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

on the 2Sth to gather up evtterce
against any railroads or other corpor.
atoms of trying to intimidate any OF
their employees into voting agains
their convictions.
SIX prisoners assaulted Warden
Reed. of the New Castle, Del, Jail and
relieved him of his KEYS and revoive-
and made their escape. They hal not
been zone five minutes before tbs
whole town learned of the jail bre4h
and citizens star ed in pursuit and re
captured two of The prisoners.
Miss MARGARET JEFFERSON. daughter
of the veteran actor, Joseph Jefferson.
was united in maria re to Mr.. Glen
McDonough, of New York. at Buzzard's
Bay. Mass, on the 2sth, President and
Mrs. Cleveland being present.
HARRIS BOONE, colored, shot the
town marshal at Sparta, Ga, in fuss
and citizens then shot Boone to death.
A WRECK occurred on the Pennsylva.
MIA road between Baltimore, Nd, and
Washington on the 9th. Five freight
ears were derailed and piled in heap
Nobody was hurt.
Miss CARRIE HoRNER, of Westminster,
Md, was informed by her lover on the
27,h while walking in cemetery that
he could not marry her and soon after
wards she was found dying on a grave
from poison.
DURING a democratic rally at Mount
Erie. H.. team belonging to Joseph
Sunday ran away, throwing the five
occupants out and severely or fatally
inju;ing all of them.
COUNTY TREASURER G. E. MORRISON.
of Troy, y. V. reputed to be worth
S300,OOn, has been jailed. charged with
the embezzlemento of $3.50 600.
MOUNT HoLYoKE woman's college at
South Hadley, Mass, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, about Sl50,O0O. None of
the 400 students were injured.
A SPECIAL from shanghai said that
everywhere through Thibet the revolt
against the Chinese government was
spreading.
HEAVY downpour of rain on the
Goth washed away the south part of
San Marcos, Tex The houses gener-
orally were flimsv and fioated away as
if they were bats. The NJ, X. & I.
lost about ~ miles of track.
BEN BUTLER. a negro, ared 90, shot
and killed Thomas Carter and seriously
wounded Edward Nelson, 10Th colored,
at a cake walk near Buckeye stone,
Md About three dozen men and wom-
en- had congregated at the place and
partook freely of whisky.
l,o, TOl,V
Frenzel, treasurer, and c. V. Holman.
chief of the literary bureau of the gold
standard democratic committee, form
ally opened their headquarters at Chi
cago on the 25th. As soon as Chair
man Bynum gets business well in
hand he will call meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee and energetic cam
paiyn'ng in the interests of Palmer
and Buckner will then be commenced.
THE American record was broken by
four men in the 24-hour bicycle race
at Chicago on the 25th. The score at
the finish was: Gimm, 4S6 miles l, Us
yards; Waller, 4S2 miles 96S yards;
Schinner, 462 miles 567 yards; Miller,
$50 miles 233 yards, and Myers, 427
miles sS7 yards. 1t was seen early in
the day that the American record was
certain to be wiped out, and it ap-
peared to BE- equally certain that the
worlds record of 533 miles 1,493 yards,
made by Rivierre. would not be touched.
AT Buffalo. \. Y, Peter Kamm killed
his wife with Ratchet and then cut
his own throat They had been sep
arated for several months.
THE oil mills at Ennis, Tex. were
recently blown up with some explosive,
supposed to have been dynamite.
Loss. $50 900; insurance, $40, 900.
PENNSYLVANIA sent two delegations
to Canton. O., 10 visit Maj. Mckinley
on the cath. one being from Westmore-
land county, representing the mining
industry. and the other from Oil City.
representing the oil producing indus
try. The marching of 45 young wom-
en-. representing the - states, each car
rying a basket of roses. was a unique
feature of the occasion.
YALE students broke up a meeting at
New Haven, Conn.,, William j. Bryan
cling obliged to quit speaking in con-
sequence of their wells.
ADvICEs stated that a few days ago a
party of 81 Spanish troops started from
Havana to CalabraZa. eight miles dis
tant. and FIVE men afterwards returned
and said that their companions had
+, cen killed by the Insurgents. Troops
were sent to the scene and the state
ment was verified. The captain-gen-
eral had given orders not to publish a
word about the tragedy.
A BIG meeting of combined labor in
terests was held at the Clermont rink
in Brooklyn on the 23d. Resolutions
were adopted commencing the Chicago
convention aud declaring that the
present St-ug-le was a battle of the
=, Ip,e ainst the oligarchy of wealth,
+ IT . >De al privileges. William
- short speech for
! - ,DDILL, of Missouri, was
lie. u. 80 .ent of the National In
su, ac o hi>sioners' association, in
Sc - q: iladelphia.
- Lw was declared in Lead
" y on the Esd. The United
~ y at Fort Logan were a lso
81 IA be ready to take the field.
Miners Jm Aspen, Cripple Creek and
the San Juan district were said to be
gathering at Leadville and threaten to