The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-06
THE WEST.

ONE man was killed and two others in
jured by the gallery falling upon them in
q panorama building at Chicago the other
day.
THE owners Of the Grace Whitney and
the Eureka, at Detroit, both of which were
last week reported lost, have received
word from both vessels, which were in the
harbor at Pequaming.
The case of the State against Samuel C..
Schaeffer, charged at Kansas City with
obtaining money from John I. Blair, of
Blairstown, N. J., by cheat and fraud.
was concluded on the 9th by the jury
finding the defendant guilty and fixing his
punishment at eight years in the State PEN
itentiary. The trial Of the cause occupied
over three weeks. The affair originated
over the sale Of land.
RELEASED polygamists in Utah declare
their intentions to keep their "covenants'
hereafter secretly. President Taylor,
Cannon and other heads of the Church
were reported to be still in hiding.
The steamer Plowboy, a small packet
engaged in the transportation business be-
tween Keokuk, Iowa, and Warsaw, Ill.,,
and Alexandria, Mo-, burned at the wharf
at Keokuk the other night. Loss, 5000.
BIsHoP POTTER was convicted of polyg-
amy at Blackfoot, Idaho, recently.
AT East Saginaw, Mich, recently num-
Der of persons were precipitated into the
river, caused by the railing of bridge
giving way. Several persons were drowned.
The people were watching q fire on a tug
when the accident occurred.
An inquiry has been commenced at Chi.
cago into Irregularities said to exist in the
Cook County Hospital and the Jefferson
Insane Asylum.
A. ]. BURNS, q young man, shot and seri-
ously wounded two young women, sisters,
in the hallway of r. G. Dunn's office, Chi
cago, recently. He had been discharged
for insulting the sisters and took this mode
Of revenge.
HENRY KELLEN, in the Missouri peni-
Tertiary, has confessed that he was con-
cerned in the Coolidge, Kan, train robbery
in 1883, and that Abe Waller and Fred A.
Bunk were the other parties.
SCIENTISTS in the West are reported be-
ing swindled by a crook who represents
himself as Leo Lesquereaux, Jr., the fossil
botanist.
GENERAL JOHN B. CLARK, ST., died al
his home in Fayette, Mo-, on the Goth, in
the eighty fourth year Of his age, from
cancer. General Clark held high rank in
the Mexican, Blackhawk, Mormon and civil
| wars; was a member of the United States
Congress at the beginning of the civil wal
and q member of the Confederate Senate
II. n. PINKNEY, charged with aiding ths
Arkansas Valley Land and Cattle Com.
pany, an English corporation, to defraud
che Government out Of the larger part Of
GO. 200 acres Of public domain in Bent
County, Col, was arrested in st. Louis re.
! Gently. Pinkney was formerly a clerk in
the Pueblo Land Office, and he and s. C.
Bloomfield, manager OF the cattle com.
pany, were charged with fraIdulently con
spring to acquire the land. bloomfield
was convicted, but Pinkney forfeited his
| bond and fed.
TIE other morning q fire broke out in the
-four mills of Bush & Co., at Seymour
Ind, totally destroying them. The Ohio
& Mississippi Railroad shops and two
dwellings were also damaged. The loss ii
$4,000 insurance on mill, $4,000.
OK account of the prevalence of diphthe.
ria in Mt. Vernon, O., the public schools
were closed by direction of tie Board OF
Education.
SENATOR STANFORD has given orders to
deed in trust his three immense ranches
known As the Vina, Gridley and Paola
Alta, for the endowment of a university
and schools to be erected at Paola Alta
The three ranches comprise 5000 acres,
and together represent q value OF s, 500,
900.
KHuE J. p. Myers, . painter, was rig
ging scahold about the spire of the Mett-
cdist Church At Clinton, ILL.,, his foot
clipped and he fell over one hundred feet
to the ground and was killed instantly.
W. L. SIMMONS, grain dealer at Sand.
witch, H., made an assignment recently.
Liabilities, $4,000, assets, $4,000.
THE SOUTH.
TIM stage from Abilene, Tex, was
robbed hv masked hi0hvavmen the 0kher