The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-01

J. P. MARTIN, adjutant-generalo of the
department of the Missouri, died at the
Chicago Beach hotel on the 10Th. He
had been i'll for some time with kidney
trouble.
THE National Reform Press associa-
ton, at its session in Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 23d, elected w. s Morgan, Of
Hardy, Ark, as editor of populist news
and then adjourned sine die.
THOMAS ALLEN, a negro who has just
died at Halsey, KY, confessed that he
had committed five murders, two of
them in Alabama, two in Tennessee
and one in Georgia. Three of his vic.
Tins were white women. One man was
tried and convicted and hanged for one
of his crimes.
UNKNowN rogues placed pile CT ties
on the Carthage branch of the Burling-
ton road near Carmi, ILL.,, and nearly
succeeded in wrecking the northbound
passenger. The engine struck the ties
and they became so wedged under the
wheels that the engine had to be raised
by Jacks before the obstruction could
be removed.
SrAMBoUL, the $780, 900 trotting stal.
lion, once champion of the world, the
property of Alexander Hildebrand, of
Oconomowoc. Wis, was killed by the
cars on the 23d.
GEN. JOSEPH B. CARR, noted union
general of the civil war, died at Troy,
n. Y, on the oath.
THE editors of the peoples party met
in convention at Kansas City, Mo-, OF
the 22d. They passed resolutions in.
dorsing the Omaha platform in its en-.
tirety and stating that as the money
questions had been brought to the front
by the two old parties they had no de-
sire to evade the issue.
DUN's review of trade on the 23d said
that the surprising success of the new
loan had given confidence to investors
and business men and encouraged
many to hope that real recovery was
beginning. The prices of farm prod.
ucts had not improved nor had cotton
advanced, although the receipts had
decreased.
THREE bandits held up the Frisco
westbound train near Aurora, Mo-, on
the night of the 22d. They made the
engineer and fireman break open the
express car door, but the messenger had
made his escape, and as they had moth
ing with which to open the safe, they
disappeared in the darkness without
getting anything.
THE North Carolina house of repre-
sentatives resolved to adjourn out of
respect to the memory of Frederick
Douglass. As it refused TO adjourn on
Lees birthday this action caused great
indignation.
WILTSHIRE, O., was the scene of a
double tragedy recently. Samuel
Young, In a fit of jealousy, made his
young wife leave his house. He fol.
lowed and overlook her and stabbed
her three times in the side with a
butcher knife. She managed to reach
her sisters house about an hour after
being stabbed, and picking up her g.
months-old babe fell to the floor and
died before anyone reached her.
Young went home and hanged him
self. Young was 20 years old and his
wife 81. jealousy was the only cause
attributed for the rash act.
AT Rippon, near Charleston, w. Va,
Robert Hill was numerically chastis-
ing one of his sons, when the boy ran
to the mother for protection. The
father then beat the mother. The
daughter, Cordelia. secured a revolver
and fred at her father killing him.
The child was taken before a justice
and an indictment for murder was found
against her within few hours after
the homicide.
News reached Montgomery, Ala, on
the 2lst that Kolb was preparing to
carry into execution his threat to es-
tablish a dual government, the legis-
lature having failed to pass such a con-
test law as he demanded.
News comes from Benton county,
Tenn, of the loss by J. NJ. Hamer and
Thomas Miller each of a child aged 3
years by fire. One was burned to a
crisp, dying Immediately, while the
other fingered several hours in much
pain.
The bill to repeal the anti-Jesuit law
passed the German reichstag on the
Goth, amid cheers from the Catholic
party.
In Cleveland, O., the tenth annual
convention of the National Electric
Light association was called to order
at Army and Navy hall on the 10Th,
with about 500 delegates in attend
ance.