The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-11-08

THE WEST.
SEvENTY-HIvE thousand Michigan
farmers are said to have joined tn,
Patrons of Husbandry since last Ma,
and are reported to be preparing for re
lentless war on monopolies and trusts.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has de
cided that the recent annexations o.
Chicago are valid.
THE great new steel bridge over the
Ohio river at Cairo, ILL.,, has been tested
and finally thrown open to traffic. 1t Is
two miles long, while its approaches arr
twice that length.
TWELVE inches of snow fell at Den
ger, Col, on the Goth.
WHILE Mrs. j. Ellis was out driving
at Denver, Col, the other evening her
team ran away and collided with a cable
car. She was thrown completely over
the car, landing on her head on the
track on the other side. Her skull was
fractured and she was fatally hurt.
DIR. p. MCKINNEY, the deposed head
physician of the order of the Modern
Wcodmen Of America, has published a
statement at Rock Island, ILL.,, accusing
Head Counsel Root Of paying fraudu-
lent death claim.
j. j. CRAFTY, the workingmen's candi-
date, has been elected mayor of Streat-
or, ILL.,, by a good majority.
ROBBERS at Pierre, ID. T., who had
secured considerable property, tried to
ship it the other day, but the police
were notified and nine men were ar
rested.
ONE of the large boilers of the Bel
laire blast furnace at Bellaire, O., ex-
ploded recently with terrible force,
cracking two other boilers in the main
battery and wrecking the boiler room.
The damage was 100000.
CHIEF MAYES favors an immediate
sale of the rights of the Cherokees in
the Strip. This change of front is due
to Secretary Mobiles recent letter.
THE Pan-Americans visited Kansas
City on the 3Oth. They were shown the
sights and banqueted. They expressed
themselves as we'll pleased with every
thing.
L. j. NEwALD, who absconded from
Chippewa Falls, Wis, several months
ago with 100000, has been located in
Brazil.
THE profits of gang of Pacific coast
opium smugglers are put at $4,000
A COAL train on the Illinois & Indi-
ana Southern road was ditched by a
broken rail at Sullivan. Ind. Engineer
William Evans, of St. Louis. Vas in
stantly killed. An unknown tramp was
fatally hurt.
The boiler of steam threshing en-
CINE exploded sixteen miles east of
Grafton, Oak. Israel Sheppard, the
owner, was instantly killed, Engineer
Crittenden, his fireman and another
man were badly wounded.
JUDGE DEWOLF. of Helena, Mont,
has sustained the motion of the Demo-
Gratis and issued a peremptory order to
have the canvassing board make returns
of the tunnel precincts.
A CHICAGO paper says that Canadian
Pacific line of six steel freight and pas
senger steamers will be running be-
tween Chicago, Milwaukee and Glad
stone and Owen Sound before the season
of 1890 is far advanced.
COAL sheds at Chicago belonging to
the Lehigh Valley Company burned re-
Gently. Loss, $4,000.
THE Oshkosh wis., Mutual Insur-
ance Company has decided to go out of
business because of unfavorable rulings
by the State Insurance Commissioner.
MAYOR POND of San Francisco vetoed
the ordinance imposing a license of
5000 a year on athletic clubs where
glove contests are held.
PRIVATE dispatches from San Fran
cisco report the loss in the Arctic ocean
of the whaling steamer Lucretia, of.
New Bedford, Mass.
THE Indians of the Wind river reser-
walton, south of the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park, were reported suffering for
want of food.
THE reports Of restitution in North
Dakota were said to be greatly exag-
gerated, and while there were some iso-
lated communities in need of assistance,
the statement that lover hundred
thousand people were in want does the
State an injustice.