The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24

held August @. Oates received 100, 160
and Kolb s3,S94. Oates majority, 25,-
7O6.
Gov. ALTeELD has received letter
from committee of Pullman citizens
asking assistance in feeding 1,6O0 fami-
lies unable to get work. The Pullman
company was said to be importing men
from all over the country and turning
many old hands out on the street.
The governor left for Chicago and will
personally investigate the situation at
Pullman.
THE Russian steamer Uspiekh foun-
100 passengers on board and they were
blown into the water by the force of
the wind and the captain and five other
persons were lost. Vessels near by
saved the others.
A wHALEBoAT belonging to the
United States steamer Macarthur cap
sized at Jo creek, Is miles north OF
Gray's harbor, Wash, and five men
were missed.
THE other night the passenger train
on the Hidalgo railroad collided with
pulque train coming into the City of
Mexico. Several persons were killed
and number badly hurt. The watch
man failed to signal.
A LONG distance contest between j.
Fisher, on a bicycle, and Cody, an
American cowboy, on horseback, at
Munich, ended in victory for the
bicyclist. The conditions provided that
the contestants should ride seven hours
day for three days. Fisher covered
l6O miles and Cody 100 miles.
THOMAS HEWITT, an iron molder of
Kearney, n. j.. made an attempt to
kill his wife and four children. He
wounded them all, but not fatally, and
then sprang from a window and ended
his life. He had been suffering for
some time past from typhoid malaria.
JOHN ARKINs, since 1880 one of the
owners and editors of the Rocky
Mountain News at Denver, Col, died
recently, aged SO years.
A. A. ZIMMERMAN, the American
wheelman. won the international s.
mile scratch race at Gosforth. England,
or the 18th.
JUDGE ALDRICH, of Columbia, S. c.,
has decided that the dispensary act in
its main features is unconstitutional.
AS a result of their connection with
the recent great strike large number
of railroad men in st. Paul, Mimi, are
making arrangements to leave the
country, claiming they had been placed
on the blacklist of all the railroads and
can secure no places. Some of them
have made preliminary arrangements
to go to the Cape of Good Hope and
johannesburg. South Africa, and
others are talking of going to Brazil.
THE Sioux City Athletic club re-
ceived telegram from Brady, Cor
belts manager, saying Corbett accepts
the offer of the club of a purse of $685.
600 to fight Peter Jackson at that city.
The offer was at once telegraphed
jackson in New York guaranteeing
training expenses and all he asks.
FoUR inmates of the Keollul1, Ia,
Jail overpowered the jailer on the even
ing of the 18th and made their escape.
RECENT dispatches announced the
death of the king of Siam. The British
war ship Rather has been dispatched
to Siamese waters to anticipate possi-
BILE trouble over the succession.
The Missouri republican state con-
vention a. Excelsior Springs nominated
Judge William Robinson, of the
Twenty-eighth judicial district, for the
supreme court; John r. Kirk, of Jack
son county, for superintendent of
schools. and Joseph Flory, of st. Louis,
for railroad commissioner. The plat
form declares for system of protec-
tive duties and the enactment of laws
to prohibit the immigration of anarch-
lists; favors free and impartial ballot;
extends sympathy to Hawaii in at
tempting to establish republic; favors
the largest possible coinage of silver
and against monometallism, either of
gold or silver, and condemns the pen
sion policy of the present national ad-
ministration.
AT the Texas democratic state con-
vention held in Dallas on the 10th the
Cleveland men won over the silverites
by a vote of 451 to AS. Congressman
Culberson was nominated for governor.
C.EsARo SANTo, the assassin of Presi-
dent Carnot of France, was guillotined
at Lyons on the 18th. There was no
unusual demonstration.
THE wooden manufacturers of Brad
ford, Leeds and Halifax. where stocks
are abnormally low and where busi-
ness has been stagnant for years, ex-
pect great revival of business as a re-
suit of the tariff settlement in the
| United States.
FIRE in the Busch & Epps Mailing
Co. plant on the Bloomingdale road,
near Chicago. destroyed the company's
malt house and &C, 900 bushels of malt.
The loss was 100000: insured.
IN Yokohama news has been received
of battle which took place on the
| 11th inst. between Japanese and Chi
nese fleets. The Chinese were driven off.
w. L. STIMALL and Fred C. Thurman,
of the Rambler Bicycle club. of Buffa-
10, n Y, have broken the 200 mile road
record. Their time over the course be-
tween Buffalo and Erie and return is
| Is hours. 80 minutes and 80 seconds.
| The best time previously made over the
same course was - hours and minutes.
and the record over the Springfield
| Boston course was Il hours and % min
utes.
LIGHTNING struck large barn on
| Lister Weatherspoon's stock farm near
! Versailles. KY. the other morning, in
stantly killing his valuable trotting
stallion. Earl Belmont. Mr.. Weather
spoon refused 5000 for his stallion on
three different occasions.
JACK PRoTEoUs. of Portage township.
Kalamazoo county. Mich. shot and in
stantly killed his wife the other morn
/ ing. She had arisen to close window.