The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-03
The S0rTH.

Gov. BROWN, of Kentucky, signed the
separate coach" bill. The law pro-
vides that every passenger railway train
shall be provided with a separate coach
for negroes. 1t goes into effect ninety
days after the adjournment of the legis-
lature- The negroes of the state have
been strongly opposed to the law, but
its effect will probably be to give them
plenty of room in travel at times when
the whites are crowded
SEVENTY carloads of grain from Ar
gonia, Kan, arrived at New Orleans by
q special train over the Missouri Pacific
and Texas Pacific.
NEAR Cynthiana- KY, recently. Robert
Fowler shot and killed James May.
They were neighbors, both well to do
formers and had quarreled over their
cows and chickens
AT the third party convention held at
Charlotte, y. c., it was resolved to pre-
sent the name of L l.. Polk to the ma
tional convention at Omaha as q presi-
Dental candidate.
HoS. III. E. BERKLE committed suicide
the other day at his home near Bryants-
vile, KY, by cutting his throat with a
razor. Mr.. Berkle was twice member
of the Kentucky legislature, represented
his county il the late constitutional
convention and was member of two
national republican conventions.
A FREAK of nature has come to light
in the county Jail at Fort Worth, Tex.
His name is Jesse Lee, aged Is years.
Turn the boys face so that a strong
light may shine into his eyes and phe-
nomenon is seen Around the pupils of
the eye, in the iris, are the twenty-six
letters of the alphabet, arranged SYM
metrically. There are thirteen letters
In each eye, those up to an" being in
the left eye and the remaining ones in
the right Lee says his father and four
brothers are similarly affected
THE mob which stormed the county
| Jail at Dallas, Tex, in order to lynch
Henry Miller, the negro who shot and
killed Policeman Brewer, was finally
dispersed. For a time It looked as
though the crowd would accomplish its
intentions. Sheriff Lewis told the mob
that he would defend the prisoner with
his life
IT has been decided by the Fort Worth
& Trinity Valley road, of Texas, to sur
vey the route at once. Work will lie be-
gun then and the road pushed to COM
| pletion from Fort Worth to a point on
Red river, in Clay county, to which point
the Chicago & Rock Island is now build
| ing. The direction is thus generally
northwesterly.
Ten thousand residents of Arkansas
have been rendered homeless by the
floods
Two of the express robbers who held
up the train at Munroe Junction. Fla.
and killed Messenger Saunders have
paid the penalty for their crime. They
were killed at Buffalo Bluff bridge. on
the St John river, five miles south of
| Palatka
TIE Methodist Episcopal conference
at Westminster, Nd, seated the women
delegates from West Virginia, Indiana,
| Iowa and Kansas
JAMES FISHER, the murderer of Austin
Hardy, was hanged at Cooper, Delta
county, Tex, the other day. The exc
cution was public and took placl in the
court house yard Fisher shot and
killed Hardy in July, 1891, without
provocation.
The New Orleans street car strike has
been settled The terms of settlement
are that matters be restored TO the con-
dition in which they were May is be-
fore the strike.
SIX men are in jail st Cullerton. Ala
charged with participating in a lynch
| ing. This is the first time in the recent
history of Alabama that any member of
a mob has been interfered with By legal
process The victims were two white
| men, Monroe Ivens and his SOP John,
! several months 3go