The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-07


removal of uncertainty about the tar
iff continued. Wheat was moving
largely and the price had risen shade
during the past week. Corn had ad
vanced 80 cents, while pork had risen
25 cents barrel and lard So cents pei
100 pounds. Cotton had declined Il
cent. The demand for products of iror
and steel had increased, but prices
tended downward.
The Leona river, swollen to a raging
torrent by the recent heavy rains
rushed without moments warning or
the town of Uvalde, Tex, wrecking
many houses and drowning many peo
pie. Forty miles of the Southern Pa.
ciic railway track were reported
washed away and fears were enter
tanned that 100 families living on a
ditch south of town had been lost
The loss of property was said to be IN
the neighborhood of 81, 100000.
A RECENT order of the Belgium gov
ernment subjects all American cattle
to forty-five days quarantine.
On the Canton river, near Hong
Kong, a flower boat caught fire and
the flames spread until hundreds of
those crafts were destroyed and at
least 1.000 Chinese perished.
The London Times published col.
umn letter, signed by Thomas G. Shear
man, of New York, dealing with the
fight for the new tariff law in the
United States. Mr.. Shearman predicts
that the cause of free trade will gain a
signal victory in 1886, and that in 1900
the only question will be whether any
tariff at all shall be allowed to remain.
THE body of the late Congressman
Shaw lay in state at the family man
sion at Eau Claire, Wis, on the 30th,
attended by guard of honor of twelve
Knights of Pythias in full uniform, and
many citizens paid their last respects.
The funeral services at the house be-
gan at o'clock, Rev. DIR. Dudley, OF
the First Congregational church, Off
ciating. There were over 1.500 Knights
of Pythias in the procession.
PIETRo ToNNINo. president of the re-
public of San Marino, is dead. The re-
public is the smallest in the world, be-
| ing only 30 square miles in extent and
having but 5000 population. 1t is in
northeast Italy and has been indie
pendent since the fourth century,
when it was founded by Marinus, a
! hermit.
CONGRESSMAN J. o. ABBOTT was unan-
imously renominated by the Sixth dis
trict democratic convention at Hills
| boro. Tex, on the 3, ,39Sth ballot.
Tai c
learned on high authority that notable
personages were likely to be implicated
in the scandal growing out of the
traffic in slave girls.
ADvICEs from Juneau. Alaska, give
details of a fierce battle among the
Chilcat Indians. A few days previous
to the fight two Canadian sloops ar
rived at Chilcat ladened with liquor.
Large quantities were soon disposed of
in exchange for furs, etc. Then began
a scene of fierce orgy. Immense fires
were started and several hundred In
dams assembled to drink liquor and
dance. Settlers living few miles dis
tant heard yelling and surmising the
origin of the trouble dared not venture
to the neighborhood until late in the
afternoon of the next day. They be-
held sickening sight. Dead and
wounded Indians were lying all around
the village.
FRANK NELSON, of Trout Creek, Mich.
threw dishes at his wife and children
and ended by trying to empty a shot
gun at them. He was arrested, but a
gang of about twenty whitecaps took
him from jail and gave him 100 lashes
on the bare back and tied him to a tree.
He was rescued by sheriff posse and
may not recover.
SALVADOR FRANCH, the condemed an
archist who threw the bomb in the
Lyceo theater at Barcelona, Spain, on
November last, thereby killing or
wounding nearly 100 persons. has be-
come very penitent during his confine-
ment and is anxious to obtain the for
giveness of the people of Barcelona.
His special wish is that the Franciscan
monks allow him to become tertiary
or member of the third degree of their
order.
IN response to a call representatives
of churches of all denominations, tenn
perance and other societies in Indiana
met at Indianapolis to take action TO
inaugurate a movement Independent
of the old political parties to work
against saloons and against all candi-
dates in sympathy with the saloon ele-
ment. The organization is to be car
ried into every county of the state.
ORDERS have been received for the
evacuation of the island of Cyprus and
the British garrison is preparing to
leave. The news has caused a panic
among the Christian population. who
believe that island is about to be re-
stored to the possession of Turkey.
THE losses of cranberry growers in
the vicinity of Mather, Wis, have been
enormous from recent fires.
RETURNS from all over the state of
South Carolina indicate that only about
a two-thirds vote was polled in the
primary election. The anti-Tillman-
ties generally refrained from voting.
Tillman carries every county with the
exception of Charleston. Richland and
Sumter and probably one other. The
legislature will be overwhelmingly for
Tillman for United States senator.
A DISASTROUS fire swept through Fall
mouth forest, in Massachusetts,, and
burned over 1000 acres of oak wood
land in Sandwich forest. Property
owners in the track of the flames
plowed their yards and drenched their
buildings with water. 1t was thought
the fire was started by some boys.
News came from Juneau, Alaska,
that fierce battle occurred at Chilcat
between Indians. who had become
drunk on whisky furnished by snug
glers. and that six were killed.