The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11

HE New YORK Dduy C0WwsSTcsot Os"e
an's estimate of the fire waste in May in
the United States and Canada il 81, 00O. 600
or 81, OOO, 600 less than the May average fol
many years.
In the New Jersey House bill providing
for local option throughout the State on
the liquor question was defeated by Q vote
Of % to 81.
A TERRIBLE conhagration was reported
raging at Scottdale Pa, on tho morning
Of the 5th that threatened destruction to
the whole town. The buildings were mostly
frame.
ARTHUR ORION, the "Roger Tichborne'
claimant, was in New York recently ar
ranging lecture tour.
THE WEST.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road
announced, on the LIST, q heavy cut in pas
senger rates from Chicago to a number OF
the principal cities in Iowa, including Des
Moines, Rock Island and Cedar Rapids. A
reduction varying between 81 and s. was
made.
The commandant at Fort Bliss has re-
ceived orders from General Miles to imme-
diately move his troops to q point in Ari-
IONA to aid in the prosecution of the war
against the Apaches. The troops are light
ly supplied for long march, but large
quantity of provisions and medicines is be-
ing loaded, which apparently indicates that
General Miles proposes to remain out all
summer if necessary.
RECENrreportsf from the Northwest stated
that there had been very little rain for
fiv,on md hat tI,o
ing from drought. Chinch bugs had ap-
peared in several States, but had done little
damage vet.
Ex-PREsIDENr HAYES denies that he is a
candidate for Congress of the Tenth Con-
gressional District of Ohio. He declares
that he is entirely out Of politics.
Twomen were killed and three injured by
the explosion of a mill boiler in Qui ",
Mich, recently.
FIRE in Brimficld. ILL.,, recently destroyed
a hardware and grocery store, a bank, a
church and the post-ofiice, causing loss Of
$4,000.
Francisco, has offered to supply Chinese
laundrymen in place of the strikers at
Troy, N. Y.
WILLIAM FELzLER, a walking delegate Of
the Chicago Stonecutters' Union. was fined
$50 by Justice Mech in that city recently
for interfering with the workmen in
Thompson's stone yard
THE Presbyterian General Assembly at
Minneapolis, Mimi, wound up its business
on the 3lst and adjourned to meet next
year at Omaha. Neb.
TuE 81 TarN,,,a E. ~
ton. Mich, burned the other day. Loss.
100000
THE other afternoon Marchand's Opera
House, at Alliance, o., a four-story brick
building. eighty feet square, fell with a
crash. At the time of the accident there
were dozen people in the building, but all
escaped uninjured. The loss aggregated
$4,000.
THE steam barge Swallow, very much d.
lapidated, arrived at Chicago recently after
a terrible trip from Muskeegon. When
about forty miles from that port she was
almost completely disabled by gale and
her crew of fourteen saved themselves by
clinging to the wreck, which luckily drifted
to Chicago. She sunk as she was entering
the Chicago river.
AcAvE-IN occurred in the Colonel Sellers
mine, California gulch, near Leadville,
Col, on the 22d, in which Joseph Pretty,
Louis Miller, H. Hitchcock and Louis
Pretty, four miners, were caught and
buried. Efforts were being made to re-
cover the bodies.
The German printers strike at Cincin-
natl was reported ended.
TWENTY-FIVE arrests have been made of
Milwaukee rioters.
A MYSTERIOUS explosion at Ecorse. n
small town near Detroit, Mich, recently
caused the serious injury of four persons.
A REPORT from Graham County, A. T.,
says that about 100 White Mountain
Apaches have left their reservation and are
starting on raiding tour in Graham and
Chase Counties.
THE Knights of Labor closed its conven-
ton at Cleveland, Ohio on the Sd.
THE boiler of local freight engine No.
412, of the Baltimore & Ohio, exploded at
Bellaire, O., recently. Two engineers and
a fireman were instantly killed. Consid-
cradle damage was done by fragments of
the exploding boiler.
AT Cummins, near Chicago, on the Rock
of the nail strikers wives and children
blockaded the track SO that traffic was
completely stopped. When the track was
cleared new difficulty arose in the re-
fusal of train hands to move 'scab" nails.
SALEM, Iowa, was badly scorched by fire
recently. The Union block was destroyed.
Loss, SIS. 900; insurance, 10000.
THE family of Winfield Scott, at Athens,
O., were poisoned recently after eating
strawberries. One child died.
THE soUrR.
The other morning, near Fort Arbuckle.
in the Chickasaw Nation, two brothers,
James and Charles Gilfulan, fell in with a
crowd of drunken men. A quarrel was
followed by general fight. Both brothers
were MORALLY wounded.
The stockholders of the Texas & Pacific
railroad are reported endeavoring to de-
feat the scheme of Jay Gould to absorb
Pacific system.
A FIRE the other morning at Pensacola,
Fla, burned thirty buildings and caused q
loss of 100000. The walls Of several build
ings were thrown down by exploding pow
der. One hundred people were burned out
of their homes.
JUDGES PARDEE and billings, ofthe United
States Circuit Court Of Louisiana, have de-
cided the case Of the Bell Telephone Com
pany against the National Improved Com
pany in favor of the Bell.
THE Louisville (ky.) Conrier,JournoFs to-
bacco report says: The market maintains
a brisk. healthy action and the improyin~
tendency is becoming daily more estab--
Ished. Burley tobacco especially low and
good to fine grades were in sellers favor.