The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-12

| IHE shops OF the Louisville. Evans
vile * st. Louis railway in Princeton.
Ind. were destroyed by FIRE on the Sth
Loss. $4,000 to 100000.
PATRICK 4. BRENNAN. aged 60 years.
vas found dead FROM starvation in his
home near Yardley. y. j.. on the eth.
Sitting beside his body was his aged
and insane wife, who was dying from
the same cause
/ THE 25-round bout between Geor.-e
/ Lavigne. the lightweight CHAMPION
and Kid Mcfarland at New York
on the sth resulted N favor of the for
mer. although Mcfarland made won
derful showing.
/ Emanuel LOWENsTEIN- manager Of
/ the Interstate Live Stock Commission
I Co. OF Kansas City was found dead in
/ his room az a New York hotel on the
sth from the Effects o. escaping illumi-
mating gas. Il was believed his dealt.
was the result of accident
Two freight trains collided On the
I Illinois Central railroad. near TolCno
I H.. during a dense fog on the 6th
Both engines. FIVE car loads OF mer-
chanSIi>e and three box cars were de
m9lished. In one car were 30 head o.
horses and they We're all killed. The
trainmeB jumped in time to save them
selves.
THE cowboys at Shelby Junction.
Mont Serrorized the members of the
Columbia Opera company which arrived
there on the 7th. For three hours the
cowboys fought with the men. insulted
the women and fired off their revolvers.
TEMPLE Houston. of Woodward. Ok.
son OF Col sam Houston. has been in
vited by the state OF Tennessee to de-
/ liver the centennial address at the
opening OF the exposition at Nashville
ON May L
AT the worlds skating championship
races at Montreal. Can. on the 9Th the
result showed that i. Nillssen. of Min
neapeliS Mimi. is the professional
champion skaterof the world and J. X.
McCulloch. OF Winnipeg. Man. is the
amateur champion.
THE lo0-mile bicycle race at Cleve-
land o. between Louis Gimm and
Teddy Hale was won by .Gimm by
about u feet. the time being . hours
and Is seconds.
GOV BRADLEY recently ordered out
so members of the state militia to pre-
vent the lynching of a negro prisoner
named Black at Lebanon. Nv.
w. A LICHTENwALTER. wealthy
farmer near Mason City. Ia. committed
suicide by hanging. He was a stock
holder in the City bank. of Nora Springs,
which recently failed and hearing that
he would be financially ruined he pre-
ferred to meet death in this way.
THE Northwestern national bank of
Great Falls Mont, ON the 9Th posted a
notice announcing its suspension.
The board of directors and officers
charge that the trouble is due to a
defalcation on the part of the cashier,
Benton d. Hatcher of $50. 600.
A REPORT was received at Vienna on
the 5th of the massacre of 1,5OO Chris
tians in the villages OF the islands of
Crete by Turkish troops.
The number of failures in the United
States for the week ended the 5th were
sos. according to Bradstreet's report.
as compared with 800 the previous
week and 33s in the corresponding
week of last year.
CHARGES have been preferred against
Agent Pearson. who has charge Of the
Pottax atomic Indians in Kansas 1t lis
said that he has been remarkably de-
relict and that the law has been fire.
quently violated on the reservation m
der his charge.
JUSTICE RICHARDSON at Chicago on
the 5th held Wong Chin Foo. editor of
the Chinese Daily News and president
of the League of Americanized China
men. to the criminal court on the
charge of being the keeper of a gam
bling house.
DAN STUART, the promoter of the
rbett-Fitzsimmons fight. left Deni-
son, Tex. for Nevada on the 5th to ar
svould either take place at Reno or Car
son City. He will erect an amphi-
theater to seat $1,000 people.
CONSTANTINE STEVENSON, a farmer
near Jacksonville. Fla. was shot and
killed while in his field by hidden as
sasSins. making the ninth victim in the
Tilief-Whidden feud. Stevenson was
recently tried for killing member of
the Rhidden faction. but was acquit-
ted The Whidden sympathizers be-
lieved him guilty, however. and swore
vengeance.
The Oklahoma house passed the
marriage contract bill. 1t prohibits
the fntermarriage of whites and ne
groes or Indians and especially pro-
hibits that no man shall marry his
own mother-in-law.
TIE recent wreck of the Great North
ern passenger train near Wenatchee,
Wash. came near being one of the
most disastrous of railroad casualties.
4 tourist car containing 81 persons. in
Guiding II babes. caught fire. The ear
was hurled into an eRbankment of !
snow. 1t was only after the greatest |
exertions that the inmates liberated !
themselves by breaking the windows.
THE First rational bank. of GriswOld. |
Ia. has failed. Assets. Sl4T, 900: iabil- |
tiles. $50. 900.
THREE raftsmen, John Adkins. Sam |
1el Wellington and Jonas Blevins, |
were drowned in Pike county. Ky. by |
the breaking of a log boom in the ice /