The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-04
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
Two bridges west of Fort Buford, on
| the Great Northern, have been burned.
1t is rumored that two others have
| also gone.
ured by federal soldiers at Forsythe,
Mont, and the leaders placed under ar
rest on the charge of grand larceny in
stealing train.
SEVEN empty warehouses were
burned at the worlds fair grounds at
Chicago Loss only 81, 100.
THE Vacuum Oil Co., of Colorado,
which has controlled the sale of two
thirds of the lubricating oils consumed
in the west, will be consolidated May l
with the Continental Oil Co., the west
ern representative of the Standard
| trust
THE worlds fair buildings have been
finally sold to Croft & Co., Chicago
house wreckers, for SS7, 500. Their re-
moval will begin in a few days
A JURY in Judge McConnelfs court,
Chicago. awarded the Rock Island rail-
road SIS, 4s1 in its suit against the
Union Pacific The Rock Island had
sued for $3.50, 600 The sHit grew out OF
an alleged breach of contract on the
part of the Union Pacific in relation to
the use of the latter's bridge at Omaha
The second annual national confer
ence of the German Young People,
Society of Christian Endeavor of the
United States at Yiffin, o., closed with
the election of the following officers:
President, Rev. C. Berner, Buffalo;
vice president Rev. J. Euszing, San
dusky, O.; secretary, Rev. A. w. Rine-
hart, St. Louis; treasurer, Ii. Muekhe,
Detroit
THE Kershaw and Longfellow schools
at Chicago have been ordered closed on
account of smallpox. The disease has
also become epidemic in the district be-
tween Ashland avenue and Halstead
street south of Forty-seventh street in
that city.
JUNGLE" MIKE LANTRY, aged Sc, Hv-
ing on Bell ranch, about SIS miles east
of Las Vegas, n. NJ, was brutally
butchered by two unknown men for
his money after a fearful struggle.
He had his head nearly hacked to
pieces with axes, his right arm was
nearly cut off and he was shot in three
places. A reward of $500 is offered.
A MOB of 500 unemployed miners
paraded the streets of Iron Mountain,
Mich, on the 27th, carrying red flag
and demanding food or work.
DAN CREEDoN, of Australia, defeated
10
weight, on the 27th at Minneapolis,
Mimi, knocking him out in the ninth
round.
The conference between the Amer
lean Railway union officers and Presi-
dent Hill. of the Great Northern, has
fallen through and every union man on
the road has been ordered out
A DESTRUCTIVE fire has occurred at
Tahlequah, l. T, fourteen business
houses being destroyed and thirty
horses cremated. Loss estimated at
$50, 600 to $4,000; insurance perhaps
SO, 000
A CROWD of 100 men battered in the
doors of saloon at Burlington, Ind,
emptied the liquors into the cutters
and burned the furniture.
FIRE in Ashland, Wis, destroyed the
Vaughn library building, causing a
loss of s175, 900. Insured
The union painters and paper-hang-
ers of Chicago have declared general
strike upon all the bosses who locked
their men out three weeks ago. This
action will affect nearly all the impor-
tant shops in the city. About !, 200 or
2, 900 men are out
THE steamer Oceanic, which has just
arrived at San Francisco, brings add
vices of great fire in Shanghai, China,
in which 500 houses were burned. So
far as known no lives were lost
A CHICAGO dispatch says that a
scheme of prodigious proportions which
contemplates the ultimate overthrow
of the country and government in the
interest of cooperative enthusiasts,
was sprung at meeting of the White
City Cooperative association, a power
full organization of known socialistic
tendencies
WORD has been received at Florence,
Col. that a fierce mountain fire was rag
ing along the line of the Florence &
Cripple Creek railroad and that its
bridges were in danger.
MAYOR EUsTIs, of Minneapolis, and
State Labor Commissioner Powers ad-
dressed the Great Northern railway
strikers on the 29th at St Paul, Mimi.
urging them to accept the new propo-
sition for arbitration. Their sug'
gestions were hooted down.