The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-22

OVER 400 employees of the j. Ii. & j.
VI. Cornell iron works at New York
went on a strike on the 18th and also
90 men employed bv Millikep Bros
>ome men were also called out in
BROOKLYN, making a total of l. 900 men
belonging to the two firms on a strike.
1t was stated that from 10. 600 to 10000
men were also likely to be called out
IN sympathy. The wage scale was the
cause of the trouble.
Tue British steamer James Turpie
sunk the British steamer Vulcan 10y
colliding with her near Gibraltar and
two of the Vulcan's crew were lost.
PETER w. BREENE. president of the
d"funct Leadville Coli Savings and
Deposit bank. was reported missing.
He had borrowed $4,000 from the
bank.
TIE Armenian National union at
Chicago has sent a petition to the six
great powers of Europe and the secre-
tary of state of the United States urg-
ing them, in the name of humanity, to
decide the fate of the Armenians at an
early congress by liberia ting them from
their unbearab BILE condition and save
them from utter eXtermination.
AN express train on the Great North
ern railroad was held up near st. Cloud,
Mimi. The robbers were evidently af-
ter the express car, aud, surprising it
to be second from the engine, cut it off
from connection with the mail car.
The engineer then threw open the
throttle and pulled safely into St.
Cloud with the treasure.
FRANCIS $CHIATTER. VINO disa ppeared
from Denver, Col. a short time ago,
has written that he will be in Chicago
November 30. He stated that the first
two weeks of his stay there would be
devoted to Treatment in private.
After that he would give public demon
STATIONS of his healing powers for
three months.
OFFICERS and a mob of citizens were
on the night of the 18th on the trail of
a negro fiend, Bob Scales. who shot
and fatally wounded the 12-vear-Old
daughter of Thomas B.lton, white.
near Madison. n. c. Scales is Is years
old. lie tried to persuade the girl to
accompany him on a walk and when
she refused he shot her.
FRANK T. SLAvIN has signed arti-
cles for twenty round match with
Peter Maher, for $500 and the best
purse. the fight to take nlace either in
England or South Africa.
ADvICEs received at Chicago indi-
Gated the election of f. F. Ripley,
present third vice president of the Chi
cago Milwaukee X ~. Paul railway.
as president of the Atchison. Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway Co
JAMES CONES, who hacked Miss
Lizzie Jones at Frederick. Md. on the
10th. with razor. after she had given
him something to eat when he begged
for it. was taken from the Jail by
mob of so men on the 18th and
hanged to tree in field a mile from
the city The mob battered down the
doors of the Jail to get at the man.
CHEMICALS exploded in a blind alley
back of George A. Kelley & Co.'S
wholesale drug store at Pittsburgh,
Pa. The fire department responded
and when a dozen firemen were well
in the alley some barrels of benzine
exploded. Their comrades turned the
hose on them and their lives were thus
saved. The burning oil ran on the
pavement and blazing and roaring be-
tween two and three stories high ran
down the street. The crowd fed panic
stricken. The flames continued until
the water washed them away.
COL Z. b. FITZGERALD, who keeps
restaurant in New York. tried the
''bloomer" experiment i'm the line of
mattresses at noon on the 10th and an
hour later the other mattresses were
on strike-nOt alone because of the
one ''bloOmer girl" but also against
the order that all of them were to APP
pear in ''bloomerS'' on the 18th at
o'clock. Fitzgerald was forced to
rescind his "bloomer order and the
girls returned to work.
THE executive committee of the
American Bimetallic league on the
18th unanimously adopted resolu-
ton accepting the invitation of the
national silver committee. of Chicago,
in calling conference of those who
believe in the free coinage of gold and
silver at l6 to l, independently of other
countries, to meet at Washington jan
nary 80 1896. for the purpose of ar
ranging for a national convention.
A NATIONAL organization of agricul-
tural newspap per men was organized at
Chicago on the 18th. It was named the
4 rricultural Press league, and the Of
ticers for the coming year are: NJ. j.
Lawrence. pre- Sideut: j. w. Wilson.
vice president: ]. Is. Common. treasurer.
The next meeting of the league will be
held in Chicago next March.
4 PROMINENT Spaniard at Mexico
CITY. in close touch with the Spanish
government. stated that before Spain
would cnncede Cuban independence or
permit the island t. go under the pro-
lection of the United States she would
give England possession of it until
that county had collected the advances
she had made To carry on the war with
Cuba.
EDITH CROW 3-vear-old daughter of
Gus Crow. living at sherman. Tenn.
met Il horrible death recently. The
child attempted to- put on, a bonfire
turning in her fathers back yard. when
her clothes took fire. and her flesh was
literally roasted to the bone.
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