The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-07

| question, and finally adopted long resolu-
tions commenting the attitude taken by
the President Senator Gray, Of Delaware,
| was the principal speaker.
| HORACE BISHOP, aged fifteen, and Charles
McApplebee, aged sixteen. living near New
| Haven, Conn.,, died soon after drinking soda
water at drug store. Investigation showed
that tincture Of aconite had been mixed with
| the soda water instead Of syrup. Robert
j. Lama, the clerk who made the fatal err
| TOR, was arrested.
| CALvERLY's statue Of Robert Burns wae
unvailed at Albany, N. T., recently in the
presence of 1000 people.
THE WEST.
Tine city Touring mills at Brazil, Ind,
were burned the other night. Loss, $1S, :
900; insurance. $1l, 800.
The Northwestern limited passenger
| train going west ran of the track four
miles from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. recently,
demolishing the locomotive, derailing the
| baggage car and coach and InjuIing En-
gineer George Arnold and Fireman John
| Hossock seriously, though not fatally.
| The passengers escaped unhurt. A broken
switch was the cause of the accident.
THE adverse decision of the Washington
| Territory Supreme Court in the woman
suffrage case has been appealed to the
| United States Supreme Court.
FREEMAN g. CAREY. founder of farmers
College, where General Harrison began
his literary studies, died in Cincinnati on
the 9th.
THE strike OF the engineers, firemen,
switchmen and brakemen on the Mackey
system has been temporarily settled at
Evansville, Ind, and the men have all re-
turned to work. What concessions were
made by the company was not known.
LAWRENCE HuTcHlNs, little boy, was
kidnapped recently from Evanston, Ind.
but was rescued at Chicago. His captors
escaped.
A DISASTROUS wreck was caused at the
crossing of the Toledo, Kansas City & st.
Louis and the Cincinnati. jackson 4 Mack
| inaw roads at Enterprise, ten miles west
of Delphos, O., by the Cloverlesf train be-
ing broken in two and both ends running
together, knocking the engine into the
Mackinaw engine, which was standing on
the crossing.
| A WEST bound freight, extra, on the Chi
| cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, coll
lidsd with the rear end Of construction
train at Rock Creek, nine miles west of
Fairfield, Iowa, on the 21tt.. G.. A. Rose,
of Burlington, road master, Patrick Ready
and Patrick Griffin, section men. were
killed, and John Kelly and Timothy Muir.
| ply injured.
| CONGRESSMAN Mills, of Texas. Wilson,
of West Virginia, and Lawler, of Illinois,
visited the Union Stock Yards at Chicago
on the 9th and were given a dinner at the
Transit House. They went to the Ex-
change building, where 900 people listened
to brief addresses on the tariff.
KLEIN & SONS stocking factory at Gin.
cinnati was burned out recently. Loss,
100000; insured.
| BY q collision between a freight train
and a special containing a military COM
pany at Lima, O., the other morning, both
engines and two cars were wrecked and
four persons slightly hurt.
H. j. BENJAMIN and F. A. Bates, bank
| rupt Milwaukee stock brokers, have been
arrested on the charge of conspiracy in
defrauding Mrs. Helen Warner of $50, 900
| in mining deal.
The railroads leading East from Chicago
regretted their action i'm cutting grain rates
| to interior points, and at a meeting Of the
freight committee of the Central Traffic
Association on the 2Sth the question of re-
storing these rates was discussed. No
action was taken. but it was decided to
meet again for the purpose of further con-
sidering the matter.
THE State conference of farmers and
labor organizations in session at st. Paul,
Minn., recently nominated Ignatius Dom
nelly for Governor.
| 1t is reported that cholera is raging
| in the upper Presque Isle country, Mich,
and people are dying like sheep with no
doctors in the immediate vicinity. Nine
persons have died in one day. While the
reports may be exaggerated, it is known
that short time ago people were suffering
with bowel trouble.
THE Papal brief appointing Rev. John
S. Foley Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit
has been received by Cardinal Gibbons,
but conservation will not take place before
November.
THIS Deep Water convention mot at
Denver, Col, on the 2Sth. Governor
Evans was made temporary chairman.
THE Ninth Indiana district COMPRESSION
al convention has nominated Hon. James
McCabe, of Warren County.
| CONGRESSMAN J. c. BURROWS has been
renominated by the Republicans of the
Fourth Michigan district.
| lHE report from ASnl8nu, WIS.,. tu3t
work on the Duluth. South Shore & At
lantic railway had been stopped because
of the Presidents retaliatory message is
positively denied by officials.
An epidemic of maiarial ortyphoid fever
with over twenty-five deaths and seventy
| five sick persons is raging at Caldwell, o.
| NEBRASKA Democrats have nominated
Hen. John A. McShane for Governor.
THE Union Labor party of Kansas
has nominated p. 2. Elder, of Ottawa, for
| Governor.
TROUBLE is brewing on the Shoshone
reservation. Fremont County, Wyo. T.
The Sioux visitors of the Arapahoes are at
the bottom Of the trouble. Two white
men were found dead near the Rattle
| snake mountains on the reservation, where
they were doubtless murdered by the
Sioux, who donned war paint after being
ordered of the Shoshone reservation.
FIRE at Lancaster, Wis, recently de-
stroyed eight business houses and their
contents, causing $4,000 loss.
| A. j. THoCKNoRTON, nephew Of ex-Gov-
ernor Thockmorton. of Texas, committed
suicide in q cheop lodging house in Denver
| recently. Cause. liquor and lack of money.
A SHORTAGE of $3.50 has been found in
the accounts Of the late City Treasurer
McGeochen, Of Lafayett Ind, who died
recently.
C. J. CosGRovE and C. ". Gerard have
been nominated for Congress by the Dem.
ocrats of the First and Second Ohio dis.
1 tricts respectively,