The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
THE WEST.

THE four-year-old son of Henry Law, OF
Morris, ILL.,, stepped on a board covering O
well. The board tipped and the child fell
into the well and was drowned.
A FIRE at Moberly, NO., destroyed q
dozen stores and buildings, including the
post-office. The total loss is S44 200; insur.
ance $3.50. A. j. Dunlap while removing
goods from the fire was hurt by falling
wall and is reported dead.
A MEETING was held at Eagle City,
Idaho, by the Ceur d'Alene miners; when
it was unanimously voted that the first
Chinaman who ventured into the mines and
attempted to dig for gold should be hung.
Much trouble was anticipated, as large
number of Cinnamon will be certain to
flock to these mines, and the miners are de-
in defiance of law.
A SON of the late Vice-President Brecken-
ridge has been elected to the Legislature
from Mariposa County. Cal.
B. HAzEN GAYLORD, aged twenty-five
killed himself recently in Chicago, because
he could not monopolize the affections of a
cyprian.
The bill abolishing the convict contract
labor system in Ohio, as contracts expire,
has become a law.
A CONVENTION of farmers of Minnesota,
with one hundred and fifty delegates pres
emit, opened at the State House, st. Paul,
recently, Governor Hubbard delivered the
address of welcome. The object of the
convention was stated to be to decide upon
the best means of bringing the railroads
and the Millers' Association to grant relief
to farmers in the matter of grading weights
and railroad transportation. DIR. Collins,
of Grand Forks County, stated that in that
county alone the farmers have been swim
died out of SS6O, 900 upon the crop of last
year.
WILLIAM DANE, young man of Benton
vile, Fayette County, Ind, was enamored
of Ada Swift, thirteen-year-old girl. The
parents of the girl objected to the contin-
uance of his attentions on account of her
age. Dane purchased two ounces of lauda-
mum, giving Miss Swift half and taking
the remainder himself. The poison failed
to have fatal effect, being an overdose.
Dane was arrested for giving the girl
poison for the purpose of suicide, when he
shot himself, dying in a short time. The
girl is seriously sick, but may recover.
The still at Merriam & Morgan's Oil
Works, Cleveland, O., exploded recently.
The escaping oil instantly submerged Au-
gust Fisher and August Guenther, en-
ployss, and taking fire they were quickly
burned to death in sight of the terrified
crowd, unable to assist them. The rushing
stream of oil overlook William Stolhman,
another employee, as he fled and he too was
burned to death.
HoN. E. P. CALDWELL, an attorney of
Council Bluffs, was SHIELD up" by a man
named Healy at the muzzle of cooked re.
volver and forced to sign check for eight
hundred dollars.
BILLY WIGGINs, young gentleman Of
leisure" dropped dead the other day in his
room at the Laclede Hotel, st. Louis, after
a long career of dissipation. He belonged
to wealthy family.
An unknown man was murdered the other
night on the railroad bridge at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, and thrown through the
trestle work into the river.
THE attempted suicide of McFadden,
Tiller's accomplice, in st. Louis, turns out
to have been trick.
RATES on grain from Kansas City to New
York have been reduced from thirty-eight
to thirty two and half cents per one hun.
dred pounds.
The Chicago & New York limited ex-
press on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago Railroad, met with a terrible &C
cident two miles east of Salem, O., recently.
The engineer and fireman were killed and
3 number of passengers seriously and
fatally injured.
The English language is to be taught in
the public schools of Mexico.
THE passenger train on the Missouri Pa
cific telescoped the other morning, near
Palestine, Tex, with a freight train,
badly the front part of the en- !
CINE and two cars. The Minnie Hauk |
company escaped with some bruises.
TIE ice in the Platte River went out re- |
Gently, and gorge has been formed at |
Mercer, just east of Fremont, and at North |
Bend, vest of Fremont, flooding adjoining
country and submerging the Union Pacific
rack, causing some interruption to travel. |
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
las notified the Secretary of the Interior of /
he completion of another section of the
Dad, 242 miles in length, from Mohave, A.
+, to the Needles, Colorado.
THE freight rates on grain from Chicago
O New York have been further reduced,
ausing an immense movement in cereals.
The railroads are much demoralized by re-
ent rate cutting, and have a dubious OUT
ook for the future. J.
TWENTY-FIVE freight cars were destroyed
n the Missouri Pacific near Kansas City,