The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-31

TR WET.
RIonr REV. SAMUEL g. HAnRIs, Bishop
Of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of
Nichiean. who was recently stricken with
apoplexy while preaching In Winchester
Cathedral, England, IL dead.
TIE Burlington railroad has succeeded
in obtaining an entrance into St Louis BY
contract with the Wabash railway.
Jupoe THURMAN was at Detroit, Mich,
ON the alst, and took Q boat ride on Lake
Erie.
TIE large new brewery Of the Hermann
Berghoff Brewing Company at Fort
Wayne, Ind, was on fire on the morning
of the 92d. The buildings cost 500, 900 and
had only recently been finished.
GENERAL Crook, commanding tho De.
partment Of the Platte, has sent out . de-
tachment Of troops from Fort Mckinney.
to investigate the reported characterization
Of Q party of thirty young bucks from
Pine Ridge agency.
TIE Republicans Of the Ninth Indiana
district have renominatsd Hon. Joseph b.
Cheadle for Congress.
RECENT reports say that the White Caps
of Indiana have determined upon disband-
ing because of the discovery of their &C.
crets by the authorities.
CAPrAIN KINNEY, head Of the Bald
Knobber organization, was killed at For
sythe, fancy County, Mo-, on the 10th by
william Mills, Jr., the anti. Bald Knobber
leader.
TIE queer discovery has been made in
Chicago that the captured opium SNUG
Rler, Gardner, added to his enormous
profits BY cheating his customers. One Of
his trunks contained tin boxes soldered
like opium cans, but containing in reality
only little blocks Of wood cut % - to at
snugly in the pretty tin boxes.
TEXAS fever is playing havoc among the
native cattle near Decatur, ILL.,, and il
spreading fast
THE Bergho6 brewery at Fort Wayne,
Ind, was destroyed by fire the other morn.
ing, caused by an explosion in the malt
room. Loss, 100000.
JUDGE THURMAN delivered his first great
speech Of the Democratic campaign at
Port Huron, Mich, on the night Of the I'D.
He met with an enthusiastic reception.
The speech was strongly free trade.
The coasting steamer City Of Chester
was sunk in collision with the steamship
Oceanic at the Golden Gate, San Fran
cisco, in fog on the morning Of the 22d.
Thirty -four lives were thought to have
been lost.
THE Democratic convention at Jefferson
City on the 22d nominated Mayor d. R.
Francis, of st. Louis, for Governor Of Mis-
souri,. Mr.. Francis was born in Kentucky
on October l, 1850, consequently he is but
thirty-seven years Of age.
NIcoLo FEMNESErfA was hanged legally
at Buena Vista, COL, recently for the MUIR
der Of Michael Casey at Granite, in March
last.
GENERAL MANAGER STONE, of the Bur-
lington railroad, denies the report that he
is to be deposed and his place taken by
Holdredge.
ADvIcEs from Standing Rock give in.
formation that the Sioux Commission is
meeting with marked success in getting
Indian signatures to the bill to open the
Sioux reservation for settlement.
FAfHERsWILLIAM MCMAHON, pastor Of
st. Bridget's Church, Cleveland, O., has
been appointed National treasurer Of the
American Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety.
SoME men recently arrested at Denver,
Col. as gold coin counterfeiters turned out
to be only confidence men, who used trick
box in casting money.
The Whiting paper mill at Neenah, Wis,
was on fire recently. While watching the
flames, fourteen persons lost their lives
and many others were seriously wounded
by the boilers exploding and scattering
the walls into fragments. The loss was
100000.
THREE boys were shot and seriously in
jured near Kenosha, Wis.,, by the acci-
dental discharge of shotgun.
NEARLY a block of business houses in
Clinton, Ind, burned recently, causing
heavy loss.
THREE unmarried men, Jacob Hubinge.
Henry Schmidt and Louis Weerne, were
drowned recently while crossing Saginaw
river, near Bay City, Mich, by the capsix-
ing of their boat.
An explosion Of twenty thousand pounds
of black powder occurred in the drying
house Of the Giant Powder Company, near
West Berkeley, Cal, the other day. Two
white men and three Cinnamon were
killed.