The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-26
GENERAL NEWS,

THE Kansas City and Memphis ex-
press was robbed on the night of the
Goth at Correta, near Wagner, |. T.. by
the Cook gang. One of the robbers
threw switch and ran the train into
a string of cars. They robbed the eX-
press car and got about $500. They
then held up the passengers. A fusilade
was opened on the train and every
window was broken. One passenger
was fatally hurt.
DISASTROUS floods are reported in
northeastern China. A rich agricul-
tural district, $50 miles long and 10 to
80 miles wide. was submerged. Many
women and children were drowned and
an enormous property loss suffered.
The house of Silas Jones, miles
from Knoxville, Ia, burned recently
and both he and his wife were burned
to cinders. The belief was current
that Mrs. Jones, in fit of insanity.
murdered her husband and then burned
the house.
In the chancery court at Chattanoo-
ga. Tenn, 7. T. Wilson a creditor. and
+. +. Jones. stockholder of the Look
out Mountain Consolidated Co.. filed n
bill alleging the insolvency of that cor
poration and seeking to wind it up.
The property involved is Lookout Inn,
with all furniture and furnishings of
the Lookout Mountain house and $780,
300 of the stock of the Lookout Noun
tain Land Co.
A TELEGRAM from London on the 18th
said that the car of Russia was in
such a critical condition that his ply
sicians had given up the idea of having
him moved from the Crimea, where he
now is, to Corfu. and that his death
was only a question of few days. His
immediate relatives had been tele-
Eraphed for. The news had created
great CONSERVATION at st. Petersburg.
THE Fifteenth regiment infantry. Z,
S. A, was presented stand of colors
at Fort Sheridan. Ill. on the 10Th by
Chicago citizens in recognition of serv-
ices during the great strike. This was
the first presentation of the kind that
has ever occurred. and special permis.
sion was obtained from the war de-
partment at Washington. The pre-
sentation was made in the presence of
the entire regiment.
MADDENED by the baseness of a crime
committed by negro the citizens o.
Washington Courthouse, o., on the 17tt
sought TO lynch the wretch, but the
militia was called on for assistance by
the sheriff and they fired on the moi
with deadly effect. Two persons were
instantly killed and several more ia
tally injured. Fears We're entertained
that the mob, who were exasperatet
against the militia. would blow up the
courthouse with dynamite. The sheriff
was waiting for more troops to get tht
culprit away from the town.
DURING the progress of fire in th.
yards of the Thayer Lumber Co. a
Muskegol., Mich, John Ellis. assistan
chief of the fire department. was buried
under a pile of burning lumber anC
died shortly after being rescued.
DURING the reception by the Irisl
National Federation to Edward Blake
NJ. p, at the Lenox lyceum, New
York, a cry of fire was heard from
some women in box. A policeman
rushed into the box and picked up tn,
burning frame of an umbrella and saw
lying among the fragments a bomb
The fuse had half burned away Tht
bomb was one of the typical nitro
glycerine variety.
An International Anti-Gambling as
sociation has been incorporated at Chi
cago. The organization is the ou.
growth of the anti-gamblin crusad'
in that city and the purpose is to enlis
lecturers and otherwise excite ant
crystalline public sentiment through
out the country against gambling.
HIGHWAY robbery is becoming s.
common between Tahlequah, /. T., an,
Fort Gibson that the average drumme
who makes that point has come to con
slider the holdup a part of the pro
gramme attending a trip over the road
three knights of the grip having hat
the honor of meeting the notorion
Cook gang in three days.