The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-07


panied by rumbling sound like dis
tant thunder. was Felt at Pittsfeld. Ill,
On the ID The vibration seemed to be
from north to south.
In Flint, Mich, the Thread Touring
mills were destroyed by fire. Upwards
of 1000 bushels of wheat and 500 bar
rels of flour were also burned. Loss,
s45, 900.
In Flagstaff. Ariz.. an incendiary fire
which started in vacant residence de-
stroyed five houses and two saloons.
In one of the residences destroyed A.
C. Potter was burned to a crisp, and his
sister was badly burned.
UNDER pouring rain the Yale foot
ball eleven vanquished the Princeton
Tigers at New York on the LIST in a
well fought game, whose final score
was "a to o.
Gov FLOWER, of New York, has re-
fused to issue requisition papers for
John ID. Rockefeller and others of the
Standard Oil Co. to the governor of
Texas on the ground that the papers
presented are not sufficient.
AMID the roar of tidal wave GOO feet
of docks at Tacoma, Wash, plunged
into Commencement bay on the 2Sth.
Two steamships were tossed about like
chips and disabled. Alger's boathouse.
containing Alger. his wife and six chill
dren, was turned upside down and all
spilled out into the icy water and 1T
was feared one was drowned. 1t was
thought the big wheat elevators and
coal buniers would pitch into the bay,
owing to the ground settling. All the
cattle pens of the Northern Pacific and
the 4OO-foot freight house went down
into the ground and fire broke out and
the pump station disappeared in the
debris. Loss. about $4,000.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended November 30 showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 80;
outside New York the increase was
81.
THE failures for the week ended No.
vember 30 (Dun's report) were $50 in
the United States against 27l last year.
DUN's Weekly Review of Trade on
the LIST. said the success of the govern
ment loan had not perceptibly affected
business. Wheat was i cents higher
than a week ago and western receipts
exceeded last years. Corn had adj
vanced fraction. There was larger
demand for iron but the prices were
weaker.
EX-Gov. JOSEPH f. Brown died at
Atlanta, Ga, on the 30th. aged %. He
was the war governor of Georgia and
has been United States senator.
Ar Chicago. Frederick Freisch. car
penter. and his son-in-law. Thomas
Eckhardt. after bitter quarrel clinched
and fell to the floor. Mrs Eckhardt,
fearing that her husband would be
badly beaten, secured revolver and
opened fire. wounding her father.
Freisch wrested the revolver from her,
fred two bullets into her body, shot
her fleeing husband and ended the af
fair by sending bullet into his own
head.
THE officials of the Marine hospital
service have been notified that large
firm of manufacturing chemists at De-
troit, Mich, was making preparations
for the manufacture of anti-toxine. the
new remedy for diphtheria which has
created such widespread interest in
Europe.
4 DISPATCH from New York of the
Goth said that the bankers who united
to purchase the whole $50. 100000 is
sue of the new government bonds sold
Nf NJ h..l
previously sold 5000. 600 at 119 and had
but -, C0O,000 more to offer at 1872.
What price they will ask for the rest
of them had not been announced. If
they succeeded in selling the whole is
sue at 119 to 1I9l5 they would make
over 81. 600. 600 clear profit on the trans
action.
GEN. BooTH, the head of the Saliva
ton army. who is now visiting Amer
lea. sent cable dispatch to Gar
Nicholas. saying that the Salvationists
throughout the world greeted his i'm
perial majesty with the assurance of
their heartfelt sympathy with him in
his recent bereavement, and offered up
prayers for his happiness with Princess
AliX and for long reign of usefulness
and benevolence. The ear sent the
reply: Il am deeply touched by your
kind greeting and wishes"
THE Chief of Police union, of Illinois,
recently appointed committee to draft
a bill for the removal of police matters
from politics. The bill will provide for
a non-partisan police commission to be
appointed by the governor and con-
firmed by the senate. The committee
was instructed to employ the best legal
talent in the state for drafting the bill
and to do everything in its power to
get it before the next legislature and
to secure its passage.
THE reported Chinese atrocities at
Port Arthur are confirmed from vari
Gus sources. On the battle field, it APP
pears. the Chinese did not take prison
crs. and from the dead and wounded
and vanquished they sheared off the
heads. mutilated them in various ways
and strung them together with rope
passed through their mouth and gullet.
A barrel full of mutilated remains was
found by the japanese after the battle
of Ping Yang.
EIGHT masked men rode up TO the
wine house of Jose Chavez Romero,
near Los Lunas, n. NJ, recently
and calling Romero out. threw lariat
around his neck, dragged him to a
bridge. stripped him of his clothing
and whipped him numerically. They
then hung him to beam until he was
nearly dead and rode off after warning
him to leave Los Lunas. No reason
for their action was known.
CHINA has succumbed to the in
evitable and has sued for peace and
her proposal Will be presented to
Ianan fhrnnrh the Limited States min