The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02

An insane soldier scared Queen Victoria
In London recently by throwing . paper
containing alleged grievances into her car
riage.
ALDERMAN JAEHxE pleaded not guilty IN
the New York court to the charge OF brib-
cry. JUICE Gildersleeve refused to reduce
the bail to $4,000, though Jaehne swore no
had no intention of leaving the city:
A BIG rolling mill at Naomi, Pa, has
shut down and other concerns were pre-
pairing to stop work because OF the scarcity
Of coal, owing to the strike Of the miners.
TIE mammoth barn at the Hopkins stock
farm, East Providence, r. l., was destroyed
by fire the other day. Sixty five cattle and
four horses were burned. Loss, $55,0O0.
THE employees of the Brooklyn and Broad
way New York; street car lines struck ON
the 18th.
The non-appearance at New York Of
O'Donovan Rossa's organ, the United Irish
man, gave birth to many wild cOnjectures
in Irish circles.
The North Buffalo IN. W flour mills
were burned ON the 18th. The fire spread
to the Gilbert starch works. They were
also destroyed. The fire then spread to
buildings ON Thomas street and several
others ON Barber street. The total loss was
roughly estimated at 100000.
MRS. HENRY FRANKE, aged forty-two
years, living near Reading, Pa, tried to
start q fire with coal oil the other day,
when the can exploded and she and her
two children were set on fire. She jumped
into . cistern in her agony and was
drowned.
THE WEST.
Two hundred and fifty freight handlers
of Grand Haven, Mich, struck recently for
an increase in pay and double wages for
Sunday work.
THERE was quite Q riot at Dayton, O., on
the 23d over the street car strike. The at
tempt to run Q car failed.
The railroad strike on the sd had q seri-
Gus aspect for all kinds Of business. Masked
men killed engines at Atchison, KAN, and
freight train was ditched at Sedalia, Mo-,
about two hundred yards of the track being
torn up. In the latter affair two police
men had limbs broken and several others
were injured. At Kansas City wholesale
business men were at their wits end, the
city being completely blockaded.
YARDMEN and switchmen on the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad at Evansville,
Ind, struck recently on account of the dis
charge Of a member of the Knights of La
bor Traffic was stopped.
The switchmen's strike at Kansas City
ended on the oath in the reported success of
the strikers, although the particulars OF
the settlement were kept secret. The strike
on the Missouri Pacific system continued.
In attempting to move a freight train at
st. Louis small riot took place. Governor
Marmaduke issued a proclamation at late
hour, calling upon the strikers to disperse
and commanding the company to resume
the running of freight trains.
THE Milwaukee Daily Herald has issued an
order limiting the hours of labor hereafter
to eight hours per day in all departments
and increasing the composition to As cents
per LOCO ems.
GABRIEL DUMoNT is said to be fomenting
trouble among the Indians in Montana.
The Northpestern Miller reports great i'm
provement in the water power at Minneap
oils and milling was progressing satisfac
torily.
THE NorthwesternTrafIi Association has
| dissolved.
Hon. W. H. SMITH well-known Illinois
politician, committed suicide at Lexington.
| ILL.,, the other morning, shooting himself
through the head.
THERE was no particular change in the
| strike on the Missouri Pacific on the 18th
Governor Martin, of Kansas, issued q
proclamation with reference to the block
ade. and one freight train got out from st
Louis The yardmen in East st. Louis all
| quit work.
| ARMOUR & Co., pork packers of Chicago
| have been boycotted for purchasing boxes
| of Maxwell 4 Co., the boycotted box firm
Armour's local trade with butchers has been
considerably injured in consequence of the
| boycott.
THE Western Paper Bag Factory, at Ba
tavia, ILL.,. owned by Van Notthwicks, was
entirely destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
| $4,000: insurance. $4,000.
TuEOhio State Senate has passed bill
establishing a non-partisan police force III
Cincinnati by a vote of 81 to Z.
THE chief feature of the Missouri Pacific
/ strike on the 36th was the publishing of a
circular by Grand Master Powderly, of the
Knights of Labor, dated March ID and is
sued secretly, in which he said there wa
too much striking and boycotting in ths
order. Another freight train, under an i'm
mense escort of police, got through the
strikers at st. Louis.
! TwENTY-sEvEN buildings were destroyed
by fire at Salida, Col, recently. The firt
started in the Windsor Hotel.
A GREAT prairie fire was reported raging
on the Crow reservation near Fort Keogh
Mont 1t had covered many miles o
territory and burned up thousands o
tons of uncut hay. A report from Billing.
says it was charged that Crow Indian.
fired the prairie and that it was a move K
drive the cattle of the reservation.
THE soUTR.
The oil house and paint shops of thu
Texas & Pacific railway at Blue Springs
was recently burned down. The fire wal
thought to be incendiary.
An active boycott has been inauguratel
by the Knights of Labor against the bust
ness men of Dcnison, Tex, who signed tn,
petition against the strike and which wa.
forwarded to Colonel Hoxie.
THREE negroes and the engineer of lum
Der train were killed recently by trestl,
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