The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-26

Railroad, was recently the victim of a sin
gular accident at Memphis. While under
the water, through misapprehension OF
through one of his feet, and he was com
PEELED to cut his own foot off to proven,
himself from being drowned.
GENERAL.
DURING services in Jewish synagogue
at Simonkain, Russia, recently, false
alarm of fire was raised in the women's
gallery, which caused a panic. The people
rushed for the door, where there was a ter
thirty others injured.
RECENTLY the two-span bridge on the
Central Railroad, near Aqua Caliente, Mexi
CO, fell with construction train of eighteen
cars and two engines. Engineers Dileney
and Hopkins and three Mexicans were
killed. The train was a complete wreck.
A LONDON (Eng.) dispatch stated that
four hundred persons were Frustrated by
trichinosis in ten villages in Saxony. Fifty
sufferers were in helpless condition
Deaths from the disease were occurring
daily.
MARIA McCABE, unmarried, has been
sentenced to hang in Hamilton, Canada
for drowning her infant.
THE Exchange Bank, of Montreal, has
suspended.
MUCH damage was reported as having
been caused by recent earthquakes, between
Chesno and Vourla, on the southern coast
of the Gulf of Smyrna, Asia Minor. All
the villages of that region were destroyed.
1t was believed upwards of one thousand
persons persisted. The survivors of the
disaster suffered fearful privations.
THE value of exports of hreadstuffs for
September, 1888, was SIG, 1872 800, against
S24 ,662, 900 during the same time in 1882.
For the nine months, ended September 30,
1888, it was S13O, 43o 1886, against $134 0s7, s9s
during the same period of 1882.
The Government of sace-Lorraine has
prohibited the publication Of nine French
papers in that Province.
The French Prime Minister, Ferry, in q
recent speech at Havre, forshadowed the
withdrawal of the present embargo upon
the importation Of American bacon.
HALIFAX, N. S., was greatly excited re-
Gently by the arrest of three men with a
large quantity Of dynamite in their posses
sion.
ADvIcEs from Altata, Mexico, reported
the population of the town decimated by
yellow fever, deaths averaging twenty q
day for the last two weeks. On the Sd
Alfalfa was struck by hurricane, killing
several people and destroying a greater
part of the town, and the inhabitants
sought refuge in the mountains. Several
miles of the Smalloa and Durango Railroad
track were torn up and the bridge at Qua
narrator blown down.
THE failures in the United States and
Canada, for the sveek, ended October 20
were 253, an increase of fifty over the pre-.
ceding week, mainly in the New England
States, South and West. Failures also in.
creased in Canada.
THE LATEST.
THE Railroad Commissioners of Kansas
recently heard arguments of counsel of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad for a re-opening
of the Beloit case, with the view of modi-
fication or reversal of their late decision,
by which the rates charged over the rail-
road for transportation of freight to and
from Beloit was found to be too high. After
a careful review of the earnings of the road
for the past three years, which by COMPARE
son showed a largely increased and in
creasing traffic, the Commissioners decided
that at present the Board was unable to
perceive sufficient reason to recede from
their late decision, but that if in the future
it should appear to the satisfaction of the
Board that the rates fixed in that decision
proved to be insufficient remuneration for
the service performed, or should require
modification, the Board will feel at liberty
to make such adjustments Of them as will
be fair and just to all concerned. 1t was
further ordered that the posting of rates be
postponed until the meeting of the Commits
sioners and Railroad officers on the 9Th of
November, heretofore agreed upon.
The Commissioner Of Pensions, in his re.
port, takes up the question of the practices
of claim agents with pensioners, and says:
1.-THE evils Of which complaint has been
made have greatly increased, and the
present situation calls for immediate
action by Congress-" He also said the
business has attracted to it many ignorant
and INSCRIPTIONS persons, whose only OBJ.
iect seems to be toprocure applications from
pensioners, and then assiduously dun the
claimants until the SO fee is secured, and
thereafter practically abandon the case like
q squeezed orange"
w. A. Klein, under indictment for kill.
ing Mayor Stubs, of Polk City, Iowa, was
shot and killed recently at Clyde by his
brother-in-law, John Cools.
A LATE fire at Tacoma, D. T., destroyed
$25 900 worth of property.
OBRIEN A. CARPENTER. one of the most
prominent and wealthy citizens of Lincoln,
Ill, has been arrested charged with the
murder OF Fora Burns, domestic in his
family. who was found dead near the out
skirts of that city short time since. The
murder was considered great mystery at
the time, but recently developed circum-
stances pointed SO directly towards Car.
penter that he was arrested. The Sheriff
appealed to the Governor for aid to protect
the prisoner from mob violence. Carpen.
ter has wife and two daughters.
BIZ Q boiler explosion at Mount Pleasant,
Iowa, the other morning, in Ross BROTHERS,
Touring mill, man named Beckwith was
instantly killed. another man badly in
jured. who was thought to be dying, and
four or five others were more or less bruised.
The mill was blown to atoms, with hardly
enough left to burn. Dwellings in the
vicinity shook with the explosion.