The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-08-27
GENERAL NEWS.

An engine attached to a heavy ex.
cursion train on the Chicago & Calumet
Terminal railway was derailed near
Riverdale, Ill, by switch misplaced
by tramps- The passengers were
thrown from their seats by the jar and
Joseph P. Murray was probably fatal
" injured.
JOCKEY SANDY CLUTTER rode to his
death in the second race at the EXPOSE
ton track at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
23d. He was on Dazzle and got caught
in a death-trap bunch at the first or
stable turn-the scene of numberless
accidents before. Mulvihill's reckless
ride on Billy Underwood was the
prime cause of the accident.
JOHN c. BILLS, ex-state senator and
ex-mayor of Davenport Ia, and one of
the most prominent lawyers of Iowa,
committed suicide by shooting himself
at Davenport on the Esd. He was de-
spondent over failing health.
Four robbers tried to loot the Saw
ings Deposit bank at Canton. O., the
other night. but were discovered by
the night Waterman. who opened fire
on them and killed one man, the three
others escaping.
A DEPUTY sheriff and posse sur
rounded the house of Ed Williams, a
negro, near Baxter, Ark, who was
wanted for an assault on a colored
woman. and, on his refusing to sur
render, the house was fired, the des-
perado shot and his body cremated in
the burning building.
Two white men were fatally cut
with knives by negroes at picnic at a
lumber camp near Kendall. Ark. A
posse went after the murderers and it
was suspected that the culprits had
been lynched.
JOHN WooTKA, Creek Indian. who
was sentenced to death July Is by the
Judge of the Eufaula, l. T., district for
murder, and who fed, has been cap
tured and turned over to the Creek au-
thorities and will be resentenced and
shot as soon as court shall convene at
Eufaula-
WILLIAM ROWLAND, a street car en-
ploye of Dallas. Tex, wanted Ida
Kalczkasski, a farmers daughter liv-
ing ten miles in the country, to marry
him, and, on her refusal, he killed the
girl and put bullet through his own
head.
JAMES R QUIGLEY was kicked so
badly by John O'Donnell at St. Louis
on the 22d, in a quarrel over a game of
quoits, that he died soon after being
taken to the hospital
AT the reunion Of the survivors of
the Army of the Potomac at Troy. \.
Y. on the Goth about LOCO of them
were in line in the parade. President
Mckinley reviewed the parade.
A CARRIAGE containing II. c. Claugh-
ton, a well known attorney of Wash
ington. and Miss Villa Curtis. was run
down by a train on the B. & P. rail-
road. a short distance from Washing
ton. and both the occupants were in
jured so badly that they soon died
PADDY PURTELL, the American box
er. met Lachie Thompson in a contest
for 20 rounds at Birmingham. Eng.
Purtell won easily in six rounds 1t
was his first battle in England.
WILL LIPPs. James Mccullough and
a ten-year-old boy were fatally injured
by the explosion OF thrashing engine
boiler on the Spring Creek ranch, near
Hastings, Neb-
The Wholesale Liquor Dealers asso-
citation of America convened at New
York on the 18th. 600 delegates from
all parts of the country being present
TIE convention of the Firemen's In
ternational association was formally
opened at New Haven, Conn, with a
procession, headed by the mayor.
The full-blood Cherokees presented
a protest to the Cherokee commission
al Tahlequah. l. T., against any fur
Their negotiation with the Dawes COM
mission They propose TO fight all
matters coming up in congress ontrary
TO their treaty rights and also TO go to
the United States supreme court and
test the strength Of those rights.