The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-27
THE WEST.

| THE Cincinnati oak leather tannerl
was destroyed by fire caused by light
ming the other night. Loss, $4,000.
w. c. ANDERSON has ordered his trade.
on the board at Chicago closed. Dur
ing his absence dishonest clerk plunged
in his name to the extent of ESQ.,
bushels of wheat, it is said, and wher
the market went against him left the
country.
Two Cinnamon have been arrested
near Laro, Ariz., trying to steal across
the line.
The whisky trust and the liquor deal
ers' protective convention, are, it is re-
ported from Peoria, Ill, to be united,
with headquarters in Peoria.
JOSEPH WELSH, who shot and killed
John A. McNeal, in Kingfsher, Ok,
May 90, escaped from the military guard
house.
THE new million dollar building OF
the San Francisco Chronicle was opened
the other night 1t is 1876 feet high, and
has tower sixty-seven feet above it.
The frame work is steel
THE Ohio Supreme Court having re-
fused new trial to Otto Leuth, the boy
murderer, Governor Campbell has re-
spited him to August 20, to allow the
board of pardons to review the case.
JOHN l. Ollie, land register at Guth-
RE, Ok, has resigned to engage in the
practice of law at Guthrie.
The Republicans of the Sixth Illinois
district have renominated Congress
man R. r. HIT
Two hundred striking quarrymen,
most of them Swedes from the Lockport
quarries at Joliet, Ill, marched to the
quarries and forced the men to quit
work. They were met by Sheriff Has
ton and posse of deputies and ordered
to disperse. The refused and the posse
attacked them. After brief skirmish
they broke and ran, eight being
arrested.
CONGRESSMAN JAMES S. OWENS has
been renominated by the Democrats of
the Fourteenth Ohio district
WHEN Mrs. Margaret Merkle was
found guilty of manslaughter at Napa,
Cal, in killing Joseph w. Wyle, her
husband stated that he had done the
killing and not she.
THE crucible department of the De-
troit mich. steel and spring works was
destroyed by fire the other day causing
$50, 600 loss.
AARON NJ. JONES, a well known pioneer
of Colorado, aged sixty, killed his wife
and himself after quarrel at the break
fast table at his residence in Denver
INTENSE excitement prevailed in Min
neapolis, Mimi, over the arrest of seven
census enumerators on a charge of
fraudulent practices in taking the CEN
sus- The arrests were made on COM
plant of a resident of St Paul.
JUDGE KAvANAGH, of Des Moines,
Iowa, has rendered decision in the
original package case of Terry Cham
bers. The Judge sustains the lower
court in condemning the liquors, the
evidence tending to show that Chambers
had broken the original packages and
was selling in quantities to suit pur-
chasers.
In Potter County, S. D., eight persons
were drowned in a cloudburst which
flooded large section of country.
VICE-PREsIDENT BRYAN, of the Worlds
Fair Company, in an interview admitted
that the directors are negotiating with
the Illinois Central railway for the use
of the lake front as site for the Fair.
Two men were drowned by the capsiz-
ing of boat near Santa Cruz, Cal The
third was rescued just in time.
ROBERT A. WARD, champion amateur
half mile runner of the United States,
died suddenly at Hillsdale, Mich.
THE Park National Bank, of Chicago,
has suspended.
AN awful tornado visited Illinois on
the afternoon of the Goth. In the vi
cinity of Earlville twenty-five lives
were lost Four were killed at the viii
lage of Sublette, south Of Dixon. At
Cornell much damage was done and four
persons were fatally injured.
JOSIAH PoTTs and Elizabeth Potts,
man and wife, were both hanged to-
gether at Elko, New, for the murder of
Miles Fswcett in January, 1855. Both
died protesting their innocence.
THE Chicago News asserts that the
census of that city shows population
of l, $50, 900.
CoRcoRAN and McAfee, charged with
wholesale fraud during the last Chi