The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-05

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carrying a heavy stock ON . falling
market
| FIRE broke out the other evening in the
Globe warehouse, Scranton, Pa, owned
by the firm Of Clelland, Simpson Tay-
Tor, who carried a stock valued at 500, 600
| The loss was almost total.
The weavers' strike at Fall River, Mass,
ended on the 9th on the old basis.
| THE Saxton Electric r form bill (Aus-
tralian ballot system) and the Excise Com
mission High License bill. amended. have
both been ordered to third reading in the
New York Assembly, the Republicans
voting yea and the Democrats nay.
MCINTOSH & HEMPHILL's machine shops,
| Pittsburgh, Pa, have been destroyed by
an incendiary. Loss, 500. 000
MARGARET CAMERON, daughter Of Ex-
Senator Simon Cameron, and John w.
Clark, son Of Newark millionaire, were
married in Philadelphia recently.
The executive committee of the board Of
directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company adjourned at New York without
coming to a decision regarding the leasing
of the Wisconsin railroad.
DR.. JOHN SwINBURHE, the eminent sur.
geon Of Albany, N. Y, died recently.
The anthracite coal companies, at Q
meeting in New York City recently, de.
cided not to reduce Western prices for
some time
INcEHDIARIEs burned an entire block of
stables at Altoona, Pa, recently. Five
horses and nine head of cattle persisted.
SEVENTEEN inspectors have been re.
moved from the customs department Of
the custom house at New York. They
were all Democrats.
The whaling schooner William Crosier,
Of Provincelown. Mass, reports the wreck
of the Boston bark Albert Russell, from
New York for Australia. Only two Of the
crew were saved.
JOHN HARRIS, a thirteen-year-old boy,
recently fell into coke oven at Union
town, Pa, and was burned to death.
THE WEST.
WILLIAM CLINCHAAN, aged fifteen,
snapped revolver at Birdie Lucas in st.
Paul, Mimi, the other day, and a bullet
lodged in her brain. He thought it was
unloaded.
THE elevator owners of the frosted wheat
region of Dakota have sent notices to all
farmers whose grain was injured, offering
them good seed wheat for planting this
spring.
The Central bonded warehouse, Rush
and North Water streets, Chicago, was
burned the other morning. A large
quantity of tea was destroyed, the loss
amounting to nearly 81, 500, 600.
JAMES GRANT,a private soldier stationed
at Fort Laramie, Wyo. T., deserted re-
Gently with 5000 belonging to Joseph
Rosenberg, fellow soldier, with whom he
had been engaged in a loan business.
ROBERT McCAFFREY, aged nineteen, and
Della Love, aged twenty, were killed by a
passenger train at a crossing near Goshen.
Ind, the other morning.
CHARLES j. BEATTY, the Chicago lawyer
who procured fraudulent divorce for
Mrs. Ada c. Gordon, was found guilty of
contempt of court and sentenced to the
county Jail for one year and to pay a fine
of $780,
W. W. MACY, pension agent at Column
bus, o., has been arrested and taken to
Indiana, where, it is stated, ne is charged
with illegal voting in the Presidential
election.
CONSIDERABLE losses by prairie fires are
reported about St Cloud, MINI. The
flames in some places are in the woods
JAMES FLANAGAN, supposed to be 'Jack
the Choker," has been arrested at Denver.
Col. For several weeks previously school
girls had been threatened and in some
instances choked and seriously injured by
an unknown villain.
THE steamer Nanticoke, which is sup
posed to have been sunk in collision with
the Haytien gunboat Conserva, on the
South Atlantic coast, was chartered by
Mr. E. W. Perry, Of Chicago
T.. & RpnwN Gnvarprnonf nan cinpor
has been arrested at Minneapolis, MIMI,
for counterfeiting by thinly plating with
gold silver coins. He was found at work.
The young tragedian, Creston Clarke,
a nephew of Edwin Booth, was reported
lying dangerously ill in Milwaukee. He
was suffering from tonsilitis and infiam-
nation of the bowels. His company was
AN attempt was made to wreck the
Santa Fe train near Chillicothe ILL.,, the
ties on the track.
THE business portion of Ashton, Ill, has
been burned. Loss, SIS 600.
NOTICE of suit for damages has been
served on Bill Nye and Whitcomb Riley
BY Manager Maloney, of the Fort Dodge
Qowa) Opera House. for failure to appear
the broken engagement
WHILE excavating for the foundation OF
a new building on an unused lot in the
central p ,rt of Ottawa, ILL.,. recently the
skeletons Of two men, buried in one grave,
were unearthed by laborers. They had
been murdered.
A MARVELLOUS robbery occurred at the
First National Bank. Denver. Col, on the
afternoon OF the 29sh. An unknown man
forced the president of the bank to sign a
check for S21, 600 and have it cashed by the
paying teller, after which he got away.
The man was armed with a revolver and
q bottle of nItro-gly cerine, with which he
threatened to blow up the bank building.
THE six story brick building at 48 to 50
North Clinton street, Chicago, occupied by
several business firms, was entirely de.
stroyed by fire the other night, entailing
a loss Of about 100000.
THE SOUTH.
JOHN R. NEAL, member of the Fiftieth
Congre Third Tennessee district. died
at his home, Rhea Springs, on the 26th.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH DELANo. of the tug s.
NJ johnson. of Baltimore, while shooting
at ducks on James river, Virginia, with a
Springfield rifle, accidentally killed the
fve-year-old daughter Of J. W. Brock.
we'll Brockweil was sitting in his house |
q mile of with his child on his knee. The |
ball passed through her head.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR, of Tennessee, per- |
formed marriage ceremony in the Senate |
Chamber recently, uniting State Senator |