The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-04

entire length of their lines with fences on
both sides.
THE c. I. SC. L. & c. bridge over White
River, just north Of indianapolis, gave way
the other afternoon under the heavy weight
Of freight train. Loss, 5000.
A TERRIFIC thunder storm passed over
portion of Western Pennsylvania and
Eastern Ohio on the Gath. At Murrayville,
Pa, boy named Wolf and four horses
were struck by lightning and instantly
killed, and q younger brother of the boy
was badly burned. At Wayensburg, Pa.
Miss Josie Keener and William Rober were
seriously injured by lightning, and three
horses were killed. Miss Minnie Westpha,
aged eighteen, of Salem, Pa, was struck by
lightning and killed, and at Youngstown
the lightning struck the residence of Abner
Meadsker, killing his daughter Minnie
and seriously injuring several others of the
family.
The purpose of the Italian man of war
Cartel Fidaro, on the Red Sea, which re.
Gently threatened to lombard Seeyleh, was
to force the Governor to pay an indemnity
to the family of Sheikh Abdurahman, o
protege of Italy, and restore property be-
longing to the Sheikh.
The soldiers of the Sixteenth Illinois
Congressional District have called mass
convention to nominate o soldier for Con-
gress.
In the boat races at New London, Conn,
between Harvard and Yale and Harvard
defeated, losing both races. The Harvard
and Columbia was freshman race.
The Railroad Commissioners of Iowa
have given notice to all railroad companies
OF that State that in accordance with the
statute the Commissioners must be prompt
ly advised upon the occurrence of any acct
dent on any railroad resulting in personal
injury or loss of life, that the same may be
investigated, if so deemed necessary.
AT Boston, recently, H. H. Bangs, doing
business as the Bay State Casket Company,
failed. Liabilities. 100000.
THE general freight agents of railroads
in Iowa have issued a general order an
nouncing their purpose to observe the Iowa
law respecting the sale of Intoxicating
liquors. All agents are prohibited from
receiving any Intoxicating liquors for
transportation from any point within or
without the State, to any point within its
limits, unless there is delivered to such
agent a certificate signed by the Auditor of
the County in which the point of destina-
ton is located, showing that the consignee
has authority to sell liquors in such
County.
LEON Bros, of New Orleans, boots and
and shoes, suspended. Liabilities, 3d.
00c; assets, 100000.
AT New York, recently, a stock broker
named Burge committed suicide in his
Office, owing to financial losses.
The Wabash Railroad hereafter will be
disconnected with the Missouri Pacific
system. The Wabash will be run with a
smaller force of officials and on economic
principles. Arrangements were recently
made to dispense with some of the branch
lines of the Wabash.
A CHICAGO special from Cedar Rapids,
Ia, says: Two convicts, Freeman and
Farmer, escaped from the Animosa peni.
Tertiary and were surrounded in the
woods near there, and fight ensued, in
which Freeman was mortality wounded
and Farmer dangerously so.
THE will of the late Mary H. Drake, of
New York, was filed in the Surrogate's of.
fee. She bequeathed to the theological
seminary at Alexandria, Va, 10000, and
5000 each to a number of religious and
charitable organizations. ..
P. E. BRULAToR & Co., of New Orleans,
commission merchants, recently trans.
ferred their property to creditors.
THE schedules of Nathaniel Bloom, OF
New York, shows his liabilities to be So,
! $40, nominal assets S5,,124 and actual as.
sets So S4.
A SPECIAL from Easton, Pa, says the
Belvidere Iron Company, which was large,
ly engaged in mining operations in New
Jersey, has suspended.
In the schedules of the firm of Heron &
Spence, New York brokers, the liabilities
are placed at $319, S61, and nominal assets
$sS9, 900, and actual assets S2S9, 1904.
FAILURES for the seven days ended
June &c, were: United States, III; Canada
| %; total, 1873; against total of 2O5 last
| week, decrease of six. The failures in
| the South were notably few. and in the
| Eastern States below the average.
The schooner l.. and A. Babcock was
wrecked during a storm recently at Bar
negat Inlet, N. ]. The captain, the mate:
| wife and three of the crew were drowned