The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-05-31
THE SOUTH.

IHE passenger steamer JOINS HOPKINS,
belonging to the Merchants & Miners
Transportation Company, was burned to
the waters edge at Baltimore. Nd. re-
Gently. Itwas valued at $25o, COO The fire
originated by the explosion Of barrel of
| turpentine
The Latonia (Ky.) Derby, valued at
50, 900, was won by Hindoocraft in 2:l1I-
| rather slow.
A BITTER war of rates has commenced
| in Alabama between the Louisville &
Nashville and East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia roads which may involve several
other Southern systems.
GREAT damage was done in Harrison
County, W. Va, the other day by terrific
| hailstorm.
A WRECK occurred on the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas the other night eight miles
north Of Temple, Tex. The engineer,
whose name was Davis, from Denison,
| was killed and two brakemen were fatally
wounded. Seventeen cars were piled in a
mass No cause was known for the
wreck.
damage among the fine timber about
Plaquemine, La- cs-
| The centennial celebration of the estab.
|
United States was begun on the 2Sd in the
Carroll memorial church at Hyattsville,
Prince Georges County, Nd, by a memo
rial mass in honor of Archbishop Carroll,
the first Roman Catholic prelate of the
| American hierarchy.
THE residence of Rev. F. c. Clarke, near
Virginia Beach, in Princess Anne County,
Va, was burned the other night and he.
his two daughters, next to the oldest son
and a niece visiting him were consumed
by the flames. His wife, Miss Ella Bid
good, the governess, and two small chill
dren escaped.
DICK HAYES, charged with the murder
of his wife and child at Birmingham, Ala.
has been sentenced to be hanged July u
| GENERAL
A TRAIN running over the Canadian Pa
cific railway was stopped the other day
by an army of caterpillars covering the
| track.
The steamer City of Paris, which left
New York Wednesday afternoon, May Is,
passed Brow Head, Queenstown, at 1918
p. m. on the 21st; time, Eve days and
twenty-five hours, beating her own record
| on her previous westward voyage of five
days and twenty three hours.
| THE Verugas railroad viaduct in Peru
was swept away by a cloud burst recently.
1t cost $500, 600.
ARTHUR MUsEY. civil engineer, who
came to this country to inspect beet sugar
| refneries in the interest of French CAPT.
| talists, was drowned at Montreal recently
while bathing.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France. gave a
| farewell audience to Mr.. McLane, the re-
firing United States Minister. on the Goth.
A CABLEGkAM from St Pierre Miquelon
states that TWO French fishing vessels, the
Elk and the Four Brothers, which left
France some time ago for the Newfound-
| land ifs eries with LIS men aboard, have
been lost and all hands drowned
THE German Emperor and the Beres-
ford. both British steamers, collided in
| the mouth of the Thames recently. The
German Emperor sank Immediately, six of
her crew being drowned. The Beresford
succeeded in reaching Gravesend.
ADvIcEs from China report that eleven
| Cinnamon were decapitated in the prov
ince of Huper for having murdered man
who attempted to arrest some of them
after they had broken into a store.
A NEWSPAPER of Munich has been con-
| fiscated for publishing a scandalous obitu.
airy, of the late Queen Margaret Of Ba.
varia.