The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-21

JoHN A. MCFARLAND. the Oldest
banker In Boone County, Iowa, has
made an assignment The liabilities
are s1s,5o0. while the assets, mostly
real estate, foot up s14. 600.
THIRTY-FoUR horses were burned te
death by fire at Burnside's livery barn,
Sioux Falls S. D.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever is rag
ing at Clementville, O. There have
been already eighty-nine cases oil
which twenty-five have been fatal Al
present forty persons are stricken.
Business is entirely suspended and the
200 people who make up the population
are wild with fear.
LEADING dairymen of the United
States met in Oh .cago and discussed the
Worlds Fair representation. They OBJ
jected especially to being classed with
oleomargarine and animal fat products
THE town of Tiburon, Cal, eight miles
north of San Francisco, was recently
greatly damaged by fire.
THE dinner to Hon. Allen G. Thur
man occurred at Columbus, O., on the
18th. The banquet hall was filled with
leaders of the Democratic party. Mr..
Thurman, in responding to his health,
confined himself to "reminiscences and
to positive statement that he could
not be a candidate for any future office
Ex-President Cleveland spoke on polit-
ical subjects
O'SULLIvAN, the iceman, who is serv-
ing life sentence in the Joliet peniten-
tiary for completely in the murder of
DR.. Cronin, has intimated that he is
anxious to tell all he knows about the
murder
COMPLETE official returns elect the
entire Republican State ticket OF Iowa,
including Luke for Railroad Commits
sioner. The vote for Secretary of State
gives Mcfarland a plurality of $500.
and the other Republican candidates
pluralities ranging from 1. $50 to S,779.
OFFICIAL returns from all the coun-
ties in doubt show that the South Da-
kota Legislature is lost in both branches
to the Republicans The House will
probably give four majority for the
Democratic Independent Fusionists,
while the Senate will have not less
than three, giving them seven majority
on joint ballot to elect United States
Senator
THE florists of Indiana object to hav-
ing their specialties classed with agri-
cultural products by the Worlds Fair
managers
In freight collision on the Kansas
City road near Elkton, Mimi, Engineer
Penneham, Head Brakeman Callahan
and Fireman Folfew were instantly
killed. They were all from St Paul
THE business portion of the town of
Barton, o., population 1000, has been
destroyed by fire.
THE official canvass of the Ninth
Michigan district results in the election
of III. II. Wilson, Democrat to Congress
in the place of B. NJ Cutcheon, Repub-
lican, as previously reported. Wheeler's
plurality is As.
PRESIDENT CHAMBERLAIN, Prot. Smith
of the agricultural chair and Prof.
Mount Of the engineering and Director
Miss Eva Pike have resigned from the
faculty of the State Agricultural Col
lege at Ames, Iowa Prof E w. Stan.
ton has been appointed president tenn
porarily.
The English syndicate that bought
the Pillsbury-Washburn -four mills at
Minneapolis seems to have made good
thing out of the transaction. A divi-
dend of ten per cent. was declared for
the first year.
UNHAPPY differences continue to pre-
vent the Chicago Worlds Fair directors
from accomplishing any thing definite.
THE coroner's jury which investigated
the cause of the wreck on the Southern
Pacific, at Salem, Ore, censured the
railway company for allowing defect
i've trestle to remain in use The COM
pany is declared guilty of criminal neg.
ligence. 1890. a,