The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
THE WEST.


has announced that they will sell tick
cts from St Louis to Kansas City and
ST. Joseph, Mo-, for 81, and Atchisor
and Leavenworth, Kan, for the same
price; to Council Bluffs for S., and Den
yer for $3.50.
GOVERNOR WATERMAN, of California
has urged the people of all sections Of
the State to begin work at once to secure
proper representation at the Chicago
Worlds Fair.
JAMES Atwood, farmer living near
Rockport, Ind, shot and killed William
Miller, a neighbor. and wounded two
others the other night. The men were
trying to Whitecap him.
IT is reported that James Bell, Cher
okee, living near Vinita, |. T., will be
the first person to test the forty-third
section of the Oklahoma bill as it ap-
plies to Indians becoming citizens OF
the United States.
EIGHT inches of snow fell in North
Dakota, doing the wheat crop much
good.
Two pronounced cases of leprosy are
reported in the Chinese colony in Chi
cago.
THOUSANDS of acres of valuable timber
in Northern Wisconsin have been de-
stroyed by forest fires, which are still
spreading.
THE American Society of Mechanical
Engineers held it's annual convention
in Cincinnati on the 14th.
THE report sent out from Oklahoma
City stating that bloody battle &C.
CURED on the Canadian between farmers
and cowboys, wherein five farmers were
killed and several cowboys wounded,
was wholly without foundation.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has de-
cided that the Smell toll gate in Chica-
go, recently burned by citizens, was IL
legal.
Two engines were demolished and
two train men infused by a collision be-
tween passenger and a gravel train at
Elgin, Ill.
ALE the newspapers Of Fort Wayne,
Ind, have granted the demands of the
Typographical Union for an increase in
the price of composition.
THE Typographical Unions of Mime
apolis and St Paul have demanded ten
hours pay for nine hours work, which
has been refused.
FIRE in San Bernardina, Cal, de-
stroyed the West Coast Lumber Com
pany's mill and lumber, causing 500, 600
loss.
C. NJ. WHITAKER and J. M. Stubs
were crushed to death under a huge
piece of granite near Monrovia, Cal, by
the breaking of a derrick
The immense flour mill of the Winona
(Minn.) Company was burned recently.
The loss was $685. 200.
POISONED sausage caused the death of
Mrs. Glenn Ehlers, of Ivanhoe, o. Two
of her children are seriously ill.
CHARLES RANDOLPH, ex-secretary of
the Board of Trade of Chicago, who dis
appeared some time ago, is at Portland,
Ore. He could not tell how he left Chi
cago, his mind being a blank.
JUDGE DRUMMoND, who was succeeded
by Judge Gresham in the United States
Circuit Court, died recently at Wheaton,
ILL.,, aged eighty years.
By a collision between a pay-car
special and the rear end of an accom-
mediation train at Tuscola. ILL.,, a lady
was fatally and other persons slightly
hurt.
ALPHEUs BULL, president of the Gould
& Curry mine, was drowned near San
Francisco recently.
The union stonemasons and bricklay-
ers of Joliet, Ill, have struck for eight
hours and increased wages.
The report concerning three actors of
the Nat Goodwin Company being killed
in railroad wreck in Montana proved
unfounded. A member of the company,
Miss May Duffee, had died and this had
delayed the company, causing the false
report