The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

| TIE coroner's jury on the powder ex'
plosion near Chicago recently have con
sur,d Latin & Rand for storing dynamite
| in their magazine and recommended the
removal Of all magazines from tho town Of
Lake.
mated Governor Rusk.
| The rumors of an outbreak among the
Blaekfeet Indians in Northern Montana
were not confirmed in the War Department
at Washington.
A CONDEMNED building known as the
Bates House, fell at Indianapolis recently
| while workmen were pulling IL down.
Eight men were very seriously injured.
On the Missouri Pacific railroad between
Bartholdi and Laclede junction, NO., the
other night thirteen cars laden with mer-
chandise were destroyed, as were also their
| contents, BY . collision between freight
trains. The loss was $4,000.
The wife of man named Babinsky, ar
rested for keeping ''fence," recently at
tempted to bribe Justice Tearney, Of Lake,
near Chicago. with two IS bills
The trans-continental railroad lines out
of San Francisco have reduced freight
rates east. Competition with the Canadian
Pacific is the cause of the reduction.
WILLIAM J. CLINGER, . Chicago polite
ian of some note, whose trial for defraud-
ing the city to the extent Of $4,000 has
been pending many months, died on the
Sth. There was q rumor that he commit
ted suicide, but it was strenuously denied.
THERE were fears of an Indian uprising
at Fort Duchesne, Utah, on the 9th, and
great anxiety was felt at the post and its
vicinity from runors that Indians were
on the war path. The Government train
en- route there from Fort Bridger was be-
lieved to be in imminent danger, and Col
onel Benton was throwing breastworks, and
had sent acquisitions for additional troops
in anticipation of raid by the Indians.
FIFTY molders at the Belleville, Qll.)
Pump and Skein works struck recently for
q raise in wages of 10 per cent.
The National Federation Of Miners in
session in Indianapolis has adopted a reso-
luton opposing union with the Knights OF
Labor.
The cases of the fifteen saloonists ar
rested at Alliance, O., short time ago for
violating the prohibitory ordinance, have
been postponed. Their attorneys will ap-
ply to the United States Circuit Court in
this city for an injunction to restrain the
authorities from enforcing the ordinance.
The cases of the fifteen saloonists ar
rested at Alliance, o., short time ago for
violating the prohibitory ordinance, have
been postponed. Their attorneys will APP.
ply tc the United States Circuit Court in
s,,su 70 cfroi ~, fhn
authorities from enforcing the ordinance.
DURING the past two months repeated at
tempts have been made to burn down the
National stock yards in East st. Louis and
two of the fires started by the incendiaries
caused considerable damage to the pens
and sheds, but were extinguished before
the flames had communicated to any of the
large packing houses. The perpetrators of
hese outrages remained unknown until
recently, when John Colly, the night watch
man at Whitaker's packing house, discov-
cred several boys attempting to set the
house on fire.
The Democratic Territorial convention
of Arizona nominated Marcus A. Smith
of Tombstone, delegate to Congress, and
Charles NJ. Strauss, of Tucson, Superin-
tendent of Schools.
FIVE cars arrived at the Union Depot at
Kansas City on the 9th, filled with Odd
Fellows from the Rocky Mountains on
their way to the annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge at Boston.
THERE will be q meeting of the st. Louis,
Chicago and Kansas City lines interested
in the Memphis business i'm st. Louis Sep
TENDER 20, the object being, if possible, to
meet an agreement on provision rates.
The Knights of Labor and members of
the Central Labor Union of st. Louis, and
other labor organizations of that city have
combined under tho name of the United
Labor party and will hold a convention of
delegates from the various assemblies and
unions, on October Z, for the purpose of
nominating full city, Congressional and
Legislative ticket.
WHILE recently playing in the wheat in
an elevator at Miilersville, ILL.,, Charles,
aged fifteen, only son of NJ. G. Okey, a
prominent and wealthy farmer, was smoth-
cred to death by being sucked down into a
bin which was being emptiei.
THE SOUTH.
THE Mobile 4 Girard railroad recently
Ic9Seu UuclT TOdU W uuo ScutrAi TOdV ~
Savannah Ga, for ninety mine years.
IT was estimated on the eth that tho
Democrats carried Arkansas by vote of
?O,QOO. Several counties went Prohibition.
Mrs. H. P. Ransom, of Lexington, KY,
will sue the Globe Democrat and Cincinnati
Enquirer for Islander.
HENRY Fox and Frank Hughes, of
Georgetown KY, were recently fatally
beaten in a negro quarrel.
GEoRGIA wants to list new bonds, but
Henry Clews and other holders of repudi-
ated bonds protest.
TIE Riverside Glass Works at Wells
burg, Va, were destroyed by fire recently.
causing a loss of s5O.OOO and turning $40
persons out of employment.
The schooner Ella, which sailed from
Galveston q few days ago, loaded with
provisions and supplies for the life saving
station at Indianola, in attempting to cross
the bar leading into the Brazos canal
struck q snag and sunk. No lives were
lost.
TIcKELL & SoS's paint shop and Carmi-
chears drug store, in Baltimore, burned
recently. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.