The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-08
THE WEST.

JAMES A. DRAPER, one of the proprietors
| of the Empire soap works of St. Louis,
1 disappeared last week while on his way
East to visit his father at Pawtucket, r /.
Word has been sent to police headquarters
| that his travelling bag has been found on
the steamer Rock Island, Of the Stoning.
ton line. 1t is now believed that he COM
mite suicide by throwing himself over
| I.1sri in the sound.
THg Grand Opera House at Duluth,
| NJ mr., and adjacent buildings were burned
on the 2sth. Loss. $780, ZOO.
GEORGE W. DoHNER & Co, dealers in
glassware and crockery, at 1A and 1856
Wabash avenue, Chicago. have made a
| voluntary assignment The company's
liabilities are $4,000, and the assets the
| same
The Grand Opera House at Duluth.
| Mimi, and adjacent buildings were burned
| on the 2sth. Loss, 500 900.
The wall of the burned Opera House at
Duluth, Mimi, fell on an adjoining
| building and killed a merchant named
Chamberlain. Another man was supposed
to be in the ruins of the crushed building,
| which Immediately took fire.
JOHN e. SULLIVAN, county clerk of Ma.
rion County, Ind, has failed in his private
| business. He claims that the expenses Of
the campaign two years ago bankrupted
| him.
IT is reported from Chamberlain, OAK,
that the Indians from the Lower Brule
| and Crow Greek agencies are preparing
petitions to be sent to Washington asking
| that the lands be opened to settlement
SEVEN residences, two livery stables and
| two business houses We're destroyed by
| fire at Marietta, O., the other morning.
Loss, $4,000
| frozen to death twelve miles east of Hitch
cock, OAK, during q recent cold snap.
They had attempted to reach homo with
an elder sister unaided and were out all
night When discovered the two children
were dead and the sister badly frozen.
A STRONG anti Pinkerton police bill has
been introduced in the Illinois Legislature
| by Representative O'Toole.
The Phelps Clunie recount in the Fifth
California district has resulted in fixing
the majority for Clunie, Democrat at 90
An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging
| in Lake View and other suburbs along the
Michigan lake shore to the northward in
the direction Of Edgewater, near Chicago.
MRS. MECKIE RAwsoN, the wife Of the
millionaire banker, who in open court shot
his lawyer nearly to death was acquitted
| on the ground of insanity at Chicago on
the 3Oth.
THE latest phase of the fight between
Governor Church and the Dakota Legis-
lature is the proposal that the Legislature
repeal the laws creating the offices of
Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General and
Railroad Commissioner
The lockout of the 1000 miners near
Spring Valley, ILL.,, has ended in . victory
for the companies, the men conceding the
right Of their employers to hire and dis
charge men as they pleased.
COLONEL PRoUrY, the veteran Kansas
newspaper man, died in Topeka ON the
3lst He was born in New York State
July 81, 1885, and set type in the Herald Of
Freedom Office at Lawrence, Kan, at the
time Preston B. Plumb was foreman.
THE National Furniture Manufacturers
Association at its annual meeting at Grand
Rapids, Mich, refused strongly to or
ganize q trust
JOHN E. SULLIVAN, county clerk of In.
dianapolis, Ind, who failed for $40. GOO re-
Gently is missing. and is supposed to be in
Canada His flight was occasioned by the
discovery that he had issued fraudulent
warehouse receipts for large consign-
ments of poultry, produce, etc.
THE SOUTH
SIX prisoners sawed their way out OF
the jail at Gainesville, Tex, recently.
One of them, charged with murder, gave
himself up later.
THE Arkansas Legislature in joint coll
vention has elected Senator Berry to sue
coed himself by vote Of 103 to IA for
Powell Clayton.
JOSEPH COLEMAN, q negro, set fire to the
house OF his wife's parents near Little
Rock. Ark, the other night, and when his