The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-21

By an explosion OF dynamite on the
Brooklyn aqueduct near Rockville Gen.
ter, L. l., two men were blown to pieces
and two theirs badly hurt.
The wife of Tony Hart, the actor,
died recently in Roosevelt Hospital,
New York. Her stage name was Gertie
Granville. Her husband is in an insane
asylum.
Two men were burned to death re.
Gently while asleep in the workmen's
building near the new bridge at Johns
town, Pa.
| THE WEST.
The Roman Catholic Bishops of Wis
consin have prepared a lengthy state
ment denouncing the Bennett School
law as contrary to American principles.
BY a collision between passenger
and freight train on the Rock Island
road in the Blue Island suburb of Chi
cago both trains were badly wrecked and
Brakeman John Berry killed.
REV. DR. DAVID j. BURRELL, of the
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Min
nespolis, Mimi, has been called to the
Associated Reformed Church of New
York City at salary of $4,000 year.
THE employees of the great Lorrie iron
mine near Ashland, Wis, have struck
for higher wages.
ROWLAND LEACH, the missing New
York drummer, was found dead in the
river at Chicago, near Market street.
| GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of Missouri, has
appointed Lon V. Stephens, of Boon
vile, State Treasurer, in place of Ed
T. holland, resigned.
A DISPATCH from Bismarck, N. D.,
says the Lottery bill has been finally
killed.
REV. DIR. CHARLES F. TIMING, of Min
neapolis, Mimi, has been formally
elected Chancellor of the Kansas Uni
versity at Lawrence.
JOHN T. SEAMAN. of Chicago. has
been appointed special agent of the
Treasury Department
FIRE in Coalition, O., recently DESTROYED
| five stores, two halls, and several dwell
ings.
THE miners in all the iron mines about
Ashland, Wis, expect to strike against
annual reductions of wages.
Four of the party who lynched Olsen
at Whitehall, Wis, October "a last have
been found guilty, among them Olsen's
wife, who urged the lynching and pro-
vided refreshments for the mob.
COYOTES have so badly eaten the
bodies of the two men killed by the
Apaches in Arizona that identification
is not possible.
ANDREW A. Holt, noted smuggler
of Puget Sound, Ore, was fatally shot
by United States officers near Seattle,
Wash, while resisting arrest.
STRIKING miners at 1ronwood, Mich,
are giving trouble and several arrests
have been made, while the mines are
strongly guarded by police.
THE Republican members of the Illi-
nois Congressional delegation want free
sugar.
THE leaders of the mob convicted of
lynching Olsen at Whitehall, Wis, have
been given life sentences.
THE remaining Indebtedness of Ives
and Stayner in connection with Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton affairs,
is to be compromised at five cents on
the dollar.
GREAT damage to wheat in Central
and Southern Illinois by the recent cold
snap is reported to the State Board of
Agriculture.
THE steamship George Fl. Chance, of
Astoria, Ore, with crew of fifteen
men, has not been heard from for a
month and is reported lost
THE L. Baurie woodenware factory,
Petowskey, Mich, was destroyed by fire
the other day, causing 100000 loss.
THE Kane County GIL court house at
Geneva was destroyed by fire the other
night.
IT positively denied from Cleveland,
O., that the wire nail manufacturers
have formed trust.
THE Lithgow glass works at Bowling
Green, O., were destroyed by fire recent
ly. Loss, $4,000.
DR. CHARLES F. TIMING has declined
the Chancellorship of the University of
Kansas rendered him by the Board of
Regents.
By an ordinance at San Francisco all
Cinnamon residents are required to
move their residences and places of
business within sixty days to certain
sections of the southern part of the city.
They number 10000.