The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-26

| ulSlOdge tramp. VINO was Stealng q
ride on freight train near Hawkins.
Tex. and a desperate fight ensued and
the tramp was killed.
MICHAEL GLEASON, aged 81, residing
at Galena, Ind. started TO transfer a
flock of 40 sheep from one lot to an
other. and was letting down the bars
of a fence. when a ram dashed at him
and butted him to the ground. While
lying PROSTATE. the other sheep fol-
lowed and trampled him to death.
REV. PETER WALLACE died at Chica-
go recently. aged 81. He was for over
40 years noted Methodist preacher
and raised a company of soldiers in
1861 in Sangamon county. Ill. for the
Seventy-Third regiment. known as the
Preacher regiment" all of the officers
of which were clergymen.
THE annual meeting of the National
Reform Press association was called to
order at Memphis, Tenn, by President
| Paul Nandervoort. of Nebraska. Nearly
every southern and western state was
represented.
A SECTION of the elevated seats at
circus at Brownsville. Tex. collapsed
and precipitated 800 persons to the
ground. Six persons may die. Many
others were badly bruised.
THE populist editors who believe in
fusion with the democracy and are OPP
| posed to Paul Nandervoort. met at
Kansas City, Mo-. on the 22d. A. Rozelle
calling the meeting to order.
\ BABY girl was born to eX-President
Ir.1;.nnA,l,e
Ind. on the 21st.
A sNowsLIDE at Pitllin. Col, killed
Martin Mentley and seriously injured
J. w. Brigham while asleep in their
cabin near the Cleopatra mine.
\ FIRE broke out in Beares' dry goods
store at Grand Forks, \. D., at two
o'clock on the morning of the 2lst. with
the mercury - degrees below zero. and
| did damage To the amount of S225. 600.
There were many narrow escapes of
| people in scanty clothing.
! \ DISPATCH from Middlesboro. Ky,
on the 2lSt stated that a most disastrous
food had visited that valley. many
| people being forced out of their homes
| Railroad bridges had been washed
away and trains water-bound. Near
/ Poweil's river James Caldwell and his
| family were drowned. the flood sweep
! ing away his house
KID O'BRIEN. of Arkansas. knocked
out Chess Allen. of ~. Joseph. Mo. in
the l4th round of contest for 10
| rounds at Hot Springs. Ark.
john CIRCLELEZ started to make a
fire at five o'clock on the morning of
the 18th and got the gasoline can in
! stead of the coal oil can. In an instant
/ there was an explosion and the house
was set on fire. John Circlelez's family
and his brother Jacobs family were
seriously burned. At the hospital it
was thought that five out of the eight
persons injured would die.
DANIEL MCCARTHY was hanged at
Chicago on the 10Th for the murder of
his wife on May Il, 1896. She hadssep-
arated from him on account of his
drunken habits and on her refusal to
live with him. he shot her at her moth
er'S house while he was in state of
intoxication.
WHILE a force of workmen were low
ering a boiler into a Spanish cruiser at
the naval yards in Cadiz on the 18th
the tackling gave way and the boiler
fell on the men. killing six and seri-
ously injuring ten others.
An electric car at Chicago was struck
by lightning while carrying a lot of
men to work and all were badly
shocked. One man had to be removed
in an ambulance
THE annual exhibition of the Nation
al Carnation society opened at Cincin-
natl with over $4,000 blooms. The
decorating committee used J, 600 carna-
lions and two miles of asparagus. fern
and Smilax on the banquet hall.
THE special reporter of the Assoc
ciated press. who has visited the
famine stricken districts of India,
states that children are deserted and
left to forage for themselves and that
the mortality is awful at Banda. the
blacklist spot of the Bundelkund pro-
vince. where, out of population of
zoe. 900. 100000 are receiving relief and
the number is expected TO reach $780,
600.
THE residence of Thomas Brown
owski at Iron River. Mich. was Quilted
by fire on the 18th and two young chill
NlTcH WHO were III the mouse dG the
time were burned to death. The
mother had left the children locked in.
AT the meeting of the execu ve
council of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union of America. recently held ia Chi
cagO. it was decided to hold the next
international union in Chattanooga,
Tenn. on July Is. 1897.
THE Michigan house committee on
state affairs, to whom had been re-
ferred bill to make the apple blossom
the official state flower. recommended
bill in which the ''Pingree Peach
blow potato" was substituted for the
apple blossom.
A CLAY bank near Rock Island. H.,
caved in and buried three wOrkmen.
One was taken out dead and the other
two were seriously injured.
An engine and II cars. with contents,
were demolished on the Illinois Cen
trail railroad near Bosky Della. Ill. on
the 10Th by the breaking of an axle on
the engine.
r.