The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18

rAB soeal population Of Wisconsin IL re-
ported 70 b 1884, 0o, gain over 1850 OF
q per cent Tho largest gains are In the
northern half Of the State, whore there has
been large openings Of comparatively
now country.
ADIsPArCH from Guaymas (Mex.) re-
ports that Colonel Monego and Mr.. George
Stevens had died Of yellow fever. Gen.
eral Liebas and four other officers were
down with the disease. Mild cases ex.
listed at Naxatlan and San Bias.
vIcr.PREsIDENr HENDRICKS addressed
a meeting at indianapolis ON the 9Th, In
behalf of the Parnell fund.
TIE case of perjury against Lieutenant.
Colonel Cochrane, of the Fifth Infantry at
Fort Keogh, was disposed of before Judge
Coburn at Miles City, Mont, the jury &C.
quitting the defendant ON the first vote.
PERRY WHlTLocK recently went to the
residence of his er-in.law, near Dan.
vile, ILL.,, and killed three members OF the
family and then himself.
THE schooner Advance OF Chicago cap
sized in . gale of wind and binding rain
the other night, nine miles south of She
boygan. Captain Paulsen with his son
and crew, made for the shore in small
boat. When in tho breakers the yawl
struck the bar, capsized and drowned all
the men except q sailor named Jacob
Raum.
JOHN PERKINS,, of White Cottage, o.,
died of asphyxia at Schmidt's Hotel, New
Castle, Pa, the other morning, having
blown out the gas when he retired instead
of turning it off. Deceased was about sixty
years of age
JOHN B. CLAwsoN, Trustee of Warren
Township, Warren County, Ind, is also
reported as having issued fraudulent war
rants to the amount of $4,000. He is miss
ing.
MISS ADA SWEET, of the Chicago PEN
sion Office, has resigned, and Mrs. NJ. A.
Mulligan, widow of Colonel Thomas A.
MulIigan, has been appointed to the va
capcy.
PRESIDENT BRAINERD, of st. Adams,
Vt, who was kidnapped in Pembina re-
Gently by detectives, arrived in st. Paul
on the 9th on the Manitoba through train.
While in the Union Depot handcuffed he
was again kidnapped by unknown parties.
FIVE persons were killed by the storm mt
Washington Court House, O., three fatally
injured and some 800 more or less hurt. 1t
was thought the damage in the city and
vicinity would amount to nearly $1,0oO.OW.
THE other nigh. a mob OF Indians,
headed by white men, attacked a party OF
Chinese hop pickers, thirteen miles east Of
Seattle, W. T., with clubs and stones, kill
ing two and wounding four. In former
years the Indians had exclusively been
hired to pick hops. This year one firm
hired Cinnamon.
GENERAL SHERMAN eulogized General
Grant before the Society of the Army of
the Tennessee at Chicago on the evening Of
the 9th.
CAPTAIN W. H. BRADBURY was severely
stabbed by a refractory convict named Pat
ton, recently, in the Missouri penitentiary
at jefferson City. The convict was finally
overpowered after being dubbed and shot
in the leg. He was sent up from Jasper
County for four years for horse stealing,
September, 1884.
THE strike of the switchmen in the yard
of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
road at Chicago endll by the Division Su-
perintendent conceding the demands of the
men as just and acceding to them.
EDWARD WILSON and Collins j. Barro-
net, of Wyoming, have been appointed
Superintendents of Yellowstone National
Park.
AN unknown vessel was wrecked at Two
Rivers, Wis.,, on the 9th about five miles
north of Harbor piers. Nothing was found
to indicate the name of the vessel. 1t was
believed that many other vessels went
down in the storm. resulting in the loss Of
great number of lives.
TEE other night an attempt was made to
blow up with dynamite the hotel, saloon
and residence of Neal & Badwell, in the
village of Westminster, not far from
Lima, o. The saloon had recently been
opened, and its presence was hotly op-
posed by some of the inhabitants.
IT was reported that several hundred
Cinnamon had returned to Rock Springs,
Wyo.. protected by the military. Intense
luminosity existed among the white min
ers, and it was feared that explosives
would be used to destroy the mines.
The Sacramento (Cal.) River is now
so filed up by debris and slickens washed
down from the mines worked in the past
year that passenger and freight boats can
no longer reach Sacramento.
THE SOUTH.
THE Polk boys, over whom several at
| tempts at lynching proved futile, were sue
| cessfully cremated by a mob in the MUIR
| freesboro tArk.) Jail, recently. The mob
| rolled load of wood aeaius: the Jail, and.
saturatiug it with coal oil, burned the jazz
down with the Polk boys inside.
ADMIRAL JoUErr has written a letter to
the Second Comptroller protesting against
the disallowance of 500 in his accounts for
| contingent expenses incurred il the enter
! tainment of certain disnitaries at New Or.
| leans.
THE bodies of Jim and Pink Lee, two of
the notorious Lee brothers, desperadOes
| operating from the Indian Territory, have
been brought into Gainesville, Tex. They
were killed near Dexter in a fight with
! Detective Thomas aud two officers named
| Taylor and Settles.
Srvrvry horaes and much other prop.