The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-03

the labor congress of Chicago are to
consolidate about March /.
IT was reported at Guthrie, Ok, that
hundreds of cattle and horses had been
drowned in the swollen streams in the
Usage reservation recently, entailing
ruinous losses on many stockmen.
Over the line in the Cherokee nation il
was, still worse, c. Hayden alone hav-
ing 400 cattle drowned in Grand river,
Joel Brown 200 head and Jack Riley
100, with scores of similar losses, bring
ing the number of cattle drowned in
that section in excess of 5000
THE vault of the Highland Park post
Office, near Chicago, was blown open
with dynamite by burglars at an early
hour on the 3Oth and $500 in cash and
81, 700 worth of stamps stolen.
THE Montgomery County pa His
torical society, the Daughters of the
! American Revolution and the Valley
! Forge Memorial association have united
in a protest against the removal of the
remains of Gen. Winfield Scott Han
cock from Norristown, Pa, to the ma
tional cemetery at Arlington. They
claim it would be an outrage against
the expressed wishes of the hero of
/ Gettysburg.
! REPRESENTATIVES, of the American
Bimetallic league, the National BIZ
metallic union and the National Silver
committee, the three principal silver
organizations in the United States,
have agreed upon a plan for merging
the three organizations into one. The
consolidation will be known as the
American Bimetallic union. A confer
ence of pronounced silver men will be
held at Washington on January %,
when plan of action will be outlined
The headquarters will be at 134 Mon
roe street, Chicago.
THE cruiser Kwan Ping, one of the
warships captured from China by the
japanese during the recent war, has
been wrecked on the Pescadore islands.
Nearly all of her deck officers and 60
men were missing.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended December 81 showed an av-
erage increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of &c;
in New York the increase was sc. s; out
side New York the increase was 1874.
EXPERTS who have examined the
state capitol at Jackson, Miss, report
ed that it was in an absolutely unsafe
condition and liable to collapse at any
moment. The dome was separated
from the walls by a space of five inches
for nearly half its circumference and
new cracks were appearing in the
walls daily.
JOHN MARTIN, an American pros
pector, who has returned to Deming,
\. NJ, after a years absence in the
gold fields of Sonora, Mex, tells hor-
rible story of cannibalism which oc-
Cured in that republic Several weeks
ago party of five Sadi Indians, driven
to desperation by hunger, ambushed
and killed three Americans working in
the gold fields in the state of Sonora,
and then cooked and ate the bodies.
Friendly Indians reported the matter
to the government and the perpetrat-
ors were arrested and taken to the City
of Mexico.
A New YORK dispatch on the Goth
said that Joe Vendig had made final
arrangements for the boxing carnival
which is to take place in Ell Paso, Mex.
The programme will be: February IL,
Wallcott and Bright Eyes" the Texas
negro; February Il, Dixon and Mar
shall; February 13. Leeds aud Ever
hart; February IA, Maher aud Fitzsim-
mons.
A Boston dispatch said that Repre-
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steps toward raising 100000 in New
England to aid the National Red Cross
society in its Armenian relief work
A committee was to issue an appeal at
once.
JOHN II. BAULsBAUGH and his wife,
who reside near Swatara, Pa, were
found dead in their rooms on the 25tb
from the effects of coal gas from a de-
feetive stove pipe.
AMONG sporting men at New York
the report was current that James J.
Corbett, the erstwhiie champion pugi-
list, had good reason for quitting the
prize ring. 1t was said that he is
unable to undergo a severe course of
the ring he would be mark for any
first-class heavyweight According
to a friend of Corbett. the big fellow
was going the same road travelled by
Jack Dempsey.
A LONDON dispatch of the 25th said
that the English government had re-
Trained from adding a single ship tc
the Atlantic station. 1t was under
stood that there was no probability of
its taking any such steps for the pres
ent This may be taken as an indica-
ton of the essentially passive and pa
ci6c attitude of Lord Salisbury's cabi-
net
THE full extent of Manitoba's reply
to the dominion government on the
separate schools question was made
public on the Goth The Manitoba
government positively refused the pro-
posal to establish a system of separate
schools in any form.
FOUR men held up freight train on
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
road near Chillicothe. O., on the Goth.
They leveled revolvers at the head of
the engineer and ordered him to stop.
The fellows then attempted to board
the train, but were repealed by Con-