The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-13

| loss, TWENTY IulIeS VI TOduDeu DSlLB Cu
tirely submerged Severe washouts
have occurred between Lenox and Rad
| ford. There is not country bridge
left. Crops on rolling ground are badly
damaged if not entirely washed out
The loss will exceed 100000.
SMALLPOX in its worst form recently
appeared in Chicago.
CHARLES FERRY and Harry Quigg
were blown up in mine in Colorado.
JUDGE RINER, of Cheyenne, has grant
ed temporary injunction restraining
the ranchmen in Wyoming, especially
in johnson county, from making their
round ups.
MILES upon miles of valuable crops
put in upon the Illinois bottoms for
twenty miles on either side of Ottawa
have been under water, involving loss
of $4,000 to farmers. The kickapoo
and other bridges went and Allen Park,
Ottawa and all of the lower islands were
flooded.
The Wisconsin democrats Endorsed
the candidacy of Grover Cleveland for
the democratic nomination and elected
the following delegates at large:
Messrs- Villas, Bragg, Wall and Knight.
The North Dakota state republican
convention at Grand Forks elected the
following delegates to the national con-
vention: Thomas T. McHugh, John A.
Percival, w. II. Robinson, Gerald Pierce.
The resolutions characterized President
Harrison as the godfather of the COM
monwealth, and warmly commended
his administration.
Two Sac and Fox blanket Indians
went to Vinita, l. T., recently direct
from lama county, Iowa, en- route to
their reservation in the central part of
the territory. Shortly after the arrival
of the train one of them committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with pocket
knife, dying in very few minutes. He
was an old man and is said to have been
in poor health for a long time. The
body was placed in a coffin and dis
patched by the waiting train for the
west.
EVIDENCE of the commission of foul
murder was discovered at Davenport,
Ia. The body of well dressed man
with the letters FL. N. H." sewed upon
his clothing was found lodged against
a raft in the Mississippi river. An in
vestigation showed that the man had
been shot through the head, beaten
with some blunt instrument until his
skull was fractured, his neck and nose
broken and then cast into the river.
THE Wisconsin republicans Endorsed
President Harrison.
DIR. j. b. CoTTNER, Joshua Miller and
John Stubblefield, all citizens of
Wetang, village twelve miles south of
Anna, ILL.,, attempted to cross a swollen
stream in a skiff, when the boat was
overturned and the men were thrown
into the water. Stubblefeld managed
to reach the shore but Cottner and Mil
Ter were unable to swim and were
drowned.
By the giving way of a bridge on the
Santa Fe, near Revere, Mo-, the train
was precipitated into the roaring cur
rent and seven persons were killed and
thirty-eight injured.
PATRICK OSULLIvAN, the Cronin sus-
pect, died in the prison hospital at
Joliet, Ill.
GREAT damage has been done in the
vicinity of Braidwood, Ill, by heavy
rains.
RUsHvILLE, Ind, has been visited by
a sos, 600 fire.
THE four republican delegates at
large from Wisconsin are: Henry C.
Payne, of Milwaukee, the retiring chair
man of the state central committee; ex-
United States Senator John c. Spooner.
of Hudson; Gen. Lucius c. Fairchild, of
Madison, and Congressman Isaac
of Marquette.
THE republicans of Illinois have nomi-
mated the following state ticket: For
governor, Joseph G. Fifer (renomi-
nated): for Acknowledgements. Ly-
man b. Ray; for secretary of state, ].
\. Pearson: for auditor of state. c. w.
Fancy; for state treasurer, Henry L.
Hertz: for encouragement, George W.
Prince
THE result of the Kansas republican
was: Congressman at large
George T. Anthony. Delegates at
large-John J. Ingalls,, C. c. James.
Calvin Hood, L. A. Bigger, E. c. Little
and A. B. Ellis. Electors-William
Rudolph Hatfield and d. W.
King.
SENATOR DAVIS presided over the
republican state convention.
Ex-Gov. J. S. Pillsbury F. B. Daugher-
ty, Frank O'Day and Stanford Newell
we're elected delegates at large to Min
Patrick Fox and F. L. Nc
Chez were named as presidential cleo
tors at large. The resolutions do not
HEAVY rains caused rise in the Illi-
nois and Fox rivers, which overhowed
their banks and much damage to prop
erty was the result
CONTINUED rains in the west have in
.erfered with trade.
a RECENT storm at Burlington. Ia.
was the worst in years Ten hours rain
iell in a solid body, flooding the entire
country. The Chicago, Burlington &
quincy railroad suffered several bad
yashouts between Burlington and Cres-
on which stopped all trains during the
lay. South Main street, Burlington,
vas running river three feet deep for |
/ time. Much damage was done in the |
,ity and surrounding country.
-HE SOUTH.
A DAsTARDLY attempt was made to
wreck passenger train No. on the Hi
lois Central two miles north of Holly |
springs, Tenn.
IN the criminal court at Nashville,