The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-07

| J. NJ. RAPoRr. who ha., walked across
the continent from New York. arrived
at San Francisco. RAPPORT said he made
bet of 5000 that he would leave from
New York in May and walk to San
Francisco before midnight December
]. He arrived about o'clock December
i, and therefore wins the bet.
THERE was no trouble at Montgom-
cry. Ala, at the Inauguration of Gov.
Oates on the LIST. Kolb, the populist,
who claimed to have been elected
governor, was sworn in privately, but
the firm stand taken by the outgoing
governor restrained the populists from
committing any act of violence.
AMONG the passengers on the Cunard
steamer Etruria. which arrived in New
York on the I'd. was John Burns. VI. p,
the great socialist and labor leader of
London. A delegation from the labor
organizations of New York city met
him at quarantine.
j. w. SHowALTER played on seven
teen boards simultaneously at the
Brooklyn Chess club on the night of
the LIST. He won eight games. lost four
and drew five.
A DISPATCH from Berlin stated that
China had accepted the English offer
of a AZ per cent. loan of 100000.
WAITE has made reply to a petition
from the business men of Denver. Col,
asking that gambling houses be re-
opened. In his communication the
governor attacks those who signed the
petition and says that the Denver
clergy were in league with the worst
element. before election. to defeat him
because he had endeavored to suppress
gambling.
EMILIO DE LEON arrived in San
Francisco on the I'd from Guatemala on
his way to Mexico. De Leon has been
appointed minister to Mexico and has re-
ceived authority from the Guatemalan
government TO negotiate a treaty
which will settle the boundary dispute
between the two countries.
JAPAN advices to the end of Septem-
Der showed that the war had been less
injurious to trade than was expected
and that the rice crop promised to be
from 10 to 20 per cent. above the av-
erage.
THE board of trustees of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen voted
to remove headquarters to Peoria. Ill.
GEORGE CENTRELL was hanged at
Belleville, ILL.,, on the 30th. He con-
fessed that he and Annie Kahn muir
Mrs. Kahn was at the hanging and
shouted good-by to Centrell, to which
he remarked to the sheriff: ''Oh. that
woman makes me tired
REV. |. y. MERRIFIELD has returned
to Guthrie, Ok, from three months
trip to South America looking up a To-
cation for a cooperative colony on the
Looking Backward plan. He sue
ceeded in getting conditional grants to
90O.000 acres in Venezuela and Column
bia.
AT Perry, Ok. Frank Gillett, rail-
road man living at Arkansas City, was
horribly mangled on the 18th. Gillett
was brakeman on the Santa Fe and
was assisting in switching some ears
when he fell across the track and sew
eral freight ears passed over his legs,
crushing them to mincemeat.
THE annual meeting of the National
Association of Hereford Cattle Breed
ers was held at Chicago on the 10Th.
James Funl1houser. of Plattsburg. Mo,
was reelected president, and c. Il.
Thomas, of independence, Mo-, secre-
tary for the coming year.
THE Colorado land board has decided
to annul the contract under which TO-
600 acres in Montezuma county were
leased to the Chicago Consolidated
Land IS Water Co., Chicago concern
at the head of which is John V Far
well. Unless the company defeats the
action of the board in the courts it
will lose bitches and other improve
ments.
THE Chicago police arrested seven
young men recently who they claimed
to be members of THE Thieves Pro-
tective and Mutual Benefit club
They made club house of deserted
cottage. Membership was only possi-
bic to one who had been at least four
times under arrest and served at least
one term in the Bridewell. \ search
of the house revealed large quantity
of stolen clothing and other plumber.
The fishing schooner Oracle II. Ben
son was sunk in a collision with the
steamer Reading of the Philadelphi &c
Reading line at the entrance of Boston
harbor or the 2Sth. Six of the Benson'S
crew were drowned.