The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-05

The American Association of Breed
ers of Jacks and Jennets met at the
Maxwell house, Nashville, Tenn Presi-
ed president and j. B. Fulton secretary.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
State Forestry association was held at
Denver, Col, lately. A resolution was
passed calling for the passage of the
McRae bill before congress for the
preservation of forests.
LAwRENCEvMLE, ILL.,, has been prac-
tically wiped out by fire. Among the
burned buildings were Lave & Boyd's
clothing house, T. c. Watts grocery,
L. Roberts general store and Buchan-
ans general stores.
SUPERINTENDENT GADsDEN, of the
money order service, will sign orders
early in January making 145 fourth
class post offices money order offices,
and extending postal note facilities to
fifteen offices in various parts of the
country.
The thirty-horse power boiler in the
saw mill of Mac cDonald & Waldice, near
Peru. Ind, exploded, wrecking the
building and instantly killing George
Macdonald, brother, and Bid Mac
Donald, son of the proprietor.
TWENTY persons were drowned dur
ing heavy fog at Amsterdam.
PRENDERGAsT, the assassin of Mayor
Harrison at Chicago, was found guilty
of murder and sentenced to death.
FIFTEEN lives were lost through the
d.,
Albert to Melbourne, which went
ashore off Jubilee point during the ter
rifle gale which swept over Port Philip,
Australia.
The operators of the Kidd mines,
west of Bellaire. O., on the Baltimore
& Ohio road, have posted notices of 10
per cent reductions, to 60 into effect
January l. The men will resist the
reduction and strike may ensue. The
Troll mines also posted similar
notice, but later withdrew it.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended December 2S showed an average
decrease of 26.S compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was S0.2 outside,
223.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Athens says
that dynamite cartridge deposited in
the mansion of a banker named Syn
gret was exploded, doing great dam
age. Nobody was injured by the ex-
plosion.
AT Martins Ferry, O., the Etna,
Standard and Laughlin iron and steel
mills and Spence & Sons foundry have
all resumed, giving employment to
1,5OO men. The prospects for a long
and steady run are considered good.
Gov. BoIEs, of Iowa, granted an un-
conditional pardon to Ii. NJ. Belvel, the
newspaper correspondent convicted of
libeling the character of Senator
George F. Finn, of Taylor county.
The Illinois supreme court has
granted a rehearing in the famous S.
A. Keane & Co. assignment case. The
rehearing means that the late decision
may be reversed, and that over 800
cases and almost $4,000, 900 may be af-
fected.
The Louisiana State Lottery Co in
Louisiana has come to an end, but the
company will live under a new name.
Its new name is the Honduras National
Lottery Co, and its headquarters are
in CorteZ
The Kentucky court of appeals has
granted writs of error in the lottery
case. The lotteries will resume busi-
ness pending further Developments
The stock of Cone tS Co.. wholesale
and retail jewellers, in Cedar Rapids,
Ia, was seized under writ of attach
ment for $500 The liabilities are
heavy.
In Omaha, Neb., Bernard McGinn,
the slayer of Edward McKenna, was
sentenced to hang April 6. The muir
der was the outgrowth of a religious
fight. McKenna was an A. P. A, and
McGinn was a Catholic.
The National Switch & Signal Co.
of Easton, Pa, announces that it is
forced to reorganize on account of
financial embarrassments. alleged to
be due tosmismanagement The liabil-
tiles are $3.50, 900, with assets probably
well in excess of that sum.
In New York Henry c. Albert, dealer
in embroidery goods at S75 Broadway,
confessed Judgment for $50, 500.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES
PREMIER CRIsPI says the report that
Italy is negotiating a new loan is un-