The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-06-18
GENERAL NEWS.

THE assets of the bankrupt CONNER
cial savings bank at Sioux City, Ia,
were sold at receivers sale to a trustee
representing the stockholders. The
latter will pay all claims in full and
expect to have a handsome balance left
for division among themselves.
AT Ruskin, Neb.. y. E. Bride, section
hand, shot and killed himself because
Lena Helms, farmers daughter. had
lately broken her engagement to him.
THE Henry Ellen coal mines near
Birmingham. Ala, were on fire on the
14th. The miners were got out safely.
A TRAIN was derailed near Ridgeville.
Ind. through the rails spreading. The
engine was totally wrecked and the
engineer killed.
AT the session of the Independent
Order of Free Sons of Israel at Chicago
on the 18th Baltimore was selected as
the place for the session of 1902. 1t
was also decided TO have an emblem OF
the order.
1t was reported that Messiah"
Schweinfurth was planning the estab-
lishment of a new Heaven" in the
northern part OF Buena Vista county,
Ia, and that he had recently conferred
with landowners relative to the pur-
chase of a suitable tract of land north
of Sioux Rapids.
BARNEY BARNATO, the South African
diamond king" committed suicide by
leaping overheard from the steamship
Scot, off the west coast of Morocco,
Africa.
THE national w. c. T. Q. officers have
issued a report at Chicago regarding
the work of the various state legisla-
lures this year in the line of w. c. 7.
Z. work.
ALANIP exploded in the residence of
STEPHEN Welsh at Sharpsburg, Pa, and
the house was destroyed and Welsh, his
wife and two children were seriously
burned
MAXINO MARITIME, a Mexican, who
recently assaulted his sweetheart at
Flo-esville, Tex, and then killed the
girl and her father and mother, has
been captured. after being trailed for
100 miles. and lodged in Jail The
prisoner was said TO be in danger Of
lvnchinC by the excited people
CHARLES REPsoN and William Taylor
were drowned while bathing near st.
Louis
ARCHBISHOP FRANCIS JANssENs, OF
New Orleans, died on the steamer
Creole. while on his way TO Europe for
his health. The body was transferred
at sea to the steamer Hudson and taken
back to his home.
An attempt was made 10 assassinate
Felix Faure, president OF the French
republic. while he was on his way to
see the races on the 18th. A man in
the crowd threw a bomb and it ex-
ploded- No one was injured.
RICHARDSON & Sons big mill plant at
Red Oak. L T, was burned recently,
entailing a heavy loss
THE American National Association
of Masters of Dancing, in session al
New York. elected ]. W. Hawkins, of
Mansfield, O., president Three new
dances were selected, the figures OF
which viii be kept secret until the
opening OF the season
a FESTIVAL was in progress IN tenn
pie at Tien Tsin, China, when the In
fammable materials strung inside
caught fire and a terrible panic en-
sued. Men and women struggled for
the exits and trampled the weaker ones
and the children under foot Over 100
people lost their lives
TIE Lutheran synod in session al
Baltimore, Nd, on the 18th was offered
II lots in Omaha, Neb-, by DR.. h W.
Kuhns. of Omaha, for the construction
- -, o,-1ba1Ss homa and ex-MaVOr
Schieren. of Omaha, offered TO donate
the money for the building. A com
mission was appointed to take the
project under advisement.