The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-31

the parade. During the march three
standard bearers tainted from exhaustion,
and Sir Alexander Weed, Grand Com
| mander of California, was thrown from his
horse and had both legs broken.
| A DISPUTE over land grant and cattle
ranch in New Mexico recently led to a
tragedy and death of three of the wealthiest
men of that Territory. In a contest be-
tween Manuel B. Otero and j. G. Whitney
for Estancia Ranch, near Albuquerque,
valued at near s., 0OO, 900, the courts decided
| in favor of Whitney and when he went to
take possession a fight ensued in which
both claimants were killed, also the broth
er-in-law of Whitney, named Fernandez.
Otero was a near relative of ex-Congress'
man Otero and Whitney was of the wealth
lest families of Massachusetts,.
KIRKLAND NJ. FITCH, the defaulting and
absconding cashier of the Second National
Bank of Warren, O., surrendered to officers
in Boston, Mass, and expressed his will
ingness to be taken back. He confessed to
taking So, 900 of the funds of the bank and
losing it in stock speculations.
ABOUT two hundred female operatives in
| Toledo, Ohio, recently struck for an adj
| vance on making sundry garments. 1t was
thought all the sewing girls in the city
would join the strike.
THE five story stone building, corner Of
LaSalle and Washington streets, Chicago,
occupied by the Western Union Telegraph
Company, Union National Bank, Interna-
tionaI Bank, Associated Press and number
less commission offices, was partially
burned on the evening of the 2lst, and was
made completely uninhabitable by the
streams of water thrown in the building.
The fire originated on the fifth floor, used
as the operating department by the Western
Union Telegraph Company. The telegraph
company estimates its loss at $15, 600 to S2o,-
600. No insurance. The loss on the build
ing was $4,000. The loss to other tenants,
500, 900. The building was insured for
$4,000.
THE case of the notorious Frank James
was taken up i'm the court at Gallatin, Mo-,
ON the 21st. Dick Liddill and Charley Ford
appeared as witnesses for the defense.
A TERRIFIC tornado swept over Roches-
ter, Mimi, on the night of the 21st, COM
pletely destroying one-third of the town,
killing twenty-six persons and injuring
fifty-one badly. 1t was thought reports
from the surrounding country might swell
the number of the killed to one hundred
Three hundred houses were destroyed and
two hundred damaged. A train on the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad was re-
ported wrecked and one hundred persons
killed and injured.
NICHOLAS ONDEN and his son John, of
Crooked Creek, Mimi, were suffocated the
other morning in cistern. They had
built fire in it the night before to dry it,
and the next morning the son went down
to start the fire. The father, seeing his
son lying at the bottom, procured rope
and went down, and when putting it about
his sons body fell dead.
THE house and barn of Fred Zerlow, near
Athol, Dakota, burned recently. Mrs. Ter
low persisted in the flames, and Mr.. Zerlow
and one child were fatally burned.
DURING the recent session of the Fedora
ton of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
of the United States and Canada, in New
York, the Legislative Committee appoint
ed last year at the Cleveland Convention,
reported that encouraging progress had
been made in the formation of local unions
and an increase in the membership of
unions previously founded. The report re-
viewed the history of labor agitation in the
past year, and the efforts made to obtain
legislation favorable to the workingmen.
1t was also suggested that steps be taken
to secure harmony and, unanimity among
all trade and labor organizations of the
country. The Secretary was instructed to
send a letter to the next national conven-
ton of the two great political parties, set
ting forth the demands of the workingmen.
The executive committee was instructed to
communicate with all national and inter-
national trades and labor organizations,
with the view to obtaining basis for
which more thorough unanimity might
be secured.
The Presidential party last week reached
the geographical point where it was hot at
midday, binding dust-storm at evening,
and ice an inch thick formed on the water
buckets before morning. They were near
the southern boundary of the Yellowstone
Park.
LATER from the tornado at Rochester,
Mimi, placed the killed at thirty-four,
wounded eighty-one, nine fatally; property
destroyed, estimated at 500, 900. The loss
did not include those at other points in the
track of the tornado, where a number of
persons were reported killed and great
damage done to crops and other property.
One lady was overtaken by the storm in
an open field and no traces of her have
since been seen.
THE barn of James Quick, in Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, was recently struck by
lightning, six horses killed and large
amount of grain and agricultural nipple
ments burned.
RICHARD TANNING, twenty years old,
employed as hall boy in the Sher-
man House at Chicago, was arrested re-
Gently on a charge of having committed a
heavy robbery while employed in a similar
capacity in the Parker House, Boston. The
detectives declared that he was the same
person who robbed Austin Corbin in Lex
ington Flats, New York, and that he also
robbed large number of guests of Sara
toga hotel. He made partial confession
and was taken to Boston in charge of a de-
tective from that city.
The Governor of Missouri notified the
Marshal of jackson County that he must
enforce the law of the State against prize
fighting and not permit any training for
such a contest. As a consequence Slade,
who was in training near Independence for
a contest with Mitchell, packed up his
baggage and left the State.
DOMESTIC troubles caused DR.. ]. s. Mar
tin, of Cincinnati, aged sixty-two, to shoot
himself.
j. NJ. BRIGGS, arrested at Eagle Grove,
Iowa, with a large amount of counterfeit
money in his possession, escaped from
United States Marshal at Marcus Station,