The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-21

IT is feared that the exhibit from
southern California for the worlds fair
has been ruined in a wreck on the
Southern Pacific.
ONE man was fatally and two others
seriously hurt in a drunken row among
tramps at Lincoln, Neb.
ED PARDRIDGE. the big bear oper-
ator of Chicago, is in a tight place,
standing to lose fortune on his pres
ent wheat deal.
A FIRE destroyed the entire Fountain
square, st. Marys, o., involving a loss
of 5000. 200.
PARDRIDGE, the noted bear speculator
on the Chicago grain board, failed on
the 18th. His losses were enormous.
THREE children. left alone by their
mother, were burned to death in a house
at Chicago.
JOHN A. BELL, managing editor of the
| Detroit Free Press, died recently of ty-
phoid fever.
IT is reported that the Big Four is
about to double-track its line between
Cincinnati and Kankakee.
DIRECToR-GENERAL DAVIS, of the
receiving exhibits to April 80.
A PARTIALLY paralyzed mother at
Chicago attempted to carry her child
across the room, but fell upon it and
killed it. She then died herself from
grief.
IT was reported that Pillsbury, the
Minneapolis miller, settled on 5000, 600
bushels short May wheat with the Chi
cago clique.
IT is reported that the Ponca Indians
are firmly set against selling their sur
plus lands to the United States.
THE tornado which devastated south
ern Michigan caused a vast amount of
damage at Ypsilanti, Royal Oak, Clark
vile and other points.
The rocking of houses in Cincinnati
on the morning of the 18th suggested
an earthquake.
The Minnesota legislature has been
in a great wrangle over the Doodle
charges in connection with the Wyman
lumber bill.
A FLOOD was caused by the violent
rainstorm at Carlyle, Ill. The Kaskas-
kia and smaller streams ragged terribly.
THE Ann Arbor road has filed a petit
ton against Chiefs Arthur and Sargent,
and demanded $500. 900 damages. Con-
spiracy charges are made.
PRESIDENT GREENHUT, of the whisky
trust, at its annual meeting in Peoria,
frankly stated that the company would
be pressed to meet its obligations for
the next ninety days.
THE Detroit presbytery has appointed
delegation to the general assembly
favorable to DIR. Briggs.
THE differences between the lines of
the Western passenger association are
about settled.
THE Western Passenger association
has adopted a worlds fair rate
schedule of the regular fares, less 30
per cent.
THE maximum freight bill of Nebras-
ka, having received Gov. Crounse's sig
nature, is now a law. twill be fought
by the railroads.
A MAD dog bit several people in the
country near Hillsboro, Ill.
GREAT excitement was created in Chi
cago by a runaway cable car which
could not be stopped and which finally
was wrecked in tunnel
Two officers of railroad police at Du
buque, Ia, were found lying dead in
the yards, having been murdered by
tramps.
THE Cherokee council has passed bill
by which all but full bloods will be de
barred from sharing in the money re-
ceived for the strip.
THE old street in Vienna, an unique
feature of the American exhibit at the
worlds fair, was dedicated on the 4th.
AT the championship chess match
between Lasker and Showalter at Ko-
komo, Ind, Lasker won the first game
in forty moves. The opening was
queens gambit declined, Lasker getting
the first move. Time of game, 1870.