The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-25

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fish d repuelic. Chinese ara liza e. OF
American 90 :eres a~e at tie head oil
the movement hev pro ose to e lu-
cate the Mong 1lians by sending the
Bible and ott er books to II EN- tn arouse
them to the necessity of new order OF
things
A PITCHED battle occurred in Little
Italy in Philadelphia between a squad
of policemen and the inmates of a
speak easy" One man was killed and
five others wounded. The proprietor
of the speak easy" and seven COM
bataDts were finally arrested and are
held on a charge of murder.
JAMES CAMPBELL, of Unionville, No,
attempted TO board a moving Rock
Island train at Centerv;lle. Ia, and
fell beneath the wheels and had both
his legs cut OF.
The big sugar refinery at Moncton,
n. B. was destroyed by fire. Loss,
over $500. 600.
NAL MCKINLEY received by express
q finely polished ami emil ellished stump
of tree for use in delivering his front
porch addresses The stump was sent
by Jesse c. Grover, sheriff of Knox
Vile, Tenn
The committee appointed by the
labor congress at Chicago to investi-
gate the character and relations to
labor of certain political leaders made
a report that Mark Hanna, of Cleve-
land, O., and Henry C. Payne, of Mil
wsukee, had both been unfriendly to
unionism. The committee was given
further time to continue Investigations
THE United States Brewmasters as
ISOLATION began its eighth annual ses-
sion at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 21st,
about 1880 breweries being repre-
sented.
A COLLISION in the fog early on the
21st occurred on the Erie railroad at
Meadville, Pa. between two engines
Two men out of employment riding on
one of the engines were killed.
GEN. GRosvENoR, on the night of the
Goth at Athens, O., gave out table of
estimates of the probable result of the
presidential election. He claimed 27s
electoral votes for Mckinley, or 81
more than sufficient to elect
A DYNAMITE explosion at the bottom
of 12O-foot shaft of the Metropolitan
waterworks, about two miles from
Clinton, Mass, on the 18th instantly
killed three men and fatally wounded
two others
BEFORE adjourning its special session
on the 18th at McAlester, /. T., the
Choctsw council passed bill to enroll
all citizens. including the citizens by
blood, intermarried citizens and freed
men.
HOMER CHASE, farmer living near
Hudson, Mich, wound up a weeks
carouse at the fair at Hudson by shoot
ing his wife twice and then putting a
bullet into his own head. The wife
may recover.
AT the games of the Knickerbocker
Athletic club at New York on the 10th
three worlds records were broken. R
sheldon, of Yale. threw the discus Ill
feet s inches, the previous record being
lOl feet inches; Thomas E. Burke. of
Boston, ran 600 yards in I'LL, and
Jerome Buck Won the 40 yards hurdle
race. ten hurdles, in Sc 2-5 seconds.
a BRUSSELS dispatch to the London
on the Goth said that the
authorities of Rotterdam had received
an anonymous letter threatening to
blow up all the public buildings there
unless the Irish prisoners, Kearney and
Haines, were liberated.
MAI GEN. CARLOS ROLoFF, Cuban
secretary of war, was arrested recently
on a warrant sworn out by the Span
ISL consul. and spent the night in Lud-
low street Jail in New York. The
charge was on information and be-
lief that the general had set on foot
for military expedition
to Cuba. Roloff was released from
custody as soon as his friends learned
of his arrest
JIMMY BRITT, once champion tan-
tumweight of the Pacific coast, and
Frank Lawler, another well known
local athlete, had a mill at San Fran
cisco on the 18th. Both men were
punished and the referee called
the fight a draw at the end of the 2Sth
round as there seemed no prospect of
it being finished.
THERE was a conflict between whites
and blacks in Colbert's reserve, near
Florence, Ala, which resulted in one
negro being instantly killed, with a
good chance for further trouble. The
rouble grew out of an assault upon a
planter by negro.
NJ. BossU, the public prosecutor in
charge at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France,
If the case against P. J. P. lyman. the
alleged Irish dynamiter, received a
7iolent letter on the 18th, informing
him, in the name of committee of in
yincibles and anarchist brotherhood,
hat unless TyEan was released within
A hours he, NJ. Bossu. would be blown
lp with dynamite. The letter was
written with red fluid, believed to be
blood.
THE grand vizier of Turkey, HALL
2ifat Pasha, recently threatened to re-
ign unless the minister of police was
dismissed on account of the recent
nassacres. The sultan upheld the po-
ice minister and refused to accept the
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