The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-17
LOST IN BAR HARBoR.
4 Society Couple Supposed I,
Have Been Drowned While
Yachting.
Wreck on the Erie-Wreck on the
"Q"-Great Fire at Fresno.
Cal.

BAR HARBoR, Me-. Aug. 13.-There
great excitement here over the suppose,
drowning of two young society people, AM
the water is covered with crafts of variou
kinds engaged in searching for some trac
OF the missing ones. Anime O'Clock Satur
day night, J. Harmon Reed and Mis-
Milliken took cruise out and around Ba
HarbOr. The night was intensely dark
and being alarmed at their absence
searchers went out at eleven p. m. At al
early hour next morning the wharves il
the vicinity were crowded with anxious
friends who hoped and waited until noon
when gun from the steam yacht Nosya
belonging to Montgomery Sears, an.
nounced that she bore tidings. She had
picked up the boat, bottom up, off Egg
Rock, q distance of three miles from here
Miss Milliken was q guest at the st
Sauveur and was chaperOned by Mrs. Van
Voorhees,. Her parents live at New
Orleans. Mr.. Reed was q son of Joel
Harmon Reed, one of the wealthy iron
foundrymen Of Albany, N. Y. The age OF
both of the supposed victims was about
twenty .uvo years.
WRECK ON THE ERIE.
ELNIRA, N. Y, Aug. ia dispatch
from Corning gives the details of q wreck
on the Erie railroad two miles east of that
village, ut two o'clock yesterday morning.
The locomotive of the Chicago & st. Louis
limited express, west bound, running at
the rate of over forty miles an hour,
jumped the track and dashed into Le-
high Valley locomotive standing still. The
passenger locomotive overturned, and
crushed to death John Mercereau, of Hor-
nellsville, the engineer. The fireman
escaped. Henry Fisher, the Lehigh en-
gineer, was hurt about the head. Two
baggage cars and the smoker were
wrecked. Louis F. Demuth, of No. 2O72
Wabash avenue, Chicago, was hurt inter-
nally, and Hans Van Open, of Cincinnati,
had one hand hurt. These were the only
injuries to passengers. The tracks were
cleared in the evening.
CRUSHED BY THE CARS.
ROCKPORT, NO., Aug. 13.-Yesterday af.
ternOon the mangled body Of Thomas
Martin was found beside the Kansas City,
st. Joseph & Council Bluffs railroad track,
near Langdon. Both legs were cut off
and the body was otherwise broken and
showing that death had been in
The victim of the unfortu-
nate tragedy was . farmer about thirty
years of age, and he leaves a wife and
three children to mourn his death. He
was last seen alive at midnight last night,
when he was on his way home from Phelps
where he had been with party of friends
1t is supposed that he sat down or went to
sleep on the railroad track and was run
over by the down passenger train. He
was in poor circumstances.
FIRE AT FRESNO.
FRESNO, CAL. Aug. 12.-Early this morn
ing fire started in the rear of ex-JudCe
Baly's store. The rear being of wood it
soon communicated to the Donohue block,
owned by Griffith & johnson, which it con-
sumed entirely. Soon the buildings across
the block caught fire and many were
burned. The block owned by Frank Bark.
sr burned to the ground The loss will be
about 5000, 900; insurance one third. Seven
lawyers lost their libraries. 1t is believed
.ral men had different parts of their bodies
scorched or scalded. The fire proved to be
he work Of an incendiary.
LAKE GOES.
WARRENsBURG, Mo-, Aug. 13.-One of the
rain storms ever recorded i'm the
history of johnson County began at ten
o'clock Saturday night and continued
without intermissiOn until five this MORN
ing. The large lake at Pertle Springs, a
BODY covering over thirty acres and one of
he chief attractions Of the resort broke
through the dam at two O'Clock yesterday
and the water escaped.
CARELEsSNESS ON THE CO."
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-Carelessness on the
'art of an engineer caused collision be-
ween two freight trains yesterday and
ntailed a total loss of $4,000. A number
4 oil cars were struck by the locomotive
4 the train going in an opposite direction
md upset. The oil, Of which there was
{, 900 gallons. was soon afire. It destroyed
our Union Tank line cars and ruined the
locomotive which was the cause Of the
Whole trouble.
THREE DROWNED.
NEW York, Aug. 1S.-Three young men,
Reid, sixteen years; w. Lawrence,
ighteen, and the third name unknown,
rere drowned last night in the East river,
pposite Sixth street, from q boat which
ras upset by the wash from ferry boat.
hey tried to swim ashore in the strong
ide, and their five companions were res
ued after clinging to the boats keel for
alf an hour.
SHOT FOR A STAG.
PRINCETON, Ark, Aug. 13.-Robert Slower |
rent to John Harbor's Saturday and on
is way home stopped q short distance of |
be road to eat some watermelon. Harbor |
'ent out to kill deer and seeing something |
ed through the bushes, shot, hitting |
towers mule with three buckshot and |
urying one in Stover's neck, killing him |
lstantly.
CHILD KILLED By LIGHTNING.
WHEELING, w, Va, Aug. 13.-During an
Kceedingly severe thunder storm at six !
clock last evening a child eight years of |
&c, named Dunlap, living on Coal street,
as struck by lightning in her mothers |
ard and instantly killed. A two-story
ailding near Caldwell's Rut was also de-
lolished.
THE DARK SECRET.
LONDON, Aug. 13.-The captain Of the
acht Stranger, which has arrived at |
ueenstown from Boston, says h. did not |
'e the dory Dark Secret, and thinks it
in q gale after speaking the
erman Lloyd steamer 500 miles from New
ork.
"A story comes from Brewton, Ala,
hfch may be read with interest and prof.
A gentleman seeking residence found
he just suited to his taste In all but the
side ornamentation of the house, but be-
6 gentleman Of means as well as taste,
} accepted the house and turned it over
the upholsterer for renovation. The most
aborate inside decorations were soon
ade by the skillful painters, the walls
'pered in the highest style Of art and in
'rfect unison with the furnishings. The
ndlord, hearing OF the improvements,