The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-06-07
GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL, the well
known friend to women, died at Lon
don recently, aged 90. She had la
bored earnestly during her life in
opening avenues of employment tC
women who were forced to work for a
living.
THE convention of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen at Galesburg,
Ill, on the LIST, adopted a system of
state legislative boards to look after
legislation friendly to railroad labor
in the several states. 1t also adopted
the Cedar Rapids plan of federation,
combining Brotherhoods of Engineers,
FSremen. Conductors, Trainmen and
Telegraph Operators.
The New York World on the I'd pub
lished telegraphic poll of the next
congress upon the silver, tariff and in
come tax questions. Out of III men,
hers Sc favor free coinage, ~ bimetal-
9ism and Il the gold standard. On the
tariff 2s are against any change, 81
favor moderate changes and IS want
radical changes. On the income tax
80 favor the principle and ~ oppose il
and a great many evade answering the
question.
Two hundred and fifty quarts of
nitro-glycerine being taken up the
Little kanawha river by employee Jim
Hines exploded Immediately opposite
the largest mill in Parkersburg, w. Va.
Theme had just quit work, but sew.
eral were stunned and badly cut. Man
and boat were annihilated. Several
people were injured by falling ceilings,
glass, runaways, etc. The damage tc
property. including mills, churches,
steamboats,. etc, will reach So, 900.
A DISPATCH from Des Moines, Ia, of
she both stated that in a number of
places in that county seventeen-year
locusts, the scourge that impoverished
the northwest a number of years ago,
had made their appearance. Last sea-
son it was announced by scientists
that the locusts might be looked for
this summer.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended May 81 showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of 15.2; in New
York the increase was 204; outside
New York, So.
ATTORNEY THOMAS TYRE fell from
fifth story window at Lebanon, Ind,
recently and alighted upon his baby in
Its carriage. The little one was killed
instantly and Tyres neck was broken.
He was cleaning a window in his office
when he lost his balance and fell.
TIE boiler of the Ecuadorean gun
boat Sucre exploded recently, killing
tie commander and fourteen men and
injuring seventeen more, thirteen IA
tally. At the time OF the accident she
was carrying troops to Machala to at.
tack the rebels.
SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARCoURT.
Chancellor of the British exchequer,
has formally replied to a memorial
forwarded by influential financiers in
the following terms: You may rely
upon it that her majesty's government
viii give no countenance to any
change in the fundamental principles
Of our monetary system, nor in any
discussions in which they may be
called upon to take part will they ad-
NIT any doubt as to their intention
firmly to adhere to the single gold
standard
LORD ROsEBERY's horse, Sir Visto,
won the English derby on the Goth:
T. Cannon's Curzon was second and
Sir J. Blundell Naples Kirk Connell,
the favorite, third.
DOUGLAS HENDERSON and Frank JEFF
frey were hanged at Murphysboro,
Ind, on the 31st for the murder of
James Towle at Carterville last winter.
A RECENT dispatch from Anderson,
Ind, said that the fruit jar factories
which began with such bright pros.
poets early in the season. were about
20 close, as so much fruit had been
killed by the recent frosts that the
fruit jar trade had been cut down one
half
MRS TIMBERLAKE, young widow
who lives with her father near Barlow,
Fla, was recently assaulted. -Four
negroes suspected of a knowledge of
the crime were arrested and at night
they were taken from their guards by
= mob and three of them put to death,
while the fourth was almost beaten &c
death and ordered to leave the country.
LEMEN Bros circus train, bound for
NeEaunee TO Escanaba, Mich, collided
with q northbound ore train on the
slst- Both engines and two circus cars
were wrecked. Three horses were
killed and two injured. Five of the
circ1s employees were injured. but none
fatally
AT Gravesend track near New York
city on the 2Sth McCafferty's colt. APP
plegate, I'On the great American
stake Time, Zoe.
LAFAYETTE PRINCE, the Cleveland
wife murderer. was hanged at Column
5us. o.. soon after midnight on the
z6th- He had protested religion and
WAS calm and unm0ved to the last.