The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-07-23

killing them.
AT Columbia, La, Carey Townsend
and Elisha Wilmington had friendly
boxing match for the amusement OF
their friends when Wilmington dealt
Townsend heavy blow over the re-
gion of the heart and he dropped to
the ground dead. Wilmington was
arrested.
THE old Cheyenne and Arapahoe
warriors in Oklahoma who have more
than one wife have been assured that
the anti-polygamy law passed by the
| last legislature will not be enforced
against those Indians who were mar
ried according to the tribal custom,
but all marriages contracted hereafter
must be strictly in accordance with
the law. This conclusion was reached
at conference held at Darlington be-
tween the encouragement and the
chi efs and representative men of each
tribe
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 10Th said that it was believed that
the leaders of the striking coal miners
contemplated calling on the railway
organizations for assistance.
THOMAS R. TURLEY, of Memphis, has
been appointed by the governor OF
Tennessee to succeed the late lsham
G. Harris as United States senator.
THE steamer Benton, recently taken
to Sioux City, Ia, from st. Louis to en-
gage in the upper river traffic, collided
with the combination bridge draw and
sank in shallow water.
A NEGRO preacher named Edmondson
who had assisted Anthony Williams.
the negro murderer who was recently
lynched, to escape for a time-was
caught by 400 pursuers at Florence.
Ala, beaten to death with clubs, his
body riddled with bullets and then
hanged.
CHARLES STEVENS, who had been i'm
prisoned in the mammoth mine near
Phoenix, Ariz., since July 4, was res
cued on the evening of the 18th. A
shaft had to be drilled through solid
granite and men worked without ces-
sation. Stevens had been without food
and water all the time.
Mrs NANCY J. KILLEN was nailed in
her house near Breedou, w. Va, and
the house set on fire by fiends. She
was burned TO death.
FIVE monster farewell rallies on the
18th at Toronto, Ont, closed the great
est convention the Epworth league has
ever had. All five meetings were
marked by great outbursts of religious
fervor.
THE American Baptist Missionary
/ = l., 90
society, with headquarters in New
York, have wiped out their joint
debt of sass, 900 by raising over $3.50, 600,
to which John d. Rockefeller is to add
the same sum.
THERE is freight war on between
the Lone Star and the Mallory lines
and a Galveston special on the 18th
said that the new Lone Star line an
nounces that it will carry cotton
/ freight free at present from Galveston
to New York.
EMANUEL RICH, of the firm of Rich
Bros, millionaire dry goods men of
Atlanta, Ga, was found dead on the
10th with his throat cut from ear to
ear. He had been a victim of dyspepsia
and complained that he would sooner
be dead than live in such misery.
IT was reported at Redfield. S. D.,
that many stockmen in the hill COM
try in that section had been compelled
to move their cattle to new feeding
grounds on account of swarms of grass
hoppers eating up the grass on the
ranges.
WITHIN the next 80 days Guthrie,
Oklahoma City and Ell Reno, Ok, will
be connected by long distance tele-
phone lines. The lines will be extend
ed within the near future to connect
with the Kansas system, centering in
Wichita.
THERE were DAT business failures
throughout the United States reported
by Bradstreets commercial agency for
the week ended the 10th, against 255
for the corresponding week last year.
IT was stated on reliable authority
that the powers had fixed the indem-
nifty to be paid to Turkey by Greece at
"a, O0O, 900. and had accepted a comprO-
mise giving Turkey more liberal line
of frontier.
jim JEFFRIEs, of California, and Gus
nuhllns VI OhAOs hb a SO-l OOuO
at San Francisco on the 10th. Both
men are remarkable for their size and
muscular development. Jeffries is a
man about % years old, 81 feet in
height and is in fine condition at 212
pounds. Rubin, the Ohio giant, tops
the Californian just one inch and
weighs in condition 200 pounds. The
pace was terrific for men of their size
and weight from the start. The ref
cree declared the fight draw.
TREAT & CRAwFoRD's oil wells in Elk
Fork CIV. Va district took fire from the
boiler furnace. The two wells were
producing 200 barrels an hour, which
burned and foated down Elk Fork.
Four bridges have already burned and
four small towns were threatened.
A RECENT dispatch from Paris said
that the governments of Spain and
Japan have arranged an offensive alli-
ance against the United States. The
terms of the understanding, which
is for the mutual protection of Cuba
! and Hawaii DrOvidc that in the event