The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-03
GENERAL NEWS.

JACK EvERHARDT and Horace Leeds,
lightweights, met on the 30th at the
E mpire Athletic club at Maspeth, L.
L, and after hard fight in the 14th
round Everhardt won.
A MYSTERIOUS enemy of the Smith
family near Coburg, Ore, has been
scattering poison of di fferent kinds on
their premises, and has succeeded in
terrorizing them to the verge of pros
tration. No cause for such malicious
ness was known.
The annual boat race between the
universities of Oxford and Cam bridge
took place over the usual course from
Putney to Mortlake, AZ miles, on the
2Sth and was won by Oxford by quar-
ter of length. Time, 2O:O1 Oxford
has now won 30 races and Cam bridge
%.
THE women of north Texas have
signed petition to President Cleve-
land, Secretary Hoke Smith and con-
gress, calling attention to the numer-
Gus robbsries and high crimes gener
ally which have been committed by
outlaws in the Indian territory on the
citizens who live adjacent to the terri
tory, and appealing for protection and
relief from the outlaws, which, the
petition says, can only be done by the
settlement of the Indian territory by
civilized people.
FOREST fires burned over a large ter
ritory to the east of Black River Falls,
Wis, recently, doing damage to the
extent of MANY thousands of dollars
They have destroyed the prospects of
the BURBERRY crop in the burned
region, which has in the past furnished
employment to hundreds of berry
pickers-
SIX men in the freight yards of the
Central railroad at Elizabeth. n. j.,
were run into by a train which
was being shifted from one track to
another on the Goth An effort was
made to stop the train, but coupling
pin broke and several cars sped along
the siding. Two of the men were
killed and one probably fatally wound
ed. The others were only slightly
hurt
AT the republican convention at
Austin. Tex, on the Goth policemen
had to be called in to stop the riot be-
tween the Mckinley and the Reed
men. One faction elected an Allison
man and two Reed men to the conven-
tion at st. Louis. and then after they
had adjourned the Mckinley forces
took charge of the hall and elected
contesting delegation.
MRS DARLINGTON BOOTH lectured on
the 26th at Pittsburgh, Pa, on ''Slum
and Shelter Work in Large Cities" to
a large audience, and broke the silence
as to the cause of herself and the COM
mander breaking away from the old
organization. She practically admit
ted that they had become too much
Americanized to suit the ideas of the
powers in London
TIE badly decomposed body of an
unknown man was found on the Goth
in a trunk bought at an auction sale
of unredeemed property at Chicago.
LITTLE II-vear-old Ebert Henderson,
OF J ffersonton, went into Louisville,
KY, on the Goth with q chain two feet
long attached to MS ankle. He was
taken to a hardware store and the
chain removed. Tie said that for two
years his father had had him chained
TO a log. Henderson viii be prosecuted.
IL Greer county, Ok, on the 9th
everything was in a badly demoraliZed
condition as a result of the supreme
court decision that the county was not
a part of Texas. The courts had been
closed and juries dismissed. all county
business suspended, and the hundred
or more schools of the county all
closed.