The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-04
THE WEST.

THIRTEEN Mormon polygamists have
been sentenced to various terms Of impris-
onment at 'Blackfoot, Idaho.
CECIL MANAGE and his cousin. young
lady, were drowned in Skunk river near
Oskaloosa, Iowa, recently. The young
lady was bathing and getting beyond her
depth called for help. Her cousin, in at
tempting to save her, was drowned with
her.
Two infant children of James Davidson
were recently burned to death by lamp
explosion near Shelbyville. Ind.
The grand lodge of the Brotherhood Of
Railway Brakemen, in session at Chicago
recently, announced the expulsion of the
twenty-six members of the order who orig
mated the strike on the Missouri Pacific
railway. Thirty others have been sus-
pended ninety days for participating.
Grand Master Wilkinson says the brother
hood does not sanction strikes.
Bon LLOYD, a dairyman. was killed by
Apaches near Mescal on the South Pacific
railway recently.
BUTCHERS, in convention at st. Louis re-
Gently, took steps to form combination
against the dressed beef monopolists.
A HOUSE of ill-fame was burned near
Rhinelander, Wis, the other night. Four
of the inmates persisted. The fire was be-
lieved to be incendiary.
Cora LEE was arraigned at Springfield.
Mo-, on the 25th, for being accessory to the
murder of Mrs. Sarah GRAHAM.
THE charges made by the Ohio Legisla-
ture of corruption against Senator Payne
have been forwarded to Washington.
A GREAT mass meeting in behalf Of Irish
home rule was held at Chicago on the 25th.
The Des Moines Ua.) Daily Leader Office
was destroyed by fire the other morning.
through the carelessness of a boy in the
press room. Loss, $4,000.
THE two sons and another young man
have been arrested for the murder of Swain
Anderson, a wealthy farmer Of Mountain
Grove. Mo. The boys have confessed the
parricide.
A FIRE on Branden street. San Francisco,
recently, made about fifty families home
less. Loss, $4,000.
The village of Runkels, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire recently.
JOE KENYON, a fireman. was killed in a
confagration which broke out at Clarke
& Co.'s publishing house, Chicago, on the
18th. The loss amounted to 100000.
The trustees of Archbishop Purcell's es-
tate in Cincinnati have sued ex-Assignee
Mannix for the s3OO.Oo0 alleged to have
been embezzled by him.
ANDERSON Il GRIFFIN's saw mills, West
Troy, Wis.,, burned recently, causing loss
of 100000
THE polygamous convicts in the Utah
pententiary refused recently to accept eX-
ecutive clemency and reform.
AN earthquake shock was recently dis
tinctly felt between Duncan and Horse
plains, Mont, on the line of the Northern
Pacific railroad, which lasted eight or ten
seconds.
REPORTS were recently received of extern
sive forest fires raging in Middle and
Northern Wisconsin. and that unless
there was speedy relief by rains there was
cause for grave apprehension as to the
final results. Miles of forest had already
been burned over, doing an immense
amount of damage.
SMALL-PoX has been reported to the Illi-
nois State Board of Health, near Sycamore.
Dekalb County. Also three cases of fatal
scarlet fever near Venedy, in Washington
County.
THE State Convention of coal miners at
Columbus, o., has resolved in favor of a
ten hours day.
INDIANA Prohibitionists have put a State
ticket in the field
MAUDIE WEAsT. aged four years. daugh-
ter of Joliet prisoner, has been kidnapped
by Chicago parties.
SIX of the leaders OF the Chicago anarch-
lists have been indicted for murder.
THE Ohio River &, Lake Erie railway was
seized the other day on executions amount
ing to $4,000. The road runs from Girard
to Greenville, Pa.
The master carpenters and manufactur-
ers of wood building materials in Chicago
have adopted resolutions declaring the
eight hour system a failure.
THE clothing of Mrs. ". s. Kent. of Kent.
O., caught fire from stove recently and
she was so badly burned that she died.
WHEAT fell lower in Chicago on the 2Sth
than had been known for many years.
Cablegrams had depressing effect on the
market.
MISS MAMIE GIDpINGs and Horace Mad
EN-, school teachers of Elkhart, Ind, were
drowned near Bristol, Ind, the other even
ing bv the upsetting of boat in which
they had been fishing.
MILES SELLS, a prominent cotton man of
St. Louis, has received a number of reports
from Arkansas and Mississippi and the
upper portion of Louisiana reporting ex-
ceedingly dry weather, a backward crop
and decreased acreage, the planters conse-
quently being very seriously alarmed.
THE other night the over-laden floors Of
the Valley City mills at Grand Rapids,
Mich, gave way, precipitating the ma
chinery and FIVE hundred tons of wheat and
-four to the basement. The damage was
over 100000.
THE SOUTR.
MOSES DAWSON, a colored man, put off q
train at Owensburg, KY, for not paying
his fare, mounted the train and opened fire
into a crowded car, killing one of the pas
sengers.
TIE other day while transferring several
kegs of powder at the river, near Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, a spark from the engine
ignited one, which caused a terrible explo-
sion. The engineer, fireman and other
trainmen were fatally burned.
A RIOT took place recently among num-
Der of Italian laborers near Murryville,
". Va. One man was killed and several
were wounded. The row was caused by
whisky
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