The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-31

THE excursion steamer City of Ports
mouth went ashore recently on tn,
Little Aquavite in Salem, Mass, har
Dor. The steamer caught fire the mex
morning and was burned to the water
edge. All on board got off safely.
THE dam at the head of Gohna lake
Simla, India, which had threatened tt
break it's bounds on account of the
heavy rains, gave way and the water
swept everything before it. The gov
ernment had taken steps to prevent
loss of life by removing everybody out
of danger. To this foresight was due
the fact that great loss of life was
averted.
HEAVY forest fires were reported
raging throughout Altoona county
Mich, on the 26th, doing great damage
to lumber mills and standing pine. de-
stroying crops and burning the homes
of settlers. Everything was dry for
want of rain.
GENERAL MANAGER ST. JOHN, of the
Rock Island railroad, appeared before
the strike investigating commission on
the 23d. He admitted that when an
employe was discharged from one di.
vision a statement was sent to the
other divisions not to employ him.
When asked about his contract with
the Pullman Co. in regard to their cars.
he said the road could haul them on
any train or not haul them. Just as
they pleased. He said of 522 strikers
only seventy-four were taken back.
Ia . h. 90, I, l.. = 4
nearly 81 ZOO, 900. He believed system
of government license applied to rail-
road employees would be a good thing.
RECORDS of all members of congress
who will run for reelection this fall
are being compiled by the Knights of
Labor executive committee and their
votes on the questions pertaining to the
interests of the laboring classes looked
into. 1t was said that these records
would be used in the various cam
paigns for or against the members.
THE 100 school teachers of Perry,
Ok, and county have been holding a
teachers institute and gave an enter
tainment. There were six colOred
teachers among the number and they
demanded to be on the programme,
which caused terrible row. Some of
the teachers sided with the negroes,
while others said the negroes should
not take part. Prof. r. r. Tally, su-
perintendent of public instruction, de-
clared the colored teachers should not
speak their pieces. The city was much
excited over the matter.
In Paris at the Velodrome Buffalo,
the quarter-mile bicycle race for pro-
fessional riders was won by the Ameri-
can, Banker. Wheeler. also an Ameri-
can, finished second. There were fif-
teen competitors.
NATIONAL officers were elected at the
Sons of Veterans encampment on the
23d as follows: Commander-in-chie
William E. Bundy, Cincinnati; senior
vice commander-in-chie 7. A. Barton,
Providence, r. L.; junior vice COM
mander-in-chief, Louis Lilly, Daven-
port. Edward III. Milham, of Mime
apolis, and George Hurlburt, of Belvi-
dere, ILL.,, were the other candidates
for commander-in-chief. Knoxville,
Tenn, was selected as the next place
of meeting.
News has been received from Lake
View, Ore, that a mob of masked men
surrounded the county Jail and forced
the jailer to surrender a prisoner
named W. s. Thompson. The mob
then hanged Thompson on the court
house steps.
j. p. BLISS made new worlds bicy-
Gle record-half mile flying start-54I
seconds, also worlds standing start of
So 1-5 seconds at Hampden park, Spring
field, Mass. on the 22d.
The convention of international col
ored Knights of Pythias at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, adopted a unification resolu-
ton, which action will bring 1000
knights into one body.
THE Japanese minister to Corea has
been killed by his own countrymen.
THE yacht Saxon has arrived at
Peterhead, returning from scientific
expedition to the Arctic regions. She
reported that she landed Prof. Aubrey
Battye, the ornithologist. and one COM
panion on Kolguev island. 100 miles
from the Russian coast, on June .. The
Saxon, however, was obliged to aban-
don Battye and his companion on ac-
count of the heavy seas and the ice,
which threatened the destruction of
the yacht. 1t was hoped that the ex-
plorers would be rescued by the next
Russian gunboat which visited the
island.