The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-02

THE Chicago Post said: Accord
ing to anarchists in Chicago an ex-
tensive movement of a revolution
Systematic agitation is to be begun
May 1. outdoor meetings are to be held
whether or not police permission is OBJ
tainable and just such preparations
and speeches as preceded the Haymar-
ket episode are being made"
NEAR Bloomer, Ok, J. P. Cassidy.
while hunting with his little son. shot
at rabbit in a thicket. The load hit
the boy in the head and he died from
the effects.
A HUNDRED masked men destroyed
four tollgates in Carrard county, Ky,
the other night and threatened the
gatekeepers with death if they collect
ed any more toll.
AN oyster sloop was caught in a
squall near Pensacola, Fla. and sank,
drowning eIohn Constantine, his wife
and five children and his wife's sister.
LEE PON. grand recorder of the
Chinese freemasOns in America, was
buried at st. Louis on the 2sth. His
obsequies provided entertainment for
5000 people and scared more horses
than the police have any record of.
A CALL has been issued for a national
good citizens convention. to be held at
Nashville. Tenn, on Nav 1920, to dis
cuss matters relating to the many evils
of the day. such as crimes. Sabbath
dissertation. intemperance. dishonesty.
h &c h., I
are from every state in the union.
Mrs. MARGARET PRESTON. the we'll
known writer of southern war poetry,
died at Baltimore, Nd, on the 2Sth.
A FIRE occurred at Portsmouth. Va.
on the 2Sth, making 80 families home
less and causing 100000 damage.
THE northern Colorado coal opera
tors combine has been dissolved and
the price of coal has dropped from 81
to $3.50 per ton.
ALDACE +. WALKER. chairman of the
executive board of the A. L. & $. F.
company. said on the 27th that he did
not look for any immediate rate wars
in consequence of the recent decision
of the United States supreme court in
which traffic associations of railroads
were held to be contrary to the Sher-
man antitrust law.
THE steamer Olive. which arrived at
New York on the 2sth. brought Liz
Italians, the largest number of imni-
grants bought to that port by any one
steamer this season.
OFFICERS at Ferry. Ok. have arrested
over a dozen boys between the ages of
II and l. years on the charge of whole
sale thefts. Most of the band are
from Chicago. Kansas City and st.
Louis. They have been operating on
the line of the Santa Fe railroad
THE time of all of the employees of
the car. bridge and building depart
ments of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas
railroad at Denison, Tex. has been
shortened to three days of nine hours
per week.
AT the bicycle tournament at San
Francisco Allen Jones won a quarter
mile dash in 81 So seconds. the fastest
record for indoor riding. ]. E. Wing
won the fifth heat of the five-nile club !
race in Hos. taking II seconds from
the previous worlds record. In the |
mile race Brecker covered the distance |
in 2:O5. reducing the worlds indoor |
record by three seconds.
The Iowa house on the Goth passed |
the senate medical practice act with |
cat change. driving out osteopaths. |
faith healers, massage doctors and all
others protesting to heal unless they |
pass examination. the same as physi- |
Clans
In the Canadian parliament two bills
have been introduced to prohibit the
of alien labor into Canada
under contract or agreement. Both
bills are drafted on the lines of the
alien labor law of the United States.
and are intended as retaliatory legis-
alton against citizens of the United
States.
THE Order of Equity, operating in Is
states, made deed of assignment at
indianapolis, Ind, on the 25th. Its
apses and matured certificates amount
ID to more than its new business last
Year.
THE Colorado senate on the a5th
passed the bill for the abolition of cap
tai punishment. 1t recently passed
he house.
WHILE the British cruiser Theseus
vas practicing outside the harbor of
Malta with torpedoes one exploded as
t was being thrown to the ships
aunch, injuring 80 men, two probably
atally.
OSCAR ERICKSON was crushed todeath =.
n the 25th in the basement of the old
lost Office at Chicago by the falling of :
n embankment
WILLIAM HUGGINs died of hydropho-
ia at Wheeling. w. ", on the 25th.
lie and seven others were bitten by a
og last January. Those who were !,
itten now feel much alarmed at the
cath of Higgins.
The free silver republican party of
'ebraska was launched at Lincoln on :
he 25th. Judge Gregory. OF Omaha. :
-as selected to attend the meeting of !
ne provisional national committee. to
e held June 5.
THE Illinois house of representatives
lied the anti-department store bill :
-hich was being waged by small re-
Ill merchants of Chicago. =
The Olympic club of San Francisco.