The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11

In three cases of shoes from George
town, Mass, 81. G. Peister, merchant
Of Petoskey, Mich, found seven ont
pound cartridges Of dynamite. They
were frozen and had not thawed out
Two HUNDRED farms we're sold under
mortgage in two days by Sheriff John
son, of Atlantic County, N. j. Ont
farmer was so crazed at losing his home
| that he burned himself in his dwelling
THE WEST.
THE st. Joseph convent at Milwaukee
Wis, was destroyed by fire recently
One OF the sisters was fatally injured II
| jumping from window.
f. E. WILCOX, proprietor of laundry
at Carroll, Iowa, was shot and fatally
wounded by his wife. They quarreled
and he chased her upstairs with poker
declaring his intention of Draining hei
when she seized a revolver and shot
him.
THE Garfield Memorial Association
has sent out a general invitation to all
organized bodies in the United States to
participate in the memorial dedication
in Cleveland, O., May 80.
GRANT ADsIT, his wife and child and
Miss Thomas were upset while fording
Sugar creek near Milford, ILL.,, recently.
All were drowned excepting Mrs. Adsit,
who managed to cling to the willows.
THE licorice factory at Auburndale,
O., was destroyed by fire the other day,
causing $50. 900 loss.
CHICAGO hide dealers and shoe manu-.
facturers have sent a protest to Congress
against duty on hides
The Democrats made gains in the
municipal election at Chicago on the
LIST. The new Board of Aldermen stands
"a Democrats to 81 Republicans with
two Independent Democrats and one In
dependent Republicans.
The Democratic ticket of Milwaukee,
Wis, was elected by 5000 majority on
the 1st Peck, the humorist, is the new
mayor. The Bennett school law had
much to do with the turn of the election.
THE purchasers of the Fort Madison
& Northwestern railroad in Iowa have
taken formal possession. The road will
be made standard gauge and extended
to Ottumwa.
ONE thousand plumbers of Chicago
recently struck for S3.T5 day and Sat
urday half holiday.
A SECRET organization of 'ku klux" is
said to exist in Oklahoma for the pur-
pose of driving out the colored settlers
THE switchmen and brakemen of the
Union Pacific railroad between La
Grande and Portland, Ore, have struck
for 10 per cent increase in wages.
ALL the Joliet ILL.,, stone quarries
are idle, the men, nearly 1000, quit
ting work. They base their demand for
171% cents per hour, instead of Is cents,
on the increased demand for stone and
the higher prices resulting.
BY a collision between two light en-
gines and the caboose of a ruptured
freight train near Delta, Cal, Conductor
ID. G. Gale was caught in the wreck and
burned to crisp.
SPECIAL INSPECTOR DAVIS reports the
Cherokee Strip entirely free of would-be
settlers.
CHARTER elections for cities of the Sec
ond and third class were held through
out Minnesota and South Dakota on the
1st. The principal issue was license or
no license, the supporters of the latter
principle being victorious in four-tifths
of the contests
ACCORDING to the Farmers Review. OF
Chicago, Kansas is the only State show
ing full average for winter wheat In
Missouri the crop is generally fair, the
rest of the country grading below Mis-
souri, down almost to zero.
SENSATIONAL charges of corruption by
school book Hobbies have been made in
the Iowa Legislature.
News has been received at Tacoma,
Wash, of the bark Embleton, supposed
to have been lost last fall.
ALL the non-union plumbers Of Chi.
cago joined the union strikers
The strike of the quarrymen at Joliet,
Ill, ended in victory for the men.
THREE small children of William
Brown, living near Huron, S. D., per-
ished the other night, while locked in
their home by their parents, the house
catching fire in some way.
THE liabilities of Jackson & Co.,
furniture dealers of Spokane Falls,
Wash, are placed at 500, 600 and the
assets at Sic, 600.
FRED KRUGER, aged twelve, and
Charles Borek, aged fourteen, have been
held at Chicago for attempted train
wrecking and shooting into a train.
They confessed.
THE 5000 iron miners of Northern
Wisconsin and Michigan have organized
a union.
In the famous Cerneau-Scottish rite
case against the grand lodge of Iowa,
Judge Preston has overruled motion
of the defense to throw the matter out
of court on the alleged grounds that tina,
court had no jurisdiction in the matter,
the Cerneau-Scottish rite not being an
incorporated body. The Cerneaus con.
slider this decisive victory.
SIX men have been killed by explo.
sions of oil gas in tunnel being bored
near Santa Paula, Cal
The strike of the coopers of Mime.
apolis, Mimi, has ended in victory for
the men.