The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-11
THE WEST,

THE WEST.
THE other evening fire broke out il tho
dust room of the Etna flour mills, NJ
Akron, o., owned by George W. McNeill
and James n. Baldwin. The workmen had
TO run for their lives, the flames spread 50
fast, and the entire structure was con-
sumed. The mill was recently enlarged to
three hundred barrels daily, and rebuilt for
che roller process. 1t was valued at So
600; stock on hand at $500; insured for
$4,000
A BOY named Adams, eleven years old,
was recently accidentally killed while gun
ming in Ray County, Mo.
THE bursting of mill dam at Houghton,
Mich, recently, resulted in the death OF
Charles 3. Raymond, teller of the First
National Bank OF Houghton, his son and
servant girl and Howay Raymond, wife
and son.
The town Of Breckinridge, Mimi, was
nearly destroyed by fire the other evening.
including the county offices and records.
| THE jury in the Emma Bond case, in
which the three men, Montgomery, Gle
menti and Petus, were tried at Eillshoro.
| ILL.,, for the outrageous assault on Miss
Bond at Taylorsville, in June, rendered a
verdict of acquittal.
| THE steamers Colorado and City of Alton
burned al st. Louis the other day.
| THE paint, carpentering misunderstanding
shops of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
! Railroad, at Sedalia, No. burned the other
morning. Loss about $1,000; fully in
sured.
A PASSENGER train on the Illinois Gem
| trail struck a broken rail between Manson
! and Barnum, Iowa, the other morning. \
sleeper and two passenger coaches were
| thrown down a fifteen-foot embankment.
Mrs. J. H. Smith, of Ohio, Barnum County,
H., was instantly killed and seven per-
sons were more or less injured.
ABTER BOND recently committed suicide
by hanging, at T2ylorviile, III. He was
one of the most respected citizens in the
county, and considered an exceedingly SEN
sihle mantle very last to commit suicide.
He was relative of \. d. Bond. the father
of Miss Emma, the victim of the unhuman
outrage last June. He had worried n good
deal lover the affair. and the general opinion
was that the mental anxiety over the trial.
in progress at the time, had added to his
physical dehilities, and had something TO
do with the final tragedy.
THE terrible Crouch family murder near
Jackson, Mich, some weeks since. was sup
plemcnted recently by the suicide of Mrs.
Dan Holcomb, daughter of the murdered
man. She locked herself into a room after
dinner, undressed, went to bed and. it was
| believed, took laudanum, as an empty bot
tie which had contained that drug was
found in her room.
JAMES WILLIAMS, alias O'Brien, CON
fined in Jail n O;tumwa, Ia, recently
escaped, after shooting dead the turnkey.
! How the prisoner obtained pistol was 4
| mystery.
JUDGE LUKE, Of the Circuit Court of st.
Louis, lately decided the long-standinE
case of James Andrews against the =.
Louis Tunnel Railroad Company. Parton
Bates and ChareS +. Tracy, f.r money
claimed by Andrews to be due HIM Is con-
tractor for building the tunnel from tn"
bridge to the Union depot, ten years az.
The Court awarded a special judgment for
the plaintiff for S1l92 DIS.
EARNEST DIX, OF Bloomington, H., died
recently from trichinnsis. At party sew
eral weeks ago nine persons ate of smoked
sausage quite heartily, and were soon after
taken i'll. On examining the uncooked
meat they had eaten of. millions ofthc para
sites were found. Gull, the man who raised
the swine and prepared the meat, and his
wife died three weeks afterwards. and sew
eral OF the sick, il was thought, would die
4 post rlortum examination showed that
Dix'S bcdy was literally alive with
tricHire.
SEVERAL weeks ago the body of a lady was
stolen from tine graveyard at Sycamore,
III. Later three men were arrested at
Chicago, charged with the crime. Il was
claimed that they belonged to an organized
gang of b0dy-snatchers.
THE west-bound express on the Wabash
Road struck wagon containing five young
men near Napoleon, o., the other night,
killing Frank Long and William Rhores
and badly injuring George Arps. Long
left n wife.
THE thermometer ranged from thirty to
thirty-five degrees below in Minnesota and
Dakota during the late cold snap.
STANLEY GRIFFITH was recently arrested
at Salem, o., upon the confession of having
murdered his father.
The other morning the sheds in front Of
the tunnel at the Utah Central Coal Mine
al Pleasant Valley, Utah, took fire from
the stove in the weighing room, and in
few minutes the flames had extended into
the air-shaft of the tunnel. Only five men
were in the mine at the time, three of
whom escaped, though they were nearly
suffocated. The other two, John Mclean
and his son John, persisted.
IN the case of Frank James, recently adj
mitted to bail in jackson County. No. ard
Immediately arrested by the United States
Marshal for completely in a mail rot bary
in Alabama, Judge Krekal, of the United
States District Court, at Kansas City, re-
Gently decided that the prisoner could not
be taken by the United States authorities
until the greater charges against him hal
been disposed of in the State courts.
THE old ST. Nicholas Hotel in st. Louis ]
burned the other night. The fire also de- .
stroyed adjoining property, the total loss /.
being over 100000: well insured. /
The Tabor Opera House, in Denver, Colo, /
was recently damaged by fire to the extent
OF $4,000.
THIRTY-FIvE degrees below zero at ST. |
Paul, Mimi, on the. 4th.
a STOCK train of twenty cars was recent
ly showed under on the Wabash Road I
eleven miles from the Chicago stock yards /,
Several attempts TO reach the trsin and
save the stock failed on account of heavy
snow drifts.
THE SOUTH.
THE other Sunday at point fifty miles
from Fort Smith, Ark, in She Choctaw
Nation, while Rev Samuel Andrews was on :