The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-13

THE steam barge William II. Barnum.
laden with $4,000 bushels of corn,
struck an iceberg and foundered ab0ut
six miles from Mackinaw City, Mich.
Her masts could be seen above the
water. The crew was rescued.
PRENDERGAsT, who murdered Mayor
Harrison, of Chicago, will not be
hanged before July 2, and not until
May 81 will the investigation into his
sanity be commenced, by order of Judge
Chetlain
THE new concentrating plant and
hosting works of the Horn silver mine
at Frisco, Utah, have been totally de-
stroyed by fire. The mill made its first
run April /, but was not in operation
when the fire broke out The fire is
supposed to have been of incendiary
origin. Loss, 100000.
CARDINAL GIUssEPE RENEDETTO DUs-
MET, archbishop of Catina, is dead He
was born at Palermo, August Is, 1s1s,
and was created a cardinal on Febru-
airy IL, 1889.
The Iowa senate passed the house
bill comforting on women the right TO
vote for town. city and school officers
and on all questions of issuing bonds.
A TELEGRAM of the 9th stated that
nearly all the painters in Chicago
would be idle. The association of en-
ployers had decided to take aggressive
measures against a pending strike, and
had agreed to a general lockout, by
which 3. 600 men would be thrown out
of employment Seventy-seven firms
had signed an agreement to suspend
operations for the present
The sixty-fourth annual conference
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints convened in the Salt Lake
City tabernacle on the 9th.
In Chicago Sig l.. Mancinelli, director
of the choir of the Abbey Grand Opera
ing pockets. The arrest occurred in a
dime museum on Clark street.
AFTER clearing up various appropria-
tion and other bills, both houses of the
Iowa state legislature adjourned sine
die on the 9th.
THE three train robbers, j. L. Wy
rick, Thomas Brady and Albert Mans
Nally at Oliphant. November last,
were hanged at Newport, Ark, on the
9th.
ALL of the big worlds fair buildings
were sold on the 9TH to c. G. Garret, a
st. Louis contractor, for s75, 500. The
purchase included the great manufact-
ures building, machinery hall. and the
buildings of administration, electricity,
mines. agriculture, fisheries and trans
portation.
THE discovery of an alleged gang of
counterfeiters and thieves of gold and
silver bullion from the Omaha and
Grant and other smelters at Denver,
CoL,, promises to develop startling dis
closures Investigation indicates that
a wholesale system of counterfeiting
has been carried on.
ONE man was crushed to death and
another probably fatally injured in the
Columbus Cloak Co.'S store at Chicago.
They were making some repairs to the
elevator, when they were startled by
seeing the cage coming down, and be-
fore they could get out of the way it
settled down upon them.
TwENTY-THREE horses were recently
burned to death in Edward Works liv-
cry and boarding stables at Lancas-
ter, o.
In indianapolis, Ind, all the uyion
painters joined the striking carpenters
in a demand for an increase of wages.
SIX desperate prisoners confined in
the Sweet Water county (Wyo.) Jail
escaped the other night They made
their escape by breaking through the
roof of the Jail.
The Denver Bar association met .he
other night and adopted resolutions inn
plying censure on the district court for
its action on the fire and police board
matter. An opinion was rendered to
the effect that the courts had no right
to interfere with Gov. Waite in the eX-
ercise of his functions