The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-18

HE Vailed Prophets celebrated at 81
Louis on the night of the sth.
A. JOHNSON and J. H Boyd have been
arrested in Denver, Col. for sending lot.
terry tickets and circulars through the
mails.
JUDGE BAKER has refused to release
Woodruff, one of the Cronin suspects, on
habeas corpus proceedings.
The Minneapolis flour market is report
ed firm.
THE school and library of the Michigan
penitentiary at jackson were destroyed
by fire the other day, causing $50, 600 loss.
OFFICIAL returns from Indianapolis
gives Sullivan (DemocraD 1879 majority
over Coburn Republican, for mayor.
Swift (Democrat) for city clerk has a
majority over Taft (Republican) of /, 253.
The Board of Aldermen comprises five
Republicans and five Democrats and the
Council ten Republicans and fifteen DEM
ocrats.
JAMES G. FAIR has resigned as presi-
dent of the Nevada Bank, San Francisco
j. L. Flood was elected to succeed him.
EDITOR REED. for many years connected
with the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
died on a steamer October 6 while en- route
to Europe for the benefit of his health.
Studebaker, recently erected at South
Bend, Ind. has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
Nation has sustained the constitutionality
of an act of the Legislature disquali:ying
"squaw" men. or white men with Indian
wives. The latter were much incensed
and threatened to work for the opening of
fIaT I.f.N ~fk It'll HI
system
PRAIRIE fires were reported making
toward St. Cloud, Mimi, and had burned
their way to within a few rods of the
Manitoba west side tracks and the city
limits. Nothing but heavy rain could
prevent a tremendous loss of property.
A FREIGHT train on the Baltimore &
Ohio road, at McKeesport ran down two
women and a small boy at the Martins
street crossing The boy, Willie Jones,
was fatally injured.
EARL NORTH, a blacksmith. viciously
assaulted two men and a woman on the
West Side at Chicago the other night He
was overpowered by mob, and was about
to be strung up when the police rescued
him.
THERE has been a bulge in the Chicago
The Woman's Congress adjourned at
Denver, COL, on the 10th after the cleo
ton of Julia Ward Howe, Of Rhode Island,
president
THE only saloon in Lafayette, O., was
wrecked by q mob the other morning.
Every thing was ruined.
BY the burning of Oxby Bros large
livery barn at Corwith, Iowa, the other
irhf In- a.
horses persisted.
encouraging state of affairs now that
wheat has been threshed.
The president of the Alaska Commercial
Company says that the great increase of
illegal sealing in Alaska has largely de.
stroyed the profits of the company, and a
renewal Of the lease will not probably be
sought.
JUDGE RALLEY, of Carrollton, o, was
killed recently. He fell from q tree while
picking apples.
EIGHTEEN men were hurt, one fatally, in
collision between a miners train and a
freight near Martins Ferry, O., on the
18th.
AxrELL won race at Terre Haute, Ind,
on the llth, trotting mile in 2:1lh.
THE SOUTH.
A FEUD as bad as the Hatfield Mccoy is
reported between the Hall and Brumfield
families in Lincoln County, w. Va.
JOHN c. MCCLURE, aged eighty.five,
died at his farm near Summit Point w.
Va, recently. Mcclure was the last sur.
Mr.. Rightstone, of Shepherdstown.
BRIT
ported aground on Mayne Island, at the
entrance to Plumper's pass, Gulf of
Georgia.
THE report that General James r. Chal.
mers had resigned the Republican nomi.
nation for Governor of Mississippi has
been confirmed by a letter he addressed
internal revenue, New Orleans Cbal.
mers complained that the right of free
speech was denied him in the State and
therefore it was useless for him to con.
tinue the canvass
The Lower hydraulic and Tyler presses
at Savannah, Ga, have burned with 4, 500
bales of cotton. There was little salvage
on the cotton.
TYPHOID fever is reported to be raging
in nearly every family in and about
are said to be scarcely enough well per.
sons to nurse the sick.
EIGHTEEN complaints have been lodged
against cotton planters living in Caldwell
and Hayes Counties. Tex, for importing
cotton pickers from Mexico, and they will
be brought to Austin for trial
Ar Davis & Lamar's kaoline mine, near
Akin, s. C., mass of clay caved in, fall
ing on Thomas Woolly, the superintend.
ent killing him instantly.
JOHN BIsENBKRGER, the wife beater, has
received punishment Of the lash at the
whipping post in the Baltimore city Jail.
The Methodist Church South met in an.
nual conference at Murfreesboro, Tenn,
on the 9th, Bishop Keener presiding.
GOVERNOR LEE has respited Simon
Walker. colored, of Chesterfield County,
for thirty days He was to have been
hanged for criminally assaulting q white
girl about twelve years Of aga
ADvIcRs received at the Marine Hos
pital state that there are several cases of
yellow fever at Key West, but that there
is no danger of the disease spreading.
The fertilizer factory Of G. Ober; Sons |
& Co, at Locust Point near Baltimore,
Nd, burned recently. The loss was esti.
mated at S2O0, 600
JAMES GROSS q student, tells a strange |
story Of the murder Of another student by |
Father Peters in Q convent at Narienfield, |
Tex.
HALF a million pounds of tobacco have
been ruined about Flemingsburg, KY, by |
heavy frosts.
GENERAL
ANN HARDY, aged eighty EIGHT was
found dead by her sister, aged ninety, in |
a howell at Halifax. N. s., recently. She |
had been dead thirty-six hours. Death /