The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-04-18
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| went out on a strike.
THE WEST.
IRA FrzLER, aged nine years, while play.
ing in a saw-miil at Markle, Ind, was
caught by belt and so badly mangled
that he died in a short time
WILLIAM BROWN, the negro who muir
dered the peddler near Cahokia, pleaded
guilty at Belleville, ILL.,, and was sentenced
to hang. k..-s.
| The election at ST.. Joseph. No., on the
9th, was favorable to the Republicans.
] A HEAVY snow fell at Dayton, O., on the
9Th.
THE First National Bank of Monmouth,
Ill, closed its doors recently. The cause
assigned was speculation by the cashier,
| B. T. o. Hubbard, whose deficit was esti
mated at from S45 900 to 100000.
The Missouri Republican Convention at
Sedalia on the 9th, to elect delegates to the
| National Convention, was fairly harmon.
ious, the Van Horn party having matters
their own way. William Warner, of Jack.
son Comfy, was elected Chairman of the
State Central Committee. r.
nc. ATKINS, Assistant General Man.
| ager of the Chicago, milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroad, was stricken with paralysis
| at La Crosse, Wis.
GOVERNOR NEWELL, of Wyoming, has
committed the death sentence of E. r. Nino
Gioni, who was to have been hanged at
| Vancouver on the 18th inst, to life inn
| prisonment.
AN injunction has been granted restrain
| ing the Governor of Iowa from conveying
uncertifed lands Of the Sioux City g. st.
| Paul Railroad to the General Government,
| in accordance with an act Of the Legisla-
| ture at its recent session.
| KANSAS CITY went Democratic on the
| Sth, with an exception in the case of Audi
| tor.
THE woman who registered at the Lac
4 lede Hotel, st. Louis, some days ago, as
Mrs. Radcliffe, of Kansas City, and then
suicided, turned out to be the sister of Mrs.
| c. NJ. Howe, of Rulo, Neb.
A CONFERENCE Of Peoria, Pekin, and
Terre Haute distillers was held Peoria,
| ILL.,, recently. 1t was agreed that the out
look was exceeding gloomy for the distil-
ling interest and that it will perhaps be
| necessary to still further reduce the pro-
duction of spirits.
The Santa Fe has abandoned the running
of regular emigrant trains, and hereafter
emigrant coaches will be attached to the
regular through express trains.
The Railway Time Convention at Gin
present time schedule.
THE Western Nail Association has agreed
to form a pool. Under this arrangement
prices will be regulated, product restricted
and Other measures adopted considered ne
nessary. Stocks are reported light and
orders plenty. Card rate not changed.
HENRY WAMPF, the principal witness for
the State in the Koerner wife murder case,
at Indianapolis, decided by verdict Of
guilt, died of pneumonia. He contracted
the disease during the seventy eight days
he lived at the Jail, while held by the pros
cution when unable to give bond for his
appearance at the trial.
CONSIDERABLE talk was created over a
special telegram from London, published
in the Chicago Tribune, in which Matthew
Arnold spoke of Chicago having no soul
above pork and timed meats, using many
other derogatory expressions, which fairly
made that city boil. 1t turns out that
Matthew Arnold said nothing of the kind.
The telegram was hoax, perpetrated by
the Chicago Ne,cs, as a trap to catch its
rival clipping news out of obscure New
York papers and publishing them as Lon
don specials.
The Detroit Daily 7Tmes Office was
burned out the other day.
The Missouri Democratic State Central
Committee met at st. Louis and named
st. Louis, June "a, as the time and place
for holding the convention for the election
of delegates to the National Convention,
and jefferson City, August II, for the con.
vention to nominate State officers.
A NEW trial was refused in the case Of
Andrew J. Korner, convicted of wife muir.
der at Indianapolis. and the prisoner SEN
fenced to be hanged June 81.
The strike on the Toledo, Cincinnati &
st. Louis Road ended by a compromise.
/ IT is predicted that the coming wheat
crop of California will exceed that of 1880.
PROSPEROUS from the Upper Yellow
stone report the discovery of a new geyser
basin. Two geysers were in action.
GENERAL GEORGE W. DETrzLER, former.
ly member of the famous Stubs Company
during the Free State war in Kansas, was
thrown from buggy and killed at Tucson.
At.
| A DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the
Panhandle at Beaver Station, near Dayton,
O., the other night. The engineer was
killed and two or three other persons Sc
verelv injured. The passengers were
badly shaken up. 81
AN aged couple named Fleetwood were
horribly murdered in bed at Rardin, H.,
recently.
REUBEN ELLwooD was renominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Fifth
District of Illinois.
| HUBBARD, the defaulting cashier of the
| First National Bank of Monmouth, H., dis
appeared the other day for S1l4,5 500.
TIE wreck on the Little Miami division
Of the Pan Handle Road near Dayton, O.,
was a complete affair in its way, and the
wonder is that so few were killed. 1t was
believed that some miscreant removed a
| rail with the purpose of throwing the whole
train into the river.
| Acow BOY named Mitch Marcy killed
Juan B. Patron in saloon at Puetro De
| Luna, n. NJ, recently. The murderer w s
captured. Patron was Speaker of the
House in 1873. He was a wealthy and in
ffuential man. No provocation.
| THE SOUTH.
FRANK JAMES was arraigned at Hunts
vile, Ala, before Judge Bruce, for the
Mussel Shoals robbery and pleaded not
| guilty. The case was set for April 16.
A GENERAL strike of all the mechanics
| working on buildings, and in factories and
car shops, was inaugurated at New Orleans