The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-11

rns Dsaro, II ths City Of Mexico. re-
Gently said thiss The financial depression
continues, and the Government Il unable
70 accumulate surplus There arc rumofs
Of . possible negotiation Of . loan In the
United States Il the United States Gov
ernment can be induced TO guarantee the
interest In return for certain CONNER.
cial concessions.
]. ROMERO & Co., contractors and stock
raisers, of Las Vegas, N. NJ. have failed.
Liabilities $2OO, 1000, assets claimed to be
ample.
The Little Rolling Mills, situated In East
st. Louis, were closed the other morning
by $50 of its hands striking. The men
kicked at an OSder announcing the same
pay as that of other mills, claiming 1t to
be an attempt to force upon them the re-
duced Pittsburgh scale.
CATTLE disease, which many stock men
pronounced Texas fever, was reported rag
ing throughout Pottawatomie County,
Western Iowa.
The west bound train ON the Chicago +
Alton was boarded twenty miles east OF
Kansas City by four masked men ON the
night of the I'd, who proceeded to rob the
passengers, obtaining small sums of money
and few trinkets. The robbers were evil
IDENTIFY green hands, as there was consid-
cradle wealth on the train. The robbers
compelled the brakeman to stop the train,
when they got of and disappeared in the
darkness. A posse was Immediately or
ganized in Kansas City, who left on a
special train in pursuit of the desperadoes.
WHITE men to the number of lao, armed
with shotguns, attacked the Chinese at
Rock Springs, Wy, recently, driving them
out of their quarters and killing several
The Chinese fed to the hills, when the
white men burned their quarters, destroy
ing thirty mine houses owned by the coal
company employing the Chinese.
A DISPATCH received in Tucson, Ari.,
from Fort Bowie stated that Geronimo, the
Apache outlaw, had been killed in a fight
which took place in Mexico, when he at
tempted to escape.
A BOAT containing number of boys and
girls was upset at Oshkosh, Wis, by the
swell from a passing steamboat recently.
Two boys and four of the girls were
drowned. They were crossing the river to
work in the match factory.
PATRICK HARrNEr, the wife murderer OF
Cincinnati, who was to have been hanged
on the 4th, was respited by Governor
Hoadly the night before.
The bodies of fifteen Cinnamon were
found as q result of the Rock Springs
(Wy.) riot, the day following, and it was
thought that other bodies were yet in the
ruins of the burned dwellings. Governor
Warren requested troops to be held in
be repeated.
The freight house of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton g. Dayton Railroad, at Cincin-
natl, was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing. The loss amounted to over $200, 600,
falling principally upon the Cincinnati
Mating and Warehouse Company, which
occupied part of the building. Two-thirds
of the property was insured.
Two of the three Fall River, Mass,
smallpox patients have died. The mother
of the children admitted that she was in
Montreal with them three weeks previ-
ously, and that the youngest child was
taken sick twelve days after her return.
CONGRESSMAN WARNER, of Kansas City,
was chosen Chairman of the Waterways
Convention, which was called to order by
Governor Hubbard at st. Paul, Mimi, on
the Sd.
CONSIDERABLE damage was done to the
crops in Minnesota and other Northern
States by frost ON the night of the Sd.
The Elk Rapids (Mich.) Iron Company
have received an order for 400 tons of
charcoal iron to be shipped to England,
probably the first iron of Western manu-
facture ever shipped from this country.
EX-SENATOR GwINN, of California, died
at noon on the Sd at the New Park Hotel,
New York. No member of his family was
with the deceased at his death.
THREE boys were shot by farmer near
Dayton, O., recently, while helping them
selves to melons. One of the boys was seri-
ously hurt.
Two Kansas City men named John
Brosnahan and John O'Brien were ar
rested at Lexington, No., charged with
being concerned in the train robbery on
the Chicago & Alton on the night of
the I'd.
FRANK p. CoLMAN. younger son of the
Commissioner of Agriculture, Norman ].
Colman, died at st. Louis recently.
THREE Township Trustees of Daviess
County, Ind, recently disappeared. 1t is
said they issued fraudulent orders on their
respective townships. and OH the credit of
the same raised mon-y and absconded
with it. They were Charles w. Brown,
Trustee of Washington Township, Davis
County. John G. Ramsey, of Steele Town
ship, and John Stark, of Barr Township.
The amount of money carried away is va
riously estimated at from $4,000 to $780,
600. Great excitement prevailed.
ARGUMENTS were heard in the District
Court at Dubuque, Iowa, on the applica-
ton of defendants for removal to the Fed
eral Court for temporary iDjunctiOns
against saloon keepers. The Judge de-
the Federal Courts.
RJUDGE BREWER, in the United States
Circuit Court ut Leavenworth, Kan, re-
Gently, decided the case of the Neosho VAL
lev lands in favor of the settlers and
against the railroad companies. It was
expected the matter would be taken to the
Supreme Court.
THE SOUTH.
The strike Of the Baltimore glass blow.
ers, which has continued since last winter,
has been amicably settled. The non-union
men were discharged and only union men
employed.
Four cotton mills at WOODBURY., near
Baltimore, Nd, were reported making