The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
THE WEST.


THE 8. w. Adams Manufacturing Com
pany, of Chicago, failed recently. Liza
bilities not stated.
DIR. N. II. PAARIN, Illinois State Veter-
marian, after having made q tour Of the
pleuro- pneumonia infected districts in Mis-
souri,, declined TO detail in full the results
of his investigation, as he had not reported
to the Governor; but enough was learned
from him to warrant the assertion that the
situation was not near SO bad as was at
first reported. sssas.s r= s-ssfs
HATHAWAY, the editor who was tarred
and feathered at Norwalk, o., recently,
was reported as likely to lose his eyesight.
ALEXANDER PURPOSES, aged thirty five,
farmer living near Kankakee, ILL.,, was
killed by lightning recently, wire clothes
line conveying the stroke to him.
FIVE armed tramps recently took possess
sion of the south bound Grand Trunk train
at Fort Gratiot, and held possession OF it
until they reached Frazer, where they left.
They told the conductor they wanted to go
to Detroit to see the circus.
A DISPATCH from Deming, N. NJ, of the
26th, says: Thirty Indians passed near
here, heading for Mexico. The cavalry are
in close pursuit. The bodies of five Ameri-
cans, killed by the Indians, were found at
the Blue River yesterday.
In an attack on the hostiles on the Blue
River, Arizona, on the 25th, the troops
were forced to retreat, after having three
men wounded.
A DISPATCH from Fort Bayard, N. NJ, Of
the 9th says: Indians are leaving their
reservations daily. The number of In
dams doing the killing during the last ten
days is said by military authorities to have
been only 1874, thirty-four bucks, eight
half-grown boys and ninety-two squaws.
Outside reports indicate many more.
THREE separate cyclones, which proved
very destructive, occurred at Nortonville,
Goffs and Frankfort, in Northeastern Kan
sas, on the 9th. Four persons were in
jured, three probably fatally.
THREE women and six children were
drowned in the Canyon, nine miles east of
Indianola, Neb., on the night of the Goth.
MILLIONS of young grasshoppers are re-
ported coming out of the sandy soil on the
south side of the Arkansas River above
Pueblo, Col, destroying early vegetables.
The Dodge Telephone bill was defeated
in the Michigan Senate on its third reading
by vote of 43 to 80. The bill placed the
rate for telephones at $3.50 per month, with
90 per cent. reduction when more than one
instrument was used by the same firm.
The rate between towns was to be 10 cents.
A RECENT special from Ell Paso says the
powder mill at Aguas Calientes, Mex, was
destroyed by fire, killing two persons.
@ FIRE destroyed twelve buildings and con-
tents at Phoenix, Ariz., the other day.
Loss, $4,000; insurance $4,000.
On the farm of Owen Means, at Say brook,
ILL.,, number of apparently healthy cattle
have fallen dead in their tracks as if from
heart disease. The disease appeared to be
contagious, but its nature was not clearly
defined. 1t created no little anxiety among
stock men.
CONSIDERABLE damage was caused by
cloud Hurst recently in Evansville, Ind,
in the northern part of the city.
AT Fleming, N. NJ, on the 2Sth, courier
brought news of battle between the troops
and Apaches in Coates Canon, through
which the Indians attempted to retreat into
Mexico. Four soldiers and eight Indians
were killed.
DURING a running race at the fair
grounds at Terre Haute, Ind, recently,
Charley Cash, an Ohio boy who rode the
horse Herfer, had his back broken. His
horse stumbled over another horse.
A BAND of Indians killed five men near
Silver City, N. NJ, recently. 1t was re-
ported on the 10Th that the number of MUIR
ders by the Apaches, so far as known.
amounted to eighty.
AN immense amount of lumber was
burned recently in Studebaker's wagon
works at South Bend, Ind. Loss about
100000.
RIEL's Lieutenant, Dumont, was cap
tured by United States troops in Montana.
The Secretary of War, in replying to re-
quest for instructions, said the military
had no authority to arrest or detain Du
mont, and he was, therefore, discharged.
CHARLES W. ANGEL, who embezzled
Sl20,000 from the Pullman Company at Chi
cago in 1878, has been released from the
Joliet Ill.) penitentiary, having served