The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20
THE WEST.

The WESIs
THE Western Nail Association reaffirmed
the old card rate of S2.25 for nails. Tho
trade was reported a little brighter.
The employees of the Missouri Pacific
shops at st. Louis were informed on the
18th that their wages would be restored to
former rates, in consideration Of which the
men decided not to strike.
The firm of E. N. Samuels & Sons, Of
st. Louis, which failed some days ago,
have made a proposition to settle with
creditors at thirty-one cents on the dollar,
and over three-fourths of the creditors
have accepted. The liabilities of the firm
were $4,000. Total available assets,
$4,000.
THE Marmaduke- Rainwater controversy,
has been prominent feature in st.
Louis papers for some time. On the 10th
Governor Marmaduke gave for publication
an affidavit of Robert C. Pate, a gambler,
stating that he patel had paid Rainwater,
who was Police Commissioner, money for
the privilege of running gambling estab-
lishment. This affidavit Rainwater de-
nounced as an infamous lie.
THE other morning as freight train was
passing under the Newport bridge, Gin
cinnati, a dismantled locomotive, which
was on a fat car, struck the bridge.
James Hanlon was instantly killed, Michael
Nolan was fatally injured, while Herbert
Cruthers escaped with bruises.
AT a recent conference of the Methodist
ministers at Chicago, by a unanimous
rising vote a resolution was passed to the
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of prayer for the spiritual and physical
welfare of General Grant
MosGRovE's Hotel, at Steubenville, O.,
was burned the other evening. Loss,
$1S5, 900. During the fire wall fell and
killed Andrew Breckerstaff.
THE plaintiff in the Sharon divorce suit
has appealed from the Courts judgment in
allowing the defendant to amend his an.
swer after decision in the case had been
rendered. 1t is stated that should the
higher court reverse such Judgment the
which, it is claimed, is admitted by the
original pleadings to be her share of the
common property.
JAMES CRAWFORD, Superintendent of the
Carson City Mint, is dead.
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE, of Missouri,
issued a proclamation on the 18th warning
persons against interfering with railroad
property or the moving of trains. The
strikers on the Gould system were conf
dent of bringing the company to terms.
The suspension of traffic was causing
great inconvenience, but people generally
sympathized with the strikers, and this
made the position of the railroads doubly
difficult. The situation on the 18th in
Texas, Missouri and Kansas was not mate
rally changed from the previous few days.
Hon. GEORGE W. PIERCE, William A.
Weller and N. Prentice were arrested at
Bismarck, OAK, and held in s., 900 bail to
answer a charge of bribery in connection
with the removal of the capital from Bis
marck to Pierre.
THE United States ship Lackawanna ar
rived at San Francisco on the 18th from
Acapulco. She reported she had twelve
cases of yellow fever. Owen Griffith, bar
Der, and William Wilde, a sailor, died.
CAPTAIN Couch and twenty other Ok
lahoma "boomers," after being taken to
Wichita, Kan, were released on 5000
bonds each on the 18th.
THE Ohio Archaeological and Historical
Association was reorganized recently.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman presided and
was elected trustee with fourteen other
prominent men.
THE restoration of wages made previ-
ously to the men working in the Missouri
Pacific shops in st. Louis was extended to
all men employed in the large machine and
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DeSoto, No., and the men were highly
commended for their loyalty to the COM
pany. A special from Palestine, Tex, of
the 18th, said the strike had ended ut that
place, the men going back to work at the
wages paid before the last cut.
GENERAL JOSEPH II. TAYLOR, Assistant
Adjutant General of the department of the
Platte, died of pneumonia in Omaha on the
18th. The deceased was a nephew of
Zachary Taylor, and son Of Joseph P. Tay-
lor, Commissary General of the army.
GOVERNOR PIERCE, of Dakota, vetoed
the Women's Suffrage bill.
MAcKIN and Gallagher, convicted of cleo
ton frauds in Chicago, were sentenced, on
the 18th, to two years Imprisonment and
fine of 5000 each. Their commitment to
jail, however, was delayed for a few days,
to give the defense an opportunity for fur
ther proceedings.
NELLIE KORAN, Of Whitewater, Wis,
who was charged with poisoning her sister,
mother and father, has been acquitted.
In the joint convention session of the
Illinois Legislature ON the 18th only Demo-
Gratis answered to the roll call. The first
The second and third ballots showed 20
change.
DURING a thunder storm the other night
the saloon of Harry Burton, at RoseviIle,
O., was blown to pieces by key of powder
exploding beneath it. 1t was the only sa-
loon in the place and was recently opened.
THE SOUTH.
A FIRE at Newburn, N. c., the other
night destroyed the Central Hotel, and
twenty houses and stores were destroyed.
Loss, 500, 900: insurance, $4,000.
A BATON ROUGE special says: A mort
gage was recorded on the Louisville, New
Orleans & Texas Railroad by direction of
President Wilson in favor of the Metropoli-
tan Trust Company of New York, for Sso,- !
15O, 900 to secure a loan.
A DISPATCH from Galveston states that /
the Steamer Alamo was stranded on the !
rortugas Reefs.
A CoLoRED man was recently taken by |
other colored men at Lumpkin, Ga, his !,
EGGS and feet bound, and then thrust into !
4 cabin, which was fired. Tine murderers |
led.
A Sac ANTONIO (Te1.) special says that !
owing to the Kansas quarantine. stock for t
h d.. l.