The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-11

AT a secret meeting at Cincinnati all
the woodworking machinery manu-
| fscturers of the United States CONSOLE
dated.
In attempting to cross the Verdigris
river, four miles north Of Muskogee. L
T., Will Wade and two McKnapp girls,
all colcred, were drowned by the boat
overturning.
THE Dallas (Tex.) Freethinkers' as
ISOLATION has passed resolutions calling
upon all churches and other organized
bodies to join them in demand upon
the president of the United States for
the recognition of the Cuban insur-
gents as belligereuts.
JOHN D. RoCKEFELLER is going to
erect rolling mills in South Chicago
on the shore of Lake Michigan which
will cost at least $40, OOO, 900, possibly
twice as much.
SIXTY hogs on the farm of Gilman
Bailey at Oelevan, H., have died from
a disease thought to be hog leprosy and
many others of the immense droves on
the place were said to be affected.
THE little town of Flippen, KY, has
been almost wiped out by fire.
SEVERAL hundred striking Italian
miners caused trouble in the Forest
Coal Co.'S mine at Archibald, Pa, and
excitement there was intense. Blood
shed was narrowly avoided by the en-
ployment of armed detectives to pre-
serve order. The Italians objected to
the deduction from their pay of the
cost of the employment of expert over
seers, who were keeping watch over
the miners to prevent the robbing of
pillars in the mines.
SIXTY men employed by the Connor
Logging Co. at Stratford, Wis, had a
miraculous escape from cremation.
The house in which they were lodged
was fimsy pine structure, and when
fire broke out at midnight they es-
capped with great difficulty. The au-
thorities of Wausau arrested a man
named Diggman on suspicion of start
ing the fire, but he was Immediately
bailed out by friends and hurried out
of town.
A DOUBLE murder occurred near Pine
Bluff. Ark, on the 5th. A negro
two sons of his employer, aged Is and
Is years, attacked the boys with
knife, cutting the throats of both and
crushing the skull of the eldest. Bands
of men secured the woods, but the
negro escaped.
A HEAD-END collision between two
through freights on the Southern Pa
cifc road near Waelder, Tex, on the
9th resulted in the death of two en-
gineers, two firemen and brakeman.
The crew of the east bound freight
went to sleep while waiting on blind
siding and on WAKING, thinking that
the second section of the through west
bound freight was the third section of
the train, took the main line.
OVER 500 persons were made serious
ly sick at Milwaukee by buying bread
from bakery. 1t was thought arsenic
had been put into it.
The failures for the week ended the
Sd Dun's report) have been 379 in the
United States, against $24 last year.
and in Canada 80, against 50 last year.
JESSE WELLoNs, a lad II years of
age, was run over by a freight train
and Instantly killed at Knoxville,
Tenn. He was walking along the
track when he saw an engine APP
preaching and in stepping aside he
stepped in front of another train.
Elk PARTE Investigations by the gov
eminent in pension cases have been
abolished by the pension Office. This
is a step of great Importance to claim
ants of all classes, and will be of great
benefit to veterans.
A FIGHT between old man Harrison
and two sons and Morgan and two sons
occurred in one of the mountain coun-.
Morgan is dead and his sons are dying,
while both of the Harrison boys are
also dead.
ARTHUR GARDINER. of Chicago, estab-
lished two professional bicycle records
on the Denver Coll Wheel club track
on the Sd, riding a quarter of mile,
unpaced, flying start, in &c is seconds
and half mile in 100 fat
ERNEST GoDAREY, of Emlenton, Pa,
was on the ice on lake at Celins, O.,
on the Sd when the ice broke. Arthur
Palmer. of Montezuma. O., ran to his
rescue, but the ice gave way beneath
him and both were drowned.
A Rock ISLAND freight collided with
special train near Brooklyn, Ia, and
James Dyer, the engineer, was killed
and a number of both crews seriously
hurt. Both engines and 25 cars were
wrecked. The wreck was due to a mis-
take by Operator Howell, of Grinnell.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople said
that a new massacre had occurred at
Everek in hich 100 Armenians were
reported to have been killed
A broken rail caused bad wreck of
a freight train near Springboro, Pa,
30 cars being demolished and the en-
gineer and fireman seriously injured.
Two other men were supposed to be
buried under the wreck.
SEGAR and Swan brough made six
professional tandem records. unpaced, |
at Denver, Col. on the Ssh. They
then went for the ten-mile record and
broke all records from six miles up.
They rode six miles in 1922 2-5, seven
in 1886 As. eight in 1851 3-5. nine in |