The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-05-10

| A HOSPITAL is TO be built in, Iowa B
memory Of the late Thomas J. Eotter, for
. merly vice.president and general man
ager Of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
1t will be known as the Potter Hospita
and will be for sick or disabled railroa,
men.
AT the annual meeting of the Nationa
Irish Catholic Colonization Society II
Chicago new directors were elected and ,
dividend of six per cent declared on tn
stock.
JUDGE J. R WILLIAMS has been nom
mated by the Democrats OF the Nineteenth
Illinois Congressional district to fill tn,
place made vacant by the death of Con
gresham Townshend.
THE Cragin Manufacturing Company Of
Chicago has assigned with 200 assets
and $4,000 liabilities. 1t made tinware
and sheet iron goods and the assignment
was voluntary.
DR.. S. C. CHARLTON, editor of the Ma
sons Chronicle. the American Odd Fellow
and the Knight knights of Pythias)
dropped dead at Columbus, O., recently OF
heart disease. He was member of many
secret societies and held prominent posi-
tions in many of them.
| MRS. JOSIE GURLEY has been sentenced
by Judge Shepard, of Chicago, to five
years in the penitentiary for kidnapping
Annie Redmond.
NEWS from Southern New Mexico cor.
| roborates the reports of murders by Apa-
| ches. Forty of the redskins were out and
were pursued by an armed band Of miners
and cowboys.
THE Northwestern Miller reports the
-four trade very quiet
FIRE in Cheno. Ill, the other day de-
stroyed the principal brick business block,
causing 200 loss to several firms. Two
men were injured seriously.
REPORTS come from many points that
the recent heavy frost has done great
damage to fruit in Illinois. Vegetables
are badly injured, while much of the
young corn was bitten off level with the
ground
The North Chicago Rolling Mills Com
pany has increased its capital stock from
S6,OO0,OO0 to So, 100000 and has absorbed
the Union Steel Company of Chicago and
the Joliet Steel Company of Joliet.
The Democrats of the Nineteenth Con-
gressional district of Illinois have nomi-
mated Judge j. R. Williams, of White
County, to succeed r. W. Townshend,
lately deceased.
THE quarrymen in the Joliet Ull.) Stone
Companv's quarry are out on a strike ask
ing for 81. instead of $1.50 per day.
The remains of five aboriginal mound
builders have been found in large mound
near Floyd, Iowa. Three were males, one
female and the fifth babe. The bones are
the most perfect yet discovered.
The handsome bay mare Fugue. with a
trotting record of 2:191<, died at Chicago
recently.
THREE thousand miners of Brazil, Ind,
have struck because of reduction in
wages
Rev. S. F. SMITH, author of the song
my Country,''Tis of Theen was given a
reception by Illinois veterans in Chicago
the other night.
CHIEF OF POLICE HUBBARD, of Chicago,
after consultation with Mayor Cregier,
has issued strict orders to his captains
and men to enforce the vagrancy laws
against gamblers and prevent the opening
of dens.
FIRE at Forreston. ILL.,, recently de.
stroyed seven buildings and contents,
valued at about $50, 900: insured.
The Sharon-Althea Hill case was before
INC Sulic SouIt Oh SdllIOrnla on the 0i |
on appeal OF Frederick Sharon, the dead |
Senator's son, for a new trial. 1t was
developed during the day that the famous
contract of marriage had been DESTROYED |
by fire August IL last.
The Republicans of the Fourth district |
OF Kansas have nominated Hon. Harrison |
Kelly, of Coffey County, to succeed |
Thomas Ryan in Congress. Ryan has |
been appointed Minister to Mexico.
The strike of the street car employees of |
St Paul, MIMI, has resulted in the defeat
Of the men, who have returned to work at |
he reduced wages.
The ST. Louis brewers have so combined
hat the trust is a practical fact The
,hree firms outside the trust have agreed
o maintain the trust rates for the next
wo years.
The Beef Inspection bill was defeated
n the Missouri Senate.