The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
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THE WEST.
A DISPATCH from st. Paul, Mimi, dated
the I'd, says: Last night and to-day have
been the coolest of the present winter, and
one Of the coolest on record in the city.
The Thermometer at the signal Office this
morning registered 80 below, while Others
showed a temperature of 80 below. The
| common class of thermometers were wholly
| retired from business. Reports were re.
ceived from the following points, the
| figures all indicating below zero: Still.
water 50, the coolest ever known; Lacrosse
| %; Bismarck, As; Mennedosa, 30, wind
blowing forty miles an hour: Winnipeg, %
and regular blizzard prevailing; st. Vim.
cent, 40; Moorhead, As; Helena, 10; Huron
A.; Duluth, 40.
FATHER RUPPLIN, a Catholic priest, COM
mitted suicide at St. Louis, recently, by
taking strychnine. He was reported to
have been addicted to intemperance.
THE town of Pierre, OAK, was badly
damaged by fire on the Goth. Quite num-
Der of buildings were destroyed, the total
loss amounting to $4,000.
THE Union Pacific interests will not be
removed from Omaha to Council Bluffs as
announced.
AT the Williams Founding Asylum,
Denver, three children have died since
Christmas owing to inattehtion.
AN extensive fire at Evansville, Ind, on
the 31st destroyed the dry goods house of
Miller Bros. and several other smaller
stores. Loss, $780, 200.
IT was reported on the Goth that . gen.
eral uprising of the Hooking Valley strik-
ers had taken place. Great quantities of
dynamite had been received at certain
points. The authorities were swearing in
special officers.
NEWS has been received of the wreck of
the German bark Lille near PeTolia. Hum
boldt County, Cal, December &c. The ves-
First Officer Van Leefren, Cook G. Bronze,
three seamen, F. Pommer, c. Damkeef and
F. Berrydorf were drowned. The captain
and others were saved.
THE tugboat "Admiral" was blown to
pieces at Chicago on the 31st. Five men
were instantly killed, two of whom were
strangers, unidentified.
THE committee of leading members of
the st. Louis Merchants Exchange, APP
pointed some days ago to consider the
Spanish treaty, made an adverse report,
but made no recommendation to Congress.
CATHERINE MILLAR was found recently
in an clubhouse at Baltimore, where she had
been for five days, nearly dead from ex-
posure. Four toes of the left foot were
frozen off, the right foot badly frozen and
part of her nose also gone.
Mrs. ANN MrLBURN, mother of William
H. Milburn, the "blind preacher" died at
Jacksonville, ILL.,, on the Doth.
AYoUNG man named Rearick, of Elmore,
Peoria County, ILL.,, is reported suffering
from CHAMBERS contracted from a horse
He and his family have been quarantined.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD boy named Frank
Gruninger was attacked by an older COM
panion at Rockford, ILL.,, the other day,
and struck between the eyes, from the eff
fects of which he died.
UNTIL further orders the operatives in
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul shops
at Dubuque, Iowa, will work but eight
hours per day. Work at the shops is slack.
The Chamber of Commerce OF Milwau-
kee will wage war upon the railroads in
the next Legislature, and endeavor to Sc
cure the passage of bill prohibiting dis
elimination in freight rates.
THOMAS J. CHAPMAN, at Charleston, H.,
on the 3lst was sentenced to be hanged on
January %, for the murder of Nicholas
Hubbard.
A FIRE at Ipswich, OAK, on the 31st
damaged a number of stores to the extent
of $4,000.
RUTH GILL, daughter of a Cleveland
groceryman, was accidentally killed by her
brother recently while playing with a re-
volver.
INTENSE excitement was created at
Chaska, Carver County, Mimi, recently,
by the arrest of DR.. Shillock, prominent
physician of that place, charged with body
snatching.
A MOB of strikers fired III Bristol tunnel
on the Shawnee division of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad early on the morning of
the ID, and nearly three hundred feet have
caved in, necessitating the transfer of the
passengers. The guards were run out by
the mob. The loss to the company will
reach thousands of dollars. James O'Don-
nell was arrested at Newark while arrang-
ing transportation of arms to those en-
gagged in firing and destroying property.
MRS. LAMAR LovELAND, of Madison, o.,
hanged herself recently.
NOTICE of reduction of from 10 to ~ per
cent. in wages of the steel workers at
Coshocton, o., has been given.
THE SOUTH.
The affairs of the Louisville, Evansville