The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-01-14

ing AT tne northwest corner OF MurKeJ
and Quincy streets, Chicago. The to-
tai loss was about $500, 900, well in
sured.
THE Koenig Luisc colliery at
Zaborze, Silesia, caught fire the other
day and of 10 men brought to the sur
face seven died soon afterwards. 1t
was feared also that 25 others, whose
escape was cut off, had persisted.
Col. WILLIAM KIRK, an ex-union
soldier of Wood county, Va, has pub
lished card in which he critieises
what he calls the assaults made upon
the pension rolls, denouncing Commits
sioner of Pensions Evans especially,
and announces that he will pay 500
for each case of fraudulent pension
now being paid by the United States
to civil war soldier.
PAUL METCALF, a refugee from Mon
tana with a 30-years' murder sentence
hanging over him, was fatally wound
ed while resisting arrest near Win
chester, Ok.
A LARGE office building at McKees-
port, Pa, was totally destroyed by fire
on the nth. 1t cost 100000 to erect
two years ago. The loss on the con-
tents was $4,000.
THE treasurer of Poweshiek county,
Ia, recently received an express pack
age of $4,000 from Chester A. Rowe,
who fed to Mexico year ago with
S35, 900 of the county's money Accom-
panying the remittance was a letter
saying he would pay the full amount
back and then he wanted to come home.
BURGLARS looted Glenn Seigler's store
at st. James, Neb., the other night.
The stock consisted of dry goods,
clothing, shoes, hardware and jewelry,
worth about S10 900, and, as the bur-
glars took most of it, it was thought
they must have had more than one
wagon and have made several trips.
NEAR BRENNAN, Tex. the four-year-
old son of Dudley Williams, school
teacher, was burned to death. A car
penter was at work on n house and
had a small fire near, around which
the child was playing when his clothes
became ignited.
FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, Ia.
defeated j. A. r. Elliott, of Kansas
City, Mo-, in the match race of 100
birds at Dexter Park, l.. l., on the 18th
for the Dupont championship trophy.
The score was SO to 81.
Music hall, the largest auditorium
in Cleveland, o., was burned to the
ground on the night of the 18th. There
were panics in the apartment houses
adjoining, which were badly damaged
by fire and water. Several firemen
also had narrow escapes Loss, about
s15O,OOO.
THERE was wholesale Jail delivery
at Bentonville, Ark, on the night of
the 18th. Prisoners battered down
one of the doors and dozen inmates
made their escape.
AN agreement has been reached by
the house committee on rules, of which
Speaker Reed is chairman and Mr.
Dingley is n member, to give appro-
priation bills the right of way, so as
to get the bills before the senate as
soon as possible, in order that the scs-
| sion may be brought to an early close.
A PERRY, Ok, dispatch stated that
the allotment of the lands of the Otter
and Missouri Indians had begun and
would be completed in two months.
The allotting agent assigned to this
work is Miss Helen p. Clark, who is
one-eighth Blackfoot Indian. These
Indians always have opposed allot-
ment, but Miss Clark, who is the only
woman who has ever been assigned to
such a work, has gained their conf
dence and is proceeding with the
work. This spring the allotted lands
will be opened to white settlement.
In fire at Roberts hotel in New
York Leslie Stanley and his wife were
suffocated by smoke.