The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-18

talities were far less at Reading and con-
siderably greater at Pittsburgh than ac-
cording to first reports.
The 'plan" agreed upon by Western
railroad magnates at New York on the 10th
it was thought, would prevent rate cutting
Railroad men, in interviews, expressed a
favorable opinion of it.
THE next convention OF the American
Newspaper Publishers Association has
been set for New York, February ID
THE WEST
THE big strike of the coal handlers al
Duluth, Mimi, has come to an end. The
men applied for work at the reduced rate.
THE dead bodies of two Indian guides,
named Asidway and Collins, have been
found near the Canadian boundary line in
Minnesota. 1t is supposed they were the
guides of the Canadian geological survey
ors. Both bodies were much cut.
The wholesale milliner Y house Of E. L.
Wallace, Columbus, O., was destroyed by
fire the other morning. The entire stock
was lost, amounting to SS5, 1000. Insured for
$4,000. Loss on building about &, 900.
II is rumored in Cleveland, O., that at
the end of his present term Chief Arthur
Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers will resign, ana, as he is we'll to do
retire to private life.
THE five hundred employees Of the Il. W.
Davis carriage factory, Cincinnati, have
all been locked out for unitedly submitting
a new scale Of prices. Davis said that he
would negotiate with the men individually.
THE police officials, Bonfield and Schaak,
have begun another libel suit against the
Chicago Times, the damages in each case
being placed at 500, 600, for articles reflect
ing upon their integrity.
OsGooDBY, a resident of Pomona, Cal,
claims to be the author of the "Murchison''
letter.
THE Kansas Legislature met on the 9Th.
Two Hungarians were killed in a cave-in
on Como avenue, st. Paul, Mimi, recently
MATHEW FEENEY, an Irish boy who
came to this country a short time ago,
pleaded guilty at Chicago recently to a
charge of burglary.
WILLIAM B. WHARTON. until recently
the Western agent, at Chicago, Of the In
ternational Marine Insurance Company,
of Liverpool, England, has disappeared.
1t is alleged that he is about SC, 900 short in
his accounts.
The available assets of the California
National Bank of San Francisco, which
recently suspended, are S415, 203; the liza
bilities S440.6S6. The cashiers irregular
doings caused the trouble.
FRANK CHLEBoCN, the Anarchist in
former, is q social outcast in the Bohemian
district in which he lives in Chicago. In
a saloon the other night he was attacked
and beaten.
THR contending factions for the Gov.
ernorship of the Chickasaw Nation have
agreed to submit their claims to Secretary
Villas and allow him to decide, agreeing to
abide by the decision.
THE Illinois Federation of Labor has ap.
pointed a committee of three to cali on
Governor Fifer and ask him to pardon the
imprisoned Anarchists.
The seventh annual convention of the
International Plasterers' Union began at
St Paul, Mimi, on the 9th.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE has bought q
lot in Indianapolis and will at once begin
q residence. He declares emphatically
that he would under no circumstance &C.
cept Cabinet position.
]. J. WEST, proprietor, and ]. n. Dunlop,
city editor of the Chicago Times, and Jens
Christianson, editor of the Chicago Ar
better Zeitung, waived examination on the
charge of cr:minally libelling police off,
Gals Bonfield and Schaak, and were bound
over to the criminal court.
IT is reported at Needles, Cal, that out
OF party of seven prospectors who left
that place recently in q small boat for new
gold fields, four were drowned by the cap
sizing of the boat while going through the
rapids of the river below here.
THE last message of Governor Oglesby,
of Illinois. was read to the Legislature Of
that State on the 10th. 1t dealt only with
routine matters.
THE noted canned goods commission firm
of W. T. Coleman & Co., San Francisco.
CAL, have settled with their creditors.
An epidemic Of diphtheria prevails at Ar.
gyle, Mimi.
The daughter of Mr. Zeharres, of st.
Paul Mimi, had her chin bitten of by a
fierce horse recently.
CHARLES II. DIXON, deputy county treas.
urer of Saginaw County, Mich. has dis
appeared with a woman of bad repute.
Several errors in his accounts have Leen
found.
The Sioux Indians of the Lower Brule
agency, in Dakota, have decided to call a
general council to select delegation to go
to Washington and negotiate for the sale
of their lands.
CHICAGO is threatened with a water
famine, the inlets to the water crib in the
lake being badly choked with slush ice.
THE Portage extension of the Northern
Pacific railway has crossed the Canadian
Pacific at Fort Whyte, Mont, where the
trouble recently occurred.
MRS. OLIVE FREUSD has brought suit at
Ann Arbor, Mich. for $4,000 damage
against President Cotterill and Nelson
Sutherland, the officer who attached her
property at Milan, on account of the al
legged electric sugar frauds.
LIEUTENANT-GovERNoR ROBERTSON was
again refused admittance to the Indiana
Senate Chamber on the 18th.
TIE funeral of Owen Brown, son of
John Brown, of Osawatomie, and last
survivor Of the Harper's Ferry affair, &C.
CURED at Pasadena, Cal, on the 10th.