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


various ports of the United States
have been requested by Secretary Car
Isle to attend a conference of immi-
grafton commissioners at Ellis Island,
Y. Y, on the 2Sth. The object of the
gathering was to aeeentuate the scru-
tiny of foreigners coming to this ceun-
try and keep ont the undesirable.
SENATOR MARTIN. Of Kansas, visited
the white house on the 9th with two
actresses, whom ne presented to the
president Mr.. Cleveland gave each of
his visitors a rose. a photograph of
himself and his autograph.
THE thirteenth annual convention of
the American Forestry association be-
gan at Washington on the 2sth.
GENERAL NEWS.
THERE was said to be probability of
an extra session of the Kentucky legis-
1ature to raise money to defray the ex-
penses of the state government. There
was deficit of $500 900, which was in
creasing daily.
NEWS was received at Port Town
send, Wash. that ex-Lieut. James E.
Kansas. was accidentally drowned
while yachting. He was a cousin of
Gail Hamilton" abigail Dodge.
In was reported that the courthouse
of Payne county, at Saltwater, Ok,
had been destroyed by fire together
with all the county records and furni-
ture. The origin of the fire was said
TO be incendiary. the Dalton gang set
ting the place on fire to save a mem
Der of their gang who was being tried
in the courthouse for his life.
IN Waterbury, Conn, fire broke out
in Laeler's hotel, which was totally
destroyed. The Platt block. the finest
in the city. adjoining the hotel, was
also totally Quilted. Loss 1000.
TIE county treasurer's office at Santa
Rosa. Cal, was robbed of S, 600 on the
eSth by a masked burglar who knocked
the treasurer senseless and then locked
him in the vault.
TIE Norwegian ship Austriana, at
anchor in Pensacola bay, loaded with
1000. 600 feet of timber, was destroyed
by fire recently. The vessel and cargo
were total loss. Insured.
A SAW mill boiler recently exploded
at Bonayer, Barren county. Ky, kill
ing FIVE men.
Two STICKS, the Sioux Indian SEN
fenced for a leading part in the muir
der of four cowboys February ., 1898,
was hanged at Deadwood, S. D.
NEAR Bay Minnelli, Ala, Tim
Thompson, a little negro boy. was
asked to dance for the amusement of
some white toughs. He refused, say
ing that he was church member. Jim
Jostling knocked him down with
club and then danced upon the pros
trate lad. He then shot the boy in the
hips. The boy is dead, and his MUIR
derer at large.
a. WALTON, of New Jerusalem, Tex,
was arrested upon the charge of insan-
ity at New Orleans on the 26th. He
arrived over the Southern Pacific from
Houston, Tex, and claimed that he was
not satisfied with the way Grover Cleve-
land was running affairs and was on
his way to Washington TO kill him.
when intercepted by officers. He was
locked up in an end cell, which he al
most demolished during the night.
CAPT. JOIN l.. STEVENSON. the first
of the police officials of New York to
be tried ana convicted of corruption,
was sentenced to three years and nine
months in Sing Sing and to pay 81, 900
fine.
FIVE white boys were terribly burned
recently in a suburb of Richmond, Va.
by an explosion of gunpowder, caused
by a fire cracker accidentally thrown
into can containing powder for use
in a toy cannon. Some may die from
their injuries.
THE first regular meeting of the Chi
cago Western society was held in that
city on the Goth and its object for ex-
isoence outlined. The society proposes
70 furnish club room for western peo-
pie who visit Chicago. Any person
who has lived in western state for
seven years is eligible for membership.
The club viii be headquarters for every
kind of information regarding the
Transmississippi country.
In the federal court at Fort Smith,
Ark, John NJ. Taylor, aged 60 years,
" a. SOANANNC0 VI IuC SON-
eminent For twenty years he had
drawn pension of So month for to-
tai blindness, caused by an army gun
shot wound, and it was proved that he
never was wounded. He drew $4,000.
A POLICEMAN at Philadelphia had
terrible fight with a gang of toughs,
one of whom he was trying to arrest
As a result one tough was reported
dying and the policeman was in a seri-
Gus condition.
HEILBRENN, Germany, has removed
the prohibition on American canned
beef.
WILLIAM s. WHITMAN, Of Winooski,
Vt, shot and killed his wife and two
boys on the 26th and then going up
stairs shot himself. dying instantly.
Whitman was said to have been OF in
temperate habits. en- acconnt of which
his wife separated from him and re-
Gently obtained divorce.
4 PASSENGER train was wrecked near
Brentwood. Tenn. on the 25th and it
was reported that the train was burn
ing Every available physician in
Nashville was sent to the scene of the
wreck The authorities refused to
give sny particulars
WACO. Tex. was visited by $50, zoe
fire on the evening Of the seth-