The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
THE WEST.

! came disarranged, recently, and severa
persons were injured.
THE WEST.
CYRUS II. MCCORMICK, the ''reaper" man
| died in Chicagorecently, aged seventy-five
ALDERMAN GAYLoR, Of the Ninth Ward
Chicago, was fatally shot by James Davies
a ward politician, in a saloon recently
The facts were not definitely known, but il
| was stated the only cause was the Alder
mans refusal to drink with his assailant.
MINERS at work in a shaft near Dubuque
Iowa, recently dug out a bone of some ami
NAL sixty five feet below the surface, evil
IDENTIFY a flesh-eating quadruped from the
formation of the teeth. The relic goes to
the Medical College at Iowa City.
HoYT SHERMAN, of Des Moines, in re-
ceiving his discharge as assignee of B. F.
Allen, reported having collected S4T3, 062.
ON the formal ballot at the Anti
Monopoly convention in Chicago on the
18th, Butler received 124; Thurman, Z;
Scion Chase, of Maine, 1. Butler was de
clared the nominee of the convention.
A GOOD deal of excitement was raised in
Denver the other day. A new City Clerk
had been elected by the Council and the
office was refused to him by the old Clerk,
who thought the election was fraud. The
new Clerk, aided by his friends, forcibly
took possession of the Office and stood the
old Clerk in the street.
Mrs. ROGER M. SHERMAN, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Governor Bagley, obtained
a decree of divorce from her husband in
the courts of Detroit, Mich, recently, and
was awarded the custody of her two
children.
The war on Eastern passenger rates at
Denver was severe on the 14th. The fol-
lowing were the rates bulletined: Missouri
River points, distance BS5 miles, So; St.
Louis, s.; Chicago, 81; New York, $25.
Proportional rates to other Eastern points.
1t was stated that scalpers were selling to
New York for $40.
The old Van Buren, tavern, at Findlay,
O., for years a famous stopping place for
stage-coaches, before the day of railroads,
was burned to the ground the other morn
ing. The loss was 5000. 1t was insured
for 81 800.
A CoLoREp porter in Chicago went to a
gambling house the other evening to get
change for fifty dollar bill, and was given
ten notes of five hundred dollars each.
When he returned to have the mistake cor
rected, he was not even thanked.
Two swindlers have been canvassing for
insurance in Fountain and Warren Coun-
ties, Ind, securing bankable note at the
bottom of each application. Recently
they sold 500 of these notes to a bank at
Attica, stole horse and buggy, and dis
appeared.
An exciting scene occurred in the Senate
the other day. Van Wyck severely criti-
cised Blair for something he had done in
committee. He was repeatedly called to
order by the President of the Senate.
Blair said that Van Wyck was either
grossly mistaken or an Intentional falsifier.
DAVID E. HARBAUGH, for many years
Revenue Collector and Police Justice at
asylum at Pontiac, aged seventy-six years.
THE annual financial statement of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad
Company for 1888 shows earnings, $2,016,-
PIP; an increase of IA $500 per cent. Net
earnings, $s37, $50; an increase of IL Ga. 100
per cent.
The Colorado railroad rates to points
East have been restored.
The bone factory Of A. B. Meyer, st.
Louis, burned the other morning. Loss,
$65 700; insurance, $1,000.
SEVERAL times lately people at Racine,
Wis, claim to have seen an animal dis
porting in Lake Michigan and resembling
a sea-lion. 1t has been conjectured that
the animal might possibly be the sea.lion
lost from a menagerie several years ago.
Over one hundred persons saw the strange
animal the other day.
ANOTHER diamond has been found at
Eagle, Wis.
A GLENDIvE, NJ. T., special says: While
United States Paymaster Whipple was en-
route to Fort Buford from Glendive re-
Gently, about forty miles out, he was at
tackled by road agents. Sergeant Conrad
was killed and two privates seriously
wounded. The mules attached to the am
bulance in which the paymaster, clerk and
treasurer's box were, ran away and thus
made their escape.
TIE Duluth and Superior City ferry-boat
Mary Martin, collided recently with sail.
boat used as ferry between Rice's Point,
Duluth, and Connor's Point, Wis, and
smashed it up. Twenty-one persons were
in the sail-bost at the time. Isadore Plum.
madore, who ran it, and three Swedes,
dock laborers, names unknown, were
drowned.
GENERAL WILLIAM II. II. Terrell died
recently in Indianapolis. He was Adjutant-
General during the war, and held several
prominent positions since, among them
Third Assistant Postmaster-General and
Pension Agent. His report in several vol
umes of Indiana in the War for the Union
is a model of accuracy and valuable con-
tribution to the history of the State.
A DUEL was fought recently between
Torres Sonora and Pedro Cara, near the
City of Mexico, the result of an old feud.
Pistols were the weapons, at twenty-five
PAGES. Torres right hand was shattered.
A EVANSVILLE, Wis, special says: There
was heavy frost in this part of the State
on the morning of the 10th, which damaged
the fruit crops in the lowlands. The water
was frozen in many places.
F. A. QUINN, brakeman on the Chicago,
st. Louis & Pittsburg road, was killed by
the cars recently at Hsgenpough's Station,
forty miles west of Columbus, o.
GRIBBEN and Horn, the two men con-
victed of the murder of Harry Williams at
O., were hanged on the 10th.
JAMES S. NEGLEY, of Pittsburgh, Presi
dent of the National Union League, has
called meeting of the National Council at
the Palmer House, Chicago, June 2, in the
evening.
THE SOUTH.
FULLY r. WISE, a prominent attorney,
and brother of George d. Wise, q member
Of Congress from Virginia, died at San