The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-10

THE WEsE.
TIE rock nitro-glycerine factory, two
miles south of Lima, o., was blown up
recently, having been set on fire by tramps'
Il was thought the tramps were killed.
TIE preliminary hearing Of the alleged
so" dynamite conspirators, John Bauer.
eisen, George Goodin and August voegel,
was concluded at Aurora, H., on the 3Oth,
and the defendants were held to the grand
Jury, which convenes in October. Bail
was furnished and the defendants we're re.
leased.
CONFLICTING accounts of the damage by
hot winds to the corn crop in Southern
Kansas have been received
HENRY C. GILMORE, lessee Of the Grand
Hotel, Cincinnati, is financially smbar'
raised, and the hotel has been placed in
the hands of a receiver.
The Republican Congressional conven-
ton of the Twelfth district Of Indiana
nominated j. B. White, the present incum.
bent
FRANK Mort. confidential bookkeepel
for Daniel Stone & Co., Cincinnati, has
disappeared. 1t was not known whether
he was q defaulter or not.
RICHARD SMITH, the owner OF the dog
that bit Mrs. Leighton, who died OF hydro
phobia, died himself three days after Of the
same dread disease at his home in Brook
lyn, q little village adjoining East St
Louis.
JoHx GARDNER, q policeman, was killed
recently by a stroke of lightning while On
duty at Lafayette Park, St. Louis.
SEVENTEEN carloads Of Republicans from
Morgan and Brown Counties, Ind, visited
General Harrison on the 1st. They brought
with them three brass bands.
A TRAIN Of empty fat cars on . logging
:ead near Gaylord, Mich, was thrown
from the track recently by fallen tree
and several Polish workmen were injured.
The meeting of the grievance commit
tees of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers, Firemen, Brakemen and Switch
men of North America, which was ap-
pointed for Kansas City, has been changed
to 81. Louis and the date fixed at Au.
gust g.
LITTLE, CRAFT & Co. Is mills, Evansville,
Ind, were destroyed by fire the other
night. Loss, 100000.
A SPECIAL from st. Cloud. MIMI, says
that twenty houses in all were struck by
lightning during the recent storm. Twoof
Mrs. Klinkert's children were fatally hurt
Two valuable horses were also killed.
CHARLES MORGAN, alias "Blinky Nor.
gam" concerned in the celebrated fur rob-
berries and the murder of Detective Hulli-
gan at Ravenna, was executed in the Ohio
penitentiary at Columbus early on the
morning OF the Sd. He left long state
ment asserting his innocence.
A HAIL STORM on the Sisseton Indian
reservation in Minnesota on the LIST, ruined
the crops in q section a mile wide and ten
miles long. One man was killed by light
ming.
THOMAS n. MARFIELD, -four miller and
grain dealer, Chillicothe, O., has assigned
with 500, s95 preferred claims. Assets and
liabilities unknown.
AMONG the passengers brought by the
steamer Rotterdam recently was Rev.
j. v. Dundas, of Rice County.
Mimi, who declared he had no
dutiable articles in his baggage. A Gus
toms officer, however, found in his trunk q
fine white India crepe shawl and a guam
tity Of mems and ladies' underwear and
5000 cigars in boxes snugly fitted in the
false bottom of his trunk.
The George Friend paper mill at Lock-
land. o., was destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss. $40, 600; well insured.
DRY goods merchant Shotwell, Of Min
neapolis, MIMI, who recently failed, has
been held to the grand jury for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
ANOTHER large delegation waited upon
General Harrison at indianapolis on the
Sd. In his address the Republican NOM
inee commended the policy of small land
holdings.
AN alleged editor named Eisfelder, pub
hshinga small paper in San Francisco, re-
comfy demanded s., 900 blackmail from ex-
Senator Fair. He was promptly knocked
down and after threatening Fair with a
pistol took his departure.
THREE persons were killed by lightning
which struck the house of Lawrence Nc
Laushlin at Lakewood. near Duluth,
Mimi. during the storm of the Sd.
CoPIorS rains fell i'm Kansas and Mis-
souri, on the I'd and Sd, insuring the corn
crop.
Two boys were buried in the ruins of a
barn near Richmond. ILL.,. recently. and
great damage was done to crops by a
storm.