The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-22
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apolis are serious. Strikers stopped
cars and several, arrests were made.
THE senate and house of the Ohio
legislature voted separately for United
States senator on the 18th. In the senate
John Sherman received Is votes and
James E Neal s. In the house Sher-
man received SO votes and Neal go, thus
assuring Sherman's election.
SENATOR SHERMAN was formally re-
18th. He made brief address.
THE Baltimore outrage investigation
at Vallejo, Cal, was closed on the 18th.
Capt Schley gave a resume of the
whole trouble.
In the Columbus (O) republican
| legislative caucus the Brittian resolu-
ton to investigate the legal rights of
Calvin L. Brice to represent Ohio in the
senate was agreed should be referred
to the committee on privileges and
elections of the house. The impression
prevailed among members that this
would be the end of the proposed in
vestigation.
GEORGE V. HOwK, for twenty years
a member of the supreme court of In
diana, and one of the noted lawyers of
the west, died at New Albany, Ind, from
the grip, aged 6s years.
THE Iowa democratic central COM
mittee has decided to present the name
of Gov. Boise to the national conven-
ton if there be not harmony in New
York.
HENRY CoRBIN, negro fiend, was
taken from the lookup in Oxford, o.,
and hanged and riddled with bullets.
A CHICAGO street car was struck by
a passenger train the other night and
| two women killed and fourteen persons
injured.
ANDREW D. BISHOP. fruit preserve
manufacturer, of Chicago, has fled a
suit for S125, 600 damages in the United
States circuit court against the associa-
ton of preservers company and its
trustees, alleging that the trust forced
him into the com bination, but finding
it to be an illegal concern he dropped
out, when the trust seized his entire
business and is now in possession of it.
THE heavy frosts of December have
been very destructive to fruit crops
and the trees in the San Gabriel valley,
California No accurate estimate can
be made of the damage, but one auth
GRITTY places the reduction in the citron
crop at so per cent and some estimate
the loss to be 81, ZOO, 000
THE Andrews Opera company's Sleep
err was wrecked near Brainerd, Mimi,
the other morning and Mrs Andrews
and her maid burned to death. Other
members of the company were badly
hurt.
a COAL train of twenty-seven cars,
caboose and engine became unmanage-
able on the steep grade at Little Horse
Shoe bend, east of cambridge, O., the
other night and was wrecked. Two
men were killed.
JOHN w. WICKHAM, the oldest man
in Iowa, died at Ottumwa, Ia, on the
18th, aged 100 years
The steamers Acapulco and City of
New York, belonging to the Pacific
Mail Steamship Co., have left San Fran
cisco for Panama On reaching Santa
Barbara, Cal, they will be given a
speed trial, extending through the
Santa Barbara channel, to fix their
rating under the new mail subsidy
schedule adopted by the postmaster
general, and also to determine the
availability of the vessels as cruisers if
needed in the event of war.
DETECTIVE WooDs, of Denver, now in
San Francisco, who has been employed
by the friends of DR.. Graves, under
sentence of death at Denver for the
murder of Mrs Barnaby, has
thirty affidavits from the people in that
city showing that Mrs. Barnaby was
not poisoned by DR.. Graves. These
affidavits insinuate that Mrs. Barnaby's
nurse purchased poison and that she
had expressed the wish that Mrs
Barnaby would die and leave her some
money.
A DISPATCH from St Paul, Mimi, said
that on the night of the 14th the mer-
curry went down until it froze. All
through the northern part of Minnesota,
in Manitoba, North Dakota and in the
Canadian northwest the temperature
ranged from 80 to so below zero, on
spirit thermometers.
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