The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-15
THE WEST.

THE will of B nanza Flood showed an
estate Of =, 100000.
s. ]. HooT. janitor of bank building,
Las been elected mayor of Waterloo,
Iowa, creating much disgust in certain
quarters.
DENVER, Gel, il excited over the ex-
ploits Of an individual who styles himself
sack the Choker." Three women garotted
by the scoundrel are in a serious condition.
THREE "rustlers" were hanged by set
tiers at Springfield in the Neutral Strip
recently. The rest of the gang Of eighteen
fed
Two men were terribly injured recently
by a falling elevator at the Enterprise
carriage works, Cincinnati, the box going
down six floors.
CHARLES WELLS was killed and George
Shoop was seriously injured by q prema-
ture explosion of a cannon at Elizabeth.
town, ILL.,, on Inauguration day.
J. H. BAKER, a man employed to make
public exhibitions with a self-actIng fire
escape, fell from the Ryan Hotel, St Paul,
Mimi. recently and was fatally injured.
THE Haymarket monument which is to
be dedicated May 4, the coming ami
versary of the Anarchist riot, will not bear
killed by the bomb.
MISS Dow, a young school teacher at
White Bear Beach, MIMI, was run over
by a train while walking on the track in a
cut recently. A companion escaped.
CAPTAIN CHARLES RUSSELL. for twenty.
one years a citizen of Minneapolis, Mimi,
committed suicide recently on his return
home from winters trip. Cause, insanity
produced by lines.
The Farmers'Union,a mercantile firm of
Livermore, Cal, has failed with $l45, 600
liabilities and unknown assets.
The late Hiram Ke ly of Chicago left
$4,000 to the Chicago library and $4,000
each to the Home of the Friendless, Orphan
Asylum, St Luke's Hospital, OLD Peoples
Home and Illinois Humane Society.
Mrs. WALTERS, living on a ranch near
Bozeman, Mont, was found dead in her
bed recently with her throat cut and her
body horribly mangled. Her husband and
eldest son have been arrested.
The employees of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company have struck because
of an order for reduction of wages.
The funeral of Newt Watt the brake.
man who died in prison, took place from
the Langley avenue Methodist Church,
Chicago. The pastor bitterly reproach ID
the detective system for securing the con-
viction of Watt whom he evidently
thought innocent of the murder of Ex-
press Messenger Nichols.
MISS ADA FULLER. living near East st
Louis, ILL.,, is reported TO have eloped with
her fathers negro farm hand.
By a vote of 50 to SO the Minnesota House
of Representatives refused to submit to
the people an amendment in favor of pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic.
BY the ditching of a passenger train
near Coshocton, o, the other night, a
dozen persons were slightly injured.
The British vessel Port Gordon was
wrecked on the coast of Washington
Territory recently and four of the crew
lost. The survivors were cared for by the
Indians.
A RESOLUTION has been introduced in
the Illinois State Senate providing for the
submission to the people of Constitutional
amendment for the raising of all taxes by
ssments on lands only.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul rail.
road has reduced -four and wheat rates
from Minneapolis to Chicago S cents per
100 pounds
BY the fall of the roof of a cyclorama
building in Cincinnati recently two labor
ers were baily injured and a rag picker
probably fatally hurt
ANNE ROCHE, of the town of Ida, Doug
las County, Mimi, has committed suicide
by hanging. She was the sweetheart of
Lee, recently hanged at Alexandria for
murder, and since that event has been ex-
ceedingIy Respondent and at times par
TALLY deranged.