The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-06

THE National Republican league has
issued proclamation to the party urg
ing the Importance of pushing the
work of organization.
ANDREW THOMPSON. the most noted
horseman on the continent, died in New
York city on the 31st, aged 40 years.
A NEGRO farm hand in Simpson coun-
ty, KY, who was charged with betray'
ing the 14-year-old daughter of John
Mulligan, was taken from officers by a
mob and hanged to tree.
The failures for the week ended
August 80 Dun's report were 1s6 in
the United States. against 100 last
year, and ~ in Canada, against 40 last
year.
The steamer Monowai arrived at
San Francisco on the 30th and reported
that she did not stop at the Hawaiian
islands because a boat hailed her in
sight of the port of Honolulu and
stated that cholera had broken out
there and that there had been eight
deaths from the plague. 1t was thought
that the steamer Belgic had brought
the disease from China and as that
steamer had landed some steerage pas
sengers at San Francisco it created
some little uneasiness that perhaps
the infection might have been brought
to the Pacific coast
DETAILS have been received at Con-
stantinople of the recent attack made
by band of Bulgarians upon the Ma
hommedan village of Dospat, across
the Turkish frontier, in the Rhodope
mountains. The attack, it appeared,
occurred at dawn, and while the viii
layers were asleep. The Bulgarians
used dynamite bombs and set fire to
to escape. Men, women and children,
it was claimed, were killed indlscrimi-
nately, and, according to one version
of the affair. 300 persons persisted.
JAMES GETTY. an ex-councilman and
a wealthy wholesale liquor dealer. was
shot and killed at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 2sth by Alexander Hutchinson,
formerly proprietor of the Merchants
hotel of that city. Getty was the
murder was the result of a dispute
over the leasing of the hotel 10 Hutch
inson.
GEORGE HACKATHoRN. aged 90 ran
amuck at East Liverpool, O., with two
revolvers. firing at five different per-
sons, none of whom were hit, and then
attempted to swim the. Ohio river.
l. -, Is
finally captured him. He was not in
toxicated and his escapade was attrib-
uted to his desire 70 figure as a des-
perado.
AT the meeting of the American Bar
association at Detroit, Mich. on the
2sth United States Circuit Judge Will
liam III. Taft. of Ohio. made an address
on Corporations" He referred in de-
tail to the relations of federal courts
to organized labor. especially to their
action in issuing iniunctions in the
American Railway union strike. He
strongly criticised the attitude of Gov.
Altgeld, of Illinois. in maintaining
that conspiracy described in the Debs
case was not unlawful Said he: "A
public nuisance more complete. IN
which Debs eft al. were engaged in
furthering, cannot be imagined"
EsTANLIsLAs TAMAREz. a noted Mex
lean bandit chief, who was captured
by government troops, was hanged at
Parral This was the first execution
by hanging, the usual manner of deaths
being by shooting in Mexico.
AT Fleetwood race course, New York
city, on the 2Sth. the great free for all
trot for purse of $500 was won by
Azote. who made a mile in 2:O5I3. the
fastest time ever made by gelding.
IN the Montana Methodist confer
ence at Helena the question of admit
ting women to the general conference
on the same footing as men was de-
cided in favor of the women by vote
of "a to 4.
WILLIAM COMPTON. Joseph Roberts,
Joseph Tessuer, David Boyd and John
Michuer were lodged in the federal Jail
at Guthrie, Ok. on the 2Sth. on the
charge of counterfeiting. The officers
believed they had captured part of the
gang that has been flooding the whole
northern part of the territory with
counterfeit silver coins for several
months.
FULLY 1900 people gathered at
Fleetwood, n. j., on the Goth TO wit
ness the great pacing race between
Robert j., Joe Patchen, Mascot and
John r Gentry. The purse was s., 600,
and Robert J. won in three straight
heats. Best time, 2:041s.