The Iola register., 1885-01-30
THE WEST,

THE Northern Pacific paid the Flathead
Indians at Missoula the indemnity due
them recently amounting to 81 ,45S. There
were $40 Indians to whom this money
was divided, giving each S14.21.
THE coroner's jury in the late fire at
Kankakee, ILL.,, returned the following ver-
dict: "We find deceased came to their
deaths by being suffocated and burned by
the smoke and fire, originating over the
hot air furnace in the infirmary south of
the Eastern Illinois Hospital at Kankakee,
January Is, 1885,"
VOORHEES, was reelected Senator for In
diana, receiving majority of 45 out of
149 votes over Ex-Governor Porter, noni-
mated by the Republicans.
A FLEET of seven coal boats and six
barges, belonging to j. c. Risher q Co.,
broke from their moorings near Woods
Run, on the Ohio River, near Pittsburgh,
Pa, recently, and six of the coal boats and
five barges, containing $4,000 bushels of
coal, sank.
The faith cure at Spencer, Ind, devel-
oped but little success, inasmuch as Mr.
Thomas, the believer, who was i'll of
typhoid fever, died.
REPORT from the Indian Territory says
Lewis Lucas, who so cruelty murdered
| Squire Hoyt, while Hoyt was his guest,
was waylaid and shot from the bush by an
unknown person.
THE Ohio Legislature adopted a joint
resolution to place the statue of William
| Allen in the Hall of the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington.
! On the first joint ballot the Colorado
Legislature elected Secretary Henry NJ.
Teller United States Senator to succeed n.
P. Hill.
HTHE general passenger agents of the
Eastern trunk lines, after protracted dis
cussion at Chicago on the 21st, failed to ar
rive at any agreement for the existing pas
senger rates, and adjourned indefinitely.
& THE directors of the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company have declared the usual
four per cent. semi-annual cash dividend,
payable March ., 1879, out of the earnings
of the six months ending December 81, 1884
THE steamer White Eagle of the st
Louis and st. Paul Packet Company, lying
in winter quarters at st. Louis, took fire the
other evening and all her upper works
were destroyed.
On the Marrow Gauge Railroad, between
Cascade and Bellevue, Iowa, A. A. Hamil.
ton, a brakeman, wilhelm the act of placing
a switch, got his foot caught in frog
and his lower limbs were horribly mangled
SILAs MCGAUGHNEY, prominent farmer
living a few miles west of Vincennes, Ind.
was kicked to death recently by frac'
tious horse.
A LITTLE child of Colonel Mindson, o.
Hindsboro, ILL.,, fell out of the upper barr
door, a distance of thirty feet, and wa:
fatally injured.
A COUNCIL BLUFFS special says: Ex
County Clerk S. D. Scott was arrested her.
charged with embezzling $4,000 of th'
county's money during his term of Office
FERDINAND DETTMAN, a wealthy farmer
was sent to the penitentiary from Chicago
the other day for making ten dollar coun
terfeit notes.
GENERAL HATCH surrounded the Okla
homa boomers at Saltwater on tha e2d
with the intention of starving them out
He allowed no one to approach them, bI
let everyone leave who desired. No tirin.
was to be done.
EGEyERAL BRAGG received the Demo
cratic nomination in Wisconsin for Unite'
States Senator.
AN Indian named Crooked Foot We
killed during a quarrel at Chamberlain
OAK, recently by man named john Bader
THE Piute Indians We're said to be starv
ing to death on their barren reservation ii
Nevada. Not cent OF the Congressiona
, appropriation $1,000, secured by Senate
Dawes, of Massachusetts, was reported t
. have reached them.
S. c.. DALLAS, Postmaster of Salineville
o., has been arrested for fraud.
o. II. PAYNE has resigned the treasurshil
, | of the Standard Oil Company.
, The public schools at Hazel Green, Wis.
, have been closed, owing to diphtheria.