The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-25

FIRE at Cakes, n. D., caused loss
OF $50, 900 and the death of DIR. Schmidt
| Nelson.
AN enthusiastic Oklahoma statehood
convention was held at Oklahoma City
on the 18th.
THE convention to consider the Inn
provement of the Missouri and Missis-
sippi rivers met at Kansas City, Mo-, on
! the 18th. Gov. Thayer, of Nebraska,
was chairman
AN extensive strike of train dispatch.
ers and operators commenced recently
on the Atlantic & Pacific 1t was
thought it would involve the entire
southwest.
FIVE men robbed United States
mail wagon at Chicago on the night OF
the 18th in very bold manner. Itwas
thought sc, 300 was secured
TRUMPETER DIXON, of the Sixth cav.
airy, U. S. A, was found guilty of muir
der in the first degree in the United
for the killing of Corporal Carter at
Fort Niobrara last September.
COMMISSIONER PRATT rendered his de-
cision in the case of United States Mar
shall Parsons at Salt Lake City and held
that the testimony of Annie Prindle
was not entitled to credence. He there
fore dismissed the defendant.
PAUL DRESSER, who was murdered in
Chicago saloon the other night, was
the son of a wealthy French family OF
Grandvillars, France.
THE North Dakota Millers' association
has subscribed $4,000 pounds of flour,
subject to increase to a shipload, for
Russian sufferers.
A BROKEN rail caused the wrecking OF
mixed train near Park River, MINI.
Three passengers were badly injured.
The Atlantic & Pacific telegraphers'
strike has ended, President Marvel con-
ceding the principal demands of the
men.
A FRIGHTFUL wreck occurred on the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago two
miles east of Lima, o. One man was
killed and many injured. The passen-
ger train was running to make up for
WHCu
THE resolutions adopted by the river
improvement convention at Kansas
City, Mo, called for an annual appro-
.priation of S5,0OO,O 600 for the improve
ment of the Missouri and 1000, 900 an
nually for the improvement of the Mis-
sissippi.
A PASSENGER train on the Gulf road
-
Cherryvale, Kan, on the 18th by the
displacement of rail, owing to de-
cayed ties. Twenty-six persons We're
injured, three of whom will probably
die.
JOHN L. FERGUSON, bookkeeper for
the National Bank of Kansas City has
been arrested for embezzling $40, 900
from the bank. He confessed.
SECRETARY OF STATE SoPER, of Mich
igan, has resigned because of various
charges of grave character. He con-
fessed his misdeeds.
THE national prohibition convention
has been set for St Louis June % and
so next
The saw-mill of A. Collett, at Ridge
vile, Ind, was wrecked by the explo-
sion of a boiler the other morning.
William Wise, the engineer, William
Collett, son of the proprietor, and
James Clawson were killed outright,
and several badly injured.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch says that
the steamer Roseville, which had gone
to tow the wrecked brig Lahito to port,
returned unsuccessful, the tow lines
not being strong enough. The Lahito
is bottom up. She had 500 persons on
board, all of whom were probably lost.
The coal miners strike at Crested
Butte, Col, was virtually ended on the
nth by forty Austrian miners going to
work loading coke on the cars. The
men were protected by an armed posse
of fifty men.
Ex-Gov. SMALLwooD, of the Choctaw
nation, died recently of pneumonia.
The Iowa worlds fair board proposes
to ask the legislature for an appropria-
ton of 1889, COO
The worlds fair auxiliary has sent
invitations to famous men of letters of
the world asking for a contribution for
use during the great fair Many favor
able responses have been received.
THERE was much improvement in the
condition of Governor-elect Mckinley,
of Ohio, on the 18th. He was not able
to see callers however.