The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-29

encampment Of three ysars' army ssrvios
men.
LIHUTRNANf HKrCALH1 and o private
named King were recently torn to pieces
by an exploding shell at Sandy Hook,
n. J.
TIE Democratic Congressional conven-
tion at Rochester, N. T., has nominated
Theodore Bacon. He was Republican nm.
til 1884, when he supported Cleveland. and
10 now claimed - Democrat
HARRINGTON, Me-, was reported on fire
on the night Of the 22d. The burned dis
trict comprised Q large area. the Jail and
two or three churches being destroyed.
JACOBS lumber yard and the American
Varnish Company's shops, Chicago. were
damaged s75,0O0 by fire the other day and
two men were fatally burned.
THE WEST.
SERIOUS fires were reported prevailing
in the woods and pastures five miles west
of Akron, O., ON the 10th.
FIVE men were killed recently by the fall
of construction train down an embank-
ment on the Colorado division of the Bur
lington & Missouri River railroad, nine
miles west Of Fairfield, Neb.
The packing house strike at Chicago on
| the 10Th, although it was declared over,
| ended in the fatal wounding of two men
by Pinkerton guards. The guards were
| jeered at by q mob while in q train on
their return to Chicago, when they pointed
their rifles out of the windows and fired
with the above fatal result Great excite
ment was occasioned.
THREE hundred box stalls and three val
liable horses were burned by destructive
fire at the Kansas City exposition grounds
recently.
The National convention Of the Christian
Church met in Kansas City on the 10th.
AT st. Louis on the 18th Frank Seebold,
Philip Lutz, Philip Deffoa and William
Kaufman were drowned by the capsiEing
of skif in the Mississippi river near the
foot of Carroll street. Two companions
were rescued. Seebold alone was married.
The Chicago &. Alton and Rock Island
roads have notified Commissioner Midgely
of the Southwestern Railway Association
that they will demand rearbitration of
pool percentage on the ground that the
present ones were unfair to their interests.
The Burlington also fled notice Of its with
drawal from the Southwestern lumber
pool.
AT Blue rapids, near Leavenworth, Kan,
recently, a farmer and two of his sons were
drowned while on q nutting expedition.
Three of the boys were capsized in the
water The father rescued one but was
drowned himself with the other two. The
mother, who witnessed the accident, be-
came a raving maniac.
JOHN PARKER, an old farmer of Mt
tortured by masked robbers the other
night to force q confession of supposed
hidden wealth.
ACTION was taken on the Goth against
all the saloon keepers of Dubuque, Iowa,
not before prosecuted. The number was
forty making a total of 135 saloons with
owners of premises now before the courts
on injunctions.
THE statement of the assignee OF s. A.
Gage & Co.. of Chicago, has been made
public. It shows the total liabilities Sep
TENDER 30, 1,O16, Isl; nominal assets, ST.
2O3, 3S6, and assignee's estimate, s6l5, 595.
The penitentiary workshops at Column
bus, O., were recently in flames. Loss,
$40 OO
JOHN j. GEoGHAN, Assistant State Dairy
and Food Commissioner, has sworn out
warrants for the arrest of several prom-
nent Dayton, O., grocers whom he caught
selling butterine for creamery butter.
Forty election judges and clerks in Chi
cago have been arrested for not returning
the registry books within the time pre-
scribed.
FIFTEEN men were recently imprisoned
for several hours at the bottom of cais-
son in the middle of the river at Omaha,
Neb., by leak, but were rescued alive.
BRADLEY, the defaulting Pullman Palace
Company manager, was sentenced at Chi
cago to five years imprisonment.
THE mixing mill Of the Miami powder
works, at Xenia, O., exploded the other
day, instantly killing Armel Miller.
AT Stevens Point, Wis, Lawyer Hazel
tine was acquitted Of the murder of his
wlfe's seducer, Banker A. E. Morse.
AT Vermontville, Mich, recently three
masked men broke into the American Ex-
press Office, bound and gagged William
Bailey, the agent, and robbed the safe of
nearly $1,000.
.
Streator, ILL.,, broke his neck the other
night in an attempt to fix . chimney on the
roof Of his residence.
THE SOUTH.
HIRsCH Bros. & Co. and Hirsch &
Lowenstein, of Nashville, Tenn, dry
goods, have failed with liabilities amount
ing to 500, OOO
The Knights of Labor convention at
Richmond, Va, adjourned sine die on the
Goth.
The smoking car Of train on the Ashe-
vile & Spartansburg road rolled down an
embankment near Asheville, N. c., recent
ly, and several persons were injured.
The boiler of a sawmill near Chronicle
Ala, exploded the other day, killing two
men and wounding three others.
A SMALL son of N. J. Duval, of Argenta,
Ark, has died of hydrophobia, caused by
| a puppy's bite q few weeks ago.
A MOB in Pickens County, Ala, recently
hanged three negro incendiaries.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND arrived in Rich
mond, Va, on the 2lst, being received by
an immense concourse Of people.
ONE death from and two new cases of
fever were reported at Biloxi, Miss, on the
Dist
THE switchmen in the Louisville & Nash
| vile yards at Louisville, KY, quit work
on the I'D for more pay.
Two shocks of earthquake creating ex-
tensive alarm. occurred on the 22d extend.
ing from Washington to Georgia
A STEAM mill operated by J. Handy and