The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-27

suit made indianapolis the pennant
winner by pronounced majority, hel
per centage being .639, st. Paul is sec
ond with 593, Kansas City third with
.5s9, Minneapolis fourth with .52l
Milwaukee fifth with .4sO, Detroit
sixth with 451, Terre Haute seventh
with .43O, and Grand Rapids eighth
with 1903.
The steamer Kite arrived at st.
Johns, n. F., on the 2lst with Lieut..
Peary, Hugh J. Lee and his colored
servant. Hensen. the Arctic explorers,
on board. Many sensational stories
were current among the crew of the
extrenities to which the explorers
had been reduced.
FIRE was sweeping through the
marshes in the region of the Kankakee
river in Laporte, Porter and Lake
counties, Ind, on the 22d. Hundreds
of acres of swamp were burning.
THE lumber yard and sawmin of
Moore & Galloway and the iron blast
furnace of the Wisconsin Furnace Co.
by fire on the pod with a total loss of
S225, 900.
CAPT. BALDWIN, agent for the Wich-
ita, Kiowa. Comanche and Apache In
dians. has asked for troops to drive out
prospectors in the Wichita mountains,
the Indians being unable to cope with
them.
The failures for the week ended Sep
tember 20 Dun's report) were 213 in
Il L.
year, and 30 in Canada, against As last
year
THE survivors of the army of north
ern Virginia and that portion of the
army of the Potomac which fought at
Chickamauga held a reunion at Chat
| tanooga, Tenn. on the Goth, Gen.
Walthall, of Mississippi, presiding
! Gov. Oates. of Alabama, and Coils. Will
Hanson and Steggman, of New York,
made speeches appropriate to the occa-
sion.
The New York Tribune on the 21st
printed letters from four United States
senators and forty-two congressman in
reply to questions addressed to them
about Cuba, and most of them showed
sympathy for Cuba and were in favor
of commission being dispatched to
the island to investigate the state of
affairs there and according to the insur-
gents belligerent rights if it could be
done without violating international
/ agreements.
| The negroes of the Oak Grove Ca
settlement assembled at their church
recently to spend the day in religious
worship. Each of the families carried
a basket, and dinner was spread for all
who would partake. Before the meal
was over several left the table on ac-
count of violent sickness. Forty-one
| in all were poisoned and six have died,
with the chances against several more.
1t was thought that pies baked in tin
/ plates two days before caused the
poisoning.
A MILITARY train returning from the
maneuvers was wrecked on the rail-
road near Chemnitz. Germany. Eight
of those on board the train were killed
and forty-fve were injured more or
/ less severely.
Mrs. LANGTRY was robbed of her
jewel box, valued at $4,000 by a
forged order on her bankers.
The filibustering expedition of the
Philadelphia tug George w. Childs,
Capt Swain, mas met signal failures,
and after a three months attempt to
| land arms and ammunition on Cuban
| shores those in charge have abandoned
the project.
A PORTION of the walls of the old Col
onnade building in Nashville, Tenn,
which was being torn down, fell re
Gently. Six men were buried under
/ the debris and all were more or less
injured.
The Chickamauga battlefield was
| dedicated as a national park on the
| 18th with impressive ceremonies. Vice
President Stevenson presided. Gen.
John NJ Palmer, of Illinois; Gen. John
r. Gordon. of Georgia. and Gen. Long
street made the dedicatory speeches,
patriotic hymns being played by the
band and sung by the audience in be-
tween.
THE steamship Edam. bound for Am
sterdam from New York, was run into
by the steamer Turkestan and sank in
the English channel during a dense
fog on the 10Th. All the passengers
were saved.
THE Army of the Tennessee had
grand reunion on the 18th at Chatta-
nooga. Tenn. Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge
presided. Gen. O. O. Howard, of the
United States army. was the first
speaker. He was followed hy Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, and Gen.
Willard Warner, of Tennessee, Rev.
Father Sherman, son of the famous
general. closing.
THE next meeting of the sovereign
grand lodge of Odd Fellows will take
place at Dallas, Tex.
4 DISPATCH from Hennessev, Ok, on
the 18th said that hot winds for four
DAYS and no rains for two weeks had
dried out that section to an alarming
extent and farmers were taking pre-
cautions to prevent fire in conse-
quence.
CHARLES POOLE fatally shot Mrs.
Jesse Curtis at Brooklyn on the 18th
and then put bullet through his own
brain. They had a quarrel, caused, it
was suspected, by her refusing to leave
her husband to live with him.
AT the session of the national prison
congress at Denver, Col. on the 18th,
paper on Politics and Crime, written
, by Amos G. Warner, professor of eco
nomics and social science in the Leland
Stanford university of California, and
read by John y. Dryden, of Kearney,
Neb., created a sensation. The writer
attacked the present police systems of
the country and said they were only
shade, if at all, better than the GRIM
inals themselves