The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-18

THE e'ecticn in Maine on the i4th
resulted a plurality for Powers, re
pail can. FOR governor bv about so 600
ihr mas Il Reed was reelected to con
gres- ~ over 10000 plurality. The re-
pub,icans polled a tremendous vote.
In MANY towns more than a third OF
the democrats voted the republican
| tickle {.
JOIN RUCKKR a farmer, was held up,
robbed and murdered By two unknown
negroes near Watonga, Ok. Members
of the Anti-Horse Thief association
we're reported trailing the murderers
who will be lynched if caught.
SIX Indians rode into the agency
store, at what is known as Big Jim'l
Crossing, on Little river, Oklahoma, on
the 18th and attempted to hold mp the
agent. The reds were half drunk and
fired over 100 shots. In resisting, Agsai
Gillian was wounded A posse turned
out, followed the Indians ten miles and
killed the entire six.
TIE passenger steamer City of Mae
kinae collided with and sank the
schooner William Crothswaite Just BE-
low the Sc. Clair canal, near Detroit
Mich.
The Spanish government has yielded
to the demands of the United States
for trial by scivil court of the Ameri.
can flibusters who went 70 Cuba Oh
the Competitor and were captured.
INDIAN AGENT WooLsRY has paid the
Pswnee Indians e65. 900. their annuity.
The usual crowd of confidence men
was present with skin games to de-
fraud the red man, a dispatch from
Guthrie, Ok. said.
FRANZ OSCAR loren was hanged in
the Jail yard at Florence, Ariz, on the
18th for train robbery. He was the
first victim under the new law which
makes train robbery g capital offense
in that territory.
THE trades and labor assembly of
Denver, Col. have decided to send a
committee to Mexico to investigate the
conditions of labor in that free silver
country. This was done because It was
alleged by them that the committee
recently sent to Mexico by the Chicago
assembly was under the influence of
the gold standard advocates
THE national democrats of South
Dakota are certain TO vote for Nc
Kinley, ali the leaders having cast
their lot with the repu blicanA It wss
announced from reliable populistic
sources that the populists conceded the
defeat of their state ticket and had
decided to devote all their energies to
capturing the legislature
The national republican committee
claimed to have information that the
mine owners and silver syndicstes of
Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and
Nevada had agreed to contribute S.
500. 600 for the Bryan campaign fund.
Two hundred Chicago manufacturers
and jobbers and over 80. 600 retail mer-
chants outside of Chicago have just
completed the greatest mercantile alli-
ance that the history of the country
has ever known Ii is calle1 the Ma
tional Association of Merchants and
Travellers Profit to the retail mer-
chants who buy goods in Chicago is
one of the main objects. The interests
of travelling statesmen, too, are in-
cluded
THERE was laundry war on in Chi
cago, it was reported. and dress shirts
were done up" for three cents each.
An oil tank on a freight train Px-
ploded just as the train entered We'll
lingtop. ILL.,. setting fire to and burn
ing 25 cars and the Pate & Lorton ele-
vator. Two tramps who were stealing
ride, were thought to have been
burned.
A DELEGATION of noted Vermonters
visited Mckinley at Canton, O.. on the
18th and Gov. elect Grout, Senator
Proctor and others made brief adj
dresses and Mr.. Mckinley suitably re-
spouded. The Lora;n county co. dele
CATION joined some Pennsylvania re-
publicans and they also marched to the
Mckinley residence, 5000 strong, with
half a dozen bands
WHILE going down a steep grade on
the B. & o. railroad near Cum berland.
Nd, the brake on a mammoth engine
attached to freight traiu refused to
act and the train rushed down the
grade and at a curve the engine
jumped the track aud 20 cars. loaded
with coal, -four and lum Der, were
wrecked and their contents scattered.
One man. stealing a ride. was killed.
Rev. CANNING NEWMAN, author of
the well-knowu HYMN Lead, Kindly
Light" died at Toronto. Ont, aged -.
An Indianapolis, Ind. dispatch
stated that Mr.. Bvnum was informed
at Chicago that Vice Presidential Nom
inee SewaIl would probably withdraw
from the democratic ticket immediate
" after the New York convention of
September IS.
WILLIAM KELLER, a resident of 10
komo. Ind. has been taken to the in
sane asylum. Insanity was brought
about by study and worry over the
silver and pension questions He i'm
agined that Holze Smith had ten bush
els of silver hidden in the Potomac
fats that belonged to him as back
pension.
AT Glens Falls, y. Y, on the 10th
John R. Gentry, the celebrated stall
lion, paced mile in 2:O1J{, equalling
the worlds record made at Terre
Haute, Ind, two years ago by Rob
ert J.