 900.
Ross SHERMAN and two companions.
all three drunk. became noisy on a
Chicago cable car the other night and.
when requested to subside. Sherman
drew d org hnlIe anu began SIdSHlHB dJ
the passengers Unfortunately. Three
women tainted and Edward Nugent.
who grappled with Sherman. was bad
" cut in the hand.
RICHFIELD CENTER, a little village
near Toledo. O., was in the midst of a
genuine witchcraft scare on the Goth.
The community is composed principally
of Germans, who were thoroughly con-
WINGED that they were being made the
victims of some witch or other agency
Of his satanic majesty. families be-
ing afflicted wieh a peculiar malady. |
could not diagnose the
malady. but assured the patients that |
it was due possibly to an unsanitary |
condition of the village.
TELEGRAMs have been sent by the /
citizens committee of san Francisco I
to the governors of Oregon. Washing |
ton. Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa. ask |
ing the people of those states to unite |
with California in sending a ship load /
of grain to the starving people of India. |
\ SPECIAL from Teheran, the capital |