The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29


cannon was the signal for the opening
of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reserva-
ton for settlement and those who mad
been waiting on the border for some
time Immediately entered therein.
Okarche. which in the morning was
bare prairie, at night had 1 500 inhablt-
ants
THREE more shocks of earthquake
were experienced in California on the
Goth.
THE heaviest earthquake experienced
| in California since 1868, was felt In the
central portion of the state on the 18th.
The towns of Vacaville. Dixon and Win
tiers suffered losses estimated at S25O,-
600. There was no loss of life.
Eight squares of the town of Kenosha,
Wis. were destroyed by fire on the 18th.
THE Indiana delegation to the demo-
cratic national convention will vote for
Cleveland for president.
HARRY HILL, better known as Okla
homa Hill. was shot on the Goth at
Watongo, Ok. by Ted Grimes, in a run
ming fight between the Texas delega-
ton and Kansas boomers. Hill is the
cause of the disappointment at Wat
ongo. county seat of c county. The
Indians from Smith. Pauls valley
are favoring the Hill faction, and they
and the Texas delegation.are at swords
point.
A NATIONAL convention of colored
people is to be held at Cincinnati this
| summer At mass meeting of citizens
| held there on the Goth committee was
appointed. consisting of ID. \. Rudd, 5.
j. Hunter and W. NJ. Porter. The COM
mittee has decided to ask the colored
people of the United States to send del
egates to a national convention to be
held in Cincinnati July 4 and >, 1892,
for the purpose of taking effective steps
to enlist the sympathies of all clviliza-
ton in behalf of Justice. In its call the
committee says: at is needless to re-
count here the outrages and difficulties
that are heaped upon the race and that
we must meet at every turn in life.
Each state will be entitled to one dele
gate for every 10000 of its colored popu-
lation or fraction thereof.
CALIFORNIA experienced three earth
quake shocks within a week.
| JAMES COCHRAN. of Des Moines, Ia,
shot and killed his divorced wife and
w. T. Davis, her lover. He then com
mitted suicide.
GEN. \. q. EDWARDS died recently al
his home in Kirkwood. Mo. He was 81
years of age and prominent federal
officer. a graduate of West Point and Z
citizen who has had long and success
full business career. Mr.. Edwards mar
ried cousin of President Lincoln, anC
was appointed by him assistant treas
urer of the United States with headquar
ters in the suh-treasury of st. Louis, Z
position he held until near the close o
President Cleveland's administration.
INDIANA democrats in convention in
dorsed Grover Cleveland and made Gray
the second choice.
DR.. ALBERT ii. CABLE, a physician o
DAYTON. O.. who has been addicted t,
the opium habit. committed suicide b!
shooting, the other day. He was un
married and protege of the late Mrs
Thomas Ster. sister of the late Gen
George Crook.
JUDGE CLAIBORNE, of st. Louis, say
suit clubs are lotteries.
CINCINNATI carpenters and bosses hav,
settled their difficulties for the coming
two years.
PROF. SCHURNAN, professor of phi
losophy at Cornell university, has beer
offered the presidency of the universit!
of California at Berkeley. Cal.
| l.,
for ten years was assistant superinten
dent of the Chicago city schools, is dead
DIR. Burroughs was born in Stanford, \
V. in 1878.
ONE of the Wyoming cattlemen hel,
as prisoner wrote letter to frient
and which was found on his person, il
which he said that it cost over s.. 900 f
kill Champion and Ray, and that hire
assassins were to receive So day an,
$50 for every man killed.
CHARLES MILLER. the eighteen-year
old boy who while tramping across tn
country over year ago in compan
with Ross Fishbaugh and Waldo En-
erson. of ST. Joseph, Mo-. murdered hi
companions in box car in Cheyenn
for few dollars, was hanged the othe
l day.
THE Chicago racing associations sun
mer meeting commences June an
r ends June -. There will be seventee
t days racing, with five races on eac
t day. including stake event, with tn
: exception of June u.
/ A GIGANTIC trust of trunk manufac
2 urers. including the greater ESTABLISH
ments in Milwaukee. Racine, Chicag,
| Oshkosh. Cleveland, st. Louis, Cincil
: natl. Detroit. Louisville and other citi,
: in ali portions of the United States h;
S been effected. The big combine is know
. as the National Trunk Co., and i
a headquarters are in Chicago.