The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10

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have cut quite . figure on the Chicago
Board of Trade. have failed.
| AT Mason, Neb., recently, Mackendorff's
store was destroyed by fire. The second
story was used for sleeping rooms. Mr..
Mackendorf broke his leg in Jumping to
the ground. His son and ]. J. Hoagland
and Malcolm Miller were burned to death.
EHIPLEY, DORSEY & Co., Wholesale dry
goods, Cincinnati, have failed for $500, 600;
| assets large.
CHINcH bugs are reported as unusually
| bad in Southern Illinois aud fears are ex-
pressed that next years crop will be
ruined unless the, brood is killed by the
| cold this winter.
Four negroes were lynched near De Kalb,
Tex, the other night for the murder Of q
farmer named George Taafe.
A BILL to foreclose the first mortgage of
1,5l7,O 900 on the Chicago division Of the
Central Iowa Railroad Company of Iowa
was filed in the civil court of Chicago on
the lst by the Central Trust Company Of
New York
The statement to the effect that there
was to be an advance of from twenty five
to thirty per cent in bituminous coal was
denied by all the prominent operators in
Western Pennsylvania and Ohio.
A SPECIAL from Peru, Ind, says: 1.-THE
loss by hog cholera in this county has
reached 81, 600 and the disease is still pre-
vailing."
A COALITION, O., special Of the LIST says:
"All the miners of the Seventh district,
$500 to 1900, came out this morning on .
refusal by the operators to grant an in
crease of five cents per ton for mining. A
long siege is expected"
OFFICIAL returns from the two disputed
counties in Washington Territory have
been received, and make the Legislature
Republican on joint ballot by two major
ity. The official vote ON Delegate gives
Charles 8. Voorhees,, Democrat, plurality
Of 2.192.
THERE was . panic among the stock
spectators at San Francisco on the I'd
caused by recent heavy failures.
A SPECIAL from Galesburg, ILL.,, says:
Congressman Worthington has served
notice that he will contest General Posts
recent election to a seat in Congress. The
special charge is that a number of unquali-
fed persons were allowed to vote and that
they cast their ballots for Post
The house of Jesse Stockford, near East
Saginaw, Mich, was burned the otherinight.
One child persisted in the flames, and an
other was burned SO badly that death en-
sued next morning. Stockford and his
wife were also badly burned.
L. B. FRANKEL & Co., mining stocks
Virginia City, New, have failed. Liabilities,
100000.
The next Northwestern Saengerfest will
be held in Freeport, ILL.,, instead of Du
buque, Ia, as originally arranged, because
of the prohibit ion law in Iowa.
THE excitement on the San Francisco
Stock Exchange continued on the Sd.
Prices were somewhat improved in what
was termed the middle class. Consolidated
Virginia and other leading stocks were
lower.
An influx of Chinese from British Co
lumbia into Washington Territory is re-
ported. They walk across the line, no one
being there to stop them.
Nv. TYLER, the lawyer who represented
Miss Hill in the Sharon divorce case, has
been debarred for two years by the the SUI
preme Court of California for converting
to his own use money recovered on a judg
ment for one OF his clients.
The ST. Louis w. c. T. U. have passed
resolutions condemning Mrs. Secretary
Whitney and Mrs. President Cleveland for
having alcoholic liquors at q recent enter
THE Detroit Pipe Foundry Company's
works burned to the ground recently with
all the patterns and machinery. Loss, $780, |
600: insurance, $4,000
The amount of Fotheringham's bail was
fixed by Judge Normile, of st. Louis, at
$4,000, which the unfortunate messenger
was unable to give.
The Freycinet ministry was defeate in
the French Chambers on the Sd by ma.
jority of Is. A Cabinet meeting was called |
to consider the crisis.
Hon. W. 7. PRICE, Congressman for the |
Eighth Wisconsin district, supposed to be |
on his death bed with cancer of the stomach, !
has abandoned medicines, refused medical |
and submitted his case to faith |
cure. |
JUDGE Brown, of Galena, ILL.,, has de- |
cided that a public school building near !
there may be used four months in the year |
as q Catholic parochial school.
CONFLICTING orders caused Q passenger |
and mail train collision at Muskado, Mich,
Both engines were wrecked.
The schooner, Rays Farr, from Muske- |
gon for Chicago, loaded with slabs, went !
ashore recently near Michigan, Ind. Her |
crew took to the yawl and managed to |
save themselves. They were all more or (
less badly frozen, and suffered terribly |
from exposure.
The crop report Of the Ohio Board of !
for December shows regard |
ing wheat that the area sown was 1Ol per \
cent; the estimated number of acres |
sown, 9, al, coo; and the condition 81. The |
condition of live stock was generally good. (
Hog cholera prevailed in twenty-three
The West Side Turner's of Chicago
adopted a resolution the other night pro-
testing against the anarchist verdict. The
president of the society at once resigned.
THE SOUTH.
IT is reported from Tascosa, Tex, that
extensive prairie fires prevail on the
ranches twenty miles northwest of Clar-
endon, The burned district covers about
), 500 400 acres.
THE agents of all the transportation com.
panies of Norfolk, Va, have received cir
,ular letter from Hon. Barton Myers,
mayor of Norfolk, ordering them to sus-
pend all Sunday work on their lines or
suffer the penalty of the law.
FIRE recently broke out among the cot
ton on the city cotton platform at Raleigh,
n. c. About 1000 bales were destroyed.
The loss was $50 coo; insured.
MUCH damage was done recently by a
lam bursting at Langter's cotton mills
near Columbia, s. c. The accident was
thought to be due to an earthquake which
Oosened the foundations.