The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-11-12
THE SOUTH.

THE SOUTH.
ABOUT So, 900 has been subscribed for
the relief of sufferers in Sabine Pass and
Bayou johnson.
The Mississippi Board of Health has re
moved the quarantine against Harrison
County, except the camp grounds and Bill
oxi.
THE spring which was telegraphed
from Charleston, S. C., as being the result
of a recent earthquake was discovered to
be caused by leak in the water pipe.
CHARLES SKINNER, son of a prominent
cattleman, was crushed to death between
two cars at Benton, Tex. He was standing
on the rear platform when another train
backed down with great force.
CARLISLE claimed his election by 500 over
Thoebe, the Labor candidate, in Ken
lucky.
JORDAN, well known at Cotulla, Tex,
and recently elected county treasurer. was
accidentally shot and fatally wounded by
Dump SPAIN, of EncinaL A pistol which
SPAIN was carelessly handling exploded,
the ball passing through Jordan's body.
JOHN l. MIDDLETON & Co., Baltimore
cotton merchants, have assigned.
DEPUTY SHERIFF LINDSAY was recently
murdered by Joseph Stroud in Raines
County, Tex.
DELAwARE's official complete returns
foot up for Governor, Brig Democrat,
13. 942; Hoffecker, Prohibitionist, 1889; for
Congress, Pennington, Democrat, 1887;
Cooper, Prohibtionist, $3.50. The Legis-
lature is solidly Democratic.
CARLISLE had a majority of 76S over
Thoebe in the Sixth Congressional district
of Kentucky.
The boiler of locomotive on the Texas
& Pacific railroad exploded the other day
near Davis, La, killing the engineer and
brakeman and injuring the conductor
FIRE recently in Memphis, Tenn, de.
stroyed the Chickasaw Cooperage Com
pany's works. causing a loss of 800, 900, on
which the insurance was $4,000.
SEVERE shocks of earthquake were ex-
perienced on the 5th in Charleston, Au-
gusta and elsewhere in the South. No
great damage was done, but much alarm
prevailed.
THE West Virginia Legislature will be
Democratic by nine votes on joint ballot,
insuring the election of a Democrat to
succeed Senator Camden.
AT Dallas, Tex, on the 5th the United
States Circuit Court granted preliminary
injunction in behalf of the Bell Telephone
Company against the Pan-Electric Tele-
phone Companies operating in various
Texas cities and they were ordered to stop
operations after nine days. The plea of
no jurisdiction filed by A. II. Garland,
Isham G. Harris and other nonresident
nfS px a1loUad
GENERAL.
The report of the Inspector of Factories
in Germany shows that the average work
ing time Of the employees is eleven hours
daily. The report conveys the impression
that there is much overwork and vile sani-
tary arrangements.
A GREAT socialist demonstration took
place at Charleroi, Belgium, recently.
Thirty thousand workingmen were led in
procession by 500 women dressed in mourn
ing for the men killed in the riots last
March.
A SPLENDID monument has been erected
Theater fire in Vienna.
SIR EDWARD WATKIN, the well-known
English railway magnate, proposes the
establishment Of line of transatlantic
steamers from Hull to run in connection
with the Canadian Pacific railway.
An American sailing vessel, the E. F.
Sauer, collided recently on the river
Scheldt with the English steamer Darien
and the German steamer Strasbourg. All
hands were saved but the three ships were
badly damaged.
DIR. VoN HARTMANN, q solicitor of Ham
over, Germany, has absconded with 200, 900
marks.
A FASTING craze has broken out among
Italian cranks
SENIOR CASTELAR,, the Spanish statesman,
was recently lionized at Paris.
HEAVY storms prevailed on the Sd
throughout Scotland. In Edinburg the ga
BILE Of new building was overthrow and
three workmen were killed and five in.
jured.