The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-18

arrived at the obstruction tHey eorc
up the track behind them and built one
around the obstruction and SO were
enabled to continue on their way. AT
Arlington four engines were ditched
by order of Superintendent Derby.
The industrialists at once began laying
track and soon started east again.
A DETERMINED attempt was made the
other night to blow up the jackson,
Mich, prison with dynamite, and but
for the prompt action of guards it
would have succeeded. Some $50 con-
victs from the west cell block had been
out attending a literary society. On
their return guard was attacked by
one of the convicts A lively struggle
ensued, being participated in by three
couvicts and three officers. While two
of the convicts were struggling with
the guards third sprang into a win
dow and attempted to light fuse at
tachej to four sticks of dynamite. He
was restrained and the prisoners
locked up
A CONFERENCE between the Chicago
brick manufacturers and their en-
ployes resulted in a settlement and the
strike was declared off, concessions be-
ing made by both sides
FIRE in Pawnee, Ill, almost wiped
the town off the face of the earth.
Loss will reach 100000.
A DENVER, Col, telegram stated that
the Caledonian club of Chicago had
secured 5000 acres in the San Luis
valley to parcel into forty-acre farms
Hamilton White, president of the Ep-
worth league of Iowa, and Mrs Nc
Murray, state president of the w. c. T.
u. of Iowa, are interesting themselves
in project for colonizing 5000 acres
in the valley. A Swedish syndicate
proposes to locate about l, 500 families.
and John Ii. Copeland, of Chicago,
identified with the American Fedora
ton of Labor, is organizing colony
on the cooperative plan.
JUDGE WINTERS, of Indianapolis,
Ind, has notified the attorneys in
terested in the Iron Hall receivership
case that he would dispose of all the
claims against the order on May Il,
and that all claims must be filed by
the 10th. The attorneys for Receiver
Failey have received notice that the
superior court of Massachusetts had
made decree directing the receiver to
send all his funds, amounting to $780,
600, to Receiver Failey. The New
York reserve fund, amounting to $780,
600, will be sent
GEN. SAUNDERS and his army of COM
l., al n4
eblo, Col, surrendered to United States
Marshal Neely at Scott City, Kan, no
resistance being made.
MAJ GEORGE w. STEELE, ex-governor
of Oklahoma territory, now living in
Marion, Ind, was nominated for con-
gress by the republicans of the Eleventh
district on the fifty-ninth ballot
A SHORTAGE of s2S. 900 has been dis
covered in the accounts of Gus Weis-
brodte, city treasurer of Middletown,
Butler county, o. The irregularity is
said to extend back several years, s12,
600 being taken when Hon. Z. j. Sorg
was one of his bondsmen. The pres
ent bondsmen are said to be unable to
pay his shortage.
FIVE hundred Polish laborers, most
of them in starving condition, have
demanded work of the mayor of Grand
Rapids, Mich.
JAMES JEFFREYs, the oldest engineer
in point of service on the Chicago S
Northwestern road, was instantly
killed in a collision near Eau Claire
Wis. Three other employees were fatal
ly injured.
As the result of the storm on the 9th
the streets of Saltwater, Mimi. were
impossible in the business portions A
conservative estimate places the total
damage at $50. .OOO Above Dutchtown
there were holes in the side hills 80 feet
deep.
WALTER DoHM, Princeton univer-
sity athlete, and one of the fastest
sprinter and hurdle racers in the coun-
try, died in Denver, Col, the other
night of pulmonary trouble brought
on by over training.
THE telephone exchanges at Toledo,
O., was destroyed by fire on the night
of the 10th.
THE Muskogee Bar association re-
Gently passed resolutions approving
the bill that was introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator Teller after his recent
trip of inquiry through the Indian ter
ritory. The bill provides for full juris-
diction to the United States court in
the Indian territory. with two addi-
tional judges and three more courts
AS it is now, the dispensation of justice
in the Indian territory is an imperfect,
eXtravagant matter.
SIRUP manufacturers of the country
held a convention in Chicago. They
will petition glucose manufacturers to
abandon manufacture of sirups
The Toledo. Peoria & Western road
has laid off several freight trains on ac-
count of the scarcity of coal.
Two thousand employees of the Pull
man Palace Car Co. quit work on the
11th, the men demanding restoration
of S3H per cent cut in wages last
year.
AT Dubuque, Ia, the torpedo boat
Ericsson, the first United States war
vessel ever built on inland waters, was
launched on the 18th.
The Gulf road has requested United
States Marshal Jones to retain twenty
deputies in the Trinidad Col district
until further notice. 1t was said that
the striking coal miners at Sopris, 5
miles from Trinidad, had uttered
threats to destroy bridge which spans
a large gulch midway between Trini-
dad and the mines.
THE SOUTH.