The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-23

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| II. W. 6HAW, better known - "Josl
Billing" died Of apoplexy at Monterey
Cal. ON the 18th. The humorist was On {
lecturing tour.
UNOFFICIAL returns from nearly all tn,
Ohio electoral precincts mako Foraker
plurality touch q, 900. with the rest Of tn,
ticket likely to exceed that, and q. 900 votsl
for the Prohibitionists and 1000 for thu
Greenbackers, in total vote Of over zoo. 900
The Legislature was claimed for the Re-
| publicans ON joint ballot.
SALOON keepers in Arizona towns wert
| reported very active In Offering rewards
for Indian scalps. Many of them will uss
the scalps - attractions in their establish.
ments. The popular animosity to Crool
has been intensified by his declaration that
there were no hostilities In New Mexico.
THE annual convention Of the American
Women'a Suffrage Association opened q
Minneapolis, Mimi, ON the 18th.
HoPT, sentenced at Salt Lake on the 18th
for the fourth time for murder in the first
degree, will be shot November q
In Barnes County, OAK, q woman and
child named Stanton were burned to death
while trying to escape from prairie fire.
IT was thought in st. Louis on the 18th
that the street car strike would prove q
failure.
ANDREW SMITH, Emil Olsen and John
Nicholson, editor Deseret Ne,cs, were sen
fenced at Salt Lake recently to six months
in the penitentiary and $500 fine each, for
unlawful cohabitation.
FULLY 1000 Select Knights were in line
in the procession held by the Conclave of
the Ancient Order of United Workmen at
Topeka on the 18th.
WILLIAM A. VINCENT, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of New Mexico, re-
Gently appointed Stephen w. Dorsey a
member of a commission to draw grand
and petit jurors for that Territory, for
which act he was suspended from Office by
the President.
Claire, Wis.,, in a malignant form. The
Mayor and the Board of Health closed the
west side schools, four In number.
THE underwriters of the British bark
Staghound. Captain Jack, from Portland,
Ore, March 16, for Queenstown, believe
that she has foundered Off Cape Horn.
FIVE Cinnamon were burned to death in
a laundry at Oakland, CAL, recently.
A STEELE ID. ~ special says that
prairie fire started in the west portion of
the town and burned the Minnesota Chief
Thrasher Works, with a house and barn
and a stack of wheat.
CONSIDERABLE feeling was reported as
existing over the Ohio election, consequent
upon alleged frauds aud irregularities in
Hamilton County. Some reports of the
18th spoke of riotous state of affairs in
Cincinnati. The Legislature was claimed
by both parties.
FIVE cars loaded with wheat were
ditched on the Northern Pacific five miles
east of Aiken, Mimi, the other day. Two
men who were stealing a ride were found
suffocated in the wheat. From letters on
them they were believed to be John r.
Cochrane, of Volante. Pa, and Louis Dust,
of Champaign, Ill.
SOME excitement was caused in Column
bus, O., on the 10th, by the exhibition, de-
risively, of a bloody shirt at the Demo-
cratic headquarters. 1t ended by Re-
publican grabbing the garment, after
which it was soaked in kerosene and
burned.
A DISPATCH from Fort Robinson says no
trace was found of the Sioux Indians re-
Gently reported to be committing depreda-
tions along the northern frontier of Ne
braska and Wyoming. Troops from Fort
Niobrara were also scouting the country,
but no report had been received from them.
GOVERNOR EATON, of Colorado, has is
sued proclamation raising the quarantine
against cattle from Missouri, Indiana and
Ohio.
COMPLETE unofficial returns on the heads
of tickets in Ohio show a total of s., 201
votes for Foraker and 35,513 for Hoadly.
Foraker's majority is 11,63S.
COLONEL BEE, Chinese Consul at San
Francisco, has completed compilation of
statistics showing the number Of arrivals
and departures OF Chinese from that port
since the restriction act went into force on
May 6, 1882. The departures aggregate
about ~ 900; arrivals, $1,000.
SUPERINTENDENT SCHMIrT, of the Cleve-
land (O.) police department, has ordered
all the gamblers to close their rooms. The
order has been obeyed and the gamesters
are leaving for other cities in swarms.
PETER McGEocH, the Board of Trade
operator, was stricken down by apopIexy
the other morning at Milwaukee, and for
several hours it was thought that he would
die
THE SOUTH.