The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-13

ALL the main buildings of the worlds
| fair at Chicago except five we're burned
on the night of the 5th. Two men fell
into the flames and one was burned to
death and the other will die
CLEARING house returns for the prin.
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended July showed an average
decrease as compared with the CORE
spending week of last year of 1879; in
New York the decrease was 21.9; out
side, 1874.
THE embargo which was put OIL the
Canadian Pacific railroad from London
west to Chicago on account of its using
Pullman cars in addition to its own
sleepers was raised on the 5th upon
the company agreeing to do without
Pullmans.
PRESIDENT DEBs, of the A. r. o., is
sued an address on the 5th to the pub
lie on the causes relating to the pres
ent strike. He laid great stress on the
fact that his organization was i'm favor
of arbitration and if the corporations
stubbornly refused to entertain the
idea of arbitration the responsibility
must be on their heads.
FAILURES for the week ended July 8
were 164 in the United States, against
319 last year: in Canada, 80 against %
last year.
PRESIDENT DEBs, of the A. r. u, has
issued a proclamation cautioning strik-
ers against being parties to violations
of law.
IN st. Petersburg, since the 1st,
eighty cases of cholera. twenty of
which were fatal, have been reported.
ADvIcEs from Bolivia report that ex-
President Arce has been assassinated
and his body horribly mutilated.
THE Omaha and Grant smelters in
Denver have closed down. and the
Boston and Colorado and the Globe
may soon close on account of the
lack of fuel and ores caused by the
railroad strike. A thousand men will
be thrown out.
THE crack American yacht, Vigilant,
was beaten in another race on the
Firth of Clyde, Scotland, by the Bril-
tannia, the latter winning by minute
and 55 seconds.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at North
Kenora, o., miles below Huntington,
w. Va, on the 7th. Incendiaries set
fire to box cars loaded with coke lying
on the Norfolk & Western tracks and
ten of them were burned. The flames
communicated to the depot and de-
stroyed that also.
STRIKERS at Chicago on the Grand
Trunk tracks, had a pitched battle on
the 7th with militiamen in which one
man was killed and several fatally and
many severely wounded. Another
conflict occurred on the Panhandle
road in that city between deputies and
mob. in which five were killed.
A LETTER was telegraphed to Presi-
dent Cleveland on the 9TH by Messrs.
Debs, of the A. r. IT,, and Sovereign,
of the X. of L., setting forth the his
tory of the strike and deploring the use
of federal troops on the side of the cor
pcrations against the strikers, as the
railroads could detach the Pullman
ears from their mail trains and there
would be no obstruction to the running
of them.
AT Chicago on the Sth there were
several small riots and cars were fired
and overturned. A coal train was
ditched on the Eastern Illinois by
misplaced switch. At Hammond. Ind, g,
the rioting became SO serious that
company of United States troops
charged on the mob and one man was
killed and several seriously injured.
On the c., B. & O. and the Wisconsin
Central roads thirteen cars and much
property was destroyed. During the
day another mob went to the Panhandle
yards and set fire to a number of cars.
COLORADO SPRINGS was startled by a
terrific explosion on the 7th which
fairly shook the town. About 100 feet
of the track of the Midland railway
was blown up with giant powder. 1t
was placed under cattle guard about
a quarter of mile west of the railway
bridge. The culvert was entirely de-
stroyed and the track raised for a dis
tance of 50 feet on each side. No clew
to the perpetrators of the act can be
discovered.
AT Cattlettsburg, KY, in street en-
counter the other night, John and Bal
lard Faulkner. brothers, were instant
ly killed and Charles ana Dave Justice
fatally wounded. The former has al
ready died. and the latter cannot live.
Ballard Plymale was also seriously
wounded.