The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-21

gTeSS In the seventh hentucky ulSlrlcI.
A plurality of $50 was claimed for his
opponent, Owens. Breckinridge's fol-
lowers accepted his defeat and many
were taking off the Breckenridge
badges and putting on Owens badges.
THE Peary Arctic expedition has re-
turned to st. Johns, n. Z. Several
members of the party have been FROST
bitten, but all were alive. Very little
had been accomplished, owing to the
frightful weather.
A FRIGHTFUL runaway accident oc-
Cured at funeral near Alliance, o.,
on the 18th. Fifteen people were in
| iured. four of them fatally.
THE first anniversary of the opening
of the strip was celebrated at Enid,
Ok. on the 18th. The Rock Island rail-
road stopped passenger train there
for the first time and the citizens went
wild with delight.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
NJ. X. & T. passenger train just north
of Musl1ogee, /. T., ties being placed
upright on the trestle along the Arkan-
sas river The engineer saw the OBJ
struction in time.
j. w. STAENGELE, a civil engineer,
shot and killed Mrs. Mabel Colvin at
Portland, Ore. and then blew out his
own brains. the cause being that the
woman would not accept his attentions.
GEORGE MEIRs and Charles Richard
son. while descending the rapids in the
| Ohio river in a skiff near Jeffersonville,
Ind. struck reef and were fatally in
| iured by their bodies coming in con-
| tact with the sharp-edged rocks.
A SCORE of the members of company
| II, Ninth regiment, of the national
| guard of Pennsylvania, who attended
the encampment at Gettysburg. were
down with typhoid fever in its worst
form at Wilkesbarre on the 10th. Pri-
vate Nelson Tearlson had died and Pri-
Yates Siles and Hardy were not expect
ed to live. The men were supposed to
have drunk polluted water at Gettys-
burg.
AN extensive fire visited the business
portion of Scranton, Pa, on the 18th
Loss, S25O,O0O.
ENoCH DAVIS, the wife murderer, was
executed at Lehigh Junction. Utah, on
the 18th. He was placed in a chair
and blindfolded and at signal six SOL
diers shot him, firing through loop
holes in tent He died in three min
utes.
DELEGATES of thirty-five labor organ
izations met last night in New York
and adopted a platform on which labor
proposes to enter the political cam
/ +1,o aN,oi,,cr a1aation A raSo-
luton was passed instructing every
delegate to recommend to his organ
ization that its members be requested
to join the peoples party organizations
in the assembly districts.
THREE negroes, two men and wom-
an, went to the house of Saloonist
George Woehlhueter, in the heart of
Akron, o., the other morning and de-
manded breakfast. Mrs. Woehlhueter,
who was alone, prepared the meal,
Later the men returned to the house,
broke in the street door and going to
Mrs Woehlhueter's room beat her in
sensible, bound and gagged her and
threw her into the cellar. Carpets and
bedding were saturated with oil and
the house fired. Except for the timely
discovery of the flames all trace of the
crime would have been obliterated.
Mrs Woelhueter's condition was criti-
ing for the villains.
THE bitterest fight of the republican
state convention at Denver, Col, oc-
Cured over the selection of a candidate
for state superintendent of public in
struction. Finally Mrs. 4. J. Peavy,
of Denver, was nominated for acclama-
ton after friends of Warren E. Knapp
and Prof w. A. Habgatt had with
drawn their names.
THE 80 men at work on the new
Marquette building at Dearborn and
Adams streets, Chicago, struck on the
18th against eighteen non-union Edison
company electric workers. The latter
were attacked and forced to flee to
avoid bloodshed. The Building Trades
council had notified the contractor to
discharge the men.
TEE southwestern Mediterranean
towns of Spain were recently visited
by severe storms. The towns of Gaia
and Javea have been flooded. many
lives have been lost. a number of houses
have been destroyed and several YES
seis in the bay of Gata have been
wrecked.
WILLIAM APPLEGATE created consid-
erable excitement before the LeXow
investigating committee at New York
on the 18th by his plain statements OF
bribery of police officers. He was the
confidential man of Green Goods
King" McNally, and claimed that he
paid 500 to Capt. Price on behalf OF
McNally.
FROM noon on September 3 to noon
on September 10, throughout the Ger
man empire, thirty-six new cases OF
cholera and fifteen deaths were re-
ported.
THE forest fires around Bona. Africa,
were reported dying out, after burning
for nearly a week. Enormous damage
had been done, many vineyards and
large quantities of agricultural pro,
duce having been destroyed. The vii
lagos of Cheurafas and Rulpas were in
the path of the confiagratiou and were
burned to the ground.
NJ. DE WITTE. the Russian minister
of finance, created somewhat of sen.
sation in Europe by saying that during
the past six years the danger of wal
had frequently arisen, but the czar's
will alone maintained peace. He also
said that since the conclusion of the
German-Russian commercial treaty
peace was finally assured.
THERE were 300 delegates present
when the national convention of Kelley
leagues was called to order at Denver
Col. on the l1th. Several hundred
delegates en- route from the east were