The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-15

mills at Providence, r. l., were started up
the other morning. Over 500 men returned
to work.
THE WEST.
CHARLES W. HEMINGWAY, editor Of the
Ogden Herald (Mormoni was recently SEN
fenced to pay fine of 81 600 and spend six
months in the county jail. He was convicted
of criminal libel.
THE vandalia Qll) Paper Mill Company
has made an assignment for the benefit of
its creditors. Liabilities about $4,000;
assets, 5000.
THE Ohio House of Representatives has
mittee on Privileges and Elections to make
a proper investigation of the Hamilton
County election case.
BISHOP ROBERTSON refused to reopen the
case of Rev. h. d. Jardine, convicted be-
fore an ecclesiastical court of Kansas City
Of immortality.
THE other morning q fifteen-thousand-
barrel tank of refined oil caught fire from
an unknown cause at the Standard Oil
Company's works at Cleveland, o. Efforts
were made to keep the fire under control,
which were successful, but the loss was
heavy.
A STORM of unusual violence prevailed in
the mountains near Denver on the 9th. The
blockades on the railroads were the worst
known for years. At towns in Northern
Colorado the thermometer varied from 20 to
30 degrees below zero. This intensely cold
weather was accompanied by high winds,
blowing from the North.
THE latest, though entirely expected,
chapter in the famous Hill-Sharon divorce
case was the announced marriage of the
fair plaintiff, Sarah Althea Hill, to one of
her counsel, Judge David Terry, of Stock
ton, famous in California as having killed
Senator Broderick in a duel some years
ago.
SENATOR SABIN has become responsible
for a security debt of $4,000.
IT was announced in St Louis on the 9th
that all parties had agreed on the mode
of foreclosure of the Wabash Railroad
The decree was then ordered by the court
The present receivers continue in possess
sion of the property, but the title passes to
the purchasers at the SALE Many leased
lines were excepted from sale.
JOHN SHERMAN received the unanimous
nomination for Senator in the Republican
caucus Of the Ohio Legislature, held at
Columbus on the eth.
THE night of January was remarkable
throughout the Missouri Valley for intense
GOODNESS and a nipping wind.
A MOTION was filed in Topeka, on the 9TH,
in the Superior Court, against the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, asking
the court to restrain the payment of divi-
dends and asking also for the appointment
Of a receiver. The move was investigated
by Detroit shareholders and was fellow to
the one recently brought to restrain the
payment of interest on the bonds of the
Sonora Railroad.
JUDGE THURMAN has rendered q decision
as umpire in the arbitration between the
operators and miners of coal in Ohio. He
fixes the rate at sixty cents per ton, which
is the amount asked for by the miners. The
operators wanted to pay fifty cents.
A DISPATCH from Denver of the Sth stated
that not a train had reached Or left that
city east for two days. The weather was
moderating and the blockade would be
raised.
THE Legislative Committee appointed to
investigate the result of the recent election
in Hamilton Comfy (CincinnatD opened
its deliberations on the Sth. Over fifty
witnesses were summoned.
THE SOUTH.
FOUR cases of smallpox were discovered
recently in San Antonio, Tex, and
promptly removed to the pest house. The
patients We're reported all doing we'll.
THE Mississippi Legislature met at Jack
son on the 9Th in biennial session. In the
Senate Lieutenant Governor Stands pre-
sided. Hon. R. o. Reynolds was elected
Vice-President In the House General j. A.
Sharp was elected Speaker
SCANNELL & LAfAyE, sugar and molasses
factors, New Orleans, have applied for a
respite OF six, twelve and eighteen months.
The assets We're $4,000; liabilities, sl29,-
COO
Two million feet of lumber was recently
on fire at Pattevent, Favre & Co.'s mill, at
Pennington, Miss.
A WRECK occurred on the Chesapeake &
Ohio Road at Stretchers Neck tunnel, near
Hinton, W. ", recently, by which three
men We're killed and three others wounded.
The men were raising the track in the tun-
mel when freight train entered and was
derailed, piling the cars in confusion.
IN the wind and rain storm which pre-
vailed the other night three men were
drowned in Rock Greek, near Princess
Anne, Md, while trying to make the shore
in small skiff from their vessel, which
was anchored few yards from shore.
THE safe in the Post-office in Danville,
KY, was blown open the other night and all
the money taken.
II. NJ. SMITH & Co., agricultural nipple
ments, Richmond, Va, have failed; liabiIi-
ties, $4,000.
II Henderson County, Tenn, temperance
and anti temperance factions are at war.
Recently the latter faction burned down e
school house at Sand Hill. near Juno.
LATE on the afternoon of the 9th. during
the heavy snow storm, the front and mid
die part of the large four-s.ory warehouse
occupied by II. P. Forwood & Co., Trabue {;
Co. ard J. B. Balmsforth & Co., at Louis
vile. KY, all cotton and commission mer
chants, fell suddenly, overturning a stove
and starting destructive fire. Mayor NJ.
H. Wright, manager, and ]. B. Balmsforth,
one of the proprietors, was killed under the
ruins. The loss amounted to $4,000; in
surance, s95,0OO.
THE Richmond. Va, Wing, which sus
pended publication December ., has been
bought for $500 by Abner Anderson and
Judge A. ". C. Nowlin and will be started
as Democratic paper
TIE hearing of the postponed prohibition
cases was taken up again in the United
States Circuit Court at Atlanta, Ga, on
the sth. The prohibition law was in iun
effect in Atlanta and was being stringently
enforced.
GENERAL
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