The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-29
GENERAL NEWS.

AT Hartshorne, Ok, two miners,
named Lee Bailey and Steve Ellsworth,
were working in the same room of the
Indianola coal mine. Each fired a
blast; one shot went off, but the other
failed. The men disputed as to which
fuse failed to ignite, and Bailey went
to his. Just as he got there the blast
exploded, blowing Bailey's head off,
fatally injuring Ellsworth and serious
IL wounding two miners.
DAN CREEDoN, middleweight of st.
Louis, has been matched to fight with
Henry Baker, heavyweight of Chicago.
The fight will come off April 1, in Chi
cago.
EVER since non-union men were
brought. to Tarentum, Pa, to take the
place of the strikers at C. L. Flaccus'
glass works numerous fights have taken
place, and have eliminated in the
murder of Mr.. Sutton, a non-union
man, who, in company with three COM
paniOns, was met by mob armed with
fence rails and revolvers. Sutton was
beaten into insensibility and died from
the effects.
Ii HUNG CHANG. the Chinese peace
envoy, was fired at by young Japan.
csc at Shimonose3i and slightly wound.
ed. The would-be murderer was ar.
rested.
ADvICEs state that committees are
raising funds for the Cuban insurgents
in all the state capitals in Mexico.
FAILURES for the week ended March
% Dun'sreport) were 27s in the United
States against PA last year.
AMID scenes of wild disorder the
eighteenth session of the Arizona ter.
ritorial assembly came to an abrupt
termination at o'clock on the morn.
ing of the 22d. The general appropri-
alton bill was taken up and every
scheme to delay its passage was re-
sorted to. A vote was prevented until
after midnight, when the session
lapsed through limitation. Nearly all
territorial officers and institutions are
thus left without funds for the coming
two years. An extra session can be
called only by congress at its next ses-
sion.
FIRE broke out in the yards of the
International Cotton Press Co. at New
Orleans on the 21st and was not extin.
guished until it had destroyed between
$4,000 and 10000 bales of cotton. The
loss will probably exceed $3.50, 900, all
covered by insurance
GREAT excitement was caused in the
United States court on the 21st at
Guthrie, O., when a decision was rem.
dered enjoining the Choctaw, Okla.
.homa & Guthrie railroad from build.
ing through the Kickapoo reservation.
This injunction prohibits the road en-.
tering the reservation, which contains
COO, 900 acres, and is the most valuable
in Oklahoma, until Secretary Smith
gives his consent.
THE diamond cutters from Holland,
for whom the immigration authorities
had been on the lookout, arrived at
New York on the 21st on the steamship
Majestic. There were 125 of them.
They were sent to Ellis island, sus-
pected of being contract laborers, and
if that can be proved they will be sent
back in accordance with the decision
of Secretary Carlisle that diamond cut
ting was not a new industry, and that
be treated as any other contract labor
ers.
JOSEPH JACKSON, a prominent politi-
clan and ex-member of the legislature
of Indiana, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head with a
revolver. Dependency over defeat at
the last election was the cause as
signed.
Two deaths resulted from a fire in
the four-story house, los West Twenty
fifth street, New York. John Kurtz
was burned to death and Tony
Ketchum jumped from the third story
window, receiving injuries from which
he died soon after.
AN attempt was made to burn two of
the largest Catholic churches in Wash
ington on the 21st, but the janitors dis
covered the fires before much damage
was done. All the Catholic churches
in that city are now guarded. The in
cendiary was supposed to be some
fanatic.
THE six round contest between Joe
Choynsk and Dan Creedon at Chicago
was draw, no decision being given by
the referee. Choynski had all the best
of il. except in one round BE knocked
Creedoa down twice, brought the blood
IN stream from his nose and had his
man very tired and going when the
sixth round closed.
NEGOTIATIONS have been completed
which effect combination of all the
whisky interests in the country an0
practically assures to the Spirits Dis
filling association, of which Receiver
McNuita of the trust is chairman, alb
solute control of the spirit output of
the United States.
TOMMY RYAN, of Chicago. had easy
work with Tom Tracey, of St Louis,
IN the fight at Chicago, on the Goth.
No decision was rendered, chiefly be-
cause the managers of the affair were
apprehensive of police interference
with tbs Chornski-Creedon fight on the
next niriit- The contest was called of
a. tie eigita r0lnd.