The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-08
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
A STEADY improvement in the volume
of eastbound traffic is shown by the
weekly statements. Last weeks ship
ments of dead freight by all lines, from
Chicago to eastern points, amounted &c
1904 tons. against SO, 1872 tons for the
preceding week, an increase of 1,7sZ
tons, and against $4,000 tons for the
corresponding week last year, an in
crease of 1870 tons.
ST. LOUIS capital is building a pow
der mill near Alton, Ill, TO oppose the
powder trust
Gov. CHASE was renominated by the
republicans for governor of Indiana on
the first ballot Theodore Shockney
was nominated for Lieutenant governor.
The chiefs of the Arapahoe and
| CHEYENNE Indians of Oklahoma re-
| fused to accept the beef issue which
commenced recently. This will be
the last beef issue by the government
to these Indians and there is no little
concern among the settlers as to the
outcome of this surliness among the
reds.
CAPT. CHARLES HAY, superintendent
commissary and subsistence, United
States army, died recently at Denver,
Col. of pneumonia. He was As years
of age and during the war served in ex-
President Hayes Twenty-third Ohio
regiment His remains will be buried
at Fort Leavenworth.
The Oberammergau passion play is
-, 10, &rA 1A ha e fnf
A WIRE fence war is threatened in the
Cherokee country because of decision
of Judge Landrum of the circuit court.
BILLY SMITH. of Boston, and Charley
Gleason, of Portland, light weights,
fought at the Pastime club, Portland,
Ore, with five ounce gloves for a purse
of 500. Smith won in the fourth round.
THERE was an incendiary fire at Guth-
RE, Ok, causing loss of $4,000
TIP-O-TIP. masquerading through the
country as son of King Cetewayo, of
Africa, has fed from Cincinnati. He
was connected with a gang of burglars
GEN. JOHN BIDwEIL, of California,
was nominated for president by the pro-
hibition convention at Cincinnati; ]. B.
Cranfil, of Texas, was nominated for
vice-president.
GEORGE Hoop was killed by thresh-
ing machine accident near Vinita, I. 7.
In crossing a gutter the separator be-
came detached from the engine which
was hauling it and ran down upon it,
crushing Him against the frebox.
THE severest storm that has ever Wis
tied that section struck Carmi, H., late
the other night. Stewards drug store
and the opera house were unroofed and
torrents of water poured into both build
ings. The sheds attached to Williams
livery stable We're destroyed. The plate
glass in stores was demolished and
trees were torn up by the roots.
PRESIDENT JOHN NJ. EGAN, of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Kansas City road, has
issued circular stating that the Chica-
go Great Western Railway Co. has taken
possession of the Chicago, St Paul e
Kansas City railroad and appurtenances
as leased and will hereafter operate the
same.
The Chicago & Ohio River Railway
association is believed to be in a shaky
condition. The trouble is over the COM
mission question.
HIGH water in Illinois caused farm
ers to cut off heads of their wheat to
save it.
A GOVERNMENT exploring and survey
ing party has left Tacoma, Wash, for
Alaska.
A BIG prairie wolf recently attacked
a citizen of Fairfield, Ia-, at his own
door and was killed with difficulty.
DR. j. S. KNOX, of Chicago, is dead.
THE express freight train, east bound
on the Chicago & Erie road, was
wrecked by unknown wretches ten
miles east OF Huntington, Ind, and ten
cars of bullion, silk and fine horses
went into the ditch. No one was
killed.
THE ticket nominated by the repub..
licans of Kansas is as follows: For
governor, Abram W. Smith; lieutenant
governor, R. F. Moore: judge supreme
court, D. NJ. Valentine; secretary of
state, W. c. Edwards: auditor of state.
B. X. Bruce: treasurer, J. Bruce Lynch:
Encouragement, T. F. Carver: super
inteudent OF public instruction, J. c.
Davis
JOSEPH L. MERRILL, son of eX-Gov.
Merrill. OF Iowa, and secretary of the
local Land and Water Co, attempted
suicide at San Bernardino, Cal, by first
cutting his throat with a pocket-knife
and then gashing himself about the
head with an AK. Merrill has been
slightly deranged from overwork.