The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-10

| ern part OF Sneeiy county, anu lh tnc
adjoining county of Upton, Tennessee.
They made their appearance only a
few days ago. and great damage is
already reported.
AFTER struggle of forty days against
the united railroads the American Rail-
way union in Chicago has declared off
the strike inaugurated in behalf of the
Pullman employees.
MAT BUTLER, of Cambridge, Mass,
broke the words smile bicycle record
in handicap race with forty entries.
| Buffers time was IL minutes seconds.
| A FIRE broke out on the United States
man-of-war Marion at Mare Island,
Cal, and it was three hours before the
flames could be extinguished. DAM
age, only 1000.
Two men at Brazil, Ind, were at
tackled by strikers and horribly beaten
and stabbed because they were scabs
who had gone to work in the place of
strikers.
THE discovery of fire in the grand
stand at the West Side Ball park at
Chicago on the 5th caused wild panic
among the spectators, in which several
met serious injury and number OF
others were cut and bruised.
The large livery barn of c. NJ. Klots-
bach at Madison, S. D., containing thir-
ty-five horses, fifteen carriages and
buggies, was burned. Two men sleep
ing in the office were suffocated and
burned to death.
DUN's report of trade says that the
settlement of the tariff question one
way or the other will make an imr or
tant change in the state of business.
So much business has been deferred
and stocks have been SO reduced that
large preparations are being made for
an increased activity. Wool has ad-
vanced. The injury to crops by hot
winds will affect all interests. Iron
manufacture is hindered by trouble in
the coke region.
FIRE at Marion, Ia, on the Sd de-
stroyed S125, 900 worth of property in
the business part of the town. An en-
tire block of the buildings burned be-
fore the flames could be checked. 1t
originated in the gas and electric light
works and was followed by an explo-
sion. Loss, $4,000, with insurance of
So. 500.
THE jury in the case of C@sario, the
assassin of President Carnot, of France,
brought in a verdict of guilty and the
presiding judge sentenced the prisoner
to be guillotined. When the death sem
tence was uttered Casario exclaimed:
"Long live the social revolutionr'
A FIRE in Lakeview, Mich, burned
all the buildings on both sides of Main
street. Thirty-five buildings were
consumed, comprising the principal
part of the business portion and includ-
ing both hotels. the post office, dry
goods store, general store and two
drug stores. Loss, S13O,OO0; insurance
unknown.
THE lumber district of Chicago on
the I'd was visited by a second fire
which for time threatened to rival in
destructiveness that of the day before,
Before it was subdued it had wiped out
the yards of the John Sprey Lumber
Co., A. j. Mclean, cedar posts; p. Par
rell, cedar posts. In addition to the
lumber yards the wooden bridge over
The Chicago river at Ashland avenue
vas totally destroyed
RETURNS from the principal counties
In Tennessee show that the democratic
nominees for judges of the supreme
court have defeated the republican
populist fusion ticket for judges by
good majorities.
THE Pullman works at Chicago were
started on the I'd quietly and without
demonstration on the part of the ex-
employees. But $50 men reported for
work, although the company expected
s0o About 1000 strikers gathered
about the buildings and good-naturedly
chaffed the returning workmen, but
no attempt at violence was made. A
heavy detail of police was on hand and
remained at the works all day on guard.
LAMoURE, n. D., is in ashes. A great
fire broke out on Front street at an
early hour on the I'd and, famed by
strong wind, laid waste the entire busi-
ness center of the town. Four blocks
of stores were burned, including the
county courthouse and the records.
The Leland hotel and drug store are
the only buildings left standing. The
loss is 5000, 900; only partially covered
by insurance.
THE indications are now favorable
for the early resumption of all the
mines now idle on the line of the Ches-
apeake & Ohio, and those at the Star
Furnace have already gone back at the
old rates.
In st. Paul, Mimi, the Omaha car
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eighty-five men, and will soon have a
full force at work. All the A. r. U.
men were anxious to get back, but the
company is taking in only such as
they see fit. This ends all signs of the
strike on the Omaha line there.
Mrs. SUSAN J. TAYLOR, of Walpole,
Mass, is under arrest, charged with
attempted incendiarism. The insur-
ance companies allege that there have
been within few years no less than
twenty-six fires in the property owned
by the family of which Mrs. Taylor is
a member.
FIFTY-oNE farmers, representing the
Sherman County (kan.) Irrigation as
sociation, arrived at Rocky Ford, Col,
on the 1st from Goodland, Kan. They
were there for the purpose of examin-
ing the irrigation system, with view
to utilizing a large body of water un-
derlying Sherman county by pumping
into reservoirs.
THE annual convention of the Luth-
eran Evangelical church of the central
synod of Missouri, Ohio and Indiana
was called to order at Cleveland, O., on
the 1st.
TIE democratic convention of the
Seventh South Carolina district have