The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-02-07
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
WYOMING has escaped bad storms this
winter and the cattle are in first class
condition.
A TRAIN was wrecked on the Monon
road sixteen miles north of Indianapo-
lis, Ind, on the morning of the 21th,
caused by broken rail on a trestle.
The ladies' coach took fire after being
overturned and six passengers met with
horrible deaths. A large number of
others were seriously injured.
JAMES WARD, recently arrested in
Kansas City for the murder of Lee
Hamblet in Custer County, Col, escaped
the other night with four other. prison.
ers from the Fremont Coli County
Jail.
RILEY BURDETT. the noted organ man.
ufacturer, died in Chicago the other
night.
ROBERT GIBBONS, one of the minor
Cronin defense witnesses, was shot and
dangerously wounded by Captain Schuet-
tier, of the Chicago police, on the night
of the 2Sth. Gibbons had given Schuet-
tier blow in the face during an alter
cation growing out of the Cronin trial.
GENERAL CASEY, chief of engineers,
has made a report adverse to the passage
of the Senate bill to authorize the sub
stitution of pivot draw bridge across
the Missouri river at Leavenworth in
place of the present pontoon bridge.
THOMAS ELLIOTT, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Missoula, Mont, was frozen to
death the other day.
CALAMITY" WELLER. the noted Iowa
politician. was lying critically i'll at his
home in Nashua, Iowa. on the 2Sth.
JUDGE LOVE, of the United States Dis
trict Court at Dubuque, Iowa. has re-
fused to confirm the sale of the Fort
Madison & Northwestern railway for
$4,000. He will order the road aban-
doned if a fair price is not offered.
CONRAD SEIPP, the millionaire Chicago
brewer, is dead.
A MOB pulled down the house of a lot
jumper on Main street, Oklahoma City,
Ok, recently and burned it.
DURING some chemical experiments in
the high school at Lexington, ILL.,. re-
Gently the retort exploded, Prof Jess
and several of his pupils receiving shock
ing injuries.
EDITOR NJ. II. De YOUNG, of the San
Francisco Chronicle, was reported seri-
ously sick from pneumonia.
Mrs. BoGGs, of Waverly, O., while re
turning home through field the other
evening, was attacked by vicious hog.
Before assistance reached her she was
so horribly mangled that she can not re-
cover.
THE Chicago & Northwestern railroad
has paid $500 to the guardian of Dora
Payne, whose mother and stepfather
were killed at the entrance to Rose Hill
Cemetery, Chicago, recently by fast
train.
THE snow blockade on the Central
Pacific was raised on the 3Oth, seventeen
trains starting west from Reno and
Truckee.
THE Ohio Senate recognized Hon. A
v. Marquis (Democrat) as Lieutenant
Governor by strictly party vote-1s to
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A PARTY of boys went skating on the
river at East Dubuque the other even
ing. Two of them, Lewis Pierce, of
East Dubuque, and Bert Clark. of St.
Paul, skated into an air-hole and both
were drowned.
GIDEON MORGAN, prominent Chero-
kee, favors the sale of the Strip
The Capital Wagon Company, of Ian
sing, Mich, has failed with SS4,774 liza
bilities and S121,216 nominal resources.
PAT GRANT, Railroad Laborer," is
held in $1,000 bail for libel on DR.. Reilly,
of the Irish National League. The ar
ticle was published in the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
JOHN kUSZE, the Cronin suspect, who
is now out on 5000 bail, walked into
court at Chicago on the 31st and de-
new trial. The case was con-
tinued to the next term of court.
SUIT has been commenced in st. Louis
against the Frisco road for money due
the State of Missouri.