The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-08-13


San Francisco were recently circulat-
ing petition to be sent to President
Mckinley asking him to get congress
to appoint commission to investigate
the horrors of human slavery in that
city. 1t was said that over LOCO Chi
nese women were bought and sold as
chattels and kept in involuntary servi-
tude
WHILE on his way to serve warrants
on charges of "wildcatting." Dink
Wharton, deputy sheriff in Cleburne
county, Ala, was assassinated from
the bushes. His body was literally
filed with lead.
A NEGRO attempted to assault IL
year-old girl near Edwardsville, Ala.
but she screamed and got away. A
short time after armed men with dogs
were after the fiend. When they re-
turned they said they had lost" the
negro, intimating that he never would
be found alive.
Work is being pushed in a vigorous
manner at the Brooklyn navy yard on
all the government vessels which are
undergoing repairs, but the officials
deny that there is any special signifi-
eance In the fact.
IT was said that the Spanish govern
ment was aware that a meeting of
anarchists had been held early in July
and that it was decided TO murder Sc
nor Canovas del Castillo before August
Is.
THE gravel train on the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad struck a street
car which was passing over the track
at GAINESVILLE, Wis, and badly injured
half dozen passengers.
A RIOT broke out among the prison
ers in the Jail at the Four Courts, st.
Louis, on the night of the 9th and it
took large force of policemen and de-
tectives to quell the disturbance.
About 20 of the rioters were placed in
dungeons.
JOHN GORDON, negro who murdered
a white man, was captured and taken
to Brunswick, Miss. the other even
ing. The next morning his body was
dangling from a pecan tree.
THE towboat Fritz blew up on the
about ten miles below
Cairo, Ill. on the eth and ten negro
were afterwards missed.
A BOILER exploded IN Morrison's
planning mill at Mena. Ark, wrecking
the building and blowing the head off
of Engineer Nelson.
THE officials at the miners head
quarters at Pittsburgh, Pa, were kept
busy on the 9Th answering appeals for
food for the strikers families. 1t was
said that hunger was doing more in
jury to the cause of the miners than
any other one thing.
JUDGE THOMAS. in the United States
court at Muskogee. l. T.. has declared
the Incorporation of towns in the In
dian territory under the Arkansas law
a nullity. The decision affects many
towns and places a damper on munich
pal government in the territory.
A RECENT dispatch from Sloan
Springs, Ark. said that there was
rush in the Cherokee strip by white
men to marry Indian maids, as August
Is was the last date upon which squaw
men could qualify as Cherokee citizens.
Each dusky maid carries a dowry of
100 acres.
A NEGRO named Nathaniel Mason at
an assault upon his employers
wife at Glenwood, Ga. He was captured
and mob of 80 decided to shoot him
In military fashion. He was placed
against pile of rocks, given an oppor-
tunity to pray and. at signal. every
trigger was pulled and a shower of
lead found Judgment in his body.
DISTINCT vibrations of an earthquake
we're recently felt at Basalt, Col,
windows being ratified. houses rocked
and plastering cracked.
JUDGE MURPHY, of the court of Grim
NAL correction at St. Louis, has ruled
that the Breeders law is unconstitu-
tional and pool rooms may reopen.
Miss" Lucy SMITH, of Omaha, Neb.,
has filed sensational plea for divorce
in the Douglass county court. She set
up that on May 81 last, while she was
confined to her bed, Harvey Boone
bribed her nurse to drug her, and while
she was stupefied he came to her bed
side with a minister and license and
they were married.
4 BRIDGE at Kertsch, Russia, which
had been weakened by food. collapsed
A number of people were
when the bridge fell, and IS
of them were drowned.
THE queens speech was read to the
British lords and commons at London
IN the 9th and parliament was pro-
-ogued until October 8.
JACK WILLIAMS was lynched near
KY, for assaulting a
leaf and dumb girl
A CALL has been sent out to the state
presidents of ex-Slaves' Pension asso-
cations for a national convention to
be held in Nashville, Tenn, September
20. 1897.
ONE hundred women employed as
Wrappers in the Rhenia silk mills at
College Point. l.. l.. made a demand
tor an increase OF wages and for the
of the men who struck
TWO months ago in consequence of
of 80 to 10 per cent in wages
Both were refused and the women
struck.
CHARLES DIETz, of Philadelphia, quar-