The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-25

the disclosures might result in diplo
matte correspondence between the
United States and the Italian govern
ment
In one of the aristocratic residence
portions of Chicago G. S. Merwin sud-
denly went insane in the middle of the
night of the 10Th and for seventeen
hours he defed the police, barricading
himself in a room and firing out of the
window at everybody passing, Great
ing CONSERVATION in the vicinity.
Finally the police closed all the regis
ters they could and put sulphur in the
furnace and he was soon captured.
The madman had fired altogether lac
shots from his revolver and rifle, but
fortunately no one was injured.
THE Pullman car Colum bia, valued
at sl35, 600, has left the shops of the
Pullman company at Wilmington, Del,
for Washington, whence it will take
President Cleveland and his party to
the Atlanta exposition. 1t is one of the
finest in existence.
On the night of the 10Th, at Dough-
erty, l. T, three masked men entered
]
cash tills The robbers then went to
the store of Hugh Hardy and the
money drawer was rified and articles
/ from the store taken. After inform
| ing the residents of the little town
that when there was money enough in
sight they would call again, they
mounted their horses and rode away.
The main building of the Northwest
ern Fertilizer Co.'S plant at the stock
yards at Chicago was burned. Loss,
! S75, 900.
FIRE broke out on the Goth in Al
giers, La, and before the flames were
| finally subdued, destroyed about 100
small buildings and about twenty
more pretentious structures, including
! the courthouse and a number of hand
some residences. All the records of
the Fifth district (Algiers) were
burned. The loss will probably exceed
/ $780, 900; insurance light.
THE northwest-particularly the Red
river valley in Minnesota and North
Dakota and Manitoba-has been visited
by sandstorms and icy blasts, which
have started up prairie fires which de-
stroyed houses, live stock and grain
stacks in their paths Half a dozen
people have lost their lives and a score
or more have been seriously burned
and permanently MANNED. The flames
passed over the Red and Assinaboine
rivers as though they were but bitches.
The damage done will amount in the
aggregate to over S2,OOO,O0O.
THOMAS SLIMHIR and Hans Hansen
were hanged at St Quentin, Cal, on
the 18th for the murder of the second
mate of the American bark Hesper on
the high seas. They were going to
kill all the officers and seize the vessel,
| but were only able to carry out part
of their programme.
ADvICEs from st. Petersburg on the
/ 18th stated that Russia might inter-
vene in the present Corean trouble and
assist in making Corea independent of
/ foreign interference.
THE town of Manchester. on the
| Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern rail-
way, 40 miles from Cincinnati, was re-
ported almost wiped out by fire on the
18th. 1t has a population of 1,5OO.
A DISPATCH from Quincy, H., stated
that A. J. Miller, ex-mayor of Canton,
Mo-, and Henry Clay were drowned in
the Mississippi river on the 18th. They
were out sailing when the boat cap
sized.
THE failures for the week ended Oc-
tober Is (Dun's report were 263 in the
United States, against 253 last year,
and 46 in Canada, against 43 last year.
COMMANDER DARLINGTON BOoTH. of
the Salvation army, has announced
that the big Salvation congress will be
held in Chicago this year. 1t will last
four days, and will be during the lat
/ ter part of November. Mr.. and Mrs.
Booth will lead the exercises and all
the national staff officers will be pres
ent. The Auditorium has been en-
gagged for the occasion.
| A FERRYBoAT having sixty passen-
/ gers on board collided near Cairo,
/ Egypt, with a steamer which was at
anchor and capsized, and fifty of those
on board of her, mostly workmen,
were drowned.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for
the week ended October Is showed
an average increase as compared with
the corresponding week last year of
21.9; in New York the increase was
27.9: outside New York the increase
was 149.
DURING a fight at a colored cake walk
near Moorestown, y. j., James Hag-
gerty, colored, shot Charles McKim,
Mrs. Silas Vessels, George Whitaker
and Charles Wiman, none of whom
were expected to recover. Some one
then shot Haggerty in the back. His
wound was considered mortal.
JOHN L. WALLER, formerly consul
for the United States at Tamatave,
island of Madagascar, who was sem
fenced to twenty years Imprisonment
on the charge of conspiring with the
Hovas against the French authorities
in that island and taken to France. has
been removed from ClairvauX prison to
the prison at Mines, capital of the de-
partment of Gard, the climate of the
latter place being better suited to the
prisoner, who was far from enjoying
good health.
JOSEPH RAMSEY, JR. has been ap-
pointed general manager of the Wa
bash railroad, vice Charles NJ. Hayes,
resigned. Mr.. Ramsey will assume the
duties of his position about January l.
ORLANDO STEVENS, the Ottumwa Qa.)
wonder bicycle rider, reduced the 4
mile unpaced record on the 18th at
Hedrick ii the sensational time of
% Is seconds, lowering the worlds
record for that distance.
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