The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-15
THE WEST.

AT meeting at st. Louis on the 9th
lumber dealers of Kansas City, st.
Louis and other Missouri points and
Arkansas revised the price list adopted
by the Southern Lumber Manufacture
ers' association at its February meeting
in New Orleans as far as yellow pine is
concerned, making cuts ranging from
25 cents on fencing to So on flooring.
MAMIE ROBERTS, of Oskaloosa, Ia,
who sued her father and uncle for $40,
600 for falsely incarcerating her in an
insane asylum, has secured verdict
for $1,000, the jury remaining out forty
one hours. A motion was made for a
new trial
AT Kansas City, NO., on the 5th the
democratic general ticket, with the ex-
ception of Michael Ross, candidate for
the upper house, was elected.
THE supreme court of the Choctaw
nation convened on the 5th at Tuska-
homa with Joseph Garland, chief Justice;
jefferson Gardner and j. w. Everidge,
associate justices presiding; C. Nelson,
Encouragement, and T. b. Kibben,
clerk
CAPT. HALL arrived at Guthrie, Ok,
on the 5th from the Cherokee strip with
two companies of cavalry. They
elected several hundred boomers from
the strip and burned their houses. The
entire 6,OOO,OO0 acres of the strip will
now be put under military patrol and
all boomers, hunters and settlers will
be kept out.
ATTORNEY JOHN F. BEGGs, who was
charged with completely in the murder
of DIR. Cronin, but on trial was acquit-
ted, died on the 5th of pneumonia.
JAMES KITCHEN shot and mortally
wounded James Huddleson at Hamil-
ton, O., recently, the ball passing through
Huddleson's liver. They were neigh
bors and their families disagreed.
THE post Office at Warren, ILL.,, was
burglarized recently and robbed of ST.
coo. mostly in postage stamps.
NINE persons We're burned to death
in a dwelling at Fort Madison, Ia, on
the 9th.
THE Nebraska supreme court has re-
fused to grant ex-Gov. Thayer's petition
for rehearing of the celebrated guber-
Material case of Boyd VS.. Thayer This
settles the matter for all time and Gov
Boyd's official position is now firmly es-
tablished.
ARMOUR e Co. have begun twenty
one suits in the circuit court at Chicago
to recover in the aggregate 81, 155, 900
from various railroad companies
throughout the country for overcharges
on dressed beef.
MICHAEL J. KING, one of Dubuque's
earliest settlers and prominent con-
tractors, is dead, aged 81.
BROWNSVILLE, small town in Pick
ems county, Chickasaw nation, was
wiped out by a cyclone the other day.
CAPT. CHRIS. RATH, who hanged Mrs.
Surratt, and who has been employed
in the railway mail service in Michigan,
has become insane.
IN an encounter between cattle men
and what are called range rustlers" in
Montana, recently, eight of the former
were killed and several wounded.
Four more bodies of victims of the
Golden Rule disaster at Cincinnati have
been recovered by divers.
IT is stated at indianapolis, Ind, that
the Gray and Cleveland factions have
finally reached a compromise. Cleve-
lands supporters are said to consent
that Gray shall have the Indiana dele
cations vote for few ballots. the dele
cation then to go TO Cleveland and stay
with him until the battle is ended.
CoLoRED people have laid off new
town near Kingfisher. Ok.
THE trotting stallion Hamdallah.
owned by Aiken Bros, died at La
Crosse, Wis, the other day. He was
valued at $1,000, and had a record of
2:243l, obtained at Sioux Falls. Ham
dallah was wears old.