The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-16


and desperate fight ensued. One OF
the trsmps was seriously hurt
AT Cincinnati two electric cars col
lided on the 18th and six persons were
injured, three seriously.
The United States warship Detroit
has gone to China to protect such mis-
sionaries as may fee to the coast and
to enforce such demands as may be
made.
THE Central Stamping Co.'S plant at
Newark, n. j., which covered ten city
lots, was destroyed by fire on the 11th.
Many of the firemen had narrow es-
capes from falling walls. Loss, $780,
900; insurance. $3.50, 600.
A MOB of forty men went to the
Springfield, KY, jail to lynch two ne
gro brutes confined therein. After
getting the keys from the jailer the
mob could not open the doors They
then tried to batter them down, but
they were too strong. Finally they
gave up the job and said they would
be back again. The sheriff afterwards
spirited the two negroes to Louisville.
Ben CRAvENs and Bill Crittenden,
two of the most desperate men of the
territory, who were jailed at Perry,
Ok, for cattle stealing, broke out on
the 18th and made their escape. A
posse of twenty men went in pursuit
of them and Ben Cravens was killed in
the fight. big Susan" sweetheart
of Crittenden. has been arrested for
aiding the desperadoes to escape.
THE failures for the week ended Au-
gust Dun's report were 325 in the
United States against 264 last year,
and 43 in Canada against "a last year.
DEPUTY marshals, who have been fol-
lowing the Christian gang of outlaws
since their escape from the South Enid
| Jail, came upon their camp about 30
miles east of South McAlester, /. T.,
and managed to shoot one of the out
laws dead, whom they claim to be Bob
Christian. The rest escaped.
AT San Quentin prison, California,
Fremont Smith was hanged on the 9Th
for the murder of two fishing COM
! panions.
A DISPATCH from New York on the
9th stated that Jim Hall and Joe
Choynski have been matched for a
glove contest to a finish for the light
heavyweight championship of the
world to take place between October
26 and November 5.
AT the Catholic Total Abstinence
union convention in New York on the
9th St Louis was selected as the next
gust the time for next years meeting.
Father Cleary, of Minneapolis, was
unanimously reelected president.
JUSTICE HOWELL Z JACKSON, of the
United States supreme court, died on
the Sth at his home near Nashville,
Tenn. He had long been i'll of con-
sumption but in the spring was able to
sit on the rehearing of the income tax
cases and assist in overthrowing that
law. He was appointed by President
Harrison to succeed the late Justice
Lamar on the supreme bench.
FIRE destroyed the Transfer hotel at
Pendleton, Ore. There were twenty
nine guests in the hotel at the time.
Four bodies have been recovered from
the ruins and one was missing. The
fire was caused by a man dropping a
| lighted match near gasoline.
THE Perry. Ok, land Office has de-
cided the contest involving the title to
| the city of Cross, 80 miles north of
there. between = 500 townsite settlers
and Meegen, Jewett, Henry, Wag-
goner, Harris and Clapp, who claimed
as homesteaders. in favor of the town
site settlers. The people of Cross can
now get deeds to their town lots.
AT the state democratic convention
at Marshalltown, Ia, on the 9TH the
white metal men were defeated by a
vote of 65l11 to 42O]E. The following
state ticket was nominated: For gov
ernor, Judge W. l. Babb; lieutenant
| governor, eX-Gov. $ L. Bestow; super
intendent of public instruction, Lyman
B. Parshall; railroad commissioner,
Col. George James; supreme judge,
Senator Thomas G. Harper. 1t is un-
derstood that Bestow will not accept
the lieutenant-governors nomina-
ton, he being strong free coinage
man.
AT Big Stone Gap, Va, Eli Hix came
home drunk and built a fire in the
kitchen which in some way set the
house on fire. He and four children
perished. Mrs Hix rescued one of her
five children.
CHOLERA was reported raging in
Russian Podolia- The inhabitants re-
sisted the erection of temporary hos
pitals for the sufferers and troops had
to be called out to quell the disturb
ance.
The prosecuting attorney and chief
of police of San Francisco were con-
siderably worked up on the 9th over
rumors that the jury to try Durrant
for the Emanuel church murders had
been tampered with
The cannon ball express train
smashed into special freight just be-
low Plymouth, y. a., on the Sth. The
engineer and fremen were instant
ly killed. Several passengers were
also seriously injured and fourteen
new freight cars just from the shops
were broken into pieces, as were the
locomotives.
WILMINGTON, Del, was reported as
being flooded with counterfeit silver
dollars
S. T. WARD, Philadelphia agent for
a number of paper mills, said recently
that trust of mills supplying news
papers was assured and it would have
capital stock of S35, ,0OO,O
JUDGE WILLIAM STRONG, retired JUS
tice of the United States supreme court,
was reported critically i'll on the sth
at Lake Minnewaska, n. Y.
THE twenty-ffth annual convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America began at New York
on the eth. Right Rev. James NJ.