The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-07-03

Inc hlckapOO Indians nave again re
peated their refusal to take lands i
severalty.
Colonel ]. J. Coppinger, Twenty
third Infantry, Secretary Blaine's son
in-law, took out final citizenship pa
pers.
An investigation of the affairs of tn
New York life insurance company b,
the state ins".rance department was be
gun in New York.
a tornado in southern Kentucky de
strOyed about fifty farm houses and di(
great damage to crops.
William Pinkerton of st. Joe, Tex.
made improper proposals to his aunt
and then shot his uncle dead when she
told of it.
Helen Bartlett of Peoria, ILL.,. went t.
Atchison to marry Hiram J. Ward, bu
found that he had married another
woman the day before.
AT Troy, Wis, Mrs John Larson
during fit OF insanity, drowned hel
three children. The woman imagine.
that devils are pursuing her.
The Indiana supreme court decided
that German must be taught in the pub
lie schools whenever the requisite mum
Der of residents petition.
Mrs. John Freeman of New York was
| operated on in laundering way BY
young hospital surgeons and hurried of
to another hospital to die.
William Albright and Winslow Car
Isle have found the famous "lost vein
| near Boulder, Colo. 1t runs as high as
S25, 900 per ton in silver glace.
A constable with $3.50 judgment
,e< h. AF.rx~s
held an express train two hours until
the debt was paid in Colorado.
John Cross. in Jail at Macon, Mo, for
the murder of Peter Matson, with three
others, has confessed the killing, but
says it was done in self-defence.
The Harvard Annex, the society for
the collegiate instruction OF women, had
its commencement Friday Nine
young women received diplomas.
Governor Boies of Iowa was renomi-
mated by the democratic state conven-
ton at Ottumwa. Prohibition was de.
nounced and free silver demanded.
Conductor Irish and brakesman Tew-
ant, of the freight train in Illinois Cen
trail collision in Mississippi, have been
held for manslaghter by the coroner's
jury.
Bishop Chartard of New Albany, Ind.
communicated Catholic society for
giving Sunday excursion where beer
and dancing we're among the attrac-
tons.
Lieutenant Brett, now in Arizona.
has telegraphed to army headquarters
at Los Angels. Cal, for strong force
to suppress a threatened Indian out
break.
The Cook county treasurer has been
requested to turn over to the city of
Chicago all the city's funds in his DOS
session. A dispute exists as to the
amount.
The governor of New South Wales.
the earl of Jersy, in opening parliament
announced that bills would be intro
duced to abolish plural voting and en-
franchise women.
1t is announced that a messenger
bearing dispatches to the car of Russia
from the czarowitz at Toxic has disap-
peared somewhere between San Fran
cisco and New York.
Captain Andrews. of the Dory Mer-
maid, and Captain Lawler. of the Dory
Sea Serpent, sailed from Winthrop.
Mass, on race to Lands End. England.
for purse Of 5000
The Herge Bros. distillery at Pekin.
Ill, which has been competing with the
whisky trust, has succumbed to that Or
ganization. Negotiations are in prog
ress for its purchase.
The remains of Count Lewenhaupt.
son-in-law OF ex-secretary of state Thorn
as F. Bayard, who died April 18th,
were disinterred Tuesday to be taken to
Sweden. his native land
The visible supply of wheat and corn
Is given as, respectively, Il, 657, 2l1 and
I. 43S, 293 bushels. For the week. wheat
shows decrease of 81, 626 Bushels, and
corn has diminished 637, 1884 bushels.
A letter from Germany containing
lottery tickets, addressed to a ST.
Joseph Mo. man, was confiscated by
the surveyor Of the port in st. Joseph
on the ground that they were liable TO
United States customs duties.
The trial of the New Haven railroad
directors indicted under the car stove
act for misdemeanor following the
Fourth avenue tunnel disaster at New
York, Feb. 20, has commenced. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew is one of the defendants.
Defaulter Bardsley made his state
ment in court at Philadelphia. He Sc
verely condsmned the course of Bank
Examiner Drew, but affirmed that he
{ Bardsleyl had no guilty completely
with President Marsh or Wanamaker.
Henry Jones, negro, murdered his
wife in Ashley county, Ark, and was
in the act of making away
with the body. Early next morning he
was forcibly taken from the Jail, drag
ged mile and then hanged to a tree
by dozen men, both white and black |
The body was then riddled with bullets
Acting Secretary Spalding has in
formed the collector of customs at Mar
quette, Mich, that fresh fish taken in !
waters by American citizens |
are exempt from duty Notwithstanding |
they may have been brought to Sault |
Ste. Marie in steam vessel docketed |
in Canada
Mr.. Jay Gould was about to be run
down by an express train at Irving-on-
Hudson when he was jerked off the |
track and out of the way of the train,
which he did not see. by baggage mas
ter Barnard. The Geographic account
Of it says that Mr.. Gould heartily |
Mr.. Barnard.
Colonel Sam n. Woods, one of the best
known men in Kansas, was murdered
n Hugotou, Kan, by Jim Brennan.
The tragedy grew out of the massacre
n No Mans Land two years ago of
Sheriff Cross and five deputies of Ste
7ens county, Kas., by gang of desper-
docs headed by Sam Robinson, a
riend of Woods. 1t was the outcome
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