The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-30

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THE rates to st. Paul and the Northwest,
which had been badly cut were restored q
the meeting of railroad agents in Chicago
on the 10Th.
DURING q violent thunder storm at St
Hilaire, Mimi, recently four Indians were
killed and ten others injured by lightning.
On Thief river, near the reservation, q set
tier and his wife were also killed by light.
ming in the same storm.
WILLIAM HARRrGAN il in jail at Detroit,
charged with the Knoch quadruple murder.
A fARrY Of Eve left Bay City, Mich, in q
boat, on whortleberry expedition, recent
ly. They were all thought to have persisted
| in Q violent storm which occurred soon
after their departure.
IT is reported that T.. Broman, Q farmer
Of North Akron, Ind, discovered q cave on
his premises recently in which were the
petrified bodies of thirteen men.
EIGHT thousand head of cattle have died
I'm the Choctaw Nation in the past three
months from the effect of the drouth. The
whole country il parched and barren.
The California Legislature convened on
the Goth in special session.
HARRY L. SPRING, known in Illinois a.
the boy preacher, was adjudged insane in
the County Court at Carmi, recently. He
was Q very precocious youth and had
studied very hard, and this is the cause OF
his insanity.
TIE Nottingham block, Euclid avenue,
Cleveland, O., was destroyed BY hre re-
Gently. Loss, $10S, 600; insured.
AN unknown fatal disease is reported
carrying of the hogs near Vandalia, Ill.
Ar the Crescent mine. near Crooksville,
O., the other day, Robert Burton was in
stantly killed and Edward Harris fatally
injured by the premature explosion OF .
blast.
RANDALL & DuGAN, machinery manufac-
turers of Cincinnati, have made an assign
ment with $50, 600 liabilities and unknown
assets.
The main building of the State Soldiers
Orphans Home at Kingstown. Ind, was
destroyed by fire the other day. No one
was injured. Loss, $4,000
JOHN WEsT's sawmill and the steamboat
Westport, at Westport Ore, were de-
stroyed by fire recently. Loss 100000.
In Pine lake, near Laporte, Ind, recently
Frank Molloy and Mrs. Rose Stern were
drowned, their boat capsizing. Young
Molloy was the son of Mrs. Emma Molloy,
temperance evangelist, and Mrs. Stern was
daughter of Jacob Vile, of Laporte.
Two boys were badly hurt in Chicago re-
Gently by the explosion Of a tin box con-
tanning dynamite. which they had picked
up in an alley. It was supposed the box
was an anarchist relic.
JUDGE GRESHAM at Chicago recently con-
firmed the sale of the Louisville, Evansville
& st. Louis Company, known as the "Air
Line" which was made June 9 to a COM
mittee of bondholders who are to pay $500, :
600 for the property.
The Randall & Dugan Machinery Com
pany, of Cincinnati, have assigned. Liza
bilities estimated at $4,000.
AT Leading Greek, Lewis County, W.
Va. recently, a saw mill hand named
Bootcher was ripped in two by buzz saw.
THE free delivery system has been estab-
lished at Battle Greek, Mich.
FIVE trainmen were injured seriously by
a collision near Fernwood, O., recently.
No passengers were hurt.
JOSEPH JUMP was hanged at Gallatin,
Mo-, on the 23d before an immense crowd
for the murder of William c. Gladson, De-
cember 10, 1855. Jump and another man
named Smith enticed Gladson along arail-
road track where he was murdered and
robbed, his body being thrown into well.
Smith was respited recently,