The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-29

Two MASKED robbers held up Flor
ence and Cripple Creek passenger train
near Vinton, Col, on the Esd. robbing
the passengers and mail and express
cars. From the two latter they got
nothing of value, but the passengers
were robbed of abut $1,000, besides
large number of watches, rings and
diamonds
THE Missouri legislature adjourned
size Gle on the 23d.
AT Chapleau, Ont, the house of P.
Dollard was burned by the upsetting OF
lamp and three of his children were
cremated and one so badly burned that
its recovery was doubtful.
In Italy an earthquake on the 23d
damaged one of the churches and a
number of houses at Mirabella, and at
Imbaccari the wall fell. burying a
number of worshipers, and six persons
were killed.
JOHN J. WALLER, formerly United
States consul at Tamatave, Mauritius,
has been tried by court martial by the
French military authorities of the ISL
and and sentenced to twenty years
Imprisonment for corresponding with
the Hovas and refusing to recognize
the French protectorate. Waller Sc
cured a valuable concession from the
Hovas of the southern part of the ISL
and Astounding in rubber trees against
the protests of the French colonists.
Waller was born a slave in Missouri
and afterwards published papers in
Topeka and Atchison, Kan. He had
also been superintendent of the indus
trial department of the Kansas blind
asylum.
A SENSATIONAL story was current in
New York on the 22d that filibuster-
ing expedition was being organized in
that city for the invasion of Cuba.
The government of New Zealand
has agreed to be represented at the
suggested international monetary con-
ference.
PASSENGER train No 81 on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas collided with a
gravel train miles north of Dallas,
Tex Brakeman John Orr, of Sedalia,
Mo-, was killed, and Conductor Bolts, of
the gravel train, was slightly injured.
None of the passengers were hurt,
JOHN MARTIN. colored, went at
o'clock in the morning to the house of
Mrs. Larry. a colored widow at Hot
Springs, Ark. and attempted to enter
the house, when she fred through the
door, killing him. Deceased left wife
and several children.
The strike of the electrical workers
at New York has ended in a complete
victory for the electrical contractors
association.
THOMAS HIGGINS was arrested at
Providence, r. l., for holding his boy
over a boiling tea kettle until he was
frightfully burned and went into fit.
HARRIET TALLEY, colored. was
hanged by a mob near Petersburg,
Tenn. She was suspected of burning
the residence of Mr.. Marshall near
there few nights ago. hence her I'M
timely death.
You've GRIFFo and Jack Hanley
fought six lively rounds at the South
wick Athletic club, Philadelphia, or
the Goth, and, while no decision was
given, the contest ended decidedly in
favor of Hanley.
DURING high wind spark from a
chimney set fire to a straw stack in
Pawnee township, near Guthrie, Ok,
and the flames soon spread to the dry
prairie grass, and the country for many
miles was devastated. a number of
farmers lost all their buildings, hay,
grain, implements, etc, and much
stock persisted.
EVERY charge of cruelty and inhu-
man punishment made against the
state reformatory at Buena Vista, Col,
is sustained by the report of the special
committee of the state board of char
tiles and corrections appointed to in
vestigate the management of the insti-
tuition.
The excitement in the speculation in
African mining shares was so intense
in London that brokers continued their
dealings after regular trading hours.
The mining speculation has become
wilder than ever and prices go on adj
vancing enormously. Many brokers
are making fortunes out of the deal
ings. Throckmorton street was full of
warnings against a collapse that is
sure to come, but no attention was
paid to them.
GEN. PHILIP ST. GEORGE COOKE died |
at Detroit, Mich, on the Goth, aged s.
years. He had seen service in every |
field where American valor has been |
displayed for fifty-seven years