The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-22
THE WEST.

EN-GONERNOh SHAhlES IOSIhh Ado
written letter to prominent Repub-
lican leader in Ohio, announcing that
he would not accept a nomination for
Congress. .F.
The Chicago & Atlantic railway was
sold at Indianapolis, Ind, and was
bought by the Erie, which will obtain
an entrance into Chicago by the pur-
chase.
A CONFERENCE Of Original package
dealers at Mason City, Iowa. resulted in
an agreement that all would close and
not attempt to contest the legality of
the new Wilson law. 1t is estimated
that Is, 900 saloons were in operation in
Iowa, and nine-tenths of these have now
closed up
FIVE San Francisco Cinnamon took
the places of five Chinese prisoners held
in Jail for return to China. Two officers
are accused of aiding the escape.
The Supreme Court of South Dakota
has decided in a test case that the State
Prohibitory law covers original pack
age cases.
w. Ii. WALKER, a leading merchant
of Eugene, Ore, was accidentally shot
and killed while hunting, being mis-
taken for deer by a comrade.
The election passed off quietly in the
Chickasaw Nation on the 18th. The
full bloods and squaw men voted at diff
ferent polling places and thus the threat
ened bloodshed was averted. The con-
test will be carried to the United States
courts. .......
JOEL B. MAYEs and David Rowe have
been nominated for Chief and Vice
Chief by the Downing party and George
w. Benge and Robert Bunch by the
National ticket.
COLONEL MARKHAM has been nomin-
ated for Governor of California by the
Republicans .-.-..- .
HARRY WALDO and Miss Augusta
Hoffman were drowned at American
lake, near Tacoma, Wash, recently.
Miss Hoffman was daughter of a Kansas
City, Mo-, distiller.
THERE is considerable excitement at
Pierre, S. D., caused by Indians filing
on valuable plated property near Fort
Pierre on an island in the Missouri
river, which has been held by white
man for ten years. The Indians take it
under the severalty law.
THE Michigan fruit crop is reported a
! failure.
CHIPPEWA and Sioux Indians in the
vicinity of Lake of the Woods are re-
ported threatening.
THE Democrats of the Eleventh 1ndi-
ana district, have renominated Hon. 4.
n. Martin for Congress.
CONGRESSMAN SHIvELY has been re-
nominated by reclamation by the DEM
ocrats of the Thirteenth Indiana dis
trict
THE glass goblet works at Bellaire,
O., and the frame buildings adjoining
were destroyed by fire recently. Loss
$50, 900.
A SPECIAL to the Los Angeles, Cal,
Times from Azusa, says: Bentley, the
editor of the News, was taken out by an
armed body of men and tarred and
feathered for publishing an article re:
fecting on the credit of c. E Frazier
while teacher of grammar school"
JAMES FITZPATRICK, president Of the
Interstate Baseball League and city
treasurer of Terre Haute, Ind, is
charged with being defaulter in the
last two years for 50, 400.
MARY L. WELDON, of Schweinfurth's
heaven" at Rockford, Ill, gave birth
to a girl baby. Schweinfurth claims that
the Weldon woman was with child by
the Holy Ghost The community was
reported indignant
THE spring wheat crop of the North
west is estimated at 90, 900, 900 bushels
so, 900, 900 in the Dakotas and 4S, 900, 900
| in Minnesota
THERE was a terrible cloudburst at
Colorado Springs, Col, recently. a
man and woman were swept away and
drowned The damage to the city and
! vicinity amounted to 100000.