The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-05-31

| THE body OF DR. Cronin. whose sensas
tional disappearance at Chicago was at
tended with so much mystery. has been
found in a sewer at Lakeview. The head
showed terrible wounds and the body was
naked with the exception Of q religious
charm hanging to his neck.
NKws from San Francisco is to the eff
feet that while there Is reason to believe
that the new cruiser Charleston will ulti-
mately succeed in fulfilling the contract
requirements, much remains to be done
upon the vessel and probably at the Gov.
ernment's expense before this expecta.
ton is realized.
| Ice formed in pools and the ground was
frozen stiff in the interior OF Wisconsin
the other night by cold snap. The straw.
berry crop, which promised to be very
large, is ruined.
JOHN NEAL was instantly killed and
Timothy Reardon fatally injured in q
stone quarry near Shelbyville. Ind, the
other evening. In drilling holes for blast
the men struck an unexploded dynamite
cartridge.
J. r WILLIAMS, Democrat, has been
elected Congressman in the Nineteenth
| Illinois district. to succeed the late Mr..
Townshend. T. S. Ridgeway was the Re-
publican candidate.
The Indians held a big council at Stand
ing Rock, OAK, recently and all agreed
not to sign the treaty unless paid $1l, 0O0,-
600 for their land.
The celebrated Carter divorce case end
ed at Chicago in favor of the husband. the
wife being adjudged guilty Of unfaithful.
| ness.
The National Association of Veterans
Of the v:cksburg campaign held its first
meeting in Indianapolis, Ind, ON the ed,
Governor Hovey presiding.
THE Governor of Michigan has issued a
proclamation quarantining against South
ern cattle until November.
FRANK 1. and Howard G. Loomis, and
Edwin s. Jewell officers of the Century
Book and Paper Company. of Chicago,
have been indicted by the grand jury for
conspiracy to defraud.
MAN and toy were instantly killed
at Dundee, Ill, recently by the collapse of
a barn which they were moving.
The special meeting of the Transmits
souri, Association, which had been in ses-
sion in Chicago for two days. resulted in
a disagreement as to what the relative
rates on bullion should be from Colorado
and Wyoming. The matter was referred
to arbitration.
CLIFFORD & SERMONS shoe factory and
Mowers & Co.'S wholesale creamery sup
plies factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were
destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
500. 600.
LARGE numbers of Mormons from Utah
and Idaho are emigrating to British
Columbia, where they have purchased
several thousand acres of land
THE west bound train on the s.. Louis &
San Francisco railroad, which left St.
Louis on the night of the % l. was wrecked
three miles west of Sullivan, Mo-, sixty.
eight miles west of St Louis. Not pas
senger escaped unhurt and forty five were
seriously injured. though no deaths were
reported. Investigation showed that the
train had been maliciously wrecked spikes
and fish plates being removed from rail.
A MOB threatened a serious riot at Guth-
RE, l. T., recently because of the eviction
of squatter in accordance with decision
Of the board of arbitration. The presence
of the military alone saved the city hall
from attack.
The Tanglade stage was robbed Of the
United States mails near Shawang, Wis,
recently.
GREAT damage has been done the corn
and potato crops in the vicinity of Wabash
Ind, by freezing weather.
A son and daughter Of John Bo!ter, of
Fort Atkinson, Wis.,. were drowned re.
Gently while returning from a fishing ex-
cursion.
GEORGE CUTLER and his team of horses
were killed by lightning near Murdock,
H.. the other day.
One of the Milwaukee Cinnamon &C.
cused of ou;raging little girls and whose
arrest led to rioting has been found guilty
and will be sent to the penitentiary for
thirty five years.