The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-17

ly believed that the plague would ruin
the city as port.
LADY HENRY SOMERSET, the famous
temperance advocate, who has recent
ly drawn renewed attention to herself
by the vehement denunciation of the
living pictures in London, recently ar
rived in New York.
IT has been definitely announced that
Gov Mckinley will open the Indiana
campaign. 1t was supposed that Gen.
Harrison would do so.
PEDRO GONZALES, the warden OF the
Puebla Mex.) state pcnitentiary, was
murdered by an inmate of the prison
recently. The crime was committed
in one of the corridors of the peniten-
tiary by convict with whom the war
den had had trouble.
The bark Braekka Hernosand, for
Rio de Janeiro, collided with the
schooner Pilgrim, from Port Madoc,
for Stettin, off Anvil Point. The
schooner was sunk and four members
of the crew were drowned. The Braek-
ka received considerable damage.
The forces of Mexican soldiers that
were sent against the Paqui Indians
are meeting with defeat in all of the
attacks that have so far been made,
and the Indians emboldened by their
success over troops, are committing
depredations on the unprotected ranch
men with greater frequency than ever.
JOHN l. BLAIR was reported seriously,
if not fatally, i'll at his home in Blairs-
a L. 10 rc ,ntxv
past 30.
THE trial of the thirty anarchists be-
fore the assizes court at Paris, ended
on the 18th in the acquittal of all but
three of the accused.
A DISPATCH to the London Telegraph
from Paris on the 12th said that the
cooks, stewards and attendants of the
Transatlantic lines had gone on strike
at Havre. The employees allege that
the cause of the strike was the poor
food supplied to them while vessels are
in dock and other grievances.
BY the falling of scaffold in New
York city, upon which eight men were
at work, two were killed and others
hurt internally.
council of the empire, have guaranteed
the safety of foreigners in the interior
of China.
A DEKALB, Tex, special says about
o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th
a crowd of boys and men met in
small prairie miles south of town and
were playing baseball Ashower came
up during the game and they all ran to
a large oak. Lightning struck the tree
and seven were killed outright. About
a dozen others were hurt and it is
thought some of them will die.
A SPECIAL from Birmingham, Ala,
of the 9th, said that the Kolbite and
populist committees have been in ses-
sion there for two days Capt. Kolb
made the statement after the meeting
that he proposed to go to Montgomery
when the time comes and be sworn in
as governor. Part of the plan is to in
vite all populists elected to the regu-
lar legislature to go into a rump legis-
lature which the Kolbites will set up.
LIZZIE MCDERMoTT. girl employed
by the Scott Stamp & Coin Co.. in New
York. has been arrested charged with
stealing from $4,000 to O,OOO worth
of rare stamps.
THE town of Clifford, Ill, was al
most swept away by flames which
started at o'clock on the morning of
the 9th. Two grain elevators, the
Illinois Central depot and almost the
entire business portion of the town is
in ashes.
JUDGE CAswELL BENNETT, chief JUS
tice of Kentucky, died very suddenly
on the 9th az the residence of Maj.
Crumbaugh in Hopkinsville, Ky. His
death was the result of rheumatism.
THE supreme court of Alabama hand
ed down its decision in the impeach-
ment case of Judge Job Talley, of the
north Alabama circuit. The court de-
cided Judge Talley is guilty of murder
and that he is ordered impeached and
stripped of his judicial ermine. 1t was
proven that the judge was implicated
in the murder of Robert c. Ross by the
Skellton brothers at Scottsboro, Ala,
several months ago.
A son of J. A. Drake, near Guthrie,
Ok, was kicked to death by horses.
The Consolidated Coal Co., of Frost
burg, Nd, has notified all the miners
who stuck to their posts during the late
protracted strike that they will receive
nine months rent and fuel free.
BY the burning of the summer cot
tage of Charles Hollenbeck, of Rock
ford, at Lauderdale lake, Miss Sadie
Fallon was burned to death, and Mrs.
Hollenbeck's mother, Mrs. E. f.
Brother, fatally burned. The other
occupants Of the house escaped with
difficulty.
TIE semi-annuai meeting of the
Southern Lum mbermen's association, be-
gun at Memphis, Tenn, on the sth.
Delegates were present from all the
lumber-producing states of the south.
A strong effort was to be made to
agree upon an advance in the price of
yellow pine lumber. 1t was decided to
reduce the output of all mills in the
association.
JUDGE BELLINGER, of Portland, Ore,
signed an important decision in the
cases of Thomas Hawkes. and Edward
Kline, charged with selling liquor to
lie biC
of lands in severalty to Indians had the
effect of removing them from under
the charge of Indian agents and gave
them the standing of American citi-
zens. AS such the United States laws
governing Indians do not apply to
them and the selling of liquor to an In
dian who is not in charge of an Indian
agent is not punishable under the
United States statutes.
IN fit of jealousy ''Wid" Jenkins, a
Burlington baggage master at Chari-
tan. Ia, shot Mrs. Eliza Murphy, his
landlady. and her two daughters and