The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-05

hierarchy to meet in plenary council in
Baltimore. Md, on May 1 to deal with
the subjects which have caused such a
division among the American bishops.
such as public instruction, natiOnalism
and secret societies.
A RIOT was caused at Knoxville. Tenn,
on the 1st by conflict of authority be-
tween the United States and city Off
cials about the control of a street car
franchise. A negro was fatally shot,
the chief of the fire department sus-
tanned a fractured skull and several
policemen and special officers were ar
rested.
THE body of a young woman was
found in a store room of livery stable
in Paducah, Ky. on the LIST with
knife wound in her brain. After kill
ing his victim the murderer had un-
dressed the corpse and washed and pre-
pared it for burial. There was no clew
to the murderer.
A TwO-sToRY brick building. occupied
by several business firms, was burned
at Casey, ILL.,, early ON the lst and
strong wind sent the flames TO two adj
Joining blocks. which were soon
Quilted. Loss. $3.50, 900. The cause of
the fire was not known.
AT Rimouski. Cue, the house of
Evariste st. Pierre caught fire and his
three children. aged two, three and
five, were burned to death. st. Pierre
and his wife had gone out to visit
neighbors. locking the house and leav-
ing the children in bed. The cause OF
the fire was unknown.
A RESOLUTION to congress passed both
houses of the Oklahoma legislature on
the lst protesting against the detach
ing of part of eastern Oklahoma and
adding it to the Indian territory.
The Aurora chair factory and the
Wymond cooper shop at Aurora. Ind,
were destroyed by fire on the 18th.
The loss on the former was so. 600 and
on the latter $4,000 The two fires
threw 500 operatives out of employ
ment.
ERNEST IIHcM. who was infatuated
with a school-.Cacher at Nebraska
City. Neb. asked J. ID. Chapman for an
explanation OF some remarks the latter
followed Herm was fatally shot.
FIVE floors of the Shinlle. Wilson,
Kreis & Co. : wholesale grocery store
at Cincinnati crashed into the cellar
under a load of 1890 barrels of sugar.
The Waterman was crushed 10 death
and two other men were injured.
IN the siX-Gay bicycle race which
ended at Chicago on the 9th the scores
were: Schinneer. 1.7SS miles laps;
Miller. l.1G4 miles l lap: Ashinger. l.
727 miles: Lawson. l.7O7 miles l lap:
Hansen. 1903 miles 8 laps
A YOUNG negro named Charlie Brown
attempted to assault a farmers daugh-
ter at Soddi, Tenn. and when posse
attempted to arrest him he fatally
shot deputy. The mob then strung
up the negro and riddled his body with
bullets.
JOHN NICHOLS shot and fatally
wounded Joseph Lewis at Plain City,
Utah, and then turned the gun on him
self with fatal results. Lewis had
charged Nichols with stealing watch.
THE supreme court of Indiana de-
-cided against Helen NJ. Cougar in her
suit against the election officers to
compel them to receive and count her
ballot. In pronouncing the opinion of
the court Judge Hackney said that
under the Indiana constitution women
cannot vote. and that this provision of
the constitution is not in conflict with
the constitution of the United States.
REPRESENTATIVE JONES. of the
Idaho legislature. has made an atfi-
davit, setting forth that he was bribed
to vote for Henry Heitfield for United
States senator. 1t was said affidavits
of similar character have been made
by two other members.
The senate at Olympia, Wash. passed
the bill for an amendment to the con-
stitutiOn comforting elective franchise
on women, the question to be submit
ted in the next general election. in No
vember, 1898. As bill of similar pur-
port has passed the house there is every
reason to believe that this bill will be
agreed to by the house without serious
opposition.
THE body of the murderer of Anton
Sheep and his bride, killed at Tindall,
$. D., the other day, has been found.
Hs was Frank Bende, neighbor, and
after killing the Sleeps he drove away
and shot himself. He was found on
the return of his team.
The capitol at Wheeling, w. Va, on
the 25th was entirely surrounded by
water and accessible only by boat.
The legislature was in session three
hours with the temperature at 40 de-
grees, the members keeping their hats
on and overcoats buttoned.
SOUND money men from many cities
recently gathered at New York to at
tend the conference of the National
Sound Money league. Itwas proposed
10 have an executive committee of 81
members and to divide the country
into IL districts, at the head of each
to be one of the vice presidents.
George E. Leighton, of st. Louis. was
elected president.
A CORRESPONDENT at Puerto Principe
telegraphs paper in Havana that it is
reported that the president of the Cuban
republic, Salvador CisneroS,. died re.
Gently from sickness.