The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-21
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings of a Week
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
William Armstrong, who it is said is
The oldest living Odd Fellow, died at
Salem, Oregon, aged SO years. He was
initiated into the order at Buffalo, N.
Y, in 1884.
Heavy rains in Kansas have improved
the outlook for q large corn crop.
1t is reported that 40, 900 negroes are
to COLOMBO in California with the assist
ance OF Senator Stanford.
Sixty days after the next national
democratic convention is the time
agreed upon by the executive committee
OF the national association of democrat
ic clubs, for that organization to meet.
Creditors of Howell, Jewett & Co., at
Atchison, have organized the Western
Lumber Company. and absorbed GER
tain western yards for their claims TAX
ing stock pro rata
BY a collision on the Grand Rapids
and Indiana railway Tuesday the engin-
eer OF a passenger train was crushed to
death and his fireman fatally injured.
Jealousy caused woman to attempt
the destruction of the family and resi-
dence of DR.. r. M. Juvenal, in Kansas
City, Kan, with dynamite, but beyond
a slight injury to the doctors wife. no
one was injured, though the building
was greatly damaged.
Reports of the hay crop from the
counties of twelve states show that
while in some states it is large. in others
the yield is light. The best yield is in
the states of Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska.
Several citizens OF MorgantoTn, Ia,
have been arrested for destroying sa-
loon with dynamite last fall
tits probable that the Peoples Saw
ings bank, Of Atchison, Kans., which
failed last winter will pay its creditors
in full.
Secretary of State William Higgins,
of Kansas, Tuesday, wrote a letter to
the New York Voice, in which he adj
vocated the removal of prohibition in
Kansas from politics, as he considers
prohibition fixture" in Kansas.
Senator Palmer addressed a great
crowd at Moberly, Mo.
The Chickasaw nation is said to be
literally overrun with horse thieves.
The first government experiment with
explosions produced rain in Texas.
Sedgwick county, Kansas, offers to
help the grasshopper sufferers in Ohio.
Chas. P. Windus of Minneapolis, ran
away with two married women at once.
A report on the Texas cotton crop
prepared by the Galvastan-Dallas News
shows the acreage to be 10 per cent.
larger and the condition Is per cent
better than last season.
The body of Miss Lulu Bowling of
Nashville was found in the woods near
Tenn. The young woman
had been bitten in several places by a
rattle snake as was shown by discolored
places on her body. Coiled by the side
of the body was the reptile.
Colored people held a picnic at Hunts
grove near Cincinnati. There was
plenty of whisky and numerous razors
and pistols. Two colored women
from loss OF blood. A ring of
of spectators witnessed the fight. The
men then became excited and INDUCED
in a free-for-all fight and three were
seriously injured.
Mauris Tabaschneider, years old,
fell from the fifth floor of New York
tenement, but his name struck the
ground first and he received only
slight bruises.
Fourteen persons were crushed to
death on an excursion barge in Cold
Spring Harbor, Long Island, by the
hurricane deck, which was blown in
during thunder storm.
James Russell Lowell, poet and dip
Tomato, died at Cambridge, Mass.
George Jones. ediror of the New York
Times. died at Poland Springs, Me-,
aged so.
President Harrison has instructed the
secretary of state and the secretary of
the navy to keep him informed as to de-
velopements in the seizure of the Pa
cific Mail steamship, City of Panama,
by San Salvador.
Miss Zerlina Rosenfield has recovered
5000 and costs from ex-Cougressman
John NJ. Glover for services as type
writer in New York
At Springfield, ILL.,. Ex-Governor st.
John delivered a low tariff speech.
Three thousand dollars in gold was
stolen from the Merchants
National Bank of Omaha, Neb. Sus-
picion has fallen upon Paul b. Tate, a
book keeper, who has disappeared.
A clerk in store at Skylight, Ky.
his sweetheart was going to elOpe with
the proprietor of the store. The pro-
prietor did elOpe, and is now under ar
rest n Ohio for embezzling his child
ren's legacy.
II is reported that J. o. Wayne. bus
mess agent for the Georgia state farm
ers' alliance, is a defaulter to the
amount of $4,000,
The Hon. Frederick Douglass, United
States minister to Hayti. rendered his
resignation to the department of state.
The letter OF resignation bears date
July 30. Mr.. Douglass does not give
his reasons for resigning.
Monday Aug. 10, was the hottest day
in twenty years at New York. Many
persons were stricken dead or driven in
sane by the heat.
A case of cholera is said to have de-
veloped in Springfield, Ohio.
Secretary Tracy is anxious to have a
portion of the naval squadrons ascend
the Mississippi river as far as Vicks-
burg. He is advocating the building of
war vessels for river SER
vice.
A steamer has been carried overland
with which to navigate the Green and
Colorado rivers. The vessel is named
after Major Powell.
1t has been decided to hold the New
York democratic state convention at
Saratoga, Sept. 10.
Edward V. Atwood, a railway trader
in the New York exchange, has made
$3.50. 900 in the last few days.
Another beer war is raging in Kan
sas City between local and foreign deal
ers.
A new law in Georgia makes that
state prohibition state, except in in
cities.