The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-21

FOURTEEN people were more or less
injured by the giving way of structure
at the laying of the corner stone of st.
Augustine's church at New York, pre-
cipitating them into the cellar.
CoMMANDER-IN-CHIEF LAWYER, of the
G. A. R., announces that the customary
parade will be held at Louisville, KY,
in 1895.
A TORNADO swept over Westfield,
Wis. on the 18th. doing great damage
to crops and farm buildings. So far as
reported no one was killed.
THERE was every indication on the
18th that one of the biggest strikes in
the clothing trade would be inaugu-
rated in New England. The matter
was to be brought before a mass meet
ing of the craft on the 18th at Boston.
The men asserted that they had every
thing to gain and nothing to lose by
strike. as they were ground down be-
yond endurance.
w. III. J. TRAYNoR. supreme president
of the American Protective association,
has made arrangements for transfer
ring the supreme council to Washing
ton. This will be accomplished in
few weeks. A large printing plant
will be located in that city and news
papers and documents printed by the
million.
A MONSTER negro convention was
held at Pineapple, Ala, on the 18th to
discuss the question of migrating to
Liberia. Africa. The ruler of that
country had sent word that he would
give every American twenty acres of
land and implements to cultivate 1T.
The negroes were enthusiastic over the
scheme and many were reported SELL
ing out preparatory to going to Africa.
The first cargo of 300 will leave in Oc-
tober.
A FREIGHT train on the Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis &c Omaha railroad
was ditched miles west of Hammond,
Wis. While a passenger train from
Minneapolis was waiting at the scene
of the accident and the train load of
wreck to take train on the other side
an oil tank in the wreck exploded and
a shower of burning oil fell upon the
people, injuring eighteen. The tank
contained &. 900 gallons of oil. A car of
coal and the caboose were also burned.
THE strike of the New York &c Cleve-
land Gas Coal Co.'S 5000 miners, at
Pittsburgh, Pa, who have been out for
five months, has ended in the defeat of
the men.
ANTICIPATING exposure in the con-
vention. Z. VI. Dennison, state treas
urer of the Select Knights, a. o. U. W.,
in session at Buffalo. y. V. on the 14th,
killed himself He was said to be n de-
faulter.
A GREAT confagration is reported to
have occurred at Chung King. China,
August -. Thirty persons were known
to have perished and it was probable
the list of dead would prove much
heavier. The property loss was esti-
mated at 10.O00.O00 taels. Two thou
sand buildings were destroyed, includ-
ing three temples.
THE last honors were paid to the
Comte de Paris and his oody was de-
posted in a vault at Weybridge church,
England, on the 12th.
THE following were the officers
chosen for the ensuing year at the ma
tional encampment of the G. A. r. at
Pittsburgh: Commander-in-chief Col.
Thomas G.. Lawler, of Rockford, ILL.,;
senior vice commander. Maj. A. p.
Burchfield, of Pittsburgh, Pa; junior
vice commander. Charles III. Shute, of
New Orleans: senior warden. o. w.
Weeks. of Marion, o.; chaplain-in-
chief, T. c. Haggerty, of st. Louis.
4 BEAUTIFUL monument, erected to
the memory of Capt. Evan d. Harvey,
the famous confederate scout, by his
surviving comrades. has been completed
at Canton. Miss. and was to be un-
yelled on the 18th.
THE friends of Senator Brice at Co
lumbus, O.. say that if the coming
democratic convention adopted resolu-
tions censuring him for his course
against the Wilson tariff bill he will at
once resign. This would lose the dem.
ocrats one vote in the senate. as Gov.
Mckinley would appoint a republican.
JOHN WALTON, a farmer living north
of Guthrie. Ok, went to that city re-
Gently with load of wheat, and after
getting drunk started home with bot
tie of carbolic acid in his hip pocket.
He fell out of the wagon and broke the
bottle. When found the acid had eaten
into his body so badly that he could
not live.