The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-08

ceed thirty carloads.
| LIGHTNING struck the house of Viii
liam Hall at Lakeview, O., the othel
evening and wrecked the structure
Mrs. Hall and baby were buried in the
ruins. Both were terribly injured
Mrs. Halls wounds being fatal.
THE Denver Coxey army, numbering
| 1000 men. has decided to take ad
vantage of the flood to float down the
Platte river to the Missouri and ther
on to st. Louis.
THE effects of the coal strikes are Sc
riously felt at Dubuque, Ia, among the
manufacturing institutions and rail
roads. One factory burns corn. Other:
are using wood and one or two have
closed down. The Illinois Central
railroad. to husband its supply, has
taken off one train on each division
Dealers have very little coal on hand
THE trouble between the white union
grain trimmers and the colored non
union men at Chicago, which has re
suited in several small riots, eliminated
on the 31st when John Church, col
ored contractor. was shot by James
Mcnamara, a union man, at the en-
trance of the board of trade. Meeting
Mcnamara. Church started to run and
dived under carriage, where his as
sailant caught him, firing two shots.
Mcnamara was arrested.
On the 31st many cities in Colorado
were reported to be flooded by the in
cessant rain, causing the rivers to over
flow their banks. Several fatalities
were reported from Pueblo. Much
damage to property occurred and
bridges and tracks of railroads were
washed away. The storm extended all
over eastern Colorado.
As j. C. Webb and Frank Horsely
were driving along in road cart, near
Marshall, Ok. on the 30th, bolt OF
lightning descended between them,
killing Horsely and the horse and fatal
ly injuring Webb.
DURING the regular semi-annual sun
dance of the Sac and Fox Indians, near
the Sac and Fox agency, 1T. two young
bucks became involved in quarrel
over Winchester. This fight broke
up the dance and a melee ensued in
which Chief Astor, Little Boy, Two
Tails-and-No-Head and Wolfeye were
all shot, the first two fatally.
By the capsizing of sailing boat on
the 1st near Buffalo, Ia, a pleasure
party of several persons were thrown
into the Mississippi, and Mrs. Hopes
and her two children drowned. The
others were saved with difficulty.
THE condition of the strikers at Pull
man, ILL.,, was reported as serious on
the 1st. Four hundred families applied
to the relief committee.
JAMES A. CRAWFORD, president of the
Illinois Miners federation, has been
nominated for congress for the Seventh
district by the peoples party.
A BLUFF line work train ran into a
string of cars miles east of Alton, ILL.,,
on the Sd. The accident was caused
by an open switch. Engineer Barnard
was killed and Fireman Harrison badly
wounded. Six of the workmen were
in njured.
REPORTS from Portland, Ore, and
surrounding country on the Sd stated
the river continued to rise and the sit
uation was becoming more perilous.
Business houses had two to ten feet of
water in them and hundreds of small
houses were turning over.
THE Field Columbian museum at Chi
cago, occupying the art building at the
worlds fair, was dedicated on the I'd.
A FIRE occurred at Ottumwa, Ia, on
the Sd in which five blocks were
burned. One person was burned to
death, one fatally affected by smoke
and three others seriously injured.
Loss, S225. 900. The fire is supposed to
have originated from the spark of a
locomotive.
THE situation at Cripple Creek, Col,
on the Sd was reported as serious. The
miners had made their last forage for
arms and provisions and were waiting
for the deputies to put in an appear
ance, at which time it was expected a
battle would take place.
THE elevator and mills of the Wabash
Milling Co. at Danville, Ill, burned the
other night. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
81. 900.
Gov. MATTHEWS, of Indiana, has or
dered out nine companies of state mill
tia to quell the riot among the strikers
at Shellunn.
A LATE special from Fort Gibson. I.
T, said that the Chickasaw Indians
had concluded to treat with the Dawes
commission. Meetings were held at
various points in the Chickasaw nation
and resolutions passed affirming the
offer made and authorizing the Chicka-
saw government to take steps to con-
clude treaty with the Dawes commits
sion.
AT Springfield, o., the Winters Art
Lithograph Co.. one of the largest es-
ia blishments of the kind in the west.
have applied for a receiver. Liabilities,
Sl51.4 453: assets. $4,000. The company
furnished the worlds fair Autographs,
and is now engaged in publishing the
Book of the Builders for the Columbian
Memorial Publication society.
Four dead bodies, now in the hands
OF the coroner of Pueblo. Col. have
been found since the recent flood.
By agreement of counsel the case of
Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor
Harrison. which was to be tried June
II, will not come for trial until fall.
ALEXANDER MCCURDY, vino horribly
mutilated his step-brother. Charles
Berry, whom he suspected of intimacy
with his wife last winter. was taken
from the Golden, Cal, Jail and lynched
after being subject to the same treat
ment he gave Berry.
THE SOUTH.
THE Kentucky state league of repub-
lican clubs began their annual conven-