The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-30


week ended November % showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of IS;
the increase in New York was 81; out
side New York the increase was LOG.
Mrs. GALoBIE, of Sacred Heart, near
Guthrie, Ok, placed her 14-months-old
baby on blanket near where she was
washing. She heard a scream and was
Mortified to find the child in the mouth
of a hog. The mother after long
chase rescued the child, bat il died
soon after from the injuries received.
AT the district court at Pamela, /. T.,
on the Esd Houston Franklin, full
blood, was convicted of horse stealing
and given 100 lashes on the bare back.
The penalty for a second offense is
death by hanging.
THE Indian department has issued
orders to the Cheyennes and Arapa-
hoes that they must go upon their sew
eral allotments and reside on them
hereafter. This will be very distaste-
full to the Indians, and will likely have
an effect of retarding the sale and al
lotment of lands in other reservations.
Posi- office inspectors were reported
as working on wholesale frauds being
perpetrated on members of the Knights
of Pythias all over the country by men
who profess to be members of the Or
der and who possess all the signs and
grips. The plan was to present bogus
orders for sick benefits from lodges in
cities far distant from those where the
game is worked.
IN Pawnee county's ok district
court the votes of the Pawnee Indians
have been contested on the ground
that they were not legal because an
1 interpreter was allowed to stamp their
ballots instead of the election inspect
or, as provided by law in cases where
voters could not read and also that In
dams are not citizens of the United
States and have no right to vote.
DISPATCHES have been received stat
ing that the japanese have captured
! Port Arthur after eighteen hours fight
ing.
CHIEF HAZEN, of the treasury secret
service, has discovered a most danger
Gus counterfeit SEQ United States note
with the Morris" head and small seal
check letter ID"
MERIDEN and Newton. Miss. were
visited by destructive storm on the
23d.
A NUMBER of useless military reser-
vations have been turned over by the
war department to the interior depart
ment to be opened for settlement.
There are four on Puget sound; Fort
Sully, in South Dakota; Fort Bowie,
Arizona: Fort Mckinney, Wyoming;
Fort Sidney, Nebraska, and Fort Sup
ply, Oklahoma, the latter containing
40. 800 acres.
Market club of Boston, the leading re-
publican organization of Massachu-
sets, was held on the odd, Thomas b.
Reed being the principal speaker.
ROBERT ALLEN. agent of the Chippe-
wa Indians at White Earth, Mimi, re-
ports those Indians, when free from
whisky, as peaceful, but they are OPP
posed to work and refuse to do it, and,
aside from living in houses and wear
ing clothes, he cannot see wherein the
fullbloods are improving, all the rose
ate and sentimental reports to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
THE inquest over the body of Cor
nelius Riordan, the prize fighter, who
became unconscious while sparring
with Bob Fitzsimmons and died a few
hours later, was held at Syracuse, n.
Y, on the 22d. The jury, which was
composed of some of the representa-
tive business men of the town. brought
in a verdict generating Fitzsimmons.
District Attorney Shove says that de-
spite the verdict he will present the
case to the grand jury of Onondaga
county.
GEN. BOOTH. of the Salvation army,
arrived in Chicago on the 22d and was
given reception by the Press club.
IT was stated that the Japanese, in
their advance on Port Arthur, have
had to be extremely cautious. as the
ground for 40 miles around the fortress
was alive with powder mines connected
with electric wires at Port Arthur.
The regular roads could not be used
for artillery and big guns had to be
moved by circuitous routes through
woods and morasses.
A FIRE broke out in the fashionable
Victor fats at Chicago on the after
noon of the Goth, communicated to the
Knox and Dupont fiat buildings and
caused an estimated loss of 500. 900.
Two prisoners at Tahlequah, /. T.,
put in Jail for being drunk, were roast
ed alive through one of them setting
fire to the wooden structure in which
they were confiBed.
The Spanish anarchist. Jose Franch
who threw the dynamite bomb in the
Liceo theater at Barcelona on Novem-
Der Z, 1893, when twenty persons were
killed and fifty others wounded-paid
the penalty of his crime on the 21st
by being garroted. He was defiant to
the last
INDICATIONS show that the German
government is pursuing repressive
policy toward importations from the
United States that in the end may call
for retaliation. A movement was be-
ing set on foot by the imperial gov
eminent looking to the complete ex-
clusion of dried and evaporated apples
from the United States which are found
to contain more than the specified
amount of zinc, supposed to have been
taken up from the zinc frames on which
the fruit was dried. Attacks made in
the German papers on American prod
ucts have extended to American seeds,
clover, timothy. etc, which were sup
posed to have been adulterated and
worthless.
DISPATCHES from the earthquake
shaken province of Reggie di Calabria
in Italy of the 10Th state that more
slight shocks have been felt in that
district. Although no further damage