The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-05-14


struck the cook on the head, inhicting
dangerous wounds. The priest at
tempted to shoot, but his revolver
failed to work, and he was roughly
handled. The house was ransacked.
THREE children. Eduardo, Gabriel
and Manuel Padilla, were recently
burned to death at Fairbank. Ariz.
The parents had gone to dance near
by, locking the door on the sleeping
children. 1t is believed a lighted lamp
exploded.
HENRY SMITH, a member of the Mary
land Century Cycling club, finished
24-hour road race against time on the
10th at Baltimore, Md, during which
he established a new set of American
road records At the end of 10 hours
he covered 40 miles and when he quit
at the end of the "a hours he had
reeled off 314 miles. The figures have
been submitted to the Century Cycling
Club of America for ratification.
WHILE boating on the lake at Chi
cago Matthew Roche and his little
nephew, Harry Flynn, attempted to
exchange seats and the boat capsized
and the boy was drowned. Albert
Mattarl, who was in the crowd at the
waters edge, suddenly pitched for
ward dead, owing to excitement in
watching the drowning boys strug-
giles.
FIRE destroyed the post Office, hotel,
telephone office and several other
buildings in the little village of Marsh
land, Wis.
A SENSATIONAL shooting affray, in
which a woman shot and seriously
wounded four men, occurred at Lowell,
Ark, on the 9th. The shooting was
done by Mrs. Duerling and was the re-
suit of religious excitement, caused by
a series of holiness meetings" in the
neighborhood. The men wanted tC
run the women holding the meetings
out of the county.
AN order of the district court to open
street in Auburn, Neb., was appealed
and the mayor ordered the town mar
shall and street commissioner to remove
the wire fences inclosing the street
and the property owners had the three
city officers arrested for destroying
private property. The officers refused
to give bond and said they would re-
main in Jail until the court convened
in June.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and Is ears ditched.
| Most of them were broken into kind
| ling wood. Three cars were loaded
with whisky and one with poultry.
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lies and the poultry imbibed freely and
all got intoxicated.
AT the second day of the national
funniest at st. Louis on the 9TH the
forenoon was taken up with class com
| petition of the ''actives," fully 5000
turner's being on the field at one time.
| In the afternoon mass exercises by the
st. Louis Juniors and by ladies' classes
IN swinging clubs took place. In the
evening speeches and musical mum
bers were given at the exposition hall.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 18th said
| that the king of Greece had formally
asked fer the mediation of the emperor
| of Russia in the war between Greece
and Turkey.
| WIFE box containing 200 pounds OF
| dynamite on fire ten feet away from
him, John Thomas, the boy who runs
the compressed air doisting engine in
the Tamarack mine, near Houghton
Mich, stuck to mis- post and saved the
| lives of the men at work in the mine
by his bravery. Ten seconds after he
had hoisted the men to the level the
dynamite exploded.
TEE first case of prostratiOE from
the heat this season occurred at Chi
cago on the 9th. Charles Wilson, {
milk wagon driver, fell into the street
unconscious. The weather bureau
thermometer registered so degree:
during the day On the streets 1T wa:
three to i've degrees warmer.
MEMBERS of the Chicago and Milwau
kee Beer Brewers associations viii
combine to fight the proposed increased
tax on beer in the tariff bill.
THE south and west grain and trade
congress got through with its bushes:
on the eth at Kansas City, Mo-, and ad
journed to meet in Tampa, Fla, in
1898. The resolutions demanded equit
able rates of transportation between
carrier and shipper. the improvement
of the Mississippi. river and other water
courses, Endorsed the Nicaragua canal
favored the'Torrey bankruptcy bill. the
promotion of the consumption of oul
food products abroad and aid rendered
to the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gull
railroad.
The London afternoon papers were
bitter at the rejection of the arbitra
ton treaty by the United States sen
ate.
Col. GUsTAvE G. PABsT, first vice
president of the Pabst Brewing Co., Of
Milwaukee, is authority for the state
ment that he is to marry Miss Hulda
Lemp, daughter of William j. Lemp
the millionaire brewer of st. Louis
Four years ago Col. Pabst married
Margaret Mather, the actress, who
publicly horsewhipped him, and the
couple were divorced.
A DOUBLE, and what may yet prove
a quadruple murder occurred at the
farm home of Alexander Harris. who
resided in the township of Waukesha,
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