The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

The attempt to raise $500, 900 for q Grant
monument in New York was reported Is .
comparative failure. Only about $lOOOO
was subscribed, and the committee was
careless about getting further donations.
THOMAS BRIGHAM and James Bowen, CON
victed of unlawful cohabitation, were sen.
fenced in the District Court at Salt Lake
to six months imprisonment and to pay
fines Of $50 each.
TIE trial of the Rev. penias DOVE, ut To
cumseh, Mich, charged with lying and
fraudulently obtaining his ordination -
deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
resulted in his expulsion from the ministry
and membership of the church.
CANNON, the Mormon, jumped from tho
railroad car the other day. while in Gus
tody Of deputy marshal He was recap
tured in half an hour.
TIE Polish Catholic Church at Toledo, o.,
in which 20 much trouble existed, was
burned to the ground the other evening.
There was no doubt the fire was incendiary.
One arrest was made and much excitement
existed among the foctl0nS.
Four small children living ON Fangier
island in Chesapeake bay undertook to
build fire with coal oil recently when the
can exploded, scattering the burning fluid
over the children and igniting their clothes.
Two were burned to death and two fatally
injured.
IT was decided by the recent convention
in Chicago that the next National conven-
ton Of third and fourth class postmasters
should be held in Chicago the second
Wednesday in June, 1887.
Tue Ecening Standard Democratic), OF
Portland, Ore, has suspended publication.
s. B. Pettingill. the proprietor, attributes
the failure to the fact that the Democratic
leaders refused to give it their support.
ATTACHMENTS to the amount of $4,000
have been placed in the store of Scheline
Bros, general merchants, of Spokane Falls,
Wyo., by San Fancisco and local credito s.
The total liabilities are between $4,000
and $3.50, 100; assets, $4,000.
The jury in the case Of Chic Coon, the
highlander on trial in st. Louis returned
. verdict of murder in the first degree.
TESTIMONY before the investigating COM
been received after closing time.
EIGHT sheep herders on the Solomon
Luna ranch, Valencia County, N. NJ, were
recently killed in fight with Apaches.
THE cases of three more of The Polish
prisoners on trial at Toledo, O., for COM
plicity in the church riot of last summer,
were concluded on the 18th, all being found
guilty.
EARLY the other morning a body of
masked men compelled the Chinese, num-
bering forty-four, to leave Nicolaus. Cal.
They were put on board the steamer d. E.
knight, and notwithstanding the protest
of the captain of the vessel, he was forced
to take them as passengers to Sacramento.
CHANG, the Chinese giant, took out his
charlottesville first naturalization pa
pers-to become an American citizen at
Kansas City on the 18th.
The transcontinental war opened up on
the 18th with a cut on San Francisco pas
senger rates, the Union Pacific cutting the
first-class rate from Kansas City to San
Francisco from $50 to $50; first-class linn
tied, from SS4 to $50; second-class from So
to $3.50 below the emigrant rate. The
Santa Fe also made cut.
The Deseret Ners, the organ CT the Nor
mons, claims that ex-Delegate George q.
Cannon did not attempt to escape but fell
from the train accidentally, while being
taken back to Salt Lake City.
RIRE in the Ohio penitentiary at Column
bus the other morning destroyed a rake
shop and plane shop and their contents,
causing loss of $4,000.
THE Ohio Legislature has passed a bill
creating non-partisan boards of election in
Cincinnati, Toledo, Cleveland and Column
bus.
As an outcome of the controversy be-
tween Bishop Robertson and Rev. Father
Belts, of Trinity Episcopal Church of st.
Louis, the latter rendered his resignation
of the rectorship of Trinity Church.
THE United States revenue cutter Rich
ard Rush, which left San Francisco Janu
airy for the Behring sea in search of the
missing whaler Amethyst and crew of
forty men, returned on the 10Th. The Cap
tain reports hcving found no trace of the
missing vessel or the crew.
By the breaking OF truck locomotive
and four cars of freight train on the
Cairo. Vincennes & Chicago line We're de-
rallied eighty-seven miles north of Mar
shall. ILL., Fireman James Summers was
crushed to death beneath the locomotive
and Brakeman Toodlow buried under q car
load of scrap iron.