The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-12-06
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of the president, stated thai ard
circumstances would Mr.. Clevei a''
cept the nomination for a third t-rn
That the president intended To ma .e {
tour of the world when his sec"n
term expired and that he had ALREADY
asked a personal friend of his to ac
company him on the tour.
THE comptroller of the currency ir
his report urges congress to enact leg
islation which will induce naIiona
banks to pay greater attention to note
issues Mr. Eckels says: 1.-The advan
tage accruing to the government by
the substitution of bank note for {
treasury note currency would be i'm
measurably great. The need of main
tanning a gold reserve to meet the re
curing demand obligations would
within a reasonable time, be obviated
and, delivered from this vexatious and
expensive difficulty, the treasury de-
partment could return to its Legitimate
function of collecting the revenues oi
F, the government"
GREAT anxiety was felt st London
for the safety of Baptist missionaries
in the provinces of Shenhi. China. No
news of them had been received since
August The latest report from them
stated that the Mohammedan rebels
had captured the city of See Ngan, the
capital of the province and murdered
large numbers of men, women and
children.
THE Kansas meeting at Chicago on
the I'd did not come up TO public ex-
pectation on account of the absence Of
ex-senator Ingalls, J. Ralph Burton
was present and made speech. Gov.
Morrill, also spoke.
PETER LIND, a miner employed on
the night shift in the Doctor mine at
Cripple Creek, Col, was arrested as he
went from work, and in his pockets
were found nine pounds of ore, worth
at least $40 pound. A search of his
cabin revealed over 100 pounds of ore,
the value of which will run into the
thousands of dollars. Other arrests
were likely to be made.
The failures for the week. ended No
vember 90 (Dun's report) were 279 in the
United States, against 2s9 last year,
and AZ in Canada, against SO last year.
The executive committee of the re-
publican league of college clubs voted
to hold the next netional convention
in Chicago on the first Friday in April,
1896
AN accident resulting in the loss of
thirteen or fourteen lives occurred at
the Tilley-Foster mines at Carmel. n.
Y, on the 10Th. A vast weight of
earth and rock slid with the force of
an avalanche from the mouth of the
pit to the bottom, a distance of BOG
feet. and the earth crashed over the
men working at the bottom.
On the night of the Goth Joe Robin
were taken from the Jail at Fayette-
vile. Tenn, and hanged. The negroes
had been tried for attempted criminal
assault. convicted and sentenced to the
full penalty of the law. Gov. Turney
received a telegram from the sheriff
calling for troops, but soon after a
telephone message was received by the
governor stating that the jail had been
storIned and the prisoners lvnched.
WILLIAM KAATKA, farmer residing
near Menomonie, Wis, is in jail on the
charge of numbering his wife with an
AK. lie Drained her, and proceeded to
chop her into pieces His I3-year-old
daughter and 14-year-Old son were
present The son, armed with Win
chester rifle, prevented his escape until
help arrived.
CLEARING house returns FOR the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended November 90 showed an av-
GRACE increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year OF so;
in New York the increase was 81;
outside New York the increase was
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CHAIRMAN GIDEON, of the l.. A. w.
said on the eth that the cyclists Ca
banne, Titus and Murphy, who were
temporarily suspended for alleged
crooked racing in a class Il race at st.
Louis on August 1?,''have been sus-
pended for life by the racing board. =.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused
in labor circles at Toronto. Ont, by a
report from Montreal that the Knights
of Labor had decided to secede from
tue general assembly and form pure
ly Canadian order. 1t is now fore
gone conclusion that the Ontario
knights will also secede from the gen.
eral assembly. in which event they will
join Quebec and form Canadian order.
The broomcorn warehouses of George
" Howell & Co. and L. Il. Chambers
& Co. of Arcola. Ill. were burned on
the 10Th. together with about 500 tons
OF broomcorn. Loss, 5000
Rev. JUDsoN SMITH, ID. D., secretary
of the foreign department of the
American Board of Missions at Boston,
received the following cablegram on
the sSth from one of the representa-
tiveS of the board in Constantiuople:
Induce Red Cross society, to enter rec
lief work as in war time. Urgency ex-
treme for action by organization under
international protection Four hundred
thousand people destitute. Ordinary
channels of relief closed
REPORTS have reached Ell raSo. Tex, #,
of a big Iaqui outbreak in northeast
crn Sonora. 4 number of citizens. in
Guiding Americans were reported
killed.
JouN J. OvERToN, claiming to be 9S
years of age, was convicted in the