The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-23
THE WEST.


that they are negotiating for stronghold
| in Mexico.
ANTHONY A. KELLY, of Fon du Lac, Wis,
has been debarred from practice as an at
| torney before the Interior Department, be-
cause of fraudulent practices.
GOVERNOR WILLIAM HALE, of Wyoming
Territory, died on the 18th, aged forty
eight years.
In the District Court of st. Paul, Mimi.
d. Z. Swan, who took $4,000 from the
office of the local treasurer of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, and was captured at SUIT
toms Bay, Mich, recently, pleaded guilty.
In a fight which occurred at Durand, H.,
the other day several persons were severely
stabbed.
GERRIT KEYEs was killed at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, recently by being caught in an
elevator.
BENJAMIN F. LINT, Clerk of the Cincin-
natl Police Department, was arrested re-
Gently for embezzling $1,000 of the city
funds.
A DISPATCH from Fort Wayne, dated
the 18th, stated that the strikers on the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Columbus Rail-
road were still blocking trains.
LEWIS and Harry Priest, brothers, living
near Delaware, O., were instantly killed
by train on the Columbus & Toledo Rail-
road, the other night, while intoxicated.
THE Mexican garrison at Ensenada,
Mexico, mutinied recently and murdered
their captain and several other persons.
A TERRIBLE fight occurred the other day
at Portland, Oregon, among a lot of Eng
lish sailors. One or two We're fatally in
jured.
AN elevator burned at Big Stone, d. T.,
recently. Loss. $4,000.
Miss EMMA BOND, the victim of the ter
rible outrage committed two years ago at
Christian County, ILL.,, was reported dying.
GOVERNOR KNOTT signed the death war
rant of William Neil, one of the perpetra-
tors of the Ashland murder.
JUDGE JAMES W. DUNLAP, recently ap-
pointed Judge of the Circuit Court at Kan
sas City by Governor Crittenden, died on
the 18th from the effects of a pistol wound
accidentally inflicted upon himself few
days previously.
p. MAREsH. an employee of the Milwau-
kee & st. Paul round house, while washing
locomotive at Dubuque, Iowa, was acct
dentally struck on the head with an iron
rod in the hands of another employee, max
ing terrible cash and fractttring the skull.
A SERIOUS strike took place at South
Bend, Ind, recently, in the Oliver Chilled
Plow Works. The strikers, who were prin-
cipally foreigners, raised a riot and several
persons were wounded. Many of the
strikers We're wounded.
l,,;1 4 Lot l.
port, Ind, recently. Total loss, $50, 900; in
surance, $4,000.
THE NJ. E. Church at Carmi, ILL.,, was
struck by lightning recently. The spire
and front of the building was wrecked.
MCFADDEN, the accomplice of Prentice
Tiller, in the Express Office robbery in st.
Louis about a year ago, was sentenced on
the 18th to three years in the Penitentiary.
THE Omaha Railroad has reduced grain
rates five cents per hundred on the Western
Sioux City, Division to st. Paul, Mime
apolis and Manitoba transfer, giving these
points equal advantages with Milwaukee
and Chicago.
HENRY HoFKEMPER fell through a trap
door at Dubuque, Iowa, recently, alighting
on his head and cracking his skull. No
hope for his recovery.
A DISPATCH from Fort Wayne dated the
10th stated the ''double-header" strikers
on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
held possession of the railroad, refusing to
allow any freight trains to move. The
strikers were organized and threatened
violence to any force attempting to dis
lodge them.
DAVID CLARK, son of the late Senator
Clark, has been sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment at Milwaukee for counterfeit
ing.
The California State Senate organized on
the 18th, with Knight, one of the Demo-
cratic "read outs" as President pro tenn.