The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-21
GENERAL NEWS.

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GENERAL NEWS.
A RECENT London dispatch said that
a feet of twenty-one japanese trans
ports, conveying 10000 troops, sailed
few DAYS ago from Japanese port. 1t
is supposed it is the intention of the
Japanese commander to land his forces
at some point on the Chinese coast.
The Chinese fleet under the command
of Adm. Ting had sailed south for the
purpose of intercepting The japanese.
Ten thousand people from all parts
of the state attended the Somerville,
n. J., fair on the 14th-the majority
drawn to see and hear Senator David
B. Hill. He made a bitter attack on
the income tax features of the Wilson
tariff bill.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended September IA showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of rs;
in New York the increase was 90; out
side New York the increase was 15.1.
THERE were 223 failures reported by
Bradstreet throughout the United
States for the week ended September
IA. against 800 year ago.
BRADsTREET's review of trade for the
week ended September IA said that
business was improving and the out
look was exceptionally bright. Colder
weather stimulated the sales in dry
goods. clothing and shoes. Live stock
at Kansas City and Omaha had weak
ened on account of heavy receipts of
common grades. Wheat, corn, oats,
pork and lard had advanced.
A SENSATION was created in the order
of the Ladies of the G. A. r. on the
14th at Pittsburgh, Pa, by the an
nouncement that Past National Treas
urer Mrs Grubb, of Camden, n. j., was
short in her accounts.
ROBERT J. again lowered the world s
pacing record on the 14th. He went a
mile at Terre Haute, Ind, in 2:O11I.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BUTLER has filed
in the district court at New Orleans a
suit for the impeachment of Mayor
Fitzpatrick of that city.
A DISPATCH of the 18th said that
drought had brought an epidemic of
typhoid fever through all the upper
Miami valley. At Piqua, o., eleven
corpses were awaiting burial, most of
them from the prevalent fever. Deaths
were reported from all over Miami
county. Mrs. Emma Morgan died in
Troy, leaving the two oldest of her
eight children i'll with the fever.
THE fourth annual convention of the
called to order in Denver, Col, on the
18th by President John w. Barry, OF
Fairbury, Neb., with delegates from
fifteen states present.
News received from st. Petersburg
Indicates that the cars illness is cere
bral. complicated with an ailment OF
the kidneys. Prayers for his recovery
have been ordered twice at court.
ALIX trotted a mile at Terre Haute
Ind, on the 18th in 2:O4, tying Nancy
Hanks.
THE eighth annual convention OF
the superintendents of American GENE
teries began in Philadelphia on the
1Ith.
a REPORT came from Perry, Ok, thai
gentleman of good reputation had ar
interview with Bill Doolan, who has
been the leader of the Dalton gang fol-
years. near Ingalls, recently. Doolar
gave the man to understand that Bill
Dalton, whose death was heralded over
the country some months ago, was moi
dead, but. had left Oklahoma and the
Indian territory for a more congenial
cline. Doolan said Bill Dalton haC
gone away and was now living quie
and peaceable life, and that his reputeC
death was all a ruse to put the officer:
off their guard till he could get away
and keep from being hunted.
Rev. CHARLES CLANCEY, of Frontier
Mich, was tarred and feathered on the
steep hill by fourteen masked men
some of them husbands, who did not
like the minister's style. All the time
he shouted. Praise the Lordr' anG
GLORY to God!' and it was said his
cries were heard mile distant.
GOETHE lodge. of Youngstown. O.,
one of the oldest German lodges of the
Knights of Pythias in the United
States. has decided, with but four dis
senting votes, to withdraw from the
order and organize the Goethe Relie1
society. using funds now in their pos
session for the new organization.
FURTHER particulars have been re
ceived concerning the slaughter o.
sheep on the aesa near Parachute
Col, by cattlcmen. There were about
twenty-five cattlemen, all wearing
masks They drove 1900 sheep be
longing to c. Il. Brown into a corral
and killed them with guns, knives an6
clubs. j. L. Miller's herd. mum berina
aboIt 1000, were driven over the cliffs
and all killed.
A. Official dispatch from Pretoria
tae capital of the Transvaal republic
South Africa. said that the chief lead
ers of the inSurgent Kaffirs, after con
tinued fighting, had surrendered to tho
Beer commanders.