The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-20

Six inches Of snow fell at Bellows Falls,
Vt. on the nth and seriously damaged
telegraph and telephone wires. Trees and
shrubbery also suffered extensively.
ENSIGN RrAH, Of the navy, and ]. h.
Meade. young 90 ciety man, have been ar
rested at Pittst urgh, Pa, charged with
the abduction OF Rosa Parsons, aged seven
teen, whou Trey had taken to house OF
ill-fame In New York.
A RESOLUTION providing for the submis-
sion 10 thu, people Of . prohibition amend
mcnt has been adopted in the New YORK
Assembly, the Republicans voting for aud
the Democrats against 1t.
Aetbe photographic ONCE in the MARI
TINA Exchange, New York. . report was
resolved that large quantities OF ice on
Newfoundland coast was rapidly drifting
into the steamer routes. Steamers that ar
rived on the 18th reported great trouble
sith drift zee and having passed many Ice
bergs.
Mrs. Bnp and her babe were burned to
death in their home at Florida, Orange
County. n Y. the other night.
On the application Of David Goodman.
mon Pleas, New York, has granted an or
der for the appointment Of . receiver for
the fira of Kiralfy Bros, the well-known
scenic opera managers.
ROBERT Van BRUNT, Happy Bcb," OF
he Salvation Army, was hanged az War
saw N. Y, ON the 18th for tho murder OF
his sweethearts half brother.
THE condition of ex-senator ConKline
was again reported critical on the night Of
he 18th although no longer delirious be
ell continued to exhibit the grave features
| 4 his sickness.
FIRE uE = tramp steamer being unloaded
At Brooklyn wharf the other day caused
800 Oo0 damage to the pier and its contests
The vessel was scuteled.
WAEBRIDGE BROTHERs furniture dealers
II Boston. have made an assignment witt
's51.Og liabilities.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL addressed o
| Urge audience at Steinway Hail. New
| York, on the 18th, on 1.-THE Independent in
Politics." He urged the necessity of in.
| dependence becaese Of the prevailing poli'
zeal corruption, and defended the admin
stration of Pres dent Cleveland.
DISASTROUS ferest fires started recently
m the vicinity of Falmouth, Mass, burning
very fast with strong wind, and the vii
age OF Teaticket was in great danger.
| DIR. E. &. w. O'BRIEN. of Buffalo, has
3een nominated by Governor HiE as Healll
Officer of the port Of New York.
| LANES block, one Of the largest in Rut
aud, VT, was destroyed by fire recently.
| THE WEST.
| ALL but thirty of the suspended Chicago
| Milwaukee & St Paul railway employees
| have returned to work.
| The BurliRgtO road has restored rates
| III freigh and to all intents and purposes
this means an end to the freight rate war.
Rates on gram will be restored April 16.
i The Loomis Bridge and Forge Company
i IF Cincinnati has made an ssignment, with
S5O00O liabilities and s75 600 assets.
i The circuit court at Ravenna, O., has re
fused to grant ''Blinkey" Morgan's motion
| for new trial and has sentenced him Il
i hang June d. The execution will take
4 place in the peniten,isry ut Columbus
where the prisoner is now confined.
| A SAN Francisco gentleman says tina,
Leland Stanford will allow his name to e
before the Republican National convention
for the Presidency.
i THE great Calumet & Hecla mine ir
Michigan was reopened on the 11th, the
i fire being extinguished.
/ CHIEF ARTHUR, Of the Brotherhood oil
| Locomotive Engineers returned to Chicago
on the l0tk and expressed his confidence'ot
/ he final success Of the strike on the Bur-
l lington railroad.
| Two mon were killed and two Others
seriously injured by an explosion in q saw
/ mill at Baldwin, Ill, tine other day.
i JOSEPH II. WHIPPLE, ex-president OF tho
Pembroke Knitting Company, Of Battlt
Creek. Msch., has been sent 10 the peniteu
tiary for three years for embezzlement
THE gun clubs OF Marion. o.. have been
engaged killing of English 81 arrows.
| The Goodyear line freight train On the
Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul railway
ran into awashout on the LemOnweIr river
in Wisconsin the other night, ditch. ns
seventeen cars.
| The three principal business blocks il,
whitehall, Ill, were destroyed by fire re
| Gently.
! The Kootenai Indians of Montasa were
| recently threatening 10 avenge the hanging
Of three Of their number for murder. The
Governor was called on for troops.
| The Wood mower and reaper works al
Youngstown, O.. were destroyed by fire
recently. Less, $4,000; insurance, $50.
0O0. F We hundred hands were thrswn GU,
Of work.
| J. SIMox, the defaulting ex-treasurer oil
| Dark County, Ohio, has been sentenced t.
six years in the penitentiary and ID pay a
fine dDubie the amount Of the embezzle
ment
DAVE WALKER, the chief of the Bald
Knobbers, was sentenced at Ozark, Me-,
on the 18th to be hanged May Is, along
| with his son Bill Walker and Wiley
Matthews. Summons, the Baptist preach
ar. got twelve years, Amos Jones twenty
five years and Walliam Stanley twelty-one
years.
The Chicago brewers went on strike on
the l2;h, caused by the announcement OF
the employers that they would shut out al
union men.
JOSEPH LUcGrE, . farm owner uving at
Rockville, Ind, in trying to shoot his ten
ant, killed his son, aged fifteen, the re-
! volver's muzzle being knocked aside.
The California House and twenty other
bu Id ngs at Nspere Wis. burned recently,
causinga loss estimated at between S6l,
OOO and SIS ONO with an insurance OF $a1,-
Oo0, dividei between eighteen companies.
FOUR ramps beat a switch tender, Viii
liam Studner, to death At Wood street,
Chicago the other night because he tried
to put them out Of his house
One of q family cf farmers of Randolph
County. Indiana, is dead, and others arr
probably fat lily afflicted with ,richinosis.
NELs OLSEN HOL0Ee, Norwegian, was
banged at St Paul, Nina, for the brutal
murder Of the daughter Of his employer,
xwS.ooo hodv ho f.,N IN ho hoe.