The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-13

Iowa was thought carried by the Repub-
licans by . majority Of $4,000 or 14,0001
The Democrats conceded the State, bat
claimed the Legislature was in doubt and
that they had . small majority in the
| House.
SAMUEL NEWTON, . Choctaw Il. IT, In
dian, convicted Of wife murder, was exc
cuted recently by being shot.
| PERRY BAYNR, on trial at Seattle,
charged with numbering two Cinnamon In
Washington Territory, was acquitted.
The court house Of Cumberland County
| at Toledo, NJ. was entirely destroyed by
| Gre early the other morning. All records
Of the county were lost.
ISAAC HAMILTON, . farmer Of Madison
County, O., has assigned TO Henry Lilly.
The assets and liabilities are about equal
| $4,000.
N. L. WHITE, foreman Of the Mcpherson
raisin ranch, three miles east Of Orange.
Los Angeles County. Cal, was ATTACKED by
about sixty Cinnamon in the vineyar
while picking grapes recently. White de-
Tended himself till the white men working
near came to his rescue with shovels. All
the Cinnamon then fed to their camp,
where they fortified and armed themselves
with pistols The affair created intense
excitement among the white people In that
section.
Ar the meeting Of railroad managers at
Chicago, on the 5th, It was decided to ad-
here to the carload rate system.
A DIsPArCH from Tacoma, w. T., states
that Chinatown, situated near the lower
depot and wharf of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, has been burned by the mob.
THE st. Louis police have arrested David
Keenan,, w. p. Sears, p. 6. Burns, M.
Weathers and Master Workman Pinker-
ton, of the Knights of Labor, all street
railroad men, for being engaged in the re-
cent explosions on the street car tracks.
Another man, named John Shaughnessy,
was also arrested, and the police think
they now have the entire gang.
EX-SENATOR SHARON was reported very
Ill in San Francisco and his condition was
rngarded as critical. His mind was per-
fectly clear and he has arranged all his af-
fairs with relatives who, It is understood,
will continue the fight against the claims
of Sarah Althea Hill.
An Investigation of the Mormon land
frauds in Cache County, Utah, was re-
ported being made. II is understood that
something over $4,000 acres of land were
obtained by Brigham Young in Cache
County which has always been called the
"Church Farm" The land was obtained
by the old dodge Of false entries by pre-
tended homesteaders.
"a All - -
Findlay, O., for natural gas was "torpe-
doed" and a stream of oil shot eighty feet
into the air. The we'll is now flowing at
the rate of 800 barrels per day, and to q
height of forty feet.
A SPECIAL from Aurora. Ind, OF the 9Th
says: 1.-THE fine Ohio River steamer J. w.
Gaff and Mountain Girl collided two miles
below here at an early hour this morning.
Seven people on the Mountain Girl from
Holland & McMahn's circus are reported
drowned. The boats were badly wrecked"
TIE appointment of Colonel Hyde as
postmaster at st. Louis, was reported at
Washington on the 9th as having been de-
termined upon.
A TORNADO ravaged Carmi, Pittsfield,
Bloomington and Springfield, Ill, on the
9Th. The greatest damage was done near
Carmi. where an old man was killed by q
flying rafter.
ABOUT 1900 men quit work in the Hook
ing Valley, Ohio Central and Shawnee
Valleys, O., on the 9Th. The operators say
they will shut down the mines rather than
pay the advance demanded.
MRS. WALKUP was acquitted of the
charge of poisoning her husband at EN-
poria, Kan, after the jury had been out a
long time. The verdict was generally re-
ceived favorably, although expressions of
dissent were by no means few.
JUDGE EBEN NEWTON, the oldest men,
Der of the bar in Ohio, died on the 9Th at
Garfield, Mahoning County, aged ninety
one years. In 1852 he was in Congress
with Joshua r. Giddings and won consid
cradle prominence by a speech in favor of
extending a national welcome to Kossuth.
REPORTS from Burnt Prairie Township,
in the northern part of White County, ILL.,,
state that the cattle were dying rapidly
from some disease thought to be milk
sickness.
THE Farwell building, go to 24S Monroe
street, Chicago, was on fire the other day.
The losses footed up $9OO,0O0.