The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-27

East Bridgeport, Conn, burned the other
morning. Mrs. Mallen, who slept on the
second floor, was burned to death. A
boarder was also reported missing and a
fireman was seriously burned.
The Schoharie National Bank, in Scho-
harie Village, near Albany. N. Y, sus-
pended recently. The bank officials claimed
that the assets exceeded the deposits, and
that the depositors would be paid in full.
FIRE in a five story building, No. Il
Water street, Boston, destroyed the stocks
of Richard Davis, stationer, and Martin
Oberhauser. Loss over 100000.
THE WEST.
THREE thousand operatives in the alpaca
and worsted mills at Saltaire, Yorkshire,
struck against ten per cent. reduction in
wages.
MRS. SEcHRIsT, of GAINESVILLE, aged
ninety, while in bed was fatally burned by
her clothing catching fire from lamp.
The strike on the Wabash at Fort Wayne,
Ind, ended, the men returning to work at
the old rates
FIFTEEN buildings were destroyed by fire
the other night at Holland, ILL.,, entailing a
loss of about $4,000.
FIVE head of cattle, near Tower Hill, H.,
have died of a disease believed to be rinder-
pest.
GEORGE HAWKINS, a saw-mill engineer,
of Anderson, Ind, was caught in the belt
ing recently and his body broken to pieces
against the sill of the building.
FIVE hundred miners struck the other
day at Danville, ILL.,, for restoration of
wages from seventy cents to eighty cents
per ton.
BY order of President Cleveland de-
tachment of the Tenth infantry arrived
at Springer, n. NJ, on the 18th, and es-
corted to Las Vegas for safe keeping the
besieged officers, Lee, Kimberly and Hix-
enbaugh, slayers of the three desperadoes,
Rogers, Currie and "Red River TOM in
their attack on the officers in the Jail. Cur
RE was the desperate who killed the actor,
Parker, at Marshall, Tex, a few years ago.
Parker protected some ladies from Currie's
insults.
The Hooking Valley strike ended by the
miners accepting fifty cents per ton.
AT Smithfield, o., jeff Carothers found
| in the trunk of an old tree which he was
telling several hundred gold and silver
coins. The gold was mostly, of English
and Spanish coinage. The find was worth
several thousand dollars.
THE Prohibitionists of Chicago nomi-
mated full city ticket, headed by w. H.
Bush for Mayor.
W. j. WHITE and his affianced, Bertha
Reynolds, were drowned in Cedar Creek.
near Paramount, Mimi, recently. The
bodies were not recovered.
GERMAN residents of Marshalltown, Iowa,
were considerably excited recently over
extensive seizures of beer under the prohi-
ton law.
9JoHN j. ByRNE, in the Michigan Central
Passenger service, will take charge of the
passenger and ticket department of the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company,
at Portland, Ore.
ROBBERS entered Donaldson & Co.'s
bank at Columbus, o.. at noon and secured
81 800. The proprietor was in the bank at
the time and thought either he had fallen
asleep or been chloroformed. No clue to
the guilty parties.
JUDGE X. H. EMERSON, United States
Judge of the First District of Utah, has
resigned, having completed three full
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bench.
The Cincinnati Republican City Conven-
ton nominated Amos Smith, Jr., for Mayor
on the first ballot.
In the Illinois Joint Assembly on the 10Th
no vote for Senator was cast. Senator
Merritt urged some action to secure q vote
of all the members, but nothing was done
THE other morning two brothers named
Kerr, living six miles west of Nation, Ill,
quarreled. One of them shot the other,
infiicting a wound from which he died.
Another brother is member of the State
Legislature.
STATE SENATOR BRIDGES, of Illinois,
Democrat, died recently.
THE Spaulding iron works at Brilliant,
near Steubenville, o., was compelled to
shut down because of the coal miners
strike. Three hundred and fifty men were
thrown out of employment.
MARY, the comedian Bakers daughter.
who eloped from Buffalo with young Sc
grist and was lodged in jail at Cleveland,
O., was taken home by Detective Deilman.
THE Evangelist, Moody, commenced a
series of meetings in Kansas City on the
goth.
IT was reported that the Coffeyville or
Southern Kansas, Oklahoma colony had
outwitted the United States soldiers and
reached the forbidden lands.
A FIRE the other morning at Seattle, W.
T., destroyed the Oriental Hotel. The
house was filled with guests, whose frantic
screams were heart-rending. Eric john
son, a Swede, aged thirty five, was burned
to death; W. j. Tobin and Edward Down
ing were fatally injured. Ten others were |
severely injured by jumping from the
bnilding, but none fatally.
HE Supreme Court of California issued |
an order that no alimonY should be paid to |
Mrs. Hill Sharon nor fees to her counsel !
until the parties should have appeared be- |
fore the Supreme Court.
THE Legislature of Montana has sent |
memorial to the United States Senate /
protesting against the repeal of the desert /
THE SOUTH.
HENRY J. MULLEN, New Orleans hard
ware dealer, failed; assets, $9S, 600; iabili-
ties, $4,000.
TWELVE inches of snow fell On the 18th