The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-08-12
STATE NEWS.

49,
| Hogs are dying Of cholera il Linn
county.
MePhersop county has never had .
saloon within its limits.
A Valley Falls barber has no end Of
fun catching rats with fsh hook.
Tho next term of the Agricultural
College begins Thursday, August oath
1875.
+ A petriHed shad, twelve inches long,
has been cut out of the rock u COnc0r-
dia.
Arrangements have been perfected for
building the bridge at Erie, Neosho
county. rra.,ss,4
Tramps infest the L. L. & G. line.
The conductors are kept busy pulling
them out of freight cars.
The public road between Fredonia and
Altoona is being repaired by the propri-
etors of the stage line from Fred0nia to
Chanute.
Two Indians of the Pottawatomie
tribe who have settled in Cherokee
county are pronounced good citizens,
good neighbors aud good farmers.
Kettler, whose wife had filed her petit.
ton for divorce in the District Clerks
office in Miami county, was run over by
a train of cars in Illinois, few days ago.
and killed.
The North Topeka Times thinks full
grown Mennonite can take more comfort
in standing by watching his wife pump
a pail of water than any professional
loafer it ever saw.
Arrangements have been perfected for
locating colony of one thousand fami-
lies of Germans in two townships of the
X. p. railrod lands in Ellsworth county.
They will arrive within week or two.
The Topeka Commonwealth says there
is now on hand. belonging TO the perma-
nent school fund, the sum of eighty-two
thousand, seven hundred and sixty-five
and six one-hundrelth dollars, uninves-
ted
The Fredonia Citizen lately had a call
from Wilson county man upwards of
forty years of age, who had never voted
for any man for Office, giving IS his rea-
son because the Almighty was not recog-
nized in the constitution.
The Lawrence Journal says that the
Usage Land Bill rs finally passed makes
no provision for paying attorneys fees,
but reduces the price of land to 81 % per
acre. The section requiring the assent
of the Indians was stricken out.
A flock of about two hundred sheep
filed through book store in Topeka the
other day, and emerged through the
back door. The Blade says no more
damage was done than could be repaired
with broom. The 'file leader" turned
from the street and followed dog into
the store, hence the raid.
Chanute had two fires this week, both
tn l,aye originated through the
handling Of matches by boys
Ridenour's warehouse, together with a
large amount of valuable contents. was
burned on Monday, and ON Tuesday an
old stable or barn in another part Of the
town was reduced to ashes Other AMI
far more valuable property barely escaped
destruction.
Hon. ID. G. Haskell. the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Second
District made three speeches in Crawfnrd
county last week. The meetings. were
all we'll attended, those at GirArd and |
being the largest political gath
srings ever assembled at the respective |
places. Mr.. Haskell made . good i'm
preston wherever he went, and his |
speeches were we'll received. He did |
not deal in bare assertion, but had forti-
led himself with official records, and was
always ready to prove what he said. So
ar a. Crawford county is concerned we
hink he will gain q handsome victory
,ver his opponent, John r. Goodin.-l
Girdrd Press.