The Iola register., 1896-04-10

river of Col A. E. Naff, United States
deputy marshal, and an entire party
of explorers. in all probably eight men,
They were on their way to investigate
reports of the timber stealing by Cana
dams along the boundary and were
ascending the river in sleighs and
broke through the ice.
GEORGE E. GARD. chief of the South
ern Pacific railway detective service,
has given publicity, according to
San Francisco paper of the 9Th. TO
plot TO hold up the Vanderbilt-Depew
special train, now on the Pacific coast,
and abduct Cornelius Vanderbilt at
some point in the San Joaquin valley.
The railroad officials had put armed
guards on the train and were going to
keep them on until the Vanderbilt
party had passed the Sierras.
THE boiler in Watson Bros hoop
and stave mills at Ridgetown, Ont. ex-
ploded on the 9th, wrecking the build
ing and causing the death of two men
at least and the injury of several others
THREE Italian guests at a'hotel at
Pittsburgh, Pa, were found dead in
their room shortly after noon on the
9th. They had been suffocated by gas.
FIRE at the Washburn and Moen
plant at Quinsigamond, Mass, caused
a loss of S15O,O0O. Two hundred men
will be thrown out of work by it
S B. ARCHER, of New York, secre-
tary of the National Tariff Commis-
sion league, consulted Detroit conven-
ton promoters on the 9Th regarding
holding the national convention The
secretary predicted that at least 1900
advocates of the removal of the tariff
question from politics would attend
the convention. OF upwards of zoo
commercial bodies in the United States
all but two had appointed delegates
CARDINAL GIBBONS on the 5th at
Baltimore, Nd, gave out a lengthy
appeal for arbitration instead of war,
signed by himself and Cardinals
Vaughan, of Westminster, and Logue,
of Ireland. The document was the re-
suit of correspondence upon the SUBJ
ject between Cardinal Gibbons and his
colleagues whose names are affixed to
the appeal. and was issued on Easter
Sunday because of the appropriate
ness of the day.
A TERRIBLE fire has occurred at
Manila, the capital of the Philippine
stroyed and $4,000 people left homeless
A DISPATCH to the New York World
on the 5th stated that England had
concluded a treaty of alliance with
Spain.
FIRE at Saratoga, n. Y, on the Sd
destroyed the Putnam music hall,
Reeves paint store and Scanlan's print
ing office. Loss, $50, 600
REGISTERS and receivers of land Of
fees at Crookston and Duluth, Mimi,
have been notified in a circular pro-
mulgated by the general land office
that at nine o'clock Friday morning,
May IS next is the hour of opening
their offices for entries of Red Lake
Indian reservation lands These lands
will be subject to the disposal of actual
settlers only under the homestead law.
Each settler is to pay S1.25 per acre in
five annual installmentS
FIVE persons were overcome by coal
gas in Capt C. Johnson's house at Park
vile, L. l., recently and Margaret Con-
nors will die as the result of inhalation
of the fumes. The others were report
ed not out of danger. A defective fue
was supposed to have caused the acci-
dent
Fl. II. HOLMES, the convicted muir
derer of Philadelphia, has made a con-
fession in which he tells how and why
he put to death no less than 90 men,
women and children. He writes as
calmly and remorselessly as he muir
dered, neglecting no detail. 1t was
well known that Holmes put Il per-
sons out of the world.
EARLY on the morning of the Sd
boiler exploded at one of the Forest
Oil Co. s wells on the Thornburg farm
in Robinson, few miles from Pitts
burgh, Pa, and Engineer Thomas
was blown 100 feet and both arms and
both legs were broken. He also re-
ceived a terrible cash in the abdomen
and was badly scalded He will die.
SHERIFF W. O. GwYNNE was killed
and John F. Madden fatally wounded
at Concord, Ga, in an attempt to cap
ture the Delk gang of outlaws. The
CSpcIdOOCS SOS dN dN III luc OdTh, Out
two posses were reported as being after
them and it was said the outlaws
would be lynched if caught
A YOUNG negro, Is years old, was
taken from Jail at Tupelo, 60 miles
from Memphis, Tenn, early on the
morning of the Sd by a mob and
lynched in front of the courthouse.
The mob went to the sheriffs house,
overpowered him with shotguns,
marched him to the jail and forced
him to open it The men wore masks.
The prisoner made an assault on a
white lady near Plantersville a short
time ago.
FIVE hundred mechanics employed
on the big Siegel-Cooper building at
New York went on strike recently be-
cause non-union c0rnice and skylight
makers had been engaged
An unknown negro boy, about Is
years old, was found on the Texas Ss
Pacific railway track, at Terrell, Tex,
the other day. cut in two by a train.
1t was supposed that he was stealing
ride.
A DISPATCH from Boonville, Ky, on