The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-19

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Chinese at Olympia, W. T., on the 9th, but
| the ringleaders were arrested J the au-
thorities. No violence was attempted by
| the mob, they contenting themselves with
| notifying the Chinese to leave.
ARRANGEMENTS were reported making to
| send all the Chinese from Seattle to San
Francisco, transportation. being furnished
by the citizens.
KANSAS CRY was admitted to the eighth
| place in the National Base Ball League by
| the committee sitting at Chicago ON the
9th.
Two men were killed and several others
seriously injured by the explosion OF
! boiler in a steam saw mill at Oshkosh,
Wis.,, recently.
| Hon. JOHN G. THOMPSON, ex-Sergeant-at-
Arms of the National House of Representa-
! tives, died at Seattle, w. T., on the 10th
| Colonel Thompson held the position
Land Claim Agent in Washington Terri
tory by appointment of President Cleve-
land and had been engaged there since last
summer He was ffty-two years Of age,
and a native of Ohio.
STATE SENATOR T. r. HuDD, Of Green
| Bay, was nominated for Congress in the
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the Fifth District of Wisconsin, on the
eighty-third ballot, to succeed Congress
man Rankin, deceased.
! The A. O. U. ". convention at st. Louis,
has decided that every lodge consisting
| 1907 members, should be entitled to one del
| egate in the annual convention, and every
| fifty over 100 should be represented by one
| delegate.
| DALTON, the county clerk of Hamilton
| County, O., has been arrested for contempt
of the lower house of the Legislature for
refusing to take his books to Columbus.
| HENRY COOKS, freight engineer, was
killed and three ladies badly injured by
| collision between a dummy and a train al
Mount Lookout, a suburb of Cincinnati,
the other night.
| MARTIN o. VAN FLErT, treasurer of HUI
| ron County, O., has been arrested in Brant-
ford, Ont, charged with having embezzled
$4,000 of Huron County bonds.
| JAMES STEERS, an agent of the California
Mutual Accident Association, was caught
in a snowslide among the mountains near
| Butte City, Mont, recently. Steers was an
Englishman who had but lately arrived at
Butte.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL H. SMTHERs, owner of a
number of fast horses and a great sporting
man of Detroit, Mich, died the other day.
| During the war he was in a poker game in
| which a Government paymaster named
Cook gambled away $500, 600 Of the peoples
money.
| AN extra freight train on the Cincin-
natl, Hooking Valley & Toledo railroad
| caught three section hands running truck
loaded with rock on double-decked tres
| tie, near Vinton, O., the other day. The
men deserted the truck and chung to the
trestle, but two of them were forced by the
scattering rock to lose their holds, when
they fell to the ground, forty-fve feet, and
were fatally injured.
A VIOLENT form of hog cholera is raging
near Hillsboro, Ill. A farmer has lost over
eighty hogs out Of drove of $50 within
short time. A large number of other farm
ers are also losing hogs rapidly.
GENERAL Crook left Fort Bowie, A. T..
on the 10Th to meet Chief Geronimo at the
Mexican line, as had been arranged by
Lieutenant Maus q month ago.
THE SOUTH.
JOHN W. BREArHITT recently threw a
Vile, KY, and in return the latter fatally
shot Breathitt in the abdomen with O tar
get gun The young men were good friends
| and it is claimed that the shooting was ac-
cidental Both men are Of prominent fam
lilies.
THE notorious gang of horse thieves run
down by Zach Mulhail, for stealing 400
head of horses from Hunter e. Evans
ranch, on the Cheyenne Reservation, In
dian Territory, were indicted in the United
States Court at Fort Smith, Ark, on the
9th. The gang consists of the notorious
outlaws, Bill Gates, alias Bill Hayes; Bill
Forbes, alias Fowler; Medrow Hunt, alias
Matt Moore, and John Abercrombie, alias
Broncho John.
THOMAS C. CARLoCK, President of the
Texas & Oklahoma Homestead Colony,
was arrested at Denison, Tex, upon the
charge of using the mail for fraudulent
purposes Carlock's plan of operation was
to induce parties who were selected to join
the colony to send him So, which would
give them the same privileges every body
has under the homestead law.
THE United States steamer Brooklyn has
sailed from Key West, Fla, to Aspinwall
to assist in protecting American interests
in the event of an uprising on the Isthmus.
PRESIDENT DUNCAN, of the Mobile & Ohio
railroad, and officials of the st. Louis &
Cairo railroad have signed the necessary
papers for closing Of the lease of the latter
to the former road The work of chang
ing the gauge of the st. Louis & Cairo to
standard will be commenced at once and
pushed to a speedy conclusion.
AT the Mecklenburg IN. CO. iron works
recently John Spring and Will Austin,
both colored, were instantly killed by the
falling of the elevator, and Jules Brown,
also colored, was also injured.
THE Kentucky State Senate has passed a
bill establishing a whipping post for wife
heaters. A pleuro-pneumonia bill con-
demning all diseased cattle in the State,
appointing a cattle inspector and appro-
priating 5000 for the purchase of con-
demned cattle has also been passed.
| ALBERT s. SHIELDS, one of the most no.
torious burglars Of Georgia, was sentenced
recently at Gainesville, to twenty years
in the penitentiary. Shields began his CO.
reer as a burglar at the age of ten years.
JOHN O'NEuL, a planter of Fulton County,
Ga, recently went into his barnyard and
was attacked by q mule ONeill attempted
to run, but the mule knocked him down
and began biting him. Some of the hands
came to his assistance, and beat of the an
imal. The mule had been bitten few days
| previously by a mad dog. O'Neill was re-
ported dying of hydrophobia.
HEAVY rains were reported causing heavy
foods in the East. The Delaware river was
higher than for years. Bridges were re-
ported swept away and traffic was inter-