The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04


asked to pass the laws recommended by
the President.
Ex-Governor LOWE, of Iowa, died at
| Washington on the 22d.
A SPECIAL stated that Jack Meyer had
rediscovered the bed of the Lost Cabin
Mine in Montana, which is immensely rich.
1t is located near the head waters of the
Big Horn River. This is a mine which
three old timers discovered in early Terri
torial times, two of whom were murdered
by the Indians and the survivor became in
sane and could never trace their trail.
A RECENT snow-slide at the Virginius
Mine, in Ouray County, Colo, struc': a
boarding house in which were eleven MIN
ers, burying the men over twenty feet. Six
were killed and the five others supposed to
be fatally injured. All had families.
| In the Federal Court at Chicago, the
other day, Judge Blodgett sentenced each
of the lottery agents tried before him to
pay a fine of 500 for using the mails for
lottery business.
THE negro "Big Ike" who, while attempt
ing to burglarize the Bank of Durango,
Colo, recently. and shot Bruce Hunt, son
of Ex-Governor Hunt, died at Denver the
| ObDeT UlSuG liOIll pun
ed on himself in jumping headlong from
| forty three foot embankment, to avoid
being captured alive. Just before dying
he made a confession duplicating four
others. All are under arrest.
ARTHUR J. JENNINGS, bookkeeper for
William p. Howard & Co., commission
merchants, of st. Louis, was arrested re-
Gently charged with embezzling 5000 from
his employers. He was released on bond,
and said he would explain matters satisfac-
torily.
LAST August William Fl. Conklin went
to Omaha, bought several acres of ground
for residence, and at once commenced the
erection of fine house. He was largely
engaged in the tree business in Minnesota,
and seemed to be n man of means. During
the erection of his house he paid flying
visits to Omaha. Several weeks ago he
went TO attend the finishing of his house
and arrange for the removal of his family.
He fell in with bad company, commenced
drinking and died before his family reached
their new home.
CHARLES HARVEY, of Petersburg, Ind,
who murdered Henry Culin, Jr., was taken
from the Jail the other night and hung to a
tree.
AT Richmond, Ind, the other evening,
Henry W. Johnson, a prominent criminal
lawyer, while attempting to shoot one of
the Banner brothers, shot Policeman Wer-
tenburg in the thigh, and was himself shot
in the back of the head by an unknown
party. The shooting was the result of a
law suit between the Banner brothers and
a man named Vaughan.
THE extensive broom factory and ware
house of the Samuel Cupples Woodenware
Company of st. Louis burned the night be-
fore Christmas; loss, $4,000. The Busch
Wine Company building was also burned;
loss on building, $1,000; stock, Slj0,00o.
An explosion in the Busch building shat
tered the walls, and in their fall they COW
cred John Conway and Michael Kehoe in
the debris, killing them and more or less
injuring Con Gallagher, Patrick Powers,
F. NJ. Williams, John Hartley, all members
of the salvage corps who were spreading
tarpaulins when the wall fell.
A PASSENGER train OH the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago Railroad recently
went through culvert near Salem, Ind.
Three persons were killed and seven or
eight badly injured.
WHILE Abe Morrison was seated in his
store at Dubuque, Iowa, the other evening,
with a gallon can of alcohol beside him, its
contents became ignited, and all at once
Mr.. Morrison was in flames. He ran into
the street and rolled into a snow pile until
the flames were extinguished, but not be-
fore he was badly if not fatally burned.
He afterwards returned to his store and
with some assistance extinguished the
flames, which had already done considera-
BILE damage.
THE other morning the roof of the round
hou sc of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, at
Bloomington, H., gave way beneath the
accumulated weight of wet snow and went
down with a crash, burying six locomotives
in the ruins. The damage to the locomo-
tives was quite serious. One man was
quite severely injured.
ABOUT four weeks ago Carl Gull, Ger
man boarding house keeper, of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, aged sixty; his son, aged twenty
two: daughter, aged twenty, and a boarder
named Frink, were taken sick, and in a
few days it was discovered that their dis
ease was trichinoSis. After dreadful suf-
fering Carl Gull died about week ago; his
son was in precariOus condition, with but
little prospects of recovery. and the daugh-
ter was quite ILL., Frink, it was thought,
would also die. All the result of eating
raw sausage.
THE large Touring mill of George c.
Thilenus, at Cape Girardeau, No, burned
recently. Loss, So, 600; insurance, so, 900.
A RESCUING party of thirty one persons
went from Ouray, Colo, to the Nirginius
mines to take away the victims of the mine
disaster of the day before, and while
returning with the bodies on sleds second
snow slide came down and the party had
miraculous escape from being over
whelmed. The sleds containing four dead
bodies, however, were carried two thousand
feet down the mountain side, and then
hurled over precipice five hundred feet
high, where they must remain until spring.
The party finally reached Ouray, nearly
dead from exhaustion.
A LATE fire at Fargo, D. T. destroyed a
number of business houses. Loss, $50, 900;
insurance about half that amount.
ANOTHER Colorado snow slide recently
occurred near Telluride carrying off four
teen men, eight of whom were killed.
A FREIGHT train on the Burlington, Ce-
dar Rapids & Northwestern Railroad, was
wrecked recently at Columbus Junction,
Iowa. Five cars were derailed and Mark
Fisher killed.
LAST July Gretchen Rummel, in her
eighteenth year, daughter of barber liv-
ing in Munich, Bavaria, took fifteen hun
dred marks her father had saved up and
ran away TO America. She went to Cleve-
land, o., where woman friend lives, and
found work as domestic in farmers