The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-07

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TIE we'll known Weber Piano Co.
made application for receiver at New
York on the 81. Du II trade was given
as the cause of the failure
THE Central Lum Der Co. began bust
ness at Port Townsend. Wash. with a
capital OF SO, 100000 Its membership
includes every timber mill on the west
ern coast.
The Wire Nail Manufacturers asso-
citation, at Pittsburgh, Pa, has ad-
dressed a circular letter to the jobbing
trade, giving notice of another adj
vance in prices of Is cents per hundred
weight. This will change the base
rate from g.. % to So 40 per hundred
weight, which is the highest price asked
for wire nails in many years.
Two large iron compressed air tanks
for furnishing power to drills ex-
| ploded at Lawrence, Mass, on the Sd.
The engineer and fireman were killed
and the shock was felt for ten miles
around doing much damage to window
| glass.
THE big seven-story building of
| Charles II. Hazeltine, 14l6 and 14is
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and the
adjoining five-story structure of the
Baptist Publication society and the
| American Baptist Historical society
were destroyed by fire on the ID. The
| Hotel Lafayette was also damaged.
The loss was estimated at fully s., OOO,-
OO0 Many valuable paintings were
destroyed, the loss on them being esti-
mated at between $500, 900 and 500, 900.
The Baptist Historical society lost TO-
600 volumes.
A HEAD end collision on the Wabash
near Decatur, Ill. resulted in the
death of Engineer Rose and Conductor
Wheeler.
THE Reading pa collieries have
been shut down for an indefinite period,
throwing Is, ZOO persons out of work.
MARTIN LYNN. his wife, two infant
children and his sister were poisoned
at Rochester, \. Y. Miss Lynn was
dead, two others cannot recover and
the children were reported out of dan
ger. The case was very mysterious.
A DISPATCH from Eagle Pass, Tex,
stated that $50 boilermakers and ma
chinists of the Mexican International
Railway Co. were out on stlike. They
demanded 25 per cent increase in
wages and the reinstatement of sew
eral men.
A MEMPHIS, Tenn, dispatch on the
I'd stated that the unprecedent rain in
the lower Mississippi valley during the
past ten days had caused the streams
to overflow and the low lands in Ten
nessee. Arkansas and Mississippi were
one vast sea of water Bridges had
been washed away on several of the
railroads and traffic was seriously de-
layed.
THE First Unitarian church at Meet
inghouse hill, Boston, was burned on
the Sd through an overheated furnace.
Two firemen were badly injured by
falling timbers.
PRIVATE advices received at New
York recently said that the Maher-
Fitzsimmons fight would take place on
a strip of land in dispute between New
Mexico and Texas. known as mo Mans
Land" The Southern Pacific had put
in tracks for the accommodation of
Pullman cars, and it was said that Pull
man cars would be at El Paso from
over 100 cities.
LORD SALISBURY, at a banquet in
London on the 31st, made an address
and said he upheld the Monroe doc
trine as President Monroe understood
it. He also asserted that religious
communities labored under a mistake
when they supposed that England had
bound herself in honor to succor the
Armenians. The Berlin treaty only
bou nd the signatory powers to watch
over certain reforms promulgated by
the sultan, nothing more.
A TERRIFIC tornado, accompanied by
flood, occurred on the 3lst in north
Queensland, attended with great de-
struction of life and property. Many
vessels were missing as a result of the
storm. The rainfall during the storm
amounted to &c inches and it was esti-
mated that the damage to property
would amount to e5OO,OO0. A large
number of persons were drowned.
THE Osages, conceded to be the
wealthiest tribe of Indians on earth
per capita, passed bill through their
council asking for a separation from
Oklahoma and to be annexed to the
Indian territory.
THE failures for the week ended jan |
nary 81 Oun's report) were 4O4 in the |
United States, against S54 last year,
and 20 in Canada, against 81 last year.
THE Mexican secretary of the inte- |
rior has wired the state government of |
chihuahua that the Maher- Fitzsim- !
mons prize fight must not be allowed |
at Juarez and trooTs will be sent there |
to prevent the fight
FIVE persons were killed and nearly |
a score injured By the explosion of the
large 3O-inch cylinder boiler at the /
works of the Hollidaysburg Iron 81
Nail Co. at Hoilidavsburg. Pa. on the
3Oth. Some of those hurt may die.
The boiler was blown through the roof |
of the works 300 feet in the air, and
came sailing down like spent rocket,
crushing through the roof in another
department of the works.
HARVEY PAGE, wife and two. young
sons, aged respectively three years and
three months, were 4 urned to death in