The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
THE WEST.

The Santa Fe reduced its rates from Mis-
souri, river points to the Pacific on the 2Sd
| to &25 first and el7 second. The Santa Fe
declared its intention to rebate under any
rate the other Pacific roads might make.
RETURNS from various parts of the Fifth
Congressional District of Wisconsin show
T. r. Hudd Oemocrat), of Green Bay, to
have been elected by large majority as
successor to the late Congressman Joseph
Rankin.
GENERAL JOHN g. LAVENDER, a promi-
nent citizen Of st. Louis, died at his resi-
dence in that city of cirrosis of the liver on
the 23d. General Lavender was born in
Franklin, N. H., March II, 1924 He was
with Lyon at the battle of Wilson creek,
and was also at Shiloh, Corinth and other
places during the war.
A TEMPERANCE fanatic recently entered a
saloon at Shelbyville, ILL.,, and turned on
the faucets of the whisky barrels. The re-
suit was the loss of $500 worth of the liquor.
THOMAS A. EDISON, the electrician, was
married to Nina, daughter Of Lewis Miller,
of Akron, O., on the oath.
FIRE at Mount Vernon, Ind, damaged q
dozen stores, entailing an aggregate loss Of
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
A CASE was decided in the Superior Court
at Cincinnati recently of considerable i'm
portance. George Crisp, lumber dealer,
sued Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency on the
ground that ID had misrepresented him by
rating him enormously, and claimed s10,-
600 damages. The defense was that Crisp
refused to furnish the information usually
nj foi Cd I,sci hat
agency was therefore obliged to make an
estimate from outside sources, which was
done, it was claimed, without malice. The
jury returned q verdict in favor of the
agency.
The boiler Of an engine on the Chicago &
st. Louis railway exploded near Vernon,
ILL.,. recently. Engineer Ashling was
thrown a distance of seventy-five yards
over the telegraph wires and killed.
The Western linseed oil crushers met in
Chicago recently and decided to form a
pool " iich will be known as the Consoli-
dated Oil Company. the capital stock of
which will be $4,000.
JAMES WHITLEY, elected city clerk of
Pekin, ILL.,, last fall, is defaulter and has
fled. The exact amount of his defalcation
was not known, but an investigation was
under way. He left note giving the COM
bination of the safe in his office.
The Chinese on three ranches near Wheat
land, Cal, were recently driven off by
mob. After their expulsion from one of
the ranches their quarters were fired.
JOSEPH T. MCKEE, merchant at Wood
bridge. D. T., and associate judge of the
county in which he resides, is under arrest
in Chicago on the charge of obtaining goods
by false pretense. His accusers are Decker
& Co., dry goods meechants.
THE Wyoming Legislature recently dis
covered that it had passed bill relating
to school superintendent which legislated
out of office the only three ladies holding
official positions in the Territory. The bill
went through under an innocent guise
without being examined into.
THE strike at the Mccormick reaper
works at Chicago ended by the majority of
the hands repudiating the Knights of La
Dor and seeking a conference with the
managers of the firm.