The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-19
THE WEST.

sank near Chester, ILL.,, the other day. No
| lives were lost.
In front Of the court house at s.. Louis
recently Judge Lubke, of the Circuit
| Court, was rotten-egged by a we'll known
business man, Henry Wiegel, against
whom the Judge had rendered a decision
in a money matter in his court. Wiegel
| was promptly arrested.
The propeller E. NJ. Foster, Captain
James H. Glass, of Windsor. foundered
near Oscoda, Mich, the other morning in a
| heavy northeast storm.
The Adams Express Company has APP
pealed its Fotheringham suit to the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
THOMAS j. CALLMAN & Co., dealers in
tailors' trimmings at 2s6 Madison street,
Chicago, have made an assignment Their
| liabilities are placed at 49, 200.
Mrs. PARSONS. the dark skinned widow
of the executed Anarchist, has been invit-
ed to visit England and make addresses at
| a number of meetings the Social Demo-
Gratis intend to hold TO commemorate the
! anniversary of the hanging of the Hay
market conspirators. She will leave Oc-
tober 81, intending to return the latter
part of November.
THE meeting of freight agents called for
the purpose of adjusting cattle rates on
points west of the Mississippi river, which
| was held in Chicago last week, adjourned
| to meet in Kansas City, No., without hav-
ing completed the object of the meeting.
WORLDLY & CLEARY, the oldest whole
sale liquor firm of Chicago, have made an
assignment with $4,000 liabilities and
probably ample assets. Cause, depres-
sion in business and slow collections.
The grand jury at Charleston, ILL.,, has
indicted ]. B, Banefiel, ex-mayor; H. NJ.
Othed, L. d. Weaver. John Byers, Will
liam Kincaid, r. Brewer. s. H. Kirk
patrick, Adolph Walker and Film Myers
for the lynching of William Moore on June
%. Moore was arrested for alleged as
sault upon Mary Baumgartner, who it is
claimed was of immoral character.
HUGH c. PERKINS, who murdered Hugh
| Meadows, at Nashville, Clark County,
| Wis, in May, 1884. and escaped from Jail,
has been arrested at Windsor, Ont.
A NoRTHBoUND passenger train on the
| Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling road and
a freight train collided near Massillon, O.,
on the 18th, and both engines, two passen-
| ger coaches and several freight cars were
completely wrecked. A brakeman and a
l
er man had both legs broken. Loss, $780,
900.
JUDGE SAWYER, of the United States
\ Circuit Court at San Francisco has issued
| two writs of habeas corpus designed to
test some of the questions to be raised over
the right to land of Chinese arriving here
| after the Exclusion act went into effect.
One writ was for a Chinaman arriving by
| 81 III 4.
| certificate and the question raised is
whether Congress can constitutionally
| deprive Chinese holding custom house
certificates to return.
HoN. JAMES G. BLAINE spoke to an i'm.
pense audience at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the evening of the 18th. There was a great
| parade and demonstration previous to the
| speaking.
Assessor LEWIS SWEET, of Park City,
Mont. was shot dead by an unknown as
sassin the other night.
AT the intersection Of the Walnut Hills
cable road and the Park avenue line OF
horse cars, Cincinnati, recently, collision
occurred between cable car lS9 and Park
avenue car No. 10, caused by the inability to
work the track break on the cable car.
There were about 100 passengers on both
cars, but no one was seriously injured.
| Iowa had two bank failures on the 18th,
The Boyer Valley Bank, of Woodbine, and
the Caldwell Bank, at Logan, closed their
doors.
An oil we'll has been struck near Find.
lay, O., which eclipses any thing in the
history of the Ohio field. 1t is estimated
| to flow 5000 barrels per day.
THE Vandalia freight depot at East st.
II r 80
Loss, 600.
THE bottom of the Robert B. Carson, an
Ohio river cattle steamboat, collapsed the
other night and the vessel sank near
Evansville, Ind. The crew escaped.