The Iola register., 1890-05-02
THE WEST.

w. L. SOSSh, tuo ohiahoiho
chief, died of the wound received in the
knee some time since while engaged in
disputing with man named Adams
over the possession of a lot near Okla
homa City.
FIRE in Neville & Co. S bag warehouse.
San Francisco, caused 500, 600 loss.
A DISASTROUS wreck of two freight
trains on the Santa Fe railroad occurred
near Galesburg, Ill. Thirty or forty
cars were piled promiscuously. So far
as learned no one was injured SER ously.
A Rock ISLAND passenger train was
wrecked at Des Moines, Iowa, recently
and several persons were injured. In
vest:gation showed that switch had
been pulled.
JOHN BoDENMILLER, Secretary of the
Central Labor Union, at Indianapolis,
Ind, was drowned the other day while
canoeing
ANengine collided with construction
train at Dorm, Iowa, taking off the legs
of two men and injuring several others.
Two men were killed-one mine su-
perintendent-and five injured by fall
of rock in the Great Eastern shaft Nor
way, Mich.
BIG Foor and his band attempted to
intimidate meeting of Sioux at Pierre,
s. D., by riding through the gathering
firing their guns Big Foot was
squelched by the Indian police and the
meeting agreed to take lands in several
ty.
THE Chicago striking carpenters had
several encounters with men at work on
the 22d. Fifty arrests were made.
MALIGNANT diphtheria is epidemic at
Mining, Mimi, caused mainly by the
people, mostly Scandinavians, crowd
ing into houses of the sick.
THE birthday of Oklahoma, April %,
was celebrated at Guthrie and other
towns with much enthusiasm.
HENRY n. JOHNSON, one of the lead
ing members of the Richmond bar, has
been nominated to represent the Sixth
Indiana district in Congress by the Re-
publican Congressional convention.
HoLzHAY, the Michigan murderer and
highwayman, was reported attempting
to starve himself to death.
FIVE Chicago firemen were injured re-
Gently by falling floor at fire at
Padgely's saloon, S45 Illinois street
GEORGE W. HANCOCK has been SEN
fenced at Salt Lake City, Utah, to ten
years imprisonment for killing a man
thirty-two years ago. 1t was Mormon
Church murder
THERE was no loss of life after all at
the coal mine fire at Rock Springs. Wyo.
PETER L. MASON, of Seward, made final
entry of his homestead at Guthrie on the
Esd, being the first freeholder of Okla
homa. He had served four years in the
army and was entitled to that reduction
on his residence requirements.
THE California Republican convention
has been set for Sacramento August IL.
A full State ticket will be nominated.
DANIEL SULLIVAN, aged seventy-six,
living near Dayton, Wis, was burned to
death while firing grass and brush.
THE whisky trust is reported from st.
Paul to have purchased the independent
St. Paul distillery for $40, 900.
COLONEL II. BERRY. large cattle
owner of Southwest New Mexico. has
died from hydrophobia, the effects of a
bite from rabid coyote. -...
An explosion of dynamite occurred in
the drug store of III. r. Doane, at Della
van, Wis, recently. Doane and another
man perished.
SAN FRANCISCO experienced a severe
shock of earthquake on the oath.
TWELVE lumbermen while crossing the
rapids on Otter river. Mich. in a canoe
were capsized. Ten reached the shore,
but Charles Sebault and Louis Lecen-
dress were drowned.
FIRE at Duluth, Mimi, destroyed
5000, 900 feet of lumber belonging to
Payne & Co., at North Pacific Junction.
The loss was estimated at 500, 900; in
sured for $4,000.
THE Rock Island has arranged for
terminal facilities at Denver, Col.