The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
THE WEST.

The 300 coal miners at Boonesborough,
Iowa, have struck against a reduction OF
half cent per bushel in their pay.
The Grand Opera House and adjacent
buildings were burned at St Paul Mimi,
on the 2lst. Loss, about S250,00
FIRE in ST. Paul. Mimi. recently did
$50 900 damage to the Berrisford Baking
& Confectionery Company's building and
stock.
The Kansas Legislature has chosen
Preston B. Plumb to succeed himself as
United States Senator.
THE crematory which was recently built
in St Louis burned on the 22d. The loss
was estimated at $4,000. The fire is sup
posed TO have caught from the furnace
utilized to reduce the dead to ashes. A
body was being cremated when the fire
was discovered.
MISS COFFIN, the eccentric young Gin
cinnati heiress, who had annoyed Kyrie
Bellew, the actor, for some time past, has
been taken to the Middletown IN. W in.
sane asylum.
E. w. RosENTHAL & Co., carpet dealers,
of st. Louis, have failed with $50, 900 lia-
bilities and much smaller assets.
The business portion Of the village
of Matamora, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire
the other day. Loss $50, 1000
w. d. WASHBuRN was elected Senator
by the Minnesota Legislature on the 23d
notwithstanding charges of corruption and
bribery in manipulating the Republican
caucus, the investigating committee de-
claring that improper influences had not
been used by Washburn or his opponent
Senator Sabin.
SEVEN Mormons of ST. John, Arix, have
been arrested on account of timber frauds
and three because of land frauds. The
Mormons who control the region were
greatly excited.
JUDGE WILSON, of the circuit court at
Geneva, ILL.,, has refused to grant a new
trial to Bauereisen, the alleged Chicago
Burlington & Quincy dynaniter who was
recently found guilty and sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
MRS. Lou WRIGHT. a married woman
was whipped by Whitecaps the other
night in Monroe County, Ind.
The rebellious Polish priest, Father
Kolasinski, has established his indepen-
dent church at Detroit, Mich, and re-
Gently administered the first communion
to 265 girls and boys. The ceremony took
place in a chapel fixed up for the occasion
in back room in his house. His follow
ing is said to be 1900 families strong.
CHARLES LUMsDALLER, formerly a
wealthy farmer near Fergus Falls, MIMI.
was arrested at Port Townsend, Wash,
recently charged with having poisoned his
wife last spring.
THE Oregon Legislature in joint session
has declared Hon. j. N. Dolph elected
United States Senator to succeed himself.
ABOUT GOO families were elected from
Oklahoma by Lieutenant Macomb re-
Gently. The boomers had gone in from
Texas.
One man was fatally and three seriously
injured by the falling of the walls of a
building which was being torn down in
Cincinnati recently. The driver Of the
patrol wagon had a leg broken.
A LARGE oil can exploded in the base
ment of the Belvidere block at Milwaukee,
Wis, the other night, and after the fire
was extinguished it was found that John
NJ. Clements, twelve years of age. was
burned to a crisp and his brother James
so badly injured that he would die.
THE Union Pacific road has withdrawn
its circular announcing q change in the
through rates on corn. This leaves st.
Louis IN full possession of its five-cent diff.
ferential and continues the alleged dis
ordinations against Chicago.
IT is stated that the soldiers have once
more cleared Oklahoma of "boomers"
The last ''round up" numbered 5000 per-
sons.
REV. BOYD VINCENT was consecrated as
assistant Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Ohio at Cincinnati on the 18th.
In the Indiana Senate the Democrats
unseated Carpenter. Republican, because
of charges of bribery. His opponent was
not given the place.