The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-29

of his mouth. Warner had been drink
ing and threatened to kill Cox and the
opinion was that the latter acted in
self defense.
The Transmississippi commercial
congress began at Omaha on the 25th
with 300 delerates present. George Q.
Cannon, of Salt Lake City, was in the
chair. Only routine work-appointing
committees and examining credentials
was done.
AN unknown negro tramp was
lynched near Calvert City. XIV, re-
Gently. He was caught trying to
wreck train and was pursued into
the woods, where he was hanged and
riddled with bullets.
THE New York World on the 25th
published a cablegram from Cuba,
signed by Gen. MARTINEZ de Campos,
giving reasons why the United States
should not recognize the insurgents as
belligerents. Gen. Campos said that
the insurgents held no seaport nor any
interior town and it was for that very
reason that Gen. Grant refused to
recognize them, which created prece
dent, and therefore the Spanish gov
ernment did not anticipate any overt
acts of unfriendliness on the part of
the United States.
A NEW YORK Herald special from
Cuba said that the rebels were using
dynamite with murderous effect in
every engagement. Great terror ex-
isted among the Spanish troops and
the government was endeavoring to
suppress the news in order that the
new arrivals from Spain may not be
panic stricken in advance.
| THE most outspoken expressions of
/ sympathy for Cuba were heard at
meeting at Philadelphia on the 21st
The speakers were Gov. Matthews, of
Indiana; Gen. GonZalio de Quesada,
secretary of the revolutionary party in
the United States, and Capt. w. W.
Kerr, owner of the steamer Laurada.
Capt. Kerr said: Vessels will leave
this country every day and land arms,
ammunition and men on Cuba's shores
until she is free, and if Spain will wait
ten days she will hear of another ex-
pedition being landed"
FIRE broke out on the fifth floor Of
the Springer block. Nos. i75 to 1sl Canal
street, Chicago, on the 21st and it was
estimated that the loss was $4,000
The building was occupied by the
Charles Emerich Feather Co. The fire
spread to the adjoining building. oc-
cupied by the Shoher & Carqueville
Lithograph Co., the Banner Waist Co.,
and other firms. Over 900 girls were
employed in this building and they
fed in panic, but all escaped with
their lives
AT meeting of the executive board
of the K. of L. at Washington, General
Master Workman Sovereign was elect
ed fraternal delegate to the National
Farmers alliance convention.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Educational association met in
hicago recently and decided to hold
the 1896 meeting of the association at
Buffalo, n. Y.
JOHN BRADSHAW, n well known char
acter, walked into the Mississippi river
at Memphis, Tenn. in the presence of
hundred persons, who thought he
was intending to bathe. He kept his
head under the water until he was un.
conscious When the body was taken
out he was dead.
DAVID L. PEARSON, living near New
Buffalo, Ia, was driven insane as the
result OF his belief that the recent
earthquake heralded. the end of the
world, and is now confined in sn asy-
lum. His daughter, aged IS, has also
been adjudged of unsOund mind, her
fathers peculiar hallucination having
also affected her reason.
CHINESE papers received at Vancou-
yer, B. G., recently were bitter in their !
attack on the Japanese authorities in |
COrea. whom they blame for the mur- |
der of the queen. They asserted that
the queen was hanged by her hair and |
tied hand and foot, soaked in oil and |
burned. According to Chinese reports, !
there were fifteen women of title in !
the court, the queen, her mother, and |
1870 ladies in waiting. They were |
nearly all soaked in oil and burned, |
while the mems throats were cut.
The match game of football between |
the Pennsylvania and Harvard univer- |
sites at Cambridge, Mass, was won by |
the Pennsylvanians. Score, II to IA.
THE New York Sun said on the 2lst: |
The court martial proceedings of ex-
Consul Walters trial at Madagascar !
has been received at the state depart
ment at Washington and examined |
closely by Secretary Olney. who has
decided that the tsial was fair in ev-
cry way to the eX-consul on the face of |
the evidence as forwarded from Paris /
and that this government has no SUBJ
stantial ground upon which to base a
demand for indemnity.
THE failures for the week ended
November % Dun's reporD were 32O in
the United States, against 322 last
year, and IL in Canada, against 81 last
year.
REV. J. e. HORNE. of Madison coun-
ty, Tex, brought news TO Bryan
of the lynching of a negro in
remote part of that county recently.
He was accused of riding horse over
a little white girl in the road. infiict-
ing serious injuries on her. Later de-
velopments showed that the mob got
hold of the wrong negro and the guilty
one made his escape.
a PRAIRIE fire started a few miles
south Of Hennessey, Ok, but after
hard fight by over 100 farmers, it was
conquered, though not until it had de-