The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-31
GENERAL NEWN.


York, on the cath, resolutions were
adopted that the democratic press of
that state pledge itself to oppose any
legislation looking to the free and un-
limited coinage of silver. There was
only one negative vote.
CATHOLIC missionary workers are
about to start a movement of the great
est Importance among the masses of
population in Cleveland, o. 1t might
be called a Catholic Salvation army
movement, except that some of the odd
features of the Salvation army will be
omitted.
THE failures for the week ended the
oath (Dun's report) were 207 in the
United States, against 1s3 last year.
DEPUTY marshals had a fight with
Zip Wyett's gang of outlaws in Woods
county, Ok, recently. Wyett was
wounded and his horse killed.
The miners of the Pittsburgh, Pa,
district have practically given up the
strike for 60 cents per ton and will go
back to work at the operators terms of
60 cents.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska,
spoke at Memphis, Tenn. on the money
question, in reply to Secretary Car
lisle's recent speech there on the same
subject. A considerable part of Mr..
Bryan's speech was taken up with COM
parisons of a former speech of Secre-
tary Carlisle with his later one on the
same subject.
CLEARING house returns for the prin :
- -, f.. 81,
week ended May "a showed an average
increase as compared with the corre-
spending week last year of sos; in New
York the increase was 4O.5; outside
New York, 1873.
In a Cincinnati Southern freight
wreck, caused by broken axle, near
Danville, KY, Stanley Davis, from
Chattanooga, and d. R. Stokes, negroes
from Georgia, both tramps, were killed
Five other tramps were slightly
wounded.
senting 1s6 Sunday schools, or twelve
divisions, paraded in Brooklyn on the
cath, in honor of the sixty-sixth ami
.versary of the Brooklyn Sunday School
union. The parade was reviewed by
ex-President Harrison, Prince Francis
Joseph, of Battenberg, and others
IT was stated that the entry of the
;townsite of Creedemore, Col, had been
cancelled. Two or three on the inside
took advantage of the information to
relocate after midnight every unim-
proved lot in that portion of the in cor
porated city of Creede.
THE Ohio Steel Co., of Youngstown,
o., has advanced the wages of all en-
ploYes, over 1000 in number, 10 per
cent The action was voluntary on
the part of the company.
A STRANGER giving the name of
.Lampson tried to buy farm of Assess
or Andrew Page, of Alexander, n. Y.
During the deal third man appeared
with the three card monte game, in
which all took part Page finally got
possession of S., 900 of their money, but
was forced to return it at the point of
a revolver!
AT the recent International Horse
shoers' convention at Milwaukee, reso-
lutions were adopted Endorsing the
free coinage of silver.
TIVE young men were fishing in the
,Neches river, % miles from Crockett,
Tex, when their canoe was attacked
by alligators and broken up and the
young men torn to pieces by the brutes.
The mother of one of the young men
witnessed the tragedy from the bank.
A GENERAL strike of bricklayers was
declared at Chicago and every brick
yard in that city was tied up on the
i22d- The strike was for higher wages
and to force concessions by the manu-
lfacturers-
DURING the parade of Ringling Bros
circus at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the I'D,
a runaway horse dashed into the crowd,
killing Mrs. Elijah Lemay and injur-
ing about twenty others more or less
seriously.
AT the Monongah mine at Wheeling,
Nv. Va, Pole carelessly ignited can
lof powder and terrific explosion fol-
lowed. The smoke was driven through
the mine and suffocated four miners
and seriously affected quite a number
iof others
NEAR Cheyenne, Wyo., a rear-end
collision on the Denver Pacific railroad
.caused the death of Engineer Gray and
Fireman Fuller.
AN explosion of blast at the Smith
& Eastman section on the drainage
channel at Joliet, Ill, killed one white
man and two negroes
A CONCERTED effort was reported un-
der way to secure the pardon of the
Younger brothers, the Missouri ont
laws, who were imprisoned for life in
the Minnesota penitentiary November
%, 1876, forrobbing the Bank of North
field, and killing the cashier. The
papers, petition and all necessary for
Enula had been prepared
TEE bodies of both the Chambers
girls, drowned in the Missouri river at
Bartlett, Ia, some days ago, have been
found. The body of Charlotte, aged
Il, was caught by fisherman in his
net, and the body of the 1O-year-old
girl was caught about 30 miles south
of Oregon. Mo.
AT the interstate drill at Memphis,
Tenn, on the 2Ist the prizes were
awarded as follows: Class A-Thurston
rifles, Of Omaha, first: Morton cadets,
second; Sealey rifles, third. Class B
MsrtOn cadets, frst: Thurston rifles,
second Class C-Thurston rifles. first;
Morton cadets. second. The ThurstOps
won the Galveston cup.