The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-06

Sept. Labor Day generally observed
q
Ocs s-sssrssa1y kisshmsn reported >skoot
members In Knights Of Labor. aecrsase Of
Oct s-About 400 brass.vorksrs quit wors
| IN New York and BROOKLYN.
Oct 1e-Brothernood Locomotive Engineer
delphia 5000 shoe naksrs quit work.
Nov. 1-Union book and job printers Of Chi
eago struck TOR nine-hour day.
| cent interest.
Nov. ss-Aions shenango 4 Allegheny rail
road, PennsylvaniA SO coal miners struck fol
Dec. ls-Tour coke strikers convicted .,
Uniontown. Pa. Of asssulting non-union miners.
| Doc. 17-Ssveral thousand men made idle BY
Dec. 43-Over loo employees Of Philadelphia
| & Reading r. r. Co. struck because Of employ
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METEOROLOGICAL.
| Jan: s-very cold weather eli over the coun-
| try. Ice formed in the City Of Mexico and Their
mometSr was " degrees below zero At Water
Jan. I-snow fell . foot deep in Louisiana,
the heaviest ever known.
Jan; 5-Five inches Of snow fell in Georgia
and Mississippi
Jan. 6-Thermometer ranged from 20 below
zero at Moorehead, MINI, TO ii below at Mil
waukee. and was reported to have registered 90
below at Aitkin, MIMI, on the night OF the 9th.
Jan. S-Thermometer 80 below at Miles City,
NJ. T., and Sc below At Pembina, d. T.
Jan. Ia-Coli weather throughout the East
In the Mohawk Valley, N. Y, mercury ranged
from q to IS degrees below zero.
jan sl-Mercury 81 below zero at st. VIM
Feb 2-Severe blizzard in Dakota. Snow
compelled abandonment Of all railroad trains
Feb. 6,Earthquake shocks in Illinois, In
diana and Missouri
Feb. 9-Winter in Montana reported severest
in ten years. Many people and cattle persisted.
Rd FEB Frst cysone, ever known west OF
Feb. 26-Trains throughout Northwest block
AIDED by terrific snow storm
Mar. 23-Heavy SHOWS in East At G!overs-
vile, N. Y, piled as high as store fronts.
Apr. 4-Trains delayed by heavy snow in Wis
consin and Michigan.
Apr. 15-Cyclone at ST. Clairsville. O., wrecked
300 houses. Loss, s1,OU,OOO.
Apr. sl-Cyclono in Vernon County, Mo-,
killed about g people. Cyclones destroyed
Prescott, Kan, and destroyed life and pppp-
May s-Severe earthquake shocks in South
ern Arizona and Mexico. 200 people killed in
latter country.
May Il-Dryest season in forty years report
May 1s-Five shocks earthquake at Nogales.
A. 7. Cyclone leveled houses and killed two
persons at Three Springs, Neb.
May ao-Two shocks earthquake at Nogales,
June s-Severe earthquake shocks in North
ern California ard Western Nevada
Cpeople and destroyed el50,00O property.
June E-Cyclone near Crookston, Mimi.
killed people. :. Great heat throughout North
west and cases sunstroks at Chicago.
June e2-Snow fell in Pleasant Valley, MINI.
June 23-Frost injured crops In Dakota.
June 25-MOno County New marble quarry
destroyed by earthquake Loss, S,00,0oI
pie.
July S-Mercury 90 in shade at Chicago and
intense heat throughout country.
July 12-Great heat in Northwest. At some
points mercury 10S in shade.
July 16-l7-lntense heat throughout country.
In Chicago 1871 deaths from sur-stroke. IL in
Cincinnati IS in ST. Louis. IA In Philadelphia
July 18-At Rockford, ILL.,, II children died
from severe heat.
July 29-Tornado destroyed half of David City,
Neb.
July Slight deaths from sun-stroke in Phil
adelphia and in New York.
Aug. 2-BOdy Of land near Golden Pond, Ky,
sank half dozen feet during an earthquake.
-. Seventeen cases Sun-stroke in Chicago and
Aug. 5-Drought iuIndiana, Illinois and Wis
consin, unprecedented Thousands Of acres
Aug. II-Rsmille Mimi, devastated by tor
Aug. 1s-Republic.n City. Neb.. nearly de-
stroyed by hurricane; persons killed and
Sept ss-At Abercrombie, Mimi, mercury
registered above zero.
Sept: s4-Heavy frost in Northwest and about
Sept a3"Snov At Pennington. Me.
Oct 7-Heavy SHOWS in Dakota
Oct 11-First snowstorm in Wisconsin and
Oct sa-Mercury at Billings, M. T.. IS below
zero.
Oct as-In Northwest thermometer lower
than ever before in October.
Oct Sl-Snow in Southwestern Virginia.
Nov. 5-Unprecedented drought in Southern
Indiana. Illinois and Kentucky.
Nov. 21-Frost at Tampa, Fla; probably
killed yellow fever germs
Nov. sS-Thermometers in portions Of Min
nesota, Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin marked
from IL to sS degrees below zero.
Dec. 15-Four to SIX inches OF snow in
Western Texas-heaviest ever known in that
section.
Dec. Ie-Blizzard and heavy snow fall through.
out Northwest. SIX feet of snow in pOr-
tons of New Jersey-heaviest fall for years.
Dec. s0-Severe blizzard and extreme cold
weather in the Northwest.
Dec. Unusually cold weather in the cattle
Dec. ss-Earthauake shock at New Bedford.
Mass.
Dec. s5-Eieht inches of snow in Louisiana
and Mississippi.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IAN. 13--M.ss Lucy Stanley, of Evansville,
States. to succeed her sister, Mrs. Emma STAN
ley, deceased Large mass of rock fell from
Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, materially changing
formation on Canadian side.
Jan. 1S-Jonas G. Clark gave e1,0Oo 900 to
Worcester. Mass. for o university.
Mar. 4-Mary Baker. White County. Ind,
completed rs days fast
Mar. e4-Mrs. John Fsrnham died at Utica,
N. Y. aged 10S.
May civilian o'Brien, editor of United Ire
Idnf, arrived in New York.
arrived, largest for any one day in history.
May i7-Six people insane at Tucson. A. T.,
believed due to earthquake fright.
May 19-NickelPlale railroad sold for el8,-
0O0.OO0 to New York Central.
May s4.Two men killed by wolves in Fulton
County, Ark.
Presbyterian church opened ct Philadelphia.
Amy Avants (colored) Clarendon, 8. C..
June I4-Great Chicago wheat corner COL
June l5-Carlisle D. Graham shot Niagara
whirlpool in barrel.
June s.-Colorow. renegade Ute chief. cap
July s-Dr McGlynn. Of Brooklyn, cxcommu-
nicated from Catholic church.
July 15-Mrs. Catherine Van Buren, Seaman
died at New York, aged 106.
July 25-Mrs. Richard Greenlaw, Memphis,
Tenn. gave birth to four children.
Aug. 3-George w. Neliis, Jr.. reached San
Francisco from New York on bicycle; ,..,.
reported 1t sS.O0000O TO 100000
Aug. ss-On vol on Martin farm. Oil City,
Pa. struck June q, Melted owner nearly ei0O.-
900 in three months.
Aug. 28-Use war in Colorado at IN end.
Aug. 31-Baltimore & Ohio express sold to q.
S. Express Co. for ts.5O0,OO.
Sept. S-Vein of pure rock salt is feet thick
found at Ellsworth, Kan.
Sept @Elijah Hayes and wife, Warsaw, Ind,
gave property worth slS0,OU to Mission board,
NJ. E. church
Sept. l6-Meteor large as railway car and in
tensely hot fell near vanccboro, Ne.
Sept. 2s.Steamship. Alesia reached New
York from Naples with Asiatic cholera on
board.
Sept. s4-Nearly 100 divorce cases disposed Of
IN Chicago
Sept. xSSix Mormon polygamist, sentenced
to SIX moaths' imprisonment IT Salt Lake for