The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-08

JAMES LEvALLE, a Minnesota school
boy, was killed by bursting fly wheel
PARDRIDGE, the big Chicago grain man
has made over 81 ,ooO, 900 in the recent
depression of wheat.
LIVE stock in South Dakota is report
ed in fine condition.
A NEW sensation was furnished on the
3Oth ult. in the Doodle investigation at
Chicago. which it had been announced
was practically closed. The fresh cause
of excitement was a personal encounter
between States Attorney Longenecker
and Reporter Mark III. Salt. In mo-
ment of uncomfortable rage Judge
Longenecker struck Salt in the face,
kicked hiIn out of the criminal court
building and ordered bailiff not to al
low him to come again within rod OF
the states attorneys Office.
JOSEPH LITTLE, who brutally crushed
the skulls of his wife and two daughters,
was lynched by a mob at Findlay, o.,
on the S1st ult.
THE town of Nelson, Neb.. was badly
damaged by a cyclone on the Slst ult.
THE steamer Golden Rule was de-
stroyed by fire at the big wharf boat at
Cincinnati on the 31st ult. Only one
life was lost. that of Miss Nellie Ma
loney, who in attempting to jump off
the boat fell between the boat and
barge and was drowned. The Golden
Rule was valued at $4,000 to So, 1000,
while the value of the cargo was esti-
mated at $4,000. The wharf boat,
which was destroyed, was insured for
So. 900 and the Golden Rule for s15, 200.
THE prospective opening of the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe reservation, includ-
ing counties c, ID, Z, L, q, and II of the
Oklahoma territory, has caused much
activity on the part of the Santa Fe
management, in preparing for the ex-
pected rush of settlers. Counties ID, E
and + in the northwestern portion of
the reservation are nearer the Pan
handle line of the Santa Fe than any
other railway and the sale of tickets to
Kiowa. Kan. Woodward, |. T.. and Hig-
gins and Canadian, Tex, all of these
points being right upon the border of
the new promised land, has become very
large. Good wagon roads lead directly
from these stations into the reservation.
Deducting the allotments to the Indians
in severalty something more than 10000
quarter sections will soon be open to
pre-emption by homesteaders.
GEORGE PHILLIPS, a gripman on the
Tenth street cable car line at Kansas
City. Mo-. was shot by a footpad on
the night of the 1st.
ELEVEN lives were lost by the burn
ing of the Golden Rule at Cincinnati on
the S1st ult.
THE democratic and peoples party
committeeman have decided upon coali-
tion in the Second Kansas congressional
district.
Mrs. MARY RIoRDAN, mother of Arch
bishop Riordan, of San Francisco, died
on the 1st of old age. She was 81 and
was one OF Chicago's oldest settlers.
A wINDsToRM of terrific fury passed
through south-central and eastern Kan
sas on the night of the Slst ult., enter
ing the state at the Barber county line
and following its way enthusiastically
through the counties of Barber, Sum-
ner. Sedgwicl1, Butler, Chase and Lyon,
and on the Missouri river, damaging al
most every village in its path and leav-
ing behind in all the larger cities stories
of wreck and ruin. The town of Tow
anda, in Butler county was blown
away. four persons were killed. five
fatally and thirty seriously injured.
Augusta in the same county was partly
destroyed and three persons killed. AT
Oxford bridge near Wellington five of a
family lost their lives. Near Strong
City four persons were killed and eleven
injured fatally.