The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12
THE WEST.

| TIE monument at Mount Oiiyet ceme-
| terry, Chicago, to mark the resting place of
homeless Irish Nationalists has been dedi-
Gated. 1t Is thirty-one feet high and is
made of Vermont granite.
Four men were drowned at San Fran
cisco recently. They were out fishing
when the swell from a steamer capsized
their boat.
THIRTY prisoners i'm the reform school at
| Pontiac, ILL.,, escaped recently by cutting
a hole through the floor.
THE Kansas State encampment, q. A.
R., commenced at Topeka on the ID a very
large attendance being noticed.
THE Traders Bank, Of Chicago, made an
assignment on the I'd. The liabilities were
| 81, O00, 900. Improbable business and the
sickness of President Rutter were the
causes of the collapse. Assets fair.
A NATIONAL association of railroad
freight agents has been formed at St.
Louis with L. w. Crawford, of Chicago,
as president and j. j. Ranlich, of st.
Louis, as secretary.
THE American Bankers Association met
on the Sd at Cincinnati.
Mrs. SIDNEY SMITH. wife of the assistant
ticket agent of the Pennsylvania railroad
at Chicago, was found dead in her bed the
other morning by her husband. She had
been suffering from dependency and had
committed suicide by placing the tube
from an open gas jet in her mouth. This
was the third suicide in this manner within
two weeks
BISHOP WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Africa, who
has been visiting in Springfield, ILL.,, does
not think that there is any present cause
of alarm as to Henry NJ. Stanley's fate.
F. ALLEN & Co., of st. Paul, Mimi, have
assigned with about 900 assets and La
bilities.
The miners employed by the CONSOLE
dated Coal Company, of st. Louis, in its
Illinois pits have decided to strike for half
cent per bushel more wages.
2. ID. WIGGINToN, of California, has been
unanimously selected by the executive
committee of the American party to fill
the vacancy occasioned by Judge Greer's
declination of the Vice Presidential nomi-
nation.
The following formal notice has been is
sued by Collector of Customs Hager at
San Francisco: mo Chinese return GER
tificates will hereafter be issued and the
Chinese bureau will remain closed to the
public from this date"
Two Mexican stage robbers stopped a
stage from Florence, Ariz., the other night
and secured the express box and mail
pouch.
Two farmers living near Evansville,
Ind, were struck by lightning and killed
recently while standing under trees.
PRAIRIE fires and frost have completely
ruined the farmers north and east of Ayr,
Oak. The losses aggregate $4,000.
THE excitement in wheat was again in
tensified in Chicago on the Sd, the Decem-
Der option being the main point No fail
ures wero announced on the board, but it
was felt that serious effects would follow
the bulge. The excitement extended to
New York. st. Louis and Kansas City.
THE lake propeller, Wilson, for whose
safety great alarm was felt at Cheboygan,
Mich. she having been last seen with her
spars gone, has reached Alpena, Mich.
DELEGATIONS from Grand Rapids and
Muskegon, Mich, from Tiffin, o., and from
Jay County, Ind, were received en- masse
by General Harrison at Indianapolis on
the 4th.
THE reception to Mr.. Blaine at Adrian,
Mich, Oh the 4th, was bonanza for pick
pockets and robberies ranging as high as
500 were reported. The police by mis-
bureau of the Associated Press, and Frank
Crawford, of the New York World, on
suspicion.
POLICE INSPECTOR BoNFIELD, of Chicago,
has been awarded So 600 damages for libel
against DR.. George B. Cunningham in con-
nection with the shooting of DIR. Thomas
Waugh in September, 1885.
AN appeal has been received by Mayor
- q, L..
of Ramsey County, Oak, who are in great
distress because of the ruin caused by
premature frosts.
The schooner Albatross, for whose safe
ty considerable fear had been felt, was re-
ported safe at Ludington, Mich.
A TERRIBLE wreck was reported on the
Chicago & Atlantic near Kouts, Ind, on
the night of the 4th. A fast freight col
lided with a work train and forty laborers
were said to be killed, but the officials
would give no information.
A YOUNG man named Clark, an employee
of the Thompson Electric Light Company,
of Chicago, was instantly killed recently.
He was testing one of the arc lights with
a stick when his bare arm happened to
touch the wire and he fell dead.
BY an explosion of gas in the Cleveland
CO., waterworks tunnel, caused by an
electric spark recently, five persons were
badly burned.
w. S. KING, bookkeeper for the Bruns-
wick-Balke Billiard Company, Chicago,
has been arrested for embezzling 5000.
James Hilger, the firms collector, is also
wanted, but has fed.
AT a wake at Racine, Wis, the other
night three persons drank embalming fluid
by mistake for beer. One will die.
A GOOD authority of the crops in the
Northwest says that the Minnesota and
Dakota yield will be between 40 600, 900 and
5,000,000 bushels, and that nine-tenths of
it will be delivered out of the farmers
hands by November 30.