The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-25

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OPnRcKHxs, the sugar mAs, hes finally
decided 70 locate his proposed refinery n
Philadelphia having bought property Tor
that purpose to the amount Of elSQ. 900.
TIE centeupial meeting OF the Presby-
terian General Assembly, the supreme
ecclesiastical court Of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States, began In Phil
adelphia on the 18th. There were over 800
delegates in attendance.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred ut the
powder house ut the Prattsville brown
stone quarry near Stockton, N. J., the
other morning. One man was killed and .
number Of houses were wrecked and con-
| siderable property was destroyed. The re-
port WAS heard twenty miles away. Three
hundred kegs Of powder exploded. The
explosion was caused by workmen dropping
keg Of powder.
JACOB VANDERBILT, at New York ro-
Gently, in giving hrs side Of the story Of his
relations with his wife, who Is suing him
for limited divorce and alimony, said that
he met her in house OF ill-fame, and as he
was young and inexperienced, he became
her dupe and consented to . secret mar
riage. He said the girls name was Mary
Smith, but she called herself Viola Ward.
Her family lives at Cazenovis, N. Y.
TEE conviction OF NcQuade, the New
York city Doodle alderman, has been con-:
6rmed by the Supreme Court
JUICE LAWRENCE, Of New York, after .
brief hearing on the writ Of habeas corpus
in tbs case OF Mrs. Ecoield Charged with
being concerned In the death OF Broker
Hstch), granted her discharge. Delaney
Nicoll coutended that the committal Of
Ars. Sconsld was . most unheard Of pro-
ceeding.
FRED KIye and William Kinney, aged
fifteen and thirteen years respectively,
were killed BY train while crossing
Providence & Boston railroad bridge near
Providence, r L, recently.
TGE E. e. Baker Post, g. A. R., Philadel.
phia, has got into hot water with the order
for admitting the Confederate General,
Joseph e. JOhnaton. to membership.
THE WEST.
TuB Christian County, No, Ball Knob.
bers, sentenced to death, have been grant
ed q stay:by the Missouri Supreme Court.
JonN CoNLEY, white, and Henry Carter,
colored, while handling logs at Robertson
4 Fraint's mill, back OF Cairo, Ill. recently
fell in the Mississippi and were drowned.
A. B. LowRIE, Of the wholesale house Of
McIn:ie 4 Lowrie, Of Boston, and one Of
the heaviest stockholders in the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fee railroad, also president
Of the San Diego Land and Town Company,
died near San Diego, CAL, recently.
ALL the shafts Of the great Calumet &
Hecla mine near Hancock, Mich, are now
open add work will be resumed.
A DYNAMITE bomb Of the most approved
pattern and deadliest size has been found
IN the house lately occupied by d. ]. lob
man, of Chicago.
By the misplaciug Of q switch at Supe-
rior, Wis.,, recently, Northern Pacific en-
CINE and several cars were wrecked and
much wheat destroyed.
FIrzGERALD & Co.'s large candle factory
in Chicago was destroyed by fire recently.
Loss 100000.
BILLY HUTCHINSON, one of the most des-
perate Of Chicago crooks and murderers,
has escaped from the insane asylum at
Kankakee, Ill.
TIE schedule of the condition Of H. B.
Baird, an extensive real estate agent Of
Minneapolis, Mimi, who recently assigned,
shows assets sl,523, 500, direct liabilities,
$549, 1884, contingent liabilities, 77,SSS
There were q number OF heavy Eastern
creditors.
COLONEL j. b. WooLFoRD, who issued
the bonds Of the Confederacy during the
war. died at Madison, Ind, recently.
DIsCoURAGING reports regarding the out
look for crops have been received from all
parts Of Indiana. In many counties hay
and oats have suffered severely from
drought, while in the southern half of the
State corn fields are being devastated by
the cut worm.
TWENTY representatives Of large export
ing -four mills from St Louis, Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, Buffalo. Chicago, Cleveland,
Terre Haute and other points met at Chi
cago recently and formed q combination.
OHIO Democrats have made the following
nominations: Secretary of State, Boston
G. Young, of Marion County; Judge Of the
Supreme Court Lyman r Critchfield, of
Holmes County; Board Of Public Works,
James Emmett, Of Pike County. The plat
form Endorsed the National Administration
and the Mills Tariff bill and expressed SYM
pathy for Ireland.
The Missouri Republicans have nomi-
mated State ticket headed by Ebert Err
win Kimball, Of Vernon County, for Gov
ernor.
In the Labor convention at Cincinnati on
the 10Th, the joint committee laboring in
the interests Of harmony was reported as
being unable to agree upon a common plat
form. The platform adopted by the Union
Labor party practically excluded it from
affiliating with the United Labor party.
The night express on the Rio Grande
railroad from Denver to Leadville, Col,
was wrecked near Salida recently. The
wreck was terrible crash and several
persons were more or less injured, but
marvelously to relate no one was killed.
L. RICHARDSON'S inter or decoration
works, Cleveland, O., were destroyed by
fire the ether morning. Loss. &c., 600.
The United Labor party at Cincinnati on
the 18th nominar ed Robert H. Cowdrey. of
Illinois, for President and W. H. T. Wake
field, Of Council Grove, Kan, for Vice.
President.
A BREAK occurred in the Suy levee, two
miles below the Hannibal (Mo) bridge on
the 18th. The territory covered by the
fOodswas forty five miles ongand 8 Y miles
wide. The damag. was immense and could
not be computed.
penitcniiary annex at Columbus. O., on the
18th, in the presence Of limited number
Of spectators. Georges crime was the
murder Of James Scott in Muskingum
County, on the night of July is, 1851.
The court house Of Sydney, the county
seat OF Fremont County, Iowa, was burned to
the ground the other night, and the records,
except the treasurer's, Were destroyed An
attempt was made few years ago to blow
up this building and destroy the records to
cover up a shortage Of the officials, bat
failed. The fire was incendiary.