The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-08
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
The farm house of Ernest Youngs, at
Ransom, six miles from. Battle Creek,
Mich, was burned recently. Two chill
dren, boy and girl. four and five years
of age respectively, persisted in the flames.
JENs CHRISTENSEN, editor Of the Arbeiter
Ieitung, addressed a meeting of furniture
makers at Chicago recently, advocating
revolution of force and blood A peaceful
overthrow of the present system OF socie-
ty, he said, was impossible without revo-
luton.
WILLIAM EMERSON, a mulAtto convict in
the State prison at Fort Madison, Iowa,
recently assaulted Deputy Warden Town
send with a sharp knife ground down
from a heavy table knife while the deputy
was endeavoring to induce him to come
out from his cell. Townsend drew his re-
volver and shot Emerson and killed him
almost instantly.
PROF. GREEN, of the Minnesota State
Agricultural College, has completed his
experiment to ascertain the value OF
frosted grain for seed. His report shows
that from 40 to 80 per cent OF the amount
planted will sprout and grow.
WHEN Mr.. and Mrs. Swanson, who lived
in Townsend street, Chicago, awoke the
other morning they discovered that their
twin babes, two months old, lying in the
bed with them, had been smothered to
death.
THE jury in the libel suit against Gov
ernor Larrabee at Des Moines, Iowa,
brought in a verdict of not guilty.
CHARGES have again been made of cat
tlemen forcing settlers to leave No-Man's.
Land by violence. 1t is said that at Bos.
ton, Col, quite O number of refugees are
camped, having been driven out by q
band of armed cowboys.
JUDGE HORTON, of the Chicago Superior
Court, has appointed Ira Greer receiver
for the Union Trust Fund Mutual Life In.
surance Company on information Of the
Attorney. General and Auditor of State of
Illinois.
FIVE men were killed by the premature
explosion of a blast at the Red Lodge coal
mines near Helena, Mont, recently.
BoLLs & GRIFFITHs, dealers in carpets,
ETC., Minneapolis, MIMI, have assigned.
Liabilities are placed at $lU0, 900 and the
assets will not amount to over $50. 600. The
firm was one of the Oldest in the city,
having been in business here for over
twelve years.
THE village of Blooming Prairie. Mimi.
was almost entirely destroyed by fire on
the 9th. Loss, So. 900.
SETH Cook, a noted San Francisco mine
operator and capitalist, died recently after
a long illness. He made fortune from
the Comstock mines.
RICH discoveries of gold are reported in
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age from 81 to $2.5O per pan.
A NUMBER of gentlemen representing the
starch manufacturing industry held a
csgo. recently. No details were made
public.
DAVID BARKEY, aged eleven years, Of
Wooster, O., has been seized with hydro
phobia. During one violent paroxysm he
bit off two of his fingers.
A DOZEN men were buried by the falling
of a roof in a fire at the millinery store of
Jenner & Co., Milwaukee. Wis, recently.
They were all rescued more or less hurt.
By premature explosion in the Norway
mine at Marquette. Mich, Albin Heavy
lost both his arms and one eye and Ed
ward Rudder had both eyes blown out of
their sockets and his face terribly torn.
They We're fatally injured.
THOMAS r. VINES, the clerk who had
himself shipped in a trunk to st. Louis
with 81 062 stolen from his employers,
Adams, Westlake & Co., was acquitted at
Chicago on the ground of insanity and
taken to an asylum.
GOVERNOR SwINEFoRD, of Alaska,
charges Rev Sheldon jackson and other
Presbyterian missionaries with being re.
sponsible for the ''vile ISLANDERS" concern.
ing white residents of that Territory.
The grand jury, after investigation,
threw out the bill against the Chicago
Times for criminal libel as charged by Po-
lice Officers Bonfeld, Setback and Low
enstein.
GIBSON, PARISH & Co.'S furniture trim
mings establishment on Randolph street,
Chicago, was destroyed by fire the other
night, entail ing loss Of 500, 900. Kranz's
candy factory adjoining was badly dam
aged Two men We're fatally injured by
a collision while driving to the fire, an
other seriously, and third was burned
about the head while at the fire.
CONGRESSMAN LAIRD. of Nebraska, was
to have left home for Washington on the
1st, but at the last moment stubbornly re-
fused to board the train and his friends
were nonplussed.
GEORGE MORLEY, wholesale lumber
dealer, OF Detroit, Mich, has assigned with
500, 0J0 liabilities and sc, 900 assets.
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