The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-04-26

! implicated the others. After murder
ing the farmer the negroes placed the
body in brush heap and burned the
heap. The debris was afterward cx-
amined and the teeth, liver and heart
of the victim were found.
GOLD miners from the west were re-
ported flocking to the Piedmont Sec
tion of North Carolina, and there was
an outbreak of mining fever. The
discovery of a pure nugget, weighing
eight pounds and five ounces, in
Stanley county had increased the in
terest in mining.
1T was reported at Key West. Fla,
that British smack, plying between
Long Key and Nassau, was fired upon
by Spanish gunboat and two of her
seamen killed and that the vessel was
taken to Santiago de Cuba by the gum
boat
A CONTROLLING interest in the Chi
cago Times-Herald has been purchased
by H. II. Kohlsaat, formerly owner of
the Inter Ocean, who Immediately an
nounced that he would run the paper
in the interest of hard money and pro-
lection.
THE failures for the week ended
April ID (Dun's report) were 241 in the
United States against 2l9 last year.
THE fifth annual convention of the
Young Women's Christian association
met at Pittsburgh, Pa, with over 200
delegates present The following Of
ficers were elected: Mrs. Grace Whit
ney Evans, of Detroit. president: Mrs.
| L. w. Messer, of Chicago, and Miss
Mary b. Stewart, of Detroit, vice.
presidents; Flora Shank, of Indiana
polls, and Carlotta Codding, of Wilkes
barre, Pa, secretaries. The reports
showed a membership of 29.459, with
an increase of thirty associations dur
ing the year.
c. J. BRONsToN, Breckenridge ad-
mirer, who will almost surely be elect
ed state senator from the Lexington,
KY, district, has received a petition
from ss3 Breckenridge men, asking him
to work for w. c. p. Breckenridge for
United States senator against Mr..
Black burn next year.
CHARLES w. SLICK, of Mishawaka,
grand commander of the Indiana COM
mandery Knights Templar, has caused
something of sensation at the annual
meeting of the commandery by de-
nouncing the use of Intoxicating
liquors at masonic headquarters.
CHAIRMAN GEORGE ID. GIDEON, of the
L. A. w. racing board, has sprung his
eagerly-looked-for sensation, and TWEEN
ty-eight riders in class A have been sus-
pended. Who these men are is not vet
known, as the names will not be an
nounced till later. johnson has been
announced as suspended. In addition
TO the Minneapolis rider, two class A
men have been placed officially under
the ban. They are Orlando Stevens, of
Ottumwa, Ia, who has been suspended
from class A pending investigation. and
George Fitzsimmons, of Charlotte, n. C.
DEPLoRABLE accounts of the condi-
ton of crops were received from the
section around Austin. Tex, as a result
of the unprecedented dry winter and
spring. The prevailing winds had
been from the north, blasting fruit and
whitening oats, which will be a total
failure. Cotton seed had rotted in the
ground and whole plantations will
have to be replanted. Corn was wilt
ing; trees, which usually have crop
of young nuts at this time of the year,
were just budding.
THE regents of the Californ ia uni
versity have been informed by the ex-
ecutors that the bequest of the late J.
c. Wilmerding of a trust fund of $780,
600 for the building and maintenance
of a school of trades for boys was ready
to be turned over to them.
THE main business portion of Ard
more, /. T, for six solid blocks, was
burned on the 18th, sixty business houses
being entirely destroyed. The loss was
estimated at from $500, 900 to $500, 600.
The United States court and Jail were
also destroyed and the vault of the
courthouse was cracked and the court
records partly destroyed. The fire was
said to be incendiary.
THE National league opened the
championship baseball season on the
18th with Brooklyn at New York,
Philadelphia at Baltimore, Cleveland
at Cincinnati, Boston at Washington,
Pittsburgh at Louisville and Chicago
at st. Louis.
of the Young Women's Christian asso-
citation opened at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 18th.
GEN. JOHN b. GORDON, commander OF
the United States Confederate Veter- !
ans urges the members of the order |
all over the country to be present at
the fifth annual reunion to be held |
the latter part of May at Houston, |
Tex. He represents that projects of !
great Importance will come up, among |
other things the marking and caring !
for the graves of the unknown dead |
who are buried at Gettysburg. Cairo |
and other battlefields and in other |
cemeteries, and the formulation of |
plans for mutual relief and beneficial |
association.
THERE was another violent earth /
quake shock at Laidbach, Austria, on |
the 18th. 1t was found that the recent |
subterranean disturbances had dam
aged 9s per cent. of the houses at Laid /
bach, and traffic and business there |
have been suspended.
THE pope, through the congregation
of the propaganda. has addressed let
ter to the Canadian bishops condemn
ing the frequenting of Protestant or
neutral schools by the Catholics of
Manitoba.
GEN. THOMAS, of the Sac and Fox
agency, has issued an order giving no
tice that all those who do not hold
legal leases to lands in that reserva-
ton, signed by the secretary of the in
terror, will be elected
An edict has heen iSsned nv the Chi