The Iola register., 1891-10-09
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings of a Week
DOMESTIC.

general Strlke on Kansas Slty s1rSot
car lines.
Several schemes to limit the owner
ship OF land are being adopted among
the Cherokees.
Rev. Frank Talmage lectured at the
Ottumwa coal palace on'The best place
to live in"
Henrietta Miller, colored, was hanged
at Smithville, Va. for the murder OF
her child.
Two women were killed and third
fatally injured in runaway accident at
Marietta, Ga
A verdict of not guilty was rendered
in the Buck Donaldson murder case at
Denton, Tex.
A former Siberian exile is to bear dis
patches from Boston to Nihilist head
quarters in Russia
Prisoners in the Gadsden ALA. jail
almost succeeded in hanging deputy
| sheriff inside the prison.
A dime museum freak, known as'the
living man with the broken neck" at
tempted suicide in Milwaukee.
A small subteranean lake near Wa
verify, H., disappeared Immediately af-
ter the recent earthquake.
John w. Mackay rode from San
Francisco to New York in 4 days, L
hours and e minutes, the fastest on
record.
There was another sensation in the
| famous Juyenal case when that lndlvld-
ual appeared in court with his divorced
wife.
Mrs. Catharine Heath burned herself
to death in Salem, Mass, because some
one dilled her pug dog and sent its col
lar to her.
Kalph Ray. who murdered his mother
in Durango, Colo, has confessed, CIV
ing details with no show of remorse.
New York detectives have succeeded
In locating the underground tome OF
gang OF thieves. 1t was located in the
rear OF a West Thirty-ninth street
house.
Objection is raised to the statue OF
Jefferson Davis designed to be placed IN
the confederate monument at jackson,
Miss, that it is not a good likeness.
Marion Gadd committed suicide at
Cotner university, Neb., because he did
not win first prize in an oratorjcal con-
test and thereby lost the hand OF the
girl he loved.
| A West Virginia baby month old
weighs only two and quarter pounds
and goes into quart cup.
President Fitzgerald and Secretary
Sutton will sever their official connect
ion with the Irish land league.
All efforts to extinguish the fire in
the Delaware and Hudson colliery at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has proved fruitless.
The decision of his bondsmen to give
up ex-Dashier Ritter, the Evansville
tInd. defaulter caused him to become
very i'll.
A party of Burlington and Missouri
surveyors are supposed TO have perlshed
in the mountains in the Sinking Water
country.
Special dispatches show that the re-
cent earthquake was felt in the states
Missouri. Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa.
At Henderson, KY, Mrs. Emma Her.
kins was shot dead by Charles johnson,
a former boaIder. who had been sent
away for Objectionable conduct.
| Henry Walters of East Orange, n.
J., a married man, wanted to elope with
Gertrude Beck of Newark, but she
found his wife and hrd him arrested.
The steamer Circassian, outward
bound from New York, collided with a
schooner and was so badly damaged
that she was compelled to return to
port.
| A California ranchman named Will
son, who found himself surrounded by
flames was saved by the pluck OF mus
tang pony. which carried him through
the flames to safety.
James r. Cunningham was shot dead
in the streets of Montgomery, Ala, by
| Colonel Bradfore Dunham, superintend-
ent of the Midland railroad, for having
insulted Mrs. Dunham and boasted of
| it.
Miss Cora Calm, daughter OF a New
York Hebrew millionaire, having de-
nounced Judaism, will marry Herr Os-
car Won Calm, aide-de-camp to the he
reditary successor of Emperor Francis
Joseph.
The product of the coal mines N the
census year amounted, in ealue, to $780,
327. 323.
William Dyne goes to the Indiana
penitentiary for five years for attempted
train wrecking.
| Granville G. Thompson was found
dead on his poarch at Macon, Mo-, with
bullet hole in his head.
David Roe was stabbed and probably
fatally wounded in sturges county, Miss
ouri. by S. p. Hopper.
Chris Buckley, who for twelve years
has been the democratic boss OF Cali
fornia, is fugitive from justice.
The trial OF James Brennan for the
murder of Sam Wood will take place at
| Hugoton. Kas., November 1.
a committee of the national civil
service reform league will criticise the
taking of the census in New York.
Twenty-one deaths from malignant
typhoid fever occurred in the neigh
borhood of Columbus, Ind, in eighteen
days.
A mob of fifty white caps beat a wo-
man nearly to death in Dubois county,
Ind. Her morals were offensive to
them.
The Thornton 'icastaways" are back
at Brooklyn and their tale OF woe is be-
lieved by the family, who welcomed
them with effusion.
James Gray, the convict serving a
| life sentence in the Chester penitenti-
ary for a murder committed by Jacob
| Brown, refuses to reveal his identity.
According to the Chicago News there
| is practically no corn of the old crop TO
be bought by legitimate dealers in this
| country on account Of the manipula-
tions Of professional gamblers.
At the cabinet meeting Monday Pres
| ident Harrison and his advisers are be-
| lievsd to have considered the state
ments of Minister Egan and Captain
| Schley relative to recent occurrences in
| Chilli. They also discussed the riots
against foreigners in China.
| Argument is in progress in the supe-
rior court in Indianapolis, Ind. in the
case OF Philip c. Decker. president OF
the German bank of Evansville, charged