The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-14


Pa, on the sth. Two men were killed
and eight more or less injured.
THE deputy sheriffs on duty at Chi
cago during the late railroad strike
have presented to the county board a
claim for Sc day. They claim the law
says their pay shall be 81 per day of
eight hours, and as they were constant
ly under the orders of the sheriff they
practically worked twenty-four hours
a day.
MORA. Mimi, was reported destroyed
by forest fires.
A COLLISION occurred late on the night
of the sth between two freight trains
in the Hoosac tunnel, near North
Adams, Mass. Both trains were badly
wrecked. Two men were killed out
right and three seriously injured.
THE whole plot of the lynching of
the six alleged negro incendiaries near
Millington, Tenn, on the night of
August 81 has been laid bare and every
man implicated, it was reported, would
soon be in Jail. Robert McGarver, son
of the sheriff of Shelby county, told
the whole story to the grand jury.
Ten persons were killed and twenty
injured in wreck on the Paris & CO.
logne railway near Brussels on the
9th. The list does not include any
Americans.
SEVERAL of the prominent citizens of
Portland. Ore. have formed a corpora
ton, with a capital stock of $1,000 900
for the purpose of building one or
more beet sugar factories in Oregon.
IT is reported that Judge Depew, of
the Newark, n. j.. circuit court will
charge the grand jury to thoroughly
investigate the circumstances of the
six-round bout between Corbett and
Courtney in Edison's laboratory at
Orange recently. and that he will in
struct the finding of an Indictment
against principals and spectators if
published reports of the fight be true.
THE great camp of the Knights of
meeting at Lansing, Mich, commenc-
ing the 10th. The delegates to the
great camp number 900. Action will
probably be taken to reduce this body
in the future by organizing forty dis
tricts, from which delegates to the
great camp will be elected.
DIRECTUM, the great race stallion,
owned by Orrin A. Hickol, has arrived
at Charter Oak park. Hartford, Conn.
The horse will be prepared there for
the greatest race of his life on Septem-
ber "a at Mystic park, Boston, with
Arion, Kremlin, Nelson and Marquette.
PROF. HERMAN HELMHoLTZ, one of
the most eminent scientists of the
world. died at Berlin aged 73.
A CALL was issued on the 9th by the
pastors of all the colored churches in
Memphis, Tenn, for a meeting of ne
groes the following night for the pur-
pose of publicly thanking Gov. Turney,
Judge Cooper and the white citizens of
Memphis for the determination they had
shown to bring the Millington lynch
ers to Justice. Funds will also be
raised for the widows and orphans of
the six negroes who were murdered by
the mob.
\ FISHING feet near Finland was at
sea when a terrible gale sprang up.
Some of them reached harbors of
safety; others lost their bearings and
ran to some rocky islands where the
waves soon pounded the boats to pieces.
Some of the fishermen got on the
islands and were exposed to the gale
for three days without food before be-
ing taken off. Fifteen were drowned.
Col. c. W. TALADEE, an inventor of
national reputation, died at Freeport,
H.. from the effect of an overdose of
morphine. lie was Ga years old. Dur
ing his life he was granted over 200
patents, many of them very valuable.
among them the eclipse spring, used
extensively on buggies.
IN the United States district court at
indianapolis, Ind, on the eth, Judge
Baker found Hiram Alger, president of
the A. X. L. at Ashley, Ind. where
Wabash trains were stopped, guilty of
contempt of court in violating the re-
straining order of the court during the
railroad strike, but suspended sentence.
GEORGE EDWARDS, notorious whisky
peddler, was shot and killed at McAles-
ter. |. T., on the 9th.
DAN WIGGINs, a notorious wife
beater, was dragged from his home at
Waldo, Fla, by masked men, carried
into the woods and lashe1 to tree.
Several women of the neighborhood
who sympathized with Mrs. Virgins
were present and as soon as Virgins
had been tied they began to whip him.
He was then united and left to make
his way home. 1t was thought that he
would die.
IN Hayti recently seven men were
summarily shot in connection with the
abortive conspiracy to murder Mrs.
Gauthier, Hippolyte's favorite daugh-
ter. This has caused intense political
excitement.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended September showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of s.4;
in New York the decrease was 90;
outside New York the increase was
EOS.
FAILURES for the week ended Sep
tembcr (Dun's report were 215 in the
United States, against 323 last year; in
Canada A., against 25 last year.
AT Utica, \. V, the weavers in the
Globe wooden mills struck against re-
duction of wages. The mills employ
about 200 operatives.
REPRESENTATIVES, of many political
bodies met in New York and passed
resolution pledging themselves to op-
pose Tammany for the interest of good
municipal government
JOHN c. BELL, of Montrose. Col, re-
nominated for congress by populists of
the Second district, has been also NOM
mated by acclamation by the demo-
cratic convention.
RI-NoRs have reached Alden of a re-