The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-18

A PRELIMINARY injunction he's been
granted preventing the American Bass
| Ball Association from communicating the
| expulsion OF the "Nets."
Two New York prize fighters have been
sent TO the penitentiary for year and
fined $500 by the Criminal Court Of Roch.
ester, N. Y.
Tn New York Board Of Canvassers met
ON the 10th and declared the result Of the
late election. The pluralities Of the sue
cessful candidates are: Governor-elect
Hill, 1l,1S4; Lieutenant Governor-elect
Jones, S,158; Secretary Of State-elect Cook.
l4,0O6; Comptroller-elect Chaplin, 1925;
Treasurer-elect Fitzgerald, II, $50; Attorney
General-elect o,Brien, 13,705; State Engi-
neer-elect Sweet, 12,249.
An engineer named Knott and Q fireman
named Morris were killed recently In q
smashup on the Atlanta & West Point
Railroad at La Grange, Pa. The accident
was caused by o train breaking in two.
A COPY of the will of General BarriOs,
late President Of Guatemala, was filed in
New York the other day.
the remains Of William II. Vanderbilt
were laid in temporary vault at the New
Drop Cemetery, Staten Island, on the 18th.
JAMES PARKS, his son and another man,
whose name could not be learned, were
struck by the fast trais going west near
Elizabeth Furnace, near Altoona, Pa, re-
Gently. The two men were killed out
right and the boy received fatal injuries.
rHE WEST.
FIRE at Cedar Rapids, Ia, the other
morning destroyed the Burlington Railway
round house, with two engines. Loss
s9ey0O0.
TnR high price paid for lead has given .
boom to lead lodes in Colorado and else
where.
GEORGE FRYE, aged sixty-three, q well
known citizen of Auncie, Ind, committed SUI
icide the other morning. He rose, built a fire
in the Kitchen stove, spread an old carpet
over the other carpet, lay down and sent q
ball crashing through his brain. He was
well to do, and the only reason assigned was
temporary insanity, brought about by wor-
rying over law suit and i'll health.
TEE Daisy roller -four mills at Milwau-
kee were entirely destroyed by fire recent
ly. The Empire mills adjoining were also
destroyed. Loss, $250O0O.
JUDGE LOVE, of the United States Circuit
Court, at Keokuk, Iowa, has appointed
Thomas Thacher Receiver of the Center
vile, Moravia & Abba Railroad, subject
to the approval of the court at st. Louis.
A PARfI of Indians broke through the ice
while crossing the Missouri, near Bismarck,
d. T., recently. Three of them were
drowned. A squaw was saved by her hus-
band, who himself persisted
THE health return of the death of Vice
President Hendricks, recently filed at In
dianapolis, shows paralysis with duration
of disease, perhaps about eighteen
months.''
EARLY on the morning Of the 9th sud
den explosion startled the people of Kan
sas City from their slumbers and investi-
cation showed that the gas works
had been blown up and the city
was in total darkness. The works
were reduced to wreck by the
explosion and the debris took fire, which
completed the destruction. What caused
the explosion was being investigated, the
officers of the company being of the opinion
that it was dynamite. The night engineer
ted at over 100000.
AT a great mass meeting at Cleveland,
O., $4,000 was subscribed to the Parnell
fund. Prominent Irishmen from all over
the State were present.
Four men were killed in q sewer excava-
ton at Akron, O., recently, by the caving
in of the earth. Two or three others wore
injured.
THE annual meeting and exhibition of the
Northwestern Poultry Association opened
at Fargo, d. T., on the 10th. The exhibition
was large and creditable one.
uAT a large and enthusiastic joint meet
ing of business and working men at Sacra-
mento, Cal, the other night, resolutions
were passed favoring State convention
to formulate plan for a general move
ment against the employment of Chinese.
The strike of Chicago, Burlington &,
Quincy switchmen at Chicago ended sud-
denly. The settlement was not divulged.
The Chicago street car companies and
other owners of horses are somewhat
alarmed over the appearance of the cpl
zootic. Some fifty horses belonging to tho
North Division Street Car Company have
the disease, and six have already died.
THE SOUTH.
THE Texas conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. by an almost
unanimous vote, refused to recommend a
change of the general name of the church
A MUTUAL insurance concern. known es
the Self-Endowed and Benevolent Associa-
ton Of America, with headquarters at
Fort Worth. Tex, failed recently with liza
bilities Of one million dollars. The assets
were practically invisible. but tho victims
numbered eleven thousand.
THREE men were buried beneath q falling
wall of coal in a mine near Piedmont, W.
Va, the other day, and two of them were
killed and the other fatally injured.
OK the 9th, at Charlotte, N. c., two more
negroes were hung for burglary. They
were named Stewart and Anderson. They
had robbed the residence of s. G. Str;c!s-
land, of that city.
A TERRIBLE affair is reported from San
ders' Crossing. n. C. Mary Overton had
been courted by o man named Trout, vino
transferred his love to Jane, younger sis
ter. The other evening while Jane and Trout
were sitting together Mary fred q shotgun
through q window at them. The discharge
struck both, killing Jane and MORALLY