The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-01
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
In attempting to arrest gang of
tramps at ST. Cloud, Mimi, the other
day, Chief of Police McKelvey shot
and fatally wounded one tramp, the
ball entering the head above the eye.
He also shot another tramp in the hip.
Everything seemed to show that the
chief shot in self-defense.
DR.. TALMAGE, pastor of the Brook
lyn tabernacle, had a narrow escape
from death on the 23d. When 30
miles from Pueblo, Col, as the train
approached a small bridge the engi-
neer saw that it was in bad condition.
1t was too late to stop and SO he
pushed on full steam and crossed it
with rush. The piers had been
washed away, leaving only rails to
hold up the bridge. The passage of
the train practically shook it to pieces
so that it would be impossible for an
other train to get over without acci-
dent.
In the convention of railway tele-
graphers on the oath in Denver, Grand
Chief Ramsey presented his annual re-
port. He congratulated the order on
having obtained from railroads during
the past year thirty-four wage sched-
ules.
ASSIGNEE HUBBARD, of the Union
Loan & Trust Co., which failed last
summer. stated in court at Sioux City.
Ia, that the liabilities of the company
were S7.OOO,OOO, and that the creditors,
who are mostly eastern people, will not
get over per cent. of their claims.
WHEN the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy fast mail train was miles east
of Kewanee, Ill, on the oath, and run
ming at the rate of so miles per
hour, the glass in the lubricator
of kerosene was spilled by steam pres
sure through the cab. Striking the hot
boiler head the oil was ignited, and the
next moment the whole interior of the
cab was in flames and the engineer
and fireman were horribly burned.
AT depth of 1.275 feet flow of gas
estimated at 10000 cubic feet was
struck in well No. 1 of the Colorado
City Coll Oil Co. The promoters of
the enterprise are confident of finding
oil in abundance.
In Cripple Creek, Col, there was a
very ugly feeling among the union
miners over the report that the owners
would attempt to reopen the gold mines
within few days with non-union min
ers protected by armed deputy sheriffs.
A PERMANENT organization was
formed and officers were elected at the
last session of the American Congress
of Liberal Religious societies at Chica-
go, which name was finally adopted.
The new society will be incorporated
under the laws of Illinois.
STRIKERS at Cripple Creek, Col. on
the 25th attacked the Strong mine,
overpowering the guards, after which
they blew up the shafthouse, it is re-
ported, causing the death of eleven
men who had started to work. A reg
ular reign of terror existed there and a
desperate battle was expected at any
moment.
FIVE hundred miners at Ardmore. /.
T., have quit work pending a meeting
to decide whether a strike shall take
place.
THE grand court of the United Com
mercial Travellers of America began its
annual session in Cleveland, o., on the
25th.
A SUIT for damage in the sum of $780,
600 has been begun in the United States
circuit court at Chicago by the French
republic against the World S Columbian
exposition. The litigation grows out
of the French governments claim for
damages to goods injured during the
manufactures building fire.
DELEGATES from southern Iowa ar
rived in Fort Dodge, Ia, on the 25th
and called out all the miners, about GOO
men.
VAL BI.ATz. the millionaire Milwau-
kee brewer. died very suddenly at st.
Paul. Minn.. on the Goth of heart dis
ease. Mr.. Blatz was returning to Mil
waukee from California with his wife.
THE entire northwest was reported
on the 27th as suffering from floods
caused by melting snow, immense dam
age being done to railroad property and
farming land in western Washington
and northern Idaho.
Gov. WAITE, of Colorado. issued a
proclamation on the Goth. declaring it
unlawful for any body of armed men
other than the militia to assemble and
commanding them to disperse. Imme-
diately after signing the proclamation
an order was written calling out the
militia and ordering them to Cripple
Creek, the scene of the strike troubles.
Afterwards the governor recalled his
order for the militia to go to Cripple
Creek. the mine operators consenting
to arbitrate the matters at issue.
THE trial at Corning. Ia, of Ryan
and Mccoy, the prize fighters who vio-
lated the new state law against prize
fighting. has resulted in verdict of
guilty. Sentence has not yet been
passed. The maximum punishment is
81 900 fine. one years Imprisonment in
the penitentiary. or both. The trial of
the officers of the Creston Athletic club,
for aiding and abetting. has been post
poned until the next term of court.
Gov. ALTGELD started two companies
of troops on the 9th to aid the sheriff
at Minonk. Ill. to move some coal
trains, striking miners refusing to al
low them to proceed.
THE SOUTH.
ROBERT DIXON and William Harvey.
employees of the Diamond Development
Co. at Miners Delight. Wyo., fought a