The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-28

1zkEE men were probably fatally burne.
BY an explosion in Franks chemical FAC
tory, Jersey City, N. j., recently. The los
was $1,000.
The Massachusetts, Senate has passed I
bill raising the tax on telephone cOmpanie
from go, 900 to $250.O00.
CRAIG & LOwRIE, heavy oil operators
failed at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th. Th
failure caused q panic in the oil market.
THE Sharon (Pa.) Iron Company's work
were lighted on the 10th after an idlenes
of nearly year. The indications point t.
steady run. Every furnace in Sharon i
now in blaze.
PIN WHITE. the notorious confidence
man, died in the Green mountains of Yer
mont, recently. of a malignant carbuncle
REPORTS made to the Catholic convention
at Philadelphia show an increase of To PEI
cent. in the number of societies.
A New York dispatch of the Goth says
There is a feeling of alarm in navy circle.
in regard to the United States man-of-wal
Nipsic, which sailed for Hampton Roads
from Montevideo seventy-three days ago
and has not been since heard from. TIL,
ordinary time for the passage under sail i.
forty days.
JAEHNE, the convicted New York Alder
man, was sentenced by Judge Barrett K
nine years and ten months Imprisonment
in Sing Sing.
PRoF. THEODORE DWIGHT has been unani
mously elected president Of Yale College
to succeed President Noah Porter, resigned
MRs. ALICE PENDLEToN, wife of the
United States Minister to Berlin, Hon
George II. Pendleton, was thrown from bel
carriage in New York, on the Goth, and
almost instantly killed. Mrs. Pendletor
was sixty-one years old, and came from
Berlin two months ago with her daughter
Miss Jane Frances Pendleton, to attend the
funeral of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frank
Pendleton.
SEVEN Mormon missionaries at Fayette
Pa, recently claimed they could drink poi
son and not be injured A dose of arsenic
was offered them. which they refused to
drink. A mob then drove them away a
imposters.
THE owners OF the bark Batavia and the
schooner Allie Burnham. of Philadelphia,
have given up those vessels as lost. They
were loaded with sugar and molasses from
the West Indies. The Batavia had crew
of eight men in addition to Captain Kelly,
his wife and sister. The vessel and cargo
were worth sl5O,Oo0 The Burnham loss
involves eight lives and nearly Sl5O,OO0 in
vessel and cargo.
EX-ALDERMAN JAEHNE was taken to Sing
Sing on the 2lst
DIR. DIo LEWIS, the eminent physician
and scientist, whose manifestos on health
matters have given him a worldwide rep
died at Yonkers, N. V, on the 2lst.
THE WEST.
A FIRE occurred recently in theater at
near Columbus, o. The audi
ence was much alarmed, and several per-
sons were more or less burned or otherwise
injured while escaping. The loss was triv-
isl
A LARGE meeting of coal miners assem-
bled in st. Louis OH the Goth. The object
was to form National Federation sirilar
to that existing in England.
THE Molders' Union at Chicago has given
up the fight for eight hours.
JOHN A. HENRY, an anarchist printer of
Chicago, has been put under lock and key
on the streets.
ALL the troops ordered to Cincinnati to
prevent labor riots were ordered home on
the 18th, all being quiet in the city.
THE East st. Louis deputies who were
taken to Bclleville, H.. to answer the Charge
of murder, for shooting several persons
during the recent railroad strike, have
been discharged.
A RECENT dispatch from Eufaula. L T.,
says: Deputy United States Marshal An
drews and posse of three have been NOR
tally wounded by Bill Pigeon, the neted
desperado, whom they were attempting to
arrest. Pigeon recently killed Deputy Mar
shall Richardson. Twelve murders are
charged against him.
JOHN DEERE, president of the Deere & Co.
pillow works, tie, first to apply steel to the
of plows, died recently at his
home in Moline, ILL.,
A DISASTROUS fire at Akron. o., recently,
caused the death of four children of Mrs.
Mooney and the serious injury of several
other persons.
THE John b. Jeffrey Printing Company,
of Chicago, has been declared insolvent.
MEMBERS of the old council of Nation,
Ill.,, are accused of fraud by the new coun-
Gil.
CHICAGO physicians and surgeons are
an organization for protection
against biackmailers.
AT Salt Lake City recently John A.
Flowers shot his wife in the side, his
Mrs. Decker, in the abdo-
men, and in a scufie to shoot Lester
Decker, his wife's brother, shot himself in
the head, dying instantly. Mrs. Decker
died next day and Mrs. Flowers was ia
tally injured.
AT the annual meeting Of the Chicago,
& Quincy railroad the follow
ing directors were elected: S. ]. Forbes,
Charles ]. Payne, Edward Bang, Francis
J. Hunnewell, Peter Yeddes, Sidney Bart
lett, John L. Gardner, T. jefferson Coolidge.
John N. A. Griswold, Writ Dexter and
Charles E. Perkins.
A DISPATCH from Nogales, A. T., says:
Two sons Of Captain Audrade, while on
the way to their home at Aqua lara ranch,
were murdered by Indians seven miles
south Of here. Oscar Darwin and his
partner, who have been mining near here,
are also reported murdered. Captain Law
ton is in close pursuit of the Indians, who
haze number of wounded in the Huachi-
mi mountains.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER, of the Thir-
teenth Illinois district, has been renominat-
ID by reclamation.
THE court of impeachment to try Auditor
Brown met at Des Moines. Iowa, on the
10Th. Colonel Keatley opened the prose-
cution on the part of the House.
Rev. E. r. HENDRIX. president Of Central