The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19

TIE iron manufacturers Of Youngstown
O., have decided to go into the steel busi
mess extensively and will change thei
plant accordingly.
8. 81. AND DEAN DENnAS, father ant
son, were killed recsntly by the bursting
of boiler on their small steamboat on thu
Cedar River, few miles below Ceda'
Rapids, Iowa. The father was thrown l5'
feet and killed instantly.
HARLEM, SPENCER & Co., grain dealers
st. Louis, made an assignment recently
The assets assigned were valued at $780,
900. The liabilities were unknown.
A FIRE the other night in Chinatown
San, Francisco, burned the interior of thu
Chinese theater and destroyed several ad
joining buildings. Loss, $64 900; insur'
ance, unknown.
DUrcHY O'KEEFE, of Chicago, wa,
found guilty of stealing the ballot box from
the Third Ward and sentenced to one yea
in the penitentiary.
OVER thousand men and boys made 9
raid on the Salvation army at Akron, O..
the other night, pelting the soldiers with
mud and stones, tearing their flags tt
|
WHILE Owen Dorenboss and H. Dykema
laborers, were carrying bucket of hot ia,
across staging at Grand Rapids, Mich.
recently, the staging broke, precipitat:ng
the men to the ground, and both were hor
ribly burned about the head, face and
arms by the tar, possibly fatally.
The Park Hotel, at Sheboygan, Wis.
| together with a portion of its contents, was
destroyed by fire the other morning. Loss
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The Missouri River, on the 10th, at Omaha
was reported as rising, with the banks full
AN accident happened during a recent
performance of the Thalia Opera Company
in the Exposition building at Chicago.
Some trestle work, insecurity fastened
gave way, and three chorus girls were in.
jured.
A TOMBSTONE, A. T., special of the 18th
says: John Slaughter and ]. J. Patton,
| who arrived to-day from Swisshelms, re.
port the Apaches killed four soldiers be-
longing to Captain Lowden's command
Tuesday last, in Guadalupe canyon. A
Mexican named Oshow was killed last
night by another band of Apaches, six
Mountains.
AT the Republican convention held at
Springfield, o., Judge Foraker was nomi-
mated for Governor on the first ballot. The
other nominations were: General Robert
P. Kennedy, Lieutenant Governor; Judge
g. w. McIlvane, Supreme Judge; John
C. Brown, Treasurer; ]. H. Mohlen, Attor-
ney General; Wells s. Jones, member Of
the Board of Public Works.
A STRANGE epizootic broke out in the
Lindell Hotel stables, st. Louis, recently.
The horses were affected in the spine. The
animals before dying acted in most I'M
controllable manner.
THE President has appointed William
Stapleton, of Colorado, to be melter of the
United States mint at Denver.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts in countless
numbers have made their appearance in
Fayette County, Ill. The pests have be-
gan to work on fruit orchards, and farm
ers are beginning to view them with seri-
Gus apprehension.
THE concession granted by the Mexican
Government to the Mexican Southern Rail-
way has been declared forfeited.
A TORNADO threw passenger train from
the track nine miles north of Sioux City,
Iowa, on the 10Th, injuring large number
of persons. The same evening the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum at Council Bluffs was
destroyed by the wind, and in Omaha a
man lost his life by building being blown
down.
ALBERT NJ. CHANDLER and Henry Bos-
ener have been appointed receivers of the
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company for
the State of Ohio.
A TORNADO struck Massena, Cass Coun-
ty, Iowa, recently. Damage, $4,000.
CAPTAIN LAwToN's supply camp near
Cloverdale, Ari., was surprised by the
Apaches recently. Of the eight soldiers
in charge only three escaped. The ammu-
milton was exploded during the fight, but
the Indians got everything else.
THE SOUTH.
COMMANDER LEWIS CLARK, of the
United States steamer Alliance, at Key
| West, Fla, died recently.
DR.. FOWLER, of Gretna, just above
! New Orleans, reported at the Office of the
Board of Health on the 9th that a child
aged two and a half years, whom he had
been attending, had died with all the indi-
cations of yellow fever.
A MONK named Father Emanuel died re-
Gently at Gethsemane, KY, alleging that
| he had been cruelty treated and starved
| by the Abbot. The latter stated that
Emanuel was of unsound mind.
SwARMs of locusts were reported as
| coming out of the ground in Tennessee and
! Illinois.
THE trial of Joseph Lowenstein for COM
| plicity in the celebrated cotton swindling
cases at Dallas, Tex, resulted in a hung
| jury.
SUFFOLK, VA, was recently damaged
$500, 900 by fire which destroyed a num-
Der of buildings on Washington square.
A RECENT special from Gainesville, Tex,
SAYS: Cotton worms have devastated
many fields in this vicinity and are do
ing much damage in Cook and Montague
Counties and portions of the Indian Terri
tory. No other crop has been attacked.
THE Oriental Exhibition istore, New Or
leans, burned recently. Loss, $4,000: in
sured.
DR.. Holt, President of the Board of
Health at New Orleans, said recently that
there was no yellow fever within the city
limits or anywhere near the city.
SIX persons escaped from the county Jail
at Charleston, VIVA, the other morning.
Among them were James Parker, convicted
of murder in the first degree, and Joseph
Reese, charged with the same crime.
The post-office at Bolivar, Tenn, was
burned last night with all its contents.
THE roof of a tunnel ON the Cincinnati,
Southern Railroad, at the Kenesaw River,
fell in recently upon a construction train.
Six men were killed and twenty injured.