The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-18
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
ACCORDING 20 the Illinois Board OF
Agriculture only one county's wheat
prospect shows an Improvement Most
of the counties show damage Of about
so per cent The corn planting viii be
late.
SEVERAL cases of insanity have re-
suited from the preaching of religious
crank named Erickson at Oakland, Cal
He prophesies the destruction OF San
Francisco, Oakland, Chicago and Mil
waukee by an earthquake.
MOSES FRALEY, the St Louis grain
bull operator, has failed again.
The Sioux have accepted the vicious
advice of Sitting Bull and will not take
their lands in severalty, but will loaf
and depend on the Government rations.
Four men were hanged in as many
cities of Pennsylvania on the 9th, three
for murder on account of women and
one for murder and robbery.
THE election at Kansas City, Mo-, on
the Sth went in favor of the Democrats.
A waterworks issue was involved and
probably had something to do with the
result
The tornado that visited Prophets
town.. Ill, on the evening of the It'll
was destructive of property, but not of
life, as first reported, though several
persons were injured.
ANOTHER fuss and deadlock exists be-
tween the State Livestock Board and
the city health board at Chicago
Lumpy-jawed cattle are penned up under
the seal of both boards.
The Chippewas are again reported
starving on the Court Oreilles reserva-
ton in Wisconsin.
The most terrific windstorm for many
years swept over Denver, Col, on the
sth. Many houses were dnroofed and
the walls of several buildings in the
course of erection were blown down.
No one was injured
The Bayliss Tramp bill has passed
the Iowa Legislature. 1t will clear the
State of tramps, so they say.
MUNICIPAL elections occurred in Ohio
on the 18th. A light vote was polled,
showing Democratic gains
The Iowa Senate has indefinitely
postponed the bill providing for cleo
trical executions
Ten Chinese were captured at San
Diego, Cal, while trying to evade the
law preventing their entrance to the
United States.
The bank of Fort Morgan, Col, has
assigned with $4,000 liabilities and
sec, 600 assets
NoRwALK, O., was visited by a destruct-
i've storm on the evening Of the Sth.
The umbrella factory of Sprague &
French was blown down, killing one
girl and injuring several others
COLONEL JOHN ARMAN, of Chicago, died
recently at San Diego, Cal, of nervous
He was seventy years old.
a native of Plattsburg, N. ", and in
former years was the brightest orna-
ment of the criminal bar of Cook Coun-
ty, Ill.
ALL the soldiers have left the Chero-
kee Strip, no boomers remaining.
The California Prohibition convention
has nominated General John Bidwell
for Governor.
THE Iowa Senate has refused to dis
turb the Prohibition law, the license
bills being thrown out
Ex-TREAsURER MARTIN A. JAMESON,
of Warren County, O., has been acquitted
of the charge of embezzlement
Two engines, several emigrant coaches
and ten freight cars were wrecked near
O., causing $50, 600 loss. Dis
regard of orders was the cause. No one
was hurt
The Masonic grand lodge of Iowa de-
mics that Judge Preston's decision at
Cedar Rapids was in favor of the Cerneau
Masons.
THOMAS 81. KERINs, a prominent citi-
zen of Brazil, Ind, has been arrested for
receiving and misusing fees and dues of
a lodge of Catholic Knights of America
which had forfeited its charter.