The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-27

In the LOO meter bicycle races at
American, won easily.
A FIGHT occurred near the Standard
Oil Co.'S yard at Oswego, n. Y, on the
18th between gang of longshoremen
and several non-union men. Police
were sent to the scene, but before they
reached there the union men escaped.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
have returned twenty-three indict-
ments in Judge Seaman's court. In
the twenty-three indictments were in
cluded the names of about seventy
five individuals, who are charged with
violating the federal statutes during
the railroad troubles of the last three
weeks. District Attorney Milchrist
refused to give the names of any of
the indicted persons beyond admitting
that there were several new indict-
ments against Debs, Howard. Keliher
and Rogers, the chief officers of the
railway union.
ABOUT 100 Hollanders were inter-
cepted while on their way to the Pull
man shops on the 10Th by a crowd of
strikers and a fierce fight ensued, in
which no one was seriously hurt The
Hollanders reached the shops in small
groups and were put to work clearing
up the works. The affair was the first
case of violence that has occurred in
Pullman proper.
The federal troops moved out of the
city of Chicago on the 10Th.
THE most serious fire of the year in
Minneapolis broke ont on the 10Th and
before it was extinguished had de-
stroyed property to the value of over
$500. 900, leaving in ruins one of the
finest market buildings in the country.
Thirty horses and thousands of fowls
were burned. The fire spread to the
livery stable, store and office of S. B.
Matson and the residences of Doll Mat
son and c. Il. Howard, which were de-
stroyed, and a number of other busi-
ness and private buildings were dam
aged. Several firemen and horses of
the fire department were Frustrated by
falling electric wires.
AT Oxford, Ala. a mob of thirty
whitecappers went to the home of
Jack Brownlee, colored. shot his house
full of holes. beat the doors down and
took him to the woods, where he was
stripped and whipped almost to death.
He was ordered to leave the country.
He has not been seen since, and he is
thought to have been killed. Political
causes are alleged.
A DISPATCH of the 10Th from Ports
mouth, England, said that a Trinity
house boat, having a crew of seven
trained wreckers on board, was en-
gagged in blowing up the wreck of the
yacht Azalia in the Solent, as it was
dangerous to navigation. when in some
manner dynamite cartridge exploded,
killing the seven men and shattering
the boat.
THE bodies of two unknown Mexicans
have been found on the ranch of Pedro
Garcia, in Presidio county, Tex. In the
right hand of one was clasped knife,
while beside the other was cacti cutter,
these two Instruments showing by
what means the bloody work had been
accomplished. 1t is supposed that the
two settled differences in a duel to the
death, with no seconds.
IT was rumored about San Francisco
on the Goth that negotiations were
pending between the strike leaders and
the railroad officials and that the strike
on the Southern Pacific will be settled
in a day or two.
THE steamer G.. B. Montieth struck
snag near Owensburg, KY. and sank.
One child was missing. A panic was
narrowly averted, as the boat carried
a large number of Sunday School chill
dren.
A DISPATCH states that steamer has
been sunk off Sterlitanak, province of
Oofa, Russia, and that 100 persons were
drowned.
A CABLEGRAM received at the Marine
hospital bureau from Surgeon Fairfax
Irwin in Berlin says that the cholera
situation in st. Petersburg is serious.
More than 1,500 cases have appeared
since July l.
THE forest fires that have been raging
in the vicinity of Egg Harbor. n. j.,
were turned from bridgeport by
shift of the wind but swept over and
destroyed completely the village of
Greenbush.
AT a mass meeting of laboring men
held at Chicago on the Goth Eugene v.
Debs was nominated for president of
the United States