The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14

LI1TLEwooD and Herty were around
among their friends at New York the day
after the race and said they felt no bad eff.
fects from their exertions. It IL understood
that the next race will be in February. The
contestants will be Of two classes. The
first class will consist of men like Little
wood, Albert, Rowell and Herty, and each
man will put up $1,000 for a sweepstake,
in addition to which the winner will get .
share of the gate money.
FIRE in Syracuse, N. Y, tho other night
destroyed two large factories occupied by
four firms. causing q loss OF $50, 600.
MUNICIPAL elections in Massachusetts,
on the 4th went in favor Of the Repub-
licans.
The big steel gun manufactured at
Pittsburgh, Pa, last January proved .
miserable failure" on being tested at
Annapolis, Nd, recently. It burst all to
pieces with only 4S pounds Of gunpowder.
The loss of the Government was S6, 600 and
that OF the Pittsburgh Steel Company
So, 800.
BURGLARS in Altoona, Pa, the other
morning started fires which destroyed
four stores and row Of stables.
The findings of the referee in the suit ut
New York involving the right to use the
wire motion weaving machine Of the
Webster Loom Company against Elias 8.
Higgins & Co., the carpet manufacturers,
have been filed in the United States Circuit
Court They are in favor of the defend
ants. The plaintiffs claimed s. 63l, SIS
damages.
THOMAS THOMPSON, of Rockport, Mass,
a pensioner of the war of 1912, died re-
Gently, aged nine-four.
Four men and one woman committed
suicide in New York City on the 9Th Three
of the victims were German and one man
and the woman were French.
The front of Henry Diehl's seven-story
malt house, corner Niagara and Maryland
streets, Buffalo, N. Y, fell out recently,
burying Anthony Anse and Fred Meyer.
Anse was rescued few minutes after the
disaster unharmed. Meyer was killed.
THE WEST
THE general managers Of the roads be-
tween Chicago and st. Louis and the At
lantic seaboard, after a two days. session
at Chicago, finally agreed to restore rates.
By a collision between an accommoda-
ton and freight train near Bismarck,
OAK, recently both engines were wrecked
and seven trainmen injured.
The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Com
pany, of California, recently notified all
employees except the train and yard and
motive power men that those drawing
wages over $50 per month would bereduced
10 per cent dating from November l. A
strike was threatened
SPECIAL news has been received that the
Iowa river land settlers had held a meet
ing and decided to shoot the officers if
further attempts are made to evict them.
AT the regular weekly meeting of the
Methodist-E Episcopal Association, Chicago,
the other day, resolutions We're passed
condemning Sunday newspapers and
practically asking their parishioners to
boycott them by refusing to read or adver-
tise in them.
THE detectives Investigating the last
Calumet mine fire think the blaze was
started by one of the miners.
WILL SCHRIEBER, the absconding teller
Of the First National Bank of Columbus,
Ind, has returned several thousand dol
lars to President Lucas of the bank in
Windsor, Ont, and secured immunity
from arrest.
By an explosion in mine at Newcastle,
Col, recently one man was killed and
eight seriously wounded.
In shooting at burglar in Chicago the
other night Policeman Ensor killed Matte
Olsen, domestic. The thief escaped.
The commission appointed to treat with
the Southern Utes for their removal to the
new reservation, completed their labors at
the Durango, Col, agency on the 4th by
giving the Indians a barbecue dinner.
The official canvass of Nebraska is: Har.
rison los, 425. Cleveland S0,552, Fisk S, 429,
Streeter 1926.
The leading plug tobacco manufacturers
of the United States held secret confer
ence in Cincinnati on the 4th.
BY a collision between two trains on a
curve near Youngstown, o., the other
morning, one man was killed. two fatally
injured and fourth badly hurt. Both en-
gines and ten cars were wrecked.
INCENDIARIES set fire to Woods, jerks &
Co.'s lumber yards in Cleveland, O., re-
Gently and five acres of sawed timber were
destroyed, causing loss of $4,000.
THE attempt to consolidate the Federated
Miners with the Knights of Labor at
Columbus, o., was reported a virtual
failure on the 9Th.
FOUR Chinese highbinders are dead as
the result of their recent fractional fight at
Portland, Ore. Another was also reported
dying.
"OLD HUTCH" of Chicago has been
robbed of $4,000 by an ex-clerk whom he
had trusted.
THE stage from Mendocino to Ingrams,
CAL, was robbed recently, supposed for a
large amount.
THE widow of the millionaire Smell, who
was murdered by Tascott in Chicago last
February, has increased the reward for
the arrest of the murderer to $4,000.
There was a report on the 5th that Tascott
had been arrested, which report Snell's
son-in-law Stone was inclined to believe.
ABOUT 1000 squatters, principally Poles,
in the vicinity of the High bridge, st.
Paul, Mimi, are to be evicted. Some have
been living there twenty years.
The bill leasing ''the Strip to the C. s.
L. s. A. has passed both houses of the
Cherokee National Council and is only
awaiting the approval of Chief Mayes to
become law. The bill releases to the ASSOC
citation the entire Strip for a period of five
years for the sum of 500, 900 per annum.
THE strike Of the Montana Union road
has been settled. Master Mechanic Ross,
whose discharge the engineers demanded,
was laid of and the engineers returned to
work.
E. GRUMBACH, fur dealer of Duluth.
Mimi, has disappeared leaving debts
running well up into the thousands.
THE Board Of Trade of Great Falls,
Mont, has taken the first step toward a
statehood movement in Montana.
THE SOUTH
Ar Hopkinsville, KY, on the Cd I'D COL
ored converts to the Baptist faith were
baptized in mill pond. The time occu-
pied was only one hour and ten minutes.
Rev. John Williams officiated.
BY the burning of the cabin of a negro
woman near Lexington, Ga, the other
day. three small children nerished. The