The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-01
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THE EAST.
MRS. SARAH E. HKUsrIs, of Newton,
Mass, has obtained verdict for 5000
against the Michigan Central railway fol
injuries in an accident
JUsrm JONES, once publisher Of the
IICleveland Heraldsand later an editor and
publisher of Boston. died at Cromwell,
Conn, recently, aged seventy.four.
GEORGE SMIrH. aged sixty, foreman Of q
gang of laborers excavating for fats in
New York City, was blown to pieces re-
Gently by the explosion Of fifteen pounds
of dynamite in the tool box.
BLANKENBURG,& Co.'s large importing
house and other firms were burned out at
Philadelphia on the 10Th. The loss footed
up to nearly half q million.
BIZ the supposed explosion Of the boilers
Of the Park Central Hotel at Hartford,
Conn.,, on the morning of the 18th the
building was wrecked. The ruins took
| fire and disastrous loss of life occurred.
Many of the bodies Of the dead were re-
covered and search was continued for the
missing. II was believed that twenty
| persons persisted, about that number being
| injured.
II is lesrued that an intimation has
been made to the members of the Brother.
hood Of Locomotive Engineers in the EN-.
ploy Of the Reading Railroad Company
that 1t was desired by the company that
they should either quit the brotherhood
or the company.
FIRE at Riegelsville, Pa, early the
ether morning destroyed an entire block,
causing SAC. 600 loss.
EDWARD Brown, aged twenty -eight and
Alfred Mailman, aged eighteen, were
struck by q train and both instantly killed
at Allentown. Pa, recently.
JUDGE CLARK JILLsON, of the First
Southern Worcester Mass. district court,
has closed his inquest on the body of Lila
Hoyle, begun nearly . year and a half
ago His return is as follows: "She
came to her death as the result of the un-
lawful act of some person Other than her
self"
A DYNAMITE bomb was thrown into the
Wesleyan College building at New Middle
town, Conn.,, recently by some foolhardy
student Doors and windows were shat
tered and son of ex-Congressman Hub
bard, of West Virginia, was seriously in
iured.
THE WESVs
TIE convention of the American Tariff
Reform Association began at the Madison
Street Theater, Chicago on the 10Th. The
secretary read letter from President
Cleveland.
The election for the late Congressman
Burnes' seat in the Fourth district of Mis-
souri, came off on the 10Th. Returns indi-
Gated the election of Booher and Wilson,
Democrats, for the short and long terms
over Posegate, Republican.
Bishop G. |. BEDELL, of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Northern Ohio who
has been i'll for over year, has been
stricken with paralysis at Nice, France.
j. II. SALISBURY, Chicago letter car
rier. has been arrested and has confessed
having opened a letter containing a draft,
forged the payers name and secured the
money.
CONGRESSMAN LAIRD, of Nebraska, ex-
poets to be able to go to Washington
shortly, his illness having almost worn off.
FLATHEAD Indians in Flathead Lake
valley, above Helena, Mont, We're re-
ported threatening grave trouble because
j. E. Clifford, of Demosville, killed one of
their number. 1t was reported that Cliff
ford and one other had been killed.
The Myers Opera House at GAINESVILLE,
Wis. the handsomest theater in Wiscon-
sin outside of Milwaukee, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, S6o,0o0; insurance, 5000.
Four San Francisco policemen have
been indicted for receiving brides from
keepers of Chinese gambling dens.
A CABLE car containing scores of pas
sengers was struck square in the middle
the other night at Chicago by a locomo-
tive and hurled at least one hundred feet
Only one person, a woman, was fatally
injured.
CHARLES J. HULL, Chicago millionaire,
left his entire estate to his housekeeper,
Helen Culver. He had no direct heirs, but
his next of kin will contest the will.
The Interstate Commerce Railway As
ISOLATION (the ''gentlemen's agreement'D
was organized at Chicago on the 2lst
Considerable skep;icism existed as to its
The membership composed
of eighteen out of twenty-five Western
roads.
WHILE two girls, Mile and Winnie |
Peterson, We're returning from school re-
Gently in the northern part of Aitkin |
County. Mimi, they We're attacked and |
devoured by timber wolves, a |
few scattered bones and shreds of cloth |
ing alone remaining as the horrible testi- !
riony of the children's fate.
A GENUINE blizzard ragged in Dakota and |
to as far south as Kansas and |
on the elst and 22d.
FoRTY-EIGHT children ranging in age |
from eighteen months to three years died |
in and about Wabash, Ind. in the past two |
weeks from dphtheria and membranous |
Group. Not a victim escaped.
JAMES n. LANE, county treasurer of |
Pickaway County, o., has absconded with |
defalcations reported running all the way |
up to 100000. He was patron of bucket |
shops.
THERE will be no war between citizens |
and half-breeds in toilette County, Oak. |
The entire matter of taxing the half. breeds |
has been submitted to the Government |
and both parties seem inclined to abide |
the decision. |
A WARRANT was issued at Indianapolis, |
Ind. on the ed for the arrest of Colonel |
w. W. Dudley, of the Republican National |
COMMITTEES.
MISS MINNIE MARsEALEs, young lady |
Of Norwalk, O., died in a dentists chair |
the other day. She had taken chloroform
pre- paratory to having her teeth drawn,
and it caused her heart to cease beating
THE SOUTH.