The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-11

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between Yale and Cambridge at Man
haitian field New York. resulted in the
Americans winning all but three of
the events, the Britishers taking the 4
mile, the Z mile and the mile runs.
WHILE picking out a missed hole in
one of the levels of the Buena Vista
mine, at Victor, Col, Frederick Rob
erts, miner, was instantly killed. his
head being severed from his body by
the explosion.
AMOS J. CUMMINGS has been nomi-
mated for congress by Tammany hall
in the Tenth New York district, Will
liam j. Brown, a printer, was nomi-
mated by the Grace democracy to op-
pose Cummings.
In some portions of Colorado inches
of snow fell on the 4th. Dispatches
! from Salida and Buena Vista said that
considera ble damage had been done in
orchards, the damp snow breaking
many branches off the trees.
NEAL SMITH, negro convict. who
! recently assaulted young white wom-
an at Cole City, Ga, after beating her
into insensibility, was taken from the
prison guards by a mob from Teunes-
see and Alabama and shot to death
Great excitement existed but no fur
ther trouble was expected.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended October showed an av-
erage increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 1876;
in Na ha
outside New York the increase was
100
HARRY j. L. MARTIN, for seven years
teller of the Commercial national
bank of Chicago, was arrested on the
4th on a warrant sworn out before
United States Commissioner Foote by
National Bank Examiner McKeon,
charging him with embezzlemeut.
Bishop NAPLES, of Nyassaland, and
companion were recently drowned
i'll Lake Nyassa and a missionary was
murdered by natives on the Zambezi
river in Africa.
COL. *. r. CRoFTON, commander of
the Fifteenth infantry at Fort Sheri-
dan, Ill, narrowly escaped death at
the hands of Lieut.. :. = Pague, of
company f, Fifteenth infantry. on the
Sd. The lieutenant fired three shots
at the commander One passed
through the fold of his overcoat Just
over the right groin and the second
and third passed close to the body
Pague few moments before had es-
capped from the hospital, where he had
been undergoing treatment for mental
trouble, occasiOned. it was said, by
over-indulgence in liquor.
Gov. RENFRow. of Oklahoma. has
submitted his annual report to the
secretary of the interior. The gov
ernor is in favor of opening to settle
ment the Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache reservations Oklahoma
is reported as being in flourishing
condition. The governor thinks it
would be well to make the Indian
work and observes: The Indian citi-
zen. when left to solve the problem Of
life like other men, will no doubt find
that he must conform to the conditions
of life about him. and will settle down
to life of useful industry"
The convention of the Episcopal
church was opened at Minneapolis.
Mimi, on the ID, sixty bishops, attired
in their vestments, occupying the
chancel of st Gethsemane church at
the celebration of holy communion to
open the exercises.
To add to the state of terror prevail |
ing in Constantinople a third slight !
earthquake shock was experienced on
the Sd. This. with the rioting and
bloodshed, the Imprisonment of about |
500 Armenians. the killing of prisoners |
in cold blood, and the presence of |
troops under arms at all points. was |
well calculated toeXcite even the most |
phlegmatic Turk.
MAI J. C. c. BLACK. democrat. has |
again defeated Thomas Z. Watson. |
populist. for congress in the Tenth |
Georgia district by a majority of 1.G4L |
The election was one of the quietest /
ever held in Georgia, striking con- |
trast to the one held eleven months |
ago, when three leading men were /
killed in the streets of Augusta. Wat /
son claimed that the election was un- |
fair and Black. in Difference to Wat |
sons views, resigned.
AT Jersey City. n. J., John Czech, |
otherwise known as Fish John. was /
executed in the county jail on the 3d |
for the murder of his wife on June ;. |
Jealousy was the motive of his crime.
ADDITIONAI DISPaTCUES