The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-09-03

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former were playing baseball on som
vacant ground and the latter tried t.
get possession of it, missiles being
thrown and revolvers fired off. Rev
Father Joseph Shields, of St. Mat
thew's church, stepped in between thu
combatants and drove the blacks bacl
at the point of a revolver. just as tn,
police appeared in response to rio
call Several persons were hurt
PIPE CHIEF, Pawnee Indian, aged
60, has brought suit at Pawnee. Ok.
for divorce from his wife, Wallasha
aged 90, charging her with neglectine
his wigwam to run around with Ger
tain young braves of the tribe.
A CATTLE train on the Clover Lea.
road took fire from hot box at Rus
siaville, Ind, and before the flames
could be extinguished several cars
were burned and a number of Texa:
steers en- route from Kansas City tc
Buffalo persisted in the flames. The
remainder were turned loose in the
streets of the village, creating panic
among the inhabitants.
FOURTEEN labor organizations, in.
Guiding Debs' social democracy, sup
plemented by the populists of Kansas,
were represented at the labor confer.
ence at st. Louis on the 3Oth. Many
policies were proposed, but nothing
definite had been settled upon. the
committee on resolutions not having
reported upon plan for action.
AN unknown man was shot on the
Skaguay trail in Alaska by commit
tee of vigilantes and his bones are now
rotting beneath a pile of rocks near
the pass. He had stolen a sack of flour.
TWELVE hundred trousers makers
struck at Philadelphia on the 3Oth for
higher paw. esHsg7s -e&5ar<sssss--''
ELLIOTT, the Kansas City crack shot
won the Dupont trophy at Eau Claire,
Wis, on the 3sth, beating Charles
Budd. The score was 80 to 81 The
shooting of Elliott was nearly a record
breaker, as he killed 80 birds out of 100
and his lost bird, the seventh, fell dead
out of bounds, making SO straight after
losing his seventh.
AT Readville, Mass. the Chicago
pacing stallion, Star Pointer, on the
2Sth went a full mile in the phenome-
nal time of 1894, thus necessitating
the setting of new limit to the speed
of light harness horses. The people
who witnessed the performance went
wild over. it.
AT the national encampment of the
G. A. r. at Buffalo, n. Y, on the 10Th,
j. p. S. Goblin, of Lebanon, Pa, was
elected commander-in-chie and Gin
cinnati was chosen as the place for the
next meeting.
THE strike of the progressive tailors
at New York has been declared off, the
increase of - per cent. in wages de-
manded having been conceded by the
employers.
HARRY FLETCHER and his grandson,
while driving across the railroad track
at Seatonville, ILL.,, were struck by a pas.
senger train and both instantly killed.
FIREBUGs burned a large barn and
all its contents belonging to Van Ad-
ans, a well-to-do farmer living near
Princeton, Ind. They also attempted
to burn the Adams house.
The young negro named Bonner,
upon an aged white woman near Will
helm, Tex, was taken from Jail by a
mob of 200 men early the other morn
ing and lynched in the woods The
negro confessed the crime.
THE experiments conducted at Fort
Worth, Tex, under the direction of
DR.. Victor A. Norgaard chief of the di-
vision of animal pathology in the ma
tional bureau of animal industry, with
view of Kidding Texas cattle of the
fever-producing ticks, have eliminated
in success. DIR. Norgaard will in
few days make official announcement
of the experiments.
Mrs. JENNIE LAIRD. of Providence,
r. l., was elected captain commanding
at the meeting of the Ladies' Associa-
ton of Naval Veterans at Buffalo. n.
Y, on the 25th.
The body of Thompson Rhodes was
found within the doors of Mason Bros
planning mill at Marietta, md, where
he had been killed by load of slugs
from spring gun, fixed by the pro-
prietor to prevent burglars.
AN Omaha, Neb., dispatch on the 25th
oSoSNA SheAO Oil AOdhS Wet
blocked with grain trains moving the |
cereal east and railroad men said the |
lines could not move the crop even at |
that rate for three months.
THE first convention of the Negro In
Free Silver league was called
to order at Quincy, Ill, on the 25th.
Among those present were Prof. C. w.
Lear. principal of the GAINESVILLE, Mo-,
school, and Harry r. Graham,
of Kansas City, Mo-, president of the
Negro Free Silver league of Missouri
and editor of the Kansas City Rising
Sun.
THERE were 300 delegates present at
the American Bar associations conven-
ton at Cleveland, O., on the 25th.
President j. NJ. Woolworth, of Omaha.
Neb., delivered an address, reviewing
briefly interesting laws passed during
the last year in different states.
WHILE working in a coal mine near
Carlyle, Ill, Fred Hearer. an engineer.
vas accidentally knocked off of an as
,ending cage and fell Cos feet, meeting
l horrible death.
AL HAWKINS, the widely-known