The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-06
THE WEST.

Gr'has been discovered that for ten years
past the City of Kansas has ibeen electing
it's Aldermen Illegally, the charter provid-
ing that citizens at large should vote for
wardAldermen and not merely ward voters.
1t was believed by many that the change
would be desirable.
THE house of Neal Shanks, of Nashville,
Holes County, o., was partially destroyed
by dynamite few days ago. Discussions
existed in the neighborhood, and this was
thought to be the cause. The family were
absent at the time.
STATE SENATOR WILLIAM c. MoNTGoM-
cry, of Indiana, committed suicide re-
Gently by hanging himself.
LoNGoN and Louis Ling, two Chinese
laundrymen of Bloomington, H., suicided
with opium recently. Tie act was brought
about by an extended spree.
INDIANS about Fort Reno were recently
exhibiting symptoms Of hostility on ac-
count,of the recent invasion of the Okla
homa boomers.
A RECENT dispatch says: There are 16, 100
skilled laborers unemployed in Cincinnati.
One-fourth of the iron workers are idle,
one-third, of the builders and one-half of
the carriage and furniture makers. The
total nuslber of men out of work is esti-
mated at thirty thousand.
SAMUEL GRAFTON, Marshal of Forest,
O., fell while skating at "a roller rink, driv-
ing the point of a sewing machine oil can
which he had in his hip pocket into his hip.
The man suffered great pain and died in a
short time.
r.
miles south of Chebanze, recently'wa the
cause of the death of John A. McInnis and
the serious injury of seven or eight other
persona.
Ar Chicago recently an application was
made by Dong Ling, a Chinese portrait
painter, for the privilege of adopting
Philip Brown, white child four months
old, now jim custody of the Foundling's
Home. Judge Fendergast refused the APP
plication.
ABOUT one hundred representatives of
the various electric lighting companies of
the United States and Canada, met in Chi
cago recently to perfect an organization
with O view to advance their various inter-
ests.
A LIVINGSTON, NJ. T., special says: Larry
j. Armstrong, agent of the Crow Indians,
will resign. He is accused by the Indians
of conniving to reduce rations and secure
a lease of part of their reservation by
fraudulent means. Petitions were circu-
lating for the appointment of T. F. Davies,
of Bozeman, to succeed Armstrong.
ONE of the Spanish bull fighters per-
forming at Tolucca, Mexico, was recently
mortally wounded by bull.
JUDGE R. LOGAN, of Whiteside, dropped
dead in the Illinois House on the Goth. He
was suffering from heart disease. He wae
a Republican Representative.
AN agitation was reported in Ohio,
Brooks and Hancock Counties, to separate
from West Virginia and incorporate with
Pennsylvania.
The artesian well at the County Hospital
in Milwaukee suddenly ceased flowing re-
cently. 1t had been sunk 200 feet deep at
a cost of 5000, and gave $50 gallons of wa
ter a minute.
TEE break in the wheat market was the
cause of the failure of two st. Louis firms
e. NJ. Samuels & Sons and B. w. Lewis
on the 9th. The market was reported very
panicky.
COWBOYS recently stopped Pacific ex-
press at Ningusville. D. T., and made Con-
ductor Clark dance a can can on the plat
form, varying the monotony by shooting
rerolvers at his feet. A posse wss called
out from Mandan and arrested the whole
party.
WILLIAM J. FAULKNER has been expelled
from the Chicago Board of Trade on ao.
count of IRREGULARITIES connected with the
Board of Trade Clearing House. Mr.
Faulkner was the first member expelled
from the board for fifteen years.