The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-27


Britain and America at New York the
Americans were the champions. not 9
single one of the eleven events being
! won by a Britisher. Four worlds
records were broken by the Americans
as follows: Half-mile run, c. J. Kill
patrick, 1853 2-j; running high jump,
NJ. f. Sweeney, feet 81 inches; 220
yard dash. B. J. Wefers, y 3-5 seconds;
i2O yard hurdle race, Stephen Chase,
- 2-5 seconds.
NJ. Z. STINsON, formerly agent for
the Rock Island railroad at Fairfield,
Ia, shot ard killed Miss Arta Moore,
of Panora, and then committed suicide.
The girl has for some time past been a
student at the Iowa college. She went
there from Grinnell on the night of the
21st and was met by Stinson. The
couple took rooms at the Astor house,
at OskalooSa, Ia, where the tragedy
cccurred.f The reasons for the killing
were unknown.
THE wedding of Miss Consuelo VAN
derbilt and the duke of Marlborough,
it was rumored, will take place No
vember IA at New York and $40, 600, 600
will go as dowry with the bride. s.. OOO,-
600 of which will be given outright to
the duke to restore the family fortunes.
CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended September 20 showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 20. 3;
in New York the increase was IS. 4;
outside New York the increase was
IO.4.
WILLIAM F. CURTIS, well known as a
newspaper writer and executive officer
of the Pan-American congress. arrived
at San Francisco recently from China
and Japan. lie described the ravages
of cholera in China as something
frightful The deaths in Pekin aver
age 1000 a day.
On the third day of the dedication of
the battlefield of Chickamauga there
was a grand civic and military parade
in which the visiting governors and
their staffs and other notables took
part. Senator Bate, Congressman
Grosvenor. and Cows. Morton, Wood
bury, Matthews and Turney made
talks, the latter creating a sensation
by saying that he could never be con-
vinced that the south was wrong DUR
ing the war.
A SPECIAL cable from Shangh on
the Goth reported that four British
cruisers were ascending the river
Yang-tse- Kiang in consequence of in
formation that foreigners were being
threatened with violence in the inte-
rior of China.
IN honor of the fetes commemorate
ing the entry of the Italian army into
Rome in 1870, King Humbert has
granted a pardon to all the Sicilian
rioters who were undergoing sentences
of Imprisonment for less than ten
years.
The cruiser Barcastegui was wrecked
in collision with the merchant steam
er Mortera in the canal at the entrance
of Port Barcastegui, Cuba. Marine
General Delgado Pareio and three other
officers and thirty of the crew were
drowned.
THE London Sportsman announced
that Laycock. Goodfellow IL Bell, |
bankers, had cabled to the New York
Yacht club an offer of 81, 900 for a race
in English waters between the De-
fender and Valkyrie Ill. A check to
that amount had been deposited with
the secretary of the Royal Yacht squad |
ron.
THE creditors of the First state bank
at Perry. Ok, which was closed a short |
time ago with $4,000 liabilities and |
little assets, have attached the court !
house of the county, claiming it was
part of the property of the Richard |
sons, who were claimed to have been |
responsibly connected with the bank. |
AT the session of the sovereign grand |
lodge Independent Order of Odd Eel |
lows at Atlantic City, y. J.. on the 18th |
an amendment to the constitution was
carried that no saloonlleeper or bar
tender or gambler shall be eligible to |
membership in the order. NJ. Richard |
Muckle, of Philadelphia, was made |
sovereign grand treasurer in place of |
Isaac C. Shepard. who resigned on ac- /
count of i'll uealth.
The London Chronicles Rome corre- |
spondent said that the announcement |
of subscriptions for the ransom of |
Rome and its restoration to the pope |
was received with the greatest ridicule, |
both by Italians and bv the vatican.