The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-07

AT the Boston copper smelter al
Great Falls, Mont, Knute Knutson, q
workman, fell into a pot of molten
metal and died in great agony.
THE car works at Lima, o., have been
destroyed by fire.
AN eight-year-old child of William A.
Bois was burned to death in brush
pile fire near Illiopolis, Ill.
The residence part of Fort Bragg,
Cal, has been greatly damaged by fire.
REV. JAMES A. RUSSELL, of Blooming
ton, Ill, assistant pastor of the First
M. E. church, has departed for Buenos
Ayres, South America, where he has
been appointed to the pulpit of an En-
glish-speaking congregation He is but
% years old.
" THE Mollie Gibson mine at Aspen,
Col, has produced one of the most
wonderful specimens of silver ore in
the history of the world 1t is % inches
long, Is inches wide and s inches thick
and weighs 400 pounds. Assays from
the chunk prove that it runs SIS per
cent silver
The cornerstone of the new court
house at Ottumwa, Ia, has been laid.
CHARLES f. POTTER, United States en-
gineer in charge of the Missouri river
improvements. died at Omaha, Neb.
The Lake Angeline mine manage
ment, employing 500 men, will begin
eight-hour shifts October voluntarily.
The movement will revolutionize rela-
tions between capital and labor in the
I IL so, To-
ONE of the highwaymen who robbed
the bank at Roslyn, Wash, was capt
ured at Kent, near Tacoma. When ar
rested he did not resist, and refused to
give his name.
Ten men were imprisoned by fall of
earth in No s shaft of the Norrie mine
at Ishpeming, Mich. All were supposed
to be dead
THERE were reasons to believe that
the four persons found dead in the
house burned after thunderstorm near
Wellsville, Kan, were not killed by
lightning as reported, but were muir
dered and their bodies cremated.
THREE telegraph operators on strike
have been arrested at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
for tampering with the wires.
MASCOT paced mile at Terre Haute,
Ind, in 2:O4-Nancy Hanks trotting
time.
MARTHA WILKES trotted mile in
2:0S Il at Evansville, Ind.
FIRE in the Nickel Plate freight yards
at Chicago destroyed forty car loads of
merchandise, causing a loss estimated
to exceed 100000.
THE badly decomposed body of o. l.
Prescott, prominent democrat and
politician and contractor, was found in
his room at the Revere house at Denver,
Col. He had been dead for a week.
THE Buena, Vista hotel at Denver,
Col, was destroyed by fire. The guests
were saved by the bravery of Patrick
Mitchell, who first awolIe. Two or
three persons were severely burned
THE Illinois Humane society will not
allow bull fights at the Chicago worlds
fair if it can help it.
CHARLIE KEE, a Chicago Chinaman,
has defied the Six Companies and taken
out registration certificate.
PROF. REID, of Cleveland university,
has returned to San Francisco from
Alaska, where he made scientific ex-
animation of the Muir glacier.
AFTER an existence of six months.
the Chief, q daily evening democratic
newspaper, of Keollull, Ia, got out its
last issue. The plant was bought by
the Constitution Democrat
THE strike at the Decatur OIL coal
mine was settled by the company dis
charging all the old drivers who wanted
an advance of p cents day and hir-
ing new drivers who are paid so cents
advance over the old rates.