The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-05

nItrO-glVcer1ne and all the funds stolen.
HENRY HAUGH was found in the ruins
Of the Hotel Switzerland at Nashota.
Wis. with a revolver with two empty
chambers by his side He had pre-
viously written to his wife from whom
he was separated. that he intended
to burn the hotel and perish in the
/ flames.
The residence of Charles Russell at
| North Baltimore. O.. caught fire and
Russell was burned to a crisp and his
wife was so badly burned that she can
not recover.
Miss OLLIE SULLIVAN was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Frank
Lauer at one a. IN. on the 1st at Chicago.
Lauer then fed from the house and his
dead body was afterwards found in the
street. The shooting was the result OF
jealous quarrel
EMPLOYEES Of the Illinois Steel Co. at
Joliet. ILL.,. received notice on the 1st
OF the reduction Of from ten to twenty
per cent. in their wages. The feeling
among the men was one of general dis
satisfaction.
AT Apollo. Pa. James Shelhammer
killed Grace Clark and then shot him
self. Shelhammer admired Miss Clark,
but the sentiment was not returned.
IN Pike county. near Jackson. O..
gang Of ten men were telling trees for
railroad ties and left tree nearly
chopped through while they went into
shanty TO dinner. The tree fell oa tire
shanty and killed three men. fatally i'll
jured two more. and seriously injured
the five others.
GEORGE TAYLOR. the murderer OF the
Meeks family. who escaped from the
Carrollton. Mo. Jail on April 10 while
under sentence of death. has been cap
tured and lodged in the Hanford. Cal,
Jail and the Missouri authorities
notified. b. F. Lane. a Missourian.
was the man who identified the pris-
oner.
GEN. A. J. SMITH died at st. Louis on
the 30th. He was famous as a COM
mander who was never defeated. He
drove Gen. Price out of Missouri and
was instrumental in destroying Hoods
army and encompassed the surrender
of Mobile.
WILLARD Cotton. of Cleveland. o.,
came home at three o'clock on the
morning of the goth, quarreled with
his wife. shot her dead and then shot
himself through the head.
4 POWDER magazine at the Crystal
Ridge cOuery, near Hazleton, Pa. ex-
plOded about midnight of the 2Sth, do
ing considerable damage. The night
fahv he ,lv-r,
The heat from stove was thought to
have caused the explosion. Hazleton
was considerably shaken up.
THE tugboat Myrtle exploded her
boiler at Turnbulrs island. La. and
the fireman was blown into the river
and deck hand fatally injured.
Two colored servants at the residence
of Henry Daspit. at New Orleans. made
a charcoal fire in their room to keep
warm and one was found dead and the
other dying from the fumes.
FIRE destroyed almost the entire
business portion of the town of Center
burg. O.. on the 2Sth.
ALBERT CUNNING. coachman. shot
and instantly killed Mrs. Benning at
Chicago and then attempted to shoot
her two boys. but failed. He after
wards shot himself in the breast Cum
ming had an undue liking for Mrs.
Benning and she had forced him to
leave her house.
JIM JACKSON, a negro farm laborer,
assaulted a girl at Six-Mile. Ala. Two
hours later posse went after Jackson,
who had in the meantime got hold of
mule. and the chase was kept up for 20
miles, when Jackson was picked off the |
mule by a shot and the mob caught !
him. strung him up by a horses bride |
and riddled him with bullets.
The National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation had a heated debate at their |
convention in Des Moines, Ia, on the |
18th about proposition for plan of |
work. At the afternoon session the |
following officers were reelected: Pres |
ident. Susan B. Anthony: vice presi-
dent-at-large. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,
Philadelphia; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. Rachael Foster Avery, Philadel-
phia-
THE failures in the United States for
the week ended the 2eth (Brsdstreet's
report were S26, being a decrease of
lO2 from the previous week and of 81
from the corresponding week of last
year.
HATTIE FLETCHER and Addie Foster,
both colored, fought with
pocketknives while returning homo
from school at Lexington, KY. on the
nth. Hattie, who was badly gashed,
aid open the jugular vein in Adde'S
neck, causing death soon afterward.
ED HENDERSON and his nephew quar-
-eled in machine shop at Charleston,
IL, on the 29th and one used a monkey
wrench and the other hammer. One
vas reported dead and the other diving.
To keep out the cold Mandilla Hunt
made big fire in her house near Spar
anburg, ). c., and went TO bed with
Ter two children. The house burned
Town and the three were cremated.
THE National Woman's Suffrage con-
-ention at Des Moines. Ia, on the 27th
howed 19 states represented. The re-
,ort Of Annie L. Digs, Of Kansas. on
Utilization with political parties was
elected because it favored denouncing
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