The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS.


A serious accident took place at St. Loui
during the procession of the Yelled Prophets
The seats erected between Twelfth and Thir
tenth streets fell and seriously injured mum
Der of persons. j. e. Love had leg broker
and his head and arms were hurt. w. L. Mar
com, clerk in the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Office, had his leg broken and his back seri
ously injured. His wife was also badly bruised
Miss Van Amberg, q teacher at the public
school, was badly bruised about the legs and
body. Col. A. r. Easton had leg broken and
was otherwise injured. His wife, son and
daughter were more or less hurt. Miss Katie
Zimmerman received painful and perhaps
serious injury in the back.
The coinage of the various minis during
September was SS,OO9, 252, of which s., 800, 1OC
were standard dollars.
A young man named Fred Heron was muir
dered near Portsmouth, Ohio, and his body
thrown under train on the Sciota Valley
Railroad.
An excursion train from Boston to Man
chester, Mass, was recently taken possession
of by a party of rowdies and before Nashua
was reached the fiercest kind of a fight was
going on in the two front cars between
drunken roughs. The ladies and chill lren
screamed and jumped on the seats while the
roughs were pounding one another. The con-
ductor and his men were powerless to stop the
disgraceful proceedings.
James Stainters, a lineman In the employ of
the Brush Electric Light Company, in New
York, received a shock from an instrument
ha nd al i'm onfl1
killed.
Afire at Stanton shaft, owned by the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre, Pa, Coal Company destroyed
the entire headheuse. At the time the fire
was discovered there were sixty men in the
pits below. Their families and friends were
soon on the spot, and their agonizing cries
were pitiful. All the men, however, were
saved. On coming out many of them fell to
the ground in an exhausted condition. Their
escape through the gangways leading to the
Empire mines was miraculous.
An Australian steamer recently brought to
San Francisco 1912, 900 in gold.
The Sultan has called the attention of Lord
Dufferin to the fact that the note of the Porte
inquiring when the British troops will leave
Egypt remains unanswered. The Sultan de-
clared that if Lord Dufferin did not reply he
would appeal himself to the Powers.
Charles Thorn, who has lived at Union City,
Ind, three years as reputable man, was ar
rested recently on charge of having assisted
in the robbery of a stage coach and killing a
banker in California September LIST, 1879. He
was taken to California. His real name is said
to be Dorsey.
Samuel Hull, wealthy citizen of Jackson,
Ohio, was murderously assaulted while at
work in an ore pit near that place, recently,
by John Jackson, a man 20 years old, who
robbed his victim of SIG. jackson said he
wanted the money to give to a woman. Hull
was reported to be dying.
The village of Anita, Iowa, was recently
partially destroyed by fire. The loss was So
600.
The coopers of Dayton, Ohio, struck for an
increase of two cents per barrel. The millers
refused it, as they have large stock of -four
on hand.
The Chicago Rail,oay Age reports the con-
struction of 1,2O9 miles of main track during
the month of September, and total for the
nine months of the present year of {, 075 miles.
The estimated total for the year is 10, 500, an
amount far greater than ever before built in
season. The largest amount of track laying
during the past month"; in Iowa, was 154 miles.
The other leading States are as follows:
Pennsylvania, 81; Georgia, "a; California, So;
Colorado, 81; Texas, 81; New York, a.
VIM. Rose, journalist and bicycle tourist of
Danville, H., who started for San Francisco
on bicycle six weeks ago, has reached Chey-
enne, Wyoming Territory. On account of
the lateness of the season and advice received
he will go no further on account of the danger
of getting snow bound in the mountains.
Rose travelled ], 400 miles on the bicycle all
alone
The Bank Examiners have concluded the
examination of the Manufacturers National
Bank, at Troy, N. Y. The defalcation of
Cashier Wellington Is reported as S31, sis. The
cashiers bondsmen are entirely responsible.
David Barbour, for many years past General
Manager and Financial Superintendent of the
Touring mills of Marshall, Kennedy & Co., at
Pittsburg, has been arrested on charge of
larceny. 1t is alleged that be has been carry
ing on system of robbery for the past twenty
years, and in that time has taken $4,000.
New gold certificates to the amount of $ $444,-
4SO, 900 were recently forwarded to the AS
sistant Treasurer at New York for signature.
The detective who reached Kewanee, H.,
with Dunkle one of the bank robbers, lately
arrested in Montana, after walk of two miles
east of the town, returned with a sack of gold
containing 5000 which had been secreted.
This accounts for all the money, and all the
robbers are in custody.
Arab Pasha demands trial by Englishmen,
saying he surrendered to them, and he would
have escaped if he had known he was to be
tried by Egyptians, from whom he expects no
mercy.
Pensacola reported ffty-six new cases of
fever on the 5lh.
Lieut.. WEIGH, commanding the Pensacola