The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-13

strikers. This emblem was designated
by President Debs, and the stores have
sold large quantity. Some of the
larger unions of labor have bought and
are distributing the badges free to
their members.
ILL feeling between A. P. A. and
other elements in Butte, Mont, on the
4th, resulted in a riot in which two
men, one a policeman named DAILY,
were killed.
THE Cuyohaga soldiers and sailors
monument was dedicated at Cleveland,
O., on the 4th.
PRIVATE WILLIAM THORNTON, com
pany b, Sixteenth infantry. was stabbed
and instantly killed on the night of the
4th at Salt Lake, Utah, by w. A. Hobbs
They had dispute concerning the
merits of the northern and southern
armies.
K. B. GUAM, a Norwegian farmer
near Butler. S. d.. became so worried
over crop prospects that he cut the
throats of his two children, aged and
8, threw them in a well, cut his own
throat, and jumped in after them.
THE end of California's midwinter
fair at San Francisco and the national
holiday were jointly celebrated. The
exposition was formally opened Janu-
ary %. Over $4,000 people passed
through the gates on the 9Th, making
a total attendance of over 100000.
Ex-Gov. EDWIN B. WiNANs, of Ham
burg. Mich, died of heart disease, aged
6s. He was governor of Michigan in
1912
In California the strikers had every
thing their own way on the 5th. AT
Chicago there was rioting all day, al
though no lives were lost, the soldiers
being held in little fear on account of
their small numbers. Scores of freight
cars were overturned and the tracks
obstructed. In other parts of the
country the strike is spreading.
A. L. RICHARDS, agent for the h. Il
A. V. railway at Nowata, |. T., sta
tion few miles south of the Kansas
line, was shot and killed by some un-
known men who were robbing his Of
fee. There was no clew as to who the
murderers were.
THE dead body of George Craft. a
barber of Tahlequah, /. T., was found
in small patch of corn the other
morning. His neck had been broken
and other marks of violence shows that
he was murdered. A gold watch and
S236 was still on his person, indicating
that he was not murdered for his
money. Suspicion rested upon two ne
groes.
THE managers of the whisky trust
met at Chicago on the 5th to consider
the new tariff bill and the probable eff
fects of the increased tax on spirits.
It was said the trust will make an eff
fort to get possession of all the supply
of spirits in the market in anticipation
of the rise which will follow the pas
sage of the tariff bill.
THE block where two saloonkeepers
hung out an A. p. A. sign on the 4th,
at Butte, Mont, causing a riot, in
which one man was killed, one NOR
tally wounded and five seriously in
jured. was in charge of the militia on
the 5th, no person being allowed in
side the lines. The undercurrent of
feeling on both sides continued strong
and hundreds of men were going
armed. In Centerville, a suburb, a
Cornish saloonkeeper shot a man while
wrangling about the A. p. A.
IN Chicago on the 9th strikers were
on the rampage. They burnt cars,
broke switches and obstructed tracks.
Numerous collisions occurred between
the authorities and the mobs. Six dead
and an indefinite number of injured is
the record of casualties. The Pan
handle yards for eight blocks were a
mass of fire. Ten tracks and 1000 to
1000 cars will be total loss. At other
points around Chicago cars and freight
were burnt up. The state troops were
ordered out and the situation was grave.
THE aspect of the railroad strike at
Kansas City on the 9th looked decided
ly worse, the entire force of the Mem
phis joining those out, tying up that
road completely. Freight continues to
accumulate at all the depots and the
prospects of getting it out is not bright
The yards are carefully guarded by
United States marshals.
TIE railroad strike has been carried
east to Cleveland. o., tying up all the
connections of the seaboard trunk
lines with the promise that it will soon
reach the trunk lines themselves and
get to Buffalo, n. Y, and tie up all the
railroads there and thus extend from
ocean to ocean.
VICE PRESIDENT STEVENSON made an
Grafton on the historic battlefield of
Guilford On. c. courthouse on the 4th.
FIRE originating in an explosion of
fire works destroyed the greater part
of the town of Honey Grove, Tex, on
the 4th. Loss about 5000, 900.
In Antwerp fire at the docks de-
stroyed large stocks of lumber, but no
damage was done to shipping.
IN the yacht race at the Firth of
Clyde, Scotland, the prince of Wales
American yacht Vigilant in the so
miles by seconds. Time, hours and
5s seconds. The Valkyrie was in the
race at the start, but was cut down by
the Satanita and sank, the crew be-
ing saved.
THE presence of Chinese and Japanese
troops in Corea is now a subject of
diplomatic correspondence between the
two countries and Russia. and it was
said it would not be surprising if more
extensive trouble arose from what is
now a mere speck on the horizon.
Russia is extremely jealous of any
advances in Corea by other European
and Asiatic countries
IN HintSn, w. Va. Newton Mann. 12
years old. and Oscar Magee, aged 13.
were killed by the fall of balcony
upon which crowd of people gathered
to view parade Fourteen others were