The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-19

By collision on q curve near Peach
Springs, Ariz, the other day between
passenger trains four engines were
wrecked and thrown down q high bank
into q stream and tramp was killed.
WILLIAM WILSON, who stole the ballots
in precinct in Chicago after they had
been counted in the municipal election,
has been sent to Jail for 300 days.
OWING to the lightness Of the snowfall
and the lack of rain in Upper Michigan
lumbermen are unable to get their logs to
market and over a billion logs are waiting
In the streams for q freshet
THE directors of the First National Bank
Of Anoka, Mimi, claim that the amount Of
Cashier Pratt's deficit will not be over
$25 900. and depositors will be paid in full
On the suggestion of Senator Ingalls,,
Eugene F. Ware, of Fort Scott, Kan, has
been selected as poet at Arlington on Dec.
ocration day.
The people of Sioux City, Iowa, have
subscribed 81. 500 and prepared three car
loads of supplies for the relief Of the
Dakota prairie fire sufferers.
A FREIGHT engine dashed into private
car on the Santa Fee at Lorenzo, ILL.,, re-
Gently and the locomotive boiler exploded,
causing the death of four persons and the
shocking injury of several Others
| MISS BEECHLER. who killed Henry King
Jr, whom she claimed as her husband,
was acquitted by the jury at Omaha on
the 10th. Her defense was insanity.
| ABOUT fifty persons were overcome by q
suffocating black smoke from q fire which
broke out in Sanger, Rockwell & Co s
factory at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 10th.
Twenty of the victims had to be carried
| home in patrol wagons.
FIRE in Rising Sun, Ind. the other day
caused $35, 900 loss to various business
firms.
Four small children of a German
named Meridian were poisoned recently
near St Joseph, MIMI, by eating wild
parsnips. Three died.
ONE man was fatally and four seriously
burned in foundry at Youngstown, o.,
by the explosion of molten metal in a cast
ing form.
JUDGE THAYER. of the United States dis.
trict court at st. Louis, has decided that
| the tops of mail boxes are not receptacles
for mail, and taking papers from them is
no criminal offense.
The Braman beef bill to require the in
spection of beef on foot before being killed
was defeated i'm the Ohio Senate by a vote
of 10 to 16 The bill originated in the
House and passed that body by an almost
unanimous vote.
The Michigan House has passed bill
prohibiting the sale or giving away of
cigarettes.
AN order to reduce wages on the street
car lines in Minneapolis resulted in a
strike on the 11th.
Mr. BEDDINGER, another Dakota prairie
fire victim, is dead. This made six deaths
| in Hyde County caused by prairie fires.
The total loss in Hyde County was A0, 900.
MISS BEECHLER, who has just been on
trial at Omaha for the killing Of H. w.
King, Jr., expects to sail for Europe soon.
HARRIET's tailoring concern at Detroit,
Mich, an establishment for manufactur-
ing ladies' silk garments, was robbed the
other morning and about 5000 worth of
silks stolen.
OFFICER O'BRIEN is at the point of death
at Chicago as the result of an injury re-
ceived at the Haymarket riot O'Brien
has piece of the bomb in his side.
THE United States grand jury at Port
Townsend, Wash, have found twenty five
indictments against William Harmed
special deputy collector, eleven against
Herbert F. Beecher, ex-treasury agent, and
twelve against Quincy A. Brooks for steal.
ing from the Government.
FIFTY persons in the gen eral offices of
the %" system at Chicago have been dis
charged in order to curtail expenses.
THE Ohio Senate committee to investi-
gate Railroad Commissioner Capellar re-
ported finding him guilty of questionable
conduct both as an officer and in private
life.
MEREDITH STANLEY, of Cincinnati
jumped recently from the bridge on the
Cincinnati Southern railroad over the
Kentucky river, height of 2S5 feet With
the exception of coughing up little blood
he was uninjured. He did it to beat Steve
Brodie, the New York jumper.
FRANK RISGo the welI-known baseball
catcher, committed suicide at Kansas City
recently after a protracted spree.
An uproar was caused in the Western
Freight Association by the discovery that
a secret rate existed between the st. Paul
road and the Armours. The other roads
were forced to make the same rate, as the
contract had three years to run. The In
ter-State Railway Association threatened
prosecution, which a general manager
thought mere buncombe.