The Iola register., 1889-09-20

WATER suddenly burst into the White
Ash coal mine near Golden, COL, recently,
from an abandoned shaft Ten miners
were drowned.
DIE PAROLE, the Anarchist organ at St.
Louis, was sold by auction recently for
$3.50.
TIE stage from Oroville to Quincy, Cal,
was stopped by Q highwayman in Bid
wells canyon recently. The express box
was taken and two passengers relieved OF
their possessions
The National Firemen's convention met
at Kansas City, Mo, on the 10th.
In the Washington Democratic State
convention Samuel Wheelwright, of To.
coma, and Thomas Griffith, of Spokane,
were placed in nomination for Congress.
Griffith was nominated on the first ballot
Ex-Governor Eugene Semple. OF Tacoma,
was nominated for Governor by acclama-
tion.
CHINESE highbinders are creating
panics among the Celestials OF San Fran
cisco There are said to be thousands OF
them living by blackmail
TIE Burton building on Van Buren
street in Chicago recently burned and
just rebuilt, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss. 5000
The ne ephew Of Averill, the man lynched
some time ago with "Cattle Kate" in Wy
oming, died suddenly recently. The cor
oner found every evidence that he was
poisoned
The approximate gross earnings Of the
Atchison railroad system for August were
s.. .311s71, against s., sos, ,9O4 for the same
period in 1888
THREE boilers in the California sash,
door and blind factory at Oakland, Cal, {,
exploded recently, killing four men out
right and injuring several others, two
probably fatally. Two others were sup
posed to be buried in the ruins.
The Michigan peach crop is very short
and very little fruit is being shipped.
Saugatuck, which last year shipped TO- 600
baskets a day, this season sends out from
500 to /, 900 baskets. Hardly a peach can
be found along the Kalamazoo river. APP
Piles are not SO scarce and one packer has
contracted to furnish 10, 600 barrels to an
Eastern firm.
Our of 2I4 veniremen in the Cronin trial
up to the 11th hree remained in the jury
box Attorney Forrest was arrested for
the rape of the wall paper in the Carlson
cottage.
A PLATE of burning sulphar set in a
window of Thomas A. Logan's house in
Cincinnati to drive out mosquitoes caused
the burning Of the house and $4,000 loss.
NEARLY all the packers in the flint glass
houses in the Ohio valley have struck for
an advance in wages.
The first snow of the season fell at Hope,
OAK, on the 10Th.
CHARLES F. GRIFFIN Secretary of State,
Indiana, has been elected Commander-in-
Chief of the Sons OF Veterans, succeeding
General Abbott
By a collision at Miller City, O., the other
day, two freight locomotives and fifteen
fruit cars were wrecked and both engin-
eers injured.
THE colored Baptist convention at In
dianapolis Ind, was much stirred up by
the indignities to which five of the minis
ters were subjected near Boxler, Ga, where
a number of white men roughly elected
them from the railway car.
JOHN SLOAN, of Indianapolis, has been
elected president of the National Railway
Roadmasters' Association.
The old wooden war ship Iroquois. which
was recently extensively repaired at the
ship yards at Mare Island, Cal. could not
develop more than eight knots an hour
on trial trip.
7. P. GILwIcKs, grand keeper Of records
and seals of the grand lodge of Knights
Of Pythias of Missouri, and Paul Pittman,
deputy circuit clerk of Mason County,
ILL.,, were drowned at the Copperas creek
lock east of Canton on the Illinois river
the other night They were members of a
fishing party.
FIVE Chinese from Mexico were arrested
in San Diego, CAL, for coming into this
country without authority.
THE troubles of Erie and Garfield miners
near Denver, COL, have resulted in blood
shed, one man being shot dead and another
fatally beaten.
A. H WATsoN's plumbing shop in Chi.
cago was wrecked, one employe fatally
injured and several persons more or less
hurt by flying missiles the other day by a
gas explosion.
The verdict of the court.martial CASH
iering Colonel Fletcher, of Fort Omaha,
has been set aside on the grounds of per-
secution and conspiracy. This leaves the
prosecuting officers in a bad fix.
A PROPOSITION frowning down trusts
was presented to the Wyoming Constitu-
tional convention recently. Several chap
ters were adopted. A measure restricting
the formation Of new counties was in
dorsed.
SUIT for $4,000 indemnity money has
been begun in San Francisco against Dong
Using, the Chinese Consul
THE SOUTH.
EIsENMANN Bros. & Co., wholesale feed
dealers of Louisville. KY, have assigned
with $4,000 liabilities. The troubles of
Mattingly G. Sons, distillers, whom they
indorsed. were the cause.
JOHN DoEscHER a retired manufacturer
living in St Bernard, La, shot himself re-
Gently. Cause family troubles.
Two miners near Princeton, W. Va,
were crushed to death nv N fall of coal re.