The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-11


a capital stock of $4,000 600. The new
company will likely compete with the
Bell Telephone Co.
NEAR Whitehaven, Pa, two persons
lost their lives and car of sheep were
slaughtered in a recent wreck on the
Lehigh Valley railroad.
In a railroad collision in the Alta
mount tunnel near San Francisco, En-
! gineer Harry p. Hubbard was pinned
under his engine and for three hours
was slowly cooked to death by escap-
ing steam.
THREE of the crew of the wrecker
Samson lost their lives when the
schooner was driven against the rocks
at Point Bonita lighthouse, near San
| Francisco.
THE little town of Nebo, l. T., was
visited by three men, who robbed the
stores of Tucker & Walker and Rogers
Bros. broke open the safes and fired
the buildings. The town is in ashes.
The village of Orlu. in the canton OF
Aix-les-Thermes. Pyrenees, has been
partly overwhelmed by an avalanche,
which has destroyed four houses and
! twelve barns The bodies of fifteen
persons have been recovered from the
ruins of the buildings.
LOUIS GALLOWAY, a colored farmer,
! together with his wife, were found
dead near Edwards, Miss, on the 9TH,
about 100 yards from their cabin. In
dications are that both were beaten to
death with clubs. Galloway was in
town the day before, and carelessly eX-
hibited about $780, which is supposed
to have led to the murder.
THE home of Daniel White. colored,
near Williamson Station, Ky, was
| totally destroyed by fire recently.
Four children, who were asleep in the
building, were burned to death. White
and his wife escaped with their baby
in their night clothes.
| CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended January 4 showed an av-
erage decrease as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 4. &: in
/ New York the decrease was 80; outside
/ New York the decrease was 61.
BARRETT SCOTT, the missing ex-treas-
urer from O'Neill, Neb.. was positively
declared by the sheriff of Fairmont,
Mimi, to have passed through that
city on the Sd, bound east on a train.
Orders were sent to arrest him.
A FIRE at the Southern Illinois Hos
pital for the Insane occurred early on
the 4th. No lives were lost, the fire
commencing in the roof giving ample
i 70, ra4 41,a 80
was large.
A VERY bad explosion of powder oc-
Cured at the Meyer works of the w. J.
Rainey Co. at Uniontown, Pa, recent
| ~. At least six foreigners were seri-
ously injured and one other fatally
hurt. The men carelessly handled a
keg of powder and it exploded. The
building was torn to pieces and the
men were blown so yards in all direc-
tions.
THE failures for 1894 Dun's report)
were 1855 in the United States and
I ], $50 in Canada. The liabilities, United
States, S172, 992, $50; Canada, ST., ,215.
! DUN's review of trade said that prices
of commodities were at the lowest level
ever known, and while production was
much greater than year ago consump-
ton had not kept pace with the output.
| But wheat and cotton were suffering
from the accumulation of stocks, the
crops being large.
/ IT has been ascertained that 322 fish
ermen belonging to Hull. Grimsby and
Yarmouth were lost in the recent gale.
| The charges against Charles d. Clark,
recently appointed United States dis
trict judge, of taking fees from both
parties to litigation, were heard by
United States Circuit Judge Luston at
I Chattanooga, Tenn, and Mr.. Clark was
/ completely eXonerated.
/ FRED 7. TAYLOR, member of the
Washington legislature, will introduce
a resolution at the coming session re-
uuesting the senators and representa-
/ tives in congress from that state to
have Mgr. Satolli, the papal delegate,
removed from the United States.
/ TwENTY-oNE coal mines in the Pitts
burgh, Pa, district were idle on the
4th and it seemed probable that many
more would close down. The miners
refused to work at the rates offered,
claiming they could not make a living.
/ The situation was growing serious.
! CONGRESSMAN BURROWS has been
nominated for United States senator
| from Michigan on the second ballot by
the republican caucus.
| IN Boston Raphaelo Mareno. 80 years
old, was found dead in bed, and
Raphaelo Mareno, his cousin, and
Raphaelo Sireno, ST., and Raphaelo
Sireno, Jr., were found unconscious in
their rooms from inhaling illuminat-
ing gas which had escaped from a
| leaky main in a tenement house.
THE strike at the Homestead pa
steel works has been about settled by
the Carnegie Steel Co. agreeing to pay
the employees of the 119-inch mill, the
only department on strike, at the rate
of s1.1O per ton, by which they can
make sl.s0 per day.
THE residence of p. p. Mast. million
aire manufacturer, in Springfield, o.,
burned on the Sd. The interior was
entirely destroyed. Loss about SEQ, 900.
Insured for $50, 600 on building and S1O,-
600 on contents. The fire was supposed
to be of incendiarv origin.
IL tenement house fire in New York
on the I'd Lena Lehman, Sadie Lehman
and Henry Lehman lost their lives, and
others were seriously injured.
Col Z. H. HEYL, inspector-general
of the department of the Missouri, died
suddenly at a hotel at Chicago recent
~ after only four days illness. He
served all through the civil war and
was one of the best known officers of
the army.
The people of Sacramento. Cal, were