The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-11
THE WEST.

| THE WEST.
| AN international conference of the
Y. NJ. C. A. general secretaries OF the
| United States, Canada and Mexico
convened in Cedar Rapids, Ia. with 25O
secretaries present
| The Children's home at Temesca,
Cal, was burned to the ground. One
hundred babies and children were
safely removed.
FIFTY warrants are in the hands OF
the United States marshal of Mime
sofa for the arrest of Great Northern
| strikers.
| WILLIAM PENN Nixon, who has been
editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean for
eighteen years, has purchased the con-
trolling interest in that paper from ID.
II. Kohlsaat, the price paid being s4oo,'
OOO
THE miners convention at Abba, Ia {,
by vote of IS to 55, ordered strike.
This will take out 1000 men.
FIFTEEN hundred Films struck on the
Meseba range, near Duluth, Mimi. Tel
egrams were received from Virginia
that 700 miners were threatening to
loot the stores in that town. At one of
the mines the magazine was broken
open and forty kegs of powder and
dynamite stolen. The sheriff, adjutant-
general and a company of state militia
have gone to the scene.
The funeral of Senator Stockbridge
took place at Kalamazoo, Mich, on the
Sd Beside the congressional commit
tee there were present Gov. Rich and
the heads of all the state departments
and delegations from Detroit, Grand
Rapids and elsewhere.
BY direction of the assistant secre-
tary of war the few remaining Indians
composing company /, Second infantry,
at Fort Omaha, Neb, and company l.,
Sixteenth infantry, at Fort Douglas,
Utah. have been discharged. thereby
practically wiping out the organiza-
tions and marking another step to-
ward the total abandonment of the
scheme of separate Indian companies
WORD has been received in Denver.
Col, that w. ID. Vallandingham and
Tom Winn, miners, were held up in the
La Sol mountains near Montrose and
robbed of gold nuggets valued at s25,-
600.
The jury in the Chief Telegrapher
Ramsey case returned verdict of not
guilty. 1t was out twenty-five hours
ONE of the largest and richest min
eral bodies ever found in Colorado has
been uncovered in the Golden Fleece
mine at Lake City. 1t is an eight
foot vein of solid tellurium and ruby
silver that will run at least 50, to
the ton.
ILLINOIS prohibitionists, in conven-
tion at Bloomington, nominated DR..
A. G. Abrigdon for United States SEN
ator.
AT the meeting of the Colorado pop
ulist state central committee it was
unanimously agreed that ]. Warner
Mills should receive the nomination for
the governorship and Gov. Waite for
the United States senate and Repre-
sentative Bell to succeed himself.
In Litchfeld, Ill, all the miners,
about 100 in number, employed by the
Litchfeld Mining and Mercantile COM
pany, have gone out on a strike.
STRIKING brick-molders in Chicago
threatened to destroy the yards of d..
V. Purington & Co, but were driven
away by officers.
In Peru, Ill, the City Electric rail-
way has been compelled to shut down.
Owing to the miners strike there is no
coal and not car is moving.
The Grand Central hotel, a summer
resort on Lake Tahoe, Cal, and several
stores burned. Loss. S5O.OOO
THE Whitley reaper and mover works
at Muncie, Ind, burned on the 9th.
Loss, s245, 600.
Gov. RICH, of Michigan. has appoint
ed John Patton, .Ir., United States SEN
ator to succeed the late Senator Stock
bridge
THE supreme council of the A. p. A.
completed its labors at Des Moines, la, =,
on the 5th. The most important work
was the declaration of principles. The
council recommended that seven years
should elapse between an alien decla-
ration of intention and naturalization.
IN Bellaire, O., the blast furnaces
and the steel plant of the Bellaire Nail
Co, were closed down, owing to short
age of coal and coke This throws =, =
600 out of work.
IN the interest of the labor organiza-
tions of Chicago committee has gone
to California to examine 20, 600 acres of
land which have been offered to the
organizations for colonization.
The annual run" of the Associated
Cycling clubs of Chicago was held on
the 9th over the North shore course
There were about 1000 riders in line
ST. MARY's Polish Catholic church at
Chicago burned on the 9th. Loss, sS5,
600; insurance, s23, 600. The fire is
thought to have been incendiary owing
to factional fight in the church.
A MAN named John Geeden was
found at his home in Brooklyn village,
suburb of Cleveland, O., mortally
wounded. He said that a gang of
about fifteen tramps visited his house,
which is in an isolated locality, and
asked for money. When he refused
they proceeded to wreck the house, and
then shot him with a revolver
The United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca will hold a national convention at
Cleveland, O., on the 10th inst
THE SOUTH.
THE corner stone of the great Pyth-
ian univerSifv of the Ordar JTpivarca