The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

6flOue loss 10 0ef milling meC1CSSos AVuA
of her large Touring establishments being
entirely destroyed by fire on the morning OF
the 4th. These were the Excelsior Mill,
owned by D. Morrison and operated by
Charles A. Pillsbury & Co., capacity 700
barrels per day; the Pillsbury B Mill, owned
and operated by the same firm, capacity TO-
900 barrels; the Minneapolis Mill, owned
and operated by Croker, Fisk Il Co., ca.
pacity $50 barrels; the Empire Mill, owned
byD. L. Watson, of Massachusetts,, and op.
Grated by Chas. A. Pillsbury & Co, capacity
$50 barrels. A cotton mill, owned by D. N.
Morrison and operated by Henry Honkompt,
was also destroyed. The aggregate loss is
not far from 1000, with insurance of
about $215,OOO. The fire originated in the
Pillsbury B Mill, but in what manner is
not known. While the Minneapolis Mill
was burning . terrific explosion occurred,
throwing down the walls and burying sew
eral men In the ruins. Assistant Engineer
Fredericks, John Tuhey and Daniel Burke,
fremen, and man named Robinson, were
taken out dead. Several others were badly
injured.
ToBIN, arrested at Bradford, Ireland,
will be tried on the charge Of treason and
felony. The Government proposes to fden.
tify TObin with the Fenian and Irish broth
erhoods. Papers seized at Tobin's house
show that PSI men were enrolled In the
neighborhood of Bradford, and the Broth
erhood possessed arms to equip them, and
had fund of over f2O0.
A NITRo-GLYCER1NE explosion at
Eagle Lake, on the Thunder Bay Division Of
the Canada Pacific Railway, killed Duncan
Mcmillan and VIM. Cornell. They were
blown to atoms.
WARREN WOODWARD, son of the late
Judge Warren J. Woodward, of Pennsyl-
vania, committed suicide at Reading, Pa,
by shooting himself through the head. He
was a young man of more than ordinary
ability, but OF infirm health.
MISS LOUISA STEVENS, an attractive
young lady of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon
County, ILL.,, took fatal dose of opium on
account of supposed slight from the young
man to whom she was engaged.
THE Virginia Legislature organized
on the It'll.
DIR. CRAWFORD, prominent physi-
clan of Van Buren, County, Iowa, swallowed
a dose of poison mistaken for medicine.
He died in half an hour.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company have unearthed series
of startling frauds connected with the con-
struction department of their road and have
caused the arrest of a number of employees
and others, some twenty five persons in all,
engaged in the conspiracy. The swindle
has been in operation for six years. 1t was
carried out by means of time.checks, issued
to fictitious persons and Endorsed over to
outside parties in collision with the Road
master and Section Foreman. Anumber Of
well-known Topeka men are alleged to have
been engaged in the scheme, and they have
been arrested.
THE Ring Theater, the principal place
of amusement at Vienna, was consumed by
fire on the evening of the 9Th and large
number of persons persisted in the flames or
were trampled to death in the frantic ef-
forts of the audience to secure an exit. The
fire broke out on the stage just before the
time for the curtain to rise, and is said to
have been caused by the falling of kerosene
lamp. In brief moment the curtain and
scenery were enveloped in flames, and soon
after there was an explosion of gas. The
audience were naturally panic-stricken and
the ordinary exits became blocked by q
struggling mass of humanity. A large num-
Der leaped from the windows to the pave.
ments below, where sheets were stretched to
break their fall. The number of lives lost
is estimated at from $50 to 200.
The great Wabash Railway bridge,
spanning the Missouri River at St. Charles,
again went down, on the veping of the sth,
precipitating an entire freight train Of some
thirty cars sixty-five feet into the river be-
low. The engineer, Jack Kirksby, fireman
Chamberlain, and one other employee took
the terrible plunge, but strange to say two
of them escaped without serious injury.
Engineer Kirksby was either killed by the
fall or drowned. His fireman came
out of the cab to the surface and
was rescued. Several stock men leaped
from the caboose in time to save themselves
as they saw the front of the
train plunging into the abyss.
1t was two years ago on the
Sth of November that similar disaster oc-
Cured. That time it was the third span;
this time it was the first span that sue
cumbed. A month ago the State Railroad
Commissioners made report that the bridge
was perfectly safe, and only q day
previous to the accident one Of the
Commissioners inspected the struc.
ture and went away seemingly satisfied.
1t was estimated by the officers Of the road
that it would take week or more to erect a
temporary trestle-work to permit the pas.
| sage of trains.
HIRAM and Valentine Mercer, broth.
ers, shot and killed . Deputy Sheriff and
wounded another officer, in Decatur County
Iowa, on the 10th Of November last. They
subsequently fed to Missouri, taking uI
their residence with another brother, who
owns q farm near Eau de Vie, Christian
| County. A reward Of s., 200 was offered fol
the capture Of the desperadoes. A few day.
since an officer from Iowa, assisted by the
Sheriff of Christian County and small posse
attempted their capture by strategy. Thu
plan succeeded SO far as to draw the des.
peradoes into an ambush prepared for them
by the officers, but both refused to surren.
der and showed fight, whereupon they were