The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-09-17

of 165 miles, in IL days, 4 hours, 45 min
utes. He only swan when the tide
was favorable. He weighed 165 pounds
when he entered the water at Troy and
1875 pounds when he left it at the Bat
terry and was much exhausted.
A FREIGHT train on the Iron Noun
tain railroad was wrecked at Hanson,
1. T., on the 18th by the trucks of one
of the cars breaking and seven men
were killed and six others were badly
injured. Fifteen cars loaded with
walnut logs and baled hay were
wrecked. The men killed and injured
were all stealing a ride to Van Buren,,
Ark, to get employment in the cotton
fields.
Two negroes. named Charley Gibson
and Jim Smith, quarreled at Macon,
Ga, on the 18th over 80 cents, when
the former shot the latter and killed
him. A sheriff's posse got after the
latter and ran him down, wounding
him in the exchange of shots, and while
the sheriff was hunting for vehicle
to convey the wounded man to town,
the negro confessed to having assaulted
a woman and the mob Immediately
hanged the culprit.
AFTER a convention at Columbus, O.,
which lasted four days. the representa-.
tives OF the miners of Ohio, Pennsyl.
vania, Illinois, Indiana and West Vlr.
ginia adopted by a vote of 495 for to
319 against the operators proposition
for settling the strike on the basis of
e5-cent scale in the Pittsburgh field.
WHILE six troops of the colored
Ninth cavalry, from Fort Robinson,
were camped at Chadron. Neb., one of
the negroes raided John Larkin's sa-
loon at one o'clock in the morning,
picked up a sack containing $500 in
silver and though pursued by a crowd
he managed to escape.
WITH reputation gone, and made
desperate with shame, Miss Lula
Cutchin, aged %. of Suffolk, Va, took
refuge in death. She belonged to
family OF the highest responsibility,
and was member of the NJ. E. church,
in whose choir she was the leading So
prano. She made a confession to her
father discriminating a prominent citi.
zen of the town.
AT least 25 persons were killed and
most of the bodies burned in collision
shortly after midnight of the 9th IL
miles west of Newcastle, Col, due to
the mistake of the conductor of an ex-
ira stock train on the Colorado Mid.
land railroad in reading the wrong
column of figures. The westbound
passenger and express train of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad was tel
escaped and all of the passenger cars
except the rear Pullmans were burned.
A number of passengers who were not
killed outright, but were pinned in
the wreckage and could not be extri-
Gated, persisted in the flames There
were about 200 passengers, fully one
fourth of whom were either killed or
injured.
THIRTEEN fatalities have occurred in
the Joplin NO. mining district the
past summer.
Two maiden sisters named Sheldon
were fatally burned at Lynn, Mass,
by the overturning of coal-oil stove.
Miss Lutte A. LYTTEL, a 23-year-old
negress, passed the required examina-
ton and was admitted to practice law
at Memphis, Tenn. She is the first
representative of her sex of any color
to be admitted to the bar of Tennessee.
She is the only colored woman in the
south licensed to practice law, and il
is said she is the only colored woman
in the United States that is a member
of the bar.
IT has been definitely settled that
Henry Wall, a young white man who
was lynched near Richmond, Va, for
an alleged assault upon Sadie Cook,
was innocent, and there is great indig-
nation against the leaders of the mob.
A TERRIBLE crisis was reached in the
strike situation at Hazleton, Pa, on the
10th when band of deputy sheriffs
fired into a crowd of miners who were
marching to Latimer. The miners fell
like so many sheep and the excitement
was so intense that no accurate figures
of dead and wounded could be OBJ
tanned. Reports run from 90 to %
killed and so wounded. The men killed
were all Hungarians.
THE Chicago Times-Herald said a ma
tional meeting of Methodist laymen
would soon be called to lay plans to
secure equal representation with the
clergy in the great quadrennial legis-
lature of the church.
NEAR Churchville, o., burglars en-
tered the home of George Smith and
overpowerinP him secured $1,000. In
the scuffle Mrs. Smith was shot.
DOUBT has been thrown upon the &C
curacy of the survey of the boundary
between Georgia and Tennessee, and
if the theory of eminent legal author
tiles is confirmed, it will be found that
Chattanooga is on Georgia soil.
AT Anderson, Ind, on the 9th the
Association of the
United States was formed, with j. 81.
Becker, of Dayton, o., as president. Or
CARNATIONS will be formed in every
state and an anti-spiritualistic paper
will be started.
AT New York on the 10th 1000 men
at work in the new underground troll
ley line went out on strike because
they had received no pay for three
weeks.
NEARLY 400 delegates attended the
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