The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-18

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Dakota, the other afternoon. The storm
track was about one mile wide and do
stroyed everything in its course. The house
of Mrs. Boomer was blown down. pury.
ing her in the ruins. ~'s
TIE Ohio Coal Exchange has decided to
import Swedes and Hungarians to take the
place of three thousand miners now on the
lookout in the Hooking Valley; also to
start mining machines
The Union Pacific Railroad has made
arrangements to run fast freight train
from Kansas City to Denver. The train
will leave Kansas City at O'Clock in the
evening and arrive in Denver at O'Clock
.. m. of the day but one after, thus saying
six hours by the new schedule.
LEWIS MARKS, Polish Jew boy, seven
teen years old, while riding horse in the
river at Des Moines, was drowned. The
horse stepped suddenly into deep water
and began plunging, throwing the boy from
his back.
CHARLES WALKER, q prominent citizen
of Goshen, Ind, died recently from the
effect of morphine taken with suicidal in
tent. His wife was to have made applica.
ton for divorce. He was well known on
the Board of Trade at Chicago.
THOMAS ]. NAvIN, the absconding Mayor
of Adrian, Michigan, has mailed from
Cuban town a letter opening negotiations
for compromise with the estate Of E. 8.
Clark, which he robbed of $4,000.
In the Circuit Court at Milwaukee, the
owner of two houses in the Twelfth Ward
has applied for an injunction to restrain
the tongue Of; a neighbor named Louise
Troegel, whose scolding kept the adjoining
residences vacant.
THE City Council of Rockford, H., unan-
imously sustained Mayor Taggart in his
recent action in removing School lnspec..
tors Perry and Bronson. The latter deliv.
cred lengthy protest against removal.
AT Toledo recently a fire was discovered
in the lumber yard of the Mitchell & Row
land Lumber Company. The flames COM
municated with the lumber yard of Nell
son, Holland & Co., and thence to that Of
j. B. Kelly's. In four hours twelve acres
containing q. 600, 900 feet of lumber burned.
The losses were as follows: Mitchell &
Rowland Lumber Company, S2So,00O, in
sured for SIS, 900; Nelson, Holland & Co.'s
loss was $4,000, fully insured; Kelly, $l6,-
900, fully insured.
AT Baraboo, Wis, recently disastrous
fire broke out in Bender's large brewery
near the headquarters Of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway. The brewery and
its contents were destroyed, along with
three dwelling houses belonging to ]. H.
Halstead and one owned by William
Hoxie.
LILLY j., a trotting mare with a record
of 2:25H and valued at $1,000, was burned
at Columbus, O., in her stall at the fair
grounds the other night. She was owned
by c. Stewart of Chillicothe. The loss on
the stables was not over $1,000. The fire
would not interfere with the State fair.
A RABID canine attacked a number of
swine at Rockford, H., recently, and a
large number died. A hog bitten by the
mad dog would exhibit the same symp-
toms as the dog itself. as
BY the explosion of a boiler in VOLTS
saw mill, four miles west Of Jacksonville,
O., Barrock Wolf, aged thirty-four, was
instantly killed, Eugene Wolf seriously
hurt, Hawley Howard badly scalded and
Roy Blackburn seriously wounded.
In exercising Maud s. at Cleveland the
other afternoon she trotted mile in e:12h.
THE settlement of the difficulties an
nounced between the whites and Southern
Ute Indians, in Eastern Utah, will be left
to the Seventh Infantry, stationed at Fort
Lewis.
GREAT floods of rain fell over parts of
Illinois recently. Much property was dam
aged, crops being beaten into the ground.
WHILE John Baker, who lived four miles
north of Glenwood, Ind, was driving a
wagon loaded with a self-binder, recently,
the horses became frightened and ran off q
bridge, upsetting the wagon and machine,
the latter falling on Mr.. Baker, killing him
almost instantly.
WILLIAM HART was at Cincinnati &C.
quilted of the charge of arson. He was the
only person indicted for burning the court
house during the late riot.
ScHuMAN g. TEAGLE's oil works at Cleve.
land burned the other day. The loss was
$4,000. ....--. ...... ......r .
]. NJ. SMITH & Co., wholesale canned
good dealers of st. Paul, failed recently.
THREE men were hanged at Fort Smith,
Ark, on the 18th. They were Thomas L.
Thompson, a white man, John Davis, a
Choctaw Indian, and Jack Womankiller, a
Cherokee. All three were guilty of brutal
murders.
AT the Chicago Driving Park races, on
the 18th, Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile in
2:11k. 1t was a special race to beat the
| record of Maud S.-2:10S. 10. ."'r
! WILLIAM and Charles Hamilton were
| hanged at Warrensburg, No., for the muir
| der of Carl Steidle, whose body they placed
on the railroad track, where it was mangled
The motive was robbery. The real names
| of the murderers were Ed Aultman (WiI
| liam) and Charles Nalsky (Charles), and
they were not related.
THE other evening as the four-oared shell
| of the Modoc Club, st. Louis, was passing
| up the river opposite the foot of Spruce
street it attempted to cross the bows of the
| ferry-boat n. Mulliken, and was run down
| One of the crew went down with the shell
and the other four sprang to the bow of the
ferry-boat and chung to her guards, but be
fore assistance could reach them two lost
their hold, fell back into the river and were
| drowned. The names of the lost were Vincent
Angelo, a somewhat noted amateur sprin
| ter; j. c. Rose, an insurance agent, and
Harry Jasper, late of Quincy, Ill. The two
| saved were W. B. Hazeltine, Jr., and
| Cockswain ]. j. Miller.
THE Collector of Customs of the District
of Arizona notified the Treasury Depart
ment recently that the Mexican Govern
ment had entered into an agreement with
steamship company to give bonus OF
sixty dollars for Chinese laborers to
be landed at Guaymas, Mexico, under
labor contracts.