The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-11
THE WEST.

| FIRE at Cambria, CAL, recently burne
the entire business portion of the tow
with all provisions and the people wer
destitute. The loss was $125, 200; partl.
insured.
IT was reported from Bloomington, Ill.
that the Ohio. Indiana & Western railwa.
had passed into the hands o. the "Bil
Four" combine.
TIE national convention of the Socialis
Labor party at Chicago have adopted I
set of resolutions declaring that it wa
no. true that Socialists were opposed T.
trades unions, and declaring It the inter
est of ell wage workers to belong to labo
organizations whose purposes were to Sc
cure the highest possible wages, to reduc'
the hours of labor and to widen education
The deep harbor convention met at To
peka on the 1st and elected Hon. {. II
Mansur, of Missouri temporary chairman
F. L Dana was made temporary secre.
tary. After appointing the usual commit
tees they then adjourned till next day.
BY the caving in of a sewer trench in
Eau Claire, Wis, two men were killed, 9
third fatally injured and two more badly
hurt.
Four miners from Central Alaska who
have arrived at Port Townsend, WASH,
report $50 miners on the Yukon river 1.6O(
miles from St Michael's island, suffering
for food and likely to encounter great pri.
vations this winter unless aided.
BENJAMIN C. JONES. only son Of the
millionaire street railway magnate, j.
Russell Jones, of Chicago. has been ad.
judged insane and committed to the State
asylum at Kankakee. About six years OF
champagne and their Accompaniment eff
fected the result
GRAND HAVEN, Mich, was recently
swept by disastrous fire which destroyed
forty-one buildings. Loss estimated at
| $500, 900; reasonably insured.
KANSAS CITY. No., on the Cd was bril-
| liantly illuminated and the houses deco
rated, it being the Inauguration of the
carnival. The trades parade and display
was pronounced success, fully 5000 peo-
pie being in line. with floats, etc.
STATES ATTORNEY LoNGENECKER has
begun habeas corpus proceedings before
Judge Baker to secure possession of Robert
Russell and Michael Foy, who are now at
Joliet serving terms. 1t was alleged that
these two men were engaged in the muir
der of Druggist Clark, who was shot dead
in his store on Harrison street several
months ago, and they are wanted to stand
trial for this crime.
AT the deep-water convention at To-
peka, KAN, the whole day of the I'd was
occupied in making speeches and nothing
material was accomplished.
LATER returns from the four new States
indicate that the Democrats lose one Con-
gresham in Montana and elect the Gov
ernor; the Dakotas furnish Republican
Senators, and Washington has gone Re-
publican.
JOHN A. MARTIN, Ex-Governor of the
State of Kansas. died on the ID. His dis
ease was mysterious one and at no time
were the physicians able to diagnose it
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires were reported
raging in Mclean County, fifty miles
north of Bismarck, n. OAK. which were
driven by the wind at a speed of sixty
miles an hour. The town of Washburn
had a narrow escape. the flames reaching
within the limits. Many of the farmers
lost all they had.
The grand jury which Investigated the
charges of bribery against the Detroit
(Mich.) aldermen have brought in a
second Indictment against Alderman
Lauder on the charge of accepting a bride
in connection with the appointment of a
meat inspector. The first indictment
brought in against Alderman Lauder was
for similar offense.
The Socialists in convention at Chicago
on the ID adopted platform which will
be referred to the various sections
throughout the country. An entirely new
constitution was adopted for the party,
which will be known as the Socialist
Labor party.
JONAS A. SAUFLEY, one of the Oldest and
wealthiest citizens of Miami, No., died re-
Gently of heart disease.
The other evening at Leavenworsh,
Kan, while Thomas Seymour was going
home on the rapid transit road, he got off
the train and was passing around it when
the train backed and struck him. He was
thrown under the wheels and instantly
killed.
THREE men were killed by Rock Island
trains in different parts of Chicago on the
3D.
AN explosion in the Red Jacket shaft Of
the Calumet and Hecla mine in the Upper
Michigan peninsula killed two men,
fatally injured two more and severely in.
jured seven others. The explosion was
due to miner striking a charge of dyna-
mite with pick.
LIE L icStS VI dt haQSdS
City on the night Of the Sd was a very
imposing and grand affair. Eighteen
countries were typified in the beautiful
floats. The weather was perfect the
crowd was large and there was nothing to
mar the success of the occasion.
THE wife of Sheriff Sand, who eloped
recently from Little Falls, Oak, with a
convict whom she released, has been
found at Casselton, OAK. The convict was
not captured.
TIE City Hall at East Grand Forks,
OAK, was burned recently. The fire wes
credited to one of the two hostile factions
in the city.
The '1ongs" have obtained an injunc.
ton in Judge Shepard's court in Chicago
against the delivery of Octo Der pork.
A HEAVY west-bound passenger train
went off the track at Cheyenne, Wyo, re-
Gently, consequent upon spreading rails
due to rotten ties. Four ladies were seri.
ously bruised, the conductor had his leg
broken and the porter had his head
cracked.
THE SOUTH.
EDWARD MANN, well-to.do telegraph
operator at Louisville, KY, for twenty
years in the Western Union service, COM
mitted suicide recently by shooting him.