The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-17

pieces and forty other persons injured.
fourteen seriously. Immense damage was
done, several tons Of powder beng ex-
ploded.
/ EIGHT hundred marble workers of Boston
have struck for nine hours work at ten
hours pay.
THE WEST.
THE Methodist Church at Fremont, O.,
was destroyed by fire recently and two
persons in the parsonage adjoining were
injured by falling walls. Loss, S35,O0O.
BIZ the explosion Of "a burr stone Of a corn
mill at Broadhcad, Champaign County, Ill,
recently, two men were killed and two
fatally hurt.
A SENSATIONAL feature of the failure Of
the Metropolitan Bank, Of Cincinnati, was
the arrest on the 9TH OF Hon. William
Means. its president Other arrests were
expected.
The North Chicago rolling mill at South
Chicago resumed work on the 9th after
two months idleness.
The lockout of the Cincinnati shoemakers
has practically been settled by the giving
way Of the employees under the persuasion
Of the district master workman.
A RECEIVER has BEEN appointed for the
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and coffees, Of Chicago. The principal
cause Of their embarrassment is said to be
the recent decline In the coffee market.
The liabilities have not been made known.
TWENTY-FIVE prominent persons of Chi.
cago have taken steps to erect a crema-
tory.
OIL was struck at Lehigh, I. T., recently
at depth of 9l7 feet and is flowing at the
rate of barrel an hour.
BIZ the derailing of an accommodation
train near Athens, ILL.,, the other night.
eight passengers were injured and six
freight cars di;ched.
The people of Albuquerque have sub
scribed $40, OO0 in cash to the Rio Grande &
Utah railroad.
The striking Cincinnati shoemakers have
been ordered to return to work.
THE Territorial miners convention at
Helena denounced the Northern Pacific.
MCCLELLAN & Co., insolvent Minneapolis
stove dealers, schedule shows assets, S.
262, and liabilities, S5,296
The Springfield, o., Manufacturing Com
pany has been placed in the hands of q re-
ceiver.
The National Convention was in session
in Cincinnati on the Sth.
AGENT KINNEI's Dakota blizzard stories
have been again contradicted.
THE Manitoba railroad bridge across the
Missouri river at Great Falls, OAK, has
been completed. 1t is 800 feet long.
D. r. LOCKE, Petroleum Y. Nasby," of
the Toledo (O.) Blade, was reported on the
Sth to be dying of consumption.
A DISASTROUS cable accident occurred at
Kansas City, No., on the night Of the Sth,
on the incline at the Union Depot, caused
by the grip breaking. Two persons were
fatally injured and seven others were
hurt, one quite seriously. The incline
had been noted TO: several bad accidents
previously to the late disaster.
A PHASE in the railroad war on the Sth
was q cut OF $500 in the passenger rate
from Chicago to Kansas City.
The American Newspaper Publishers
Union held its annual meeting ia Indianap-
oils, Ind, on the Sth.
AMOS s. SMELL, a capitalist worth s., Co.,
600, was murdered by burglars in his resi-
dence, 425 Washington boulevard, Chicago.
on the morning of the Sth. One arrest was
made. What the robbers succeeded in
taking away was not known, excepting
that with the property was check FOR
$500 made by A. J. Stone, Smells son-in-
law.
NE OkiauOUld CONVENTION LucJ III NauSIS
City, Mo-, on the Sh at the Board OF Trade
Hall with o large attendance, Governor
Morehouse, of Missouri, occupying the
chair. A memorial to Congress was
adopted as well as resolutions looking to
the opening OF the Indian Territory and
favorIpg the Springer bill for the creation
OF the Territory OF Oklahoma
FIRE in Cleveland, O., the other day,
do IN II T. Ind
clothing store. Cause, electric light wires.
BENJAMIN EGGLEsToN, cx.mcmber OF
Congress and one Of the most prominent Of
Ohio political leaders, died recently in Gin
cinnsti, aged seventy-two.
J. c. EVANS, of Harlem, Mo-, has been
elected treasurer and Parker Earl. OF Cob
den, ILL.,, president of the American Hor,i-
cultural Society.
The Andrew jackson Club, OF Chicago,
has taken steps to cali meeting Of Demo
cratic Clubs OF America in Chicago June /.
FIVE cases Of trichino sis have occurred
in the family OF William Man, q resident of
Toledo, o. AL five were in . dangerous
condition.
BENsLEY Bros, Of the Chicago Board of
Trade, failed GU the 9th. Liabilities were
not definitely known, but were thought to
amount to $4,000.
The Columbia Theater, OF Chicago, Is re-
ported in financial difficulties.
GEORGE W. CLARK. q real estate dealer
Of Duluth, MIMI, formerly newspaper
writer under the late Daniel Manning on
the Albany 4rgus, died recently.
WOLVES have become dangerously NJ
merous in the vicinity Of St Cloud, Nina
The other night several made raid on =
pig pen, almost within the city limits, and
destroyed nearly 1000 pounds Of live hogs
IL Liberty township. Wabash County,
Ind, recently J. I. Smith ami Joel Hale
were killed by the explosion of the boiler
Of q portable engine The explosion was
caused by pumping cold water into the su-
perheatcd boiler.
Two men were recently digging up some
dynamite which had been buried to pro-
tect it until wanted 10 use in gas well
near Bellevue, o., when one Of them struck
the explosive material with his pick. The
explosion instantly killed the two men.
WILLIAM DONALDSON 4 Co.. dealers in pic
lures and frames, Cincinnati. have failed
with S:5. COD liabilities and S43, 900 assets.
THE SOUTH
THE people Of Arkansas are preparing re-
monstrauces against the Dawes bill to levy
a tax on lard manufactured by the aid OF
cotton seed oil
The Commercial Printing Company. of
Chattanooga Tenn, has failed with liabili
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