The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-17
GENERAL NEWS.


ington on the 18th.
GENERAL NEWS
A FAST freight was thrown in the
ditch by broken wheel and ten cars
were piled up in a confused heap near
Hornellsville, n. Y, on the 12th. One
of the cars contained horses that were
being taken east to enter the races.
There were eighteen horses in this car
that were attended by their grooms
Three men were killed in the wreck,
all of them being grooms, and several
others injured. Ten of the horses that
were in the car were killed.
The McMoran grain elevator, with
its contents, was entirely destroyed by
fire at Port Huron, Mich, on the 18th
and the McMoran roller and Touring
mill adjoining badly damaged. The
fire started from an oil tank.
THE towboat City of CHARTERS, owned
by the Evansville Contracting Co., of
Evansville, Ind, burned to the waters
edge and sank on the 12th at Ironton.
O. The fire originated in the rear end
of the kitchen, and owing to heavy
wind which prevailed all attempts to
save her were futile. The crew saved
their personal effects. She was valued
at $40, 900 and was partially insured.
BY the collapse of a brick building
in process of being torn down at Chi
cago, five men were injured, while
nearly a dozen others had narrow es-
capes. The injured were buried under
a mass of bricks and mortar. The fire.
men responded to the call and soon
dug them out. They were sent to the
hospital.
IN the mine of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Co. at Sopris, near Trinidad, a
terrible gas explosion occurred early
on the morning of the 10th which re-
suited in the instant death of four per-
sons and the injury of two others.
Had the explosion occurred during the
daytime the results would have been
frightful. as ordinarily there are from
zoo to 300 men employed in the mine.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended May 10 showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of %. 6; in New
York the increase was 365; outside
New York. 100.
4 DISASTROUS wreck occurred upon
the old Bee Line division of the Big
Four railroad, near Muncie, Ind. The
third section of a Chicago meat train
of thirty cars was flying along down
grade az the rate of 80 miles per hour
when the rails spread. The engine
and six cars passed in safety, but the
following eighteen cars were piled sc
feet high. Seven tramps were on the
train, and one of them was buried be-
meath the debris.
MOSES NEAL, of Oklahoma City, has
been appointed to look after the allot-
ments of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians. They have in all about 5, SOC
claims and it is the intention to lease
them so that improvements can be
made.
ALL the union molders in Indian.
apolis, Ind, struck on the 9Th for
a rigid scale of wages from s.. % &c
s.. so per day. They were receiving
from So to s.. 40. A recognition of the
union was also demanded. The owners
of the ten plants involved will, they
said, grant neither demand.
THE international convention of the
Y. NJ. c. A. opened its annual session
at Springfield, Mass, on the sth with
about 500 delegates present, represent
ing forty states and territories, besides
several provinces in Canada. The
nomination committee brought in a
list of officers and they were unani-
mously approved. The report showed
an aggregate membership of pa, or.
The financial reports showed an in
crease in the property held by the Y.
NJ. C. A. of more than s., OOO, 900 with a
total OF 6.252. SIS.
IT was reported on the sth that there
was little doubt that the schooner
Walter A Earl, of Victoria, B. c., had
capsized in the open sea in a recent
terrible gale and all her crew of six
white men and twenty-six Indians
were lost
AT WaInpoo, Ark, an attempt was
made by Constable John Green to serve
a warrant on Milt Harper. Both men
were armed with doub barreled shot
guns and began firing at each other
Green received ten buckshot in the
body and Harper twenty-three. Both
men died in less than an hour.
PETER FELLERDAM, aged 70, was
found dead in his bed in an attic room
of business block in Muskegon, Mich.
He begged his living from door to door
and was never suspected of having a
cent. In the mattress under him was
tound hidden over 81. 900 in bonds, GER
tificates and cash. He had literally
starved to death.
THE ten days lockout of the union
painters at indianapolis has ended.
The union painters accepted the terms
of the bosses and all went back to
work. The bosses on their part agreed
TO tale back the men without preju-
dice and not to discriminate against
union men.
AT Fan Claire. Wis. Judge Bailey,
in sentencing Embezzler Harry Il. Nc
Master, declared that the only way to
suppress such cases of embezzlement
was TO strike at the root of public gam
bling- The Chicago board of trade, he
belie5ed, had caused moro distress.
rrincd more men and wrecked more
families thau civil WAY.