The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-05

| steel rail combination, comprising the
chief mills in all tie world, has been
formed to advance prices.
THE WEST.
A LIVELY row was reported in progress
at st. Adalbert's Polish Catholic Church
at Chicago, the members having dislike
Of the pastor.
JUDGE THAYKR, Of St Louis, has or.
dered the Fotheringham verdict of $4,000
for false imprisonment to stand il he
would remit 200 of the amount. Other
wise the Adams Express Company would
be allowed now trial
THE general passenger agent Of the Bur.
lington road says regarding the fast train
between Kansas City and Chicago, which
the former city wants put on: 1--WE don't
really want to put the train on and you
may say we will not unless compelled to
do SO by the urgency Of the demand"
The attorneys Of Thomas Frederick, the
Burlington engineer arrested last summer
as . dynamite plotter, have issued an adj
dress from Chicago denying that he 10 .
detective.
In sham battle at Fort Sully, OAK, on
the 18th between companies A, B, c and
d, hot blood arose and the men got into
such close quarters that several were Sc.
verely injured, three being in the hos
pital with wounds received. The officers
drew their swords and Lieutenant Aughm
received severe wound in the arm.
In the course of an address to delega.
tions recently General Harrison advocated
using q large portion of the surplus now
in the treasury in repaying the direct tax
levied during the war.
A GENERAL strike of the street car men
Of North and West Chicago was recently
threatened unless wages and hours were
rearranged.
AN incendiary fire which started at
Wabasha, Mimi, on the Goth in business
block on Main street swept the street as
far as the Diamond Joe docks. The Mil
waukee railroads elevator was among the
buildings burned. The total loss was esti-
mated at $15O,O00.
JAMES w. Brown, the notorious big
amist recently on trial at Detroit, Mich,
was convicted and sentenced to fourteen
years and six months in the penitentiary.
He was said to have married thirty three
women, fifteen of whom appeared in court.
The National Anti Horse Thief Associa-
tion met in annual convention at Mexico,
No., on the 26th. Many delegates were
present. Ottumwa, Iowa, was selected as
the next place of meeting.
CHIEF REFS, of the Milwaukee police de.
partment, has been suspended for incom-
potency. Serious charges are made
against him.
FIRE at Canton, OAK, recently destroyed
a block of business houses, causing loss
placed at 100000.
By collision at a crossing near Galena,
ILL.,, the other day, a workman was killed
and several seriously injured.
The steamer Menominee sank in the riv-
er near Winona, Mimi, the other night.
No one was lost.
FIRE broke out in one Of the sheds of the
West Side Driving Park at Chicago during
the racing on the 9th. Seven or eight
thousand dollars worth of buildings were
destroyed. There was nearly serious
panic in the grand stand, and several
ladies tainted.
IT is rumored in Minneapolis, Mimi,
sporting circles that the manswho struck
the deadly blow that killed Fulljames in
the fight at Grand Forks was an Eastern
pugilist travelling under the alias of Bar
nett.
A DEADLY riot took place over the count
ing of the returns Of the Republican pri
mary at San Francisco on the 9th. In the
shooting that took place David DonOhue
was killed and A. Christensen mortally
wounded. Two others were shot but not
fatally.
THE Hutchinson corner on cash wheat in
Chicago was a complete surprise on the
shorts. 1t was developed on the 9th,
when settlements were made at $1.25. The
wheat pit was intensely excited, predic-
tons being made that the cereal would
reach s. before the collapse occurred.
THE Archbishop's pallium has been con-
ferred on Bishop Ireland, of St. Paul.
THE new white lead trust, recently
formed at st. Louis, is said to be closely
allied to the linseed oil trust, which has
proved so expensive to the paint and oil
trade.
A BRITISH coal laden ship from New
South Wales was reported ashore off Point
Fermin, Cal.
FREIGHT traffic on the Illinois Central
railroad from Centralia to Cairo was re-
Gently tied up, owing to a strike of the
switchmen in the yards.
THE set speeches in Indiana by Judge
Thurman will be four and the programme
of his trip through that State is as follows:
Shelbyville, October Is; Peru, October 16:
Fort Wayne, October Is: Brazil, October 20.
FIRE in Romeo. Wis, the other night de-
stroyed the sawmill and much other prop.
erty owned by William Van Hosear, caus.
ing S125, 900 loss.
The Chicago Knights of Labor Socialist
troubles have broken out again owing to
the election of George Schilling,a Socialist,
as q delegate to the coming National con-
vention of the order.
THE Kansas City Baseball Club Cow
boys) has been elected permanent mem
Der of the American Association.
GOVERNOR GUY, of the Chickasaw Ma
ton, has elected Byrd and his followers
from the seat of government. Trouble was
expected when the adherents of the latter |
heard of the forcible dispossession.
Ben B. GRANT, of Newark, O., a yellow |
fever refugee from the South, died of
black vOmit at Louisville, KY, on the 18th |
the first death from the plague reported |
in that city.