The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-21

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missing check for $500 on the 10th
when he deliberately shot the two
officials who were investigating the
affair and then put bullet through
his own head. The two officials will
probably recover.
L. b. MOSES, president, and J. l..
Bristow, secretly, of the Interstate
Irrigation association, hEye issued an
invitation to the various states con-
cerned to a general session of the as
ISOLATION at Ell Reno, Ok, on January
% and 26.
Two passenger trains collided at Red
fern, n. S. W., and twelve persons were
killed and many others injured.
A DUEL with pistols took place on
the street at Benton, Ala, recently be-
tween Tom Saint Clair and Reuben
Mauck. Saint Clair was killed, Mauck
slightly wounded and a negro woman
seriously wounded.
THE French line steamship La Cham
payne, which sailed from New York on
the 18th, carried $3.50. 900 in gold, the
second largest shipment that ever
crossed the Atlantic ocean.
AT FREIBURG, Saxony, $50 persons
were poisoned by arsenic being put in
some bakers rolls. One child had died
from the effects.
DURING dense fog on the 10th two
freight trains crashed into each other
on the long bridge of the Southern Pa
cific near Houston, Tex, and Fireman
Clement and Conductor Heard were
badly cut and bruised, the former
fatally. Just after the wreck Peter
Carroll, foreman of the bridge and
building department, fell from the
bridge and was fatally injured.
MAYOR HOPKINS and Chief OF police
Brennan, of Chicago, have issued
rigid order against boxing, sparring
and other glove contests in that city.
The order is far-reaching, and may
prohibit James J. Corbett and FitZsim-
mons from sparring in their theatrical
performances.
THE Edgar opera house, at Rock
Springs, Wyo., in which several stores
were located, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Loss. S37, 900; partly covered
by insurance.
GEORGE LAvIGNE and Andy Bowen
fought at New Orleans on the 14th.
In the eighteenth round Bowen was
knocked out and carried in a serious
condition from the ring to the hospital.
Larigne was detained by the police.
A LATE dispatch from Tien-Tsin,
China, stated that Prince Kung had
been made virtually dictator and that
Lii Hung Chang had been reinstated
and his position was frmer than ever.
The American Federation of Labor
at Denver, Col, on the 18th discussed
the political programme" which was
submitted by the last convention to
the unions, to be acted upon by them
and then by the federation. A chart
was misunderstanding the relative
number and wealth of workingmen,
business men, capitalists and million
aires-by Thomas ]. Morgan, of Chica-
go, and he made speech vigorously
advocating socialism.
THE jury in the Millington lynching
case at Memphis, Tenn, brought in a
verdict of not guilty in the cases of
Richardson and Smith, and nolle
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended December Il showed an
average decrease as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 1915;
in New York the increase was 13.9;
outside New York the decrease was
125.
FULLY 5000 people assembled at
Austin, Tex, on the 14th to witness
one of the greatest football games that
ever took place in the southwest. The
Texas university team met its first de-
feat, though it never had been scored
against before. The score was: Mis-
souri,, IS; Texas, 0.
The chamber of commerce of Port
land, Ore, was reported raising sup
plies for the drought sufferers of Ne
braska.
PROF. MossER and Mrs. Woodson,
teachers in Lincoln school, at Guthrie,
Ok, were recently arrested for brutally
whipping a pupil named Amanda
Jones.
THE pope was suffering from catarrh-
al symptoms on the 18th and was for
hidden by his physicians to leave his
private apartments.
THE official vote for governor of
Tennessee was made public on the 18th
as follows: Evans, rep, los, 1O4: Tur-
ney, dem, 1O4, $50; Mills, pop, %, O92.
Evans plurality is, therefore. 74s.
The largest and most destructive fire
known in years has swept over large
portion of the plains near Deane, Tex,
and was still burning to the south on
the 18th.
AT the convention of the American
Federation of Labor on the 18th the
auditing committee made its report,
showing balance on hand on Novem-
Der of 5,19l.79 A resolution against
land monopoly was adopted.
A NOE of fifty masked men boarded
train near Paducah. KY, with the in
tention of lynching a colored murderer
who was on his way to the penitentiary
to serve a life sentence, but their at
tempt was frustrated by the starting
up of the train. The car where the
prisoner was confined was badly dam
aged.
THE total number of votes cast for
the office of governor of New York
was PAS, gu, of which Levi p. Morton,
rep, received 673,Sls; David B. Hill.
dem, 515,51O; F. E. Baldwin, pro-, 90
SCI; Charles b. Matthews. pop. 11.O49;
Charles l. Mitchell, Soc, l.. Sos; Everett |
P. Wheeler, third party dem, 27,2O2; |
6, 400.
A DISPATCH from Tien Tsin said that |
Prince Kung had been appointed presi-
dent of the grand council This makes |
him virtually dictator. and will facili-
tate a settlement when the Japanese |