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

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for re-establishing the Jews in Paies.
tine, with publicly recognized rights,
was unanimously adopted.
In fire at Venice nine men were
burned to death.
LUTHER Brown, liveryman. died the
other morning at Ottumwa, Ia. from
the result of an operation. His aged
father then looked at the remains,
walked down to the river and COM
mitted suicide by drowning.
SIX deputy sheriffs hunting around
for illicit stills in Pope county, Ark,
were shot to death recently by moon
sinners.
THE bad feeling between whites and
blacks at Leonard, Mineral Wells,
High Lake, Cleburne and other places
in Texas is growing in bitterness and
is engaging the attention of the state
officials and all the peace officers in
Texas. The latest issue of the Dallas
Express, the leading negro paper of
the state, advises the blacks to arm
themselves and defend their right to
live and work in Texas.
THREE hundred Kiowa Indians as
sembled at their dancing grounds in the
Indian territory several days ago and
began the medicine dance. This prov
! ing too tame they began the ghost
dance and got wildly excited. Capt.
Baldwin, the Indian agent, called upon
them to desist and they laughed at
him. Finally with the aid of Indian
police he arrested the whole crowd
and they will be tried at the Indian
court at Anadarko.
THE midnight special from st. Louis
to Chicago on the C. & A. was derailed
near Alton, Ill, by spreading rails and
the tender, three baggage cars and
postal car rolled on top of the engine,
under which Peter -safferty, the engi-
neer, was pinned. He was taken out
fatally injured. Several others were
more or less severely hurt.
ABOUT $50 guests at the Minnewa-
wan hotel at Winona, Ind. were taken
sick the other night and some were
reported to be in serious condition.
The cause was supposed to have been
some food served at supper.
In a free fight at dance at Good
win, Neb., Henry Carpenter. farmer,
was shot through the abdomen by
James Lindsay, bartender, who was
drunk.
AT Nashville. Tenn, Carl French, of
Indianapolis, Ind, and Miss Helen
Hunter, of Nashville, leaped from a
precipice at Sunset park, falling 100
feet to instant death. They were low
ers and Miss Hunters parents objected
to their marriage.
THE G. A. r. encampment at Buffalo,
n. Y, settled down to business on the
27th by finishing up the election of
officers and hearing reports of commit
tees. A service pension was recon-
mended to all veterans who had
reached the age of 81 years. The COM
mittee on textbooks urged an improve
ment in those that relate to the war of
the rebellion and denounced the his
tories used in southern schools The
encampment of 1897 then adjourned
THE first national convention of the
American party. new political organ
ization, met at st. Louis on the Goth in
answer to call issued by Col. E. II.
Sellers, of Detroit, Mich. The plat |
form favors the characterization of gold |
and silver and the substitution of
treasury notes. the issue of low rate !
Understanding savings certificates !
for popular investment, the control of |
all public conveniences by the govern
ment, an income tax Ian the election |
of president and senators by direct |
vote of the people, the initiative and |
referendum and the adjustment of |
trusts and monopolies.
JOSEPH FIFE, a negro youth, convict /
ed of attempted assault on Mrs Marks, |
a widow, and who subsequently con-
fessed to two other like crimes, was
hanged in the yard of the Jail at Rich
mond, Va, on the Goth.
THE house of Rev. Elliott W. Brown,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church at Dubuque, Ia, was burglar
lied the other day. AS Mr.. Brown and
family were away. the burglar had
plenty of leisure. He took a wash in
the bath room and then donned Mr..
Browns best suit, leaving his rags be-
hind. He also had good night'ssleep
in the pastors bed.
The boarding house of the Union
Consolidated mine at Weiland, Cal,
was burned to the ground the other
night and Mrs. Craighead, wife of the
and two of her grandchil-
dren, aged eight and ten years, per-
ished in the flames.
HARRY c. STONE, the veteran man
ager of the Patterson opera house at
New York, became i'll and was forced
to go to his home on the banks of the
Passaic river, and by his opportune
arrival he saved his three daughters
from drowning. The girls had gone
out for a row on the river and the boat
had upset.
GEN. AZCARRAGA, the Spanish pre-
mier. announced at recent cabinet
that the government would
follow the policy of the late premier,
Canovas del Castillo. and it had the
greatest confidence in Gen. Weyler's
of affairs in Cuba.
A SEVERE windstorm struck Laurel
wood park, about "a miles west of Chi
cago, the other afternoon while the
grounds were filled with picnickers at