The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

TIM WET.
JoHy LOVE and Henry Angel, OF Nus
burg, warrick County, Ind, fell OF barge
recently and were drowned.
QUITE q sensation was caused at Albur-
querque, N. NJ, recently by the arrest OF
Otto Berger, . prominent merchant, Tor
being an escaped convict from Huntsville,
Tex. where no had been Imprisoned for
robbery. His wife, angered in quarrel
with her husband, gave him away.
ROBERT WOLF. an Indian, who was to have
been hanged in Fort Smith, Ark, on tho
2Sd, had his sentence commuted by the
President to imprisonment for life.
The Western Export Association of
whisky dealers have resolved to incorp0r-
ate under the laws Of Illinois, with . cap
ital of about $780,
DECISION was rendered at Salt Lake re-
Gently in the noted Territorial offices cases
upon which Governor Murray and the Utah
Legislature split, the former claiming the
Territorial law was invalid which put
agents Of the Church in tho Office of Audi
tor and Treasurer and the latter refusing
to yield the incumbency, ignoring the Gov
ernor's nominations and his appeal to the
organic act Judge Zane sustained the
Governor in every point, maintaining the
supremacy of the National statutes and
ousting the old incumbents.
MUNICIPAL elections took place in many
Illinois towns ON the 10th and in q major
ity Of cases, where the contest was between
license and no license, the former was vic
torious. At Joliet, Urbana, Rockford, Bel
vedere, Monmouth, Warren, Mount Ster-
ling and Lincoln the license and high license
aldermen are now in the majority. At Hem
nepin, Dwight, Anna, Monticello, Plano
and other smaller towns, where license or
no license was the issue, the Prohibitionists
were victorious.
AFTER robbing . man of 81, 500 near vini-
ia, l. T., Jim Proctor and a mulatto were
requested to surrender. On refusing, both
were shot dead.
RESOLUTIONS protesting against the act
Of Congress granting lands Of the Cherokee
Nation for railroad purposes have passed
both houses of the Cherokee Legislature.
THE United States District Attorney of
California has been instructed to bring
and recover $2,2lS,OOO arising from the
conversion of timber into lumber on pub
lie lands.
Mrs. ANNIE BOYLE, of Fort Keogh, NJ.
T., was drowned in the Yellowstone last
fall. Her body was recovered the other
day in good condition. It had been en-
bedded in a cake Of ice.
FREDERICK HILLERMAN, aged thirty, went
out in boat with his wife and two little
children to fish in Anglaise river, near Def
ance, O., recently. The boat capsized
about thirty feet from the shore and all the
occupants were drowned before help could
AN epidemic of scarlet fever was reported
raging in Franklin, Ind.
THE SOUTH.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee has
purchased the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
railroad running from Galveston to Fort
Worth, Tex.
BARNES, Warren and thirty-twO wit
nesses Of the prize fight between two light
weights have been indicted in Henry Coun
ty, Nv. The railroad officials who fur
nishcd the train were also indicted.
One of the three tenements composing
the building known as Libby prison, at
Richmond, Va, used during the late war
for keeping Federal prisoners, collapsed
the other evening from overburdened
floors. The building was occupied by the
Southern Fertilizing Company, and the
collapsed tenement was used for the stor
age of fertilizers.
JOHN F. AUF DE MORTE and Erasmus
Sheppard have been convicted of robbing
the United States sub-treasury at New Or
leans.
THE plasterers at San Antonio, Tex,
struck recently demanding 50 for eight
hours or "a for ten hours work per day.
A CRoss-TIE placed across the East Ten
nessee railroad track near Silver Creek,
Ca, ditched freight train recently.
Thomas Sheehan, firing for his passage,
was killed. the engineer, Jack Wright, was
fatally injured.
of the South, died at Louisville, KY, re-
comfy, after a brief illness, from brain
fever.
8. On the night of the I'D the levee at Old
Town. sixteen miles south of Helena, Ark,
broke on the Arkansas side and in short
time a channel forty feet wide had been
worn away by the escaping water. Thou
sands of acres Of fertile cotton lands were
reported overlooked.
LABOR TROUBLES.
The coke syndicate has caused to be post
ed throughout the Connellsville Pa.) re-
gion q notice voluntarily advancing the
wages of the miners and coke drawers from
5 to 10 per cent. after May /. The increase
affects all the 10000 men who took part in
the recent successful strike.
GLASS manufacturers Of Pittsburgh re-
port boom in domestic glassware, caused
by the great strikes in Belgium. Prices
have been advanced 5 per cent in the last
few weeks.
Six THOUSAND employees Of the sugar re-
ineries of the Eastern district of Brooklyn,
n. Y, have struck because of the nom
compliance Of the proprietors with de-
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