The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-06
THE WEEKS NEWS.
A CONDENSED REVIEW OF GENERAL
EyKSyS
General News.

who was induced to 60 ''sniping" goi
Z arrested by negroes for a chicken thief
, and when released started on coon
e hunt with pistol TAe Mexicaus who
, killed Deputy Marshal Russell neaI
Ration, N. NJ, have been tracked BY
2 bloodhOunds TO an adobe house, where
{ they are preparing TO fight. Fire III
, Evansville, Ind destroyed the Peoples
opera house and other property worth
100000. Part of the ashes of Henry
Meyer of New York will be thrown from
: the top Of the Statue OF Liberty. Joe
, Hewett of Sedalia, Mo-, criminally as
saulted Mrs. VIM. McCrackeu in the
presencs of her husband. Under the
new superintendent of Minnesota the
/ democrats will elect four congressman.
The republicans two and the alliance
one. Senator Blackburn of kentucky
is said to have written letter in which
he says that he does not believe Cleve-
land eligible as presidential candidate.
Monday at Columbus, Ohio, w. }.
Elliott, Of the Sunday CAPITAL, and 4.
G. Osborn, of the Sunday World, began
hOstilitieS with revolver5 on a throngCd
thoroughfare. Three or four bystan-
derS were shot, a man named Hu shes
being killed instantly. p. ]. Elliot,
| brother OF one of the combatantS, was
also hit. Osborn died of his wounds
few hours after the fight. The Elliotts
are locked up, and are said TO be in dan
| ger of mob violence. Scott Bishop, a
/ negro, accused of assault and robbery,
was taken from the officers at Black
stone, Va, Monday morning and hanged
! to a tree.
Butter on the Elgin board Of trade
was in brisk demand Monday. Nine
thousand four hundred and eighty
pounds sold at % cents; $40 pounds at
29t cents, and $500 pounds at 29s cents
A year ago prices were 26l and 2I4
cents.
Fire Monday damaged the Kentucky
State A. and M. College at Lexington
S35, 900, with one hundred and |
ten thousand dollars insurance. Monday |
the body of Prof. Bancroft. professor of
rhetoric and English literature at |
Brown University at Providence, Il. l.,
who disappeared Dec. 8, was found in
Dyer's Pond at CranstOn.
A purse of Sl5. 1000 is offered for I'm
ish fight between Hall and FitZsim
mons at San Antonio, Texas, next |
October. Louis Belts was arrested at
st. Louis Tuesday for stealing dia-
mOnds and jewelry worth several thous-
and dollars from a Minneapolis Mimi.
firm. Senator Wilson. of Maryland,
died at Washington Friday night. The
condition of Senator Hearst is not ma
terially changed. About 4:l5 o'clock
Monday morning a meteor apparently
the size of full moon fell near Madi-
son, Me-, bursting when near the earth
with a report like heavy thunder and
plo ha,,caA fh,,,,rh h, h ]
quake. The meteor was visible all over
the state. Colonel Richard F. O'Biirne.
colonel of the tweuty-lirst infantry, u.
s. A., died Tuesday in New York. A
movement is on foot at st. Louis to
erect an cque> tr Tin statue of General
Sherman on tie north steps Of the city
hall. Tuesday the Geyser oil company,
one of the most aggressive opponents of
the Standard oil company in Ohio, went
under the complete control of the latter.
The price paid for seven-sixteenths of
the stock was 81 900, 900.
Something over 200 persons left the
vicinity of Bloomington, H., Tuesday,
in search of homes in Iowa and Nebraska
The aged mother of Della w. Norton,
the Christian Scientist, died in Min
neapolis, after having received the
Christian Science treatment. In the
suit of Marshall, Field & Co, question
ing the validity of the Mckinley law,
Judge Blodgett affirmed its validity so
as to get the case before the United /
States Supreme Court for final deci-
sion.
Secretary Window left his estate,
valued at $50, 900, to his family. Sc
dallas effort to get the Missouri state
capital has been defeated. Inspector
Byrnes of New York has been knighted
by the king of Italy. An effort to in
quire into the alleged Western Union
lobbying against the pool bill was de-
feated in the Missouri senate Chief
Justice Horton of Kansas, who headed
the Kansas delegation at the Sherman
funeral, has become seriously ill from
the long march. A constitutional
amendment bill providing for prohibi-
ton was defeated in the Minnesota
legislature. Its support came chiefly |
from the alliance. Senator Chandler |
reiterates his charges Of political treach |
cry on the part of Senator elect Calm |
ger, and says it will be his duty soon to !
prove them. The successful farmers |
alliance candidates in Guthrie, Oklaho- |
ma, who had been refused possession of
the Offices by republicans, broke into
them early with crowbars and sledge- |
hammers, and now hold the fort. |
Engineers of the Pennsylvania rail |
road system decided to act with the
ffremen, conductors, brakemen, and
Switchmen in the movement to secure
an increase of wages, and if their de-
mands are refused all the organizations
will strike after giving four days notice.
Reilly, McPhee, and Halliday, of the
Cincinnati club, have signed to play
with the National league upon the con-
dition that their Players League con-
tracts were found to be void. The Hon.
Henry ID. Dement,. of Chicago, is to be
the next warden Of the Illinois peniten-
tiary at Joliet. He will assume the
duties OF the position this week. Millie
Neireiter was awarded $1,000 damages
in the Wabash lind. circuit court, in
her suit against Charles Lawer for
seduction. John d. Miller, Of Green's
burg, was appointed by Governor Hovey
last week to fill the vacancy on the
Indiana supreme bench caused by the
death of Judge Berkshire. A tornado
in and around Jeffersonville and Utica,
\ Ind, last week did thousands OF dollars
damage. The Rt. Rev. Benjamin h
Paddock, bishop of the Episcopal church
of Massachusetts,, is in critical condl-
ton and may die. The lower branch
of the Municipal Assembly at st. Louis
passed the new union depot ordinance.
Circuit Judge Wallace has declared
the local option law of Laclede county,
Mo-, null and void. A bill has been
introduced in the Kansas house for
bidding the enforcement of the payment
of mortgages in gold. The worlds fair
committee on ceremonies is considering
a plan to have joint Union and Con-