The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-12

TEN business houses of Red Key,
Ind, burned, causing a loss of $50, ,00O
with an insurance of $50, 200.
Two wholesale houses at Detroit.
Mich, were burned out on the night OF
she Sd. Loss, s250O00.
ABSryT $500, 900 damage was done by
fire at Torv 10. o., which broke out in
the Quale elevator
DAVID LoUDEN, justice of the peace.
aged 81. cut his throat at Shelbyville.
Ind. Failure to secure political ap-
pointment is said to have driven Lou
den to take his life.
A PARTY of four has left Spokane,
Wash, for the Clearwater country to
search for George Colgate, cook of the
Carlin party. They Will ascend the
river in boat
FREEBoRN has been sworn in as a
member of the Kansas board of char
tiles and the republicans recognized
him.
The railroad commissioners of Mis-
souri, have filed complaints against
various express companies charging
violation of the order to reduce charges.
THE Cherokee bonds have been sold
to J. McElroy & Co., of Chicago, and
w. B. Hord, of New York City, for r.
T. Wilson, of New York, for the sum
of So, 74O. 900.
A CAREFUL estimate of the Toledo
fire loss foots up S750.000 1t was by
all odds the greatest fire Toledo ever
had.
The police of Denver. Col, have ar
rested III. Il. and L. J. Rutherford, two
young ranchmen living near Golden.
They are charged with wrecking the
South Park express on December 30.
Their object was robbery.
The Haynes Realty and Financial
Co, of St Louis, has made an assign
ment. Liabilities, $3.50, 1000 to s175, 200;
assets about the same; cause, specula-
tive investments outside the business.
J. ID. MCCoLLoUGH, a ranchman,
started few days ago to cross Owl
Creek mountains, Wyoming, and, as he
has not been seen since, it is feared he
has been lost in the snow, which is
very deep.
CLERKS and stenographers in the
five-story building, los and no Ran
dolph street, Chicago, were badly
scared by fire and the fire-escapes
were thronged with panic-stricken oc-
cupants-
The Kansas City, Mo-, banks held
December 10 a reserve of 81. 40 per cent.
as against IS. II per cent on October );
the St Paul national banks, $3.50 per
cent. against 81. II per cent October 5;
the Minneapolis banks, Sc. 73 per cent.
against 29.O7 per cent October 8, and
the St Joseph, Mo-, banks, O.4S per
cent against 1871 per cent. October 3.
By an explosion of dynamite on sec
ton 10 of the Illinois drainage canal,
L. Miller was killed and Engineer Ben
Birch was seriously injured.
Mrs JOSEPH WAUTZ, of Miamisburg,
O., jumped into the canal with her in
FAINT, both drowning. The woman was
deranged by grip
THE coroner's jury in the Linwood.
Kan, railway accident found the Rock
Island at fault.
AT Centreville, Ia, Harlan Richards,
a prominent politician and mine owner,
was fatally injured by fall of coal
while inspecting his mine. A miner
was instantly killed.
THOMAS w. PALMER, of Michigan,
says that Gen. Harrison has informed
him that he does not desire renomi-
nation for the presidency.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in St Paul to
secure the national Grand Army en-
campment in 1895.
DIR. ROBERT ALLEN, for twenty years
president of the Southern Illinois nor
NAL university, died of the grip at Car
bondala Ill.