The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-05

ploy star yi1g pen.
| down threw l.50J men out OF work "A total OF
! 3 OOO COO employees reported idle in ll9 large
cities
LYNCHINGS.
Mar William Frazier at Hiteman. Ia,
foI numbering his wife, her sister and mutilat-
| ing MS by.
outrpge and murder of Mary and Ruby Ray. ct
july sI-Negro, who assaulted and murdered
Carr Eliiott's syear-old daughter In Lafayette
| county, fla.
JOY 23-Lee Walker, negro. assaulted one
white and four colorad girls, at Memphis, Tenn.
| Jpiy 30-Nil Thompson aid Tom Prestsn'
negroes, tortured To- death at CASTOR, j. c,
| charged wiGh crime and assault
Aug. Henry REYNOLDS negro, murdered
/ white man named Marsh, assaulting his vile
and mutila;ing their two children, near Mont
Aug. 10-Dan Lewis. Jim Taylor and Jack
| Chalmers, negroes, charged with assault Oh
| Mrs Warren at Hoboken, Ga. last spring,
lynched near Way Cross, Ca. Trouble at Coal
| Creek resulted in murder Of a soldier Dy min,
ers, and in turn Dick Drummond was lynched
| by soldiers
Aug. l9-Charles Tart. a federal prisoner for
wounding Capt c. C. Peete, near Fort Smith,
Aug. 2s-Leonard Taylor, negro at New
| castle. Ky.
Mo
Sep 1s-Asa Youmans an avowed sooner"
| by boomers in Cherokee strip
| Sep 2l-ThoS smith, negro, at Roanoke Va
| Sep 29-Henry Coleman. Jr., negro. who at
| tempted 10 assassinate Capt Thomas Dyles ut
| Midway. hanged at Benton, La.
| Oct lS-Two negroes accused OF killing Con-
stable James Hill, lynched ut Summerville,G Ga.
Oct 2i-Mob lynched two negro thieves near
| Knox Point La.
| Nov. Abe Redmond. notorious IN Charlotte
county, Va.
Nov. s-Bob Kennedy, negro, at Gaf1ney, S.
| C., for attempted assault
! Nov. I'D. L. Nelson negro murderer, rid
| died with bullets at Warner. Ark.
| Nov. 21-Fred Gustaveson taken from JUS
! tees courtroom at OttuInwv, Ia, and lynched
| for assaultlng i-uear-olJ girl
Dec. 2-LUcius HoIL negro suspected OF MUIR
der. at Concord, Ga
! Dec boo Greenwood. in Cross county.
Ark, because mis- family offended wife OF white
Dec. S-Ben Mnter and Bob wilkens &c
groesl az kerlb, Ala for burglary aud riurder.
! Dee. l2-Near Selma, Ala, four negroes for
| attempt 10 break into house OF Mrs. W. u.
Dec. I6-Henry C. Owens (coloredl accused
! OF poisoning stock, tynched near Nebo Ky
! Dec. 25-Sloan Allen Uegro) hanged for muir
der OF Ben Nahors his employer.
| Dec z6-Calvin Thomas tnegro) hanged for
assAulting Mrs. Sellers ut BAN oridge Ga
METEOROLOGY.
/ Mar. 1O-SeveraI villages flooded by breaking
of immense gorge in Susquehanna river, w likes
Mar. 13-1housands OF acres inundated by
the giving WAY OF dams at Howlandsville,
| Plaiuwell and Otsego, Mich.
| Arr. 1i-BuSiresS and unehaf OF reSid
| portion OF Parker, Mo-. destroyed Dy cyclone
| 80. City of Akron, Ia, almost entirely wrecked
! south 10 Westfie,d with much damage. Viii
| lis, Everest and Powhattan, towns Of southern
! Kansas laid in ruins by cyclone.
| Apr. l3-Saline, Mich, entirely wiped out by
| cyclone. -. Hillsboro Ind, almost completely
blown away By tornado.
| Apr. l7-Village OF Gravelton, Ind, COM
| pletely blown away by tornado.
Apr 2l--Cyclone in Virginia did great dam
| age AT Danviile, South Boston, Martinsville,
! Greensboro and other towns
! MAY 3-VillaCe OF Lakeview washed away
! and 3 900 acres inundated by breaking OF west
| bank of LIE vision reservoir near Huntsville. O.;
damage 81 900 900. Damaging tornado in Lex
! ington and Sewbu-y counties, y. G..
+, May I7-aesvy rains caused flood at Erie,
! Pa, doing about sl,O0J.0OO worth OF damage
Losses also from nigh water at Titusville. Oil
City, Beaver Falls, New Castle and other Penn
! sylvania towns
| May 23-Terrifc windstoyn destroyed 81, OOO,-
! 0OJ worth OF property 10 Lima: O., and vicin-
| ity, and did much damage at Flndlay. Fremont
! and other places
May 25-Ia central Missouri, cyclone entirely
! destroyed Ladonia, killing p people and much
property destroyed al Moberly, Sedalia, Brook
\ field and otter places.
June Near Cotton Plant, Ark, cyclone
| spread death and destruction. -. Great damage
! to life and property by cyclone in Huntingdon.
! Falcon. Camden aud Trumble. Tenn. Edo
. RADIO. Ark, destroyed by cyclone.
( age to life and property in Calhoun, Cherokee
Buena Vista, Ida. Sac and PocahonfaS coul-
! ties: loss conservatively placed at ss00,0o0 80
| lives lost in Pomeroy alone
/ July 21-GreaC damage to life and property a:
/ Pueblo, Col, by floods. Heavy fall OF snow in
/ Brewster county, Tex
| Aug. 2S-Cycione swept kerneSvtlle, g.
J 49,. One of the most terrible storms, both in
severity and i'll extent, ever reported ragged
along the whole Atlantic seaboard OF tie United
States. Losses in life, property, crops and YES
/ sells were enormous. ... Light frost in South
! Dakota, northwest Iowa and northern Ne
| braska
/ Sep 4-Intense heat caused 152 prostrations
at far grounds in Chicago; thermometer stood
| at % degrees
Sep I9-Village Of Criglersville, Va, almost
| wiped out by flood in Robinson river.
! Oct 2--One Of most destructive storms in
years in portions of southern states along The
gulf: nearly 90 lives lost
Oct l5-Heavy frost throughout lower MissiS-
| sippi valley with great injury to cotton.
NEUROLOGY.
! Jan. l0-John f. Kenna, United States sena-
/ tor from West Virginia at Washington: aged
/ s.. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, in Washington;
/ aged al
Jan. l7-Rutherford B. Hayes, IL D., nine
] teenth president OF the United States, at Ere
mont O.
! Jan. 23-Assocate Justice Luctus Quintus
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