The Iola register., 1889-09-13

The Interstate Commerce Commissiol
has set for hearing at Kansas City Sep
tember "a the case Of Lehman Higginsor
| & Co, of Humboldt, Kan, against vari
GUS railway lines for unjust discrimina
tfon In rates; d. s. Afford. Of Lawrence
KAN, against the Chicago Rock Island q
Pacific Railway Company. for refusal t.
afford facilities to do business at Law
renee. and G. o. L. Sauer. of Kansas City
| for over charges on a car load Of oranges
RAIN in the valleys and snow on ths
mountains have finally quenched ih'
forest fires in Montana.
ABRAHAM LIKES and Jude Spring, oi
Clark's Flat, just over the Idaho line from
Utah who went into partnership ranchine
last spring, recently fell in love with the
same woman-Jemima Trauts. Unable tc
settle the matter amcably they went tc
the brookside with six shooters and there
settled the matter by fatally wouuding
each other. They were buried where they
fell. side by side.
SOUTH DAKOTA Democrats in convention
at Huron disagreed over the preliminary
organization.
MAX JACOBSON, son of an Austrian
Count but man with bad criminal rec
ord, has been arrested in Chicago for en-
bexzlements from the Fidelity & Casualty
Company Of Chicago The amount stolen
was large. jacobson had been general
western manager.
The United States authorities have
waived their claim on the notorious
Northwestern bandit Holzhey and he will
be tried in Michigan for murder.
ORE assaying 50 ounces of silver to the
ton, and considerable gold has been struck
at a depth of 100 feet in the Eastern View
mine at San Pedro. N. NJ.
BY the capsizing of a sai'boat in the
lake off Chicago recently, a man and two
boys were drowned
GEORGE DILHoF of Cincinnati, died the
other night from the effects of chloroform
administered prior to a surgical opera.
ton.
A CONCERTED movement among the
druggists of Iowa has been commenced to
cast their vote for the Democratic party
this fall provided that party will pledge
itself to amend the stringent Pharmacy
law.
The Western Waterways convention
at Cincinnati adopted strong resolutions
urging Congress to improve the rivers.
The Streator (lll.) miners have resumed
work at the reduced rate of 721s cents per
ton.
FIRE in Laird, Norton & Co.'s lumber
yard at Winona, Minn., recently de.
stroyed 22,O00,000 feet of lumber 1000, 900
shingles, a three-story brick warehouse
and contents, consisting of doors, sashes,
glass, etc, together with sheds, tramways
and other property, making total loss of
$314, ,00o on which the insurance was Sl10,.
500.
HEAVY frost fell throughout the North
west on the night of the 4th.
TWENTY -FOUR prisoners from the Indian
Territory, all sentenced to long terms,
have been placed in the Ohio penitentiary.
THREE brakemen have been killed in
the past week by low bridge near Brim-
field, o. Its removal has been ordered.
JACOB SCoLL was smothered to death in
Purcelrs grain elevator in Chicago re-
Gently by the giving way of the door of
bin.
THE Detroit police believe that Anna
Klink a German servant girl who disap.
peared the other night was murdered and
thrown into the river.
CHARLES MoIT. who was injured on the
revenue steamer Fessenden during the
sham naval battle at Milwaukee, Wis, is
dead.
LETTERS from stockmen in Northern
state that the Big Horn mount
aims were ablaz. and the loss from the de.
struction of timber, ranches and other
would reach $500, 900.
The haste of a passenger brakeman at
the switch at Plymouth, O., to get to his
train caused him to turn the switch before
the last sleeper had entirely passed and it
was overturned and five persons were in
jured.
FIRE broke out back of j. Forbes saloon
At Linkville, Ore, recently and in two
hours the whole business part of the town
" as in ashes The loss was about $160, O0O
Ben Monroe was severely burned