The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-06

A CYCLONE passed over Pipestone
Mimi, on the 27th, causing injury I.
persons and heavy property losses
Mrs. Clifford T. Hicks was Instant,
killed, and Mr.. Hicks seriously injured
1t was reported from points adjacen
that a number of farm and school
houses had been destroyed, and ther
is possibility that a number of live
have been lost.
AT 12 o'clock on the night of the 2stl
every member of the A. r. U. in tn,
Santa Fe employ at Argentine, Kan.
quit work in obedience to an order boy
cotting Pullman cars. Judge Foster
of Topeka, Kan, has issued an ordel
directing United States Marshal Neely
to protect the railroads property. The
Missouri Pacific switchmen at st. Loui.
have struck, tying up that road.
AT Cairo, ILL.,, every railroad line en-
tering the city was at standstill or
the 2Sth on account of the Pullman
boycott. The employees at the stock
yards at Chicago have decided to strike
unless the company refused freight OF
lines hauling Pullman cars. All A. r.
U. men on the Santa Fe at Pueblo
Col, have quit work. All was quiet at
Albuquerque, n. NJ, though not train
was moving on the Santa Fe or Atlantic
& Pacific. San Francisco was complete
ly shut off by rail with the outer world.
BY the explosion of some fireworks
on the rear platform of the special train
bringing home from the Illinois state
convention the marching club of the
Cook county democracy, eight of them
were burned. The accident occurred
at Bloomington. The report was
started that an attempt had been made
to blow up the train. Great excite
| ment enSued.
THE Chicago Sugar Refinery Co., en-
ploying $500 men, closed its works on
the 2Sth on account of the railroad
strike.
THE executive committee of the Ma
tional Republican league held pro-
longed session on the 2sth at Denver,
Col. John Goodnow, of Minnesota,
was elected chairman. Hon. Z. III.
Harper. president of the Mutual Re-
serve Fund & Life association, of New
York City, was elected treasurer. The
headquarters will be continued in Chi
cago.
THREE female experts, Drs. Sarah
Hackett Stevenson, Harriet Alexander
and Florence w. Hunt, were witnesses
in the Prendergast insanity hearing at
Chicago on the 2sth. They testified
that the assassin was an imbecile and
that his brain was not developed.
Other witnesses were examined, among
them Mrs. Prendergast, the mother of
the prisoner. She testified that there
had been insanity in the family.
The members of the A. R. u. struck
on the 29th at Terre Haute, Ind, be-
cause Pullman cars were being used.
The Rock Island road, it was said at
Chicago, would be tied up on the 3Oth.
All the trainmen at the Chicago Union
stock yards struck at night on the Goth.
The officials of the Santa Fe believe
the strike had spent its force so far as
their lines were concerned. At EN-
poria, Kan, the yards were filed with
loaded freight cars, the regular pas
senger trains, however, passing. All
the Santa Fe employees were out at
Florence, Kan. Santa Fe trains were
unable to get away from Denver, Col
The Southern Pacific west of Ell Paso
and Deming was paralyzed.
In Denver, Col, fire destroyed the
public tramway and ore bins together
with bins of the Veteran, Enterprise
and Aspen mining and smelling COM
panies' mines. The loss amounts to
$50. ZOO, with no insurance.
STEPS have been taken looking
toward thorough overhauling by the
courts of General Secretary Treasurer
John W. Hayes, of the X. of L., at a
held at Philadelphia. Resolu-
tions were adopted condemning the |
of Messrs. Powderly. Quinn |
and Wright as a fragrant outrage and |
a brutal manifestation of enmity."
THE strike situation on the 1st seemed |
to be getting darker. The Illinois Cen
tral was completely blockaded. The |
war department has ordered two COM |
panies of infantry to Trinidad, Col, to |
aid the Santa Fe in moving its trains. |
At Indianapolis everything pointed to |
a general tiesup. At st. Paul, Minn.,
the freight business was completely |
At Kansas City the Rock |
Island was tied up.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
for the sale of the Columbia group of
gold mines in Boulder county, Col, to
a syndicate of New York capitalists for
S.. 900. 900.
IN Pueblo, Col, owing to the strike of
the southern coal miners. not dollars
worth of coal is for sale, and, unless
relief comes soon, the steel works and
will have to shut down.
THE plant of the Astoria Packing Co.,
which was one of the largest on the
Columbia river, has been totally de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, including nearly 10000 cases
of salmon ready for shipment. The
insurance is $4,000.
On the 30th as fast freight train on
the Lake Shore pulled up the grade to
New Carlisle, Ind, gang of eight
men boarded the train and proceeded
to rob the crew and passengers. Five
gold watches and about S75 was taken.
IN Chicago a milk famine was threat
ened on the 1st as result of the strike.
Several barges of coal were sunk.
THE SOUTH.
A TRAIN on the Savannah, Florida &
Western railroad was Stopped near