The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-27
THE WEST.


THE WEST.
EX-SENATOR SHARON emphatically stat
ed he would not pay alimony to Sarah Hill
as ordered by Judge Sullivan.
THE people of Arcata, CAL, were re-
ported taking steps to hustle out the Chi
nese.
The confession of j. j. Sullivan, wit
ness for the defense in the Mackin election
case at Chicago, is to the effect that for
four silver dollars and the promise of a
place in the Government printing Office at
Washington he committed perjury and
that the testimony he gave was entirely at
Mackin's dictation.
AN effort made to verify the statement
that Senator Pendleton had written let
ter to the President-elect strongly favoring
Thurman for the Cabinet, resulted in the
discovery that no such letter had been
written and none was contemplated.
The Michigan House Committee of the
Whole has agreed to a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the liquor traffic.
In the Michigan House of Representa-
tives bill has been presented to prevent
nonresident aliens from acquiring or hold
ing lands in the State.
A RESOLUTION proposing the submitting
of proposition for an amendment to the
constitution to license the liquor traffic was
defeated in the Ohio House of Representa-
tives by five votes.
The relief party that went out to Alta,
Utah, to bring in the bodies of the victims
of the recent snowslide, report that alto
gether thirty persons were killed in the
fatal avalanches.
A PROMINENT railway official estimates
the loss on all Western roads by the storms
during the second and third weeks of Feb
ruary at from 81 ,00O, 900 to $3,000,00O.
GEORGE SEAToN, a Waterman OH the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was struck by
an express train at Pawpaw Station the
other morning and killed. He left wife
and four children. Also a tramp was
killed near the same place by the same
train. No papers were found to identify
him.
THE Grannis block, at Chicago, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 10Th.
The loss was reported heavy. s8s EN ss4Vs
L. J. MALoNEY and ]. H. Britt, fremen,
while testing portable fire escape at st.
Paul, Mimi, recently, fell from third
story window, owing to the breaking of
the apparatus. The skulls of both were
fractured fatally.
AN unknown man, aged about fifty
years, was frozen to death near Dearborn,
Mich, recently.
A BILL was introduced in the Michigan
House to avoid snow drifts by constructing
wire fences along railroads.
THE California Assembly recently
passed a constitutional amendment pro-
viding that railroads shall pay tax of
2k per cent. on the gross earnings.
BRAY BROTHERS, grain and commission
merchants of San Francisco, have closed
their doors; liabilities 5000, 600; assets the
same, but not readily convertible.
THE Union Depot at Mendoza, ILL.,, was
burned on the morning of the 10th. Loss,
$4,000.
THE Governor of Sonora, Mexico, has
given the Mormons the right to settle the
Yaqui country. 1t is one of the richest
sections of the world.
THE SOUTH.
A GAINESVILLE (Tex.) special says: F.
d. j. johnson, Constable of Marysville
precinct, was shot and instantly killed by
q man named Rainey, while levying an at
tachment on the latter's team and wagon.
The murderer fed to the Indian Territory.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from San
Antonio throws the onus of the so.called
Mexican outrages on American ruffians,
who were guilty of wanton assassination.
~1n1x xol
eclat in New Orleans on the 18th. The SUBJ
ject illustrated was the Legends Beauti-
full
WHILE. Mrs. Holly Bloodworth, Of
Gainesville, Ca, was arranging her toilet
the other morning her clothing caught fire,
and before assistance could be rendered she
was burned to death.
Ex-Governor MOSES, of South Care.
lima, was convicted in Boston recently of
obtaining SS4 under false pretenses and
sentenced to six months imprisonment
EUFAULA, Ala, was visited bya disas-
trous fire recently; Sl05, 900 worth of prop
erty was destroyed. The Grange ware
house, conducted by Dan 7. Sheehan, to-
gether with ], 400 bales of cotton, 40 tons
of grain, 10 or 10 gins and other property
were consumed. Total insurance, $4,000.
TIE bill creating seattle drive" ex-
tending from Texas to Nebraska, over
which Texas cattle might be driven from
the South to the North, was discussed in
the Commerce Committee at Washington
and defeated by a very decisive vote.
THIEVES at Frankfort, KY, the other
night robbed the residence of the pianist,
Clara Schuman, of all her jewelry and
other valuables.
JOHN CHAFFEE & Co., cotton factors, of
New Orleans, assigned recently. Liabil-
tiles, $3.50, SIG; assets reported at 81, 763,-
GA. The cause of the assignment was
stated to be the impossibility of immediate
realization on valuable property.
Two steamers caught fire at Memphis re-
Gently. The boats were loaded with cot
ton, oil and lumber. The loss amounted to
about S150,OO0.
The Arkansas House by large majority |
has defeated the bill calling q constitu-
tional convention.
THE Railroad accident on the Virginia |
between Alexandria and Wash |
ington, proved more disastrous than at !