The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-24

and the plant was closed down. The
employees demanded the restoration o.
10 per cent cut made two years ago
AN earthquake shock occurred al
Florence, Italy, on the 18th and many
people spent the night in the streets, a
second shock increasing the first alarm
Numbers of houses were badly cracked.
AT surrounding villages many deaths
were reported, at Grassina forty houses
being wrecked and at San MARITIME the
church demolished, crushing many
people in the ruins.
NEAR Klamath Falls, Ore, the Alger
stage was recently stopped by masked
robbers and all the passenge RS were
made to turn over their valuables S. The
mail sacks and the express box were
also robbed. The amount stolen was
not known, but it was large
THE Western Federation of Miners,
at Denver, Col, adopted resolutions
supporting the principles of the Omaha
populist platform, favoring the un-
| limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to l, appealing to all branches of
organized labor to unite for protec-
ton, concentrating efforts at the bal
! lot to secure the election of the party
pledged to work for the enactment of
laws beneficial to the masses of the
people and the repeal of all laws which
placed capital above labor. and declar-
ing that occupancy and use were the
only title to land.
AN agent of the United States land
Office, who was sent to investigate pine
land thefts in the Ashland, Wis. dis
trict, has made discoveries of thefts
that are said to be astounding.
DURING a drunken row at the Indian
camp near Black River Falls, Wis,
Jim Swallow and George Blackhawlk,
two braves, got into quarrel and set
tied their trouble with knives, accord
ing to the Indian code. Blackhawk
was literally cut to pie.es.
AT Parker, near Mancie, Ind, at an
early hour on the 18th the boarding
house of Mrs. John Hewitt was wrecked
by dynamite eXpl osion. Mrs Hewitt
and her daughter were taken out of
the wreck unconscious. Mrs. Hewitt
was injured internally and her daugh-
ter's legs were crushed. Four other
occupants of the house were slightly
injured. Mrs. Hewitt was living apart
from her husband and when he aP-
peared at the scene of the disaster Mrs.
Hewitt accused him of causing the
outrage.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended May II showed an average
increase as compared with the corre-
spending week last year of 81; in New
York the increase was sos; outside
New York. 90.
NIKE KING was hanged at Helen
wood, Tenn, on the 18th for the muir
der of w. A. Beck. 1t was the first
legal execution in the county, and
large crowd was present. The con-
demned man broke down completely
on the scaffold.
FIVE miles of nets, said to belong to
E. R. Edison, of Cleveland, O., were
seized on the 18th by the Canadian gov
eminent cruiser near Rondeau, it being
claimed that they were in Canadian
waters.
A TWO and half story wooden tene-
ment house occupied by several French
families, in Coventry, miles from
Providence, R. l., collapsed on the 18th
and three persons were killed and
eleven injured. 1t was thought that
two of the latter were fatally hurt.
The building had been raised to per-
NIT the building of another story be-
meath it.
THE four-masted barkentine Jose
phine, Capt Mclean, which sailed
from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, April IA with
a 10000 cargo of coffee for Baltimore,
Nd, went ashore recently or Little
island shore. Her crew were rescued
by the United States life saving crews.
THE Spanish steamer Gravina, bound
from Antwerp for Lisbon, was lost on |
the 18th off Capones during typhoon,
and only two of those on board were
saved.
A NUMBER of warehouses and facto-
ries near the leather market at Ber-
mOndsey, London, covering IA acres
of ground, have burned. The loss was
estimated at Sl,OOO,OO
NEAR Fresno. Cal, the Kings river
overfiowed its banks on the Laguna de
Tache ranch on the 10th, destroying
!, ITO acres of fine grain. The break
commenced in the James canal, and
was so feet wide.
The levee at Paradise cut, near
Stockton, Cal, broke on the 10th and
the waters of the San Joaquin river
flowed over the country from their
banks to Moore's landing, a distance
of 40 miles 0ne-fourth of the inun-
dated land was in wheat, the rest be-
ing grazing land. The San Joaquin
was higher than ever before, the warm
weather having melted great volume
of snow in the mountains.
THE wool growers at Del Rio, Tex,
were reported on the 10th as storing
enormous quantities of wool in the |
hope that the commodity would adj
vance in price.
Col WARD, acting commander of the |
of Colorado, received dis |
patch on the 14th that the cavalry /
troops sent out from Fort Bowie were |
close on the trail of the Indians who |
were reported to have fred on miners
near Fort Bayard, Ariz. killing several, /
and who have been rounding up cattle |
and horses and committing other dep
relations. Apache Kid was said to be
the leader of the band of renegades
IT was estimated that there were
SO, 600 head of cattle on the Mexican
border awaiting inspection for admis-
sion on the 18th. About half were in
tended for the market, and the other
half for feeders and grazing cattle. 1t
was announced at the treasury and the
department of agriculture at Washing