The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-10
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
MRS. CHARLES BURKE, forty-three years
old, left her dwelling on Clifton street in
Cleveland, Ohio, the other night, attired
only in her sleeping raiment and walked to
the lake at the foot of Washington street
and drowned herself. The cause Of the
deed was said to be that she was driven in
sane by her husbands treatment of her son
by former husband, whom he lately drove
from home.
THE entire force of four hundred men at
Republic mine at Humboldt, Mich, struck
the other day for an advance of wages.
The President of the company shut down
the mine at once and told the men to confer
with the Executive Committee at Cleveland.
There was much excitement, but no disorder
prevailed. The men expressed determi-
nation to hold firial together and compel
the company to accede to their demands.
The Congressional Commission, consist
ing of Senators Dawes, of Massachusetts,,
Logan, of Illinois, Morgan, of Alabama,
and Vest, of Missouri; Representatives
Haskell, of Kansas, and Cameron, Of Wis
consin, and Delegate Maginnis, of Mon
tana, charged with investigating the con-
dition of Reservation Indians in the North.
west, and reporting to Congress the
ACCESSIBILITY of opening up to settlement
some of the land now reserved to Indians,
met at Chicago the other day. 1t was ar
ranged that the Commission should go to
Helena, NJ. T., where it will divide into
subcommittee and visit all the reserva-
tions in that section of the country.
SPECIALS from parts of Minnesota and
North Dakota report the wheat crop in the
wheat belt practically rescued from danger
from drouth. The average crop will
probably exceed last years average by an
increase of about twenty per cent.
B. F. SEMIG, Assistant Surgeon United
States army, was found dead in his room
at the Oriental Hotel, San Francisco, the
other morning. The deceased was lying on
the bed with bottle labelled poison, by
his side. The army officers reject the theory
of suicide, and say that death resulted from
heart disease. The deceased had a brilliant
record and had lost leg in the Modoc war.
MACE JONES and Richard Lensy recently
attempted to drive a man named Wilson
out of the colored village of Brooklyn, ILL.,,
near East st. Louis. Marshal Green, in
protecting Wilson, had a quarrel with
Jones, in which threats of shooting were
freely INDUCED. Later in the day Marshal
Green and Jones again met, each being
armed with shotguns and revolvers. Four
shots were fired, one striking Green in the
groin, causing his death. Jones received
two wounds in the arm, one in the head,
and a bullet through the left breast, which
was pronounced fatal.
AT Bay City, Mich, the other day, the
bodies of five dead infants We're found in
the privy vaults in rear of McCormick's
Block.
W. 4. ACKERMAN has resigned the Presi-
dency of the Illinois Central Railroad, Civ
ing as his reason that he needed rest after
thirty.one years. service for that corpora
ton.
CHARLES FORD, one of the "removers" of
Jesse James, was recently arrested at Kan
sas City upon an Indictment charging him
with being one of the Blue Cut train rob-
bers.
THE presidential party, consisting of the
President, Secretary Lincoln, Senator
Vest and son, Lieutenant General Sheridan,
Judge Rawlins, Arson Stager, Surgeon
Forward, of the United States army, and
Colonel Sheridan left Chicago on the Sd in
a special train over the Chicago & North
western Railroad for Yellowstone Park.
JOSE MERRILL JUAN, of New Mexico,
stolen two years ago by Apaches, was re-
Gently restored to his parents. The boy
was so completely under control of the In
dams that he was at first afraid to speak to
his father in their presence.
AT Kansas City Judge White overruled
the motion for a new trial in the case of
Orth II. Stein for the murder of George
Fredericks, and sentenced the prisoner to
twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
The Minnesota Democratic State Con-
vention, at st. Paul, nominated W. H. Nc
Nair for Governor; r. L. Frazier, Lieu
tenant Governor; j. j. Green, Secretary of
State; John Lodwig, Treasurer; j. W.
Willis, Attorney General, and p. Lind
holm, Railroad Commissioner.
THE business failures the past week num-
bered 49,, against $50 the previous week.
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