The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-02

the 18th, Franklin J. Moses, ex-Goverpof
of South Carolina, pleaded guilty to an in-
dictment charging him with obtaining
money by false pretenses from ex-Mayoe
Cobb and others, in February, 1854. ne
had but recently served out term In MIC
dlesex County jail for similar offense.
The moulders and other employees OF the
Union Stove Works of Peekskill, N. T., 70
the number of three hundred, have struck
for an increase of ten per cent. in their
wages.
AsKAMAN of the italian bark Excelsior,
Captain Longobardo, from Marseiiies.
which arrived at New York recently, died
from cholera three days after the vessei
sailed. With this exception, all on board
were well.
A SOMERSET, Pa, dispatch says: Rev
enue officers have captured an Illicit dis-
tillery in the mountains, and destroyed the
apparatus and the liquors. Jonathan
Hochstetter and others operating the dis
tillery escaped.
THE WEST.
TIE threatened trouble in the Dakota
Constitutional Convention was adjusted by
the adoption of substitute for CampbelPs
bill of rights, which declared all political
power inherent in the people and that the
Federal constitution was the supreme law
of the land.
A RIOT broke out against the Chinese re-
Gently in Huntington, Ore. No one was
killed, the mob being contented with driv-
ing the Celestials out of town.
AT the session of the Cigarmakers' Union
in Cincinnati the report of the President
showed that during the past two years it
had cost the union over $4,000 to support
members during strikes and lockouts, OF
which there had been 152 Sixty-nine OF
these strikes had been successful and
sixty mine unsuccessful.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM JONES, of the life
boat service at Racine, Wis, was drowned
recently while out practicing with his crew
under direction of Superintendent Rogers.
FIVE Cinnamon implicated in the muir
der and robbery of Daniel Frazier in Pierce
City, Idaho, were taken from Jail by citi-
zens the other night and hanged to con-
venient trees.
REPORTS have been received of four
schooners wrecked at various points on
Lake Michigan during the storm of the I'D,
the crew being rescued in each case. Fears
were felt for the safety of . number of
other vessels.
The Bankers Convention at Chicago,
on the 23d, passed resolutions condemna-
tory of silver coinage.
FIVE of the Chiricahua bucks who left
the Apache reservation with Geronimo.
crossed the reservation line the other night
and stole away two squaws, carrying them
off to the mountains. The squaws were
the same two that originally went with the
band and were captured by the Mescalero
police and returned to the Apache reserva-
ton.
Two girls named May and Lizzie jack
son recently threw vitriol in the face of the
teller of San Francisco savings bank,
disfiguring him for lifa He was alleged
to have been intimate with one of the
girls.
THE lumber yard of Gardner & Co., Chi
cago, was recently in flames. For time
the fire was so threatening, spreading to
adjoining yards, that many persons feared
a repetition of the disaster of 1871. Loss,
100000.
JAMES G. PUsEY, the defaulting clerk of
the Kansas Penitentiary Mt Leavenworth,
pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was
sentenced to eight years. imprisonment.
AwEALrHY merchant was among the
five Cinnamon lynched by a mob recently
at Pierce City, Idaho. Considerable feel
ing has been stirred up thereby in the
Celestial quarters of the Pacific slope.
IT was reported at Santa Fe that United
States Territorial Judge William B. Flem-
ing, Chief Justice of New Mexico, would
resign his office.