The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-04-19

| nOVSl was crowded WITH guests, Oul
they all escaped with their lives, al
though wardrobes and other property
were entirely consumed.
In Beaver county. Ok, a great con
fict was raging between homesteaders
and eattlemen. Farmers have picked
out the quarter sections and the best
ones have been taken and filings placed
on them in the United States land of
fee. The cattlemen have fenced UP
the land not taken for homesteads for
grazing purposes, and in many in
stances have fenced in host of settlers
from the outside world. Col. Poe, a
government agent, has forwarded a
circular to the cattlemen to meet him
in Beaver City on the Goth. for full
investigation. 1t was said that serious
shooting scrapes occurred nearly every
day.
JAMES w. SCoTT, proprietor of the
Chicago Times-Herald and the Chicago
Evening Post, died at New York on the
14th very suddenly from apoplexy.
RECENT news from Shawneetown,
Ill. was that there were thirty-nine
cases of smallpox there. There was
said to be great excitement, and many
citizens left the town temporarily.
/ DUN's review of trade for the week
ended the 18th said that progress to-
ward better business continued, but 1t
was slow. The money markets were a
little more active. The worst feature
was the rapid advance in meats. Prices
of commodities were a shade higher
than last year. Receipts of corn were
about half and the exports a fifth of
last years. No improvement in the
price of domestic wool appeared.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended April 10 showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of ~; in New
York the increase was los; outside
New York the increase was 43.
The Florida senate adopted a resolu-
ton declaring that it most heartily
sympathized with the Cuban patriots
in their efforts to free Cuba from for
eign control and to obtain for the peo-
pie OF that island the right of self gov
eminent, believing that they had the
same reasons for their actions that
Americas forefathers had.
THE Tennessee senate has adopted a
joint resolution asking congress to en-
act free coinage law at ratio of 1G
to1.
A PLAN for the reorganization of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
has been approved by the committees
at home and abroad. 1t provides for
an assessment of $40 a share on the
S102, 100000 of common stock and an
assessment of per cent. on the second
mortgage and income bonds. The cash
so received will be used to retire the
floating debt. The plan also proposes
to acquire control of the Atlantic &
Pacific, Colorado Midland and St Louis
& San Francisco. The total issue of
general mortgage bonds if these roads
are acquired will be $50, 900.
CHARLES HART was hung shortly af-
ter midnight on the 18th in the state
prison at Columbus, O.. for the murder
of Elsie and Ashley Good, children :
and years old. The children were
gathering nuts in the woods, and Hart,
who was only is years old, Joined them.
According to his own confession he
killed the boy and then ravished the
girl, afterward killing her, and burned
their bodies in log heap, having first
dismembered them to conceal their
identity.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Illinois legislature to give Cook county
and Chicago entirely separate govern
ments.
An authoritative statement of the
terms of peace being negotiated be-
tween Japan and China has been Sc
cured from official sources, and has
been made public in order to clear up
much apprehension arising from specu-
lation. The terms are five in number,
as follows: The independence of Corea,
permanent cession of the.island of For
mosa to Japan, indemnity of 300, 900, 600
taels in silver equivalent to S2l5, 0OO,-
600 in gold, permanent occupation of
Port Arthur and the immediate contig-
uous territory, and a new Japan-Chiua
treaty opening the interior of China to
commerce.
AT Covington, Ky, State Senator
Goebet shot and killed John Sanford.
president of the Farmers national
bank. The immediate cause of the
shooting is said to have been the Goe-
bet road law. Sanford is president and
owner of several turnpikes. Senator
Goebet secured the passage of bill re-
ducing the tolls. This was bad for the
ported to have used severe terms in
talking about Senator Goebet and his
law.
PETER MAHER has signed articles for
a fight with Steve O'Donnell, to take
place under the auspices of the Atlantic
Athletic club, at Coney Island, n. Y,
on Thursday, May 80 The conditions
are Marquis of Queensberry rules, FIVE
ounce gloves, limited to twenty-five
rounds, the contestants to receive so
per cent of the gross receipts, of which
the winner is to have three-fourths,
the loser one-fourth, the fight to be at
catch weights
THE boiler of the Lebalm brick works
at Lansing, Ill, exploded recently, kill
ing an unknown man and injuring sew
eral others. About seventy-fve men
were employed at the plant.
A LANDSLIDE occurred at Conewago,
Pa, on the 10th on the main line of the
Pennsylvania railroad. Hundreds of
tons of rock and earth crashed on to
the tracks and traffic was blocked.
This was the second mishap of the
same kind within a week.
The Delaware river was reported as
being very high on the 10th. At Lam
bertville, n. j., all the houses on the
river front were flooded and all the