The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14

| w HlLE waiting AZ the Lyons TIL. Oe-
pot of the Burlington road for a sub
urban train. Miss Ida Shultz was in
stantly killed and her brother suffered
| internal injuries which will probably
result fatally. They got confused at
the depot and in avoiding one train
| stepped before another.
THE farmers of Kingfisher county,
Ok, have organized vigilance society
and were reported on the 9th as on the
trail of band of horse thieves whose
stronghold was in the Gyp hills in the
Cheyenne country. A bloody battle
was looked fer.
In Little Rock. Ark, Jere HARRISON,
ex-congressman from Alabama, has
been found guilty of pension forgery
and his punishment left with the court.
THE second national conference for
good government convened at Mime
apolis. Mimi, on the sth. Addresses
were made on municipal conditions in
western cities.
THE grand jury at ST. Jity, Ia.
have returned ffty-two indictments
against ex-county officials for malfeas-
ance in office.
THE town of Lost Creek. Pa. was in
state of excitement on the 9th by a
rumbling and cracking sound and the
sinking of six houses into the ground.
The surface had been undermined by a
collierv.
A FREIGHT train consisting of twenty
three ears ran into an open switch
miles east of Lebanon, Ind. and was
partially derailed. Three tramps, who
were stealing ride between two box
cars, were instantly killed. Their
identity is not known.
ELEVEN boxes of arms and ammuni-
ton have been received at Thompsons,
Utah, shipped by Gov. West, of Utah.
The settlers were proposing to move
against the Indians in San Juan county
and drive them back over the Colorado
line.
AFTER a months session the annual
meeting of the Cherokee legislature ad.
journed on the Sth and was immediate.
ly called in extra session by Chief Har-
ris, in order that important business
might be completed.
AS Bedford Mitchell, an itinerant
colored preacher, was feeding his horse
near Chandler, Ok. a revolver fell
from his pocket and was discharged,
the bullet passing through his body
and killing him instantly.
CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended December showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of so;
outside New York the increase was
so.
IN n fight between tramps in a box
car on Baltimore K Ohio train two
persons were killed and another fatal
ly wounded. The murders were dis
toria. o.
WHILE excavating at the entrance of
Franklin parll.-in Roxbury. Mass. six
men were probably fatally injured by
the explosion of dynamite. fixed for
blasting rock.
IT was reported that w. F. Brice.
cashier of the City national bank, of
Quanah, Tex. was a defaulter in the
sum of S37. 900 and fugitive.
Il HE DflCh COrlllCe OF Il SlN-SJOrV
building in course of construction at
Dubuque, Ia, fell and Charles Me-
Glade and Fred Loranz, briclllayers,
were thrown down ST feet. Loranz
will die.
A. j. BLACKWELL. who is under ar
rest at Claremore, |. T.. charged with
treason for selling land to white pep
pie, the penalty being death under the
Cherokee law, was taken from his
prison to the Needles" close by and
tortured to make him confess, ten
bucks dancing round him and jabbing
his naked body by some sharp inStru-
ment. He was afterward taken back
to prison and ironed hand and foot.
LOUISE ALBERTI, of Galveston, Tex,
in fit of dementia on the 9Th poisoned
her five children, two of whom are
dead and the others reported in a crit
ical condition.
THE arrest of John Amos, an old II
dian at Guthrie, Ok, has raised an in
teresting question, hundreds of Indians
of the different tribes practicing po-
lygamy. 1t was understood this case
would be made a test one and carried
to the United States supreme court.
CHARLES KELLY, who led band OF
industrials from California to WASH
ington last spring, is organizing an
other army at Sacramento, Cal, to
move on Washington.