The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02


Wash, on the 27th. All were so badly
burned that recognition was almost
| impossible. The fire was caused by
the explosion of lamp.
FIRE in the Southern railway freight
house at Asheville, n. c., destroyed
the buildings, together with four
loaded cars and four shantv cars. All
freight in the building and every rec
ord was totally destroyed. The loss
was estimated at $50. 600: insured.
A FIRE completely gutted the Myers
block, five-story building, corner
Broadway and Leonard street, n. Y.
The loss was estimated at s150,OOO. The
building was occupied on three floors
by restaurant keepers.
The wife of President Diaz. at Mexico
City, wrc se letter to the proprietors
of the two cigarette factories, the 1,200
girls in which struck against machines,
begging them to treat the strikers with
kindness. As a result of this letter
nearly all of the girls have been taken
back to work and the strike was virtu-
ally at an end, being a victory for the
girls.
A MOTION to take up resolution in
the house of representatives of the
Georgia legislature declaring it to be
the sense of the legislature that con-
gress should enact law for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and
condemning the representatives. in con-
gress who voted for the repeal of the
Sherman act, was defeated by g vote of
81 to 63.
AT Waltham, Mass, Tyler reduced
the one mile flying start record to 1:4S
3-5, Il % below the record recently
made by Zeigler in Sacramento. Cal.
AT Red Oak, Ia. on the 2Sth. the
barn belonging to n. Yeager. of Omaha,
was destroyed. 1t was used as winter
quarters for race horses in charge of j.
Tilden. The 3-year-old stallion Ant
werp. by Anteo. 2:l616. and Elgin Girl,
2:l9H. valued at $1,000, were both
burned. A yearling colt by Redwald,
2:231E, was also lost. The fire was un-
doubtedly of incendiary origin.
BICYCT.IsT JOHN s. JOHNSON. at Buff
falo. n. Y. on the cath made a mile in
the unparalleled time of 1:35 2-5, al
most IA seconds faster than any rider
has ever covered the distance in the
world.
A STATEMENT. purporting to come
from Livadia by way of Paris. alleged
that the operation of thoracentesis has
been performed upon the cZar with
success. The releasing of liquid mat
ter by puncturing has greatly relieved
the patients breathing and the pres
sure around the heart.
A DISPATCH from London on the Goth
stated two more victories on Chinese
soil have been placed to the credit of
the Japanese forces. The first was
merely sllirmish. the Chinese fleeing
from their earthworks to batteries
lower down the river Yalu. throwing
away their arms in their fight. The
second encounter was sharp and rather
bloody, the Chinese finally retiring in
disorder.
THE Farmers and Mechanics bank
at Malvern. Ia. was visited by burglars
recently and $1,000 in cash was stolen.
Nitro-glycerine was used in opening
the vault, but the thieves did not thor
oughly understand its use and the build
ing was practically blown to pieces and
the money and other contents sent
crashing into the street. The eXplo-
sion aroused the whole neighborhood.
Ir was reported that Chancellor Won
Caprivi had rendered his resignation as
chancellor of the German empire and
that it had been accepted.
JUDGE BROWN, at indianapolis. Ind,
sustained the grand lodge, Knights of
Pythias, in its suit against Koerner
lodge for property. Koerner lodge
was sued because the supreme lodge,
having ruled out the German ritual, it
surrendered its charter, but held its
property. The ruling was in favor of
the grand lodge. The case was a test
and was regarded as important in that
it will be followed by other suits
throughout the United States. An ap-
peal will be taken.
HENRY BILLINGS, Jack Billings,
Spruce Billings and Jesse Street, men,
bers of gang of whitecarpers who
have committed many outrages in Tip
ton county, Tenn, were found guilty
at Covington and given long terms in
the penitentiary.
IN Chicago one of the large ware
houses of the William Deering reaper
works has burned. Loss, 500, 900; in
sured.
The joint congress of the American
Secular union and of the Free Thought
Federation of America convened at
Chicago on the Goth.
ST. PETERSBURG police have seized a
number of nihilist proclamations
which have been secretly circulated
and have arrested a number of young
men on the charge of distributing them
in various quarters of that city.
a DISPATCH from Ironwood. Mich,
said that what may prove to be the
worst accident in the history of the
Menomincc range occurred at the Pc
wabic mine on the 25th. One man was
known to have been killed and eleven
others were entombed and their fate
would not be known for eighteen
hours. as it would take that length of
time for force of men to clear away
the rubbish. The accident was caused
by a sandstone Gaping which over
hung the roof coming away with suffi-
cient force to crush the timber with
out any warning.
A RECENT dispatch from Yokohama,
Japan, said that 1900 houses had been
destroyed by succession of earthquake
shocks and, as far as known. 26O lives
had been lost and large number of
people injured.
4 DISPATCH from Toxic said an earth
quake occurred on the 22d in the pro-
vince of Akita. The shock was so Sc
we're it almost completely destroyed the
town of Sakata- The loss of life was