The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05

INVESTIGATIONS into the treatment Of lu-
matte paupen In the Essex County IN. ~
asylum developed the fact that patients
were fed on swim made mp Of leavings and
scrapings OF sour food and boiled into
"hash."
THR zSgG Fial os6 Farm announces the
permanent retirement from the turf Of
Pierre Lorillard, who has for years Agursd
20 prominently In the racing annals Of this
country, and whose victories ON the Eng
lish turf with Parole and Iroquois made his
fame world wide. His racers will b sold.
THB Franklin Opera House block, at
Franklin, Pa, composed of elegant and
substantial buildings, caught fire recently.
Loss about $500 partially covered by
insurance.
In the Connecticut Senate on the 18th the
rules were suspended and resolution
passed calling upon Congress to increase
the duty on leaf tobacco.
As THE Uniontown express came rolling
down to Redstone, Pa, the other night
the engineer saw an alarm signal light vio-
lently waved across the track. He slowed
up and discovered that huge bowlder had
slipped down the hill and rested on the
track. The train had been saved by boy
named Clarke Isler, for whom q purse was
made up by the passengers.
RHODE IsLIND manufacturers have
formed q compact for mutual protection
in labor troubles.
THE New York Produce Exchange has
adopted resolutions. calling for the i'm
mediate suspension of the coinage Of silver
dollars.
AN explosion at the Banksville coal mine
of Long & Co., near Pittsburgh, Pa, the
other morning set fire to the pit and ere
mated tie mules. A number Of miners
were at work at the time, but all escaped.
THE WEST.
JUDGE BREWER, at Denver on the 18th,
decided the Maxwell land grant case in ia
vor Of the defendants. The suit was brought
by the Government and involved 1,7OO, 900
acres, which, it was claimed, had been OBJ
tanned by fraud.
The trial of the fifteen prominent citi-
zens and officials Of Seattle, w. T., for "ku-
kluxism, /" resulted in a verdict of not guilty.
A sroCK-RAIsER named Haaf, of Genesec,
ILL.,, recently sawed off the horns Of cattle
in cars. He claimed that he did SO on good
motives, but it was reported he would be
prosecuted for cruelty to animals.
GENERAL DAVID r. ATCHIsoN, who rep
resented Missouri in the United States Sen
ate from 1874 to 1857, died at Plattsburg,
Mo-, on the Goth. He was about seventy
seven years old, and had beer in feeble
health for some months, gradually sinking
to rest. General Atchison was for two
years President of the Senate and he was
President of the United States for one day
in 1S53-the time of the outgoing executives
having expired on Sunday. As President
OF the Senate he held the reins until the in
auguration.
A BALD eagle measuring seven feet from
tip to tip of the wings, was killed about
three miles west of Mount Vernon, ILL.,, the
other day. 1t had been doing serious dam
age to pigs and poultry.
SIX hundred pounds of prepared opium
was seized by San Francisco customs Of
ficials the other day.
RIO MARTIN, while out hunting in Lam
well County, ILL.,, with four companions,
was fatally shot by the accidental dis
charge of gun.
ST. LOUIS detectives were engaged re-
Gently in ferreting out the members of the
"Yale" gang of swindlers, operating for
some time in the West. The method of the
swindlers was to deposit bogus draft in a
small country place, and then draw
against it. When the draft came back dis
honored. they were found to be non est.
The banks were reported to have lost
S50OO0,A
THE Illinois Supreme Court has declared
null Isaac Foreman's bequest of $4,000 to
the American Bible and Methodist Publica-
ton Societies. Foreman went crazy on re-
ligion His daughter, Mrs. Price, OF st.
Louis, wife OF an expressman, gets the
money.
THE other night the Chicago express on
the Wabash passing Blue Mound station,
near Decatur, ILL.,, struck wagon on a
crossing, wrecking the wagon and killing
Jesse Campbell, of Edinburgh, Christian
County.
The suit to contest Carter Harrison's
election as Mayor of Chicago was dis
missed on motion of the attorney for tile
petitioners.
CALIFORNIA fruit growers have addressed
a memorial to Congress setting forth that
the Mexican reciprocity treaty to come be-
fore Congress for action will seriously in
jure the fruit growing interests of Califor-
mia.
HOLDEN DICK and Vincent Olinas, the
former an Indian and the latter a Mexican,
and both convicted murderers, were taken
out of Jail at Susanville, Cal, the other
night and hanged to the beams of the wood.
shed in the courthouse yard by q mob.
THE twenty-fif:h anniversary of the ad-
mission of Kansas into the Union was ceie-
brated at Topeka on the Goth.
FIRE originated the other night in the
Ryan Drug Company's building at st.
Paul, MINI. The loss footed up s255, 5000;
fairly insured.
ARSENIC was recently placed in the tea
pot Of Mrs. Mcconnell, at Davenport,
Iowa, and the whole family of seven were
poisoned, some fatally.
THE SOUTH.
E. NJ COLBY, q railroad man, was killed
recently while coupling cars at Palestine,
Tex.
TIE revenue cutter Boutwell,, stationed
at Savannah, Ca, has been ordered to
search for the steamer Martha Brewer, OF
Philadelphia, supposed to be in distress zoe