The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-24
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
The freight conductors on the entire lin
of the Louisville New Albany & Chicago
railroad went on a strike on the 18th OF
the demand for an advance in pay from
two and half to three cents per mile ant
allowance for lost time, which the manage
ment refused.
AGENT WILLIAMSON has issued an orde
to drive off the Crow reservation in Mon
tana all cattle now pastured there, also t.
burn some buildings and corrals erected
near Bull mountain. II he meets with re
sistence he will call for troops
The Minnesota d Northwestern railroad
is being boycotted by the principal bust
ness men of Minneapolis. 1t has. for some
time been alleged that the company ell
tirely ignored Minneapolis, emitting thu
name of that city in its advertisements
Recently the Minneapolis Jobbers' Unior
held meeting and unanimously resolved
to boycott the railroad.
AT Charles Hofferbirth's extensive saw
mill, Evansville, Ind, the other day, thres
forty feet boilers exploded, wrecking the
mill. killing Frank Poplen, and woundinl
A. Herner, the superintendent, Henry Del
Ter, X. A. Dickerson, John William Elm
dorf, JOHN Dooly, Fred Loechner and man
named Berriman, all employees.
JUDGE DUGAN, of Montreal, has granted
the extraditon of J. F. Hoke, the default
ing bookkeeper of the Merchants National
Bank of Peoria, Ill.,, holding that it was
prov en- beyond doubt that the accused had
been guilty of seven distinct forgeries.
A FINAL settlement has been reached be
tween the Lake Shore Railroad Company
and the switchmen who went out on strike
at Chicago last summer. The company
agreed to abolish the blacklist and take
back all the strikers except few who were
known to have been guilty of violence and
attempting to injure the company's prop
erty.
AT Swift City, Ind, recently portable
engine which was being utilized to furnish
power for a saw mill blew up. A. II. Shop.
taw, owner of the mill. his son James and
nephew, William Shoptaw, were all
killed. The explosion was said to have
been caused by the water in the boiler get.
ting too low.
The Ohio State Grange. in session at
Mount Vernon, O., has declared in favor of
local option.
j. f. RosENFIELD, a loan collector for
Garfield & Ermmerins, private bankers OF
Denver, Col, has been arrested. charged
with forgeries aggregating $4,000.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. MCBRIDE, a prominent war
worker for the Union cause and daughter
of Judge Hugh Walsh, of Kentucky, is in
the Cleveland co. Jail hopelessly insane.
The grand master of the Wisconsin
Grange declares that union OF the Grange
and the Knights of La Dor is impossible
because the eight-hour system could never
be applied to a farm.
The Calumet Hotel at Pipestone, Mimi.
was burned the other morning and David
Mccullough was fatally injured, the Rev.
A. j. circuit, a Baptist minister, was killed.
a little colored boy had his back broken
and Virgil Trendergast seriously hurt, all
by falling walls. The loss was $4,000;
partly insured. Nothing was saved.
EDWARD DALTON, a fugitive Mormon,
charged with unlawful cohabitation, was
shot and killed at Parowan, Utah, by Dep.
uty Marshal William Thompson, because
he resisted arrest.
The Ohio Supreme Court has rendered a
decision sustaining the constitutionality
of the Dow liquor law tax in all its feat
ures, and including the tax and lien pro-
visions.
A DUEL with swords took place in the
early morning in Humboldt Park, Chicago,
recently. Both principals were severely
wounded and were afterward driven away.
They were said to belong to the medical
profession, but their names were unknown.
There was . woman in the case.
JUDGE GRESHAM, in the United States
Circuit Court. at Chicago on the 10th, ap-
pointed Judge Cooley. Of Michigan, to be
receiver of the Wabash railway in accord
ance with his decision removing Scion
Humphreys and Thomas E. Tut.
Or the nine youths sentenced at Sydney,
n g. W., for criminally assaulting q six
teen-year-old servant girl, the executive
decided to commute the sentences of three
to Imprisonment for life. The six others
will be hanged.
On the morning of the 18th at San Fran
cisco the whaling bark Atlantic was driven
ashore a mile and n half below the Cliff
House. and went to pieces in a few minutes.
About twenty five men were believed to he
lost The captain and mate with eight or
ten men were saved.
The United States grand jury Mt st.
Louis returned seventy-two indictments
against various persons for frauds during
the recent election. Twelve arrests were
made.
Roll, THAYER, WILLIAMS & Co. dry
goods. Kansas City, No, failed on the 18th
for 500, 600; assets fair.
The National Wagon Manufacturers As.
ISOLATION met in Chicago recently and a
resolution was unanimously adopted adj
vancing the price of wagons ten per cent,
owing to an advance in iron and other ma
terials used in their construction.
The assignee OF Cohn, Sampliner & Co.,
of Cleveland, O., the wholesale notion deal
ers who failed some time ago. has made his
The liabilities are S2l3, coo and the
assets $4,000. There were over zoo cre.i-
itors
Two hundred American district messen.
ger boys struck at San Francisco the other
They wanted fixed wages. sew
enty-five cents day, instead of five cents
a trip, which they were getting.
THE SOUTH.
IT is reported from Tascosa, Tex, that
extensive prairie fires prevail on the
ranches twenty miles northwest of Clar-
endon, The burned district covers about
3, SOC, 400 acres.
RUFUS X. GARLAND, brother of the At.
torney General of the United States. d ed
at his bone near Prescott, Ark, recently
A SHERIFF, deputy and four policemen
made a raid on a negro gambling den near
Ala, the other night, when
a fusilade occurred between the occupants
Of the house and the officers. The result
was that five of the gamblers were cap
tured aud two were killed. None of tue
officers were hurt.