The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-04

passengers crashed together Wnle GO
ing at high rate of speed near
Moore and five persons were injured,
The conductors were responsible.
The steam barge Kershaw went
ashore near Marquette, Mich, on the
29th in a storm and broke in two. The
crew were rescued by the life-saving
crew, who had narrow escape from
death. their boat capsizing. Two
schooners were also driven ashore near
the same place.
THE Farmers and Citizens bank al
Parnell, Ok, c. L. Berry, president and
cashier, failed for $780, Depositors
ran attachments on the bank for $780,
600. There was only SIS in cash in
the bank when the safe was opened by
officers. Cashier Berry was compelled
to leave town, and an angry mob went
in pursuit of him to lynch him. The
bank was depository for three tribes
of Indians, viz, Pawnees, Otoes and
Osages
The Eclipse stables burned at Great
Falls, Mont, on the Goth and Marshall
Nevins, hostler, sleeping in the build
ing, was burned to a crisp. Twenty
two horses, large amount of hay and
number of carriages were destroyed
as was also the next building. owned
by the Interstate Saving & Loan as
ISOLATION of Minneapolis. Total loss
about S42, 900; insurance, 81, 400.
FIRE damaged the Omaha & Grant
smelter in Durango, Col, to the extent
of $50, 900. The fire caught from the
boiler room and for two hours the en-
tire plant was in danger. The three
story sampler was ruined, together
with much improved machinery
AT Tunnelton, w. Va. a b. lS O.
passenger train, eastbouud, was side
tracked at one of the approaches to
to pass 1t did not, however, entirely
clear the main track and the locomo-
tive of the moving train when it
dashed out of the tunnel struck the
rear coach and about a dozen people
were more or less injured.
MARTIN ADAMS was hanged in the
penitentiary annex at Columbus, O.,
at midnight of the Goth.
SIxTY-FIvE pounds of giant powder
mine, near Leadville. Col. Ten miners
were at work at the drifts at the time,
and it was believed that a miner car
rying the powder from one drift to an
other let it fall and the explosion
caused a cavern, resulting in the in
slant death of six and the serious in
jury of two more.
THE Western association has closed
its championship season. Lincoln won
the pennant, with percentage of 647,
sixty-nine points ahead of Des Moines,
which finished second. Peoria, Rock
ford, Quincy, Dubuque, st. Joseph and
Burlington finished in the order named.
The season was in the main very sue
cessful and the outlook for next year
is very bright.
a JAPANESE syndicate is soon to put
on a steamship line between Japan and
some point on the North Pacific coast,
and Seattle, Wash, was making a
strong effort to have the American
terminus of the line located there
A RECENT special from New York
said that Bob Fitzsimmons and his
lawyer, Friend, had severed their bust
ness and friendly relations. Their
falling out may cause fresh complica-
tions in the Corbett- Fitzsimmons ar
rangements, as Mr.. Friend may at any
moment withdraw the $1,000 which he
put up for Fitz, and the Australian
will have to do some hustling to get
that amount together.
THE English steamer Condor collided
with the United States warship Alert
at Guayquil. Ecuador. recently. No
lives were lost, but the Alert sustained
damages to the extent of thousands of
dollars.
A CENTER ISLAND, n. V, dispatch on
the 25th stated that British boat had
won a yacht race from an American
boat, Spruce ". having captured the
second of the Seawanhalla cup chal-
lenge series for small boats. defeating
Ethelwynn, the defender by narrow
margin of % seconds in 12-mile race
over a triangular course of miles a
side, gone over twice.
AT Pleasant Valley in the Cheyenne
reservation. William Dunlap. a stock
dealer, was shot by two men from
whom he refused to buy cattle stolen
from Gus Holland, near Concord. at
the time he was murdered two weeks
ago. Dunlap will dieS