The Iola register., 1890-05-16
THE WEST.

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Bohemian servants in Chicago board
ing house, blew out the gas in their
room and were found suffocated-
IT is now thought that the peach crop
of Western Michigan has been entirely
destroyed by cold weather in March and
April.
THE carpenters strike at Chicago
ended on the 9th on the basis of the
eight-hour day at 3711 cents per hour
after August 1.
Hon G. F. CLARKsoN, father of Assist
ant Postmaster-General Clarkson, died
at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 9th. He
was born in Maine in 1910 and removed
to Iowa in 1855. He was elected to the
State Senate in 1868 and has been con-
nected with newspaper work since.
S. S. FLOYD & Co., bucket shop keep
ers of Chicago, with branches all over
the South and West, have been forced
to the wall by the rise in wheat and
stocks. The firm had lasted fourteen
years.
FIVE hundred timers of Chicago struck
for nine hours work and 25 cents per
hour.
FIVE thousand dollars is the amount
said to have been boodled by certain
aldermen of Des Moines, Iowa.
ONE thousand coal miners about Wash
ington, Ind, have struck for increased
wages.
JOSEPH R. CUMMINGS, president of the
Northwestern University at Evanston,
Ind, died suddenly the other morning.
JUDGE CREIGHTON, of the circuit court
Of Sangamon County, Ill, has decided
that tobacco bill can not be collected
from minor by law, as tobacco was not
a necessity of law.
THEODORE THOMAS the musician, was
married to Miss Rose Fay at Chicago on
the 7th.
The cantilever bridge at The Needles,
CAL, with the longest unsupported span
in the world-360 feet-has been COM
pleted.
A SEVERE frost was reported on the
night of the 9th in various places in
Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.
THE misplacing of a switch at Fount-
ain, Col, threw part Of an express train
down an embankment. Fireman Sipes
was killed, but no one else was hurt.
The strike of the coal miners of Illi-
nois has, it is reported, been settled.
JONAS RUSSELL. aged sixteen, and
Clarence Hickox, aged seventeen, went
to camp out in cave and were buried
alive and smothered near Des Moines,
Iowa.
Two girls named Mcdonald, aged
nine and twelve, became frightened at
an approaching train at Portland, Ore,
and jumped into a creek and were
drowned.
w. L. BRIcE, brother of United
States Senator Brice, of Ohio, died at
Denver, Col, recently of consumption.
W. Fl. Pope, the defaulting teller of
Louisville bank and a travelling COM
panion were captured at the Two Har-
bors, Lake Superior, by Detective Craw-
ford. Pope had large sum of money
on his person and ticket on the Cana
dian Pacific railway from Port Arthur
to Victoria.
RACE excitement was reported at
Charlottesville, Ind, over the gradua-
ton Of four colored pupils from the high
school.
DURING Chinese riot in Los Angeles,
Cal, the other night, one Chinaman was
killed and one seriously wounded. The
Wong Chez society has declared deadly
war on the All Now faction.
THERE was a report that an old charge
was likely to be trumped up against
Lody Cook (Tennie Clafiin) in Illinois
About twenty-six years ago when a girl
she was induced by her mother to clair
treat a woman for cancer. The
woman died and a charge of manslaugh-
ter was preferred, but was not pushed.