The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-11

hallway travelled on fiat4cars twotiays ana
1khts, Without f66d, to make a demand
Milwaukee ofice for wages due Their
ley were driven Away D. the police,
Ter att npting to,3f Peak il the doors. 4
AT tH works o(fhs Calumet iron sno
AAel CoMpanys Near 0Aicaso,s Tour smsn
were suffocated recently by the escaping
gas while cleaning chimney.
The other evening while Patrick Con.
nelly, q shooter for torpedo company,
was filling shell with nitro.glycerine at
merry INTO pieces.
WAsHINGroS's statue in Riverside Park,
New York, was unveiled on the 4th in
the presence of a large number of specta.
tors. The statue was gift of the Public
Schools of that city. .~ .1
A DISPATCH from Cairo says a letter
from Khartoum states that Khartoum was
captured during the latter partof May with.
out difficulty. There was no massacre. Most
of the Europeans turned Mohammedan.
Among those who did not was General
Gordon who was safe and was allowed the
freedom of the Mahdi's camp. The Mahdi
were we'll treated. -
A SHANGHAI correspondent of the Lon!
don Times telegraphs that war was threat.
ened between France and China. An in
fiuential party in China was instigating it.
Prominent officials, such as Tso Tang,
Tang Ping, Yei Lin and Marquis Tseng,
were resolved to repu Hate the recent Fran
co-Chinese negotiations. The French will
probably claim an indemnity, and demand
the island of Formosa as pledge to secure
payment.
MILO HoYr, wealthy Choctaw, refused
to pay the permit tax for several white
men in his employ, and his stock was at
tached. Soon afterward the District Court
House was burned, and on suspicion of in
cendiarism Hoyt was followed into the
Cherokee country by an armed force, and
there were signs of serious trouble.
A CYCLONE storm swept through the
southern portion of Sioux City on the
evening of the 4th. A funnel-shaped cloud
moving with great rapidity and giving out
roaring sound was one of the distin-
gushing phenomena. Damage, $4,000.
ITwas said that creditors of the Wabash
sand shares Of Union Pacific stock regis
tered in Boston in the name of Sidney
Dillon.
ABE BUzzARD,, the mountain bandit of
Pennsylvania, was shot in the shoulder the
other night, and his hiding place was known.
WALTER JENKINS, a switchman on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Road, was run over
and instantly killed at Louisville, KY, re-
GENTLY. A boy named Henry Brooks was
also killed by a Jacksonville, Madison &
Indianapolis train at Jacksonville, Ind.
lr A VIOLENT wind storm, followed by
heavy rain passed through the southern
portion of Dayton, o. the other day, up
roofing trees and unroofng houses. Barns
in the country were upset, and general
damage to wheat was done.
STEAMERS leaving New York for Europe
one day recently carried Christine Nilsson,
Theodore Thomas, Scaria, Winkelmann,
and Frau Materna.
The Russian Emperor has contributed
one hundred thousand dollars toward the
relief of sufferers in the inun dated districts
of Poland. ~ -. /,
FOREST fires. were doing vast damage
in the vicinity Of Kingston, Ont. Onstract
of fourteen miles by three was enveloped
in flames. t....,..t..-. sd.
WARNER LEWIS, JR., was accidentally
shot with a pistol, in Nashville, Tenn, the
other day. t....,!. do. ..-,..- -..,,,
JOHN WUsrUM, was killed at Aspin,
Col, by accidentally having tree fall upon
him the other day. ...r. "a. shi'r-.i
SHERMAN LoUP and Levi Moore, while
working in field, near Findlay, O., re-
Gently became heated, and, endeavoring to
cool off by taking cupious draughts of cold
water, suddenly became Frustrated, and
were in critical condition.
A BIG fish drowned little fisherman at
Portland, Me-, the other day. Charley
Carey, about eight years old, went fishing
on the shore Of the Bach Bay. Hehooked
a large fish, chung to the line, and was
pulled into the water and drowned.
A JUDICIAL COURT presided over by
Bishop Harris of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at New York acquitted Rev. Dr.
Bristow of all charges of immortality and
restored him unstained to the ministry,
reversing the action of Newark confer
ence. .-...f... ...r... ..... ..t. ..
CHERRIE & Co., Of Chicago, dealers in
pig iron and rails, failed and made a vol
untary assignment recently. The liabili.
ties were $3.50, 900, assets nominally $3.50, 900
and actually at least 100000.