The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-29


CHfcAeo had another extensive fire or
the morning Of the 2oth, breaking out q,
John Kranz's candy factory, 20 to = State
street.
THE shipments strike on the Denver &
Rio Grande at Denver assumed a serious
aspect on the 18th. A yardman was bru.
tally maltreated by strikers, and number
of them marched into Denver, after listen.
| ing to incendiary speeches, and gave the
Office of the Rocky Mountain Nctos a jeer-
ing for taking position antagonistic to
the strikers.
CINCINNATI Wesleyans took the first
steps on the 18th towards raising large en-
dowments and making the Cincinnati Wes-
lsyan College university for women.
]. NJ. RAMBo, of Company C, Second In
fantry, William st. Clair, blacksmith,
and Patrick Boyle, packer, were drowned
at Spokane Falls, w. T., recently, by the
ferry cable breaking.
JOHN A. LOGAN was elected United
| States Senator at Springfield, ILL.,, on the
18th, receiving 1893 votes. The Democratic
opposition amounted to 101 votes.
In the Illinois Senate Mr.. Whites tele-
phone bill, providing that no telephone
company shall charge more than three
dollars per month when one telephone was
used and $3.50 for more than one and FIX
ing the toll on messages from one town to
another at ten cents, was passed almost
unanimously.
SEVENTEEN lives were thought to have
been lost in the recent floods near Elk City
and Independence, Kan.
COMMITTEES reported recently that a
thorough canvass had been made in Ply
mouth, Pa, and that there were $50 cases
portion of Plymouth township.
SALvATIoNIsTs were badly beaten at
Sacramento, CAL, on the Goth. A great
crowd of roughs raided the church in
which they were worshiping, wrecked it
and seriously maltreated the men and
women Of the congregation.
JOHN NJ GEBHART's residence, the
Marine Railroad offices, six dwellings and
the Mosier Manufacturing Company's
Works were burned recently at Cincinnati.
L. j. MILES, Indian Agent at Usage
Agency, Kansas, has resigned. The follow.
ing named receivers of public moneys have
also resigned: Hiram L. Childs, at Bodie,
CAL; Jerome Knox, at Lake View, Ore;
John Ulrich, at Lacrosse, Wis.
DISPATCHES from points in the San
Joaquin Valley, CAL, state that the Hessian
fly has greatly damaged the wheat crop,
and that where twenty bushels to the acre
were expected not more than seven will be
realized.
SECRETARY OF WAR ENDIcoTT and Gen.
erals Schoffeld and Drum inspected Fort
Smelling, Mimi, recently.
Rev. j. r. RKAsoNER, of the First Pres.
byterian church, Colfinsville, H., suicided
the other morning by shooting himself
through the temple.
AN Austrian named Pezderkas was shock
ingly mutilated at Joliet, ILL.,, recently.
His lips and nose were cut off and his
tongue cut out. 1t was alleged that
the strikers were guilty of the crime.
THE court at Chicago announced that it
was a tie on a vital point in the Mackin-
Gallagher election fraud case. The matter
would have to go to the United States Su-
preme Court, the defendants giving bail in
$50, 900 each. Harlan announced that de.
cision would be rendered in October.
In the Illinois House a resolution giving
the right of the chamber to Ex-Governor
st. John to deliver a temperance lecture /,
WITS voted down, the Republicans voting |
almost solidly against it.
SIXTEEN or seventeen persons lost their
lives in a fire in Sullivan's printing office,
Cincinnati, on the 2lst. The building was |
five-story structure, and when the fire
started five young women appeared at the
windows and cast themselves out. They
were all killed. After the fire, which was |
in extent, was extinguished |
ten dead bodies were found on the fifth |
floor and one on the fourth. Quite num-
Der of persons were also injured.
THE. Ohio Prohibition State Convention
will be held in Springfield, July and 2.
A full State ticket will be nominated.
A DISPATCH of the 21st, from Guaymas,
Mexico says: General Carlo had bloody
with the Yaquis yesterday.
'ffty-seven Mexicans were killed, and
many wounded. The stronghold of the
faquis was captured. Their loss has not
,een ascertained.