The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-31
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
BY the fall of new highway bridge
in Warren County, O., one workman was
killed and ten slightly injured.
FOUR of the leading ministers of Min
neapolis, Mimi, recently preached ser
mons against Sunday newspapers. All
held that the laws against Sabbath desc
Grafton should be enforced.
IT is denied from Chicago that any Of
the Cronin prosecution attorneys are de-
mented, as reported from San Antonio,
Tex.
THE farmers of Adams and Hancock
Counties, ILL.,, have suffered great losses
and are being terrorized by two panthers
or lion and lioness which escaped from
circus some time ago.
INDIANS on the Sac reservation in
Wisconsin are furnishing.
Ten men and thousands of cattle per-
ished in the recent billiards. of the Pa
cific States.
NELLIE BLY," the correspondent on
racing trip round the world, arrived at
San Francisco on the 21st.
DAVID r. WATERS. United States Mar
shall for the Western district of Michi-
gan, has resigned.
KYLE TERRY, a nephew of Judge
Terry (l,illed in California by Deputy
Neagle), was shot dead in the court room
at Galveston on the 21st and two others
wounded. The Jaybird and Woodpecker
feud suits of Fort Bend County, Tex,
had been transferred to Galveston,
when, without warning, the bloodshed
was renewed with the result as above
stated. Six arrests were made.
Two masked men recently robbed the
south-bound train near Tulare, Cal.
Rumors were afioat that they obtained
several thousand dollars.
THE Athenaum theatrical troupe. sup
posed to have persisted in the snow on
the Central Pacific, came out all right.
MORRISON MUNFoRD, of the Kansas
City Times, has interviewed ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland and reports him ready to
run again for the Presidency.
Hon. JOHN MCSwEENY, a noted Grim
inal lawyer OF Ohio, died at Wooster re-
Gently of acute pneumonia.
Two iron purifying reservoirs at the
gas works at Sioux City, Iowa, exploded
recently, causing $4,000 loss. One man
was injured.
The Freeman wire works, st. Louis,
were burned recently. Loss, 100000.
Hon. FISH PHELPS, ex-State Senator
and Representative, and a prominent
Republican of Michigan, died at his resi-
dence in Grand Rapids on the 22d from
injuries by fall.
A JURY at Chicago has given a brake
man $40, 900 damages, the largest but one
on record. He had lost the use of both legs
by an accident on the Northern Pacific
WHILE the temperature was twenty
degrees below zero Ernest Everett's
farm house, near Council Bluffs. Iowa.
burned. The family were badly FROST
bitten in going to a neighbor's in their
night clothes.
THIRTEEN prominent young men living
at Givinnsville, Ind, have been arrested
on suspicion of being Whitecaps.
PoTTs. the noted Des Moines search
er," has been sentenced to three years
in the Iowa penitentiary on the indict-
ment for perjury growing out of his
liquor seizures. Hamilton, his code
PENDANT, was acquitted.
THE Milwaukee express on the Chi
cago & Northwestern recently ran into
funeral procession at Chicago, killing
four of the mourners.
THE grand jury at Denver, Col, has
indicted the Secretary of State and other
persons for frauds in public contracts.
THE two rival miners organizations
formed an alliance in their recent meet
ing at Columbus. o.
FOUR fiat cars and 206 bales of cotton
were set on fire by sparks from To-
connective near Overlook, 1. T., the
other night and were destroyed.
Loss $4,000.
JIM july, husband of the late noto-
rious Belle Starr, is under arrest and
fatally wounded. He is charged with
various crimes in the Indian Territory.
SAPovoNARo, head chief of the Tn
compahgre Utes, died on the reservation
near Price Station, Utah, January IL, of
abscess of the liver. Charley Shavenau
was chosen head chief in his place. He
is quite intelligent.
Il. p. HUTCHINSON, the noted grain
operator at Chicago, was recently
swindled of many thousand dollars by a
trusted clerk. NJ. p. Dickinson, an
other operator, also suffered.
JOHN FLANKINTON. the former partner
of the Armours in the pork packing bust
ness, was reported lying dangerously
sick at Milwaukee, Wis, on the cath.
An apparently new disease has broken
cut among the horses in the vicinity of
Springfield, ILL.,, and several have died
Cases are also reported from Macon
County. The disease has some symp-
toms of ordinary typhoid fever, and the
veterinarians are puzzled about it. 1t
appears to affect colts and young horses
most.