The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-12

AN English syndicate is said to have
bought the Owens lake, Inyo county,
Cal.
THE sanctifcationists are causing
trouble among churches at Mount Yer
non, Ill.
THOMAS MORGAN, aged 40, was killed
in the coal mine at Vandalia, Ill
AT Davenport, Ia, the fire depart
ment was called out twice by blazes
started by the explosion of gasoline
stoves. Mrs. Martin Rasmussen was
fatally burned.
Mr.. SAMUEL MAST, farmer living
near South Bend, Ind, was killed re-
Gently by his stallion.
Ex-Gov. ST. JOHN spoke recently at
the Lithia Springs encampment at
Shelbyville, Ill, in behalf of prohibi-
ton and Bidwell.
THE Roman Catholic Total Abstinence
union has been in session at Indianap-
lis, Ind
The cruiser Charleston has arrived at
San Francisco on her way to Mare ISL
and for repairs.
The Michigan Legislature has been
called to meet.
PRIVATE advices say that the suspen-
sion of Rev. Father Kuhlman, of Alton,
Ill, has been sustained by the Roman
/ Catholic authorities at Rome, to whom
Father Kuhlman appealed.
! MINNEAPoLIs democrats have nomi-
mated Lawler for governor against
Knute Nelson, the republican nominee
The school question will come to the
front as Lawler is Catholic and a
school plank was adopted.
FRANK BUsHERY, aged Il, was
smothered in bin of wheat at Lam
sing. Mich.
THERE is little or no small pox in
Manitoba and no occasion for the alarm
manifested in North Dakota.
A TRUNK trust is forming at Chicago.
JUDGE JOHN PITCHER died at Mount
Vernon, Ind He was 9s years of age
and was probably the oldest mason at
the time of his death in the country,
having been made n mason at Water
town, Conn, in 1916.
THREE young women, Nellie collin
ger, Blanche Simmons and Grace Max
well, went bathing in the Mississippi
river at Port Byron, near Davenport,
la. The first two got beyond their
depth and sank Miss Maxwell lost
her life trying to save them.
Two masked train robbers held up
passenger train at Coils, Cal. The OK
press car door was blown open with dy-
Mantle and the messenger wounded.
The robbers got between $50, 900 and
$780,
THE steamer Remora burned at St
Ignace, Mich. Loss, $4,000.
FRANK CLARK. of Columbus, Ind, a
railroad brakeman on the Big Four, was
killed near PelIin, Ill, and Tom Storey,
of the same place, was drowned at
Warsaw, Ky.
4 FEEBLE-mNDED boy named Olsen
wrecked a train at Bloomington, Ill,
by throwing the switch.
SINGLE cases of CHAMBERS are reported
in five counties of Illinois.
THE street car lines of Springfield,
O., have been sold to n syndicate
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at
Burlington, % miles west of Racine,
Wis.
THE whisky trust won another vic
tory at Cincinnati, which practically
ends the prosecution of the government
on the indictments found in Boston
against the trust officials.
The Schulenburg lumber MILL Still
water, Mimi, has burned. Loss, $685.
coo; insurance, sos, 600.
ONE man was killed and four others
badly injured by the collapse of an old
iron bridge near Attic, Ind.
DISPATCHES from Zum brota, Red Wing
and other points in Minnesota report
destructive storm. A hailstorm several
miles wide laid waste the uncut grain
and did great damage wherever it
struck.
TIE republicans of Nebraska nomi-
mated Lorenzo Crounse for governor.
The balance of the ticket is rs follows:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Rev. J. G. Tate,
of Grand Island: auditor, Eugene
Moore; encouragement. G.. ii. Has
tings; superintendent of public instruc-
ton, a. X. Groudy: commissioner of
public lands and buildings, y. L. Hum
phrey.
BY majority of 10 to the voters of
Litchield, Ill, decided to issue 100000
in bonds to erect the fourth school
building in that city.
REPORTS from st. Louis Republic cor
respondents of the condition and pros
poets of the cotton crop show an esti-
mated shortage of so per cent. or less
below last year.
THERE is a bitter anti-liquor war
raging at South Charleston, near
Springfield, o.
Abba, Ia, has been terrorized by
black ghost.