The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-03

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AT q general convention Of the Fenfeu
brotherhood held in New York recently al
official connection with O'Donovan Ross
was dissolved.
The four-story furniture factory Of John
D. Raggio, at Philadelphia. was burned re
Gently, causing Q loss OF 100000 Largs
sparks were carried . long distance. and
but for . downpour Of rain Q serious con
hagration would have resulted.
AN explosion Of fire-damp occurred In
the Conyngham coal mine at Wilkesbarre
Pa, on the morning of the 26th, Between
forty and fifty men were in the mine at the
time, fifteen Of whom were fatally and the
rest seriously injured. The explosion wa
caused by carrying q naked lamp into
worked-out chamber.
THE WET.
ARTICLES Of incorporation were recently
fled in Keokuk, Iowa, for the Chicago
Kansas & Western. Tho capital stock Is
s3l, 500 600. The road is part of the pro
posed extension of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe to Chicago.
EDWARD SWORD, aged fourteen, q news
boy employed by the Union News Com
pany, was thrown from the forty-fve
minute Washington train on the Baltimore
& Ohio the other morning at Baltimore
and was instantly killed.
THE steamer Barnard Castle, in the coal
trade between Puget Sound and San Fran
cisco, ran ON the rocks near Race Rocks
light, B. c., recently and stove large hole
in her bottom. The steamer was beached
and will prove total loss. The crew were
saved Loss, 500, 900; well insured.
one hundred lady filters at the shoe fac.
tory of Wolf & Co., of Cincinnati. went on
strike recently. The cause of their refusal
to work was the discharge of a popular fore
man and the employment Of one who was
not looked upon with favor.
BIZ the breaking in two Of freight train
near GAINESVILLE. O., the other day, thir-
teen cars were wrecked, causing loss Of
$4,000.
For several weeks past Q malignant,
fatal type of diphtheria has been raging in
Logansport, Ind. The mortality has been
fearful. Fully one hundred children have
died The disease has also broken out in
Rochester.
SINCE the circular giving Q descrip-
ton of Jim Cummings was sent out by
the Adams Express Company, it has been
very closely resembling him, was seen in
Vinita, !. T., on October IA, IL and %, and
on one occasion with Messenger Fother-
ingham, whose run ends in Vinita.
CHERRY, LEACH & Co., dealers in agricul-
tural implements, Aberdeen, OAK, made
an assignment The assets are 1900; IL
abilities, 5000.
Two freight trains collided near Lacey
on the Iowa Central, five miles north Of
Oskaloosa, the other morning, instantly
killing Fireman Martin. seriously injuring
the engineer and brakeman. The enginee:
of the train going south disobeyed orders
to sidetrack the train at Lacey. The loss
to the company is $4,000.
DIR. c. r. MONTGOMERY, of st. Louis, has
brought suit against the Ohio State Journal
Company, at Columbus, O., claiming dam
ages in $4,000 for alleged libelous publica-
tions. The case grew out of the recent
prosecution and exposures at the Ohio
penitentiary, where. it was claimed, the
election forgeries were committed one year
ago.
WILLIAM HAYDEN, furniture and desk
manufacturer. Of Chicago, has assigned.
The amount of liabilities and assets are un-
known. The firm has done an extensive
business.
Two drovers were killed, together with a
large number. of cattle, by a collision be-
tween cattle trains on the Northwestern
railroad. at haywood, near Chicago, re-
Gently.
A CHICAGO lawyer named Skinner was
convicted recently in London of forging a
letter of credit. He received a sentence of
five years. Imprisonment.
j. B. PHILLIPS & Co., dealears in agricul-
tural implements, Milwaukee, has as
signed. Liabilities unknown. Nominal as
sets $4,000.
The towboat Raymond Horner, with a
tow of 200. 900 bushels of coal, sunk recent
ly near Marietta. o.
THE schooner Owosso, it is feared, has
gone down on Lake Erie with . crew Of
nine persons.
Two children named Weisal were frozen
to death ten miles north of Mandan, d. T.,
recently while looking for lost stock. Two
young men, brothers, named Sims, were
also frozen to death while returning from
work.
JUDGE ScoTr, on the 25th, granted writ
of supersedeas in the case of the eight con-
demned Chicago anarchists.
The powder mills at Platteville, Grant
County, Wis, blew up the other night.
Twenty thousand pounds of powder were
in them at the time. No one killed.
IT is reported that seven Indians-Big
Thunder, the Crow chief, among the num-
ber-were drowned while attempting to
cross the Missouri river at point about
ten miles north of Bismarck, D. T., recent
ly. Big Thunder was one Of the most ia
nous chiefs Of the Crow nation.
AHoRRIBLE story comes from Ravens
Vile, Kan, Rhodes Clements, crazed by
religious excitement, murdered his COM
panion, Samuel Gordon, ON the highway,
and was afterward found feasting ON the
remains
DURING the past season ON the great
lakes thirty three vessels have been lost
and forty -one passengers drowned The
underwriters suffered heavily.
The Great Western glass works, of st.
Louis, was closed down ON the eth. All
hands were discharged.
THE SOUTH.
CAPTAIN HAYES has returned to Red Fort,
L T., after ousting the Oklahoma boomers.
A PETITION has been presented to Attor.
ney General Cunningham, OF Louisiana,
praying for the removal from Office Of
Judge Henry E. Lazarus, Of district E of
the district court The petition charges
him with nonfeasance, misfeasance, gross