The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

their wives and children to leave tow
by the next day on peril of being sho
down in their tracks. The fuss wa
precipitated by white man being hell
up near the negro settlement. robbie
and left for dead. The mob asked tn
general manager to discharge the ne
groes, but he refused. They the
went to work and cleared them out
wounding some and demolishing thei
goods.
THE strike of the Brotherhood o
Tailors at New York has been declare,
off.
The San Francisco Chronicle printe,
a story on the 4th exposing an allege
plot to restore Queen Liliuokalani t
the Hawaiian throne and loot Homo
lulu. Rudolph Spreckles, youngest sol
of Claus Spreckels, was said to be back
ing the scheme.
DICK YEAGER, alias Zip Wyatt, tn,
most daring desperate in the Indial
territory, and for years the terror o
Oklahoma, was captured near Sheri
dan, Ok, after one of the most desper
ate fights recorded in the criminal his
tory of Oklahoma
A FEARFUL tragedy occurred a
Gideon church, Baton Rouge, La, il
which Henry and Albert O'Neill, age
respectively % and 81 years, lost thei
lives. The tragedy was the result of
love affair, Albert O'Neill and Hi
Picon being rivals for the girls hand
AS the O'Neill boys came out of churcl
they were fired upon by the Picol
party and both instantly killed.
C. DUNLAP, general superintendent
of the Chicago, Rock Island e. Pacifi,
railroad, died on the 4th in Chicag,
from injuries received while making
the descent on n water toboggan at
bathing resort near jackson park
AN organization was partly effected
at Chicago for the purpose of reclaim
ing John Browns fort and sending i
back to Harper's Ferry, where it i
proposed it shall occupy its old site
1t is probable that the necessary fund:
will be raised among the colored people.
ADvICEs received at Key West, Fla,
on the 4th from trustworthy source
in Cuba stated that a great fight haC
occurred near Baraco, in which Col
Sandoval was wounded and that the
insurgents had burned Jiguani and
Baracoa.
A DISPATCH from Cleveland, o., stat
ed that as a result of the Legislation
adopted some time ago by the League
of American Wheelmen, excluding the
negro from mem bership in the league,
national organization of colored
wheelmen may soon be organized.
THE biggest victory ever made by
organized labor was won in Pittsburgh
Pa, by the miners Almost every de.
mand was granted and the operators
gave a written guarantee for the full
fillment of the contract The papers
were signed on the I'd, which Increases
the wages of 10. 900 miners in Peunsyl-
vania, Ohio. Indiana and Illinois.
The failures for the week ended
August (Dun's reportl were 261 in tho
United States, against $50 last year,
and 2S in Canada, against A last yeas;
THERE were fifty factories repre-
sented at the recent green glass co l.
ference at Pittsburgh, Pa. 1t was de.
cided to refuse the demand of the
United Green Glass Workers league
for a restoration of the IA per cent cut
made in 1894, and to declare a lockout
in all union factories, thus throwing
out 10, 600 men.
A STRIKE of the journeymen plumb
ers of Denver, Col, was ordered on the
1st by their president. The Journey
men demand 81 per day for their serv'
ices, and they claimed the master
plumbers who refused to pay these
wages were doing inferior work with
cheap labor.
SECRET service detectives at Buffalo,
n. Y, found a satchel containing $751;
600 worth of bogus stamps which be.
longed to Mrs. Mcmillan, of Hamilton,
Ont, who was in Jail awaiting trial
for participating in stamp counter
felt scheme.
THE Standard Wagon Co., of Cincin-
natl, assigned on the list with assets of
$500, 600 and liabilities of $500, O0O Sew
eral years ago the company assigned
and after considerable litigation start
ed anew. At the time the Liabilities
were about $500, 200. The company
had done a good business and had paid
its debts out of the earnings of the bus
mess