The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

brooks opera house and the Carpent,
G house and block in Manchester ha,
: burned Loss, 100000; partially il
sured.
! THE WEST.
AT Deadwood, S. D., Austie Trey
5 and Maggie McDermott quarreled ove
, a man with whom both were in Low
and the former shot and killed the La
ter
: The steamer Wheeks. which recent
+ ran ashore on the beach near Michiga
! City, Ind, went to pieces during tn
late terrific gale. She had just change
hands for $3.50, 900, and preparation
had been completed to relieve her fror
her perilous position.
JOHN P. HOPKINS, democrat, wa
elected mayor of Chicago over Swift
republican.
CHRIS HANSON, formerly postmaste
at Poplar, Ia, was arrested at Sal
Francisco, accused of having robbie,
registered packages.
The delegates to the liberal city con
vention, at Salt Lake City, voted al
most unanimously to disband the party
AT Dubuque, Ia, tho United States
grand jury reported on the Van Lever
pension fraud cases. There are twenty
eight separate indictments against Var
Lewen. There are eleven separate in
dictments against DR. Kissella, charg
ing him with conspiracy, accepting
brides and altering returns.
JUDGE CONRAD overruled the motion
| a fr~io in T.
grave robbery cases and sentenced DIR.
John w. Schaeffer to six months in the
penitentiary and fined two of his asso-
ciates, j. w. Sloan and James Martin.
$500.
HOG cholera is raging in the vicinity
of Webster City, Ia, and many hun
dreds of hogs have died.
REPORTS of the railway commissioner
of Ohio show that not one passenger
was killed in the state during the year
ended November Is.
Four men fell from a scaffold at
Kokomo, Ind, and all were seriously
injured.
The latest gigantic mining enterprise
to be undertaken in Colorado is the
driving of a tunnel under the Pitkin
gold belt in Gunnison county The
tunnel will cut the belt of gold 1000
feet below the surface and encounter
such gold producers as Monte Vista,
Toronto, Legal Tender and others.
The Hebrew charity ball in Chicago
Melted $4,000 The largest sum real
lied in previous years was SIS, 900.
IN Breckenridge, Col, John Roher a
miner. is under arrest, charged with
having attempted to assassinate Bank
err Eagle by throwing bomb into his
bedroom.
The miners employed at the Slope
coal mine of the Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA
Coal Co., at Salinville, O., have struck
against Is per cent reduction. Fifty
day laborers also quit work rather than
suffer 80 per cent cut
The wool growers of southern Colo
RADIO and northern New Mexico are
petition to Gov. Waite ask
ing that an interstate convention in
the interest of that industry be called
in Denver at an early date.
The Masonic temple at Adrian, Mich,
built in 1865 at cost of ss5, 900, was
burned
The rumored withdrawal of the |
Frisco and Atchison from the Western |
Passenger association is denied by
Chairman Caldwell.
Mrs. L. DEvERE, who was burned at |
Aspen, Col, by the explosion of an Oil |
lamp, is dead. The two children, who
were also badly burned. cannot recover.
REGISTER JAMES MALONE, of the Per-
~, Ok, land Office, was indicted by the
grand jury for permitting filings that
are claimed to have been made during
the absence of proper Alers
FIRE caused by an explosion of a
can set fire to the cable house
IN the bottom of the Chicago and
Minonk coal mine at Minonk, Ill, and
300 men who were at work at the time
had narrow escape from death.
A DESPERATE shooting ARRAY occurred
between Waterman F. NJ. Byrd and
John w. Harris, at Hanford, Cal, in
which both men were fatally wounded.
some time ago Byrd arrested Harris,
since which Harris has often threat
.ned the life of the officer.
A RACE war broke out in Lincoln
county. n. NJ. In the fight nineteen
hexicans and five Americans were said
% have been killed 1t was caused bv
sheep and cattle troubles
JUDGE KELLY in St Paul, Mimi, has
sentenced Fleury, the $1,000 bank rob
Der, to ten years in the penitentiary,
md his accomplish, Meiggs, to eight
ears
The well-known Chicago firm of
cenic painters, Albert & Burridge, has
ssigned. The firm has decorated and
made scenery for many of the large
heaters in the west.