The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-06

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JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER has made an
other huge gift to Chicago university,
amounting, it is said. to s1,OOo,OOO.
ORANGE JUDD, the well known senior
editor of the Orange Judd Farmer, Chi
cago, is dead
THERE was a great fire at Omaha,
Neb., on the night of the 27th, COM
mencing in the rear of the Continental
block, Douglas avenue and Fifteenth
street The damage footed up $780,
OGO
A DECISION of the courts in the Car
bon case insures Wyoming to the demo
Gratis
TEAMS are crossing the river on the
ice at Davenport, Ia-
MILLIONAIRE MACKAY is said to be in
terested in the gold placers of the San
Juan valley.
THE Digby Bell opera company's out
fit was attached by the sheriff at Chi
cago
THE Menard Manufacturing Co. S
building at Menard, Ill, has been
burned to the ground
DYNAMITE concealed in stick of
stove wood caused great damage in An
drew Beckel's farmhouse near Valpa-
raiso, Ind Mrs Beckel and two chill
dren were fatally injured.
LoRING PICKERING, senior proprietor
of the Morning Call, died at San Fran
cisco on the 2Sth.
The Lane Theological seminary will
stand by Prof Henry 7. Smith, convict
ed of heresy.
ANOTHER disastrous fire occurred at
Milwaukee on the 2Sth, the south side
plant of the street railway company be-
ing destroyed at loss of $4,000 1t
was evidently incendiary as miscreant
was seen to throw something, which
exploded into mass of flames imme-
diately afterward.
PLLsBURY academy, ,Owatonna, Mimi.
has been destroyed by fire.
A TERRIBLE explosion of giant powder
occurred in the Eclipse tunnel near
Monarch, Col, in which Frank Lander
and William Shaw were fatally injured
and several others seriously injured.
EVERY distillery in the entire section
of Cincinnati is being run at its full ca
pacity, in anticipation of an increase of
tax.
A STAGE line to the San Juan gold
fields has been started from Mancos,
Col.
The Idaho diamond discovery is de-
clared to be hoax.
Bob SLAvIN, the famous minstrel, was
found dead in bed at Toledo, o. He
was with Crawford Bros minstrels.
For some time he was principal in Nc
Nish, johnson * Slavins troupe.
AT Des Moines, Ia, Peter Sutter in a
fit of jealousy murdered his wife with u
hammer, crushing in her skull. Sutter
was one of the wealthiest citizens of
Des Moines.
CAPT. MYERS. Eleventh infantry, had
n brush with Kid" the Apache, but
the renegade escaped in the darkness.
A TRAIN run into street car at Forty
seventh street and Stewart avenue, Chi
cago. Four passengers in the street
car were killed and eight seriously in
jured The accident was due to gross
carelessness and several arrests were
made
JUSTICE JOHN L. SHARPsTEIS, of the
supreme court of California, died at San
Francisco recently. He was born at
Richmond, n. Y, May 2S, 1928.
AN attempt was made to rob the
bank at Gillian, Mo-, by country boy.
who turned bandit. He was outwitted
and captured by the brave cashier. The
robbers brother was arrested as an ac-
complice.
THE high school building at Mar
shalltown, Ia, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance, S95, 600 The
building was one of the finest educa-
tional institutions in the state.
A RETURNED prospector from the San
Juan country says that the rush. the
is something phenomenal and
that there is great suffering on account
of lack of supplies.
THE citizens of Milwaukee in mass
meeting decided that the recent fires
were not of incendiary origin.
Ice is twelve inches thick at Bloom
ington, Iii.
THE Fairfax (Minn. bank has closed
its doors.
The Illinois commissioners have made
a report to the effect that certain rail-
roads in that state are in an unsafe con-
dition for travel. They are the Chicago,
Peoria & St Louis, the Jacksonville,
Louisville & St Louis and the Litch-
field, Carrollton & Western.