The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-12
THE WEST

j. II. ACFDENORTE, the embeZzling New
Orleans sub-treasury clerk, has been SEN
fenced to five years. imprisonment in the
Chester Qll) penitentiary and to pay q
fine of 5000.
The Bell Telephone Company refuses to
do business in Indiana under q ruling OF
the State Supreme Court recognizing the
validity of the law fixing telephone tariff.
ALL the employees belonging tc the
Knights of Labor were discharged the
the other day at the Champion reaper
works, Springfield, o.
ROMAN NOSE, the Cheyenne chief, in Gus
tody at Fort Leavenworth, recently at
tempted suicide by hanging, but the rope
broke.
The Iowa State Senate on the Sd passed,
on a second reading, Miles Telegraph bill,
imposing penalty for failure to transmit
and deliver messages promptly, and reduc-
ing the tariff on the same to a rate of q
cents for fifteen words between any points
in that State.
CALIFORNIA shippers were reported feel
ing the effect of the cut rate from New
York to the Pacific. Small dealers were
taking advantage of it and were purchas-
ing goods in New York, and underselling
those carrying large stock. The emigrant
rate from San Francisco to the Missouri
river was SIS. 80 on the Sd.
ANOTHER boot and shoe firm, Amazon &
Holly, of Milwaukee,, employing sixty-five
hands, has signed the scale of prices de-
manded by the striking shoemakers and
work has been resumed. This left but three
factories closed.
AT Greenville, ILL.,, recently, bigamist
put in plea that his offense was barred
by the statute of limitations. His plea was
held to be worthless by the judge.
ANTI-CHINEsE leagues are being formed
in Arizona and New Mexico. Many of the
fugitive Celestials from Pacific towns took
refuge in Arizona and New Mexico, and
their presence caused the formation of the
leagues.
ARGENT dispatch from Milwaukee, Wis.
says: For some time past detectives have
been engaged in working up case on men
''doctoring'' barley. The result of their
labors was the arrest of Antoine EOsen-
heimer Meritz Rosenheimer and John
Rosenheimer, owners of an elevator at
Kewaskum, in Washington County. At
the time the arrests were made the process
of altering rejected to extra No. barley
was in active operation.
THE Knights of Labor have ordered a
boycott on the Detroit Free Press.
COLONEL E. H. MCPHERSON. graduate of
West Point and well-known Indian fight
err who at one time gained a great reputa
ton by rescuiug two young women from
the Indians on the Platte river, committed
suicide at his boarding house at Evansville,
Ind, by taking morphine. Indulgence in
strong drink led him to the dogs.
The live stock shippers of st. Louis have
sent remonstrance to Thomas g. Moore,
joint agent at Chicago, protesting against
any concessions being made to the dressed
beef men. They object to the arbitration
heretofore made, in which Judge Cooley
was one Of the arbitrators, and demand q
reopening of the whole question.
The Iowa House decided, by a vote of 81
to 49, to have a special committee appoint
ed to hear the charges against Judge Hayes,
with view to his impeachment.
PETITIONS were reported coming in to
Congress from third and fourth class Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Iowa postmasters who
took part in the recent convention at Chi
cago, urging members of Congress to secure
for them, at the cost of the Government,
rent, fuel and light. The requests were not
very favorably received.
The Cuyahoga Paper Company at Cuya-
hoga Falls, O., made an assignment re-
Gently. Eighty men were thrown out of
employment.
THE SOUTH.
The whistle calling for another strike
blew in the round houses of the Missouri
Pacific and Texas Pacific on tie afternoon
of the LIST at Marshall and Fort Worth, Tex
Tho y,rincipa1 grievance wac tbat jahorov-c