The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-06

ing in death.
PRUITr TURNER, colored, was hanged
at Van Buren,, Ark, on the 2sth. lie
declared his innocence on the scaffold,
read a chapter from the Bible, sang
two hymns and offered a prayer
MELVILLE KENNEDY, coiored, was
lynched by a mob at Windsor, 5. C.,
for assaulting a woman and a mob was
securing the country for his accom-
plice to serve him in the same manner.
THE clearing house returns for the
week ended February % for the follow
ing cities were: New York, 1891, 1874
752; Chicago, s73. 3l7. 594; St Louis, sl9,-
77s, ss1; Kansas City, 1904 $50; St Jo-
seph. 81, O6O, OBJ; Topeka. s4I4, 36S; Wich-
ita, 1854, 1873; Omaha, 1853, 400
The failures for the week ended Feb
ruary % (Dun's report) were 27S in the
United States, against $50 last year,
and So in Canada, against 3s last year.
A BOILER at the establishment of w.
H. Overholt exploded on the 2stn at
Frankfort, W. Va, destroying the
house and machinery and killing five
men and injuring six others.
UNLESS ten-hour day at 20 cents an
hour is conceded by employers it is
predicted that the street railway en-
ployes in Philadelphia, Chicago, New
York. Boston. Worcester, Milwaukee
and Detroit will in few days inaugu-
rate a gigantic strike.
FLORENCE. 5. c., was visited by de-
structive fire on the 27th, which de-
stroyed 500, 900 worth of property.
DANIEL WINTERS, who was appointed
president of the National Window
Glass Workers association when Presi-
dent Burns was deposed, and Hudson
Campbell, another officer, were run out
of jeanette, Pa, by crowd of 1000
angry followers of Burns.
NATIONAL COMMANDER WALKER, who
attended the session of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Newark.
Del, on the 9th expressed him.
self as being emphatically against
the proposed parade of the blue
and the gray at New York on the
Fourth of July. He said that he would
not for a minute favor any suggestion
that would offer to place union and
confederate soldiers side by side in
parade wearing their uniforms, even
though they both marched under the
flag of the United States.
Or the night of the Goth mob of sew
eral thousand persons battered down
the Jail doors at Wichita Falls. Tex,
and got possession of the two prisoners
who robbed the bank and killed the
cashier in that city the previous day.
An improvised scaffold was erected and
both robbers were strung up. The
Kid" the first one hanged, said that
his name was Younger Lewis and his
parents resided at Neosho, Mo. He
died cursing and jeering. The other
robber had to be given whisky before
he was hanged.
THERE was a fall of snow in San
Francisco on the Cd, the first in ten
years. The fall was quite heavy while
it continued, but melted as fast as it
fell
AN official of the Pacific Steamship
Co. at Seattle, Wash, recently made
the statement that bodies of human
beings were Systematically snatched
from the cemeteries of that city and
sent as surgery subjects and for scien'
tifc purposes to medical colleges in
San Francisco on the vessels of the
company. The bodies were enclosed
in rough wooden boxes and labeled
merchandise.
THE Baltimore & Ohio railway, one
of the oldest and most extensive trans
portation systems in the United States,
and until recently one of the most
profitable, has gone into the hands OF
receivers.
THE London Press on the Goth depre-
Gated the passage of the concurrent
resolution in the senate for the recog'
milton of the Cuban belligerents. The
Standard said that President Cleveland
was placed in an embarrassing posi-
ton. The Times thought that the res
Spain, as she was in no position to
resent what she must take as an un
friendly act and could gain nothing by
declaring war against the United
States.
THE Iowa house of representatives,
by a vote of 81 to II, defeated a resolu.
ton to submit the prohibitory amend'
ment
THE steamer Miowera brought news
of great suffering and loss of property
in Australia by the extraordinary cli-
matte conditions There was unprece-
dented heat on land and so corpses
were buried in Sydney in one day from
sunstroke. Terrific storms prevailed
and crops in a great many localities
were ruined. Herds of stock were
starving and dying for want of water,
and there was a distressing array OF
marine casualties reported. The town
of Murrurundi was almost entirely
destroyed by an electric windstorm.
MORMON missionaries PROSECUTING in
Oklahoma territory were given so
many hours to leave
INTENSE excitement prevailed in
Guthrie. Ok, on the eth over the re-
suit of the official assay of gold discov-
cred on the farms of DR.. r. A. Gate,
and A. P. Cooper, six miles southwest
of Orlando, and a veritable 40 scene
was enacted. Hundreds of people
hocked to the new gold fields and
staked lots, which they cannot hold
owing to leases.
A GALLERY in the Casino at Fall
River, Mass, collapsed during the polo
game on the 2sth and so spectators