The Iola register., 1886-08-20

results. Kelly had . brother suffer tn
same mishap two years ago.
THIRrr-oxs buildings were burned q
Eault Ste. Marie, Mich, recently. Est
mated loss, 81, ,O0O; small insurance.
GARGEr has broken out among the nativ'
cattle near Taylorville, Ill Widow P0ttl
lost several cows and has several mort
seriously i'll. w. B. Davis and Others II
the neighborhood have met with similal
loss.
Four convicts made an attempt to es
cape from the Iowa penitsntiary at Ana
mosa, Iowa, the other evening. Paddy
Ryan, serving Q six ysars' term, was in
stantly killed by the guards, being shot
through the heart. Two Of the other con
victs wers dangerously wounded. and thu
fourth escaped, but was recaptured.
A NUMBER Of boys picked up piece ol
gaspipe loaded with dynamite in Chicago
the other day, and came near killing them
selves before It was taken from them.
The Democrats of the Twelfth Ohio dis
trict have nominated General James W
Dunn for Congress.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado passed through
Aberdeen, OAK, on the 11th. No correct
estimate could be given Of the damage.
THERE was . report in Tombstone, Arix.
ON the l1th that Mexican soldiers had dis
armed Captain Lawton's command In Son
ora and taken them prisoners.
Ar Conneaut, O., the other day, Mrs
Slough, the wife of laborer, went to the
river to wash, taking her three children
with her. One of the little ones fell into
the water and in the effort to rescue it the
mother and all the children were drowned.
TIE coal miners of the Hooking Valley,
O., have, it is reported, agreed to consoli.
date with the knights Of Labor.
The Palestine commandery, Of Louis
vile, captured the ''cake" at the colored
knights Templar conclave at Detroit.
The National Grand Grove Of the Druids
appointed officers at Chicago on the 1lth,
and adjourned to meet next year in st.
Paul.
A RICH oil belt has been discovered near
Cal.
The new town Of Luskin. Northern Wy.
oming, near the Montana border, was
swept away in furious hurricane recent
ly. The town was built Of canvas and clap.
boards. No one was hurt.
TWENTY stores were burned at Kosciusko,
Mich, recently.
WErHERow & WELLS glass works at Mas
sillon, O.. burned the other day.
RECENT treasury orders concerning
'clipped" coin are unfavorably received in
San Francisco.
CADET ScHLEY, of Indiana, fell from
IL ho cfal 1ok ksav,
August 8, and was killed.
A FIRE originating in Newton's planning
mill at Hastings, Mich. destroyed the mill
Newton's opera house, . merchants store,
Evans tin shop and dozen other business
places, causing loss of 100000.
FIRE in Cleveland, O., recently, caused
the destruction Of three tanks of oil in
Doane's oil refinery and reduced the still
house and boiler rooms to ashes. Loss
eS5, 600.
AT Folsom, CAL, recently, fire destroyed
twenty six of the principal business houses.
Loss, Sl50, 1000; insurance, s95,000.
WILLIAM G. GoRHAM, Of Wayne, ILL.,, q
well-to- do farmer, and Gustave Politzke, q
day laborer, were instantly killed by light
ming the other morning. Their bodies were
scorched from head to foot.
THE SOUTH.
Ex-GovERNoR JOHN w. STEVENSON, oi
Kentucky. died ON the 10th at his home in
Covington, Kv., aged seventy-eight.
ALL the cotton mills in Augusta, Ga,
closed down on the 10th and 1000 hands
were idle. There was no prospect Of a set
tlement Of the trouble.
GOVERNOR IRELAND. Of Texas, has issued
q proclamation asking for relief for drouth
sufferers.
H. II. SULLIVAN, a lawyer of Oxford
Miss. secretary of the University Board
of Trustees, was killed recently by !. NJ.
Howry. law professor in the university.
THE British bark Excellence was at Ship
with nine of her crew sick with yellow
fever.
THERE is a probability that the Rowan
County (ky.) war will be finally ended by
Craig Tolifer and Cook Humphrey, leaders
of the factions, leaving the State.
COLONEL W. B. HAxroN, Republican
candidate for the Legislature in Washing.
ton County, Ark, has become insane and
will be placed in an asylum.
The Tennessee Democrats, in State con
vention at Nashville, heartily indorsed the
present administrations, both State and
National.
A LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE yard engine
exploded at Lexington, KY, the other day,
killing Engineer William Suckles and ia
tally wounding Fireman Peter Adair.
THERE was still no prospect of u settle
ment of the trouble in the Wilmington
DELI morocco manufactures. The strike
was four months old.
A RATHER remarkable accident occurred
near Wheeling, W. Va, the other morning
While Mrs. Henry Reuber was watering a
horse in the creek beneath large tree, the
tree suddenly fell, killing both the lady
and horse.
SULLIVAN L. Ross, of Waco, was nomi'
mated for Governor of Texas by the Demo.
cratic convention on the first ballot He is
a free grass man.
by the Tennessee Democrats for Governor.
LIGHTNING struck a corner grocery store
in Houston, Tex, on. the 18th instantly
killing 81 Taylor (colcred) and fatally in
juring James Lythe, the proprietor.
R. W. FORD, an Austin surveyor, has
found some gold quartz in Blanco County.
Tex, on the ranch of A. Bahan. An Aus
tin Jeweler and other experts pronounced
the finding pure gold.
SPECIALS report destructive storms in
various portions Of Kentucky on the 12th.
In Pulaski County Joe Riddle and a young
child were killed by lightning. In Logan
County immense rocks loosened by a tree
blown over on the mountain side crushed
into the cabin of Matthew Parks, fatally
him. Considerable stock was also
killed.
W. r WILLIAMS, ex.postmaster at Hins-
lev Ark who embexzled registered mack