The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-02
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
SEVEN conductors of the Lake Shore
Michigan Southern were discharged re
Gently. The company gave no reason.
The Elijah Smith ticket was elected a.
directors of the Oregon Transcontinental
Railway in Portland. Ore.
The trial of the Milwaukee rioters wa.
begun on the 21st before a Beaver Dam
Judge. Nothing of importance was devel
oped.
Four Of the saloonists Of Clinton, Ia,
were slightly wounded in an ancountel
with prohibitionists the other night. Fur
Their trouble was feared.
The wholesale and retail toy and fire.
works house of Koch Brothers, of Peoria,
Ill.,, was closed on an execution for 5000
in favor of the Strobel & Wilkin Com
pany, of Cincinnati.
A PLOT for general escape of the in
mates of the county Jail at Cincinnati wat
discovered recently. Six steel saws, an
iron saw FRAME a brass key and other tools
were found in one of the prisoners cells
and it is stated that friends of the prison
ers were to assist them in scaling the walls
by ropes, ETC., and to resist the guards j!
necessary.
AT Ironville, a suburb of Toledo, O., re
Gently, party Of five young men got into
a quarrel. when one of the number was
killed. The rest took to a boat, which
it was stated was swamped in the lake and
the parties drowned.
A MOB of saloonists attempted to lynch
two prOhibitionists at Clinton, Iowa. re
Gently. The sheriff and deputies, however
fired into the mob and put them to flight.
The prohibitionists were under arrest
charged with rioting.
DIPnTHERA has made its appearance in
epidemic form in Chenoa, Mclean County
Illinois.
Two THOUSAND citizens Of Chicago met
the other night and formulated remon
strances against the proposal to give away
the La Sale street tunnel.
JUDGE EDWARD LANE, Of Hillsboro, Hi
nois, was nominated for Congress by the
Seventh District Convention, defeating
Hon. John R. Eden, the present member
from that district.
THE street car strike at Minneapolis end
ed by the company conceding all the de
mands of the men.
The Lake Shore switchmen struck al
Chicago on the 23d. The strike was ovel
the employment OF non-union men. The
usual programme of stopping trains wa.
gone through. The crew of a train tina,
attempted to force the blockade was rough
ly handled, Ike conductor and brakeman
being badly kicked.
The gun store Of Emmett E. Burgess, No
8 State street. Chicago. has been closed b,
the sheriff. The present assets are $4,000
liabilities $4,000.
THE Illinois Prohibitionists adopted /.
platform demanding absolute prohibition
ANARCHISTS John Prottzman and Henry
Dumpf, of Milwaukee, have been convicted
of participating in the recent riots, while
Henry Lampel has been acquitted.
THE tenth anniversary of the Custer mas
sacre was celebrated at Fort Custer, Mont.
on the Oath
THE scale of the Amalgamated Assccia
ton of Iron and Steel Workers has beer
signed at Milwaukee.
RABBI S. II. SoNNEscHEIN has been de
posed from the control of the leading Jew
ish synagogue in st. Louis, because he hal
abandoned Judaism for Unitarianism.
DISPATCHES of the 35th from Decatur
Rockford and other points in Central Hi
nois, report severe hail aud wind storms
which did great damage to crops.
SEVERAL freight trains were interferet
with by strikers on the Lake Shore, a
Lake, near Chicago, on the 18th. A mum
Der of oars were derailed. The police mad
arrests and one freight train succeeded il
getting out.
Four laborers were killed and two in
jured by a break occurring in a freigh
train six miles east of Creston, Iowa, OF
the 25th. The men were asleep in the ca
boose, the broken portion running bacl
into an extra train coming up.
THE SOUTH.
W. L. KREBLER was sunstruck while on
spree at San Antonio, Tex, recently, an,
died in fifteen minutes.
JACOB SHUTroN, living near Mt Pleasant
Tex, was carried from his home by sevel
men recently, who shaved him, cut hi
hair short, stripped and beat him, becaus
he maltreated an orphan girl living wit
him.
Mrs. LEoSA LrLEs shot and killed W.
Roberts in Denton, Tex, recently, becaus
he had boosted that he had been intimat
with her.
TROY, Tex, was nearly destroyed by . n
cent hurricane.
JOHN NEWMAN, one Of the first white chill
dren born in the region, died recently il
Sewer County, Tenn, aged one hundre'
and seventeen years.
COMMERCIAL travellers met in convention
At Baltimore, Nd, on the 24th.
A SWITCH engine broke its driving axl
on the Missouri Pacific near Denison, Tex.
recently. Five persons were injured b.
the ditching which followed.
The Baltimore Council decided on pro
hibiting Catholic liquor dealers sellinl
their wares on Sunday. Much consterna
ton existed in consequence, excommunica
ton being threatened.
WILLIAM GARNErr, of Henderson County
KY, was killed recently, by being throw,
from q fractions horse.
AT Fort Worth, Tex, A. L. Cohen
charged with melting the April riot. ha
been found guilty and his fine fixed at $17a
The Kentucky Republican State Execu
tive Committee has decided to nominal
candidates in every Congressional district
The proprietor and two other person
were instantly killed by an exploding boile
in the saw mill of T. R Adams, at Adkins
Ark, recently. The mill was wrecked.
GENERAL,
BENJAMIN MORSE, President Buchanan
private secretary when he was Minister t
Great Britain, and afterward secretary O
the American legation in London, died il
Lisbon recently.
The Spanish Cortes by q vote of 1877 to
has rejected Senior RObledo's propose