The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-24

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A PACKING house rate Of 26x CENTS Pea
100 pounds, Kansas City to Shreveport.
went into effect on the 18th. A rate Of =
cents to Pine Bluff and Little Rock also
took effect the Same day.
MARTIN 3 Co.'s and Kingman & Co.'S
agricultural implement warehouses, Peoria,
Ill, were destroyed by 6re recently. Loss,
SIG, 900; insurance, $4,000.
A sYsrEM of wholesale letter box robbery
has been unearthed at Chicago. Two
arrests were made.
CHARLES CROCKER, second vice-presi-
dent of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, died at Monterey, Cal, on the
18th. He was born in Troy, N. Y, Sep
TENDER 16. 1872. He was one of the Cen
trail Pacific "Big Four"
The merchants Of Clinton, Iowa, under
the influence Of the strikers, have been
boycotting the Burlington by refusing to
ship goods over it and to receive goods
shipped over it. Officials of the road have
decided to retaliate, and the boycotting
the boycott is raised the road will stop
running trains into the city.
A BALLOON, inflated with natura, gas,
was sent up from Anderson, Ind, the other
afternoon. The ascension was a success.
FIRE at Stanton, Iowa, recently destroyed
over half the business section, causing $50, :
600 loss.
The National meeting of miners and
mine laborers closed at Cleveland, O., ON
the 14th. W. Y. Lewis, Of Shawnee, O.,
was elected National Master Workman.
CONGRESSMAN STEELE, Of the Eleventh
Indiana district, has been renominated by
reclamation by the Republicans.
THE Minnesota Democratic convention
was in q factional row at St. Paul on the
18th. Before the breakup Wilson was
nominated for Governor, defeating Ames
-233 to 1876.
INFORMATION has reached Holbrook,
Arizona, of the murder of James Scott,
James Stott, and Jeff Wilson by outlaws
in the southwestern part of Apache
County. The affair grew out Of the recent
war in Tonic basin between sheep and
cattle raisers. Warrants were issued and
arrests made by unauthorized persons,
and the prisoners were taken across the
mountains into Yavapai County, where
they were met by a pre-arranged mob
and hanged.
THE North Chicago rolling mills at South
Chicago has shut down for an indefinite
period, throwing out Of employment some
1,5O0 men. Manager Potter states that the
suspension of work is but q temporary
one.
The National Association of Fire En-
gineers, at their second session in Mime.
apolis, Mimi, discussed shorter hours for
fremen, and voted that shorter hours
ought to he adopted. The association also
discussed the storage Of crude petroleum
and its relation to fires.
IT is reported that the Cheyenne Indians
are ready to sign the treaty for the open
ing of the great Sioux reservation in Da-
kota.
The Supreme Court Of Washington Ter
ritory has decided the law granting suf-
frage to women unconstitutional. The
fact that the Legislature exceeded its pow.
ers. The court took the ground that the
word ''citizen" in the organic act can not
mean any thing else than male citizen.
A SPECIAL from Coleman, Wis.,, says the
new Catholic Church had collapsed, killing
one man and crushing seven others SO that
several may die.
On the Illinois Central railroad at South
Lawn, fifty miles south of Chicago, on the
10th, an Illinois Central passenger train
bound for Chicago collided with freight
train. The escape of the 200 passengers
was miraculous. A number of persons
were more or less injured, most Of them
trainmen, but no one was killed.
GEORGE o. JONES, chairman of the Ma.
tional Committee of the Greenback party,
has issued a call for National convention
Of the party to meet at Cincinnati,
Wednesday. September y, 1883, to nomi-
nate candidates for President and Vice.
President of the United States.
The petrified tusk of mastodon. meas
uring Is feet, inches, has been found on q
farm near Bismarck, Oak.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers was celebrated in Detroit on the
18th with 1000 members present. Chief
Arthur presided.
The next meeting of the National Fire.
mems Association will be held at Kansas
City, NO., September II, next year.
ALEXANDER WOOD was hanged at Black
foot, Idaho, on the 18th for the murder Of
his wife.
Two children of Jacob Schwane, a farm
er living near Greenfield, Mich, were
burned to death recently during the alb.
sence Of their parents.
THE temperature at st. Vincent, MIMI,
on the 18th fell to 80 degrees, the first kill
ing frost of the season.