The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-18

TRs win OF Roscoe Coukline has been
offered for probate in New York. He b.
Queaths every thing to his wife.
TnE WEST.
CAPTAIN J, W, RowkLI, Of Bloomington,
M. has been nominated for Congress by
the Republicans Of the Fourteenth Illinois
district.
Rusk delegates to Chicago were elected
| bv two Wisconsin district conventions on
the Sth.
The powder house at the Colby mine,
Bessemer, Mich, blew up the other morn
ing, killing two men and probably fatally
woundiug 1--WE.
The Michigan wheat crop is estimated
| at sixty-cight per cent. Of An average. The
outlook ID discouraging.
DURING o prize fight near Milwaukee,
Wis. the other morning, Fred Winkler
| was probably fatally injured by blow in
the left side by his opponent, Thurman.
Hon. JAMES BIRNEY, son OF James g.
Birney, Q candidate for President In 1S4O
and an ex-Lieutenant- Governor OF Michi-
gan, died in Bay City ON the 9Th, aged
| seventy.
MARTIN p. BoYcE, the noted prison re-
former OF Wisconsin and opponent Of cap
ital punishment, died recently at White
wafer, aged sixty-one.
GEoRaR F. MONTGOMERY. lumber dealer,
| Of vincenncs, Ind, has assigned with ST.
600 liabilities and elOS, 600 assets in unsold
lumber.
Hox. Jomx B. GoRDoH. chairman Of the
Indiana Democratic State Central Com
mittee, died on the 9th at his home in Green
Castle He Was forty years OF age. He
was well known throughout the State and
had served three terms In the Legislature.
LIGHTNING struck school house at Day
| ton, O., recently, and several children wcro
shocked.
A GREEK church Is to be established in
Chicago at once.
TnR father Of Miss Fellows, who recent
ly married Chaska, Sioux Indian. de-
uouuces As q lie the story that she and her
| husband have agreed to exhibit in dime
museums.
JUDGE TULEY, at Chicago, recently rem.
dered decision that the children Of slave
marriages were illegltimate 80 far as right
TO property was concerned. The decision
was contrary to many decisions recogniz-
ing such children, and steps were contem-
plated to have the matter settled by Con-
gressional action.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has at
firmed the decision Of the lower courts in
the Cook County Doodle cases, and all the
convicted will have to serve their terms.
Two men were killed and q third badly
injured by the fall Of an elevator IN a st.
Paul, Mimi, brewery the other morning.
Ex-senator THURMAN laughed at the
report that an effort was being made to
nominate him for the Vice-Presidency and
refused to talk about it. His son Allan
said that the Judge would not consider
such thing for moment
The striking brewers of Chicago have
given up their fight and have asked to be
rcinstated At the employers terms.
ACYCLoNE struck the village Of Peca-
tonica, Ill on the night of the 10th, wreck
ing several houses and innumerable out
buildings. One woman and three children
were injured, but not fatally, by flying tim
bers.
MICHIGAN Democrats met at Grand Rap
ids on the 10th and elected delegates to
the National convention. Cleveland's Ad-
ministration was Endorsed.
TIE First Assistant Postma ster-G General,
A. E. Stevenson, has declined being q can
didate for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Illinois.
THE National Printers Protective Fra
ternity closed its convention at Cleveland
| O., on the 10th. o. F. Kenny, of Cleveland,
was elected president
COMMODORE KITrsoN, the noted horse
| man, dropped dead while a passenger on u
| train near Harvard, Ill, recently. He was
| seventy-fiv years old.
| FIRE In j. II. Horson's lumber yard in
Chic go destroyed an immense quantity of
lumber, four drying kilns and a planning
mill. Loss, $4,000.
The body of private James McMann,
Fifth cavalry, lost in the last blizzard Of
| February, has been found near WOodford,
1T.
| THE Mississippi was reported on ram
page on the 18th. At Quincy ILL.,, the river
was ten miles wide.
| THE body of j. II. Kiel, prominent citi-
zen of Oshkosh, Wis, was found in Cedar
river recently. He had been inspecting q
bridge and 1t was first thought had been
drowned, but an examination revealed the
fact that he had been murdered and robbed
and his body thrown into the river.
TIE offer of $4,000 reward for the cap
| ture of Tascott, the murderer of million
aire Smell. of Chicago, has expired by lin
itation. notwithstanding the dozens OF
arrests made all over the country the real
Tascott is still at large.
LUMBERMEN say there is an over supply
Of logs In the Mississippi this season.
There arc more logs in the streams than
the Minneapolis mills can possibly saw, and
there are no storage booms and no market
for the logs. A decentralization Of the lun-
Der market is threatened.
| A. J. BRYANT, u wealthy resident Of San
/ Nuvhn mn 70
1879 fell from a ferry boat recently and
was drowned. He had been in l-health
for some time, and it is supposed had an
attack Of vertigo.
A TORNADO proved destructive to build
ings. etc, in Northern Indiana on the night
| OF the 18th.
TIE sOUTE.
| WHEN the United States Fish Commits
sion car reached Atlanta, Ga, recently
change of water was found necessary, and
artesian water was supplied. Inside of an
hour $4,000 young fish were dead and
nearly 100000 eggs were supposed to be
| killed.
DURING heavy ram and thunder storm
at New Orleans on the 18th the towboat
| Future City and her barges, from St.
Louis, came in collision with three United
States vessels. Two OF the barges was
sunk and the third was badly damaged.
Loss, $4,000. The damage to the war
vessels was sligh'.
| DR. W. F.. You've, who committed
bigamy by marrying Annie Carr, the
poetess, has been sentenced at Baltimore,
Nd, to eighteen months Imprisonment.
THE American Society Of Mechanical
Engineers met on the Sth at Nashville.
Tenn, and discussed matters of interest to
the profession.
JACOB MORGAN, an aged farmer living at
Hebron, near Wheeling, W. Va, was at
| tackled BY three tramps the other night,