The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-20
GENERAL NEWS.

THE brewery of the Cincinnati Brew
ing Co., in Hamilton. o., was partially
destroyed by fire. President Schwab
estimates the loss on building, grain
and stock at $50, 900.
A PASSENGER and a freight train came
together in head-end collision on the
Louisville e Nashville road. An en-
gineer was killed and both engines
badly wrecked. The accident was a
result of Misunderstanding of orders
on the part of the dead engineer.
BY a vote of 73s to 313 it was decided
to continue the strike of the employees
of the National Tube works at McKees-
port, Pa, until the company shall ac-
cede to the demand of the men.
NEAR Egg Harbor City, n. j., forest
fires have swept over an area of more
than 5000 acres, many buildings being
destroyed also. 1t was impossible to
form any estimate of the damage.
MRS JOSEPH NAHADIL started fire
with the oil can at Collinsburg, Pa,
and she and her grandson were burned
to death and her husband severely in
iured.
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statement on the 18th giving his rea-
sons for refusing to arbitrate.
CHARLES E. RANDALL, manager of
the Postal Telegraph Co. S office at Trim
idad, Col, produced in the federal
court in Denver, in obedience to sum-
mons, the strike dispatches wanted by
the government.
GENERAL SECRETARY HAYES and
T. B. McGuire, of the Knights of
s. A. French, of the executive commit
tee, who was also in that city, will re-
main to attend to any business which
may arise in connection with the au-
thorities there. All the officers ex-
pressed themselves as highly gratified
at the success of their interview with
the president, and as feeling satisfied
that the cause of labor would be best
served at this time by the abandon
ment of the strike, proper terms being
secured and the immediate prosecution
of the investigation by the commission
TO be appointed by the president.
BRADsTREEr's review of trade for the
week ended the 18th, said that for the
greater portion of the week general
wholesale business at Chicago and at
centers within the tributary territory
was paralyzed by the strike. The east
ern cities also felt the effects of the
tie-up. commercial travellers being COM
PEELED to leave the road. All western
centers report railway transportation
restored, but it will be some time be-
fore the restoration of conditions be-
fore the strike can be attained.
PRESIDENT DEBs, of the A. r. o.. sub
mitted a proposition to the railway
managers TO end the strike, the condi-
ton being that the men should be re-
stored to their former positions. The
recognition of their organization was
not asked for. The proposition was
inspired for the purpose of subscribing
the public good, so it was stated. The
proposition was returned by the board
of managers to the mayor of Chicago.
who had presented it, without any an
swer.
MARTIAL law has been proclaimed in
Sacramento, Cal. Several men were
shot down by soldiers No trains were
running out of the city On the 18th. AT
Oakland the yards on the mole were
under the protection of force of 1,0Oc
United States marines, militiamen ana
deputies
THE Rock Island bridge. mile south
of Enid. Ok, was blown up with dyna-
mite and freight train demolished on
the 18th A brakeman and a tramp
were injured. The outrage was sup
posed to have been done by men con.
cerned in the fight with the railroad
about townsites.
SovEREIGN's order for strike of the
K of L. has not been generally obeyed
as yet, but the leaders say there is
nothing to cause them mdiscouragement.
There is regular process to go
through.
Four fresh shocks of earthquake
were felt in Turkey on the 1lth. Many
lives were lost and much property
wrecked.
A FIRE in the arsenal at Toulon,
France. caused damage to the amour
of several million francs. The large
machinery section in which were valu-
able electrical instruments was de-
stroyed.