The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
THE WEST.


enne, Wyo., Is in difficulties with liabilities
Of &, 25O, 600; assets, S,OOOOOO.
The wholesale grocery of Beaupre, Keogh
& Davis, St Paul. Mimi, was burned out
recently. Loss, heavy; fairly insured.
THE post commissarv building at Fort
Mckinney, Wyo.. was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. The loss was $4,000 The garri-
son was put upon half rations, but little OF
the stores being saved.
A PASSENGER train on the Lake Erie &
Western was wrecked near Bluffton, O.,
on the 18th. One passenger was killed
and several Of the Mayo Dramatic Com
pany were injured.
FIRE the other night damaged the Higley
building at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, TO the ex-
tent of $4,000: fully insured. Chief En-
gineer HAYES and three assistants OF the
fire department were injured by an explo-
sion of gas.
Six hundred walters of San Francisco
struck recently to aid the German bakers
who had struck previously.
THOMAS ZrNCK, aged thirty Eight. well
known politician of Cincinnati, committed
suicide recently by shooting himself
through the head.
The Novelty machine works Of Evans
vile, Ind, have assigned with 5000 as
sets and unknown liabilities.
THE passenger tram on the Illinois Gen.
tran road that left Dubuque, Iowa, for the
East at noon on the 18th was thrown from
the track at Scales Mound, twenty five
miles east, and several cars rolled down a
steep embankment. Several passengers
were reported dead or severely wounded.
among the latter being Mail Agent Com
stock.
PORK fell another dollar ut Chicago on
the 18th with few buyers.
JAMES F. WILSON has been reelected
United States Senator from Iowa for the
term of six years from March, 4, 1889
THE starch manufacturers held secret
meeting in Cincinnati the other day to
regulate production and raise prices.
The San Francisco Bridge Company has
made an assignment with S3G0OOO liabilities
and 600, assets. Cause, loss OF money
on a city contract.
A REPORT has been received in Nogales,
Ariz., that two American prospectors were
killed and two wounded a few days since
on the Yaquio river, in Mexico. by band
of eight Apaches. The party of five pros
pectors came upon them IN Il wild region Of
the Sierra Madre mountains.
SEVEN citizens of Springfield, O., have
been arrested for systematically stealing
coal from cars of the Ohio Southern road.
AN attempt to rob the Wabash train
bound east on the night Of the 18th, near
Missouri City, was frustrated by the local
authorities, who had been apprised of the
plot After some firing two men were ar
rested and jailed. They proved to be farm
ers living in the neighborhood.
ANOTHER cold wave swept over Dakota
on the 10Th. Trains were ordered stopped
on some Of the roads until the abatement
Of the blizzard.
THE house Of Frank Smith, near Lima,
O., caught fire the other night and the en-
tire family-fathcr, mother and four chill
dren-was burned to death.
IT is reported that the stock department
of the Chicago Beard Of Trade will be dis
continued February l. business having
dwindled to almost nothing.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAM DRCHMoND,
Of Iowa, died recently in San Diego, Cal,
of consumption.
The loss of life by the blizzard of Jan.
uary IL was estimated by a st. Paul, Mimi,
newspaper Of the Goth to amount to 235.
The full returns were not then believed to
have been received.