The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-05-24

| Two men were overcome by foul gas In
an old well near Faribault, Mimi, recent
| ly and killed.
BETWEEN two and three inches Of snow
| fell in parts of Dakota on the 14th.
THE constitutional election OF South
Dakota occurred on the 14th. A fight vote
was polled. but it was largely in favor OF
the Constitution. North Dakota and
Montana also voted on the same day for
the same purpose.
| JOHN FORESTER and William Nolan,
residents of New Hampton. Iowa, became
| drunk the other day. The former in MS
drunken stupor laid on the track aud was
killed Sy a passing train. The latter
while on his way home drove of bridge
and broke his neck.
A DISPATCH from Carthage, n. NJ, states
that George w. Richards, superintendent
| of the Carthage mine, had been killed oy
two Mexicans, who stole sec.
THE railroad conductors of the country
have held their twenty frst annual con-
vention at Denver.
LOCOMOTIVE engineers and firemen on
many Western roads are expecting an an
nouncement of a 10 per cent. reduction in
| wages. A strike of gigantic proportions
| is not improbable.
HENRY SIMMERMAN. a Milwaukee black
smith, had his face nearly kicked off re-
Gently by a vicious horse he was shoeing.
Four Austrian miners working at the
Osceola mines near Ishpemng. Mich.
were fatally injured by the explosion OF
| dynamite the other morning.
LATER returns indicate that the consti-
tutional election in Montana was carried
by the Democrats.
The lines of the Wabash railway east
of the Mississippi river were sold before
Judges Gresham and jackson at Chicago
on the 18th to Messrs. Ashley and Joy, rep
resenting 80 per cent. of the bonds, and
acting in the interest of the Wabash
Western purchasing committee, for SIS, =
$780,
The lower house of the Illinois Legis-
lature has passed a bill appropriating $50. :
600 for a monument to the late General
John A. Logan.
The steamship Columbia, which arrived
at Astoria, Ore. on the 10th, brought a re-
port of the loss of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company's magnificent side
wheel iron steamer Alaskan, which is re-
ported to have foundered off Cape Blanc,
while on her way from Portland to San
Francisco.
PASSENGERS en- arriving trains at Ash
land, WIS.,, on the 10th reported from three
to five inches of snow all over Northern
Wisconsin.
On July the State Treasurer will pay
the last dollar of the Iowa State debt
The Sioux Indians at the Yankton
agency will negotiate with the Govern
ment for the sale of seven townships in
3 ha Of +hair no
tract will furnish homes of 1G0 acres to
/ 600 families.
DURING severe storm the other even
ing the home of Dayton Flagg, at La Prai-
RE. Wis, was struck hy lightning. After
the fire was extinguished Mrs. Flagg was
found dead on the floor. Her little child
| was badly burned but will survive.
BY the bursting of a mold filled with
liquid iron in the Union works San Fran
cisco, recently, eleven men were badly
| burned.
A FIERCE hail storm recently visited the
section between Dewitt and Clinton, Iowa,
doing great damage to crops and window
glass.
J. I. STEWARDS big packing house nj
| Council Bluffs, Iowa, was destroyed by
| fire recently with all its contents. Loss.
800 COZ: well insured.
| CHAIRMAN j. W. GoSHoRN, of the Ma
tional Union Labor Executive Committee,
has called a committee meeting at Chi
\ cago June 13. 1t is stated that at the
meeting the Union Labor, the Prohibition
and other reform movements will effect a
consolidation and that a call for conven.
ton will be issued for the inauguration OF
\ a reform party.
FIRMIN APIANo, an Indian, was hanged
at Tucson, ARR, on the 18th for the muir
der of Patrick Ford, a prospector. This
was the first execution of an Indian in
| Arizona under the recent decision OF the
| Supreme Court, which gives to the Terri.
torial courts jurisdiction over all the In.
| dian criminals.