The Iola register., 1885-10-30

= TnE wife and daughter Of John Conway,
Q milkman, were brutally murdered IN
their homo on East Eighteenth street,
Kansas City, recently. The heads oi
mother and child were horribly beaten
| in with . coupling pin. Il was thought
| the murder was due 10 an attempt at rape
| and that the culprit was negro.
TIE United States Court at St Louis
| has issued an order for the sale Of the st.
Louis, Hannibal & Keokuk Railway. The
sale will take place December g.
EVIDENCE of election frauds was pre-
sented at Cincinnati during the inquiry on
the 10th. One man was alleged to hava
voted seven times.
TIE st. Louis police recently claimed to
have discovered an Internal machine
placed upon the street car track, which
they alleged was done by strikers.
TIE action of the Montana citizens in
petitioning Lieutenant Walker to have the
Nathead Indians ordered hack to their
reservation for committing SO many dep.
rotations outside their bounds was sue.
cessful, and the Indians have been ordered
to the reservation.
n
various lumber mills at Marinette, Wis,
have signed the petition asking the mill
owners to resume, and it il possible that
all the mills except those which would
have shut down at this time IL the strike
had not occurred will resume.
GOVERNOR WATSON SQUIRE, of WAsh-
ington Territory, has sent a special report
to the Secretary of the Interior upon the
anti Chinese agitation in the Territory.
He did not believe that an outbreak was
imminent, although there was much slum-
bering discomfort.
w. P. DUFF, postmaster at Fort Lyon,
COL, was arrested recently, charged with
being short inshis accounts.
The canvass of the votes of Hamilton
County, O., was completed on the 22d, and
the total footings tunofiicial), excluding
the precinct of the Eighteenth Ward, show
Hoadly's vote 34,527 and Foraker's 81, OPS
a majority of 500 for Hoadly.
A MOB attacked q section house near
Rock Springs, Wyo., on the night of the
21st. The Cinnamon were driven out half
naked, and they sought refuge in the
neighboring hills, nearly perishing from
cold.
SIXTY Chinese cigar makers In the fac.
tory of Koenigsberger, Falk & Meyer, San
Francisco, struck work the other day be-
cause the firm refused to discharge their
white workmen. It was learned that the
Chinese union had ordered the strike.
Two men were killed and one fatally in
jured by gas in q Chicago sewer recently.
WHILE taking down the large front
stairway of the State House at Springfield,
ILL.,, recently, an arch gave way, precipi-
tating a gang of workmen among the
crumbling walls. Patrick Flynn's skull
was crushed, killing him. Seven others
were injured, but not fatally.
A MEETING of citizens of Stockton, CAL,
the other night adopted resolutions for the
removal of Chinatown from the city limits
and containing a pledge to vote against
all nominees at the city election who were
not pledged for the removal of China
town.
A SEWER excavation, twenty feet deep,
caved in recently at South Bend, Ind.
Four masons, Thomas O'Brien, Charles
Deroke, and John and Mat Williams. were
in the sewer at the time. O'Brien and Mat
Williams were killed, the other two es.
capped.
GIANT powder was exploded under a
street car on the Washington avenue road,
st. Louis, receRtly. No one was injured,
but the passengers were terribly fright
ened. The car was considerably shattered.
No clue to the perpetrators.
TIE annual report of the Gulf, Colorado |
& Santa Fe Railroad shows falling off in
receipts of $225, 600 as compared with those |
of the previous year.