The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-24

TN trial OF the great thrss-cornered
Nickel Plate foreclosure suit WAS begun Il
the Common Pleas Court ct Cleveland on
September Is. Millions Of dollars are in
volved in the case.
TIE report Of the Kansas City clearing
house on the 18th showed the clearings
were.s1 ,060, al, against &6O2, SSS tho CORES
ponding day last year, an incrsase Of e457,-
sos, or 76 per cent
A BAD fire occurred in Kansas City on
September 16. which destroyed the Raw
Valley Soap Works and Q portion Of the
81" road trestle work.
The Governments final estimates of the
corn crop OF Missouri and Kansas is ~ fol-
lows: Missouri, l9s, sS1, 900 bushels; Kan
sas, l5S, 800, 900 bushels
RecRIvER THOMPSON, of the closed.up
Provident Savings Bank. of st. Leafs, says
that the depositors will get a respectable
dividend during Octsber.
w. H ToBHr, editor of the Times, Al
Greenup, ILL.,, was recently arrested and
taken b Charleston, charged with publish
ing libel on F. A. Allison, we'll known
prohibition lecturer.
A GREAT confagration ragged at Brook.
Ign, IA, on September Is. Tho entire basi-
ness portion was burned. The fire con-
stunned the Downing Hotel, the post-oeice,
the elevator and other big buildings.
RECENTLY at Wmpuu, Wis, a widow and
tive children were crossing . bridge, when
train dashed around q curve, killing them
instantly.
IT was reported on September IS that
Manager Brown, of the Western Unions
st. Louis Office, was short and had skip
ped.
THERE is quiet move Gmong the West.
ern delegates to the general convention Of
the knights Of Labor to become united
upon plan of action before proceeding to
Richmond, Va, where the convention is to
be held. The plan suggested is to have all
the Western delegates stop over in Pitts
burgh and hold a caucus.
KANSAS CIT had a grand time on Sep
TENDER 16, it being the big day of the fair.
Twenty-Five thousand people were at the
fair and in the evening over 100,0 900 blocked
the sidewalks to see the parade through
the city and the fireworks.
A TERRIFIC wind storm swept over South
eastern Michigan on September 16, which
caused great havoc.
The Haddcck coroner's Jury, at Sioux
City, Ia, rendered verdict recently charg-
ing H. L. Leavitt and others with compli-
city in the murder of the Rev. George C.
Haddock.
The State Labor convention which was
in session at Neenah, Wis.,. on September
Ii. had very stormy time, charges being
made that the State organizer had sold out
to the Democrats.
The Chippewa Falls wis Lumber Com
pany's saw mill was struck by lightning
and destroyed recently, causing a loss of
S250,OOO.
The Anti-Saloon Republicans, which
met at Chicago on September Is, adopted
resolutions strongly condemning the liquor
traffic.
THE Republicans of the Seventh Wiscon.
sin district have nominated o. B. Thomas
for another term in Congrass.
GENERAL j. L. PACKARD has been nomi-
mated for Congress in the Thirteenth Indi-
ana district.
THE Western Export Association whisky
pool met in Chicago on September 16 for
the purpose of limiting the production of
whisky.
A RELIGIOUS crank in Chicago, named
DR.. Arthur Morton, lately proclaimed him
self the Messiah who will establish a new
Jerusalem in Chicago and run it on the
principles of heaven. His following COM
prises a number of refined AMI intelligent
ladies.
A RECENT telegram states that the c. c.
Carroll, from Kansas City to 81. Louis,
struck a snag and sunk few miles below
Glasgow. She will probably be a total loss.
Mrs. ELIZA OTrARD, aged eighty years,
died recently at Galena, ILL.,. while kneel-
ing in prayer at her bedside. Cause, par
alysis of the brain.
SEVEN baggage cars and thirty special
sleepers passed through Kansas City on the
18th bearing Knights Templar from the
West to the st. Louis triennial conclave.
SAM STARR, a notorious desperate of the
Indian Territory, was caught recently by
the Cherokee authorities. Large rewards
were offered for his body.
j. B. GLASS, a Mount Sterling, ILL.,, bank
er, recently made an assignment. The liza
bilities are about $4,000, and the assets
SGO.OOO. The losses will fall almost wholly
upon people who deposited their savings
with him.
THE SOUTH.
NORTH and West Texas were recently
blessed with heavy rain after a long
drought.
HENRY SAMPSON, a convict at work on
the Georgia Midland road, recently es-
capped. A match was applied to tunnel
upon which the gang was working and all
retreated to a respectful distance. After
the blast went off Sampson failed to show
up. A bloodhound was put upon his track,
but when the dog was again seen he was
manacled to q tree with the convict's
shackles.
A FRENcHMAN, lately arrested in Tennes-
see for a trivial offense, confessed that he
was the murderer of ex-Mayor Bowman, of
St, Louis. The crime was committed q