The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19


w. f. BECK & Co., commission mer-
chants of San Francisco, have assigned
with liabilities of $3.50, 000 Collapse OF
the raisin market the cause.
THE post office at Lemars, Ia, was
robbed of $500 in cash and $500 in
stamps
q. w. McGARTH, superintendent OF
the Union Pacific coal department, has
posted notice offering $4,000 for in
formation leading to the arrest of the
persons who set fire to mine No. at
Alma, Wyo.
AT What Cheer, Ia, fire in row OF
frame buildings caused loss of SIS, 900,
with SIS. 600 insurance. There were ten
buildings, including the Commercial
hotel, and they are total loss.
CHARLES WILLARD, iron founder OF
Chicago, has assigned. Assets, $780,
600; liabilities, $4,000.
UNITED STATES SENATOR WILLIAM +.
Villas, in letter to Milwaukee
Catholic citizen, declares the A. p. A. a
menace to the republic. He says every
citizen should be opposed to its prin-
ciples
RECEIVERS for the Peoria, Decatur d
Western have been appointed by Judge
Allen, of the United States court, at
Springfield, Ill
AN oil we'll with a flow of 1000 bar
rels per day has been opened in the
Waterville, o., oil field.
AT Adelphi. o.. boiler in saw mill
owned by Wilson Bros. exploded, kill
ing three persons
The owners of the Ashland, Mich,
mine pulled up the pumps and quit the
business of mining iron ore. The mine
was flooded a year ago, and it would
cost thousands of dollars and many
months work before the property could
be worked again.
Mrs. CAROLINE TALBOT, the Quaker
ess who has preached all over the
United States and England during the
last twenty-five years, died recently at
Mount Pleasant, o.
LIDA WOODS boarding home at the
Eureka, Ill, college burned recently.
1t was occupied by fifty girls, all of
whom escaped without injury. Loss,
SIS, 600; insurance, $4,000
Gov. ALTGELD, of Illinois, has granted
respite to George ii. Painter, sem
fenced to hang for the murder of Alice
Martin. His attorneys have discovered
fresh batch of new evidence connect
ing the Texas convict, "Dick" Ed
wards, more clearly with the killing
of the Martin woman.
JOHN CARROLL HOVER, for twenty
wears custodian of the Lincoln monu-
ment at Springfield, Ill, died suddenly
recently.
THREE grain elevators and two malt
houses belonging to the firm of Curtis
& Bemis, of Chicago, were totally de-
stroyed by fire. The buildings, with
800, 600 bushels of grain they contained,
represent a loss of $500, 900, which is
fully covered by insurance.
DR. DAVID WILSON, hermit. said to
have been worth s13O,OOO died at his
home near Robinson, Ill.
Gov. HUGHES, of Arizona, is in trou-
BILE. Indications are that he will be
called on to retire in the near future.
The big sheet mills at Muncie, Ind.
operated by the Fullers of the Union
roller mill, of Cleveland, have started
up. The Guide mills are also to be
started.
FIRE at Minneapolis, Mimi, gutted
the center of the Syndicate block on
Nicollet avenue. Loss, 100000.
A TRIPLE lynching occurred at Rus
sell, Kan A determined mob hung to
a railway bridge the murderers of a
farmer named Dinniny. The murder
occurred last July, but was only lately
| discovered.
JUDGE RISING at Denver, Col, or
dered the coal companies which are ac-
cused of forming a combine to show
cause why they should not be fined for
contempt for violating the injunction
of the court
SHAEFER defeated Ives in the last of
the three-cornered billiard matches al
Chicago. but only by one point. Score
600 to 599.
ONE of the boilers in the flour mill:
owned by Wiley & Co., Appleton. Wis.
exploded. Joseph Banta, the engineer
was killed.
AT Lamar, Col, all records were
broken in the two days rabbit hum
which ended Saturday night. The to-
tai number killed was 1900 and the
highest individual score160. The game
was shipped to Denver and Pueblo t.
be. distributed among the needy.