The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07
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inent citizens was held at Indianapolis,
Ind, the other evening, at which resolu-
| tions were passed requesting the National
Republican Convention to hold its next
session in that city, pledging all the neces-
| sary accommodations to delegates and the
erection of large building for the use OF
the Convention.
The other day a man representing him.
self as Colonel w. P. Perry, of Pinkerton's
detective force of Chicago, applied to C. B.
Bush, Superintendent Of the Michigan Cen.
trail Railway, at Jackson, Mich, for a
special engine to go to Mason and arrest
the murderer Of the Crouch family. Not
suspecting anything wrong, the Superin.
tendent granted his request. Perry went
to Mason, got the Sheriff, and arrested a
farmer named Anderson and took him to
jackson. The excitement was so great that
the prisoner barely escaped being mobbed.
Perry turned out to be a crank and an ex-
convict named Howard, and Anderson a
respectable farmer. The latter was sent
back to his home.
A NUMBER of capitalists of Cincinnati
propose to organize stock company with
$500, 900 capital to establish a mammoth
cotton mill with capacity of one thousand
looms, for the manufacture of sheetings and
muslins.
A FIRE at Minneapolis, Mimi, the other
morning consumed three-story building,
owned by Lyman Brothers and occupied by
Lyman Eliel, wholesale druggist. Loss to
Lyman Brothers 10000, insured for $1,000;
Lyman Eliel Drug Company $4,000. insur-
ance 5000; j. B. Martin 5000, insurance
$4,000.
THE shops of the Gilman terra Gotta
works, at Eldora, ILL.,, burned recently;
loss $4,000.
THE steamer Eclipse was recently lost on
Lake Huron. Seven men were drowned.
p. K. SIMMONS, ex-cashier of Tompkin's
bank of Ell Paso, H., which failed recent
ly, was arrested the other day on charge
the books.
The large wholesale drug house of Meyer
Bros, on Delaware street, Kansas City,
was totally destroyed by fire, on the after
noon of the 2Sth. Loss on stock $4,000;
insurance, $125,OO0. The building cost $25,-
600 and was insured for 1900. several
attaches of the house were injured in get
ting from the third story, the most serious
ly injured being DR.. Robert Smith, who fell
and had both arms broken.
In the town of Lake, near Chicago, the
other day, Fritz Rummel, a butcher, went
to a house where Emma Lavenve was en-
ployed as domestic, and, after an alter
cation, shot her in the head killing her in
stantly. He turned the revolver to his
own temple, fired and fell dead.
JOHN BLAIR recently attempted to dry a
half key of powder in front of CRATE,
near Youngstown, O., and succeeded in
getting blown up.
W. d. Dodge, of Deming, n. NJ, shoe
maker. who had been notorious of late for
reckless and boisterous conduct, had a row
in a saloon the other morning with Frank
Shadrick, a miner, after which he fell
heavily to the floor and almost immediate
ly expired.
AS section gang of five men on hand
car were returning home on the Southern
Ohio division of the Indiana, Bloomington
& Western Railroad near Bethesda, o., they
were overtaken by a construction engine
running wild. William Clay and Michael
Mccormick were killed, William Mortimer
severely and others slightly injured.
WILLIAM j. MCMILLAN, an old man,
while looking at the movements of switch
engine at the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton depot at Cincinnati, recently, was
knocked down and run over by street car
and instantly killed.
THE hog cholera is reported to be doing
great damage in the northwest part Of
Champaign County, Ill, especially along
the Sangamon River. Many entire herds
have been swept away.
HARRY SHAFFER, while recently drunk,
got into difficulty with a street car con-
ductor and driver at Cincinnati, and shot
both. The driver died and the conductor
could not live.
AT Dixon, ILL.,, the other evening, Miss
Electa Lewis, milliner, and two little
girls were out driving, and the horse be.
coming frightened ran into the river and
all were drowned.
GREAT excitement is said to exist
throughout Western Montana over rich
mineral discoveries in Ceur de Leon
Mountains. Miners and prospectors who
returned stated that there had been nothing
in the history of the Western States or
Territories equal to the richness and vol
ume of the newly-discovered fields. The
minerals consist of silver, tellurium and
free milling gold, one hundred dollars per
man per day being taken out Of vein rock
of gulches, while in the gulches twenty-five
to forty dollars per man per day PANIED
out.
AT New Washington, O., four burglars
recently cracked safe and escaped on
hand-car to Shelby, where telegram had
been sent ahead of them. A large party of
citizens went in pursuit. The burglars
fired upon the party, dangerously wound
ing one man, and in their flight also fatally
wounded another. The citizens continued
the pursuit, and succeeded in killing two
and capturing third. On one of the dead
robbers was found $500.
In an alteration at Camden Point, No.,
Thomas Upton shot and killed
John Woodson, Deputy Sheriff. Bad feel
ing had existed between the parties for
some time past. Woodson died soon after
being shot.
In the Circuit Court at Springfield, Mo-,
Charles Shad was convicted of embezzle-
ment. The jury assessed his punishment
at three years in the penitentiary. At the
races of the Springfield trotting associa-
ton, last August, he had sold pools and
absconded with 500 of the money, but was
caught at Rolla and taken back.
The wife of E. s. johnson. Special PEN
sion Examiner, at Indianapolis, Ind, com
mitted suicide recently.
JOSEPH JEWELL, one of the three men
who last March murdered n. P. Renowden,
to get possession of his earnings, amount
ing to S24 900, was hanged at San Jose, Cal.