The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-03

gate S40O, 900, with insurance of per
haps half. Many people lost all thei
possessions and are homeless. Th'
two hotels and nearly every business
house of any account were destroyed.
OVER 5000 people have been made
homeless by forest fires at Phillips
Wis. Nearly 100000 of property
has been swept away. Itwas estimated
that between fifteen and twenty-five
persons had lost their lives. The whole
northern part of Wisconsin was report
ed on the 2sth as being sea of flame
A special train of provisions had beer
dispatched to the suffering people.
]. T. BowDEN, who achieved noto
riety as the manager of the Duval Ath-
letic club, which organization pulled
off the Corbett-Mitchell fight last Feb
ruary. was horsewhipped to within an
inch of his life at Jacksonville, Fla,
on the 9th by the husband of a woman
whom it was alleged he had insulted.
CARDINAL LEDoCHowsKI. prefect OF
the Congregation of the Propaganda
Eide, died on the 28th at Lucerne,
Switzerland.
The steamer Castor and the bark
Ernst collided off Sandgate, Eng. The
Castor was badly injured, and sank
within few minutes after the vessels
came together. Three passengers and
the crew of twenty-six men were land
ed at Folkstone.
In the twenty-four hours bicycle
race in England, Shorthand, of London,
covered AGO miles and 900 yards, break
ing the record by two miles.
THREE children of James w. Canton,
of Hartford, Conn, who had been miss
ing for several days after they had gone
bathing in the Connecticut river, were
found dead in a freight caboose. 1t was
supposed they had gone in to play and
had closed the door and could not open
it. They had been asphyxiated. Their
ages were 9, z and 4.
DUN's review of trade for the week
ended the 27th said the uncertainty
about the tariff bill overshadowed in
dustries. Wheat had sold below 55
cents, making the monthly average
the lowest known in New York. Corn
was stronger on account of reports of
injury to the crop. Sales of wool were
greatly swelled by speculation in the
belief that it would advance sharply if
tariff changes failed.
THERE was no trouble at Scottsdale,
Pa, on the Goth over the disarming of
the coke strikers. Under orders from
the sheriff, the strikers had been ad-
vised by their leaders to give up their
arms, and ali but a few of the more
ignorant and determined consented to
do so. At New Haven a company of
sixty armed men turned their guns
over to Burgess Newcomer.
THE fires were started on the Goth in
the works of the Illinois Steel Co., at
Chicago, which have been shut down
since the beginning of the railroad
strike. The plant will resume with
full force soon, giving employment to
about $500 men.
AT Carlisle, KY, mob broke down
the Jail doors, took out William Tyler,
and hanged him to the cross
arm of telegraph pole. Tyler had
been put in Jail to answer to the charge
of criminal assault upon 1S-yea r-old
girl, whom he had chicken and beaten.
THE civil service commission will hold
an examination in various cities on
August for computership in the hy-
geographic Office, navy department, at
81, 900 per annum. Residents of the
District of Columbia will not be ad-
mitted.
A TELEGRAM from Meeker, Col, said
that masked men tied and blindfolded
Gen. S. Alsebrook and deputy sheriff,
whom Mr.. Alsebrool1 had placed in
charge of his sheep, and stabbed and
dubbed to death about $50 head of
sheep, after which they rode over to
Smith & Trimmers' camp and shot 10I |
ine blooded rams. The mob gave Alse-
brook five days in which to leave the
country, informing him that they had
secret organization of 300 members |
n Garfield, Routt and Rio Blanche |
who were sworn to rid the |
of such people.
HURRICANES and floods were reported |
rom the Guadalajara districts. in |
spain, through which the river Tagus
'uns- A number of towns in that |
province have suffered severely. The |
.rops have been badly damaged and
everal lives have been lost.
THE twenty-round fight at welter- |
Weights for the championship of the
world between Billy Smith, of Boston,
md Tommy Ryan, of Chicago, took
,lace at the Twin City Athletic club at
Mimi, before 1000 people
N the night of the 26th Smith was
'eaten. He was badly punished and
lthough not knocked out was declared
'eaten by the referee.
FOREST fires were doing considerable
amage around Duluth, Mimi, on the
4th and had appeared within the city
limits. At Amnicon, % miles from there,
! bridge on the Northern Pacific, $50
eet long and 80 feet high, had been de-
troyed.
PRESIDENT DEBs, of the American
Railway union, said recently that he had
cen in the newspapers mention ot
lew organization called the American
labor union, and his name had been
.oupled with it. He said he had no
with the organization
whatever, official or otherwise, and
my use of his name in connection with
[ was wholly unauthorized.
FIVE women went bathing recently
n the San Joaquin river near Fort
Cal. One got beyond her
iepth and in attempting to rescue her
.hree OF the others were carried into
IN eddy and drowned.
A CoNFLAGRATIoN wiped out the fin
st part of the business portion of
1henoa, Ill, on the cath. Loss. $780,
100: insurance about half. Six i'm
ported stations were DESTROYED at a
occ Of SIz nOn