The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-03

THE convicts at Tracy City, Tenn.
were in state of mutiny on the 27th
They loaded a pipe with explosives
placed it in the coal car and attached
slow fuse to it. Deputy Warden Mel
son and assistants were passing along
another entry to bring the convict:
out for the night, and when they ar
rived opposite the bomb it exploded
Nelson was instantly killed and Guards
Terrell and Thurman slightly wounded
A negro convict named Pete Hamilton
was killed by a volley from the other
guards. Escape was the object of the
mutineers.
M. TATENo, the Japanese minister to
the United States, has been recalled.
The recall, it is stated, is due not to
anything connected with the present
Japanese-Corean-Chinese difficulty nor
owing to matters growing out of re-
cent treaty negotiations as reported.
ONE of a nest of six boilers at Lehigh
Valley colliery No. 4, at Ashland, Pa,
exploded, instantly killing one man
and severely injuring three others, two
of whom have since died. The build.
ing was wrecked and two other boilers
were displaced.
DETAILS of the recent naval engage
ment between the Chinese and Japan
ese have reached Shanghai. A torpedo
was discharged at the Kow Shing and
struck her, sinking her. The loss of
life was great. Out of 1000 Chinese
troops on board only forty were saved.
JUST before midnight on the oath a
lamp exploded at the lunch counter in
the Santa Fe depot at La Junta, Col,
the flames spreading so rapidly to other
portions of the depot that the night
train dispatchers and other employees
had barely time to escape with their
lives. The depot, which was one of
the largest owned by the Santa Fe
company, with all its contents, was
soon reduced to ashes Loss not known
yet.
The silver wedding of Crown Prince
and Princess Frederick, of Denmark,
was celebrated on the eth. The streets
of Copenhagen were thronged with peo-
pie and deliberately decorated. Nearly
every court in Europe sent presents.
JOHN COLLINS. a market gardener of
Birmingham, Ala, thought he heard
thieves in his garden on the night of
the oath and started to investigate. He
was followed by his daughter Maggie.
Mrs. Collins heard the two and sup
posed them thieves. Arousing her
son William, he got his gun and shot
both father and daughter. The former
is dead and the latter was reported dy-
ing.
MIR. FIELDEN. owner of the yacht
Saide, which vessel succored Prof.
Oyen, the geologist of the Wellman
Arctic expedition. left at Danes island,
said that he had learned that the
Ragnvald-Jarl, the vessel which was
used to convey the explorers to the
edge of the ice pack, was an old whaler
which had been fitted up as steamer
and that she was in no way fitted to
encounter the ice. He adds that he is
led to believe that in the whole of Well
mans company there was no one pos
sessed of practical experience in polar
explorations. He and others were con-
vinced that all of the members of the
Wellman expedition were lost.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended July 81 showed an average
decrease as compared with the corre-
spending week of last year of 1870; in
New York the decrease was 2O.7; out
side, 81.
IN the French chamber of deputies
on the 26th the anti-anarchist bill was
adopted by n vote of 26S to 163.
THREE young men were drowned
while bathing in the Snake river near
Penewa, Wash. One called for help
and the others swan to his assistance.
They grasped one another in the
water sinking simultaneously.
THE steamer Decraitis collided with
a ferryboat at Grodneau, on the river
Nieman. Russia. Fourteen people lost
their lives through the accident, and
eleven others were severely injured.
THE French deputy, Degchanel, re-
Gently sent a challenge to NJ. Clemen-
ceau in consequence of an attack upon
him in Clemenseau's newspaper, La
Justice.
A DISPATCH from Vienna of the 25th
stated that cholera was rapidly spread
ing in Galicia and in the western dis
trict of Cracow and near the Russian
frontier. Traffic across the frontier
had been stopped.