The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-10

AT Woodward. Ok, three prisoners
confined in the jail secured gun and
forced the guard to open the cage.
They then armed themselves with
Winchesters in the cell house and
started for the hills. Sheriff Oden
and some deputies soon after started in
pursuit, came up with the convicts and
demanded their surrender. In the
fight which followed two of the con-
victs were killed and one of the depu-
ties seriously injured.
Miss BARBARA FISHER, of Peters
burg, KY, and her two sons were
caught on the Lick run trestle and
Mrs. Fisher fell 40 feet into the water
and was killed. The boys, aged 10 and
IL, crouched at the end of the ties as
the train passed and were saved.
AT Atlanta, Tex, William II. Wad-
die gave some deadly poison to his
three children, aged from 6 to 10 years,
and then took dose himself, evident
| ~ with suicidal intent The children
all died in a few minutes. Waddle
was still alive, but unconscious. His
wife died few months ago and it is
believed that her loss was the direct
cause for his awful act.
AT Detroit, Mich, two boys went in
the Rouge river to swim and one got
the cramp in his legs and clutched the
other and both were drowned. An
other fatality happened on the Detroit
river, sailboat capsizing containing
I ftxn nd hn N
and one man were drowned. The ac-
cident was caused by the men scuniing.
FOREST fires were raging around
Bradford, Pa, on the 5th and millions
of feet of lumber had been destroyed,
besides many acres of timber land
burned over. Near Glen Haze an
engine house. sixteen cars of lumber
and coal, eight dwellings and an oil
well were destroyed. Fires were re-
ported as raging along the Erie rail-
road between Kentner and Bradford
and the loss in oil and lumber was
likely to be immense.
A PARTY of five were fishing on the
5th on Lewis lake, about miles from
Fort Collins, Col. The boat capsized
and the entire party were drowned.
The parties who came to their death
in the lake were Robert Craig, Gus
Carsrude and three of the Carsrude
children.
TURNER dem was declared governor
of Tennessee by Is majority in the
legislature on the Sd.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended May showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of l5.2; in New
York the increase was %. :; outside New
York, 81.
a DISPATCH from Huntington, w.
Va, on the I'd said that all the miners
on the Norfolk e Western railway
were out, except 1,2OO, who were in the
Northwestern company's mines. a
desperate effort was being made to
have them join the strike and it was
thought If they did not come out there
would be trouble. Strong guards were
stationed at all the bridges, coal tip
pies, etc, and two companies of militia
were held in readiness to go to the
scene of the trouble.
AT the banquet at Detroit, Mich, on
the I'd to celebrate the completion of
the new chamber of commerce in that
city Comptroller of the Currency
EclSels made the principal speech of
the evening in response to the toast
Currency" speaking in favor of the
gold standard and against the free
coinage of silver, declaring that the
silverites' propaganda was silver fat
ism pure and simple. He advocated
the education of the people in sound
monetary principles.
IN Baltimore 300 coatmal1ers, men,
bers of the United Garment Makers of
America, opposed to the sweating sys-
TEN, were out on a strike on the 3Oth.
PRICES on straw hats and wall paper
are slated for a pronounced rise, ac.
cording to a Chicago paper. Straw
hats will be higher as a result of
China's war, the supply of Asiatic
braid being expected to fall short.
IN the trial of Oscar Wilde, the
aesthetic, for an immoral offense in
London, the jury was unable to agree
and they were discharged. He will be
tried again at the next session OF the
criminal court. Bail was refused.
NJ. w. TAGGART, deputy tax collector
of Dallas county, Tex. has been
charged with the embezzlement of 81,
99s of the county's funds and war
rant issued for his arrest.