Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-05-22
TERsE NEWS.

N ORTIZ CarOllna QelegaCeS 10 St. Louis
are instructed for Mckinley.
The gold reserve in the treasury is
again nearing the 500, 900, 900 mark
AT Newport, Ky, recently the jury in
the case of Scott Jackson. on trial for
the murder of Pearl Bryan, returned a
verdict of guilty, with the death pen
atty.
Cholera has been discovered at Mar
settles, France, the disease has
existed for some time and several
vessels have left for America which
may have carried the pest there.
Seven prisoners escaped from the
county jail at Newport, KY, recently,
where Jackson and Walling, alleged
murderers of Pearl Bryan, are confined.
They might have escaped also but they
preferred to stay.
Washington dispatch: President
Cleveland has appointed William
Lochren, of Minnesota, formerly com
missioner of pensions, to be United
States district Judge for the district of
Minnesota, while Dominic Murphy, of
Pennsylvania, is made commissioner of
pensions.
Santa Barbara, CAL, dispatch: After
months of patient toll, after weeks
spent in preparation, after trial trips
on San Francisco bay and speed tests
in the Santa Barbara channel, the
Oregon has repaid her builders by
doing all they asked of her. She
made an average speed of 1878 knots,
beating the worlds record.
Austin Pursley, negro, received
100 lashes and John Prola, a white
citizen, thirty-nine on their bare
backs, at South McAlester, l. r.,
Pursley was charged with larceny and
Prola with selling coal contrary to
law. The lashes were laid on by the
Choctaw sheriff, who applied hickory
switches with such vigor that blood
spurted in streams. In order to add
to the prisoners agony salt water was
used to wash their wounds.
A verdict was rendered in the COM
mon pleas court at Philadelphia re-
Gently against James r. Sovereign,
general master workman, and the
general executive board of the Knights
of Labor, for S4,225.73 in favor of
Terrence V. Powderly, ex-master
workman. who claimed that amount
for balance due him for services as
~ ,,f ha VIII Tho
suit has been pending since Sovereign
succeeded Powderly as head of the
order.
In the Methodist general conference
at Cleveland recently the report of
the committee on episcopacy. providing
for the retirement of Bishops Bowman
and Foster because of their advanced
age and ina bility to stand the strain of
their duties. was adopted
Springfield, H., dispatch: Cashier
Kloppenburg, of the Buffalo City
bank, has confessed that he entered
into a conspiracy with his brother and
that they robbed the bank at that
place The story about the robbers
binding and gagging the cashier was
fake.
Berlin dispatch: Aprivate telegram
has been received which asserts that
the sentences of Col. Francis Rhodes,
Lionel Phillips, j. II. Hammond and
George Farrar, the four members of
the Johannesburg reform committee,
condemned to death, and whose SEN
fences were afterward commu ted, have
been fixed at imprisonment for five
years. The sentences of fifty-nine
other members of the reform commit
tee, which were fixed by the court at
two years Imprisonment and 81 fine of
$4,000 (SIo,oe0>, followed by three
years b;;nishnent, have been com.
nuted TO one year S imprisonment.