The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-04


tations. Over s. 600 900 of the St. 000. 900
guaranty fund Is now pledged. and the
total will reach much nearer $6,5CO,O0o
than s., ZOO, 00Q A number OF committee
meetings have been held and all reports
are favorable.
Two men were drowned near Menasha,
Wis, recently, while in boat hunting
ducks
| GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN was arrested At
Boston recently on q writ sworn out by
O. NJ Miller OF Toledo, O., on Judgment
note of 81, 900. Train says the debt grew
out of q transaction in 1872 and says he
will not pay It as it is unjust
MRS JOSEPHINE GURLEY, now In the
Joliet QlL) penitentiary for abducting
Annie Redmond, OF Chicago. has confessed
| that the child was stolen to 60 as child
actress in a snap company.
The story comes from Milwaukee that
on the night of the Grand Army sham
lake battle the hill at Juneau park, on
which were 10000 people, began sliding
toward the lake and q great catastrophe
was narrowly averted.
LUCINDA ALDRICH, aged sixteen, hereto
fore q model Of propriety, disappeared in
Springfield, O., and no trace Of her could
be found
FOREST fires have been raging in diff
ferent parts Of California consuming large
tracts of timber, grain, fences, farm
houses, etc The damage will be very
heavy.
IT is estimated at Minneapolis, Mimi.
that the years cut Of the sawmills will be
about 95, 600, 900 feet less than last year.
The total for the season will be about 23O,
600, 900 feet.
b B CURTIS, q merchant and John
Wallace, a mail carrier, quarreled at
Cairo, ILL.,, over the removal of Commits.
sioner Tanner and Wallace was struck on
the head with a molasses jug, receiving
an injury from which he died an hour
later. -.Er
OWING to the prevalence Of diphtberia
in Marion, Ind, the public schools have
been ordered closed.
The twenty.second annual reunion of
the society of the Army of the Tennessee
was held at Cincinnati on the 18th. Gen.
eral Sherman was in the chair. Chicago
was chosen for the next place of meeting.
THE schooner Alpha, of Port Townsend,
Wash, is thought to have been lost at sea.
A MISS GLEASON was killed and Mr.. and
Mrs. Gale were seriously injured by their
carriage being struck by freight train
recently at Hardin. near Greeley, Col.
The Wyoming Constitutional conven-
tion has adopted a clause positively for.
bidding combination to prevent competi.
ton or control prices and products.
A RACINE, Wis, special says: Rev. A.
F. Packepe, Luthers n minister who came
here two years ago has absconded with a
portion of the money raised to build a new
church. He caused split in the congre-
CATION soon after his arrival.
THE National Bankers Association met
in annual convention at Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 25th.
A NUMBER of prominent ladies of Chica-
90 have formed an association and hired
lawyer to prosecute the gamblers Of that
city under the State law. The work was
begun with the arrest of John Norris, the
proprietor Of a gambling house on Clark
| street.
R p. HALLIDAY, the defaulting cashier Of
the First National Bank at Mount Gilead,
O., who fed to Canada about month ago,
returned home the other night, visited his
family and departed the next morning, es-
Gaping arrest
A RECENT dispatch from Santa Anna,
Cal. said that fire still continued in the
canyons The burning districts now ex-
tend over 100 miles, from north to south.
and ten to eighteen miles in width. Over
| 81, 900. 600 in pasture and timber had been
| destroyed.
The Wyoming Constitutional conven.
ton on the Goth selected Chey enne as the
seat of government for ten years. or unit
a majority of the people vote a change.
Two tramps recently took possession Of
Al ill int; Z lat i,,rv
the constable and setting fire to build.
ing with a broken lamp They then went
to Heinbeck, where they were overloaded
by the sheriff In attempting to arrest
them Archie Neat was shot in the neck by
one Of the tramps, receiving fatal in
juries.
Lake City, died or the 25th at Kanosh,
Utah.
SEVERAL hundred BIackfeet and Sioux
Indians recently held q grand "ghos,
feast" at Fort Abraham Lincoln, OAK,
which was given by the relatives in honor
of those who died or had been killed in
battle.
The fourteenth annual convention Of
the American Bankers Association ad-
journed at Kansas City, Mo, on the Goth.
Charles Parsons, of st. Louis, president;
Morton McMichael, of Philadelphia, first
vice.president; George F. Baker. of New
York, treasurer. William B. Greene, of
New York, was elected secretary; D.
v. Reiger, of Kansas City, was made vice.
president for Missouri and J. r. Mulvane.
of Topeka, vice-president for Kansas.
AT the business meeting of the society
Iof< - he hol ~
Cincinnati on the Goth, officers were elected
as follows: President General W. 7.
Sherman; recording secretary, Colonel l.
| NJ. Dayton; treasurer, General Force;
corresponding secretary, General A Hick-
enlooper.
EMKRY's large soap factory, Ivorydale
| causing S125, 600 damage
A BRISK snow storm prevailed on the
26th in Northern and Western Wisconsin.
BLISS & Co. Is syrup factory at Kansas
City, Mo-, was burned out early on the
morning of the 9th Loss SEQ. 600 In
surance on contents. SIS, 600.
N. MoRGANsTEIN, secretary of the Polish
National Alliance and Endowment Insur.
ance organization at Chicago was reported
| as having absconded.
TIE fourth annual convention Of the
Brotherhood of St Andrew began at
Cleveland, O., on the 9th, with about $50
| delegates present
The Utah Commission on the 9th
passed resolutions favoring Chicago for
| the Worlds Fair.
A FIRE at Cresco, Iowa, recently burned
twenty-five business places. Loss, So, 900.
A RECENT telegram from Ensenada,
Lower California, said that city was
threatened with total destruction from