The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14

work ON four story building on Monro'
and Peoria streets to be devoted to uniol
purposes.
The Sioux City Qowa) merchants pro
pose to appeal to the Interstate Com
merce Commission for equitable railroad
rates as compared with st. Paul.
THE wholesale grocery and supply stor,
of Klaubes & Levi at San Diego, CAL, wa!
totally destroyed by fire on the 4th. Thu
loss on the stock was 500, 00c snd on the
building $4,000. The stock was insured
for Sl50,0O0 and the building for $50, 900
Several firemen were buried in the ruin.
but none were killed.
A DISPATCH from Chicago says: The
east bound Chicago g. Atlantic fast freigh;
train struck and instantly killed three
/! laborers near the State line. The men had
| been walking up the other track, from
which they stepped to the one ON which
| the fast train was running to avoid q
passenger train.
A SHORTAGE of 5000 or more has been
found in the accounts of Secretary List, OF
the Duckworth Building Association Of
Cincinnati. He ATTEMPTED suicide.
The police have closed every gambling
house in Milwaukee, Wis.
THE Democrats of the First Iowa district
have nominated John J. Searley, of Bloom
| ington, for Congress.
EIGHT men were terribly injured, some
fatally, by the explosion of the boiler of q
threshing machine at Glendale, OAK, re-
| Gently.
NEAR Columbus, Ind, the other night,
James Ford, a farmer, while suffering
from delirium caused by fear, sprang from
his bed, seized q chair and killed his
youngest child, a babe, and fatally
wounded his wife, and so badly injured
his ten-year-old son that he will die. 1t
required eight men to manacle the delirious
man.
THE striking coal miners about Canton.
O., have returned to work at the owners
terms after four months fight.
FIRE in Baker City, Ore, has destroyed
an entire business block, causing 500, 900
loss.
THE Centennial Exposition Of Columbus,
O., opened on the 4th.
WISCONSIN Democrats have nominated
James Morgan, of Milwaukee, for Gov
ernor.
The rate on packing house products be-
tween Kansas City and Chicago was re-
duced OH the 5th from IS cents hundred
the rate on dressed beef.
The Chickasaws are threatened with q
serious outbreak on account of election
frauds and Indian Agent Owen has gone
to the scene and it is hoped will be able to
tense on both sides that nothing short of
bloodshed may stop proceedings.
By the explosion of q steam thresher near
Ind fhn 9TH Iax
killed and three fatally injured.
JUDGE NEY, of Waterloo, under the Iowa
Prohibitory law, decides that a man can
his own family, and instructs the grand
jury to indict if they find that such q thing
has been done.
A SQUAD of soldiers started from Fort
Wingate, N. NJ, recently to arrest whisky
peddlers when a large force of Nsvajos
confronted them and declared that the
peddlers should not be arrested, and the
sergeant in charge, seeing his force largely
outnumbered, desisted. Further trouble
was feared.
The revenue cutter Bear reports six
whalers wrecked by a hurricane on August
8 in Behring sea. The crews were rescued
by the Bear and brought to San Francisco.
JOHN c. GRAVES, ex-county treasurer of
Coryd0n, Ind, has been found to be 81, 900
short in his accounts.
An attempt to rob the grave of murderer
Maxwell at st. Louis was recently frus.
trated by private Waterman.
HEAVY frost about East Tawas, Mich,
has badly damaged potatoes, corn and to-
matoes.
ATTACHMENTS for $113, 900 have been lev
led on the Chicago Lumber Company of
Denver, Col.
The Democrats of the Thirteenth Ohio
district have nominated L. 7. Neal, of
Chillicothe, for Congress.
A VICIOUS horse bit of the top of the
head of Albert Banta's three-yesr-old son
at Bradtown. Ind, the other day, causing
instant death.