The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
THE WEST.

/ HE committee OF expert OulIoers anu
architects, appointed to consider the causes
of the recent collapse of the new capitol
building, at Madison, Wis, found nothing
defective in the plans, but did find serious
latent defects In the iron work which sus
tanned the roof of the south extension OF
the building. Some of the supporting col
umns revealed internal flaws which rem
dered them worthless. The flaws in the
iron were not visible until after the col
umns were broken.
The announcement was recently made
that the manufacturers of barb wire in
Joliet, H., will shortly remove their fac
tories to Missouri and other Western points
within Ithe jurisdiction Of Judge Treat,
whose recent decision in st. Louis, declar.
ing the Washburne patent invalid, protect.
ed all manufacturers there from interior.
ence and the payment Of royalty.
NEAR Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the other
afternoon, a wagon containing farmer
named John Carrie, Mrs. Carrie and Milton
Holmes, was struck by the Northwestern
train. Mrs. Carrie and Holmes were
killed, and John Carrie had his leg broken
and was otherwise hurt.
tional League for the Suppression Of Pc.
lygamy, at a meeting the other night, at
Cleveland, O., considered letters from Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities,
promising cooperation and asking in
formation of the methods of forming
branches. An address was issued, which
closed with the hope that "the public will
interest itself in the matter and see Con-
gress deluged with petitions during the
coming session. II il Is general demand
from all parts Of the country for the abo-
lition of polygamy Congress will be COM
PEELED to heed the demand, and the only
way to make such demand is by means
Of extensively signed petitions"
AT Cleveland, O., recently, John Waffin.
q Prussian, wagered one dollar that he
could drink fifteen GLASSES of whisky in
fifteen minutes. He won the dollar, but
died soon after, leaving q widow and five
children. ..... ......... ... ...
THE report that George Shaw, of Canal
Dover, O., had killed his wife and six chill
dren proved to be untrue. He was crazy,
but killed no one. ...s.
THE general offices of the Illinois Central
.
of Michigan and Randolph streets, Chicago,
were recently destroyed by fire.
THE lumber yards of Stenhiber, Ames &
Co., and A. d. Peck, at Oshkosh, Wis,
burned recently. Loss, $4,000. r.....
THE wife of James Henderson, a wealthy
farmer, of johnson County, Mo-, was re-
Gently burned to death by her clothes TAX
ing fire from CRATE.
CHARLES ID. THOMPSON, son of eX-Secre-
tary of the Navy Thompson, died at Terre
Haute, Ind, the other evening. He was
found in the bath room In the morning in a
stupor, from which he never recovered.
He was thirty-eight years of age.
DR.. FRANK B. SMITH, of Detroit, has be-
gun suit for fifty thousand dollars in the
United States District Court of Michigan,
against DIR. Jno. H. Rench, Secretary of the
Illinois Board of Health, whose name, he
alleges was signed to a circular revoking
his (Dr. Smith's) license, for dishonorable
conduct. ......
WILLIAM SCHANKwEILER, twenty-one
years old, went into the pasture to catch a
horse, near Wellsville, Mo-, recently, and
was found dead about eleven o'clock at
broken his neck.
A FRIGHTFUL! accident occurred on the
Rock Island Railroad, near Jamesport,
No., on the morning of the 10th, by which
a car containing forty-three excursionists
was thrown from the track and rolled down
an embankment. Adam Gotzian, a wealthy
resident of st. Paul, was killed and his
niece badly hurt. About a dozen others
were injured.
THE propeller st. Paul recently took fire
on Lake Michigan, and after unsuccessful
efforts to extinguish the fire she was scut-
tied and sunk.
AT st. Louis, the Jury in the case of Ed
ward Richard, charged with the murder of
Selma Wilson, returned a verdict of not
guilty. This was the third trial of Richard,
who was a newspaper reporter. On the
first trial he was sentenced to hang; on the
second there was hung jury. Richard
shot Mrs. Wilson, his boarding house mis-.
tress, on Thanksgiving eve of 1881. The
defense was the accidental discharge of
his pistol.
A PASSENGER train on the Fox River
branch of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad, was telescoped by
heavy freight train at Otter Greek, near
Streator, ILL.,, the other day. The passen-
ger train had been tagged by an extra
train, that was unable to move on a long
grade south of the creek. The train stopped,
and another freight was following close
behind the passenger, which ran into it,
killing L. ]. Pease, lawyer, of Dwight,
ILL.,, Mrs. Alexander Henderson and daugh-
ter, of Wedron, a Mr.. Humeson, who was on
his way to attend the funeral of his brother
at Pontiac, ILL.,, and injuring ten or a dozen
others, several of whom it was thought
would die.
THE SOUTH.
AT Comanche, Tex, the other night,
while the Sheriff was absent, fifty armed