The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-14

mans and st. Patrick's Alliance marched
with the Leagues to the grounds. A salute
Of thirty-two guns was fred.
A DISEASE known as splenic fever has at
tackled cattle in Lancaster County, Pa, and
ragged with such violence as to cause much
alarm. There were great many fatal
cases, and the disease spreading.
By an explosion of gas at the Fair Lawn
mine near Scranton, Pa, recently, Dan
Sanswine, Secretary and Treasurer Of the
Fair Lawn Coal Company, and D. g. Black
wood were fatally injured.
The excess of value of exports over inn
ports for the twelve months ended July 81.
1883, was S107 ,379, 236. The imports of mer-
chandise decreased $23, 7S5, o54 for the year
ended July 81, 1888, compared with same
time last year, and exports increased 3d.
4S9,7T2.
MRS. JULIE P. SMITH, well-known nov
elist, was killed at her summer residence
at New Hartford, Conn, recently. She
was driving with her husband when the
horse ran away.
PRESIDENT JARRETT, of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers, re-
Gently appeared before the Senate Commit
tee at New York and in his testimony
| stated the convict labor system was very
detrimental to the interests of the working
classes. People would not object to it, how
ever, If competition was placed upon fair
basis, and prison laborers were not allowed
to work for a lower price than is current
in the market. The labor of convicts might
be properly employed in constructing bet
ter roads throughout the county. The only
hope for the laboring man was to educate
him and improve his morals and he would
soon be able to look out for himself.
THE WEST.
MILWAUKEE had genuine cholera fright
one day last whek. A man died suddenly
and the report was circulated that it was
cholera, which caused a panic among the
timid and nervous. Physicians pronounced
it false alarm.
JUDGE HoADLEY, Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio, arrived in Philadel-
phia the other night and went at once to
the st. Georges Hospital, where he is
under medical treatment for some organic
trouble.
THE railway bridge across the Mississippi
River at Minneapolis, Mimi, used by the
Manitoba and Northern Pacific Railroads,
caught fire from sparks from a passing
engine recently, and before the flames were
checked two center spans were completely
destroyed and fell into the river. The loss
was estimated at about $4,000.
THE Lyndale Hotel, at Minneapolis,
Mimi, where President Wizards guests
were recently banqueted, was partially de-
stroyed by fire the following morning.
AT Taylorsville, Ills, the other day Jacob
Hadley, stone cutter, shot and killed his
son Charles, aged twenty. Hadley was
drunk at the time, and tried to drown him
self after the shooting.
WILLIAM DIXON and six. of his family
were recently poisoned at White Hall, H.,
by drinking coffee made from water that
it was thought had been poisoned by rats,
rat-poison having been put out the day pre-
vious. Prompt medical aid saved the lives
of those poisoned.
THE other night, John Bagley, we'll
known sporting man, was fatally shot in
the Marble Hall saloon at Kansas City, by
Julius Hooks, bartender, who playful
pointed pistol at him, when it was dis
charged. He was the second victim of
such playfulness in that city within few
weeks.
A BOY in charge of the passenger elevator
in the Grand Pacific Hotel, at Chicago, lost
control of the machine the other morning
as it was making an upward passage, and
advised the two passengers on board to
jump off at the next landing. In attempt
ing to do so one of them, Christian Jackson,
a painter employed in the hotel, was killed.
BUTTERwoRTH & Co., manufacturers and
dealers in boots and shoes, Cincinnati, have
failed, with liabilities of 100000.
EIGHT hundred of the newsboys of Chi
cago, recently INDUCED in a street parade
and afterward journeyed to the South Park,
where a picnic had been arranged for them
by members of the Young Mems Christian
Association.
OVER 5000 people attended the recent
g. A. R. reunion at Hastings, Neb.
A FIRE in the Missouri Planning Mill at
st. Louis suffocated William Bell, car
penter, and badly burned W. ]. Wilder
man, engineer.
In the st. Louis Court of Criminal Cor
rection the other day over 800 cases against
saloon keepers for selling beer on Sunday
were nolle pressed on the suggestion of the
court. This ended for the present the fight
against the saloon-keepers. This action
was taken in view of Judge Noonan's late
decision, sustaining the law of 1857, under
which, in st. Louis City, by special act
adopted by vote of the people, the sale of
beer and wine on Sunday was permitted.
A. S. HARPEL, fourth of a gang of desper-
ADDE'S who robbed the Riverside, Ariz.,
stage and killed the express messenger the
10th of August, was captured recently. 1t
was thought he would be tried and executed
by the Vigilants.
THE President upon his return trip from
the Yellowstone Park visited the Chamber
of Commerce in Chicago and was received
with great applause. He was introduced
by the Vice-President of the Board as
"Chief Magistrate of nation enjoying the
greatest prosperity ever known in the his
tory of the world" and appropriately re-
sponded.
The corner stone of the new capitol build
ing was laid at Bismarck, the new capital
of Dakota, on the 9th with great ceremony.
JOHN c. d. WIGGINs, County Treasurer
of Montgomery County, Ind, is reported
to be short in his accounts $4,000. Specu-
lation in grain is said to be the cause.
DIR. j. Z. RITCHEY, of Mendoza, Ills, shot
and mortally wounded his wife and then
fed.
THE trial of Frank James at Gallatin, No.,
upon the charge of numbering Mcmillan, at
the time of the Winston train rnhherY in