The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-21
MILE 600 employees were idle. and 100 It The
Pemberton und Everett Mills.

Millo 600 employees were idle. and 100 1t The
pombertpn und Everett Mills.
THE WEST.
THE President appointed James F. LIE
gate, Of Leavenworth, Kas., Elihu Cole
man, of Fon du Lac, Wis.,, and Edwin n
Dixie, of Woodstock, H., . commission Il
inspect $50 miles Of the Atlantic & Pacific
Railroad in Arizona.
A FREIGHT train on the South Park Rail
road was lately wrecked at Kenoshs
Mountain, Colo, and seven men injured
three, it was thought, fatally.
LATER reports from the recent frosts In
the Northwest are that the damage to lats
corn was very great. The injury wal
thought to be fully twenty-five per cent.
SEVEN bodies have been recovered from
warehouse in Cincinnati.
Two cowboys had a difficulty in Elber'
County, Colorado, recently, and the two
with six others went into a room, at night
at McLain's ranch, locked the door and
commenced to fight it out During the
fight the light was e1tinguished and the
shooting became general. When light
was procured, it was discovered that out Of
the eight three were killed, and three Sc
riously and it was thought fatally
wounded.
EDWARD CowAN, the Leadville journal
list, who was recently brutality stamped and
pounded by Alderman Jay, the keeper of q
low dive in that city, died from his inju
ries. The murderer had not been captured
up to latest accounts, but was fugitive in
the mountains of Colorado.
THE report that the missing st. Louis
girl, Mary Churchill, had been discovered
in Mexico with an absconding Topeka mer'
chant, is denied.
THE other morning an excursion train on
the Union Pacific road. loaded with passen-
gers for the State Fair at Omaha, Neb..
collided with a freight train about eight
miles west of that city, badly wrecking
both engines. Several train-men and
about half-dozen passengers were badly
INJURED, none fatally.
A PROPOSED gigantic land steal, involv-
ing several million dollars worth of United
States Redwood timber lands, has just
been brought to light. The lands are sit
uated in the northern part of California
and are comprised of the most valuable
red wood timber on the coast. 1t is
stated that applications for posses.
sion, prepared and signed by dummies,
have been filed with the Government au-
thorities at San Francisco, it being alleged
that the Government officials were acting
in collision with the parties engineering the
scheme. If the promoters succeed, they
will control one-sixth of the total lumber
supply of California. Affidavits were be-
ing filed, proving fraudulent acquisition.
The Grand Jury would investigate the sub.
ject.
The Polish citizens of Chicago recently
celebrated the 2OOth anniversary of the ex-
pulsion of the Turks from Poland.
The Washburn & Morn Manufacturing
Co., patentees of the barbed wire, filed a
bill in the courts of Chicago recently, to re-
strain the Lyman Manufacturing Co., from
manufacturing more than 5000 tons of
barbed wire annually, according to con-
tract. Damages for over manufacture were
laid at 100000.
ONE night recently on the Ann Eliza
farm, in Utah, where Brigham Young for a
time kept his No. 10, Mrs. Jansen being at
work with a sewing machine, overturned a
lamp which set fire to her clothes and
burned her to death.
Hon. ALBERT w. CHENowETH, member
of the Legislature from Mcdonald County,
No., was recently assassinated at Pine.
vile, in that county. DR.. Chenoweth was
Sx,r 1f f1a
ment during the war, and soon after re-
moved to Missouri.
A FIRE recently destroyed the Surveyor
Generals office and other buildings at
Olympia, Oregon. All the land records
were burned. Loss, 100000; insurance,
unknown. Said to be an incendiary.
The other night the family of Jerry
Thompson, colored, of Cairo, ILL.,, consist
ing of himself, wife and four children,
were poisoned by colored girl named
Kate Cotton. The poison was put into
their coffee. Thompson died in few hours
and several of the others were not expected
to live. The murderess was arrested, and
when she heard of the death of Thompson,
took poison which she had secreted and was
in dying condition. rt
On the evening of the oath the east-bouud
passenger train on the Wabash road col.
lided with the west-bound passenger train,
nine miles east of Kansas City, while run.
ming at full speed. Both trains were badly
wrecked, but, luckily, only one person
was seriously injured. The accident was
attributed to the train-dispatcher at Mo.
berly.
LATEST reports from Mexico were that
yellow fever was increasing at Hermosillo,
Guaymas and other Pacific coast towns.
ONE night recently, James Knight, a
freighter, and II. Moore and ]. H. Wensel
slept in a wagon on the prairie near Chey.
enne, Wyoming Territory. Early in the
morning Moore got up and struck Knight
with an ak, crushing his skull, and then
shot Wensel. A soldier appearing, the
murderer fed to the mountains. The cause
of the murderous attack was to get. fifty.
three dollars Wensel had.
FRANK CAMPAs' house at Appleton, Wis,
was destryed by fire the other night and
his wife and two children fatally burned.
A MEXICAN paper tells of a severe rain
storm and cyclone near the capital of that
country which drowned two laborers, and
did much damage to property.
NEAR Milwaukee, Wis, recently, twenty
thousand oil barrels, the cooper shop and
the adjacent sheds of the Standard Oil
Company burned. Several cars of the st.
Paul Company, and many of the North.
western Company, standing on tracks,
were also consumed. Loss about $4,000;
no insurance. The fire was supposed to
have been incendiaSy.
MILTON C.KEENAN, Treasurer of Jackson
County, Ohio, is reported to have skipped
out with 5000 of county funds. Although