The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-09
THE WEST,

| o Dreak Oh the emOan kment was pdsseu.
| THE WEST.
| THE tobacco crop Of Rock and Jefferson
| Counties, Wis, was completely ruined by
a recent hail storm.
| For two or three days the mountains In
! the vicinity of Gunnison, Col. have been
ablaze with burning timber.
NINE persons were poisoned at Burning.
ton, Wis. the other night by eating dried
| beef shipped 10 local dealers by Chicago
| firm. Four victims were precariously i'll,
while the others were on the road to re-
covery. A cat and dog who were given
the meat would not eat 1t.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of st. Louis, re-
Gently denied emphatically that he went
to New York for the purpose of selling
the Merchants bridge to Jay Gould.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD has directed the
commander of the division of the Pacific
to take such action as may be necessary
TO protect settlers near Calispeld, WASH
ington Territory, from the Indian out
break threatened there.
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton
passenger train was wrecked at Oxford,
O.. on the night of the 3lst Twelve or
fourteen persons were killed and injured.
A HARMLESS earthquake shock was felt
in California on the morning Of the 31st.
The Indians at Milles Lac, Mimi, re-
ceived fresh consignments of firewater
from Mora and Little Falls last week. and
the result was a big drunk. Three were
reported dead.
LACK of water caused a boiler explosion
east of Fairfield, ILL.,, the other day. One
man was killed and two fatally injured.
The Sierras and Milton stage was
stopped by two highwaymen near Cooper
oils, Cal. Wells, Fargo & Co.'s safe was
blown open, but found TO contain nothing.
Seventy-fve dollars taken from the pas
sengers was all the robbers secured.
THREE young ladies of good family
named Flanagan, McCabe and Farrell
We're drowned the other night while try
ing to cross the Menominee river, near
Ishpeming, Mich.
A HORSE suffering from hydrophobia
run amuck in Chicago the other day, bit
ing two men and several animals before
being killed.
COLONEL CANADAY, sergeant-at-arms of
the United States Senate, who had been
in Alaska with Senate committee, is ly-
ing quite i'll in Montana.
ELEVEN business houses in Fennville,
Mich, were destroyed by fire the other
night, causing S35 900 loss. A tramp's
carelessness was the cause.
In the Washington Territory Constitu-
tional convention the clause forbidding
counties to grant subsidies for any pur-
pose whatever was adopted.
The United States Senate Committee on
Irrigation of Arid Lands in the West COM
menced its labors at St Paul, Mimi, on
the 1st Those present were Senators
Stewart. of Nevada, and Reagan. of
Texas; Colonel Hinton, of the geological
survey, and Major Powell.
The Chicago worlds fair committee
held a meeting recently and elected
Mayor Cregier president. Two hundred
representative men were present and an
executive committee was appointed.
FROST visited the low grounds about
Galena, ILL.,, on the morning of the 1st and
damaged growing vegetation.
SENECA SEvALIN, who caused Mrs. Clara
Belle McDonald's divorce from her hus-
band, the son of the president of the Pa
cific Bank of San Francisco, and then
robbed her of $4,000, has been sent to
the California penitentiary for ten years.
NEWS from Gunnison. Col, recently was
that the Utes were off their reservation
and were intimidating settlers.
TREASURER COLEMAN, recently default
ing in Warren County, O.. is 1858 900 short.
MANDAN, OAK. was devastated by fire
on the afternoon of the ID.
A RAILROAD deal was reported by the
Chicago Times by which the Chicago &
Alton would purchase or lease the old
Kansas Pacific track to Cheyenne. 1t was
Of ,uht iL-al hyf
eral public that the Union Pacific would
lose control of its terminal at Kansas
City.
A PASSENGER train left the rails on the
South Park Coli railroad and fell down
an embankment The engineer was killed
and the fireman was seriously hurt. Sew
eral passengers We're injured.
Two cases of giant powder exploded in
pit No. at Marquette, Mich, recently.
Two men and three boys were killed.