The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-13

The cannon ball' passenger train
on the Michigan Central ran into an
open switch on its way to Saginaw.
The engine, baggage car and two pas
senger cars were derailed. One section
hand was fatally crushed and several
others were slightly injured
DESPITE the efforts of the fusionists,
the republicans succeeded in organic
ing the Colorado house.
A CORRESPONDENT says there is plenty
of gold at San Juan, but poor men are
sadly handicapped.
THE Jack Frost ice house at Quincy,
I'll, has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
sec, 900.
THE ice gorge above Cincinnati broke
without damage. The river was ris-
ing.
The annual report for the fiscal year
ended last June shows hattering in
crease of business and earnings for the
Illinois roads.
A RICH strike of silver ore has been
made at the Minnie Belle mine. Grier,
Col. For some time the miners had
been throwing away the ore as worth
less.
The restraining order of the Pullman
company against the n, h. & L. at
Topeka, Kan, was refused by Judge
Riner This breaks down the Pullman
monopoly of sleeping cars.
THE courts have decided in favor of
the Chicago hoard of trade in the Par
bridge case. Puts" and calls on
board are thus prohibited.
Mr. WILLIAM c. PRATT, widely and
iavorably known among eastern educa-
tionalists, has been made vice president
of the Armour institute Chicago.
PRoF. II. w. l.. MAHooD, of the uni
versity at Sioux City, Ia, left his family
destitute and betooi1 himself off to En-
gland for a trip to last year.
A BLACK eagle measuring seven feet
from tip to tip has been captured near
Greencastle, Ind.
A BEER war RACES in st. Louis be-
tween the English syndicate brewers
and others.
REPORTS from the San Juan country
tell of terrible suffering among the
prospectors and several deaths from
freezing.
THE Amalgamated Association of
Ironworllers of Wisconsin will boycott
the Christopher Columbus, the passenger
whaleback built for the worlds fair,
because the vessel is built of steel plates
from the West Superior Iron & Steel
Co, a non-union shop.
A MYSTERIOUS Frenchman recently
went through the ice at Alton, Ill, and
was drowned.
The Omaha (Neb. Printing Co. was
burned out recently. Loss, 500, coo.
THE deadlock in the Nebraska senate
was broken by combination of demo-
Gratis and republicans.
FIRE in the Hallack paint store and
other buildings, Denver, Col, did dam
age amounting to $4,000
FRANCIS KAY BROOKS was consecrat-
ed Episcopal bishop of Oklahoma at
Topeka, Kan, on the 9th.
IT is reported in St Louis that Swift
& Co, the great packers, have bought
the Francis Whitaker pork packing
plant in East st. Louis.
THOMAS HANGER, aged 20, was killed
near Pilot Knob, Ind, by a wagon
loaded with lumber running over his
head.
JOHN BURNS, who made fortune in
lead mines and outlived It all, died in
the poor house at Galena, Ill, aged 101.
LA GRIPPE is epidemic in jefferson
vile, Ind.
TIE Indiana democrats will re-elect
Senator Turpie to the United States
senate.
A FREIGHT-RATE war on California
goods east has been inaugurated.
THE Rio Grande Southern will build
an extension into the San Juan gold
fields.
IT is reported in Chicago that big
passenger elevator trust has been