The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-11
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ANDREW SoUIRss, the Cleveland lawysr
who went TO London to secure 500. coo
which Thomas Axworthy, dsfsulting
treasurer, had deposited in . bank there.
has returned with the money. Axworthy
VIII remain abroad until he can enter the
United States without fear of arrest.
JOHN MATHEWS, the recaptured Bald
Knobber, was reported quite sick in Jail at
Ozark, Mo.
The Richardson Drug Company's build
ing and other premises at st. Louis were
burned on the morning of the LIST. The
loss was $T50,0o0. The Waterman was
thought 90 have been burned to death.
Several exciting escapes took place.
CHARLES SWIFT and Jacob ReislOck,
pupils at the institution for the deaf and
dumb at Columbus. O., were drowned re-
Gently by the breaking Of the ice on a
pond. s. Dresbach, another pupil, was
rescued.
THE dry house Of the Roger Wheel Com
pany at Cincinnati was burning furiOusly
on the morning of the Sd.
THE Missouri Legislature convened at
Jefferson City on the I'd.
ALL the flour mills in st. Louis, ex-
cepting one, have closed down for January
under the agreement entered into by the
Millers' Association at its late convention
at Milwaukee, and the one running will
also shut down as soon as it fills two or
three important orders on hand.
r. j. E. CLUMENsoN. boot and shoe
dealer of Minneapolis, Num-, made an as
signment recently with So, 53S assets and
S49, $50 liabilities
in, hn
Louis railroad jumped the track near CO.
lon, Mich, recently, while backing up at a
speed of thirty miles an hour. Brakeman
instantly killed and six other men serious
ly injured.
The warrant for the pardon of Benjamin
F. Hopkins, of the broken Fidelity Bank.
of Cincinnati, which was signed by the
lumbus. O., on the I'd, having been over
looked in the Department of State.
CHARLES r. WHITE, the noted Detroit
theatrical manager, died recently OF
peritonitis.
at Terre Haute, Ind, the other day four
year-old son was burned so that he died,
and the mother is in a critical condition.
One of the firemen was overcome while
rescuing the boy.
The cracker bakers of all the Western
States began long conference on trade
matters in Chicago recently.
The Richardson Drug Company, turned
out at st. Louis on New Years day, has
wound up its business affairs.
SEvENTY-FIvE delegates attended a state
hood convention at Ellenburg, Wash. T.,
recently. A long address was adopted
declaring that the Territory had popu-
lation of 24O, 900 and was eager tor state
hood.
A DELEGATE convention to push the
Statehood project for South Dakota, has
been called for Huron, OAK, January 16.
A LARGE number of persons were
poisoned New Years day at the house OF
Charles Wilson, north Of Creston, Iowa,
meat having been salted in a zinc vessel.
POSTMASTER SHELLEY, of Kansas City,
No., has been removed by order of the
President. Shelley accuses Congressman
elect Tarsney of being the cause of his re-
| moval, much bad feeling having developed
between them during the late election.
W. B. FAY. president and general man.
ager of the Denver (Col.) Gas Company,
has been arrested for manslaughter for re-
sponsibility for the killing of four laborers
by the caving in of the cable road.
The sheriff recently raided a wholesale
liquor house and the Hotel Duncan saloon
in Dubuque, Ia, and seized large quanti-
ties of liquor.
WILLIAM FORBES, an electric light trim
INNER, of Detroit, Mich, was killed by a
shock of electricity while at work on his
ladder the other day.
GOVERNOR MoREHoUsE has reduced the
sentence of Bill Ryan, convicted in 1881
for the Blue Cut train robbery, from TWEEN
ty-five years to ten years. The commuta-
ton will release Ryan April 16 next.
THE biennial message of Governor
Adams, of Colorado, has been sent to the
| Legislature. 1t recommends, among Other
| things, the passage of a high license law
By a collision between freight trains or
a bridge near Carbon, Wyo., the Other
night the bridge was set on fire and it and
| a number of cars were burned. A tel
egraph operator in the caboose was
| fatally injured.
A RIOT was reported recently near Seat
| tie, Wash. T, between coal miners belong.
ing to the Miners Union and other miner.
belonging to the Knights of Labor. Sew.
| eral men were reported to be killed and
| wounded.
AT Grand Forks, OAK, recently, Torke
Tallakson was bitten on the hand in figh
with another Norwegian. Blood poisoning
set in and he was reported at the point o.
death, his arm being dead from mortifica
ton.
]. ]. WEST, proprietor of the Chicago
Times and Joseph Dunlop, the city editor
have been arrested on complaint of In
spector Bonfield and Captain Setback fol
alleged libel in criticising recent polic'
acts.