The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-19

| WILLIAM c. RENFRow was inaugu-
rated governor of Oklahoma on the
10th. but he is not governor yet, for
President Cleveland has declined to
sign his commission until he can in
vestigate certain charges against him.
THE biennial convention of the inter
national Y. NJ. C. A., at indianapolis,
Ind, met on the 10th with large at
tendance.
The Vermont building at the worlds
fair was dedicated on the 10th and the
event brought many New Englanders
to witness it.
THE Bank of Santa Clara County,
Cal, closed its doors. having discovered
an embezzlement of nearly s20O, 200.
THE village of North Galveston, Ind,
was almost totally destroyed by fire
and five lives were lost in the flames.
THOMAS NELSON PAGE, the southern
novelist, will be married June s at
Elmhart. ILL.,, to the widow of the late
Henry Field, of Chicago.
A MARRIAGE license was issued at
Clinton, Ia, for boy of 16 and girl
of 13, the parents of each having given
their consent.
THE boilers in the electric light plant
at La Junta exploded destroying the
building, wrecking planning mill near
by and killing Charles Sheppard, the
engineer.
BY the burning of the postal car near
Goodrich. Cal, the entire eastern edi-
ton of the California Magazine for May
was destroyed.
THE Oklahoma G. A. r. has been in
session at FL Reno.
THE mutilated remains of two men
were found in barrel at Kansas City,
No. Investigation showed that medi-
cal students had been perpetrating an
old, and horrible hoax.
THE Columbia National bank of Chi
cago failed on the 18th.
The Capital National bank of Indian
apolis, Ind, failed on the 11th.
The fifth annual congress of the
Scotch-Irish Society of America met at
Springfield, o., with President Robert
Bonner, of New York, in the chair and
many distinguished men as delegates.
FIRE at Spring Lake, Mich, started
by spark from passing steamboat,
caused confiagration which destroyed
half the town.
THE committee Investigating the mis-
conduct of Theodore Thomas, musical
director at the worlds fair, recommend
ed that he be dismissed.
JESSE JACKSON, Scott Bunner and Ed
ward Newcomb, of the gang that blew
up the Santa Fe express car at Whar-
ton, l. T., last November and secured
only a basket of grapes for their
trouble, pleaded guilty and were SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
Gov. BoIEs, of Iowa, has appointed
committee to investigate the report
that DIR. Hill and his attendants of the
state insane asylum had been guilty of
brutal and inhuman treatment to pa
tients, resulting in several mysterious
deaths.
THE failure of the Bank of Santa
Clara, Cal, is now believed to be COM
plete, all the assets having been wiped
out. There are well-grounded reports
of fraud, involving men of reputed
wealth and much prominence.
IT has been decided that for the pres
ent 81 shall be the price of an Isabella
souvenir quarter. At this rate the
board of lady managers will realize
$4,000 out of the $4,000 appropriated
to the woman's department of the
worlds fair-a bit of financiering un-
equaled by any act of the men con-
nected with the exposition.
THE houses of three prominent citi-
zens who are prosecuting saloon cases
at Muscatine, Ia, were blown up by
dynamite. No fatalities resulted.
AT meeting of the local directory of
the worlds fair it was decided to open
the worlds fair on Sunday, May 81.
A TORNADO swept through Livingston
county, Mich, doing a great amount of
damage to farm property.
QUITE number of bank failures in
Indiana resulted from the suspension
of the Columbia National of Chicago.
TROUBLE with the Navajos has been
averted by the Intervention of Chief
Black Horse, who has succeeded in get
ting the murderers of Ranchman
Welsh delivered up.