The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-05-21

SCScAOA VI LhCSSdiys was III
tense excitement at Athens on receipt
of the news, and a plot was said to
have been discovered there to murder
King George and many arrests have
been made.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, aged u, fell from
wagon as he was trying to set the
brake and broke his neck at Guthrie.
Ok, and his father, who came along in
another wagon, found him lying in the
road dead.
THE Missouri river has been cutting
banks badly between Bismarck and
Omaha, south of Sioux City, Ia, many
farms being entirely lost Near Sloan
the river has been washing away a
cemetery and coffins have been tum-
bling into the river at the rate of four
or five day and indications were that
the cemetery would soon be entirely
swept away.
In fight over the cutting off of a
horses tail at Big Valley schoolhouse,
near Goldthwaite, Tex, Tom Weathers
was fatally shot; John Patton was
shot through the thigh and may die,
and Curtis was shot in the leg.
THE little son of John Huffman, liv-
ing near Chandler, Ok, was killed by
lightning. He and his stepmother
were in the yard feeding chickens
when the lightning struck two trees
close by, tearing them to pieces. The
boy was instantly killed and the.wom-
an knocked senseless, but not fatally
injured.
JANEs HENNEscv yuaS inctant1v killed
by the explosion of a stick of dynamite
in sewer excavation at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the nth and Pat Tull, another
laborer, received fatal injuries.
THE New York Press says that bill
will soon be submitted to congress for
the establishment of credit company
under federal supervision, on the plan
of the Credit FOncier of France, but
with greater powers. The company, as
planned, is to have capital of $780,
100000 with the privilege of doing a
business of 81, 900, 600, 900. Many of the
leading financial men in the United
States are connected with the project.
SENATOR-ELECT MALLORY, of Florida,
dictated his views the other night at
Pensacola and said that he stood
squarely on the Chicago platform and
was in favor of the free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of sixteen to one. He
was also in favor of giving the SUI
preme court another chance to test the
income tax.
AHvoTE, the Piute Indian who re-
cen thy murdered no fewer than ten
white men, is dead He met his fate
at the hands of members of his own
tribe. who were compelled by the
miners in Eldorado canyon. Ariz.. to
trail the murderer to death, the penal
ty for their failure to do so being fixed
at the humiliation of every Piute the
miners could reach.
MACEDONIA FRAUsTO. a 17-year-old
boy, who was in love with Anita Moias,
daughter of a ranchman at Monclova,
Mex, but whose suit was opposed by
the girls family, on his way to the
girls home shot dead the manager of
the ranch and brother of the girl.
Soon after he shot dead another broth
er and a man and then eloped with the
girl.
THREE negroes, who had been con-
fined in the jail at Rosebud, Tex, on a
charge of attempting to assault a white
girl. were taken from the officers of
the law. who were taking the negroes
to another place for safety. and hanged
to tree by mob of 900 masked men.
A PITTSBURGH, Pa, dispatch of the
18th stated that manufacturer of wire
nails, wire and rods were about to
form a grand combination to control
the market for all three products.
The policy outlined will only include
a moderate advance in price of each
product. If the new combination is
go, it will practically drive out all
competition in the manufacture of
wire nails.
THEODORE DURRANT, under death
sentence for the Emanuel Baptist
church murders, through his attorneys,
asked Gov. Budd on the 14th to pardon
him on the ground that the real muir
derer of Blanche Lamont had at last
confessed his crime. John Rosenberg,
convict in San Quentin prison, has
made sworn confession that he killed
Blanche Lamont at San Francisco at
the instigation of stranger and in
consideration of the payment of 500
for his work
THE new tipple or ore dump at the
mines at Pinckney, Tenn, 60 feet high,
fell and killed ten white men and boys
outright and seriously wounded sew
eral others. The dump was a new one
and had been tested.
AN Omaha dispatch stated that the
Nebraska grand lodge Ancient Order of
United Workmen has exonerated Su-
preme Master Workman Tate from
charges of malfeasance in Office, pre-
ferred by his local lodge.
A sAwMILL boiler exploded on Reels
river near Tiptonville, KY, killing Ed
Patterson and Dink Hodges, white, and
two colored men, whose names could
not be learned. Three other men will
die.
RICHARD COKE, ex-United States SEN
ator, died at Waco, Tex, on the 18th.
THE steamship Teutonic arrived at
New York on the 18th with another
batch of young women from Ireland.
Two children of John w. Welch,
aged eight and six years. were burned
to death at Maybee, Mich. They
played with matches in an old barn.