The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-10-13

the International Funeral Directors
association was held at Detroit, Mich.
with about eco members present
JOHN BELL, prominent attorney o.
Norwalk, o., has left for parts un
known, and is accused of leaving his
creditors s45, 900 out. Part of the
amount is borrowed money and the
balance is due estates he was settling up
ANelevator and contents were burned
at Wabash, Ind, involving loss o.
$50. 900.
LILLIAN LEWIS. the actress, created q
sensation at Springfield, Ill, by firing
two shots at herself after quarrel
with her husband. She was only slight
ly injured.
BARRETT ScoTT, the defaulting treas
urer of Holt county. Neb., who was
captured in Mexico. is en- route to his
old home in charge of officers He got
away with 100000.
A. QUACKEYBUsH, a well-known
newspaper man throughout the west,
died :G Portland, Ore.
JUDGE CHARLES l.. LONG, of Detroit,
| Mich. a member of the supreme bench
of that state, filed petition in the dis
trict supreme court for mandamus to
compel the commissioner of pensions to
pay plaintiffs pension, which he holds
was illegally suspended.
AT the regular monthly meeting OF
the Ohio commandery of the military
Order of the Loyal Legion, at Cincin-
natl its newly elected commander, ex-
President Harrison, was installed.
THE first session of the worlds con-
gress of the v NJ C. A. was held at
Chicago on the 9th.
The steamer Norma, owned by the
Ohlemacher Lime Co., was caught by
the severe weather off Huron, o. The
deck load was lost and two of the crew
were washed overheard and drowned.
THE Santa Fe has had very damag-
ing washouts on the Canadian river in
Oklahoma, two bridges having been
taken out by the high water.
An unconfirmed rumor is out that the
Colorado Midland passenger train was
held up west of Leadville by band of
The officials denied the truth of this
rumor.
A STRIKE is now on among the ton
mage men at the Springfield, Ill, roll
ing mill, caused by Il 10 per cent re-
duction in wages. The men in the
other departments also threatened to
strike if the demands of the tonnage
men were not acceded to-
THE union miners on Canon creek,
Idaho. have decided to go on with the
strike and not accept the tender of the
mine owners for So. 80 for the miners
and So for the carmen and shovelS
The Butte union, which has loaned the
miners unions there considerable
money. sent delegates and they de-
manded that the strike be carried on.
THE SOUTH.
AT the Louisville, (Ky.) conference
of the NJ f. church, south, Rev. S. J.
Winfrey was dismissed because he per-
sisted in running for the legislature.
Gov. MACCoRKLE, of West Virginia, is
being severely criticised b. the demo-
cratic press of that state for appearing
before the ways and means committee
at Washington in favor of a tariff on
coal
FOURTEEN new cases of yellow fever
and three deaths were reported at
Brunswick, Ga, on the Sd.
MANY married couples in Bowie coun-
ty, Tex. have been informed by judi
cial decision that the marriage licenses
they secured were void.
A son of Judge Gilbert, noted Ken
tucky lawyer, shot and killed a police
man at Paducah.
ADDITIONAL news indicated that the.
late gulf storm in Louisiana was an
almost unparalleled horror. Grand isle
and other low-lying places We're swept
over by huge wave from the sea. 1t
was thought that two thousand of the
people were drowned.
The superior court of Kentucky dis
missed the case of the Courier-J ournal
Co. VS.. Charles G. Christian. This was
a suit for libel for the publication of
Christians shortage in his business ac-
counts as clerk. and for which he got
Judgment for $4,000. The dismissal af
firms the judgment
A THIRTEEN-YEAR-oLD boy sneaked
into bank at Chattanooga, Tenn, and
stole S255.
hartley, JOHNSON & Co., one of the
best known whisky firms in Kentucky,
has suspended. The amount involved
is about S400,0
JAMES BLACK GRooME, ex-United
States senator and ex-governor of
Maryland, died in Baltimore of
Bright's disease.
NEAR Courtland. Ala. three gin
houses, whose owners refused to stop
ginning cotton until the price reached
ten cents, were burned together with
their contents
THE sheriff and posse were summoned
to Dolmite, Ala, to protect the Wood
ward Iron Co.'S property, where the
miners, it was said, refused to work for
reduced pay. Trouble was feared.
N an accident on the Louisville &
Nashville near New Haven, KY, two
engineers were killed by train fall
ing through bridge.
THz total number OF lives lost 5y the
storm below New Orleans, as revised,
was 2,041, with about 500 yet to be
heard from. The fishing and oyster in
dustries were destroyed
AN International & Great Northern
train was wrecked near Taylor, Tex,
by running down a steer.
Two escaped convicts from the
Georgia penitentiary were captured by
posse near Rome, Ga, after one had
been mortally wounded
An ex-assistant postmaster at Bir-
mingham, Ala, has been arrested on a
charge of retaining S1.S70 belonging to
the federal government
Mrs. MAMIE TURNER, convicted of