The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-11-19

EIGHT hundred coal miners at the Eric,
Marshall, Fox and Louisville mines, Colo
RADIO, have quit work ON account of . 70
duction in their wages Of IAN cents per
ton.
THE United States Supreme Court has
decided the case of the lands claimed BY
the Southern Kansas railway along the
Neosho valley in favor ofthe company, the
decision Of the Kansas Circuit Court being
reversed.
SAM PURPLE, q farmer living in the south
east corner Of Hodgeman County, Kan.
enraged at his wife the other morning
murdered her and two of his children. He
also shot his sister-in-law, supposed fatal.
ly, and seriously wounded two moro chill
dren. He then started out to murder two
other persons, but meeting with opposi-
tion surrendered himself at Jetmore. He
was soon after given over to-a mob who
hanged him up.
The Chicago & Atlantic road began
openly cutting east bound passenger rates
at Chicago on the 10th. A reduction Of
81. 50 could b obtained in tho brokers' Of
fees.
Jim CUMMINGS" who committed the ex-
press robbery, is carrying Ton rather vol
luminous correspondence for one in his po-
sition. First he wrote to Frank James, the
ex-Outlaw, then to the editor of news
paper. now to Fotheringham's mother, en-
closing in the letter $50, which he suggests
may be of use in clearing her son of the
suspicion now resting upon him. All Of
these letters are in the hands of the detec-
tives.
The coroner's jury, which has been inves
tigating the recent railroad disaster at
Rio, Wis, has returned q verdict holding
c. H. Wells, the brakeman, responsible
for the loss of life.
The official vote of the Ohio election re-
ceived at the Office of the Secretary of
State gives, Robinson, Republican, $40, sos;
Mcbride, Democrat, 329, 3l4; Smith, Prohi-
bitionist g, Bonsal, Greenbacker,
! ,9O9 Robinson's majority over Mcbride
is 11.5SI.
A STRIKE is threatened among the
printers employed by Tenorine's Ne,cs, the
Sunday Telegraph and Peck's Sun, Of Mil
waukee, Wis, that promises to extend to
publishers using plate matter all over the
The Chicago police have arrested Fred
Reger supposed to be the perpetrator of
the pepper-throwing robbery Of the dia-
mond broker, Donnelly. and several SINH
lar robberies recently.
OFFICIAL returns from sixty five out Of
counties Of Michigan give Luce,
16S, 495; Yaple. Fusion, 259, 72o9;
Dickie, Prohibition, "a, 80. Luce's plural
ity, S.766. There was little difference in
the totals for the other State officers.
PEOPLE from Bald Knob recently raided
Christian County, Mo-, for the
purpose of breaking up the saloons The
people of Chadwick, however, opened fire
on them and one man was seriously
wounded.
COLONEL PLATT B. WALKER, prominent
lumberman, says that a syndi
cats of Canadian lumbermen, with part
ners in Minnesota, had acquired the title
to about 50O,OOOOOO feet of pine timber in
Minnesota.
WILLIAM KENNEDY, aged thirty, fell into
a tub of boiling lime water at Newark, o.,
and was horribly scalded.
The building known as Moody's Church,
Sale street, Chicago, was destroyed by
fire early on the morning of the 18th.
CHARLES j. BYLEs, agent of the Missouri
Pacific freight department at Leaven-
worth, Kan, was mysteriously missing on
The 18th.