The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
THE WEST.


A'GERMAN VINO registered at a hotel in
Albuquerque, N. NJ, the other night as b
Otto, Denver, Col, committed suicide in
the ball park by shooting himself. He
left note saying he had meditated sui
eide for six months and the name regis.
tered was not his. ,E
| ANDREW CARNEGIE has purchased the
Valley railroad, running between Cleve-
land, sixty miles north, and Mineral
Point fourteen miles south Of Canton, O
Il has been known for long time that he
l.owned the Lake Erie.& Southern road.
Two men, supposed to be the ones who
! robbed the Southern Pacific train near
Pixley, Cal, last month and killed two
men, have been arrested at Bakersfield,
Cal -. g-~
TIE Union Pacific switehmen's strike at
Denver, COL, has been declared of.
.GRorrKAU, the Milwaukee Socialist,
sentenced to . year in the workhouse,
won his appealiin the Wisconsin Supreme
Court and all prosecution ceases.
THE annual meeting Of the Missouri Pa
cific Railway Company was held at St
Louis on the 18th The old directors were
reelected. The report was considered,
comparatively, O favorable one.
The joint convention of coal miners and
operators held n short session at Column
bus. O., on the 18th. at which the Indiana
operators gave notice that they would
withdraw from theseonveution. a 81 al
By the capsizing of the towboat Kan.
CARGO at Spottsville, Ind, the other day,
the owner and the cook were drowned but
the rest of the crew were saved.
ON complaint of Rev. DR.. Bilbrook,
Methodist Judge Ruddick OF the circuit
court ut Waverly, Iowa, issued a tenn
porary injunction to prevent the agent of
st. Louis brewery from delivering beer
JOHN TUsSfyG was Killed and much dam
age done by an explosion recently at the
Standard oil refinery at Lima, o.
FIRE in Denver, Col, the other day
caused 100000 loss to knight, Mcclure &
Co. music dealers, and 5000 loss to
other tenants
THE Interstate Beef Combine confer
ence met at st. Louis on the 18th with rep
resentatives in attendance from Missouri,
Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Min
nesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and
Illinois. Senator Gillett, of Kansas, was
chosen temporary chairman, and Thomas
Cook. of Nebraska, secretary. After per-
manently organising many resolutions
were offered and referred. 49,
The eolored people of Springfield, H.,
have decided upon the erection of monu.
ment to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
William H. Seward, Charles Sumner,
Wendell Phillips, John Brown and soldiers
OF the late war, to cost $200, 900.
In rounding a curve near Fairview, N.
NJ. the other day, an Atlantic & Pacific
freight engine, and fifteen cars were
wrecked and Brakeman Oliver Ferguson
was fatally injured Ns| -
Hos. MOSES w. FIELD, the original
Greenback advocate in Michigan, the man
who called the Greenback movement into
political prominence in the United States
and suggested the convention which nom
mated Peter Cooper Tor President died at
Detroit. Mich, on the 14th.
AFTER two days. discussion the Inter-
State Miners and Operators joint con-
vention, at Columbus, O., ended in the
dissolution of the agreement. The effect
ON wages will probably be bad. 20
8. e. Gross, the well known real estate
man of Chicago, has been nominated for
mayor by the Labor party.
The glass works of Stewart Easter &
Co, Marion, Ind, have been destroyed by
fire. Loss, So 600. -''af
THE Indiana Supreme Court has decided
the act of the late Legislature cutting off
the fees of the Supreme Court reporter
and making the Office a salaried one I'M
constitutional. .t.t 9r' |H
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
MED the motion to correct the judgment in
the case of Fielden and others against the
people, and at last the Anarchist case"
has been disposed of so far as the Supreme
Court is concerned. ..s ..a.r. ....
ORDERS have been to prepare the Adams
at Mare Island, California, for years
cruise and the Iroquois at the same yard
for a three years cruise. lis ss
THE Acting Solicitor-General of New
Mexico has given a lengthy opinion de-
claring unconstitutional the Livestock
Inspection bill recently passed by the
Territorial Legislature.