The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-02

EAsTBoUND shipments from Chicago
continue unsatisfactory.
HUNGARIAN laborers on an Ohio rail
road locked their boss in tool chest
and were burning him when he was
rescued.
THE members of the Merchants ex'
change, of St Louis, have donated
81, 500 for the aid of the Red Bud suf
ferers
CONGRESSMAN LEW STEWARD, of the
Eighth Illinois district will contest the
seat of R A. Childs in the house of rep
resentativeS
OFFICERS of the Illinois Steel Co. ex
poet to shut down the steel rail mill al
South Chicago December Is for a period
of two or three months. The mill en-
ploys about $500 men.
On kite shaped track at Stockton.
Cal, STEAMBOAT trotted a mile in 2:071 4
with rain falling at the finish
JUROR LINCOLN, in a Chicago court,
offered to accept brides from attorneys,
and was sentenced to one year in Jail
for contempt of court
A LUMBER camp at Marshfield, Wis,
was destroyed by fire and one man per-
ished in the flames.
SENATORS PERKINS and Higgins, of
the senate committee are in the Indian
territory investigating the intruder
question"
Two men arrested in Chicago for
shoplifting had a novel pasteboard box
which opened when an article was
placed on the lid and then closed as the
article fell inside
ToMBsToNEs over soldiers graves at
Stinesville, Ind, have been broken to
pieces by unknown parties.
THE Anderson pressed brick works
and the Kreicher file factory at Kreich-
erville, 5. l., were destroyed by fire.
The loss was $4,000 fully covered by
insurance.
THE official vote of Illinois for presi-
dent and governor is as follows: Presi-
dent, Cleveland, democrat, 426. 574; Har-
rison, republican, 397, 4Ol; Bidwell, pro-
hibitionist, 1880; Weaver, populist,
2,6S5. Governor, Altgeld. democrat,
425, 23s; Fifer, republican, 402, 75S.
FULL returns show that the populists
hold the balance of power in the Cali
fornia legislature.
Four men working on the govern
ment scow at Lewiston, Idaho, were
drowned recently.
GEORGE FLECKENsTEIN's large brew
cry at Minneapolis, Mimi, was burned.
The plant was large one, about $780,
600 being invested.
Two young ladies were killed by a
train while crossing the Lake Shore
track at Indianapolis, Ind
KANSAS university defeated Missouri
university by score of II to in the
football match at Kansas City Thanks
giving day.
MADISON defeated Evanston in the
football match at Milwaukee. Score,
20 6.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, SB-, the aged
father of Gov. Mckinley, died at his
home in Canton, o., on the oath.
THERE were fierce rows between the
sophomores and freshmen at Cornell
college, Mount Vernon, Ia, Thanksgiv-
ing day.
PRAIRIE fires are raging on the Cher
okee strip. Credited to boomers
TYPHOID fever is alarmingly preva-
lent in St Louis
THE Graham opera house at Wash
ington, Ia, burned Loss, $50, 600
JAMES WELSH. a man nearly blind,
has brought suit at San Francisco,
claiming that the Australian ballot law
prevented him from voting.
A TREE fell across the camp of James
Park near Stevens City, Wash. killing
three men and seriously injuring Ed
ward O'Brien and two others.
THREE masked men held up train in
Washington in approved Missouri and
Kansas style.
THREE men were killed by collision
between two freight trains on the Pan
handle, in Indiana.
MINERS in Washington were cut off
from food supplies by the recent floods,
and a number of them almost starved
to death.
IT is claimed that Juror Lincoln. who
was recently sent to Jail in Chicago for
contempt, is insane, and a movement
for his pardon is on foot.
THE mutual Gas Co.'S plant at De
troit, Mich, has been sold for 81, 500. 900
Ice in the river delayed grinding in
the Minneapolis mills, so that the
weeks output was the smallest in three
months.