The Iola register., 1896-03-20

THREE spanish cruisers were re-
ported on the 10th to be lowering off
the Florida coast watching out for the
steamships Bermuda, Three Friends
and Commodore at Key West, Fla,
supposed to be fitting out filibustering
expeditions to Cuba. 1t was reported
that Uncle Sam was not going to be so
strict about interfering with vessels
carrying arms to Cuba, having decided
to let the Spaniards do their own
watching.
CIRCULARS were being distributed
through the mails by the so-called
Canadian independence Party" de-
claring that Great Britain was robbing
the Dominion through the medium of
the Canadian government
MARION POWERS, commercial trav-
eIer of Lexington, Ind, claims to have
discovered the trail of the relief party
sent out by Gen. John c. Fremont from
the Spanish peaks in Colorado in 1872.
Powers and his companion were pros
pecting for gold in the Sangre de
Cristo mountains in New Mexico and
found the trail leading off from CAVIAR
ista canyon to the head of canyon on
Bitter creek in Taos county. Human
bones, rusty iron buckets and other
campers things were scattered around.
A RIOT occurred at Niles Center, near
Chicago, over the collection of the
poll tax. Two men were fatally
wounded and several others badly
hurt.
CHARLES MORRISON was killed, a
child was fatally injured and hun
dred or more mem bers of a funeral
party almost panic-stricken at Ottum-
wa, Ia, on the 10th by the running
away of one of the teams in the fu-
neral procession.
CONVENTIONS have been held by two
thirds of the counties of Wisconsin,
and all but five delegates were in
structed for Mckinley. There was
thought to be no doubt that Wisconsin
would send an instructed Mckinley
delegation to st. Louis
DARLINGTON BooTH at New York fur
nished description of the standard of
! his new movement. 1t will consist of
white flag; in the center will be a
large blue star; in the middle of this
star a white cross; in the corner of the
flag, nearest the top of the staff, As
white stars in a field of blue, repre-
senting the states of the union, and
over the central large blue star will
read the motto: THE Lord My Ban
ner." He has named his new organi-
zation Goods American Volunteers"
A DISPATCH from New York said that
the great Anglo-American chess match,
played by cable, ended by the Ameri-
cans winning by score of AZ to 81.
At the close of the struggle there was
wild enthusiasm and cheers.
The New York World on the 10th
said that it had made a poll of nearly
every state in the union and as result
predicted the nomination of William
Mckinley by the st. Louis convention.
A MAGAZINE containing 300 pounds
of dynamite exploded with terrific
force in the Center Star mine in the
Trail Creek (B. c. district, imprisoning
20 miners Four miners were taken
out dead, and two others were fatally
wounded. 1t was not known how
many more under ground were killed.
The most intense excitement prevailed
at Trail
! A TELEGRAM from Rome on the 18th
stated that quiet once more reigned in
Italy. Negotiations with King Meme
lik, of Abyssinia, had been opened and
it was thought permanent peace would
soon be concluded.
A BERLIN dispatch stated that the
German bimetallists had made an ar
rangement with bimetallists in En-
gland, France and Austria to introduce
identical motions, looking to the use
of both gold and silver as currency, in
their respective parliaments
Two Italians named Tadeo, father
and son, section hands on the Lake
near Geneva. O., recently. The little
house in which they lived caught fire
and they had not time to escape before
the building was destroyed.
THE post office located at South Chi
cago, with all the mail, was burned on
the 18th. An overheated furnace
caused the fire.
ALEXANDER NEMETTLY. butcher. of
Yonkers, n. Y. murdered his step
daughter, Mary Wittlowslxy. and then
killed himself He tired of his wife
and sought 20 win her daughter, who
was only l6 years old. The girl re-
pulsed his advances and this angered
him.
THIRTEEN thousand Chicago tailors
went out on a strike on the 14th, COM
prising approximately the total strengh
of the union organizations.
A LAW has been passed in Ohio pro-
hibiting the sale OF cigarettes, cigars
and tobacco to minors under 16 years
of age. Dealers violating the statute
are subject to a fine of S25 to 500 for
the first offense and for the next a fine
of $50 to $500 or 60 days Imprisonment
or both.
ONE hundred students of Mullen
burg college at Allentown, Pa, par
ticipated in an anti-Spanish demon
stration the other night. They pa
raded the college corridors and campus
singing patriotic songs and ended by
burning a Spanish flag and hanging
Gen. Weyler in effigy.
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