The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23
TINE WEST.


the WEST.
FIRE at Marietta, O., recently destroyed
ak stores and newspaper ONCE, causing
go 600 loss.
RuDoLpH HELLER was found in dying
condition In his house at Findlay, O., re-
Gently with his wife and eighteen months
old baby lying dead by his side. The case
was believed to be murder and suicide.
A FALL of ground from pillar In No.
pit of the Cleveland mine, at Ishpeming,
Mich, recently, killed Thomas Northey
and injured Mike Kippols, Henry Mckee
and Matthew Antells. Mckee loses one
foot, and is considered in q serious condi-
ton. A few days before five men were
KILLED in the same pit.
The main building and workshop OF the
Buckeye Buggy Company, located in the
north part Of Columbus, D., burned the
other night The building was 62xl75 feet
deep and seven stories high. Loss, &l5O, 600;
insurance, 100000.
FIFTY pounds Of dynamite exploded again
in the cut in Duluth, Mimi, were several
men were killed recently. The city was
shaken and much glass broken, but no one
was hurt
The Witter trial at Denver, COL, ended
on the 18th in the acquittal of the prisoner,
Mrs. Writer, charged with poisoning her
husband.
THE Grand Detours plow works at Dixon,
H., were destroyed by fire the other night
causing 100000 loss. Two men were badly
hurt by the falling smokestack.
CALIFORNIA wine merchants are reported
to be rushing their goods East at present
in order to take advantage of the present
low freight rates.
The Sagendorph Roofing Company, of
Cincinnati, has made an assignment with
$50, 600 assets and IS, 600 liabilities, nearly
all secured.
AT Ration, N. NJ, recently George W.
Cook, deputy sheriff, shot and killed Frank
Catlin, deputy United States marshal. The
affair was the finish Of an old grudge. Cat
lin was one Of the nerviest men in the West
and hero Of the Lincoln County war in
New Mexico.
THE boiler in the saw mill Of George Duer,
at Burlington, Ind, exploded recently,
blowing two brothers-Moses and Frank
WhItsell-employed at the mill into I'M
recognizable shape, and killing Ed Ever
man, young man but recently married.
THE ice in the Missouri river at Fort As
sinaboine, NJ. T., broke up on the 18th.
The Ohio crop report is not fattering.
A. h. DANFoRTH, president Of the Colo
RADIO Coal q Iron Company. and Charles
Brade, formerly purchasing agent for the
same company, have been arrested and
placed under bonds for unlawfully cutting
timber on the public lands. The timber
was cut IA Las Animas County, Col.
THE Republicans of Cincinnati have NOM
mated Judge William H. Taft for another
! <or, q ,,S
JUDGE o. N. DENIM, of Portland, Ore.
of Customs for Corea and private legal ad.
visor Of the King Of Corea, has resigned
and will return to America.
NEAR Cotton, Cal, on the Southern Pa
cific, the other night, freight train was
derailed by running into some cattle and
Conductor Maguss and Brakeman Van
Mater were killed. The wreck took fire
and seventeen ears loaded with freight
were burned.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred in a large
building occupied By Atkins, Ogden & Co.
and another firm at Milwaukee, Wis, on
the 18th. The loss amounted to $3.50. 600.
During the ire a wall fell on several fire
men, killing two and injuring several more.
THE engineers and tiremen on the exten-
sive Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe system
struck on the 18th because the road was
exchanging business with the Burlington.
Travel was completely stopped, not a man
returning to his post. Much public incon-
venlence resulted and greater was expected
as it was asserted that strikes would also
follow on the Missouri Pacific, the Union
Pacific, the Atlantic & Pacific, the Gulf
and other roads.
Two Mormon Elders were tarred and
feathered near Brier Ridge, O., by num-
Der of angry citizens recently and chased
across the Ohio river.
WORD comes from Boulder, on the Wlckes
branch Of the Northern Pacific, $50 miles
from st. Paul, Mimi, that Tascott, the
murderer of millionaire Smell, was recog-
nized In that place.
A BOX of dynamite exploded at the rolling
mill at Joliet, ILL.,, recently. blowing VIII
liam NJ. Green, who was in charge of the
dynamite, TO pieces.
Station, O., exploded with terrific force.
leaving nothing Of the structure, only
hole in the ground. Fred Herman, the
only person about the mill, was blown some
distance and burned from head to foot in
a horrible manner He died three hours
later.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that the recent annexation of HYDE
Park to Chicago. adding 5000 to the lat
ter's population, il unconstitutional
THE soUTH.
A J. TRUIrT, a well known business man.
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