The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-01

i Hilton, of Oshkosh, receiver OF the
Northwestern Car & Machinery Co., es
tablished last summer. This company
bnilt an extensive plant on promise
of a s25,O00 bonus, which was never
paid.
THREE young ladies of Xenia, O.,
Misses Sallie and Sophia Kelso and
Miss Leila Dill, were killed bv a west
bound train, at the edge of the city,
while on their way home from visit
to sick girl.
AT the dinner table Adam Smith, a
few miles north of Cincinnati, quar-.
relied with his wife. He then shot her,
causing instant death. Threats are
made to lynch him, but so far he has
eluded capture.
CLARENCE NJ. 0vERMAN, late presi-
dent of the Citizens national bank OF
Hillsboro, O., pleaded guilty to embez-
Element of the banks funds and was
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
| in the penitentiary.
THE suit for the forfeiture of the
charter of the Atchison & Nebraska
line and the annulment of the Burling-
ton lease on the same road has been
dismissed by the Nebraska supreme
court.
EIGHTY persons have been admitted
to the bar by the Illinois supreme court.
WILLIAM L. COLEMAN, a pioneer mer-
chant, died at San Francisco, aged so
years. He was born in Kentucky, and
was a prominent figure in connection
with THE Vigilants'' a number of
years ago.
IT is estimated that the coal output
for Colorado for 1898 will reach $40, 600, :
600; for Wyoming. IS, 900; New Mex
leo, "a, 900.
SEVEN lives were lost by the burning
of large dry goods store at Detroit,
Mich, occupied by Edison, Moore & Co.
The damage amounted to $500, 600.
THE Peoples savings bank, of Den
yer, will resume business at an early
day. The plan has been arranged and
an agreement placed before the de-
positors for their signatures The
bank is to be reopened under a new
management.
THE health commissioner declares
that smallpox is epidemic in Chicago.
There are now eighteen cases of the
disease in the city pest house.
ALTHOUGH the 23d was designated as
day of thanksgiving by the governor
of Oregon, it was not observed as such
by the state office and commercial in
stitutions.
A MEETING of the leading manufac-
turers of redwood lumber was held in
San Francisco, the object being to con-
troll the output of the redwood mills
They propose to reduce the annual out
put to about 200, 600. 900 feet and effect
a general increase in the price.
LOUIS HILLIARD, the cashier who en-
bezzled about SIS, 900 from the Chicago
Tribune Co. was sentenced to four years
in the penitentiary.
THE cruiser Olympia averaged 22.2
knots on her trial at Santa Barbara,
Cal
The Henrietta theater and adjoining
buildings at Columbus, O., were de-
stroyed by fire The damage amounted
to 81. 900. 600. One man lost his life.
FRED TUCKER was acquitted at Lyn-
don, Kan, for train wrecking at Bar
clay, Kan, by which three or four
Santa Fe trainmen were killed.
THE St Joseph, Mo, labor unions
have boycotted St Louis beers because
of the strike.
ANDREW JOY, of Chicago, is suspected
of completely il the Cronin murder.
AN unknown disease is reported to be
raging among the young calves in Ok
lahoma and the Indian territory.
ONE hundred feet of the great ore
docks at Fairport, o., We're destroyed
by fire and the ore and two hoisting
machines went into the lake.
ID. r. DIX, alias j. Fosborn, formerly
manager of the Armour Packing Co. at
Ashland, Wis, has been arrested at
San Francisco. 1t is charged that he
disappeared leaving a shortage of So, 900
in his accounts Gambling was the
cause.
JESSE d. o. SMITH, formerly n mer-
chant of Kankakee, Ill, murdered his
divorced wife and Mrs. Graybell, and
then shot himself. Both women were
shot through the heart.
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