The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-29

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rations for the Bradley Martin ball.
1t was said that several wealthy wom-
en- will remain away from the ball on
February 10 fearing an outbreak of
some kind from the prominence which
! the affair has received.
jim HARBoLT. who, with Bill Isaacs.
was indicted for the murder of Sheriff
| McGhee. at Canadian. on the Southern
| Kansas railroad. about two years ago.
was rescued from the Canadian TEX
| jail by a party of his friends during
the absence of Sheriff Arlington from
| this county. Harbolt was to have been
| tried on the 25th.
THE fight at Paso Robels. Cal. be-
tween George F. Green Young Cor
bettl, welterweight champion of the
world. and w. Lewis. champion of
Southern California. resulted in Lewis
being knocked out in the first half OF
the second round.
THE public schools at Toledo o.,
were dismissed on the 25th. it being i'm
possible to keep them warm.
JOHN FERGUSON. living near Guthrie,
Ok. fell 90 feet into a well. crushing
his skull and sustaining other fatal in
juries.
AT Saranac Lake. y. V. the Their
mometer registered 81 degrees below
on the 25th. At Minneapolis. Mimi,
it registered 81 below.
FIRE partially destroyed the boys
dormitory of the Christian Home or
phanage at Council Bluffs. Ia. on the
oath. All the boys were got out safely.
THE Northwestern Stove Repair Co S
factory at Chicago was destroyed by
fire on the oath. causing a loss of S425.-
600. The firemen had great difficulty
in getting water the plugs in the neigh
borhOod being frozen.
A NEGRO named Pierce TAYLOR was
taken from the Jail at Tallahassee,
Fla. on the oath by a mob and hanged
to tree in the Jail yard. He had been
arrested for an attempted assault on a
woman.
EUGENE WASHINGTON, a negro ar
rested for assaulting a girl at Bryan,
Tex. was taken by an Infatuated mob
on the evening of the 23d and hanged
to a cottonwood tree on Main street in
that city.
THE oath was the coolest day in Chi
cagO for % years. The suffering among
the poor people there was said to be in
tense. In South Chicago five families
were found actually freezing to death.
THERE was a great revival in gold
mining reported in the section around
Dahlonega. Ga.
TITLE ANDERSON. the flying Swede.
won the woman'S siX-day bicycle race
at Indianapolis. Ind. The score was as
follows: Anderson. 246 miles s laps;
FarnswOrth, 246 miles ~ laps: Allen,
246 miles 6 laps: Baldwin and Christie
pher. a tie. 246 miles laps.
SIR ISAAC PITTMAN. the inventor of
photography, a system of shorthand
writing. died at London on the odd,
aged 81 years.
The German savings bank at Des
Moines. Ia. closed its doors on the 21st.
SENATOR WOLCoTT. of Colorado. who
has been visiting England in the inter
est of bimetallism, was reported as not
being satisfied with his progress. Great
Britain will not call an international
conference on the subject under any
circumstances and the continental
powers were equally unwilling to call
a conference. as they believed the
United States. both by its position and
its Importance, ought to take the in
itiative.
THE British steamer Salisbury col
hded with an unknown steamer in the
British channel. The latter was sup
posed to have sunk with a crew of
about 20 men.
FIRE broke out early in the morning
in the medical college, one of the
buildings of the Bellevue hospital at
New York. A thousand patients were
asleep at the time, but the fremen con-
trolled the flames without disturbing
them. Many valuable records and in
struments were destroyed and Is cada-
vers were cremated.
RUSSIA fears that the bubonic plague
now raging in India will reach her
country and the newspapers are call
ing for every precaution to be taken to
prevent it. One newspaper said that
the world should unite to form a cor
don around the devastated plague dis
tricts.
w. A. HARRIS, of Leavenworth coun-
ty, has been nominated to succeed Sem
ator PETER as United States senator
for Kansas. The nomination is equiv
alent to an election.
AN earthquake occurred at Delvino,
Turkish Epirus. Several villages, most
" inhabited by Christians. have been
destroyed. and it was feared many peo-
pie have persisted.
A FAMINE exists in Rhodesia. Africa,
and the natives were reported digging
up and eating cattle which had been
buried six months ago because they
had died from the rinderpest. As a
terrible mortality prevails
the natives.
THE Missouri and Kansas Association
of Lumber Dealers in session at Kansas
City. No. on the Goth elected the fol-
lowing officers to serve during the en-
suing year: H. c. Taylor. of Lyons,
Kan. president: Jesse Childs. of Rich
mond, Mo. vice president; George d.
Hope, of Kansas City, treasurer The
directors reelected Harry Gorsuch
secretary and made J. L. Lane honor
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