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

senSeleS> ana was reported TO De uylng.
TIE Berlin Tageblatt asserted on
the 4th that France and Russia had
agreed to intervene at Washington in
the breach between the United States
and Spain.
EDWARD SCHOFIELD was inaugurated
governor of Wisconsin on the Attn.
ToBsCCo and manufactures thereof,
being schedule F OF the existing tar fl
law. was the subject of the hearing te-
fore the house committee On ways and
means on the 4th
GEORGE DUFFY. who recently coll
lapsed after fighting ten rounds with
George Justice in the Broadway Ath-
letic club. of New York. died on the
ith from a blood vessel in his brain
having been ruptured by the coueus-
sion OF blows on his head.
President ELECT MCKINLEY an
nouneed that he wanted to BE- left I'M
disturbed by callers at Canton. O.. the
week beginning the 4th. as ne wished
to outline his inaugural message.
The City bank of Nora Springs, Ia,
suspended on the 9Th
THREE trainmen were killed and Il
cars of freight were hurled into the
Missouri river in a wreck that took
place on the Missouri Pacific railroad
at New Haven. 81 miles west of St
Louis. on the 3D. The cause of the
wreck was landslide.
An erroneous impression prevailed in
the Indian territory recently that Sec
re arv Francis contemplated opening
the Kiowa and COmanche lands in adj
dition to the Wichita reservation, The
secretary will only assign allotting
agents for the Wichita reservation at
present
A DISPATCH from the Philippine is
lands to Madrid on the 81 stated that
g. 900 OF the insurgents were killed by
the Spanish troops and only IS Span
iards lost their lives and 6S were
wounded in battle on the river Bu-
acan.
TWENTY houses were flown down by
windstorm at Benton. Ark. on the 2d.
FRANK ). BLACK was inaugurated
governor of New York at Albany on
the lst before a large assemhlage.
Levi p. Morton. the retiring governor.
made a long address. in which he re-
viewed his administration, and Gov.
Black responded briefly.
COUNTY TREASURER JERNIGAN. at
Austin. Tex, committed suicide be-
cause he had lost slO50O of the coun-
tvs money specializing.
An explosion occurred at the Moni-
tor coal mine near Bay City, Mich. on
the 3lst and one man was killed and
another overcome by gas.
ONE fireman was killed and three
were injured by the breaking of a
ladder at fire at the four-story build
ing at Q Strawberry street. Phila-
delOha. on the 31,t
The French coastjug steamer Deux
Freres. from Fecamp for Calais. foun-
dered in the English channel and II Of
her crew were drowned
AL COCHRAN, the cattle rustler. has
been sentenced at Greeley. Col. to 30
years in prison for cattle stealing.
GEORGE 3. WILKINS committed sui
eide in the Episcopal church at Selma.
Ark. at four o'clock on the morning Of
the 31st. He was vice president and
cashier OF the Selma bank which re-
Gently failed and had been treasurer Of
the church for 80 years.
LOUIS W. JACKSON. who was sent to
the Joliet lUL) penitentiary for life
June /, 1869. for murder. has been re-
leased. He had never been outside the
walls of his prison since he went in.
BURGLARS blew open the safe the
other nightin the general merchandise
store Of J. II. Hanev at Apple Grove.
O.. and secured abOut -. 600 in money,
besides stamps ana valuab le papers.
JOSEPH E. MCCULLAGR, editor of the
St Louis Globe Democrat. was found
dead on the pavement in the rear of
his residence at 6:3O a. 10. on the 3lst.
He was attired in his night clothing
and had evidently committed suicide
by jumping from the window of his
bedroom. He had been confined to his
room for some time With acute asthma,
complicated with nervous depression.
as result of his arduous lahors in the
recent campaign. He was ST years old.
The factory of the Jacksonville (O)
Sewer Pipe Co. burned recently, throw
ing $50 men out of employment for the
winter. Loss. fully 800, 600; partly
covered by insurance.
A REPORT was current in Havana re-
Gently that Maceo, the insurgent chief,
was not killed as previously stated,
but only badly wounded. and is now
slowly recuperating in the Siguena
hospital, whence his followers had
carried him. A representative of the
Cuban junta at New York. however,
stated that he placed no credence in
the rumor that Maceo is alive.
The officials OF the Louisville &
Nashville railroad and the Southern
Railway Co. have offered a reward of
SO, 900 for the arrest and conviction of
the persons implicated in the recent
Cahaba river bridge disaster near
BrOckton. Ala.
WILLIAM PURDUE. wealthy farmer
living near Divide. Ill. was instantly /
killed by the explosion OF the boiler Of /
a sawmill which he was operating. An I
woman was also killed.
ALL the speakers at the session Of /
the American LAWYERS association at /
New York on the Both favored a bank I
ruptcy law milar TO the Torrey oil. /
which has been before congress for /