The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-01
THE WEST.


was married at Cleveland on the I'D to
Miss Eva B. Leek.
The Ohio River coal miners inaugurated
great strike on the Goth. The operators
declared they would not pay the advance
demanded, and intended to make reduc-
ton instead.
FIFTEEN hundred fish were poisoned re.
Gently in large aquarium at Dayton, u.
drug store. The glass tank held many bar.
rels and was fed from the city water pipes
Fish in the Lake City pumping house died
mysteriously, and an investigation was
considered necessary.
THE tow boat, Raymond Horner, ran
into the ferry boat Champion, at Gallipolis
o., recently, nearly destroying the latter
George Henry, passenger, was instantly
killed. ..... ...
THE Sheriff, on the 23d, was unable to
make many arrests at Wilmot, Oak. The
men were in force and heavily armed. He
concluded, therefore, to await the arrival
of troops. The excitement in Roberts
County was intensified.
WILLIAM j. GALLAGHER, under indict-
ment at Chicago for alleged participation
in the Eighteenth Ward election frauds,
was arrested for an alleged forgery COM
mitted in Philadelphia. An order of the
Federal Court was issued, directing that he
remain in the custody of the United States
Marshal at Chicago pending his trial.
A MINERALoGIsr has gathered from sew
eral farms in Clermont County, o., speci-
mems of rock and earth, all of which yielded
81 900 of gold to the ton. A company has
been formed to buy the farms.
A FIRE at Beloit, Wis, the other day,
damaged the Catholic church and parson-
age to the extent of $1,000.
JUDGMENT was rendered against ex-
Senator Sharon on the 9th. Althea Hill
was declared to be his legal wife according
to the laws of California. Sharon was very
much astonished, and it was believed he
would appeal the case.
REV. NIs.O'DoNovAN has brought an
action for $4,000 damage against Father
Aldering, of indianapolis.
THE five story building formerly known
as the Academy of Music, at Minneapolis,
was Quilted by fire the other afternoon.
The gross loss reached 500, 900 with total
insurance of $l50,OO0.
The State Board of Agriculture of Indi-
ana reports decrease of from twenty five
to thirty three per cent. in the acreage of
winter wheat. 1t is reported that the de-
crease in Kentucky will amount to thirty
per cent.
BURT SEABoLDT, conductor, and H. C..
Osterwaldt, engineer of the work train of
the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, in the
collision recently, were held at Salt Lake
City, Utah, at the conclusion of their eX-
animation in 5000 each for criminal neg
ligence.
WIN. S. KERKER, late teller in the Second
National Bank at Ironton, o., indicted on
nineteen counts for embezzlement of the
banks money, was found guilty on three
counts, charging false entries, whereby
the bank lost 5000.
DURING an extensive fire at Cincinnati
on the 23d, the Masonic Temple was de-
stroyed. The total loss aggregated $780,
900: insured.
ROBERT SAXON, bartender of the BemuS
Hotel saloon, at Evansville, Ind, fell down
a flight of stairs into the cellar of the hotel
recently and broke his neck.
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young man were hunting near Coal Hill,
Utah, Tanners gun slipped as they We're
resting on a fence and he was shot in the
body. He died of his injuries.
A MAN named William Dwyer started
home drunk the other night at Lincoln,
ILL.,, and fell off the sidewalk and went to
sleep, where he was found in the morn
Il I,I
He will probably lose both legs and one Of
his hands.
A DIFFICULTY occurred recently at Okla
homa, Choctaw Nation, in which Cooper
Surratt, a half-breed ChC.,taw, was NOR
tally wounded by Simon Turk, a merchant
of Oklahoma. Surratt brought on the diff
Guilty and attacked Turk with crutch,
when Turk seized an ak and struck him on
the forehead, from the effect of which Sur
raft died.
AT Lincoln, H., recently, number of
tramps were ''snoozing" against boiler
house, when one of them broke a steam
pipe, and eight of them We're terribly
scalded.
THE freight depot and three cars of the
New York, Chicago C st. Louis Railroad
at Painsville, o., were destroyed by fire
the other night.
CORNELIUS AULTMAN, prominent man
ufacturer of Canton, o., died suddenly on
the Goth.
JOHN EWING, a grocer at Xenia. o., failed
recently. Assets, 1000; Liabilities about
the same.
THE Sheriff and a posse of armed men
left Trinidad, Col, on the 26th, for Stark
vile, summoned by the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fee Coal Mining Company. Mr..
Savage, the Superintendent, had been rid
den on a rail. The wife of an official de-
Tended her home and husband with a six
shooter. The miners were in arms AID Sc
rious trouble was expected. Five hundred
men at the mine have been idle for two
months