The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24

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Debs in joint debate on the 18th al
Cleveland, o. The challenge was is
sued on authority of Debs, who said
that if Arthur would meet him he
would show him up in such a way a:
to drive him from the dor movement.
Debs said the engineers brotherhood
was simply an annex of the railway
corporations. Arthur has ignored the
challenge.
A VIGILANCE committee captured and
hung three desperadoes. Tom Foley, a
man known as Wild Horse and half
! breed Chuctaw named Marina. Re-
Gently the gang of which these three
were members robbed Jaqua's store. sc
miles southeast of Oklahoma City, Ok.
grossly assaulted his wife AMI stole
four horses. The alarm was given and
posse followed the gan, coming uu
with them at Crisy crossing. In the
fight that ensued one of the pursuing
party was killed. Three of the gang
made their escape, but Foley and his
two companions took refuge in a de-
serted hut, from which they were dis
lodged with dynamite and hung.
The wheel department OF the PENN
sular car works. at Detroit, Mich was
destroyed by fire on the 17th. Loss,
s35, 900. Two hundred men were
thrown out of work by the fire.
The failures for the week ended Jam
nary 17h Dun's report were 800 in the
United States, against 373 last year,
and 81 in Canada, against 60 last year.
THE American Missionary aS>ocia-
tion. whose jubilee is to be celebrated
in Boston next October, is issuing a
variety of circulars, appeals and his
torical documents, urging Congrega-
tional churches, Sunday schools and
Endesvor societies throughout the
United States to observe February 10
as Abraham Lincoln memorial Sab
bath"
SECRETARY OLNEY was said to have
instructed Minister Terrell TO demand
Turkeys intentions concerning the
treatment OF Americans in Turkey.
THE house of John Wesley, about
three miles west of Muskogee. !. 7. +,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th, and
his daughter-in-law, Mrs Charles Wes-
ley, was burned to death. 1t was be-
by two drunken Creek Indians, who
were ordered away from the house the
night before on account of their con-
duet
THE Oklahoma division, Ancient Or
der of Loyal Americans, in territorial
convention at Mulhall, adopted a reso-
luton condemning the officials of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
for placing on their charts and maps
the English lion, typical of British
power and authority in our free Amer.
ica."
A DISPATCH from Lima, Peru, said
that the mayor of San Miguel had
seized and caused to be burned in the
public square of the city all the Bibles
and stock of the agent of the American
society.
THE United States Rubber Co., of
Melville, R. l., has shut down, throw
ing 1000 men out of work.
A SENSATION was created on the 18th
by a statement in the official organ of
the government that LOCO families in
St Johns, n. f., were without food,
fuel or clothing, and have nothing with
which to face the rigOrs of the coming
four months. Outposts were also des-
titute. The government will have TO
furnish supplies as most of the citizens
are unable to assist
WHILE workmen were digging an ex-
cavation for the pier of a bridge over
the Brazos river near Martin, Tex, a
landslide occurred, burying three men.
One got out alive, but the other two
were smothered to death before help
could reach them.
A LIGHT engine ran into a crowd of
car cleaners who were walking the
tracks on the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad at New York on the
18th, killing two women and injuring
two other women and a man so badly
that they will probably die.
TwENTY-THREE hundred railroad
stock cars were sold at the courthouse
steps at Chicago on the 10th for $780,
900. The cars were formerly the prop
erty of the Hicks Stock Co. Last No
vember a judgment was entered against
the company for the sum of S1.341, 600,
under bill of foreclosure fled by the
Railway Equipment Co., which fur
nished the cars.
The Japanese warship Konei found
cred off the Pescadore islands and be-
tween 90 and SO men were thought to
have been drowned. The vessel was
on her way to Toxic, Japan, when she
struck a rock and sank.
JAMES II. ECKELs, the comptroller OF
the currency, spoke at Chicago on the
10th on Our Currency System" He
criticised it severely, especially the |
green back element in it, and said the |
legal tenders ought to be retired.
A CHICAGO dispatch said that D. B. |
Robinson, vice president of the Santa |
Fe railroad, may soon leave that line
TO accept the presidency of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad.
Ex-PREsIDENr HARRISON, at New
York, made the formal announcement
that he and Mrs. Dimmick were en-
gagged to be married, but that the we'd
ding would not take place until after
Lent.
AT Antlers, !. T., on the 10th viii
Green, painter, shot and MORALLY
II. w. Berry, q merchant, at