The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-04


other cities on the 9th.
Tar American fliat Rlassworks strike
has been settled In . conference 1t New
York
TINE WET.
TnE Calumet and Hecla mine ct Calumet,
Mich, has been opened at shaft Nc. l. No
fire could be discovered and 1t 10 supposed
that the fire is entirely out
A TwELvK-YKAkoLD son OF Hiram Car.
son, living near vandalia, Ill, was kicked
by horse the other day and killed.
The consecration OF Bishop Jannssen
took place In ~. Peters Church, Bellevills,
Ill, on the 18th.
Two deputy sherifFs Of Socorro County,
N. NJ, who had been on the trail Of JOG
Atkins and Frank Porter for. two days,
came up with them near San Jose on the
24lh. when . regular pitched battle ensued,
in which Porter was killed and Atkins
captured.
PRIvArs JAMES WHITE, stationed as Fort
Gibson. L T., was sent to picket ont enc Of
the officers horses the other morning, and
held tho end OF the rope halter. with IN
iron picket stake attached, in his hand,
when the horse. becoming frightened,
jumped suddenly and jerked the iron stake
almost through his body. He died in
stautly.
MILLS. DECO (l(iss Annie WILSON, had Q
terrible fall from slack wire ut Steubon-
vile, o.. recently, during . performance,
tho apparatus giving way. She was fatally
injured.
JOHN THoRxwALD, . prosperous farmer
living near Bismarck, Oak, claims to have
found very rich orc near the surface at .
-. t. A~.A nil ~ nasy~
Oak.
In a quarrel at Dickinson, Oak, the
o,her day over Q game Of poker, Jasper
CENTRAL CITY. OAK, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss t2SlO0Q
AN explosion that pitched seventy peo-
pie into the ai:, throwing ono man fifty
feet wrecked seventeen large plate glass
windows, ruined 5000 worth OF clothing.
damaged q building $l5.OO) and caused .
stampede OF hundreds Of people form the
upper stories OF tall buildings. occurred in
basement on State and Jackson street,
Chicago, the other night The explosion
was caused by two workmen, who had
broken o gas main without knowing it No
one was killed.
JuDGR GRksnAM, ut Milwaukee on the
9th, decided the suit Of the heirs Of the
late s. s. Merrill, general manager Of tho
Chicago, Milwaukee T. st. Paul road,
against c. II. Price, for An accounting in
connection with Colorado land transactions
In Minnesota and Dakota, Involving profits
supposed to be In tho neie hborhoOd Of 81,
GOV, 600 Tho decision was In favor Of the
defendant
Tns Bank Of Amigo (wis.) was robbed
Of 5000 tho other day BY some unknown
person, who went into the back door while
the cashier was at dinner.
BENJAMIN & ROBBINS, the assistant
United States district attorney at Denver,
Col, recently attempted suicide by 1sbbing
knife in his neck. He was in q fit Of dc.
lirium At the time He was from Kentucky,
where he had been . State Senator.
The prison shoe shop at Chester; Ill,
was burned recently. Loss, $4,000.
BIZ q collision between Q freight and
construction train near Birnam Wood,
Wis, tho other morning, ten laborers were
badly hurt
A TORNADO, the second ono this year,
| struck Pratt, Kan, on the evening Of the
18Th. MrA. William Fisher was killed and
many others seriously wounded.
THB Indiana Democrats have nominated
CORTLAND N. Natson for Governor. Gray
was endorsed for the vice-Presidency.
| Two cistern cleaners OF St. LOUIS were
found dead in Q cistern recently, having
| been suffocated BY choke damp.
Two convicts in the penitentiary at JET
fersonville, Ind, were terribly burned by
| molten iron recently while attending to q
| cupola.
ANARCHIST PARSONS old paper, the
| Alarm, Of Chicago, has suspended publica
ton.
Twenty survivors Of the great Suitana
explosion of April e, 1865. in which l, 70(
Union soldiers lost their lives, held . re-
ception at Hillsdale, Mich, on the Seth.
The sswmills OF tho Ft Madison Uowa)
| Lumber Company were destroyed by fire
on the eth. Loss, s45, goo.
The cannon ball train on the Burlington
| & Missouri River railroad was wrecked
! near Alma, Neh.. on the 9th. Two passen
gers were killed and quite . number in
jured. Tho mail and express cars with
their contents were consumed.
| The crops Of Minnesota and the North
west generally ore reported to be in very
backward and doubtful condition.
| OVER 1000 feet of the snow sheds neal
Mullan tunnel, on the Northern Pacific
railroad, in Montana have been destroy ed
by fire.
| THE SOUTH.
| TIE rumors current North about yellow
fever in South Florida, are SAID to be false
There has been . mild type Of fever q
Plant City all winter, resembling yellow
fever, but the disease has terminated, The
last case being convalescent last week.
ED HALL, colored, was abusing his wife
recently at Osceola, Ark, when she fed Il
Frank Warren's place. Hall demanded
| that she be driven ont and Warren refused
when Hall produced a shot gun and blew
Warren's head on.
BEssEMER, Ala, was reported in the
hands Of negro mob on the night Of the
oath. They had set the place on fire in re
vengc for the lynching of one Of their cum
Der for an attempted outrage.
SERIOUS results followed frost on thu