The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-04
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings of a Week
DOMESTIC.

Inc RUSSIAN minister 10 MEXICO mas
left for the United States.
Secretary of War Proctor received a
letter from Governor Page, of YER
mont, informing him that he would be
appointed to fill the vacancy in the
United States senate caused by the res
ignation OF the Hon. George T. Ed
munds.
A new military post is to be estab
lished at a point Is miles west of Duluth
to prevent Canadian thefts of American
| timber.
Fire, destroyed: Part of the town of
Charleston, Ark; loss, $780, Half of
the business part of Moody, Texas; loss,
$40, 600; insurance, $4,000 Voss' saloon
and seven adjacent buildings in Grand
Mound, Iowa: loss, 5000; partially in
sured.
The three children suffocated in a
| chest at IroutOn, o.. lad been locked
up by playmates who were playing
'.jail" and had forgotten them.
Factions of foot-washing Baptists in
South Carolina, are engaged in feudal
warfare. Five men dead is the result
up to date, the last fight having taken
place Sunday at church.
Heavy storms washed away a culvert
near Reading, Pa and train dashed
into it. The same storm terrified a
camp-meeting.
1t has developed that Frank Almy,
the highwayman. who murdered his
sweetheart, Christie Warden, in HanO-
over N. H., made midnight visit to
her room two nights before he killed
her, expecting to confirm certain sus-
picions, which were unfounded.
Fifteen hundred British wreckers,
armed with knives, boarded the disa-
bled American steamer Eldorado. off
the Great Bahama banks, and demanded
the cargo. Captain Byrne surrendered
it to prevent bloodshed. One of the
wreckers tried to haul down the flag and
replace it with British flag.
Mr.. Dudley of Indiana, says that state
will send Blaine delegation to the ma
tional convention.
Rev. Frank II. Clendenin and wife,
nee Miss GABRIEL Greeley, narrowly es-
capped death in a runaway.
Mamie Roche, pretty Brooklyn girl,
had been ruined by car driver. She
threw vitirol in his face. and the police
justice who heard her story let her go.
State Lecturer McAllister was ex
PEELED from the Mississippi alliance at
Durant for opposing the sub-treasury
scheme. He then had personal en-
council with DR.: Macune, which re-
suited hafmlessle.
Negroes are preparing to colonize In
dian lands soon to be opened in Indian
territory. Movements for emigrating
to Oklahoma have begun in southern
cotton regions.
"Zack James," arrested at Lincoln,
Neb, on suspicion of being bank rob-
Der, proved to be pretty girl, who was
clipping with her lover from Council
Bluffs.
The White Squadron gave a display
off Bar Harbor before large crowd,
among which was Blaine and Alger.
The government rainmakers have
concluded their experiments at Mid
land, Tex, and will remove to Ell Paso,
and laUer may 60 to southwestern Kan
sas.
The differences between the liberal
and radical factions of the United
Brethren church were settled by Judge
Stewart of Chambers, Pa, in favor of
the liberals, who countenance secret
societies.
Emma Abbot's 100000 wardrobe
brought about per cent of cost.
Near Findlay, O., there were excit-
ing times caused by the breaking down
and subsequent repair of wagon load
ed with nitro-glycerine.
The report that Spreckles and the |
sugar trust have consolidated is not |
confirmed, but it is believed they have |
an understanding.
Wheat generally escaped serious |
damage by frost in the northwest, but
corn and vegetables suffered.
Governor Byrd has notified white set |
tiers in the Choctaw nation that he will |
not renew their permits.
General ]. W Foster, at Saratoga, |
denied the rumor that England and |
Canada would reap equal benefits with |
the United States from the reciprocity |
treaty recently consummated with |
Cuba
The Grand Duke of Luxembourg has |
conferred upon Nicholas Conner, editor |
of the Luxembourg Gazette, of Dubuque,
Iowa, the order and jewel of knight
of the crown of oak leaves in consider !
alton of services render his countrymen |
in America.
Governor Mellette, of South Dakota,
has decided that a successor to Con-
gresham Gamble, diseased, shall be
elected in November, instead OF filling
the vacancy by appointment.
Charles King, "a mild hammered"
lunatic in Ohio, killed his mother under
the delusion that she had caused his in
generation in an asylum.
Excitement at Shelbyville over the
shooting of the marshal and lynching
of his assailant still runs very high and
threats are made of giving his brother
a taste of the same heroic treatment.
The remains of B. r. Musgrave OF I
Chicago, were found in the ashes of a
log cabin on the Wabash river, near
Terre Haute, Ind. He was a fugitive
from Justice, and had returned secretly
to the place to visit friends, and was &C.
burned alive.
The visible supply of wheat and corn
is respectively IL, S57, 1858 and 4,19T,573
bushels Since last report wheat in
creased ] ,69S,679 bushels, and corn in
creased $40, 469 bushels.
Western railways at Kansas City re-
port wheat moving rapidly and the
yards at that point filled with cars wait
ing to be uuloaded.
In drunken brawl at christening |
at Chicago, Albert Kinki killed his sis
ter.
Di Davis was soundly thrashed at
Beaver, Oklahoma, by Thomas Inslow, |
whose wife he had slandered.
George ]. Osborne, a prominent Min
neapolis business man, defaulted and
drowned himself.