The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-25


fireproof library building and the purchase
Of books for the same.
The Singer sewing machine factory at
Elixabethport, N. J., shut down recently
because Of tax levy Of $4,000 by the city.
Two thousand five hundred employees were
idle.
THE Susquehanna Coal Company's mine
at Nanticoke, Pa, was flooded by water on
the morning of the 18th. Some thirty men
were entombed out of about ono thousand
who were working In the mine, the Others
succeeding in escaping. Strenuous efforts
were being made to rescue the imprisoned
miners, but it would take some time for
the pumps to clear the mine of water.
TIE WEST.
the Orville Farmers Bank, . private
institution run by prominent citizens of
Orrville, O., and vicinity, suspended the
other day. II held the funds Of several
townships and school districts ON deposit,
and it was reported that the stockholders
were 30 situated that depositors would lose
all.
In the Third District Court, at Salt Lake,
United States Assistant Attorney Marion
moved to dismiss the case of 8. p. Lewis
for lewdness, appealed from the conviction
in the Mormon lower court, ON the ground
that the conviction was secured by con-
spiracy and the testimony Of accessories.
The motion was granted by Judge Zane
without prejudice.
PLANS for new railroad bridge to cross
the st. Lawrence River at Lachine Rapids,
for the Atlantic & Northwestern Railroad,
are being prepared. It is said this will be
the longest railroad bridge in the world.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio, on applica-
ton of the Attorney General, granted a
preliminary writ of mandamus to compel
Clerk Dalton, of Hamilton County, to make
. return of the election abstract.
The police of San Francisco recently dis
covered the headquarters of an ultra-So-
cialistic society whose purpose was the as
sassination Of prominent citizens and tho
firing of Chinatown. Four arrests wero
made and the capture effected of guam
tity Of dynamite and Internal machines.
EscArING gas recently exploded in the
vault of the treasury of Terre Haute, Ind.
Deputy Bell and City Clerk Davis were
seriously injured. The vault was de-
stroyed.
The act of Dakota declaring itself State
and electing United States Senators is de-
clared by prominent politicians to be revo-
lutionary.
The Cherokee Council adjourned on the
10th. There was deadlock between the
Senate and Chief Bushyhead.
AT WOODWORK, . suburb of Detroit,
Mich, early the other morning, Frank
Knox. his wife and two children were
burned to death in their house. There
were suspicious that the house had been
robbed and the parties murdered.
A TRAIN on the Utah & Northwestern was
derailed between Harngood and Market
Lane, near Eagle Rock, Idaho, recently. W.
o. Palmer, q railroad man, was instantly
killed and eight other persons injured
among whom were three Cinnamon
Mrs. MINER, an insane woman, recently
burned herself and four of her children to
death at Long Prairie, Wyo. +.
THE Morm0ns were reported quiet, and
orders were sent ON the 10th to Omaha re-
scinding previous orders to send troops to
Salt Lake..
SENATOR STANFORD, Of California, in re-
Spouse to o question at Washington as to
what he knew in relation to the band of
protested assassins recently arrested in
San Francisco, who had threatened his life,
replied that he was not at all afraid of
them.
DURING fight in Renfrew, Ont, recently,
between natives and Poles, one man was
killed and two others fatally wounded
PREPARATIONS were reported making at
Huron, Dakota, to call convention of set
tiers and others for the purpose of de-
nouncing Land Commissioner Sparks for
his recent rulings in public land cases.
In joint session on the 18th the so-called
State Legislature of Dakota declared A. C..
G. Moody and the Hon. A. G. Edgerton
elected United States Senators for tho State
of South Dakota.
7. ". Buck, for six years reporter for the
National Hotd Reporter Of Chicago, has dis
appeared after having swindled all the
hotel keepers out of various sums Of money
aggregating over $4,000. He left behind
him wife and two small children in desti-
tute circumstances.
PAUL HENDRICKS, Secretary of the Mad
ison Gas Company and a cousin of the late
morning of heart disease, at Madison, Ind.
PHILLIP MURPHY, q grain trimmer, fifty.
two years old, while helping the Captain
of q steam barge tie up to the dock at Chi
cago the other morning, had his head
iammed between the vessel and the dock.
It was crushed to a jelly and beyond de-
scription.
HoN. JOHN r. GooDIN, q prominent
Democratic politician of Kansas, died at
Wyandotte, Kan, on the morning of the
18th. He was sent to Congress from the
Second District about ten years ago, and
was also at one time . Democratic candi-
date for Governor.
HDBs, the defaulting Lewiston Qdaho)
Postmaster, has been tried and acquitted on
four of the eight indictments found against
him.
". II. Cooxrs, in charge of Ed. Ham
monG & Co.'s store at Arlee, Mont, was
attacked by two Indians, supposed to be
Spokanes, recently, who forcikly entered
the store and drove him out. Coombs fred
at them, killing one and seriously wound
ing the other. Arlee was deserted soon
after by the whites, the Spokanes coming
in end occupying the place.
Franz TRAvIER KRAUrBAuER, Bishop Of
Green Bay, Wis, died recently at his home
in Green Bay, Of apoplexy, aged sixty-nine
years.
TIE SOUTH.
A VERY disastrous lire broke ont in Jack
sonville, Fla, early on the morning of the
18th. The loss amounted to over $3.50 900;
insurance, 500, ZOO. The fire started in
Hubbard's warehouses.
Southern statesman, died at Washington,