The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04

the contract clause, which requires
| that each claim shall have 200 growing
trees on it at the end of five years. But
twenty tracts of the 1000 have been
rented.
A DISPATCH from New York stated
that Maj.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles was
formally told by President Cleveland
| that he had been chosen as the sue
cessor of Gen. Schofield in the COM
mand of the United States army. Gen.
Schofield's term of office expired at
noon on the 29th.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians,
on the Cantonment reservation, west
of Hennessey, Ok, have become very
ugly and were reported on the Goth
as holding war dances Runners
from Anadarko were in communica-
ton with the Indians and it was said
that the Kiowas were ready for the
warpath.
CHARLES SMITH, at the house of his
father-in-law, Peter Buchert, at De-
catur, Ill, fatally wounded his 7-year-
old child and instantly killed his Sis
ter-in-law, Edna Buchert He also
!
AT Monrovia, Cal, Mrs. Hagel, an
aeronaut, made an ascent in balloon,
and when at the height of 1000 feet
she jumped with the parachute, but it
failed to open and she shot downward
and was dashed to death on the ground.
THE Chicago Tribune on the 29th
published interviews with a number of
Texas senators and representatives,
giving their position regarding the
passage of a law with an emergency
clause to prevent the Corbett-Fitzsim-
mons fight. They were, without eXcep-
ton, favora bic to an anti-pugilism law
and will stand by Gov. Culberson.
JUST as the Wabash limited train was
leaving Chicago for Detroit on the
night of the Goth a man entered the
Pullman car and, stopping at the first
occupied berth, calmly climbed in, at
the same time choking into silence
Mrs. George Mack, the occupant. At
ter securing the pocketbooS, jewelry
and clothes of the terrified woman, the
robber attempted to leave. Mrs. Mack
clung to him, however, but he escaped
after knocking her senseless.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, Nelson Miller,
two other colored men and two colored
women were found guilty of the muir
der of four Hungarians on the 27th.
Miller and his associates in October
last, with the use of dynamite, blew up
q Hungarian boarding house on the
mountain side with the object of rob-
bling the victims. Sixty persons were
in the house at the time and four of
them were killed.
A DISASTROUS prairie fire ragged in
the western half of the Cherokee strip
and swept everything before it on the
27th. The fire started south of Kiowa
and it was thought it would end at the
Southern Kansas railway, but it
jumped the track and got clean
sweep for distance of 100 miles with
out anything TO stop it. Many cattle
and goat ranches suffered. Three
homesteaders' houses north of Alva
caught fire and burned to the ground
with their contents.
The building of the Minneapolis,
Mimi, chamber of commerce was dam
aged by fire to the extent of $4,000
and its contents to another $50, 200.
Fully insured.
THE New York Herald said on the
26th: "It is said upon the authority
of republican leader of national re-
pute that Benjamin Harrison has with
drawn from the presidential race, and
has named William Mckinley as his
residuary legatee."
FOREST fires were reported raging in
the vicinity of Carbonate, Pa. The
villages of Forestville and Richmond
were surrounded by fire and numbers
of cattle had persisted.
THE Irish convention at Chicago on
the 26th recommended the formation
of military companies wherever prac-
ticab BILE, in order to foster the military
spirit of the Irish race and to be pre-
pared for action in the event of En-
glands difficulty. A delegate wanted
a president. vice president and parlia-
ment elected for a probable future
Irish republic. The election of officers
of the Irish National alliance, which
was the title agreed upon for the new
! organization. was as follows: Presi-
dent, William Lyman. New York; vice
president. O'Neill Ryan, st. Louis;
treasurer. r. V. Fitzpatrick, Chicago.
THE forest fire that has been raging
for the last two days in the forests of
the county Athabaska, near Montreal,
Can, has destroyed scores of farm
! houses. The village of Brawits Mills
has been wiped out, not building re-
naming. Even cattle were burned in
the fields. The inhabitants fled, ter
ror stricken, and barely escaped with
their lives.
Gov. CULBERSoN. of Texas, issued a
proclamation at midnight on the Goth
calling a special session of the legisla-
ture on October TO pass law to pre-
vent prize fighting in that state.
THE last spike has been driven in the
! Chocktaw, Oklahoma & Gulf railway,
connecting South McAlester and Okla
homa City The road is now COM
pleted from Webster, ]. T, to FL Reno,
! /. T., a distance of 24O miles. The first
through train was a coal train. Double
daily passengers will be put on Octo-
! Der Is. at which time a grand excursion
will be run from Fort Smith, Ark, to
Oklahoma City.
AT the Irish convention in Chicago
on the 25th speeches were made advo-
eating a standing army of Irishmen to
harass England and to use force to
| further the cause of Ireland's freedom,
all the speeches being met with hearty
applause.
A New YORK dispatch stated that
Lord Dunraven had ordered the Valky-
RE III. to be made ready to spend the