The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18

| glycerlne IN a magazine belonging U
the Ohio & Indiana Torpedo Co., neal
Granville. o., exploded The magazine
was demolished and great hole tori
in the ground, but nobody was injured
The shock was felt in a dozen towns il
a radius of 25 miles.
A WOMAN and five children in tene
ment house in Glasgow, Scotland, wen
sgffocated by escaping gas, all effort
to revive them proving futile.
BRADFORD, Pa, was visited by de
structive fire, which started in th'
Sheehan house. A blizzard was blow
ing and the weather was intensel,
cold. Many firemen had their hand
and ears frozen. Robert Sisco had hi
hands and feet so badly frozen that HI
was in a serious condition. For timt
the business portion of the town wa
threatened with destruction, but gooC
work on the part of the fire department
saved it. The total loss is estimated
at s15O,O 900.
SENATOR w. E. CHANDLER was re
nominated by the republicans of the
New Hampshire legislature, beating
ex-senator Blair badly.
Two men and a boy who were on the
outlook for burglars were suffocateC
by gas recently in tenement house il
New York.
SIXTEEN buildings, including eight
stores, at Foster, Ia, have burned.
Loss, $1,000
A DOZEN houses burned at State Cen.
ter, Ia, the other afternoon. Most OF
the goods were saved. Loss, about
S35, 600; insurance, S12, 200.
CLEARING house returns for the prin
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended January IL showed an av
erage increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of f. ,: il
New York the increase was Ia; outside
New York the increase was ~.
FAILURES for the week ended the It'll
(Dun's report were 420 in the United
States. against 474 same time last year.
in Canada "a, against 81 last year.
SEVEN masked men entered the Bel.
mont brewery at Martins Ferry, o.,
seized John Broney, the night watch
man, and took his revolver and keys.
They then gagged him and made him
show them the office. One of the rob.
bers guarded Broney while the Others
went to work at the safe. One of its
doors was blown through the window.
After securing 5000 they left the watch.
man bound and gagged and he was not
discovered until morning.
IAAtEe w TpOyrp cIratad op axb;1,;
tion = mile backward at Menominee.
Mich, recently in 1870. Troyer has a
record of LEO As, and claims the worlds
championship.
MINING circles at Deadwood, S. D..
were recently in a flutter of excitement
over the announcement of rich strike
made in the Lacllawanna mine, situated
on Green mountain, few miles south
of Deadwood. a IL foot vein has been
uncovered, the ore from which after
many assays, gives returns averaging
from 81. to So, 200 in gold per ton.
The mine is owned by James Collins
and Curley O'Leary, two poor miners.
whom chance spot" in one moment
has placed in affluence.
THE South Dakota house and senate
on the 10th suspended the rules and
passed a joint resolution offering s., ,OOC
for the arrest and delivery of the de.
faulting treasurer, w. w. Taylor He
is described as about feet inches in
height, 200 pounds weight, has brown
hair, small mustache, blue or gray
eyes, fiorid complexion.
PRESIDENTS of leading universities OF
the west held a conference at Chicago
on the 11th on collegiate football and
to consider changes in rules which
would abolish slugging and brutality.
An avowed object of the meeting was
also to eliminate professionalism from
college athletics.
AT st. Louis articles of incorporation
were issued for an organization to be
known as the Protestant knights of
America, which will be national in
character and scope. Its objects will
be the free distribution of the Bible;
the uniting of Protestants into fra
ternal and benevolent bond; to guard
and advance the interests of the public
school system; to protect its members
in times of adversely and to pay a
death benefit ranging from 1000 to
s., 900.
Two hundred and fifty Italian fam
lilies have purchased 1000 acres of land
near Greenville, Ark, and will form a
colony there.