The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-10

THs Board Of Railroad Commissioners
- TOPEKA recently elected Colonel b c.
Riser, Of Eureka, secretary. 70 nll the ~.
eancy caused by the resignation Of e. ].
Turner. He has long been . citissI. Of
Kansas and II well known among al news
paper men. In 1870 hs came to Kans -, 10.
catinga t Eureka. where he began Tsecsss.
inglaw. He served one term ~ county At
torney and was for long time editor Of
the Eureka Herald. For the past few year.
he has been serving in ~ Uaited 6tatoa
Geological Survey.
PARSONS. the condensed anarchist, talk
Of his trial aad blAnies Tie newspapers foI
securing the convic4ioa- He says the an
archists are not dynamitsn and hopes Tor
judicial intervention.
DnHTHxRIA IL raging at Illiopolfs, Ill,
and many deaths have already occurred.
Tan bridge across the Missouri river OPP
posfee Fort Leavenworth was badly dam
aged BY fire the other night. Tho wood
work Of the center and eastern spans was
entirely consumed. The fire department Of
Leavenwortk city and Fort Leavenworth
were ON hand and through their efforts the
western span was saved.
GERONIMO, the notorious Apache chief,
offered to surrender lately II his terms
were accepted, which are that his two
wives be brought back from Florida and
that himself and nineteen Of his compan-
ions be given separate reservation.
FIVE tramps, it is now believed by do
tectives, were the perpetrators Of the Rock
Island train robbery last March, when
Messenger Nichols was killed and e2l, 900
stolen from the express car. Details are
withheld by the officers.
AUGUST MILLER, Q driver for Kansas
City firm, outrageously assaulted the nine
yaar-old daughter of Gottfried Frohweick
q few days ago, at whose house he lives in
Wyandotte, Kan. Miller has fed.
About 600 men employed in the brew
cries of st. Louis went out on strike re-
Gently.
The Missouri Republican State conven.
ton assembled at Sedalia ON the LIST and
continued in session all night. After the
adoption Of the platform Judge ]. K. Graz
vens, of Kansas City, was nominated for
the Supreme Court; H. K. Warren, of Han
nibal, for Superintendent of Public In
struction, and g. W. Kitchens, OF Greene
County, for Railroad Commissioner. The
convention adjourned at 4:3O o'clock in
the morning.
The horses of nearly every street car line
in the city of Cleveland, O., are affected
with ''pinkeye." One line has sixty-five
sick horses in their stable and the epidemic,
it is feared, will be general.
THE Rev. Father Laporte, Of Detroit,
Mich, has sued the Rev. Father Hendryck
for 5000 for libel in charging that he was
forced to do penance in Rome for his con-
duct in his diocese.
IT was reported from Tombstone. A. T..
that the Mexicans demanded Geronimo Of
the American troops and that fight en-
sued in which five Mexicans were killed
and two Americans wounded. Geronimo
then escaped.
The Electric Light Company at Leaven-
worth did not come to terms with the city
council lately and the lights were shut off.
JACOB WOEHR, well-to-do young farmer
living near Vermontville, Mich, recently
fell from a scaffold into the mouth OF a
threshing machine. He was caught by the
cylinder and both legs were torn off and
terribly cut. He has died.
Mrs. MALLoY, well known all over the
country as a revivalist, and under bonds
for completely in the murder of Mrs. Ora
ham at Springfield, Mo-, attempted to COM
init suicide by drowning lately.
INDIAN INSPECTOR BANNIsTER has gone
to Queenmo, Kan, to effect the removal
L. Ill All <1fC
Indians to the Indian Territory.
Mr.. c. Y. LEWIS has lately been ap-
pointed Assistant General Freight Agent
of the Missouri Pacific Railway, with
office at Kansas City. He will have charge
of the freight originating on lines in
Kansas, Missouri and the Indian Territory.
A DISPATCH from Sioux City, Ia, says
there is something rotten with the prosecu-
ton in the Haddock murder case. and that
Harry Leavitt knew more about the cir
cumstances leading up to the murder than
an innocent man could know.