The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15


traitors. Several persons were hurt, four
women being brought to premature con.
fnement
THE WEST.
WILLIAM Frost, aged forty-f five, was re-
ported dying of hydrophobia at Paiatin,
ILL.,, notwithstanding the successful appli.
cation Of the supposed maidstone remedy.
BELLE STARR, the famous amazon and
reputed companion OF the James and
Younger gangs. is reported to have been
shot dead recently in the Indian Territory.
No particulars were given.
A WIND storm at Omaha, Neb., on the
afternoon Of the 4th blew down the walls
of the recently burned Meyer building on
the adjoining premises, the result being the
killing of five persons and serious injury
of several others. The damage amounted
to about $500
AN indictment has been returned at In
dianapolis, Ind. against Joseph A. Moore,
defaulting agent of the Connecticut
Mutual Insurance Company, for embezzle-
ment and an investigation is being made
looking to an indictment for forgery.
A LARGE number of merchant millers
met in Indianapolis, Ind, recently to per-
feet an organization for mutual self.pro-
lection.
The Iowa Supreme Court has released
DR.. A. C. Hoagland, a pharmacist of
Washington County, arrested and fined
$1,000 for selling liquor, though he had
permit and those to whom he sold said
they were sick.
A MEMORIAL signed by all the State off,
GERS of Colorado indorsing Hon. John N.
Thurston, of Omaha, Neb., for Secretary
Of the Interior has been presented to Gem
eral Harrison.
A BROKEN rail near Quincy. Ind, caused
the destruction of five freight cars and a
caboose and the death of a brakeman and
probable fatal injury of two other persons.
The National Association of Stove Max
ers began 6 long secret conference in
Chicago on the 9Th. 1t is stated that .
stove trust is not contemplated.
The Chicago Arbeiter Bund has taken
steps to rid the meetings of police spies
and detectives and are growing more bold
in their utterances.
A FIRE recently broke out in the inter.
mediate school building, Ninth and Main
streets, Cincinnati. The children escaped
without casualty, obeying the orders of
the teachers with admirable precision un.
der the fire drill system
ALL the railroads interested in Iowa
traffic have given notice to the Iowa Com
missioners that they will adopt the new
schedules of rates under protest. The
low rates do not apply to grain, coal. live
stock or salt.
BY collision between freight trains at
Ixonia, Wis, the other night % cars loaded
with grain and merchandise and both en-
gines were wrecked and two brakemen
slightly hurt.
INSPECTOR BoNFIELD, Captain Setback
and Detective Lowenstein. of the Chicago
police, have been suspended by Mayor
Roche, pending the trial of their suits
against the Chicago Times for libel.
QUITE a sensation was created in St Louis
by The announcement that Henry DECK
mann, a prominent member of the Mer-
chants Exchange, had skipped to Canada,
leaving a shortage of $4,000.
THE Rock Island and others of the Iowa
lines have decided to reduce all rates in
that State to the same level instead Of
availing themselves of the omissions in
the Commissioners schedule. They take
the position that ii they maintain the
present rates of grain, coal, live stock and
salt no good will come if the Commission.
ers have authority to reduce these rates
and will doubtless Immediately rectify
their mistake in emitting the articles.
THE Iowa Supreme Court by dismissng
the writ in the case of Grusendorf VS..
Judge Howatt dealt the liquor dealers of
this State a severe blow. The case was an
original package liquor suit and the
Supreme Court decided that liquor in So
called original packages could only be
sold IN fha Sfafa N apcord n NTH tho
Prohibtory law by persons holding per-
mits.
THE Northern Ohio blanket mill at Cleve.
land, O., was destroyed by fire the other
morning, causing a loss of $1,000
LIGHT earthquake shocks were felt at
Gallon, Los Angeles and San Bernardino,
Cal, on the night of the 9Th.
SIXTEEN stores in Waikerton, Ind, were
destroyed by fire recently.
Hon. LEO c. BURNETT has been Endorsed
in strong terms by the Choctaw, Greek and
Seminole Indian Councils for Indian agent
of the five civilized tribes in the Indian
Territory.
Four hundred people engaged in o fox
drive near Perryville, Ind, the other day,
but secured only one fox.
In the American mine at Leadville, Col,
recently Superintendent Gleason was
killed by falling rock, and next day two
workmen We're killed by a heavy piece Of
timber.
TYPHo-PNEUMoNIA Of the most malignant
type is raging in Granite, Mont, and the
doctors are unable to control the disease.
BARNEY BRAVE. a squaw man, has been
arrested on the Crow reservation in Mon
tana on orders of Indian Agent Briscoe,
who proposes to make a test case of the
right of whites to live on the reservation.
A PRIVATE school for deaf and dumb
children in Chicago was burned the other
evening, but the scholars all escaped.