The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-08

I ". nv. dieu ami was -Durle1 on the
| 4th. After the mans body had beer
placed in a stone euffiu some OF the
best hourbo whisky in the state was
/ poured over the cOruse and the sar-
/ cophagus was then Theoretically sealed
and blaced in a rrave. according TO di-
rections left bv the deceased.
( FITZsINNoNs signed articles az Jersey
City. y. j.. on the 4th for fight with
Corr cit 1t will take place on March l.
RICHARD CORNELIUS. cashier OF a
bank at Baltimore. Nd WIS d scOv-
cred to be snort about SEQ Geo and
theraunon went ant drowned h.mse f
DISPATCHES from Nebraska and >outh
Dakota on the Sd reported damage to
telegraph and telephone servi,e ard
great Inconvenience 70 raj roads from
snow and high winds.
A DISPATCH from Havana said it was
expected tnas Maxine Gomezand other
insurgent leaders would soon make
overtures to the SPANISH military au-
thoriti-s in Cuba with view of secur-
ing favorable terms of surrender.
AT Benton, Ark. 20 houses were de-
mOlished by tornado on the 2d- No
lives We're reported lost
a TORNADO struck the little town of
MooringsDort, La. at $3.50 p. m. on the
I'd and ten people were killed and three
others fatally injured
GREAT damage was done by the re-
cent heavy rains in Illinois. Joliet
was threatened with one Of the worst
foods in its history. Families were
moving out of their houses and the
lowlands were flooded
\ CHICAGO dispatch stated that near
" every oatmeal and cereal mill in the
United States had entered into an
agreement that amounted 10 a trust to
regulate the output and prices of oat-
meal. rolled oats and other breakfast
cereals.
a FIRE at Nashville. Tenn. DESTROYED
six business houses and badly damaged
ten other buildings. Loss. about $780,
OOO
JOSEPH BETz his wife and child were
found dead in lei at >truthers. O.. on
the lst and four boarders were in
comatosa condition when rescued. hav-
ing been asphyxiated by gas from a
stove.
TBE Omaha (Neb) Savings bank has
suspended. The total liza bill uv of the
institution was said to be $500. 600 and
the assets exceeded this amount by
$500. OOO
F. HART. the Cnicago colored athlete.
won the six-dsy heeland-toe walking
match at St Louis. The score stood:
Hart, 300 miles laps: Hoagland, 300
miles: stephens. 292 miles: Oddly, 27s
miles: Smith. 2lO miles.
The fili0usterinC steamer COmmO-
dcre. which recently left Jacksonville.
Fla. for Cuba. foundered off New
Smyrna on the morning of the 2d
Twenty-eight men were on board and
50 far as known on the night Of the 3 d
Il were saved. The steamer struck the
bar at the mouth % the river on going
out and was soon found TO be leaking,
but the pumps refused 10 work.
G. d. CARPENTER and c. A. Wevricll
were found dead at a hotel in St Louis
Inves igatiOn showed that both had
been on a spree and had then poisoned
themselves by an overdose OF a drug,
A CORNING mill BELONGING to the
Miami Powder Co. near Nenia. O.. ex-
Kreitzer and fatally injuring Joseph
HapDing.
WHILE a mum Der of BOYS were shoot
ing out the old year near Cimarron.
Ok, heavily loaded shotgun exploded
and Henry Albert was fatally injured
and George Wilson had part of his
hand torn off.
The Collinsville Gll.) zinc works were
partially destroyed by fire on the ist
Loss. 500. 600.
SANKEY CUNNINGHAM was hanged in
the jailyard at Albany. Ga. on the Ist
for an assault upon Miss Kate Camp.
Cunningham confessed his guilt in a
gallows speech. The hanging was wit
messed by an enormous crowd.
HENRY WRIGHT was hanged at VIII
mington. Del. on the 1st for murder
BRADsTREET's agency gives the total
number of failures in the United
1l2 which is the largest number ever
reported, except in the panic year of
1898. and 10 per cent. over the failures
of 1895
The officials of the British foreign
Office have denied that the marquis of
Salisbury disapproved of any of the
features of the proposed general arbi-
tration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, as reported
from New York.
EUGENE V DEBs. president of the a.
R. L.. announced that he had become
d socialist
The members OF a church near
Perry. Ok. had a social and a quarrel
ensued among the women over the
of the old pastor and the
men took 1t NJ and a free fight fol-
lowed.
\ DISPATCH from Havana on the 31st
stated that Gen. R1is Rivera. who sue
ceeded Antonio Na,eo at the hea Of I
the insurreDt forces in Pinar del Rio. /
was wounded ana had subsequently /.
died OF his wounds
MATTHIAS SETHER, Of Decatur. Ind. 4
died on the 30th- Not a particle OF 1
food had entered his stomach for eight /
months