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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
FIERCE FLAMES.
Destruction by Fire Of the Saxonvifle Cfass.)
blanket Observation-Disclosures Nearly Halt
y Million Dollars.

Destruction by Fire of the Saxonviile Csdass.)
Blanket Observation-Disclosures Nearly Halt
y Million Dollars.
FRANuNGHAM, MASS, Nov. %.
Fire broke out at 1890 this morning in
the immense buildings known as the Sax.
onville blanket factories, at Saxonville,
and at three O'Clock Ave of the nine large
factories were q mass of smoking ruins,
and the only industry of the town wiped
out for the time being. The town is shame
fully Negligent in the matter Of a fire de-
partment, having only three hand engines,
two Of them being located three miles from
the factories. When these arrived the
flames were beyond control, and all the
firemen could do was to save the buildings
not already in flames. Assistance was
called from Natick, Ashland and Cochit.
uate, and steamers were sent from those
towns, but were of little avail.
Three of the burned buildings were OF
brick, five and six stories, and two OF
wood, two stories each. No. 8, the last one
to go, was new building containing no
machinery, but filled with goods. portion
of which were saved by greut efforts of the
tiremen first on the ground. The two store
houses, containing thousands of finished
blankets, were saved, also the boiler-house,
located at sOl1e ulSbtHCt lEOLi Inc uisC
the Lighthouses. The latter, however, were
considerably damaged. The fremen were
exposed to great danger from constantly
exploding naphtha and other chemicals,
that created intense heat, and also from
the falling walls. At one time the company
were obliged to drop the pipes and run for
their lives to escape burial beneath falling
bricks. The excitement in the village was
intense. A general conflagration was ex.
pected, owing to the showers of falling
sparks, which fell upon the roofs of the EN-.
ployes' houses, constantly igniting them
and requiring constant work with pals.
Many people removed their goods from
their houses, thinking the entire village
would be swept away.
The mills were owned by NJ. II. Simpson
& Co., of Boston. No accurate estimate of
the loss can he made tonight, as it is I'M
known how much finished goods were de-
stroyed and how much the machinery was
worth. The loss on buildings alone is esti
mated at SIZE, 900. and the total loss is esti.
mated ut from 800, 00J to 500, 600, and may
exceed that figure. Four hundred EN-.
ployes are thrown out of work. The mills
supplied thousands of tons of blankets to
the army and navy during the war, and rs
the business is very profitable they will,
doubtless. be rebuilt. The same firm con-
trolls the Roxbury Carpet Company, one of
the largest concerns in the State.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

1.-THE Life of Martin Luther is to
be presented to every Protestant child
N the public schools of Germany, by
order of the Minister of Public Worship
ut Berlin.
The Young Mems Christian Asso
citation of Boston has dedicated a five
story brown-stone building. at the cor.
ner of Boylston and Berkeley streets.
Boston Post.
The ladies of South Carolina are ur
in arms because the State Legislature
appropriated $4,000 for the higher
education of boys and nothing for the
girls. Chicago Journal.
The Boston School Board has de-
cided to stock the basement of the Latir
school building with tools of various.
sorts, and give such lads as desire it G.
technical education.--Boston Herald.
The Missionary Committee of the
M. E. Church accepts the offer of Mrs,
Philander Smith, OF Little Rock, Ark,
of $4,000 for a medical college as
Nankin, China. Rev. Mr.. Goucher,
of Baltimore, gives $4,000 conditionally
for an Anglo-Japanese college at Toxic
and $1,000 for the theological schools
at Foo Choo.-Detroit Post.
There is reason to nope that educar
ton at the public expense will at no dis
tant day be limited to the brancte.
which are necessary to intelligent cit
zenship, and which may be mastered BY
every boy and girl who may enter the
schools. and that the opportunity to en-
ter will be afforded to every one in this
broad land. The teachings of expert
ence and the common sense of the peo-
pie will guide legislation rather thar
the sophistries of the small and selfish
class of interested persons and the ap-
peals of mischievous demagogues.-St
Louis Republican.
Here is a notable instance of Chris
tian charity. Recently Bishop Fallows.
of the Reformed Episcopal Church, anG
Presbyterian pastor, both of Chicago.
CHANGED to meet in a new settlement il
Dakota. They joined in holding serv-
ices on Sunday, after which twenty
six persons expressed a desire to organ
ize a church. 1t being found that there
were more Congregationalists among
them than of any other sort. these two
representatives of other denominations
agreed in advising the formation of
Congregational Church. Pledges were
at once taken, amounting to 81 800. for
q new building Chicago Inter Ocean,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
rees are scarce in the Orkne,

rees are scarce in the Orkneys,
and single specimen adorns the prin-
ciple street of Kirkwal. When Nh.
Gladstone recently visited the place. his
entertainers at first intended to make q
joke at the expense of the grand old
Teller by placing upon the solitary YES
tige of arboreal beauty a sign, wood
man spare that tree" but finally decid-
ed to serve the humor of the occasion
by conducting him carefully along the
opposite side of the street, and explain.
ing to him that as this was the only tree
in the town they wanted 70 keep it out
of harms way.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
Swept by Fire.

ST. PARIS, o., Nov. 70.
A fire started in the business portion Of
town at four o'clock, supposed to be an in.
cendiary. Assistance was asked from Ur.
bana and other towns, there being no en-.
gines here. All the business houses on
Main street are gone except the bank
Goods placed in the street have been
burned. The fire destroyed thirty-fivs
houses. An engine came from Urbana,
seven miles distant, and began throwing
water twenty-seven minutes after the re
CENT of the telegram. Latest estimates
make the total loss $140, 900; insurance, $780,
600, mainly in Phasrix, Queen and Home Of
New York.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
A Car Containing Sixty-five Persons Hurled
Over an Embankment-An of them In.
jured, but None Killcd-Fears that Some
May Die, However.

jured, but None Killcd-Fears that Some
May Die, However.
WORCESTER, MASS, Nov. IS.
The rear car of a crowded passenger
train on the Boston, Barre and Gardner
Railroad was thrown from the track just as
the train was drawing away from North
Worcester Station, at 2: this afternoon,
and hurled with terrific force down a steep
embankment, fully twenty-five feet high.
They were sixty-fve passengers in the car,
and not one of them escaped injury. The
car turned wholly over once and then half
over again in its descent, aud finally rested
OH its side at an angle of forty-five degrees.
L was badly broken up in the fall. The
seats were all wrenched from their places
and thrown in a heap, and the passengers
were mixed up with the broken iron and
timber in almost inextricable confusion.
The woodwork of the car caught fire from
the stove in the forward part, and the hor-
ror of being burned to death confronted the
wounded passengers. But assistance was
prompt, and the flames were speedily ex-
tinguished.
Some few of the passengers extricated
themselves from the wreck, and with the
occupants of the other two cars, which re-
manned on the track, set to work
and helped their suffering companions.
The anguished cries of bruised and bleed
ing men, women and children made the
scene terrible one. Tenderly and care
fully the injured ones were taken out and
laid ON the grass by the side of the track.
Twas found that by miracle none were
killed, but several were apparently dying.
Physicians were summoned from WOrces-
cester, and Doctors Bates, Marble, Davis,
r. Woodward, Jacques, Wood, Swartward,
Adams and Warren were soon on the spot.
From then II dark all worked unremit-
tingly in care for the wounded. Some
were removed to height oring houses, and
others were brought to Worcester in hacks
and the police ambulances. The most seri-
ously injured were taken to the City Hos
pital. OF the sixty five persons in the car
all:were more or less bruised; thirty were
seriously injured and six were so badly
hurt that they are not expected to live.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
A WEEKS. NEWS.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The friends of General Fremont, in
Washington, are said to be considering the
propriety Of doing something to place him
above the necessity in his old age of toiling
for his daily bread. Precisely what they
win be able to do does not yet appear, but
an attempt will probably be made to re-
instate him in the army as Major General
and put him on the retired list.
A FEW weeks since the Commissioner Of
Pensions suggested to Secretary Teller to
formulate rules to prevent any but reputa-
BILE members of the legal profession prac-
ticing before the Interior Department as
claim agents. The Secretary recently re-
piled declining to take any action in the
direction proposed for the reason that he
considers the present rules of the depart
ment sufficiently explicit concerning the
exclusion of ''disreputable" persons, and
the law does not compel claim agent to
be practicing attorney.
BIGELow, President Of the National Col
lege of Pharmacy, at Washington, and
thirty-eight students left the institution
recently, in consequence of the admission
of a colored man.
In late case reported to the General
Land Office from Washington Territory
where squatter was charged with tres
pass for cutting timber from a claim he had
taken, Secretary Teller decided that "the
accused, although sGuatter, is rightfully
on the land if he intends to make his home
ON it and take it under the settlement laws
when the land is surveyed, and he is allowed
to do so. Whether he is or is not a tres
passer does not depend on how many trees
he cuts, but on the bona fide character of
the settlement. If he has taken land in
good faith, he is owner thereof to all prac-
teal purposes, although the title may re-
main in the Government"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07

An open coal stove sent out gas
that killed Mrs. Miles Travers, of Troy.
N. Y, aged seventy-fve, and her
daughter Mary, aged thirty-two.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07

Every man has three characters
that which he exhibits. that which he
has, and that which be thinks he has.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
THE LATEST.

skeletons of twenty-three persons and
about the same number of horses were dis
covered in the northern part of Dickey
County, Dakota, near the head of the
Moose River, by party of explorers few
days ago. Among the skeletons were four
brass cavalry buttons, spurs and other
effects of mounted men. 1t is supposed to
be the remains of some party travelling
with a cavalry escort, but there is no
record of any such missing expedition.
THE excess of value of exports over i'm
ports of merchandise for October, 1888, was
S15, 0S1 $50; for the twelve months ended
October 81, $122, 41O,94.
THE other day a fire broke out in the
Farwell block, the largest business building
in Chicago. The three lower floors were
occupied by Metzler Bros, notion dealers,
and the upper floors by Beak & Butcher,
furriers. The latter firm employed nearly
two hundred girls, all but about seventy
five of whom had gone home when the fire
was discovered. Those remaining in the
building became panic-stricken, and their
terror increased by discovering that
the main doorway leading to the
lower floors was locked and barred.
Two young women, Kitty Hilger and
Francis Fairweather, made their way to
the fire escape, but through terror at the
view of the flames bursting from the build
ing Immediately below, dropped to the
stone sidewalk and both were instantly
killed. The others were saved. Loss about
100000. While all the engines in the city
were at this fire, another fire broke out in
the Journal Office building, which was de-
stroyed, together with the printing house
of j. B. Jeffrey. The Journal loss was
81, 900; fully insured. Jeffrey's loss, $50,
600; insurance, $50, 1000.
The Congressional Democratic caucus
held at Washington on the LIST, nominated
John G. Carlisle for Speaker on the first
ballot. The Republican caucus nominated
ex-Speaker Kiefer.
O'DoNNELL, the slayer of Carey, was con-
victed of deliberate murder and sentenced
to be hanged.
PUBLIC debt statement for November:
Cash in Treasury, S364, 766, 5l3; debt, less
cash in the Treasury, 81 800, 7s5, 600; de.
crease during November, $1,721,6 76; de-
crease since June 80, 1888, $41, 3O6, 146
SINCE the Inauguration of the window
glass strike at Pittsburgh, Pa, over 100000
boxes Of glass have been imported to that
city. Five years ago the annual foreign
importation was reduced from 100000 to
3O0,c GOO boxes, but the late strikes revived
the importatfons, and it is asserted it will
again reach 1,C00, 200.
CoSGREssHAS HASKELL, of Kansas, was
reported to be so seriously ill at Washing
ton that none but most intimate friends |
were permitted to see him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
GENERAL

THE Dutch bark Juedith was lost off the
coast of Norway recently. There were if
teen persons on board. The Captain was
the onlyy survivor.
A ROYAL decree has been issued pardon.
ing all of the fugitive corporals of the
Spanish army implicated in the recent
military revolt at Badajos. Upon their
presenting themselves within two months
to the Spanish Consuls abroad they will be
allowed to retain their ranks.
THREE young ladies attached to the court
have been arrested at st. Petersburg,
charged with being connected with the
Nihilist conspiracy.
A RUMoR prevailed in Paris that the
French forces at Tonquin had been defeated
by the Chinese, and the people of the
French Capital were intensely excited.
AFTER six months idleness, the cigar
operatives strike at Montreal has ended.
OF the six hundred gems d'armes who
left Cairo Egypt for Suakim the other
day, to fight the False Prophet, twenty-six
deserted on the railroad journey to Suez.
THE French decree abolishing the prohi-
bition of the importation of American pork
states that if the pork is carefully sailed
there Is no danger of trichlnolsis. The
municipal authorities will seize any bacon
imperfectly sailed.
EIGHT blocks of stone were recently
placed upon the railway track near VOL
verhampton, (Eng.) it was surmised for
the purpose of wrecking the train in which
Gladstone was expected to travel.
WITHIN two weeks over thirty persons
were arrested in Ireland charged with a
conspiracy to blow up the residence of
County Mayo landlord and with belonging
to the Fenian Brotherhood.
THE Lower House of the Hungarian Diet
has passed bill permitting civil marriage
between Jew and Christian, and legalizing
civil marriages contracted broad.
THE business failures for the seven days
ended November 80, in the United States
and Canada were 234, against 247 the pre-.
vious week.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07

of Leadville, were made i'll by eating food
which had been poisoned, and placed on
the supper table. Mrs. Jacobs, Miss Stoll
and Mrs. Nathan were not out of danger.
The others were improving. The servants
were under suspicion.
JUDGE GEORGE DENNY, who assisted in
the prosecution of Congressman Phil.
Thompson, of Kentucky, recently shot and
killed James II. Anderson, at Lancaster,
KY. q
A RECENT fire burned the better portion
Of the town of Ocala, Fla, including a new
brick hotel, the Office of the Banner and
several stores and residences. Loss over
SaO0, coo; insurance, $4,000.
AFTER a quarrel Frank Williams, Of
Varney, Ark, blew his wife's brains out by
firing both barrels of shot gun. He es-
capped. A large crowd went in pursuit.
MRS. MARY A. GREEN, a wealthy and
eccentric aged lady, living alone in Louis
vile, KY, was burned to death the other
night. Her clothing was ignited by candle,
it was supposed. When found she was
seated in chair, the room disclosing evil
dences of severe struggle against her ter
rible fate.
REV. HENRY CLAY DAVID, who lived nine
miles north of Columbus, Ca, recently
committed suicide by cutting his throat.
He left his home in the morning for a walk
in the woods, and being absent longer than
usual, search was made. The cause of the
act was attributed to temporary fits of in
sanity. His mother put an end to her life
by jumping into well when he was a child.
AT Baltimore, Nd, the other morning,
Laura Rial, wife of John r. Rial, killed
her two girls, aged two and five years, and
cut her own throat. She killed the chill
dren by opening the arteries in their arms
and letting them bleed to death.
The other day, John b. Lowell, James
Houston, Joseph Sapp and Percy Shafer,
prominent citizens of Baltimore, Nd,
started down the river on cunning expe-
dition. When about seven miles from the
city, a flock of ducks crossed the stern of
the boat, when Shafer, who was in the
bow, rose and fired. At the same time
Houston, who was amidship, also arose,
and the contents of Shafer's gun struck
him in the head, carrying off the whole,
of the crown and causing death in
stantly. Houston was forty years of age
and leaves family. Houston and Shafer
were brothers-in-law.
EDWARD d. EAsToN, once cashier of the
Texas Pacific Railroad office at Dallas,
Tex, and for the past several months en-
ployed by the same company at Sherman,
recently disappeared, a defaulter for $12,-
900. 1t is said he had no bondsmen, but
the Canadian Insurance Company stood
for his honesty.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
THE SOUTH.

THE labor organizations of New Orleans
recently had their annual street parade.
Ten thousand men were in line. The pro-
cession made a fine show of able-bodied
men, and was conducted with entire good
order and decorun, white and black men
in many instances marching together in
the same organization.
The Louisville (Ky.) Board of Trade re-
Gently resolved not to send q delegate to
the conyention in Washington to consider
the matter of a national bankrupt law, but
to memorable Congress on the subject.
Four stores burned at Hillsboro, Tex,
recently. Loss, $4,000.
A RECENT fire in Baltimore destroyed
several warehouses containing about fifteen
hundred bales of cotton, seventy-five hogs
heads of tobacco and three hundred sacks
of coffee.
AT Louisville, KY, recently, L. Jacobs,
wife and two children, Miss Amelia Sam
uels, Miss Teresa Stoll, and Mrs. Ed. Nathan.
Daily globe., 1883-07-09
THE BLOODY COLORADO TRAGEDY.

Authentic cCOunt of the Amhuscade and
Killing of the Commissioners of Grand
County.
DENVER, July From multitude Of
conflicting reports constantly being re-
ceived concerning the Grand county
tragedy it is difficult to get the real
facts of the case. The report, however.
that body CT twenty armed IT en- had left
Georgetown for the avoWed purpose of
avenging the deaths of the victims is en-
tlrely without foundation. Texas Charley,
who left the Springs with Fred Dean for
Grand Lake on Wednesday and returned
Thursday, tells the following story which
Is deemed authentic:
Day, Webber and Dean left Mrs. Young's
boarding house for the town, and when
about twenty five PAGES from the house
were passing lot of pines and rocks,
Webber walking thirty steps behind Dean
and Day, when four masked men jumped
out from behind the rocks and pines and
shot Webber in the back, just above the
hips, the ball passing through the body
Webber cried II am shot," and ran toward
Day and Dean and fell before them. The
leader of the masked party, Mills. then
sprapg on Dean, knocking him down and
began pounding him over the head with a
gun. Day drew a revolver and shot Mills
behind the ear, the powder from the
pistol burning his hair, and Mills fell
on top of Dean. As soon as Day was shot
| the men ran back toward Mrs. Young's ice
house. Some masked men came up be-
hind him, when Day shot at them and it is
believed wounded one. A shot from be-
hind struck Day and the ball passed
through his heart and Lbody. He
ran fifteen steps and fell down dead in the
path. Webber was unconscious after fall
ing, and at II 80 the same night was dying.
His last words were, pour some water on
my Wounds
Webbers and Days bodies were taken to
Webber's ranch on Frazer river, from
whence Days body was taken to the
Daily globe., 1883-07-09
SmaII-noX at ST. Louis.

ST.. LOUIS, July THE Globe Democrat
says the sensational special dispatches
recently sent abroad that smallpox exists
here to an alarming extent are entirely
unwarranted. The disease has prevailed
to slight degree in one locality in the
southern part of the city, but the type has
been quite mild, and the health authorities
have removed nearly all the cases soon as
discovered to the quarantine hospital,
several miles outside the city limits, and
have taken and will take every precaution
to prevent the spread of the pest and have
SO far succeeded. No alarm has been
felt at any time, and nobody apprehends
any danger. DR.. j. II. Rauch, Of the Hi
nois state board of health, has just made
an inspection of the sanitary condition Of
East St. Louis. He says unless prompt
measures are taken to Thoroughly clean the
localities where filth was deposited by the
recent flood, that city is in danger OF
serious sickness, possibly an epidemic
He says the city authorities will be aided
AS much as possible by the state board OF
health.
Daily globe., 1883-07-09
NEW YORK.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

NEW YORK, July THE realizing sales
which commenced yesterday, continued
to-day, and prices were lower in conse-
qence. Abreak in Northwestern to 133L
was followed by declined throughout the
list. The market, which had been fairly
active, then became very dull. Several.
stocks were down about one per cent from
yesterdays highest figures. Union Pacific
at last commenced to show an improve
ment IN earnings at the rate OF about
$4,000 per day. The land sales for June
are reported as reaching $485,000. New
York Central was weak, without any sup
port. The stock is largely oversold, but
the bears in it seem very persistent.
Pullman Palace was down to S1.3215. The
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy business
for five months in 1888 increased $780,
600, the month ofMaY gains were $505,OOO
over the same month in 1882. The coal
stocks continued to display considerable
strength, Jersey Central closing at SS38,
while Delaware & Lackawanna and Read
ing were off but trife. 1t being Satur-
day and the weather decidedly torrid the
exchange was deserted by many operator.
early in the afternoon.