The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-28

! announced.
CHARLES F. PECK was found suffering
with yellow fever while riding on . street
car at New York ON the 21st and taken to
Bellevue Hospital.
THE WEsT.
Dir. WILLIAM RIcKERT, Of Baltimore, has
gone to jacksonville, Fla, to aid the vel.
low fever sufferers. He left . wife and
family.
Four delegations called on General
Harrison in Indianapolis on the 18th. To
each he made speech.
TIE Democrats Of the Fourth Illinois
district have nominated Jonathan B. Tay.
lor for Congress.
A DOZEN cities In Wisconsin voted on
the 18th whether to fix the saloon license
fee at $500 or retain it at 5000 There was
. small vote, the saloonkeepers being the
most active. High license was carried in
Dodgeville. Marinette, Depere, West
Depere and low license prevailed in Osh-
kcsh, Janssville, Mansion, Waupaca, Bar
aboo and West Superior.
A CABLE dispatch has been received in
Baltimore saying that the engagement Of
Miss Virginia McTavish, Of Baltimore, to
the Duke of Norfolk had been announced.
Miss McTavish il well known in Baltimore.
She IL the daughter Of the late Charles
Carroll McTavish. descendant Of Charles
Carroll, Of Carrollton.
THE nineteenth annual reunion of tho
Society of the Army Of the Cumberland
was opened at Chicago on the 18th with
about $50 members present. The address
of welcome was delivered by Major A. E.
Stevenson, Of Chicago, and General Rose
Grams was made chairman.
RECENT incendiary fires at Spokane
Falls, w. T., caused such serious losses
that q vigilance committee was formed
and bad characters were notified to leave
town. The saloons were closed and strict
precautions taken. In one of the fires
10000 worth of property was lost
THE carrier on the mail route between
Viroqua and Prairie du Chen, Wis, made
his last run last week, and the route has
been discontinued. In the early days of
Wisconsin Governor Rusk used to drive q
stage ON this route.
THE freight conductors and brakemen of
the Chicago division Of the Illinois Central
struck on the 18th for increased pay.
For several days there had been trouble
brewing at Aspen, Col, between tho Mid
land and Denver & Rio Grande roads
about the right Of way out Of the camp to
the Utah line. On the Goth the employees
Of the two roads fought battle with picks
and shovels, resulting in several being
seriously cut.
WILLIAM b. JACKSON, one of the Illinois
Republican Electors, died at Fairfield, ILL.,,
recently. The vacancy will be filed by the
State Central Committee.
JUDGE FAIRALL, Of Iowa City, lowe, has
sentenced William circuit to ten years in
the penitentiary for attempting to wreck a
train for the purpose of robbery on the
Rock Island & Pacific railway year ago.
The Marquis de Mores, who made fail
ure of the cattle and beef canning business
In Dakota, IL now figuring ON building
railroads in China.
GEORGE SAcKKTT's warehouse and :, 900
barrels of cranberries at Berlin, Wis, were
destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
$4,000.
z. BROWN, an old resident Of Godfrey,
ILL.,, was induced to put $500 into the
hands of a swindler recently to bind the
sale Of his farm. The latter disappeared.
THE SOUTH.
THE directors of the National Exposition
Of Augusta, Ga, have deferred their open.
ing to November for various reasons.
X. II. CLARKE. of Mobile, has been NOM
mated for Congress by reclamation by the
Democrats of the First Alabama district.
A REFUGEE from Decatur, Ala, has died
at Wauhatchie, Tenn, from what is
thought to be yellow fever.
NEAR Mt Sterling, KY, tho other day,
q young man named Bower, shot and killed
q man named Estis and fatally wounded
his two sons. The trouble was about max.
ing the road.
Ar Jacksonville on the 18th 156 new
fever cases were reported with twenty
deaths. The total cases to date were LOS,
with 1853 deaths.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men took formal action at Atlanta, Ca,
indorsing federation with the engineers
and switchmen. It was stated upon good
authority that the Knights of Labor would
amalgamate with these orders, making il
all one organization.
JOHN WRIGHT, gambler, was shot and
killed by the city marshal Of West Union,
W. Va, while beating the officer.
CHARLES b. HARRIS, tho Santa Fe rail-
way agent at Coleman, Tex, was killed by
William Attley, q drunken cowboy, the
other day.
A REPORT was current at New Orleans
to the effect that the late United States
Marshal r. R. Peasants was Q defaulter
to the amount Of $4,000.
TIE story about the collision between
the Hatfields and the McCoys in Kentucky
is positively denied No battle between
the clans has occurred recently.
The steamer s. Pissxata from Honolulu
arrived at New Orleans on the 18th. She
came from the same ports and the Same
route as that usually followed by the
steamer F. s. Ward. long overdue. It was
thought that the Ward had been lost with
all ON board.
THE citizens Of Augusta, Ga, have voted
an extra tax levy to repair the damage
done by the recent foods.
HoS. JOHN G. CARLISLE and Senator
Blackburn were speakers at q Democratic
barbecue at Erlanger, KY, on the 10th.
An outbreak of yellow fever was 70.
ported at jackson, Miss, ON the Goth. At
Decatur, Ala, ten cases were reported.
One hundred and thirty-oue new cases
were reported at Jacksonville with fifteen
deaths.
JOHN BRIcKLEY, an old and well known
citizen of Little Rock, Ark, who was
dubbed by C. c. Branch while endeavor-
ing to protect q lady and young girl from
insult, died the next morning. Brunch
was captured.
s. L. HALLowAY, engineer on the Gin.
cinnati, New Orleans g. Texas Pacific rail.
road, was run over and instantly killed at
Oakland, Tenn, the other night. He was
torn in twain near the center of the body,
and lived out moment afterward.
A SMALL cyclone passed over Mammoth
Springs, Fulton County, Ark, on the 2lst.
Houses were wrecked, trees blown down