The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-09-10

NAN Al NANN OF AAAACS-
He ran the distance in 2:05 2-5.
WESTERN passenger rates are rapidly
becoming demoralized. While freight
business is the heaviest on record. The
passenger business on nearly all west
ern roads has shown little or no i'm
provement.
DURING big fire at 1913 North Water
street, Philadelphia. 20 firemen were
Frustrated by the dense smoke. All
recovered.
MAR Friends Mission, Va, Henry
Wall, white, brutality assaulted and
murdered Sadie Cook, a young girl.
He was captured while at a spring
washing the blood from his clothing
and an angry mob lynched him in
broad daylight.
TIE annual convention of the Ma
/ tional Association of Letter Carriers
/ gathered at San Francisco on the 9th.
IL Labor day address at Philadel-
phia Ex-Gov. Altgeld advocated gov
eminent and municipal ownership of
all corporations and a radical reform
of the federal judiciary.
ROBERT MEYER, aged Il, of st. Louis,
shot and killed his drunken father
who, in a fit of passion, had tried to
kill him.
THE failure of the potato, hay and
corn crops in Ireland has resulted in a
most gloomy outlook for the winter.
]. II. BoBo, suspected of driving his
frail young daughter to commit sui
eide, was drummed out of Roswell,
Ga, by irate citizens
In a speech at Denison Ia. William
J. Bryan ridiculed the monetary COM
mission appointed by President Nc
Kinley and said other nations would
do nothing for silver until scared
into ii.
ALFRED PACKER. who was convicted
OF killing five companions who were
lost in the mountains with him in 1874,
and eating their flesh, and sentenced
to 40 years in the Colorado state prison,
has applied for pardon.
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER has sent to the
American Baptist Missionary union and
the American Baptist Home Mission
airy society, at Boston, his check for the
balance of the $3.50. 900 promised by
him on condition that the two societies
would raise $3.50. 600
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party went
to Columbus. o., on the Sd as guests of
the Ohio state board of agriculture.
After luncheon the president went
to the fair grounds, where he addressed
the school children from many parts of
the state, all of whom had been invited
by card.
On the Sd the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers
agreed to recommend to the striking
miners a proposition from the Pitts
burgh operators for straight price of
% cents a ton. to continue in force
until the end of the year. and circu-
lar has been issued TO that effect, call
ing for delegate convention of all
miners who have suspended work to
meet at Columbus, o., September s.
This proposition, it was thought, will
end the coal strike.
SHERIFF BAGLEY, with the regular
police force and eight sworn deputies,
made raid on the tramps and over
400 were driven out of Arcola, III.
They had caused much annoyance in
plundering gardens and fields of eat
ables.
THE Madison elevator at Madison.
Ill, was destroyed by fire the other
night, entailing loss of about $50, 900.
ROBERT HENRY, colored, was hanged
at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 2d, for the
murder of his wife in February. 1896.
THE New York vestibule train on
the Delaware, Lackawanna Il Western
railroad, which left Syracuse, n. Y, |
at nine o'clock on the morning of the
I'd, jumped the track at Blodgett's |
Mills and plunged through the station
buildings. The locomotive, baggage !
car and two coaches went entirely |
through the structure. Mrs. j. II. Nc
Quillan, of Philadelphia, was killed |
and IL other passengers were more or |
less injured. The accident was caused |
by broken rail.
SETH Low has been nominated for |
mayor of Greater New York by the |
Citizens union.
A GUTHRIE, Ok, dispatch on the LIST /
said that the Otoe and Missouri tribes |
of Indians had had the Sac and Fox |
tribe for their guests for week past /
and had just closed grand green corn
dance, which had been in progress six
days and nights During the progress
of the dance a number of braves went
through the tribal divorce ceremony
and divorced themselves of their sur
plus wives in order to comply with the
territorial law, which prohibits them
from having more than one wife.
THE long-drawn-out senatorial con-
test at Winfield, Ia, in which Kopp, of
Henry county. and Palmer, of Wash
ington county, equally divided the
votes of the delegates for senator from
the Tenth district, ended in the nomi-
nation of Palmer by reclamation. The
end was reached after 6. O21 ballots had
been taken.
AT Mexia, Tex, on the I'd Tom Clark,
with attempted assault on
young girl. was indicted and sentenced
to 80 years in the penitentiary So hours
after the crime was committed.
THE last Minnesota legislature
passed law allowing taxpayers until
the middle of next year to paw their