The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-26
GENERAL NEWS.

JOHN WILLIAMS. a railroad man, was
recently found laying in front of drug
store at BRENNAN, Tex, unconscious,
with two CHASTITY stabs in the body.
He recovered sufficiently to tell that he
had been held up by a negro who de
manded his money, and. upon his refu-
sal to give it up, the negro stabbed
him.
A SPECIAL from Lima, o., said that
William r. Mott. freight clerk. and
William r. Jones, telegraph operator.
were struck by lightning on the street
and both fatally injured.
A MATCH was said to have been ar
ranged by the Greater New York
Athletic club in Brooklyn for a fight
between Maher and Sharkey. 1t will
probably be brought off in May for a
purse of about $4,000.
THE national w. C. T. L. has sent an
appeal to President Mckinley, entreat-
hibit in the District of Columbia and
the territories the reproduction by
means of the kaleidoscope of the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight A similar appeal
has also been sent to each of the gov
errors of the various states, asking for
legislative action.
THE American dramatiStS and man
ayers celebrated the passage of the
anti-pirate amendment to the copy
right law by banquet at Delmonico's,
New York. on the Goth to the members
of congress who helped to pass the
bill. Senator Plat. of Connecticut,
was one of the principal speakers.
A MOB tried to break into the Jail at
Scottsboro, Ala, to lynch negro min
lister named John Smith, who was con-
fined there for an assault on a woman.
All the efforts of the mob to get in,
however, were fruitleSs, but the negro
was espied fearfully watching them
from his cell window and several men
opened fire on him and killed him.
JOHN LEE, farmer in Grant county,
Ok, on his return from a visit to rela-
tives in Missouri, found that his house
and barn and all their contents had
been stolen from his farms
JOHN HULL. an employee of the Erie
railway at Servia, Ind, shot his wife,
the ball entering her throat and pass
ing upward and through her cheek.
Hull then turned the revolver upon
himself. the bullet going through his
head. infiicting wound which proved
fatal. The pair had separated and the
husband wanted his wife to live with
him again and she refused.
H. MCKAY TwoNBLY, son-in-law of
the late William II. Vanderbilt and
proprietor Of dairy which cost 3, 0OO,-
600. has gone into the milk business.
TO the CONSERVATION of the other local
milk dealers who sell milk for living.
Mr.. Twombly owns the FlOrham dairy,
near Madison. N j.. and the milk deal
ers of that place complain that they
cannot compete with a millionaire
dairyman.
HEART disease caused the death of
Holm Parshall. of indianapolis, Ind,
on the 18th. He was one OF the six
men deputed and sworn to dispose OF
the remains of John Wilkes Booth, the
murderer of Abraham Lincoln, in such
a manner that the secret of their rest
ing place should never be known
A SAD accident occurred near Hen
uessev. Ok. The five-year-old boy of
J. A. Kazebur, living near that city,
was playing around a horse which
was hitched to a log, and afterwards
fell asleep lying by the log. The
tsl--se pulled the log over the child,
zen found by the parents he was
mashed 70 death.