The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

have indicted all the New York news
papers that published accounts of the
electrocutions at Sing Sing, July 6.
A cyclone passed over Checotah, l.
T., destroying many buildings, killing
several head of stock and doing much
damage to crops.
Floods along the Arkansas river in
Arkansas are doing much damage to
crops.
Worms by the million havs appeared
In the lumber districts of Pennsylvania
and are destroying the hemlock timber.
John Frog and Jackson Wolf, Semi
mole Indians, were shot and killed at
Wewaka, /. T., for the murder of John
Harg. Seminole executions are by
shooting.
The physicians of the county hospital
at Chicago are almost certain that they
have case of leprosy on their hands.
Martin Gaellick, the patient, ia an Aus
trian and about so years old.
Frank Ratinski, of st. Paul, pulled
Paul Lstuskey, s wears old, into the
Mississippi river and held him under
water until he drowned. Ratinski has
been arrested. He is twelve years
old.
The Sugar Trading and Finance COM
psny of Central America. capital %
millions, has been organized. The
company will buy and sell sugar and
other products, and will establish agen-
cies in the West Indies for that pur-
pose.
Miss Maggie Blaine, niece of Sec
rotary Blaine, was seriously injured at
Washington, by jumping from a car
riage while the horse was beyond the
control of the driver. She fell on her
head causing conclusion of the brain.
President Harrison has signed the
commission of J. Sloan Fassett as COL
lector Of the port of New York.
Aluminium in ton lots has been re-
duced so cents a pound making it as
cheap as copper considering the differ
ence In bulk of the metal.
Abraham Backer, dealer in CONNER
cial paper, New York, failed for 81
600 900. He will pay in full. Tight
money and losses in southern invest
ments caused the assignment.
Diphtheria, in Its most malignant
form, has broken out in the South Da.
kota asylum for the insane at Yankton.
There are 800 people in the institution.
The people OF Birmingham, Ala,
subscribed $l02, 900 to 81 ,0OO, 900 steel
plant The people were asked by the
promoters for $50, 900. and the other
$4S, 900 Is in sight.
The president has committed the SEN
tence OF William n. Lewis, convicted
and sentenced to life Imprisonment for
robbing the mails in Texas, to seven
years and six months actual imprison-
ment.
The president has approved the find
ing OF the retiring board that examined
Lieutenant John F. Meigs, United
States navy, for retirement on account
of color blindness, and he has been
placed on the retired list.
The sealing schooner Mime returned
to Victoria, B. c., from Behring sea,
having been ordered home by the The
tbs. The schooner c. d. Rand is also
homeward bound. The Thetis so far
has warned forty schooners to leave the
sea
Walter Ellis, young clerk of the
Alabama & Southern railway, was ar
aested at Birmingham, Ala, yesterday,
charged with burning the freight depot
last Thursday. The depot blew up with
fifty kegs of powder. Ellis is supposed
to be short in his accounts.
The secretary of the treasury has
asked the attorney general for an opin-
ion in the claim of Mrs. Booke for sala-
~ as secretary of the board of lady man.
ayers of the worlds fair, with view of
determining the question as to whether
Miss Phoebe CouZins has been legally
depoSed from the Office in question, and
also whether the matter of compensation
shall be kept open until Miss Couzin's
appeal shall have been judicially de-
cided.
The United States treasury continues
the daily shipment of small notes to the
west tor use in moving the crops. The
total amount so far sent is 24-5 million
dollars.
Hamilton Fish, one of the three sur
viving secretaries of state, one of the
of the five surviving United Senators
niversary of his birth at Glencliff, New
York.
John Grayson, who died at La
Grange, Ark, few days ago, confessed
before his death to having murdered
three men during his lifetime.
Daniel Boone Linville. grandson of
Dd1lSl DOOU6, IDe JdulOuS plOHeer duu
Indian fighter, died at Wheeling, Mo-,
Tuesday night. He was SO years old.
1t is reported that Prince Ferdinand
of Bulgaria, will marry Archduchess
Stephanie, the widow OF Crown Prince
Rudolph OF Austria, who committed
suicide
In the Davis will case at Butte,
Mont. argument on the admission OF
expert testimony on hand writing has
closed, and Judge Mediation has de-
cided TO exclude expert testimony.
Young King Alexander of Servia.
aged -, is said to have made a favora-
BILE Impression upon the car, and there
is possibility that he will in the future
become the cars son-in-law.
While taking his seat at breakfast at
Mrs. Guthries boarding house at
Passaic, \. j., Tuesday morning,
William Anderson remarked that he
felt dull. He had hardly spoken when
he fell from his chair dead.
Miss Nellie Boise. daughter of the
circuit Judge OF Salem, Wash, and
William Steel. son of Postmaster Steel,
of Portland. were drowned while bath
ing at Long Beac'. Wash, yesterday.
rhey got beyond their depth and we're
-rrisd ont by the urdertow. The
bodies were recovered.
n. L. Simpson, q clever swindier. was
arrested Tuesday night at Brooklyn.
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