The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
BY the explosion of fifty-pound can
of powder the grocery store of Fred
Moreltock, four miles from Mount Ver-
non, Ill, was wrecked and destroyed
by fire. Three inmates. Milt Brookins,
George Lang and William Curtis, were
taken from the ruins in an insensible
condition. They were burned in a
fearful manner and will die.
The Union League club, of San Fran
CISCO gave a reception to exPresident
Harrison on the 10th. All the promi-
nent republicans of that city were
present
A DISPATCH from Marshall, Mich,
said that in connection with the disap-
treasurer of the A. o. U. w. the coun-
ty treasurer was now investigating his
books to ascertain whether he was
short through Woods alleged embez-
Elements. Wood was employed in his
office temporarily. He carried the keys
to the vault and the doors, and mad the
treasurer's full confidence. The A. o.
eating Woods accounts.
RECEIPTS of gold at the Denver mint
on the 10th amounted to $4,000. the
largest for any one day in the history
of the mint During April, 1895, the
receipts were SlO1, ,641: up to date this
month they are s215, 900
NEAR Hartford City. Ind, in a freight
train wreck, A. Benthen, brakeman,
was instantly killed, the fireman, j. w.
Tucker, had both legs broken and Al
Phillips, brakeman, was injured so that
he died. and two tramps were seriously
hurt.
THE steamer City of New Orleans
which arrived at Cairo, Ill. on the 11th.
reported that the tow-boat Diamond
burned to the waters edge at Avenue
landing while on her way to New Or
leans towing twenty-six boats and
barges of coal
NINE hundred employees of the Wer-
ner company, at Akron, o., who have
been on a strike for the restoration of
10 per cent cut, have decided to re-
turn to work. The 200 pressmen and
press-feeders have withdrawn from the
meeting and will stay out for the old
wages.
CHIEF HARRIS of the Cherokees. has
issued a proclamation calling a special
session of the council to convene at
Tahlequah on the 10th to decide wheth-
er the strip money shall be paid per
capita or otherwise. The money will
be paid out in less than sixty days.
PURSUANT to the decision of the Cen
trail Building league and majority of
the leading builders of Chicago, the
lockout of all the employees engaged in
the building trades began on the 18th
THE lockout of the building trades in
Chicago which occurred on the 18th,
was not so general as was expected,
not more than 10, 900 men being turned
out of work.
CHARLES GUSTAvON, a grave-digger
while at work in Graceland cemetery,
Chicago, fell dead from heart disease
in half-made grave. His body lay an
hour before being discovered.
THE New Albany lind presbytery,
which has just adjourned, took action
in the Breckinridge-Po Pollard scandal
and adopted resolutions to be pre-
sented at the general assembly, which
meets at Saratoga next May, asking
that men of dissolute and immoral
habits be excluded from the national
councils.
A THIRD warrant has been issued for
Newell b. Parsons, confidential book
keeper of the Wells-Stone company,
now under arrest on a charge of forgery
The complaint this time alleges that
Parsons distracted from the vault rail-
road bonds payable to bearer to the
value of s463, 200. 1t was rumored that
even more startling developments
would soon be given out
EIGHT thousand Colorado coal miners
will go out on strike April 81.
The Latter Day Saints conference
at Lamont, Ia, reported a Sunday
school embership of 7,133 and the
number of schools as i53, gain in
schools of IS and in membership of
1,7.6. all this during the past year.
REPORTS from California, Oregon and
Washington indicate that the hop crop
will be unusually large this year.
RESIDENTS of northern and central
Wyoming have asked that additional
troops be stationed at Fort Washakie
as the Indians are threatening.
A DISPATCH from Great Falls, Mont,
of the 18th stated that promptly at
noon the Great Northern employees
struck. The mail will be allowed to
run, but no passenger coaches
A GIGANTIC scheme for the develop
ment of the gold belt by an extension
of the well known Silver Cord tunnel
entirely through the hills to Big Evans
gulch is under consideration at Lead
vile, Col.
SANTA CRUZ, Cal, was visited by a
disastrous confiagration on the morn
ing of the 18th. twenty-four buildings
in the heart of the city being reduced
to ashes, causing a loss of over S255, 600,
with less than 500. 900 insurance.
THE house of August krinke, near
Janesville, Mimi, was burned and three
children perished in the fire.
THE British bark Cumbrian, from
Portland, Ore, for Queenstown, has
been wrecked off the Irish coast. The
crew were saved.
THE SOUTH.
A STRIKE on the Louisville & Nash
vile on May 10 is inevitable. The road
has announced cut May Is of 10 per
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