The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-22

indianapolis national bank failure.
Much sickness is reported among tn
many persons seeking homesteads i
the Cherokee strip.
THE heaviest hailstorm ever know
at Ada, Mimi, occurred the other day
Hailstones an inch in diameter fell TO
five minutes, doing great damage, an,
stunning stock.
. In connection with the failure of tn,
Premier steel works at indianapolis, tn,
receiver charges that bonds for $500, 600
secured by fraudulent mortgage, wer,
issued.
ENORMOUS damage has been done
Missouri farming interests by the
drought. Both in Missouri, Iowa anc
Illinois the drought will result in a re
duced acreage of winter wheat.
SEVERAL families of pauper immi
grants have been detected at Milwau
kee and will be sent back to Europe
TRAIN RoBBER MCCLURE, who held
up Missouri Pacific train near Omaha,
escaped from the prison at Lincoln by
filing the steel bars and prying up a
skylight
z,
Wash, by report that City Treasurer
Adolph Krug was defaulter to large
amount.
FIRE started in John Welsh's lumber
dock, West Bay City, Mich, and spread
rapidly. In an hour 1000, 900 feet of
lumber had been burned. The loss was
800, 200.
RICHARD MANSFIELD, the actor was
taken i'll at the end of the first act of
the Scarlet Letter" at the Euclid Ave
nue. opera house, Cleveland, o. 1t was
announced that his illness was very
severe.
THE Ager and Klamath Falls stage.
in Oregon, was stopped by lone high
wayman, who relieved three pas
sengers of their valua bles to the amount
of 5000. The express box and regis
tered mail pouch were also rifed. The
robber escaped.
THE bankers of Chicago rendered
banquet to Comptroller Eckels.
CHICAGo's great chronological school,
the Armour institute, has been inaugu-
rated with every prospect of success.
C. E. Cook, formerly connected with
the now defunct Gillespie Qll.) bank,
returned to that place, when he was
suddenly arrested. His bond was fixed
at S14, 700.
FRANK III. MATTHEWS, union ma
chinlst from st. Louis, was killed by
Robert Strehl, a non-union man, at
Mattoon, Ill.
The trustees of the university of
Illinois have sustained the action of
the executive committee dismissing
Prof. Crawford.
The worlds fair has nearly paid off
its floating debt and largely reduced
its other liabilities.
FOREST fires were raging all around
OcontO, Wis. No rain had fallen there
in months
The Coopers' international union,
which is in secret session at Milwau-
kee, has followed the example of the |
Brewers National union and passed |
resolutions prohibiting its members
from belonging to the national guard.
AT the parliament of religions Dhar-
mapala, of India, created sensation
by his speech in defense of Buddhism.
AT the request of the republican ex-
ecutive committee of Ohio, Hon.
Chauncey l. Filley, of Missouri, will
take the stump for Mckinley.
Gov. HUGHES, of Arizona, has sub
nitted his annual report. 1t states
that the smuggling of Chinese con-
tinues undated.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill, voted against an
ton for T.. |
there.
THE draw span of the new bridge
across the Missouri river at Omaha was
swung the other day.
a DISPATCH from Gallipolis, O., saws
he boiler of threshing machine ex-
'loded while working at Loyna, Just
lcross the Ohio river. Engineer Jones {
md three men were killed outright. {
OFFICIALS of the worlds fair will
make an effort to get congress to au-
horize the keeping open of the gates
# the fair until January 1, 1894
AN express train on the Mineral
ange railroad was held up by robbers
ear Houghton, Mich. About $4,000 {
vas taken.
HEADS are beginning to fall on the
Evansville & Terre Haute under the I
ew president, Mackey. S. G. McLeish,
eneral passenger agent, was the first.
HoN. MILTON HAY died while sitting
n the lawn in front of his residence at =
springfield, Ill. Bright's disease was
he cause.
THE executive committee of the Chi
ago Theological seminary has secured
he services of Rev. James Denney, of :,
'roughty Ferry, Scotland, to deliver a
curse of lectures on systematic theol- 7
gy. -
The consolidation of the two bridge
ompanies of st. Louis has gone into "
fleet Rolling stock of both COM q
anies was sent across both bridges