The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04


ONE hundred negroes caught jim
Chockley at Tullahoma, Tenn, tool
him to the woods during binding
snow storm, stripped him. whipped
him nearly to death and ordered him
to leave the country before dawn
While drunk, Chockley left his wife,
while she was sick at home, and wher
he returned in the evening she wa:
dead. Then he left home. got drunk
and went to a negro dance.
CoLP weather was prevalent through
out Florida on the 2Sth and it wa:
feared that the orange crop there
would be totally destroyed.
IL fire on board the British steam
ship Masonic at Galveston, Tex, one
life was lost and two more were de-
SPARED of. The whole cargo of cotton
was total loss.
Ar Chicago the warehouse OF the
Pioneer Paper Co. was destroyed by
fire. causing loss of $4,000.
Francis H., at one time king OF
Naples, died at Arcol, in the Austrian
! Tyrol, on the eth, aged IS.
THE old capitol building at Atlanta.
Ga. owned by Venable Bros. and used
as an Office building. was visited by fire
on the eth. and $50, 600 loss inflicted.
The building was purchased by the
state under the reconstruction regime
for 800. 900. When the new million
dollar capitol was built it was sold to
Venable Bros. for 1925, 600.
The feature of the LeXow commit
tees investigation on the 27th was the
introduction of evidence tending to
show that Anthony Comstock, agent
for the Society for the Prevention of
Vice, had taken a bride of 81 900 from
a green goods man to procure the dis
missal of an indictment against him.
THE Indiana college presidents, at a
meeting at indianapolis. have decided
to forbid intercollegiate games of foot
ball.
JOHN w. FOSTER, ex-secretary of
state, has been requested by the Chi
nese government to go to Japan and
meet the plenipotentiaries of the
former government, to aid them in
their negotiations for peace. He has
accepted the invitation and expected
to leave Washington in a few days.
A RECENT dispatch said that Moham-
medan inhabitants of Turfan, Kashgar,
were in open rebellion. desiring to
shake off the yoke of China and found
an independent government under
Russian suzerainty.
THE forty-eighth annual report of the
American Missionary association of
the Congregational churches has been
made. The total receipts for the year
were S404. 10. 81, and the total diSburse-
ments S299, 0sl.66.
IL Memphis, Tenn. the Woman
council and the Nineteenth Century
club, embracing a membership of 1000
women, passed a resolution to boycott
Congressman w. c. p. Breckenridge
when he appeared in that city to lee
ture.
THE authorities who are looking
after counterfeiters in the City of Mex
leo have made some startling discov-
cries. 1t was evident that there was
an organized colony of several hundred
people scattered about the city making
and circulating the spurious coin.
Thousands of dollars have been secret
ly showed" within the past few weeks.
Arrests of members of the gang have
been made almost daily until now
there are ESQ of them in prison.
EDWARD III. CARTER, transfer and
coupon clerk at the National Bank of
Commerce at New York has been ar
rested as defaulter. He was charged
with appropriating $4,000 of the
banks money and, it was said, con-
fessed his guilt.
TIE miners employed at the Ander-
son mines near NIassillon, o., have de-
clined the rate of GO cents per ton fixed
by the arbitration committee and were
idle on the Goth. 1t was thought that
all the miners in the Massillon district
would soon cease work.
j. S. TEMPLE, of Column biana county,
o.. guard in the penitentiary, shot and
killed Joseph O'Day, forger of Cleve-
land, who. with two other convicts as
saulted him because he reported them
for an infraction of the rules.
The pope at noon on the Goth received
the officers of the United States cruiser
Detroit. which recently arrived at Ma
Piles with the vatican relics exhibited
at the worlds fair in Chicago. His
holiness praised the progress, activity
and liberty of the United States.
THE Missouri, Kansas & Texas south
bound express and the westbound
Houston IL Texas passenger train col
lided near WaXahatchie, Tex, on the
95th. Seventeen passengers were in
jured, two probably fatally.
HEIRS of John Irwin, a pioneer set
tier of northwestern Iowa. have begun
suit for the recovery of valuable lands
once owned by him but sold for taxes.
In Clay county alone are over seventy
farms.
THE entire Christmas number of the
San Francisco Examiner was edited
and published by society ladies of that
city.
THOUSANDS of people witnessed a
heart rending scene at Brooklyn on the
25th. Frank Tolriela, a 15-year-old
boy, was struck by trolley car, and
with his legs nearly severed above the
ankles, he was wedged between the
forward wheels and the motor box. In
that position he remained for forty-ive
minutes gasping in agony. 1t was i'm
possible to move the car back or for
ward without crushing out the little
life left in the boy.
JAMES MoNIHAN and daughter, aged
20, were driving along the road near
Carney, Ok, when their horse took
fright and ran away. Both Monihan
and daughter were thrown from the
buggy and sustained fatal injuries.
The Christmas Rocky Mountain
News reflected much credit upon the
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