The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
THE WEST.

THE WEST. .
HENRY VARCoE, sorter in the gold
mine at Ispeming, Mich, is in jail
charged with abstracting gold worth
S., 600 from the mine.
TIE Ohio Republican State Central
Committee has fixed upon Cleveland
and July IS as the place and time OF
holding the next Republican State con,
vention.
The council of Baptists has convicted
Rev. Whitman, of Joliet ILL.,, of the
charges made against him by the mi
nority faction of his congregation.
Miss CLARA WARD, heiress of De-
troit, Mich, was married recently at the
Papal Nunciature at Brussels to a Prince
of the name of Chimay.
The editors of Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory have formed an organiza-
ton.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD's remains have
been removed to their final resting place
in the crypt of the monument at Cleve-
land, O.
BENJAMIN Y. UBILL, farrier of troop
II, Seventh cavalry. was found dead near
| Fort Sill, /. T., with bottle of laudanum
by his side.
The Supreme Court of Montana has
| decided the contested election of Silver
bow County, involving the validity of
the vote in the famous precinct No. "a.
The court held that the vote of that
precinct was so saturated with proven
fraud that it should be entirely re-
jected.
WALTER G. SMITH, Of San Diego, Cal.
who was stated to be at the head of the
party reported to be preparing to go on
an alleged filibustering expedition into
Lower California, ridiculed the whole
thing and said the report originated in
| the desire to create a sensation.
The Iowa grand lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen began its ses-
sion in Council Bluffs on the Goth. This
is the rebel lodge that seeded from the
National order in 1881. A proposition
to unite with the supreme lodge met
with universal opposition.
THE second conference of the Com
mission with the Iowa Indians located
near Guthrie, Ok, resulted in failure.
The Ievees of the Sacramento and
San Joaquin rivers near Stockton, Cal,
gave way during the recent floods.
The Worlds Fair folks have elected
Lyman J. Gage for chairman.
TROOPS have been ordered to watch
the cattlemen reported driving stock
into the Cherokee Strip.
FIVE thousand deluded Indians are
congregated near Fort Reno awaiting
the Red Christ, prophesied to be coming
down from Dakota.
CHICAGO police are on the hunt again
for u. b. Simonds," the man who
bought the furniture for the Carlson
cottage, in which DR.. Cronin was muir
dered. "Simonds' has been seen on
the streets twice lately by the statesmen
from whom he purchased the goods.
FATHER MCCAIN, the missionary
priest who recently made bitter at
tack on the public schools at Joliet Ill,
subject in the future. ....-.
A FRIGHTFUL train accident was re-
ported east of Ashland, Wis, on the 22d.
Twenty lives were said to be lost and a
large number injured. .,
CHICAGO east bound railroads got into
lively war on the 22d, first-class pas
senger rates to New York dropping to
S11. W r" ~ go
REV. NATHAN ScARRrrT, a widely
known and wealthy minister of the NJ.
E Church South, died at Kansas City,
Mo-, recently.
GOVERNOR STEELE, of Oklahoma, ar
rived at Guthrie on the 22d and met
with hearty reception.
es AN insect called the saw fly is running
the wheat in various parts of Illinois,
notably in Douglas County. The pest
attacks the root and bores into and up
the stem, bringing decay and death.
REV. STEPHEN NJ. BARRETT, pastor of
st. Stephens Roman Catholic Church at
Chicago, was shot and mortally wounded
by Patrick Ready, a blacksmith, who |
was insane from liquor.
THE Iowas show signs of yielding to
the offers of the Commission Several |
braves and squaws have signed.
MAJOR WILIiAM GENTRY, the we'll |
known farmer and politician of Pettis
County, Mo-, is dead. In 1874 he was the |
Peoples candidate for Governor, but
was defeated by H C. Hardin, Demo
crat a
wArERsPoUT passed over the Cim-
arron valley eight miles north of King
fisher, Ok, on the 25d.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY. of Kansas, re-
fused to attend the convention of resub-
for an extra session of the
Legislature to consider the policy Of re-
pealing the Prohibition law of the State
THE trial at San Francisco of d. II.
Arnold for the murder of S. w. Garness
last January resulted in scquittaL The
murder was the result Of discovery
that Garness had been writing malicious
Ietters to the wife of Arnold
THE SOUTH.