The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-01


at Cambridge, Mass, on the Goth in the
football game by score standing 25
to O.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in
Hayti and President Hippolyte was re-
ported as being guarded in his palace in
Port au Prince by part of his army.
REV. MYRoN REED, of Denver, Col.
created sensation at a populist cam
paign meeting in that city on the 26th
by advocating that 200 men be armed
on election day to watch the polls and
whenever any one was detected fraudu-
| lently voting that he be shot down on
the spot
CUSTER post, G. A. R.. at Tacoma,
Wash, voted down the resolution to
ask congress to admit eX-confederates
/ to the soldiers home.
LAKE Michigan was swept by a ter
rible gale on the 27th. Small crafts
had bad time in the sea that sudden
| ly rolled up.
THE safe in the Northwestern depot
at Moville, Ia, was blown open by
| burglars. The men were so much an
gered when they found nothing inside
that they set fire to the building,
burning it to the ground.
AT South McAlester, l. T., Frank
| Glover, a negro, shot and killed Frank
Messeck, a white man. The two had
been drinking.
IT was announced that Rey el Santa
Anita, owned by Lucky" Baldwin, has
been sold to Richard Croker, of New
York, for sos, 900.
THE Free Thought Federation of
America. in session at New York,
elected s P. Putnam, of Chicago, presi-
dent; r. E. Remsberg, Atchison, Kan,
was chosen vice president. A. b. Rey-
nolds. Hazelton, Kan, offered ground
! for the erection of free thought home
and 500 acres of land free from debt.
TIE failures for the week ended Oc-
tober % Dun's reporD were 23l in the
United States, against 23l last year,
and 80 in Canada, against 50 last year.
HALF of the east wall of the Elmore
Manufacturing Co.'S three-story bicy-
Gle factory at Clyde, O., collapsed while
all of the floors were filled with work
men. More than a dozen men were
badly injured. The digging of a
/ trench for a water main caused the
collapse.
THE twenty-five round glove contest
at the Olympic club, New Orleans, be-
tween Jack Everhardt, of that city,
/ and Owen ii. Zeigler, of Pennsylvania,
was declared a draw. Both men were
said to have displayed much science.
A SPECIAL to the Chicago News from
| Springfield. Ill, said that United
| States Senator John NJ. Palmer had
would not be candidate for re-elec-
/ ton.
/ CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended October - showed an aver
| age increase as compared with the
/ corresponding week last year of 25. ::
| in New York the increase was 81 3:
/ outside New York the increase was
/ 164.
The German steamer Thasos has
/ foundered in fathoms of water near
/ Terschelling, an island of the Neither
lands in the North sea. Three of her
crew were drowned.
A ROME dispatch to the London
/ Chronicle said that at the consistory
to be held in November the pope will
create the following cardinals. viz.
The papal nuncios at Paris, Vienna.
Lisbon and Madrid. the archbishop of
Ancoma and Mgr. Satolli
ALARGE fire ragged in Augusta, Ga,
on the 25th, the loss being over 500. 600.
A FREIGHT wreck occurred on the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
railroad west of Leetonia, O.. on the
25th. One man was killed. The
wreck was caused by the train parting.
FAMINE prevails in the Smolensk and
Paslow districts of Russia, owing to
the failure of the crops. The minister
of the interior recently set apart 1900
600 rubles for the relief of the inha b.
/ itants of these districts, but the ragged
and hungry peasants were said to be
crowding about the railway stations
/ inquiring what had become of the
money.
THE London Standard has further
details from its Constantinople corre-
spondent regarding the execution of
| the fifty young Turks who were ar
rested on charge of eXcesses during
the recent Armenian riots. The fifty
culprits, after a trial. were conveyed
/ by night on board a Turkish man-of-
war, whose boats took them in the
/ swiftest current and dropped them
/ overheard.
/ FIRE destroyed more than 500, 600
worth of property in the business part
of Mckinney, the county seat of Col
lin county, Tex, on the oath. The fire
was near the courthouse square.
ZEKE and Dick Crittenden, two
Cherokees, got drunk at Wagner, 1.
T. and became so wild that they were
both shot by a deputy marshal.
THE steamship City of St, Augustine,
which regularly plies between New
York and Jacksonville, Fla, bringing
lumber from the latter port, was
burned at sea is miles off Cape Hat
teras. Capt Gaskill, wife and seven
teen men, comprising the crew, were
landed at Boston on the oath by the
steamer City of Macon
ADvICEs received from Ismid and
Hendek stated that the MuSsulman
attacks upon Christians there con-
tinued- Troops had been dispatched
to the scene of the disturbances.
The Montana supreme court recent
ly decided that the new gambling law
in that state was unconstitutional
The instant the decision was made
public in Butte a score of gambling
houses reopened-
The twenty-ninth annual meeting of
4ra A-,a-;ao, NF;ee;ora,r aSSnaia.i ton