The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-06-10
STATE NRWS.

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| "A Centennial hall i being erected 1t
junction City.
| The colored folks Of Baxter were deeply
interested in the Decoration services. -,
The Oswego Lndependest says the old
woman recently arrested in Missouri b
not Mrs. Bender.
Parties have opened negotiations for
the erection of wooden mill with the
City Council of Watervills.
The Hays Ssntineg says: "This is the
largest Senatorial District in the State.
1t embraces 1000 square miles"
Four men in Lyon county have paid
taxes on one dog each, and that Is all the
dog law has amounted to in that county.
The Fort Scott opera house was sold
by the sheriff on the 9Th inst, for $751;
600, q sum not sufficient to cover the
membranes. So says the Monitor.
The Wichita Eagle very justly raises
its voice against the construction of pig
pens and the like along the banks Of
streams used at many points whence to
draw drinking water.
The Arkansas City Traveller says: Con.
siderable confusion has been made on
The Cherokee Strip Lands by parties set.
Ting on land that has been sold by the
government under sealed bids.
The wages of the workmen have been
reduced at the K. P. shops in Armstrong,
common laborers only getting one dollar
a day now, and the pay of mechanics has
also been considerably lowered.
A spirited controversy is prevailing in
Riley County over the herd law. The
Nationalist Of Manhattan urges the es-
Enlistment of more cheese factories as
an antidote to the herd law fever.
Three men were sleeping together in
one bed in Mitchell county, when the
lightning struck the house, and flashed
the life out of one OF the men named
Jacobs. The two others were uninjured.
w. v. NJ. Van Bennett who run the
Democratic State Convention, was the
editor of a paper called the Copperhead,
in Iowa, during the war. He rivalcd
Brick Pomeroy in all but ability.-Man-
haitian Nationalist.
The Jewell City Diamond says: "a
child of S. Citizens got poisoned by a
wild indigo flower that had been brought
into the house by the older children. It
is said that the wild indigo plant is a
deadly poison"
A correspondent of the Atcllison Pa.
triot refers to Martin Van Buren, Bennett
one of the heavy weights of the Kan.
sas Democracy-as "the blatherskite who
headed the Greenback part of the State
Democratic convention ut Topeka last
week."
John Martin and Tom Fenlon bolted
the Democratic Convention in Topeka
the other day, because that body emphat-
ically declared for Hendricks and green.
backs. Gentlemen, ''sail in, if yer don't
like the pups yer can drown 'em."-H.
Scott Pioneer.
The Waterville Telegraph notices the
fact that parties there are erectinga new
block, for a wholesale and retail meat
market. and the purchase OF five acres
of land for Straightforward. 1t is
proposed to go into pork and beef pack
ing on an extensive scale.
To secure fifty cents per day per head
for each insane person, counties must
make formal application to the State
Insane Asylum, and receive notice of
formal rejection, and this, subsequent to
March 8, 1876, the date of the approval
of the act.
The contract for building the grange
elevator at Abilene has been re-let TO Mr.. |
I,esher of Lawrence the contractor who
built the Henry House and the work
will be pushed forward with great rapid
ity,. in order that in may be ready to
handle The crop that will soon be har-
vested.