The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-24
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OsIAH HATCH, secretary of state in
Illinois from 1856 to 1864, died at his
home in Springfield recently.
The ice went out of the Missouri at
Sioux City, Ia, carrying the pontoon
bridge away and nearly demolishing
the false work of the Pacific Short line
bridge.
JAMES Brown, a prominent contractor
and builder of La Porte, Ind, was
drowned in the Kaukal1ee river while
hunting.
The Hillsdale Land & Cattle Co., of
Cheyenne, Wyo., has sold its ranch and
cattle to Lessor Franklin, of Chicago,
for s115, 600 This is the largest ranch
sale that has been made in Wyoming
for nearly ten years.
BY terrible explosion in mine of
the Choctaw Coal Co at Anderson, l. T.,
nine miners were killed and many 9th
ers badly injured
The Grand and other rivers in Mich
igan continued to rise and the damage
from the flood was great
RICHARD HEATH, son of the late Gen.
Heath, has been arrested as the perpe-
TRAITOR of the sensational McWhirter
murder at Fresno, Cal
THE highlander outrages in San Fran
cisco continue, another murder being
committed on the streets.
G.. w. MARSHALL, of Madison Basin,
Mont, proposes to exhibit at the worlds
fair seventeen elk, two Rocky Mount
=, Al 1e
NEARLY half of Polk City, Ia, has
been destroyed by fire.
A BILL has been introduced in the
legislature at Springfield, Ill, to open
the Illinois exhibit to the public on
Sundays, which will, it is thought, if
successful, result in opening the entire
fair on that day.
The Minnesota legislature has seized
the books of the coal combine and pro-
poses to examine them thoroughly.
THE republicans of Chicago have NOM
mated Samuel Allerton, the well known
packer, for mayor in opposition to Car
ter Harrison.
The situation in the Kalamazoo,
Mich, flooded districts remained about
the same on the 18th. The water had
not risen any since the previous night,
but there was much suffering as ice had
formed and house to house communica-
ton by boats was almost impossible.
IN a fight at tho Athletic club rooms
at Grand Rapids, Mich, Fred Broome
was knocked out in the third round.
sustaining co1reussion of the brain,
from the effects of which he may die.
JOHN ORTILLY, rich bachelor of San
Francisco, has died and left a million
dollars or more to his brother, Michael,
who is wauderer and cannot be found.
THE much tall6ed-of statue of Miss
Rehan in silver has dwindled down con-
siderably. 1t is now announced that
only her bust will be on show.
SOLDIERS are patrolling the Cherokee
strip and are arresting and running out
all boomers whom they find trespassing
upon it
IT is reported that defects were de-
veloped at the trial of the coast defense
ship Monterey at San Francisco and
that the constructors will lose $50, 900
because of the burning out of two large
boilers.
THE Western Freight association has
decided not to change the grain rates
AN explosion occurred in the Wheeler
opera house at Toledo, o., and in a few
minutes the entire building was ablaze
The building was erected in 1871 and
the loss was $50, 900.
GEN. SIMON BROWN died at st. Clair.
Mich, on the 18th, aged 81 years He
participated in seventy-two engage
ments during his life.
The Minnesota legislature, in def
ance of the opinion of the attorney
general, will hold on to the coal COM
panies' books, obtained by force, and it
proposes to prove by them that coal
combine exists in the state.
OTTo FAULKENBURG, convicted of
''whitecapping" in Perry county, Ill,
made a statement duplicating a num-
Der of citizens in participating in the
lynching of John Davidson at Doolit-
ties Mill five years ago Thirteen men
have been indicted.
A STRANGE disease among cattle in
Central Illinois is believed to be due to
the feeding of millet.