The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-19

A HE main OullOlnR OF the county
poor farm at Chester, Ill. was burned
to the ground. The fire was caused by
defective fiue. None of the inmates
were injured.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa. said
that the towboat Hawk was recently
capsized by the wind on the Ohio river
near Jack run and IL men were thrown
into the water and had to swim for
their lives. The pilot was unable to
get out of the pilot house and was
drowned like rat in trap.
GERTRUDE FAUST and Lille Shaffer,
belonging to leading families in Akron,
o.. were arrested in Cleveland for shop
lifting. A wagon load of stolen goods
was foundin Miss Faust's home.
On all the islands near Memphis,
Tenn. and in the lowlands of Arkan
sas there was much suffering reported
on the 14th among the people and
great loss of stock and property
through the high water of the Missis-
sippi river.
IN the vicinity of Morrison and Leila,
Ok, terrific hailstorm occurred on
the night of the 18th. Poultry were
killed, window-glass broken out and
farm 9rs said many wheat fields were
ruined.
UNEMPLOYED men and women met at
Chicago on the 14th and adopted reso-
buttons against paying rent, except at
the option of the tenant. Endorsed the
repeal of the laws for the collection of
debt and formed the Unemployed
Workers league. Speeches were made
on the subject of finding work for the
unemployed and the potato patch plan
of the Salvation army was disapproved.
''SOLLY' SMITH. the clever little boxer
from Los Angeles, Cal. gained the de-
cision over Oscar Gardner. the Omaha
Kid" after 90 rounds of good fighting
at the Broadway Athletic club at New
York
r. WALTER 5. BURNHAM, grand treas
ured of the Knights of Honor, died at
his home in Dorchester. Mass, of
typhoid pneumonia. He had been grand
treasurer for 10 years.
THREE men lost their lives in a fire
at the Chicago hotel at Buffalo, n. V,
on the 18th.
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found dead and his affianced, Miss Mae
Hall, was found unconscious in a room
of the young woman's house at Fort
Wayne, Ind. They were soon to have
been married.
SEVEN young men of Edmond Ia,
have been arrested for taking r. ).
Ferguson from Jail and riding him on a
rail. beating him and then leaving him
half dead in a barn all night, whereby
his arms and feet were so badly frozen
that amputation was necessary Fergu-
son had been jailed for being drunk.
WORD was received from Toronto.
Ont, on the 18th that Miss Eva Bal
lington-Booth. commander of the Sal
walton army forces in Canada, was dan
gerously i'll and that her recovery was
very doubtful.
FIRE broke tin John A. Tolman's
wholesale grocery house at Chicago on
the 18th and did damage to the amount
of $780, 900. Chase & Sanborn's spice
house also suffered. Both firms were
fully insured.
CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT. the Chicago
Records correspondent in Havana, de-
clared on the 18th that Gen. Weyler
had received positive orders from Mad
rid to end the Cuban war at once, even
going to the extent of selling the island
to the insurgents to accomplish that
object.
A MASS meeting was held AT New
York on the 18th for the purpose of in
dorsing the arbitration treaty between
this country and Great Britain, but the
meeting was captured by the ants.
Judge Lynn made speech denouncing
Great Britain for her policy in support
of Turkey and against the Cretans and
Armenians. The resolutions favoring
ratification were put to the meeting by
President Seth Lowe and, although
only one-third voted in favor of them,
they were declared carried. Pande-
monium reigned at the meeting.
By the falling of section of the old
wall of the old town of Fee, in Africa,
$50 workmen were killed.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone a mile in
width struck Ralston, 1. T., and great
damage was done. Nearly every house
in the town and in the path of the cy-
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wrecked. Many persons were injured,
but no lives were lost.
DEsIDERIo SANDOvAL returned unex-
pectedly to his home at Coyote, n. NJ,
early the other morning and found his
wife and a man named Martinez occu-
plying the same room. Sandoval imme-
diately pulled his revolver and shot his
wife and her paramour dead.
AT the recent session at st. Louis of
the sovereign camp of the Modern
Woodmen of the World the delegations
from Colorado and Oregon asked for
separate jurisdiction, and on their re-
quest being refused they walked out
of the convention and organized
separate body.
BY the breaking up of the ice in Sag
inaw bay on the 18th about $50 fisher
men. mostly belonging to Bay City,
Mich, were carried out on foe. All
but five. however, managed to escape
to Maison and Lone Tree islands.
About $500 worth of nets and 20 shan
ties also went.
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