The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
THE WEST.

| matter.
THE WEST.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
road recently at Chicago made an open
rate on freight to Council Bluffs and Omaha
to ten cents, irrespective of classification.
| THE stone masons on a strike at Dayton,
| o., for an increase of wages, marched to s.
d. Platt's new residence recently, badly
beat the men at work and compelled them
to quit.
| Ex-Governor CONRAD BAKER, of Indi-
| ana, died in Indianapolis recently of con-
| gestion of the lungs after an illness of sew
eral months.
A LATE tariff schedule from Kansas City
to Eastern points, irst-class, is quoted as
follows: New York, Albany, Troy, Phil
delphia, Utica and Rome, $26; Buffalo and
Pittsburg, S23.15; Rochester and Syracuse,
n. Y, S24.75; Boston, 5000; Columbus, o.,
$3.50; Cleveland, $21.5O and Erie $23.
| THE police were called upon to suppress
a riot of Chicago Socialists on the evening
of the 2Sth,
THE Lindell Hotel, st. Louis, was on fire
on the 2Sth. Loss about $4,000.
The other day box containing $50, 900 in
unsigned bank notes of the Banco Next
cano, stored at Paso del Norte, Mex, was
broken open and robbed of all but a 500
package.
THE old Board of Directors of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railway was
reelected in Chicago.
| GOVERNOR MARMADUKE, of Missouri,
was reported as displeased with the action
of Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, in indis-
eriminately quarantining against Missouri
cattle. 1t was thought that Oglesby had
exceeded his prerogatives and that the
Federal courts would be applied to for re-
| lief.
THE Ohio Legislature has passed a law
fixing heavy fine and Imprisonment for
offering or receiving money at primary or
general elections.
SIxrY-EIGHr indictments were found by
the United States Grand Jury at Topeka
on the 2sth against the prominent Okla
homa coloitsts. The leaders were indicted
on separate charges, the others on the COM
mon charge of plotting instruction.
GOVERNOR SHERMAN,of Iowa, has issued
a proclamation establishing quarantine
boundaries against cattle not accompanied
by certificates of health from the States of
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, Delaware, Ohio, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and the
District of Columbia.
THE new two million dollar Board of
Trade building at Chicago was dedicated
on .he 29th.
THE owners o. the "City of Mexico" re-
Gently libelled by the Government, have
sent voluminous protest to the Secretary
of the Treasury.
FRIENDS of John Mccullough, the actor,
recently in st. Louis, were getting quite
anxious over his condition. He has wan
dered about the city for several days,
imagining himself in Chicago and Cincin-
natl, and inquiring constantly for streets
! and places in those cities.
A JOLIET, ILL, special stated recently
that the striking quarrymen We're again
creating trouble. A large force of them
were reported on the way from Lamont to
invade the Joliet quarries.
ANGUS W. CANNON, brother of Con-
gressional Delegate George Q. Cannon,
|
itation in Salt Lake City. Bishop James C..
Hamilton has also been arrested on the
charge of polygamy.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco saws:
General Irwin Mcdowell has been suffer-
ing for some time with an affection of the
! principal digestive organs, which prevents
him from retaining anything on his
stomach. His death is likely to occur at
any moment.
THE Louisville express on the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago Railroad, was
stopped near Harrodsburg, Ind, the other
night by a band of masked robbers. The
American Express messenger, refusing to
unlock the safe was fatally shot. The bag
gage-master was also shot and seriously
wounded. The robbers only go. about
500.
FREDERICK RorH, formerly a burgo-
master in Eberbeld, Prussia, shot and
killed himself in Cincinnati the other day
because of inability to procure work.
ETHE strike inaugurated at the South Chi
cago rolling mills by seventy furnace men,
pitmen and ladle liners caused both the
steel and rail mills to shut down in conse-
quence, ana some l,ZVV men were tnrOWu
out of employment.
A BILL has been passed by the Illinois
House to regulate the charges of the Chi
cago stock yards for yardage, freight,
grain, hay and other articles furnished,
and to prevent extortion and unjust dis
elimination.
PASSENGER train on the Denver & Rio
Grande was wrecked near Marshall Pass,
COL, the other night. Three emigrants
were injured and two brakemen badly
hurt.
SIXTY barrels of liquor were seized in
Muscatine, Iowa, recently under the search
and seizure clause of the prohibitory law.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill
prohibiting the dealing in margins outside
of Boards of Trade and Chambers of COM
merce.
COLONEL SwrTzLER, of the Columbia
MOL StatesBaaa, has been appointed Sec
rotary of the Bureau of Statistics.