The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-13

AT Fayetteville. Tenn, Dock King
colored. arrested for attempting to as
sault Mrs. Charles Jones near Fayette-
vile, was taken from the Jail by mob
of 200 men and hanged.
A BAND of colored children was
taken to London by the president of
the negro orphanage at Charleston, s.
c., to play in order to raise money.
aud on their arrival there they found
that the law would not permit chill
dren under IL to perform in public and
they were all stranded without money
and had 20 appeal to the authorities
for help.
A MERRY-eo-RoUND at the Waverly
(N. j. fair went to pieces, throwing
women and children in all directions
Four women were so badly hurt that
they had to be carried on stretchers to
ambulances
STELLA JOHNSON, the 16-year-old
daughter of a widow who lives near
Amilla, Fla, was kidnapped and the
nude corpse of the girl, strapped to a
log and horribly mangled, was found
floating in a small lake about 6 miles
from her home. The girls neck had
been broken and her throat cut from
ear to ear Her right arm had been
severed from her body at the shoulder.
ADvIcEs received from Moscow and
St. Petersburg stated that 900 persons
known or suspected to be nihilists had
been arrested by the police of those
cities, and large quantities of bombs
firearms and dynamite had been seized
in their lodgings and haunts.
INDIANAPoLIs, Ind, was visited by a
terrific storm of wind and rain on the
4th. The city was literally flooded,
many persons being driven from their
homes, and all trains being badly de.
layed.
A BIG mass meeting of representative
Choctaws took place at Atoka, ]. T.,
on the 4th, there being 170 Indians by
blood and about 1000 non-citizens
present Resolutions were adopted
memoralizing the Choctaw national
council, to appoint an Indian commits
sion to treat with the Dawes commits
sion. The convention also adopted res
olutions recommending the allotment
of Choctaw lands
THE twelfth annual convention of
the Association of Official Agricultural
Chemists was called to order at Wash
ington on the 5th by the president, H.
A. Huston. state chemist of Indiana,
with nearly one hundred members
present from all parts of the country.
The objects of the association are to
secure uniformity and accuracy of the
modes of statements of analysis of fer
tilizers, cattle foods, dairy products
and other materials connected with
the agricultural industry.
THIRTEEN houses at Huntingdon.
Tenn, were demolished by cyclone
on the 4th. One man was seriously in
jured. The Nashville, Chattanooga &
st. Louis railway depot there was COM
pletely wrecked. The roof was blown
from the main Southern normal uni
versity building. On the public square
many large brick warehouses were un-
rooted and their stocks damaged. The
public square was almost impossible
on account of the timber and debris
NO lives were lust
THE banking house of Baron AL
phonse Rothschild at Paris was en-
tered bv an anarchist on the 5th who
attempted to light the fuse of bomb
from cigarette he was smoking. The
anarchist. seeing he was observed,
threw down the bomb. but it did not
explode. He was arrested.
The cricket match at Livingston, S.
L, between the Oxford and Cambridge
universities and all New York. was
won by the Englishmen.
AT Philadelphia on the 4th John r.
Gentry won the $4,000 race from Joe
Patchen. Time, 2:Os1I. Itwas claimed
the driver of Patchen pulled his horse
to let Gentry win the race.
A New YORK paper announced that
Pierre Lorillard, the tobacco magnate,
had tired of America, and was going to
England to live. Recently he sold
part of his fine stable to William II.
Vanderbilt and has also placed his
magnificent houseboat on the market
and it was said that he intended to
dispose of his country seat at Johns
town, n. j., where he owns thousands
of acres.
The town of Abasolo, in Mexico, a
place of 500 inhabitants, has been en-
tirely washed away, but fifteen houses
remaining. Three miles away at the
village of Rodiquez, every house was
also carried away.