The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-11

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Missouri state university.
WHITNEY JONES, who helped to organ
ize the republican party in Michigan
died at Lansing, Mich, on the 1st aged
so years. In 1879 he joined the Greeley
movement and thereafter acted with
the greenbackers.
w. II. HACKETT, a Kansas City gro
Ger, was shot four times and seriously
injured by men who attempted to rot
his store.
EMIL AMEs, the comedian, was found
dead in bed at the Bennett house, Chi
cago. on the Cd He had been an in
valid for years Death was due to
chloroform. Whether it was suicide
or not is unknown
MAYOR WAsHBURNE, of Chicago in
structed the commissioner of public
works to notify the Economic Gas Co.
that acting under the orders of the
city council in FORGETTING its franchise,
the city has taken possession of the
thirty or forty miles of gas mains of
the company laid in the streets
William Scholoreff was killed and
five persons seriously injured by gas
oline explosion on the night of the I'd
in Chicago dye house The injured are:
Hannah Haggerty, A. E Andrus and
Fl. Hall, wife and child. The last three
named were passers by, the others en-
ployes None of the infused will die,
but Andrus and Miss Haggerty are
fearfully disfigured by burns and
craSheS from hrolxan glass
GENERAL SOLICITOR Door, of the
Standard Oil Co., denies that it has vio-
lated the laws of Ohio
j. w. COLLINS, president of the de-
funct California national bank, COM
mitted suicide at San Francisco on the
Sd by shooting himself.
DR. II. NJ. SCUDDER, son of an emf
nent Chicago divine, is accused by +.
II. Dunton, owner of the Chicago
Spirit of the Times, of having muir
dered Mrs. Dun.on to secure her
money, Scudder having married Mrs.
Dunton's adopted daughter.
BURGLARS blew open two steel safes
in the national bank in Coldwater,
Mich, on the night of the I'd and Sc
cured SCI, 900 in money and $40, 600 in
bonds
a RELIGIOUS revival with unusual
features had its elimination on the I'd
in the service at Music hall, Cincinnati,
morning. afternoon and night at which
that great structure was each time filled
to overlooking. Three thousand bust
ness houses all over the city closed
during the hours of service. The move
ment was arranged for early last fall
and all the churches of the city united
in carrying out the plans suggested by
the evangelist, Rev. B. Fay Mills
INDIANA's district delegations to
Minneapolis are solidly for President
Harrison's denomination.
THE Iowa Republican state conven-
ton will be held at Dubuque March Is
The first convention heard from is
Adair. Instructions were given for
Hon. James G. Blaine for president
RECENTLY, at Richlaud, ten miles
from Lockport, Ind, a man named
Williams shot his wife. killing her in
stantly, and then shot himself, dying
shortly after.
IT is charged in Chicago that Kate
Reilly, a noted dressmaker. has evaded
customs officers by sending over En-
glish women with goods
1T is said that Banker Collins, who
committed suicide in San Francisco on
the Sd, ruined his best friend in Chey-
enne, Wyo
MARCUS and Abraham Cohen, who
tried to set fire to their store in St
Louis to obtain 81, 500 insurance, per-
ished in the flames.
Ex-LIEUT. Col JOHN S. PERKINS, OF
the Third regiment Missouri militia at
Kansas City, has again been placed I'M
der arrest He is charged with obtain
ing money by false pretenses from
Actor Fitzgerald
THE Cook county, Illinois, democratic
convention, which includes Chicago,
structing its delegates to the state con-
vention to use their best efforts to have
delegates selected to the national con-
vent;on favorable to the candidacy of
Gen. John NJ. Palmer for president
GEORGE E RAYMOND, ex.deputy city
auditor and James A. Hadley, deputy
city treasurer of Denver, charged with
forgery and conspiring to defraud the
city in raising warrant from So. so to
SSOS. so during their term of Office,
which expired in April last were found
guilty with a recommendation to mer-
CIV. Thirteen other indictments against
these men remain TO be tried
FRANK H. JONES, of Cheyenne, re-
ceived a telegram from Frank Mel
bourne, the Australian rainmaker,
stating that he had produced a two
inch rainfall at Hermosillo, in the
state of Sonora, Mexico, where he is
operating under the auspices of the
Mexican government
&. A. RECKLESS was instantly killed
and a young man named Schlessenger
was badly hurt in the Weldon shaft
near Leadville, Col. The two were the
only ones in the shaft when a cavern
occurred
THE SOUTH.