The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-10-20

AT the irrigation congress at Los
Angeles, Cal, resolution was adopted
to the effect that the, government
should aid in providing a water supply
| for arid lands.
NEARLY 600 horses were burned to
death by fire at the Wallace street
barns of the Chicago City Railway Co.
DEPUTY United States marshals and
the Woodland gang of outlaws had a
fight near Fifty-two Spring, l. T., and
one outlaw was killed.
A BIG combination of San Francisco
street railways is completed with q
capital stock of little over 5000, 900,
of which the Southern Pacific Co. con-
trolls 76 per cent The combination in
cludes sixteen street lines and controls
nearly all the travel of the city. Only
six lines remain out of the combination.
The citizens prohibition ticket in
Iowa, on which Rev. Bennett Mitchell
is candidate for governor, is threatened
with trouble. the provision of law
that no name be placed on the ballot
by petition that has already been
placed upon another ticket for the
same position bars the whole ticket
COUNTY CLERK J. b. PEAsLE. of Gin
cinnati, chancellor of the National
Furniture Union, has been notified of
the arrest in Philadelphia of a number
of local officers for fraud. Mr.. Peasle
thinks there were about twenty per-
sons in the conspiracy, and says the
meanness of the fraud is past con-
doning.
FIVE workmen were scalded by the
bursting of a steam plug in the base
ment of 13 Wabash avenue, Chicago.
William Ellis will die. The others
were all seriously injured. They were
laying gas main to Marshall Field &
Co S new building when the accident
occurred
FRANK PARISH, a laborer residing in
Port Huron, Mich. has been arrested
there on the charge of robbing the
mails. 1t is alleged that he has been
handling a large number of postal or
ders and is believed TO be implicated
with Charles Forbes, who was arrested
there early this summer in the act of
robbing the mails
The Northern Pacific train with
party of thirty Iowa. Minnesota and
Wisconsin hunters, left the track two
miles south of New Rockford and
turned over on its side in the ditch.
Flames broke out and it seemed for
time as if a number of the Nimrods
would be burned to death
THE wholesale liquor and cigar firm
of c. Cohn e Co. San Francisco, has
failed. with liabilities of $4,000
THE pile pullers belonging to Oak
land, Cal, have removed all the piles
sunk along the water front by the
Southern Pacific railway.
AT Omaha on the 18th Judge Dundy,
of the United States circuit court, APP
pointed :. II. ii. Clark, Ellery Ander-
sun and o. w Mink as receivers of the
Union Pacific railway. The action was
sudden and surprising.
JOHN HANSEN, one of the paid pa
trolmen of the Sailors union at San
Francisco, was arrested as the man
who placed dynamite on board the
tugs Ethel and Marion and as the
principal in the plot which eliminated
in the destruction of Curtains board
ing house and the death of four men.
THE American plate glass works at
Gas City, Ind, failed recently. The
works had been idle for some time
PRAIRIE fires damaged farm property
considerably near Glendale. n. d.. and
threatened the city, a hard wind help
ing the flames. The city is now be-
lieved to be safe.
The Ketchum Lumber Co, of Chi
cago, has assigned. Liabilities, $780,
600: asse is, S45O,O00.
UNDER new arrangement govern
ment prisoners from Kansas will be
confined in the Canon City, Col, peni-
tentiary instead of Detroit.
AT Earlville, Ill, the sample trunks
of 3. A. Boegershanzen. representing
+. NJ. Sprehle & Co. of Chicago, were
robbed of watches, diamonds, etc,
amounting to several thousand dollars.
The robbery took place in the North
western depot.
THE Ohio synod of the Presbyterian
church. by a vote of IS to 81, refused to
sustain the appeal of Prof. Henry Pre-
served Smith from the decision OF the
presbytery of Cincinnati. which sus-
pended him from the ministry.