The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-02
GENERAL NEWS.

+. c. KRAFTs and George Dixon at
San Francisco lowered the worlds
ive-mile tandem road record by nearly
two minutes, placing the figures at
1922 As
The National league baseball season
closed on the 27th, the games sched-
uled for the day at Chicago being pre-
vented by rain. Baltimore, for the
third successive time, wins the pen
nant; Cleveland is second and will play
the champions in the Temple Cup Sc
ries. Cincinnati has to he content with
third place, while Boston beats Chica-
go by a nose in the race for fourth
place.
On the Philadelphia & Reading road,
near Milton. Pa. an empty engine and
tender collided with a heavily laden
coal train, throwing IL cars off the
track and burying Engineer Mitchell,
of the former. beneath the ruins Fire
man Kelly, of the same engine, jumped
off, but was so baily injured that he
died.
THOMAS GORMAN and Mat Carney
were cremated in a log hut near Lam
sing. Ia. II was supposed they quar-
relied and overturned the lamp
Miss FRANCES Z. WILLARD, of the
Worlds W. C. T. T., has sent out an
appeal to the local unions in the Unit
ed States to or yanize meetings to pro-
test against the Armenian masacres
and also to raise money for the suffer
ers and send it to Mrs. Helen NJ Barker
at Chicago.
Of
Tommy White. of Chicago. fought 20
rounds to a draw on the 25th in the
Broadway Athletic club, at New York.
Preceding III # hit Danny Mcbride.
of New York. ami Johnny German, OF
Long Island City, fought ten rounds,
and the referee gave Mcbride the de-
cision.
DUN'S review of trade gives the num-
Der of failures for the week ended the
S5th in the United States as Sl5,
agains; 2i6 last year, and in Canada
80, against - lat year
THOMAS WILLARD, aged 80, started
across the Oh o river from Wheeling,
W. Va. in boat with his son and two
girls. age IS and IA. and when in the
middle IF the river he rocked the boat
to frighten the girls and it "a nsized.
The man and one of the girls were
drowned.
A CONSTRUCTION train Of u dump
cars OF the Batter Il Pittsburgh rail
road went oyeran SO-foot embapkmeut
near Bntler, Pa, owing TO the failure
of the brakes to work. One man was
killed and uumber were injured.
A :. 1 Ar1-snr~ a
litical ration at Elwood, Ind,
on the 25th IN which Joseph Martin,
Samuel Sa.vin AMI Hosea Templeton
were p-oba olv fatally stabbed and a
number of Others were hurt
REV. STANISLAUS KAMISKI, of Buffalo,
N Y, was selected for bishop OF the
Polish Roman Catholic church OF
America by the convention at New
York.
Il. Blenders. OF Carlyle. Ill. was
elected grand commander of the Select
Knights OF America at the conclave at
Peoria, H.. on the 24'h-
AT the 24-hour bicycle race at the
Coliseum a. Chicago on the oath c. w.
Miller did 80 miles in the remarkable
time of l:54:25 So the previous record
being 2:1l:6 4-a
THE Army OF the Cum berland elected
the following officers on the oath at
Rockford. HI: President, Gen. w. 5. Rose
Grams; corresponding secretary, Gen.
Il. V. Boyuton; treasurer. Gen. Fuller
ton; historian, C. g. Mi1a. Columbus,
O., was selected as the next meeting
place.
Two men committed a daring rob
berry at the Union Foundry Co s Office
in Chicago on the 25th. The treasurer
of the company was engaged in filling
the employees envelopes with their pay
when the robbers held him up. The
president. upe-intendent and two
clerks were in the room at the time
The rob 0ers got $1,000.