The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-01
THE Butler.Mueller Co.. Milwaukee,


although at that time perfectly solvent
| and able to pay all depositors, has re-
opened.
CONSTABLE JOE JONES was instantly
killed at Pauls Valley, 1. T., by John
Stevenson, whom he was trying to ar
rest.
The Ohio Stone Co, of Cleveland,
went into the hands of a receiver. AS
sets about $500, 900 and liabilities $780,
600.
THEODORE HAUGHEY, his son Schuy-
Ter Haughey and three Others asso-
ciated with them, have been arrested
at indianapolis charged with wrecking
the indianapolis national bank. The
arrests were made by the United States
government.
THE capital stock of the st. Louis,
Keokuk & Northwestern has been in
creased from IS, 600. 900 to $40, 900.
PROSPECTIVE settlers on the strip find
many faults with the provisions of the
proclamation, particularly with the
one requiring them TO register, which
| is pronounced to be unconstitutional.
AT the convention of fire chiefs at
Milwaukee there was very strong ex-
preston in regard to the necessity for
more stringent building laws.
BRIDGET PENDERGAsT, after having
been asleep at hospital for the insane
at indianapolis for two years, has
awakened and is dying.
r L. WooTES, SR., known through
out the west as Uncle Dick" died at
Trinidad, Col, the other night in his
S0th year. He was the greatest pioneer
in America and the oldest Indian fight
er in the west.
THERE has been considerable CORES
pondenee concerning the expulsion of
Italian miners from Cripple Creek, Col.
between Secretary Gresham, Gov.
Waite and Baron Fava, the Italian
minister. but it is likely the explana
nation offered the minister by the state
department will be satisfactory to the
Italian government
A SENSATION was caused at Chicago
by sudden wholesale Indictment of
gamblers. At the instance of State At
torney Kern eighty-seven indictments
were found.
THE Michigan-Peninsular car shops
at Detroit, will be shut down for a pc
riod not exceeding three months
AT the Jewish rabbis' sixth annual
convention at Chicago considerable
feeling was aroused over the sugges-
tions of the ritual committee that it be
allowed to revise the prayer book.
GRAssHoPPERs are doing great dam
age to crops in Iowa.
THEODORE THOMAS has declined to
resume the musical directorship at the
worlds fair.
THE oath was Illinois day at the
worlds fair. The occasion brought out
an immense attendance.
THERE is a scheme to start an inn
mense brewery in the Cherokee strip as
soon as it is opened.
The fire chiefs at Milwaukee decided
to hold their next convention at Mont
real.
SOUTH CHICAGO was visited by dis
astrous conflagration, which burned
five blocks of dwelling houses and rem
dered over 700 people homeless. being
quenched with the greatest difficulty.
near Madison, Ind, in the Ohio river.
The men were riding in a skiff and it
upset, drowning two preachers named
Warfield and Shelton and another man
named Willis.
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs of Des Moines, Ia,
held mass meeting to protest against
the action OF the republican convention
in deserving the cause of prohibition.
THE town of Merced Falls, Cal, has
been destroyed by fire. The MERGED
woolen mills, valued at $3.50, 900; Nell
sons Touring mill, $4,000, and the
warehouse of the woolen mill, contain
ing goods worth $4,000, were burned.
"REv. DR. HOWARD" who was ar
rested in Chicago, August 4, on the
charge of using the mails for fraudu
lent purposes, and Immediately after
ward escaped from an officer, is again
in custody, having been captured at
jackson. Tenn.
IL the federal court at st. Paul. Minn.,
the famous claim of the Remsen heirs
to recover title to S3,000 900 worth of
land in Minnesota was decided against
the claimants on the ground of estoppel
by the lapse of time.
THE remains of an unknown man
were found strewn alongside of the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago e st.
Louis railway 10 miles east of Lebanon,
Ind. 1t was thought he was tramp.
ACTOR NJ. B. CURTIS was acquitted of
the murder of Officer Grant at San
Francisco.
LATER and more accurate returns
from the big fire in South Chicago show
that the loss is not as large as at first
thought.
CAPT. JAMES AYERS, the well known
Chicago insurance man and head of the
firm of Ayers & Magill, died at Devils
Lake, Wis, of Brights disease.
THE United States court of private
land claims at Santa Fe confirmed the
Piedre Lumbre grant, covering $4,000
acres, in which are the Chama river
placer deposits
GEORGE BURNET, cashier OF the de-
funct state bank of Manitowoc, Wis,
has committed suicide by drowning.
THE referees in the famous case of
Emerie against Alvarado. in San Fran
cisco, have completed the work of
making an equitable distribution be-
tween $50 claimants of valuable San
Pablo ranch property.
GEORGE r. WEBER died at Pawnee,
Ill, aged IS years. Mr.. Weber was at
the time of his death the oldest news
paper publisher living in the state,
having been partner with John S.
Roberts in the publication of the Illi-
nois Republican in 1896.
THE SOUTH.