The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-18

crops of Dakota proved groundless.
TIE Signal Service is being very success
fully used in the Apache country. Mes
saxes have been sent by the heliograph
distance of 800 miles. The Signal Service
CORDS at Fort Meyer will have extensive
signal practice this summer.
BIZ the explosion Of . boiler at the Ne
rins Railway and Dry Dock Company in
the eastern part Of Cincinnati the other
evening, Chris. Schatzman was fatally
injured and two others were severely
scalded.
Howard REMPIs, boy Of six. and Artie
Addick, four, got into dispute recently at
Akron, O., when Rempis, with . threat to
shoot, went into his fathers house, got .
revolver and fired, the bullet lodging in
the child's breast, resulting in death in
few hours.
THE st. Louis Post Dispatch published
sensational cable dispatch recently, claim
ing that Parnell, the great Irish leader, had
been involved in a social scandal, arising
out Of his too intimate relations with Mrs.
Captain O'Shea, and that it was owing to
this fact that O'Shea failed to vote for the
home-rule measure in the Commons.
The master builders of st. Louis, EN-
ploying about 1000 men, have notified
their workmen that after June Is they will
return to the ten-hour system. A strike
will follow.
THE Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis
railway was sold recently at New Albany,
Ind. for OOOO to q committee repre-
senting the bondholders.
A WOODSTOCK, ILL.,, special says: W. A.
Boies, owner of twenty butter factories,
has failed. More than 100000 in claims
have already been fled. The failure has
also caused the banking house of B. 8. Par
ker to close.
THE Chicago Times accuses the aldermen
of that city of receiving $l27, in brides
to secure the passage of an ordinance ben
citing the North Chicago Passenger rail-
road.
SENATOR WILSON, of Iowa, from the Com
mittee on Post offices and Post-roads, has
reported favorably his bill to prohibit the
transmission through the mails Of lottery
and other like circulars.
The wheat commission firm of Field &,
Yates, of Minneapolis and Duluth, failed
on the 9th. The firm in one week bought
about 1000, 600 bushels Of wheat at from soc
to SIC and lost from s., 600 to 1000 on the
deal.
CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD has been APP
pointed custodian of the abandoned Fort
Cray military reservation in New Mexico.
1t is understood that he will act as chief
scout for General Miles.
Ara recent meeting of Chicago theatrical
managers the matter of Sunday night per-
formances was discussed and general
conclusion arrived at that next season no
first-class theater will throw its doors open
to any entertainment Sunday evening.
L. W. PITCHER, the expelled member OF
the Chicago board of trade, has sued the
board for $4,000.
THE Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis
railway was sold recently at New Albany,
Ind, for 500, 600 to committee represent
ing the bondholders.
LIMESTONE, Idaho, recently reported four
horse-thieves hanging to tree.
RECENTLY Thomas Hunt. a well known
settler, was killed by the Apaches near
Harshaw. And near Benson the red skins
| killed an unknown white man.
A FAMILY named Armstrong. consisting
of the husband, wife. two sons and one
daughter, went from Missouri last fall and
settled in Little Mountain valley, on a
| tributary of the Yellowstone river They
| were recently missing for nearly three
| weeks, when it was learned that a sudden
| food, caused by the melting of snow, swept
| away the house and drowned the inmates.
THE SOUTH.
BUCKET shops have been closed up by law
| in Little Rock.
The filibusturing steamship City of Mex
| leo, which was seized by the United States
authorities some time ago, was sold re-
Gently at auction for $4,000 to S. Oteri, a
New Orleans fruit merchant.
| THREE stores were destroyed and bank
badly damaged by fire in Hopkinsville,
| KY, the other night. Loss sJ0, 600
| LOCAL option elections were held on the
9Th at many points in North Carolina. The
prohibitionists carried the day at Raleigh
by GO majority; also at the following
places: Concord, Oxford, Kingston, Hen
derson, Warrenton, Louisburg, Winston,
Salem, Apex. Beauford, Seaboard.
THOMAS j. CLUtERIUs, who murdered hi.
sweetheart at the Richmond (Va.) reser
voir and is condemned to hang, recently
exposed plot of prisoners in Jail to es
cape.
The engine and three coaches Of the nigh
train on the Georgia Central railroad wer,
thrown from the track by wreckers at Rog
ers, Ca, the other morning and the fireman
was killed.
HEAVY rains prevailed in Preside County
Tex, on the Sth. This was the first raiI
| <l,A
drouth ever known in the district.
A WATER spout burst over Marshall, n
c., recently and most terrific rain fell mp
on the surrounding country. Houses fel
before the advancing food and cattle wer'
swept away and drowned. No loss of lifi
was reported.
JOHN HUNTER, Kentucky negro, was re
Gently convicted of stealing small sum o
money at Evansville, Ind. As he hat
already served three terms in the Stat
prison the jury gave him . life imprison
ment.
The American Association of Stee
Shapers and Plow Manufacturers met il
Louisville recently and adopted a scale o
prices.
GENERAl.
ArARMER from Roumania died from nv
drophobia recently while under treatmen
. at NJ Pasteurs institute in Paris. He hat
been treated eleven days.
COLONEL RICHARD NJ. HOE, senior mem
Der of the firm of R. Hoe & Co., manufac
: turers of the celebrated Hoe printing press
died suddenly at Florence, Italy, recently
, TWELVE hundred and seventy of tn
: | striking iron miners of Decazeyille France
have returned to work.