The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-06-11

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Cured at seven a. N. on the 9TH. A
rescuing party Immediately went into
the mine and the men were got out,
but only after thev had been overcome
by the deadly after damp. The gas
was said to have been ignited by an
open lamp and the escape of the 500
miners was remarkable.
Mrs. HOLCOMB, living on farm near
West Franklin, Ind, beheaded her
four-year-old daughter while laboring
under the delusion that God required
it of her. The woman was suffering
from cancer of the brain.
AT Saunemin. Ill, a grain elevator
containing 10000 bushels of oats was
burned to the ground.
A BOILER exploded recently in the
print works of Noriega Bros. in Puebla,
Mex, which caused the death of over
20 persons.
FIVE men were killed and four badly
| injured by collision on the Omaha
on the It'll. The accident was caused
by the engineer and conductor of one
train disobeying orders.
FIVE two-story frame dwellings were
badly damaged and nine families made
homeless by fire which started at pol
jefferson street, Chicago, on the even
! ing of the 9TH.
IN family quarrel at Shelby, Miss,
the other afternoon. Martin Pascoe,
negro, killed Sandy and Fannie DON
aid and then attempted suicide, but
will recover.
Snow fell in Grange, N. j., on the
18th.
THE queen regent of Spain has con-
| firmed Senior Canovas, the premier, in
his ministerial powers and the old cab
met will remain in power with the old
policy unchanged.
A CLOUDBURsT in the province of Iser,
France, caused the destruction of
number of paper mills and silk facto-
ries. One person was drowned and the
property loss was estimated at 81. 000,-
600. Four thousand operatives were
| thrown out of work.
MILE. BURNETT fell headlong from a
trapeze the other night at the Howard
Athen8um at Boston and landed upon
the heads of the audience. seriously in
juring several and probably fatally
hurting herself
THE empress of Germany was report
ed as being i'll from the nervous shock
received when a number of angry men
at Berlin threw a petition into the
royal carriage which struck her in the
face.
DURING a quarrel at Charles City, Ia,
between Frank Wiltse and Jerome Dow,
brothers-in-law, Wiltse threw stone
at Dow, missing him and instantly kill
ing Mrs. Dow, his sister, who was rum
ming away. The murderer gave him
self up.
THE Congregational Home Missionary
society held their list annual meeting
at Saratoga, Y. Y.
Rock ISLAND. Ill. was selected as the
permanent headquarters by the order
of Modern Woodmen on the I'd and j.
H. Frat, of Racine, Wis, was elected
head banker. Kansas City was chosen
as the next place of meeting of the
head camp.
SOME men became involved in quar-
rel in saloon at brooklyn and were
ordered out and they began shooting
at one another. As a result five men
were wounded, one perhaps fatally. At
least 20 shots were fired.
THE Springfield company of militia
was sent to Urbana, o., on the 4th by
the governor to protect the negro who
had been sentenced to 30 years impris-
onment the day before for criminal as
sault. but they seemed to excite the
mob so much that they were ordered
to return to the depot. Immediately
after the Jail was broken into and the
negro brute was soon in the hands of
the mob and hanging from tree.
SOME time ago j. p. Croker was
found dead in his front yard at At
lanta, Ga, with bullet hole in his
temple, and the case was passed over
as one of suicide. The administrator
on the I'd found in the cellar of his
house an iron safe, the locks of which
were rusty with age. Inside was S2O,-
900 in gold, beside valuable papers.
The theory of death now is murder at
the hands of burglars.
FARMERS in Shelby county, Ill, be-
wall the ravages of the cutworm in
their young crops. making it neces-
sary to replant many acres. Chinch
bugs have also appeared in the oat
fields.
DETECTIVES recently searched the
trains leaving Chicago for two or three
days in hopes of capturing George
Taylor, who escaped from Jail at Car
rollton, Mo-, while under sentence of
death for the murder of the Meeks |
family. They had received informa-
ton that he had arrived in the city
and was going to leave for Rock Island. |
Their search proved unavailing.
THE tug Andrew H. Green was
blown to atoms at las a. m. on the 5th |
at Chicago by the explosion of her
boiler and no trace of her crew could |
be found and there seemed to be no |
doubt that the five men known to have |
been on board had persisted.
a DELEGATION of full-blood Cherokee |
Indians, representing 1900 full
bloods, recently left Tahlequah, 1. T.,
for Washington to protest against |
pending changes about to be made by |
the Dawes commission which would |