The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-06-14

A ZIG fire in the tanning and mar u
featuring district in Milwaukee on the
10th destroyed property worth $1,000.
900, including the Schlitz Brewing Co.'s
plant
THE rains of the 9th were general
throughout the north and west. In
Minnesota the storm was particularly
severe, wind and electricity destroying
property in many places.
A passenger engine. while standing
in the Panhandle yards at LogansDort,
Ind, on the 9th, without any person
on board, ran away. Only for the
prom ptness of switchman. who threw
her on to a siding, the engine would
have struck a passenger train. As it
was, she collided with switch engine,
killing Fred Schulz, the engineer, and
badly wounding Pat Gray, fireman.
FORTY persons persisted in the food
at kobersdorf, and at least thirty per-
sons were said to be missing. ROBBERS
dorf is a Hungarian watering place
and the foods, resulting from noun.
| tain freshets. were SO sudden that in
many instances all avenues of escape
were cut off.
A SHOCKING assassination and suicide
occurred near Harrodsburg, KY, on
the premises of Patrick Higgins. Dam
iel Warner fred bullet into the back
of Higgins, who instantly fell dead,
shot through the heart. Warner then
ran about 100 yards, when, seeing that
his deed had been discovered, ne placed
his smoking revolver behind his ear
and fred ball into his own head.
Miss SUSAN b. ANTHONY, who has re-
turned to San Francisco from the
Yosemite valley, denies the report tel
egraphed from the east that she had
resigned the presidency of the National
Suffrage league. She says she has not
resigned, and does not intend to do so.
FIRE which was thought to have
been started by tramps, destroyed
Dewing & Sons extensive planning
mill, sash, door and blind works and
lumber yard, and seven brick and
frame stores at Kalamazoo. Mich, on
the 9th. The total loss was about
500, 600: insurance, $4,000.
Four men were suffocated in the Al
pine tunnel near Pitkin, Col. recently.
An engine had run into the tunnel
with a crew of several men to syphon
out an accumulation of water held in
by dirty cave. The ventilation of the
tunnel was poor and the men soon pre-
pared to leave. AS the engine was
backing out a man was discovered ly-
ing across the track and the engineer
reversed, running further into the tun-
mel where all the men were quickly
overcome by suffocation.
THE Kentucky republican state con-
vention was opposed to the free coin
age of silver, but believed in the use of
both gold and silver. provided one dol
lar was made as valuable as the other.
The doctrine of reciprocity was also
upheld.
THE explosion of boiler at the
Lavernardo mines at Mines, France,
on the 9th killed six persons and seri-
ously injured three others.
THE failures for the week ended
June Z Dun's report were 1876 in the
United States, against 216 last year,
and p in Canada, against 40 last year.
FIVE deaths occurred at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 5th from the intense heat
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended June showed an average
increase as compared with the corre-
spending week last year of - $; in New
York the increase was $50; outside
New York, 1874.
AT Lexington, KY, ou the 9TH George
Green, colored, shot and instantly
killed his wife and her stepfather,
named Henderson Weakes, and then
attempted suicide Green's wife left
him, going to the home of her mother.
Green was still alive, but had two
large holes in his head.
THE American congress of liberal
religious societies held its opening ses-
sion in Sinai temple, Chicago. on the
5th. Their object is to foster the or
ganization of unsectarian churches and
to develop the church of humanity.
WILLIAM +. HARRITY, chairman of
the democratic national committee, has
written letter in answer to numerous
inquiries as to whether he intended TO
call a meeting of the committee at an
early date 10 decide whether a nation
al convention should be called on the
money question, saying that he was Of
the opinion that to call a meeting now
would be harmful to the party and he
did not see any necessity for one.