The Iola register., 1891-01-30
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
In the case of the State VS.. Hoff, al
Vinton, Ia, Judge Kinney held the
Wilson bill constitutional and the Iowa
prohibitory law in force as to imported
liquors.
THE Minnesota House completed its
organization by the election of the Fu-
sion alliance Democrat) ticket
SHERIFF HoUsToN, of Missoula, Mont,
has received word that five men were
|. shot by two masked men at McCarthys-
vile, a town on the Great Northern
road, 125 miles north of Flat Head lake.
THE winter in the Northwest has
been unprecedentedly warm.
]. RANDALL BROWN, the Iowa mind
reader, has been exposed as fraud.
KALAKAUA. King of the Sandwich
Islands, died at San Francisco on the
goth of Bright's disease. He was in
this country for the purpose of securing
financial loan.
ETHEL TowNE, on trial at Terre
Haute, Ind, for uttering a forged check,
has been acquitted.
In the Indiana House e resolution
was adopted to investigate the State
Treasury to see If money had been IL
legally loaned. r.......
The Standard Oil Company has bought
out C. C. Harris. the largest individual
oil producer in Ohio. 1t paid S1,75O, ,OOO
The Chicago Gas Company has de-
cided to surrender its charter and go
out of business. The companies COM
posing the trust will, however, continue
their business as before. 1t may be
some weeks before the dissolution of
the trust is consummated.
SIX men We're badly injured by the
unexpected explosion of six kegs of gun
powder in a mine near Marissa, Ill.
THE opera house in WinSna, Mimi,
was burned the other night, soon after
the close of the Maggie Mitchell per-
formance.
THE Worlds Fair lady managers of
Chicago have decided that their build
ing should be on the lake front.
THERE are said to be about 5000 arti-
sans in Chicago now unable to obtain
work, having gone there expecting jobs
ON Worlds Fair buildings.
HALF a block of stores in Hillsboro,
Mimi, were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000. ...a.r.
THE Ohio Legislature has taken steps
to investigate the State penitentiary
and the imbecile asylum.
THE final vote in the Washington Leg
islature for United States Senator was:
Squire, IS: Calkins, so: Carroll, 81.
VOORHEES, has been reelected Senator
from Indiana. ..,.
PRESIDENT EG AN and Passenger Agent
Holdredge, of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Kansas City, have been indicted by the
Federal grand jury at st. Paul for IL
legal manipulation of rates. s..
MRs. HENRY SMITH was killed and
Mrs. Neshlin fatally injured by being
thrown down a 100 foot embankment
near Orc. Col, by a runaway horse.
The strike of the South Side cable
railway employees of Chicago has been
arerted, Assistant Superintendent Luck
retiring. ......
Two men dead and four more in a
critical condition were the result of the
mine accident at Marissa. Ill.
COLORADO claims that the much
wanted Padlewski, who killed General
Seliverskoff in Paris. is hiding in the
mountains near Silverton.
THE Taubencck investigation ended
in his vindication. Taubeneck was an
Independent member of the Illinois
Legislature and talk was out that he
had once been in the ''pen" for counter
feiting.
Miss GEORGIA MORTIMER, an actress
of the Night Owl" Company, fell dead
of heart disease at her hotel in Cleve-
land, O., recently.
THE oatmeal mill and elevator at
Mazeppa, Mimi, belonging to E. NJ.
Johnson, of Minneapolis. were burned
the other night. The loss on the build
ing is 500, 900, and so, 600 bushels of grain
were destroyed.
A MOB recently evicted the Chinese
from Milton, Ore.
THE Minnesota Senate has adopted a
memorial to Congress asking for the
passage of law prohibiting gambling
in grain and other food products,
The lower house of the Indiana Leg
islature has passed joint resolution
for the suppression of the dressed beef
trust and repeal of the Mckinley law.
Bon FORD, the slayer of Jesse James,
has been in another shooting scrape,
this time at Walsenberg, Col.
HARLEY Mccoy, slayer of Police In
spector HawIcy, of Denver, has asked
for, a change of venue. After the kill
ing Mccoy was taken to Pueblo to avoid
a lynchiDr.