The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-21
BRAVE MAN KILLED.
A Brave Passenger Defends o
Train From Robbers and Falls
q Victim
To His H"roism-The Miscrpants o.
tain S3,OOO-Death From the Kan-
sas Whitecap Outrage;
Masked Men Whip Widow in Alabama
The Body Of Irene HAYES Pound-Law-
lessusss in Georgia

GRENADA, Miss, Dec. 1.-Two white
men stopped passenger train No. on the
Illinois Central railroad near Duck Hill
| Saturday mig hit, robbed the express car of
$4,000 and shot and killed Charles Hughes.
of Jackson, Tenn, a passenger, who had
attacked the robbers with a rifle.
When the train was leaving Duck Hill
| at 1915 O'Clock two men boarded the en-.
CINE and commanded the engineer, A. J.
Law, to pull out fast and not to stop until
told to. The engineer and the fireman,
George Evans, were covered by navy re.
volvers and had to obey.
When q mile north of the station the
men ordered the train stopped and the en-
gineer and firemen were ordered to dis.
mount. This they promptly did. They
were then marched to the express car.
One of the robbers knocked on the car
door and the messenger, Hill, opened it,
when three shots were fired at him and
the men entered the car and took all the
money there was-S3.000.
Conductor b. p. Wilkinson, who rushed
out on hearing the firing and to see why
the train stopped, was fired upon, and,
being unarme J. returned to The train.
Charles Hughes, of jackson, Tenn, a
passenger, ran out with a Winchester rifle.
As he stepped to the ground from the
smoking car he was shot at repeatedly.
One ball struck his left arm, and another
went through his stomach, infiicting a
fatal wound. The death of the young man
was very sad, as he was the only support
of his widowed mother. He came to Lex
ington, Miss, TO meet his sisters family
and his brother, all of whom were on the
train and was greatly distressed at his
untimely death.
The robbery was done in the regular
highway style. Nine shots were fired by
Conductor Wilkinson and Travelling Pas
senger Agent Roban, three by Hughes and
four or five by the robbers.
During the robbery great uneasiness
was felt by the passengers, who feared
for the safety of their valuables and lives.
The description of the tall man with
sandy whiskers is good description of
the man who recently robbed a train on
the North astern road
When Wilkinson was fred upon by the
robbor who was on guard he hastily re-
treated on board the train and notified the
passengers that tue express car was being
robbed and called for volunteers, but none
responded except Hughes, who seized q
Winchester rifle belonging to a passenger
aud went forward with the conductor to
the front of the smoking car, where he
jumped off and began firing at the robbers.
His fire was returned and he was shot
three times.
KANSAS wHITECAPS.
AGRA Ram, Dec. Thames Mcdonald,
the man who was so numerically beaten
by the mob calling themselves the "Kan-
.,,n e H. I,al
day morning. HIS body was badly
lacerated and he suffered terribly, so bad
ly in fact that opiates were given him and
he died while under their effect
A farmer living here stated that he saw
the Whitecaps pass his house on two
different nights. On the second night
he was very near them without
being seen and their caps bore
numbers. They appeared to be under
the command of bugler, who would blow
the bugle for different commands. He fol-
lowed them until they halted, when they
seemed to hold a council. The chief. in
stead of calling by name, would address
them as No IL" - - 49," etc. Enough
was overheard to convince him they were
organizing Phillips and Smith Counties,
nsttu;ing division in each township,
with the principal headquarters at Phil
ipsburg. Nos. S, II and 10 were appointed
to go TO some p ace that night This farm
er appears to know too much about the
council, and it is believed he is closely
connected with them.
ALABAMA wHITECAPS.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. ia body OF
masked men, similar to the Indiana and
Ohio Whitecaps, are causing much excite
ment in Lamar County, their first vict m
being Mrs. Jane johnson, a widow with
five small children to support. Last FRI
day night masked men took Mrs. johnson
from her house and with heavy switches
gave her thirty mine lashes on ner bare
back. They then warned her they would
return and repeat the whipping unless she
left the county within five days. The
brutes told the woman that reports essail-
ing her virtue caused the whipping. None
of the parties have been arrested.
LITTLE IRENE HALVES.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 1.-THE body Of
Irene Halves, the second daughter of Dave
Halves, was found in the lake ,.5 Lake.
view Saturday morning by Detective Rob-
bins. The water had been drained until it
was only foot or two deep. The child
wore a small slip half covering the body
and a hemp cord fastened two heavy fish
plates weighing thirty pounds each to it.
The body was badly decomposed, but was
at once identified by James Halves, Dicks
brother, as that of the dead Irene. The
child was found about twenty feet from
the place where Mrs. Halves body had
been concealed. The find caused no ex-
element.
LAwLEsSNEsS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. IF. II. Thomp-
son, q merchant of Messna, refused 10
agree to the Farmers Alliances require
ments and was boycotted. By way of re-
taliation he organized a club of negro la
borers to demand higher wages from the
farmers. Friday night 200 men covered
every corner of the town and surrounded
Thompson's house, dug an open grave,
pinned Grape on his door and left note
warning him that he would be visited
again.
We have over 100 900 miles of railway
in the United States, and this year we |
shall build IL, 600 miles more. Ties are re-
quisite, and the life of tie is seven years,
and to replace these ties 16O,000, 600 new |
ones are requisite. The demand for ties |
strikes at the very source of the supply |
General Brisbin estimates the value OF
wooden fences IN the United States at a
timber cost of $1,000, coo 600, and that it |
takes half as much money every year to |
keep them in repair. A train of cars 1000 |
miles long supplies Chicago with lumber
for year. Last year 800 square miles of
timber were cut fO meat the de-