The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-13


ness of several months with consumption.
Miss Murdoch was only seventeen years OF
age.
THE WEST.
Ar Hillsdale, ILL.,, recently, during meet
ing at one of the churches. Jasper Lake, q
well known rough in that locality, was se-
verely reprimanded by DR.. Mack, the min
lister, for disturbing the meeting. When
the services were over Lake secured club
and brutality assaulted the minister, after
ward making his escape.
The California Legislature elected A. p.
Williams United States Senator ON the Sd,
to fill the place of the late Senator Miller.
Williams was the choice of the Republic
ans, the Democrats nominating Heaost, the
Senator appointed some time ago by the
Governor.
Rev. G. c. HADDocK, pastor OF the Meth
odist church at Sioux City, Iowa, who had
been the leader in the prosecution OF GER
tain saloon cases, was shot and instantly
killed on the evening of the Sd.
WILLIAM KILCoYNB has been convicted
of voting illegally three times in the
Eighth ward in the last October election In
Cincinnati.
ALL the bricklayers of Cincinnati have
been locked out because they decided not
to work with non-uniOn hodcarriers.
PROF. HENRY GARsr has been elected
president of the Otterbein College, Column
bus, O.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America met at Notre Dame, Ind, on the
4th.
HULL & CozzENs, an old furnance and
range manufacturing firm of st. Louis,
suspended recently with assets only about
half the liabilities.
GOVERNOR HUBBARD, Of Minnesota. was
driven over the battle grounds near Nash
Vile, Tenn, the other day by Governor
Bate, of that State, who was opposed to
him in the war.
The parade of the Grand Army o. the
Republic at San Francisco numbered 1000
men and was witnessed by $50, 600 specta-
tors.
FIVE children of the village Of Mount
Zion, Iowa, were drowned the other even
ing in the Des Moines river. One little girl
escaped, but was too young to describe
how the drowning occurred. 1t was sup
posed the children had been in the water
bathing, as their clothing was found on the
bank.
The terrible prairie fire, which had been
raging for several days near Forest City,
Dak., died out on the 4th. The fire ex-
tended twenty miles along the Missouri
river bottoms and came near destroying
Forest City. Hundreds of farmers lost all.
1t leaves them destitute for the winter.
The Democratic convention at Leaven-
worth, on the 18th, nominated Colonel
Thomas Moonlight for Governor of Kan
nominated for Associate Justice. The
convention adopted the plstform and ad-
journed for the day.
FORTY men in Fowler's Chicago packing
house struck recently against the ten-hour
plan.
HARRISON DURKEE, vice-president Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, died
on the 4th.
ALFRED PACKER, the Colorado ''man
eater" was sentenced recently to forty
years in the penitentiary for manslaugh-
ter, eight years for each of his five vic
Tins.
4hE OsWcSO, OSiOuSAuS " SoPOoih
mond, of Detroit, was recently seized by
Canadian customs officers and three depu-
ties placed on guard. The latter went
to sleep, when the vessel escaped.
The election for Principal Chief Of the
Choctaw Nation was held on the 4th, B. F.
Smallwood, Thompson Mckinney, j. p.
Fulson and Edward Simms being the can
didates for the position. A large vote was
polled. Several hundred negroes voted
for the first time. Unofficial returns indi-
Gated the election of Mckinney.
The lockout ut the Timberline Mont. }
mines continues. Thirty women the other
day forced ''blackleg' to quit work.
They escorted him home to his wife and
instructed his wife to look out for him.
The case of ex-Policeman John P. Evans.
indicted for destroying 100 ballots at the
last fall election in the Ninth ward, pre-
cinct F, Cincinnati, went to a jury on the
5th, and in ten minutes thereafter q YER
dict of guilty" was returned.
ILLICIT distilleries are said to be very nu
merous in the woods about Manitowoc,
Wis
JOHN F. SMITH. the accomplice of Jump
| in the murder of William c. Gladson, was
hanged at Gallatin, NO., on the 9th. Jump
was executed couple of weeks previously,
Smith being respited.
| FIRE in Phoenix, Ariz., undoubtedly
started by an incendiary, destroyed the
| finest business blocks in the city recently,
causing a loss of 100000.
The appellate court of Illinois has sus
tanned the ruling of Judge Rogers, of Chi
cago, that the will of Editor Storey, OF
the Chicago Times, was valid.
LUcIEN FAIRCHILD, of Wisconsin, was
elected Commander of the Grand Army a,
San Francisco on the 9th, with s. W. Back
us, of San Francisco, Senior Vice Com
mander, st. Louis was chosen as the next
place of meeting.
The striking bricklayers of Cincinnati
l propose to erect buildings without the in
tervention of contractors and have already
set to work on quite a number Of structures
CAPTAIN HALL, formerly chief of the
United States secret service in Chicago
was recently shot dead by a woman. The
tragedy occurred at 476 Wabash avenue
Captain Hall had lately been stationed q,
| ST. Louis, but retired few days ago and
went back to Chicago.
THE SOUTH.
| MARSHALL SHIRLEY. q member OF the
| Georgia Legislature, died recently from ar
attack Of hydrophobia.
A MASS meeting was held at Ell Paso
Tex recently and resolutions wee passed