The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-21

14th before the State Senate Committee
investigating city affairs, expressed his
opinion that Colonel Ccckerill, Of the New
York World, was liar. Colonel Cockerill
has addressed letter to Hewitt declaring
that the latter was liar, BLACKBOARD and
a slanderer, and that he could prov, it by
Mr.. Hewitl's public record.
THE WEST.
DAVID L. ForHERINGHAM has comprom-
Used his case against the Adams Express
Company for false Imprisonment. He sued
| for $50, 900 and obtained Judgment for
$4,000 This was cut down by the court
to So, 900 and the threat of further legal
proceedings forced him to compromise at
$500.
ALL the lines and property of the Gem
trail Iowa railroad in Iowa have been con-
veyed by deeds from p. Lomax, special
master. to a corporation known as the
Iowa Central railroad of Illinois, and a
purchase deed of 81, 765 900 has been given
to the Mercantile Trust Company, of New
York due in 1922
BY an explosion of dust at the grist mill
of David Oliver, Chicago, on the morning
of the 18th, three men were killed and sew
eral more wounded. The ruins imme-
diately took fire. The loss was $150,O0O
Many buildings in the vicinity were much
| damaged.
| ONE of the proprietors of the Schufeldt
| distillery, Chicago, recently blown up
with dynamite, expressed his belief that it
| was the work of the whisky trust and not
of Anarchists, as at first alleged.
AN explosion occurred i'm shaft No. 2 of
| Garfield coal mine at Canon City, Col,
recently, resulting in the instant death of
| Henry Wallace, the mine foreman, and
Peter G. Howay and the fatal wounding
of ten or a dozen others.
The investigation of Commissioners
Cooley and Morrison at Chicago led them
| to believe that the Interstate Commerce
law was extensively violated secretly.
Judge Cooley stated that rigorous pun.
ishment would be melted out to those found
| guilty of violating the act.
THE annual convention of the American
| Federation of Labor began at st. Louis on
the 18th.
THE striking switchmen Of the Pennsyl-
| vania railway at Toledo o., have returned
| to work at the terms offered by the COM
pany.
THE Sanitarium at Youngstown, O., was
| destroyed by fire the other morning and
| eight patients were carried out on cots.
BY the bursting of water main on Ham
| over street, Cleveland, o., the other day
| several houses were undermined and the
street was damaged. Loss, about $50. 900.
CoLoRow, chief of the Southern Utes,
died recently, aged seventy. He will be
| succeeded by the chef of the Uncom-
pahgres. He was the leader in the Meeker
massacre and in the Colorow war of 1856.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY has refused to par
don Joseph c. Mackin, who was sentenced
hree years ago to five year term in the
| penitentiary for ''fine work" and ballot
| box frauds in Chicago. His friends had
| been actively engaged for some time past
in an endeavor to secure his pardon.
THE Chicago Opera House caught fire
shortly after the audience left on the night
of the 10Th. The fire was confined to the
| auditorium and caused damage amounting
| TO $4,000.
ILLINOIS Department Commander Sex
ton has suspended Chicago Post No Z, G..
A. r. from the organization. The sus-
pended post was charged with having
made unnec essary and illegal collections
of money.
THE Northwestern Breeders Association
| held its annual meeting in the Palmer
House, Chicago, on the 18th The attend
ance was large.
E. L. HARPER, vice-president of the late
Fidelity Bank. of Cincinnati, now in the
penitentiary, has become suddenly insane.
and has been removed to the prison asylum
and lockedup
THE Central Interstate Baseball League
heId a meeting at Springfield, ILL.,, on the
18th. Six cities were admitted: Spring
| field, Peoria Quincy, Davenport. Terre
l -, ,xlIS T., H. j. N
of Spring lid, was elected president of
the league, and j. G. Corbitt of Peoria,
secretary. Another meeting will be held
January - at Peoria and two cities ad.
| mitted.
| perpetrated in the vicinity of Toledo, O.,
a man being half hanged and then cut
| down and numerically dashed.
FREDERICK MEIscH was arraigned in the
Chicago police court recently on complaint
| of his wife that he was in the habit of
spending his nights at Anarchist meetings;
that he had said he would give up bis life
to encompass the deaths of Police Inspector
| Bonfield and Judges Gary and GrinnelL
He was held in bonds to keep the peace.
THE Chicago speculative markets were
captured by the bears on the 14th and at
the close wheat, corn, oats and provisions
were found sharply lower than on the pre-.
vious day.
JAMES MEEEAN, one of the evicted Des
Moines river land settlers, has brought
suit against thomas Smell, of Clinton, to
recover the value of the improvements
made on the farm from which he was
elected. This suit is to be made a test
case. and if he RECEIVERS damages suit will
at once be instituted on q similar basis by
every evicted settler.
THE public reception at indianapolis,
Ind, rendered to the Vice. President-elect
and Mrs. Morton on the 18th, was the most
brilliant affair of the kind ever witnessed
in that city.
vict, who ecame deranged recently at
the penitentiary at Columbus, O., was re-
ported better on the 14th and talked ra-
tionally on almost all subjects. He thought
he was in a trance which caused his Pc
culiar action. He claims to be well. but
it was noticed that he was at times Eighty.
THE SOUTH.
Mrs. B. MCAULEY, mother of the noted
theatrical brothers and of Mrs Charles E.
Pope, of st. Louis, died at Louisville, KY,
on the 10th, aged seventy-two.
The family of John r. King, consisting
OF eight persons, was found dead in the
rims after his house had been burned at
Cookville, near Mount Pleasant. Texas,
recently. 1t was believed the family had
ceal the crime.