The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
THE WEST.

jorities.
OWNERS of land on the shore Of Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, suffer consider
ably from cobble stone marauders. The
stones are worth something in Chicago
for paving purposes, but as they protect
the land from erosion their hypothecatior
by INSCRIPTIONS parties produces much
damage.
In view of the prevalence of yellow
fever in some parts Of Northern Mexico
the acting Secretary of the Treasury has
authorized the Collector of Customs at e.
Paso, Tex, to inspect the travel from
Mexico.
HUTcHINs, the San Francisco woman
stranger, has been sentenced to hang on
September II.
A CHEROKEE Indian, named Parch Meal
was arrested recently in the Territory fol-
the murder of man named Henry Ferght
twelve years ago. The motive was rob.
berry, and Parch Meal obtained twenty-five
cents from the corpse.
SEVERAL hundred representatives of the
colored militia of the respective States,
gathered at Kansas City to go into
OChCl 14h an i'Si1yS Va ~
Louis.
EMMA WELSH, a young lady who resided
six miles north of Mattoon, ILL.,, jumped
from the bridge and was drowned recently.
A love affair is said to have been the in
centive for the victims rash act.
AT Lincoln, ILL.,, recently, Willie Thomp-
son, aged eleven years, was playing on top
of bin full of shelled corn, in the Logan
mill, when he was drawn to the bottom and
covered with corn. He was taken out
dead.
A FIRE the other day in Schmidt's label
and lithographing house, in San Francisco,
destroyed property valsed at $4,000.
AN Akron, o., special says: An incen.
diary fire in the business part of the town
destroyed seven frame buildings, occupied
as stores. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
THE Governor of Montana has issued a
proclamation quarantining Texas cattle
from northern ranges. ...
SAMUEL B. RAYMOND, Chairman, and
William K. Sullivan, Secretary of the
Local Committee of Arrangements for the
Republican National Convention at Chi
cago, report that the total amount collected
for the purpose was $25,764, of which S13,-
221 was expended, leaving a dividend of
AZ per cent. to subscribers.
ABOUT forty Cree Indians were recently
turned out of their homes in the Judith
country. They were placed in these homes
by General Miles at the close Of the Sioux
war, but temporarily left them to go on a
hunt. On their return they found their
cabins occupied by white men, who drove
them away with rifles.
CHRISTIAN A. KRIPP, a well-known char
acter of Galena, Ill, and man of consid-
cradle property, died in the county Jail
from the effects of morphine given him TO
ward off delirium tremens.
RETURNS have been received from assays
of the black sands of the Snake River, near
Walker and McQuat's Ferry, Utah, which
showed SS64 per ton. These sands have
hitherto been considered worthless and
were sluiced away TO get at the gravel,
which is comparatively worthless.
BLAcKsAITHs, molders and foundrYmen
to the number of one hundred and twenty
FIVE, went out of the Indianapolis Car
Works the other day. They had not been
paid in five weeks, their wages formerly
being given them every two weeks. t.....
THE indianapolis roads complain that the
Chicago roads are not living up to tariff
rates, and announce that they will protect
themselves pool or no pool.
LAST spring some horse thieves arrested
on Wood River were successfully defended
by two attorneys, who were given horses
as fees. 1t is now announced that the
horse thieves have raided there again and
stolen every head but ten, whose value will
not pay the bill for keeping the herd.
JAMES a. COLLINS, of Litchfeld, H.,
was lodged in Jail, charged with forgery
and larceny. He is said to be an old and
desperate criminal.
A VIOLENT yellow fever epidemic has
broken ont in Ures and Hermosillo, Mex.
leo. Yellow fever is attacking the cattle
in Sonora, a curious circumstance never
before noted. ..r
The Republicans of the Fifth District of
Iowa nominated Milo p. Smith, of Cedar
Rapids, for Congress on the nineteenth
ballot.
The Oklahoma 'sboomers" were expelled
from Rock Falls by the military on the 7th
and the town burned. Captain Payne and
others who had previously been expelled
from Oklahoma were imprisoned.
J. c. S. HARRISON, the defaulting banker
of indianapolis, was dangerously ill.
E. S. MCMANUs, a leading confectioner
at st. Paul, suicided recently by taking
morphine. Business troubles.
THE Grand Trunk Railway repair shops,
beyond the southwestern Chicago limits.
burned the other night. Loss, $4,000.
LIEUTENANT j. o. MAcKEY, of the Third
Cavalry, has been convicted of beating an
officers servant without prov ocation, and
will be confined to the limits of the reser-
walton at Fort Leavenworth for eight
months and forfeit four hundred dollars
of his pay.
A FIRE the other night in the warehouse
and lumber yards of the Key City Furni
ture Company, at Dubuque, Iowa, caused
a loss of 81, goo; insurance $1,000.
The Chicago Live Stock Exchange is de.
termined to no longer permit the practice
of "shrinkage" adopted by packers in hog
purchases. "Piggy" sows and "stags''
must in future be separated and sold on
their own merits.
ABOUT twenty young cattle of herd of
one hundred and fifty, being pastured nine
miles from Denver, have died Of Texas
fever in the last few days.
THE SOUTH.
RUMoRs were afi?at in Louisville that
leading stockholders of the louisville &
Nashville road would bring suit against
the former directors for money lost in sus-
tanning quotations in Wall street, and for
frauds perpetrated in saddling the Mobile
division upon the company.
AN immigrant family, consisting Of a
man and wife and four children, persisted
in War Eagle Greek, near Huntsville, Ark.
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