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


Chicago, were probably fatally shot by
unknown assailants at Chicago at three
a. N. on the 1st while on their way
home. Robbery was not attempted.
EX-CoNGREssNAN JAMES WILSON. of
Iowa. has confirmed the report that he
had been rendered the Office of secre-
tary Of agriculture in the next admin
istration and that he had accepted.
CHARLES q. DAWES. OF Evanston. Ill.
said on the 1st that the press report
that he had been rendered and had
accepted the appointment of comptrol-
Ter Of the currency was true.
\ CHICAGO Nlws' Washington special
on the lst said that special session OF
the senate to meet March or ,. imme-
diately on the inauguration OF the new
president. was now on the cards. but
the house. it was believed. would not
meet until March u.
AT a meeting at Lincoln. Neb.. on
the lst of the state relief commission it
was found that there We're loaded for
shipment FIVE cars of corn at Hastings.
one at Auro and one at Wilcox. intend
ed for the relief of the poor in Chicago.
MIS-. l.. CAREw. an American. who
has been on trial at Yokohama. Japan.
since January ). charged with causing
the death of her husband. Walter f.
Carew. secretary of the Yokohama
United club. by the administration of
arsenic. was found guilty and SEN
fenced to death.
PROF. BROOKS. director of Smith OBJ
servatOry. at Geneva. y. Y, announced
that the great sunspot of January,
after its passage around the sun. had
again come into view on the 1st by
rotation and could be seen with the
naked eye through a smoked glass.
THE Underwood betting factory and
four tenement houses at Holland. Conn,
were burned. Loss. $4,000
The Kalamazoo. Mich. high school
was destroyed by fire on the 1st. Sew
eral iremen were more or less hurt by
the breaking of ladder.
A FIRE at Hoboken. y. j.. at mid.
night on the 3Oth destroyed a black
smiths shop over which a German
family lived. Mrs. Schroeder and five
children were burned to death.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was re
ported at DeadwOOd. :. D., and the
Black hills over recent discoveries OF
gold ore in unsupported quarters.
A GIGANTIC London syndicate has got
an option on the Is biggest breweries
in Cincinnati and the deal was likely tc
20 through it was reported.
WORD was received at DeadwoOd. s.
D., on the 31st that three Indians in the
Cheyenne agency had frozen in their
tents and number of others will die
from the recent severe weather. Thou
sands of cattle also persisted. 300 being
found in one place.
ACCORDING to reports made to the
state board of transportation so to "a
per cent. of the farmers of Nebraska
are burning corn for fuel instead OF
coal
JACK DELANEY won the fight with
Australian Billy" on the 3Oth at New
York after Is rounds of clever boxing.
THE well-known bantam weights.
Sammy Kelly. of New York. and Jimmy
at New York on the both. the referee
declaring the bout a draw.
A LONDON dispatch of the 31st said
that in spite of special denials it was
becoming generally known that the
condition of the cars health was crit
zeal and that regency was probable.
THE United States steamship Brook.
Ign struck on a sunken rock in the
Delaware river above Marcus Hook. |
Pa, on the 31st and was seriously dam
aged, her lower double compartments
forward being completely stove in.
BARTHOLOMEW RACE shot and killed |
his wife while she was sick in bed at |
Goshen. Utah, and then committed sui |
eide. Nine children were left orphans. |
the youngest only four days old.
GERTRUDE PALMER died at Mamaro-
neck, n. Y, on the 29th. making the |
third victim of Arthur Palmer's frenzy.
he having previously killed his mother
and brother. The sheriff left for st. |
Louis, where Arthur Palmer had been
arrested.
THE Patton seminary. a boarding
school for girls at Oak Cliff, Tex, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the
2Ctu' AOOuI ~ y IRIS were III Ine OullO-
ng and they lost all their effects and
had to be taken in closed carriages to
Dallas.
AT the Georgia mine, near Fleming
on, W. Va. by an accident on a coal
ncline railway. so men were thrown
rom a car. and one was killed. two
'thers were fatally and eight seriously
injured.
ELEVEN men were injured, one. Louis
7ogler, probably fatally, by an explo-
ion in a coal mine at Foster. Ia
Gov. SADLER signed the bill on the
9th permitting glove contests in Ne
ada, thus insuring the Corbett-F itz-
immons fight for that state.
THE body of a tramp was found
rozen in the reservoir pond Of the
WOOL securing works at East Wey-
mouth. Mass. No one knew how long
I had been there and it had to
'e chopped out with axes.
EARL ANDERSON. OF Wabash, Ind.
developed a clearly defined case OF
richinosis through eating sausage and
he worst results were feared.
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