The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-30

eaid to be ready to go out, and the diff
Guilty will affect 5000 laborers.
On the evening of the oath the steam.
er City of Toledo and the schooner
Magdalen Downing collided in Putin.
Bay, near Toledo, o., and so feet OF
the upper works of the City of Toledo
were torn away, creating a panic on
board The officers finally restored
order and when the debris was cleared
away il was found that several per-
sons had been seriously injured while
at least fifty had received cuts and
bruises. The Magdalen Downing only
lost her jib-boom and some canvas.
AIR LINE hotel, at Air Line Junction,
were reported injured and two fatally
burned
IN Delta county, Tex, the negroes
were reported on the 23d as leaving as
fast as possible, not waiting to sell
lands or crops, through their fear of
the whitecaps.
THE failures for the week ended
the 23d (Dun's report were 222 in the
United States against pa last year,
and 43 in Canada against 80 last year.
ACCORDING to the union officers the
strike of the clothing operatives at
Boston was virtually won and union
conditions and wages will henceforth
be the rule in that city.
A BIG fire broke out in Cleveland, O.,
early on the morning of the cath in the
Williamson block at the southeast
corner of the public square. 1t was
soon seen that the building was doomed
and the flames then threatened the
Cuyahoga block, the most costly one
in the city. The loss was S75, GOO
FIRE broke out in the Comrey, Bierly
& Co.'S table factory at Shelbyville,
Ind, on the 23d, and it was totally
destroyed. The loss caused by the fire
was estimated at S55, 600; insured for
two-thirds of its value. The factory
burned was the largest exclusive fac
tory in the world.
The Grand Rockland hotel at Con-
gers. n. Y, was destroyed with all its
contents on the 22d. Some of the
guests lost all their clothing and left
for town wrapped in blankets. The
owner of the hotel said his loss would
be $40, ZOO over the insurance. The
building cost Sos, 900 and the furniture
$4,000.
A MAN named Hall was driving a
wagon loaded with nitro-glycerine to
the magazine on the top of Bully Hill,
outside the city limits of Franklin,
Pa, on the 22d, and was within $50 feet
of the building when the stuff ex-
ploded. The wagon and horses were
blown to atoms and not a vestige of
Halls remains were to be found The
shock was so great in Franklin that
windows were blown out and a num-
Der of chimneys were knocked down.
MCPHEE & MCGINNITY's fve-story
planning mill at Denver, Col, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire on the ed.
Loss, $50, OOO
THE warehouses of the Union steam
boat dock at Milwaukee caught fire
and spread to the Anchor Line Steam
ship Co. and the freight sheds of the
Wisconsin Central railroad. All were
destroyed, together with several other
places and about forty or fifty freight
cars. The loss will be nearly $500, 900.
AT the joint convention of the Ma
tional Peace union and the Connecti-
cut Peace union at Mystic, Conn, there
were 5000 delegates present on the
2lst. Papers on appropriate subjects
were read by distinguished persons
working in the cause.
A PERENPToRY demand. it was said,
would soon be made by the United
States upon France for the release of
ex-Consul John Waller and that salts
factory indemnity would be required
for his arrest and Imprisonment. with
a probable request for a commission to
determine Walters rights in NADIA
gascar.
THE Coliseum, the large building
lately erected at Chicago on the site
where Buffalo Bill had his show dur
ing the worlds fair, collapsed on the
21st A force of 200 men had been
working on the building night and
day, but as the accident happened dur
ing lunch hour. when all the men were
absent, nobody was hurt The build
ing is total wreck and the loss will
reach between $780, 900 and $4,000
AT New Richmond, O., on the after
noon of the 2Ist, a mob took Noah
Anderson. colored, from the Jail and
hanged him for the murder of Frank
lin Friedman, nearly so years old and
president of the First national bank of
that place. The victim confessed his
crime.
AT Lamont, Ill, viii Jones shot and
fatally wounded Slim johnson on
the 2lst,while shooting craps and quar-
reling over the game. Johnson hit
Jones in the mouth and drew knife
to stab him.
A RUMOR was current in Winnipeg,
Man. on the Goth that the A. p. A. or
der of the United States had formally
rendered armed men to support Premier
Greenway in his struggle for a nation
al school system should there be any
attempt to enforce the order of the
governor-general for the re-establish-
ment of separate schools
IT was said to be almost certain that
H. H. Holmes, charged in Toronto with
the murder of the little Pietzel girls,
will be taken there for trial. The
Ontario government had been in cor
with the Philadelphia
IT was alleged that County Treasurer
Laverty, of Logan. county, Ok, was
short in his accounts about s., 900.
SPARKS and pieces of burning trees
from the forest fires raging near Taco
ma. Wash, set coal mine on fire,
which ii will take several weeks to put
out and stop all work in getting out
coal.
The commissioner of Indian affairs