The Iola register., 1889-05-17

SIX business houses and their contents
| were destroyed by an incendiary fire at
Greenfield, ILL.,, recently and $50. 600 losi
entailed.
THIRTY stores and dwellings in the little
village OF Waldron, Mich, on the Mack.
inaw railroad were destroyed by fire the
other day. The entire business portion Of
the city was swept away. Losses aggre.
gated over $60 900. partially insured.
WESTERN railroad officials were becom-
ing discouraged over the continuance Of
the drought. Reports from points on the
Illinois lines especially showed pressing
need for rain. In Central Illinois the
ground was cracking open and reports In.
dicated that a week or two more without
rain would be disastrous. The situation
was not SO bad further West
The returns from the recent municipal
elections in Indiana indicated general
gains for the Republicans where politics
figured in the contest In some of the
larger towns high license was the issue,
were defeated.
Tacoma, W. T., with about $50, 600 secured
from friends. He took q train for New
York, where he formerly resided. His
liabilities will aggregate over $500
AN old smoking car, out of repair, broke
down on the track of the Valley railroad
near Cleveland, O., the other day, caus-
ing the death Of two passengers and SER
ious injury of four others.
WHILE crossing the Michigan Central
tracks at Kalamazoo recently . street car
was run into by a switch engine. The re-
suit was the horrible mangling to death
Of six Of the passengers all ladies. Two
other lady passengers were injured while
the only two male passengers escaped
unhurt
MAT RAsr and August Young were
crushed between two sections Of q packet
train at Champion, Mich, recently.
Young was instantly killed and Rast died
in half an hour.
TWENTY-FIVE acres of ground closely
built up with small dwelling houses were
swept by fire in the suburban village of
Moreland, near Chicago, on the 9Th and
seventy families were rendered homeless.
The National Association of Lumber
Dealers held its twelfth annual meeting at
Chicago on the sth. There were about
fifty members present
The town of Spaulding, Mimi, of 500 in
habitants, was half destroyed by fire on
the 9TH. Three hundred people were rem
dered homeless No lives were lost
WHITEcAPs have notified Rev. George
Jacob Schweinfurth, who is worshiped
as Christ by the Beekmanites of Rock
ford, ILL.,, to leave the city in ten days. If
he does not go they say they will break
into his house, take him to the woods, tar
and feather him. and roast him alive.
The Northwestern Miller reports the
flour market improving.
RESPONSIBLE parties from Samedor.
Mont, report that a large party of Pine
Ridge Sioux, led by Grasshopper, have
come into the Tongue river agency for the
purpose of getting up a sun. dance among
the Cheyennes. An outbreak was feared.
IT has been decided to hold the next con-
vention of the Y. NJ. c. A. at Kansas City,
Mo.
ABOUT l, 200 employees in the great Pull
man shops at Pullman, Ill.,, have been laid
off temporarily because Of lack of orders
The Florissant (Col.) outlaws have been
captured. They gave their names as Jim
Hunter and A. Floyd. A hitherto re-
spected citizen named A. NJ. King, living
eight miles north of Florissant, is impli.
Gated in the robbery.
The Whitecap warning received by
Schweinfurth, the Beekmanite leader of
Rockford, ILL.,, has resulted in the insur-
ance companies canceling all policies on
his home known as Heaven" and the
structure is now at the mercy of the
Whitecaps and the elements.
NEAR Wingate, N. NJ, on the Atlantic
& Pacific, a quarrel arose between four
Zuni Indians and four cowboys. but for
the time being nothing serious happened.
Later on the quarrel was renewed, when
pistols were drawn and a pitched battle
ensued, resulting in the killing OF all four
Indians and the serious wounding of one
cowboy. The whites were arrested.
The lake steamer Chemung, of the same
line as the Owego, has made the trip from
Buffalo to Chicago in fifty.four hours,
beating the Owego's record.
THE condemned Bald Knobbers, John
Dave Walker and Bill Walker,
were executed at Ozark, Mo-. on the 10th,
under distressing circumstances, the ap-
paratus not being properly adjusted,
the dropping of Bill Walker
a second time.
GREAT damage was done to fruits, gar
den truck and flowers about Belvidere.
ILL.,, the other night by fierce hail and
rain storm.