The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-24

MANY more passenger cOnuucUOrs
have been discharged by the Alton
Railway Co.
The first prize for the best butter ex-
hibited at the late convention of butter
and cheese makers at Dn buque, Ia, was
awarded to E. w. Smith, a butter
maker at Colvin, Ill. He takes the gold
medal and 5000 in cash.
JOHN CHARLES THOMPSON came with
in one vote of being elected senator
from Wyoming.
An electric car was dashed from the
track at Portland, Ore, and three per-
sons were killed.
COLLECTOR QUINN, of California, is
preparing to strictly enforce the Geary
law, and expects to deport Chinese by
the thousands.
BY an explosion of coal dust in mine
at Ottumwa, Ia, one man was killed
and several injured.
SERIOUS floods are threatened in GEN.
tral Illinois.
THE steamer Idlewild was reported
sinking at St Louis, having been caught
in the ice.
Mr. JACOB RUSTERHoLT, prominent
young German farmer, died at Fair
bury, Ill, from the effects of n kick by
a horse, which, without warning, struck
him with both hind feet in the stom-
ach.
THE Odd Fellows temple at Canton,
O., has been destroyed by fire.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Minnesota legislature for the appoint
ment of three state highway commits
sioners to improve the roads of the
state.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Chadron and Fort Robin
son. Neh, on the night of the 14th.
The Great Northern railroad passen-
ger train from the coast with two en-
gines was thrown into the ditch four
miles west OF Bartlett, \. D., by a
broken rail and the sleeper turned over
and the first-class coach was tele-
scoped Nine persons were injured,
none fatally.
IVES scheme in trying to secure con-
troll of the Cleveland, Akron & Colum-
bus road involves two other Ohio roads
and is designed with view to getting
a Chicago seaboard trunk line.
A MINNESOTA legislative committee
is investigating penitentiary floggings.
MINNEAPOLIS and St Paul jobbers
are denouncing alleged determinations
in favor of st. Louis and Chicago in the
new transcontinental tariff sheet.
JAMES n. VEAsEY. of Cincinnati, one
of the witnesses before the whisky trust
investigating committee at Washington,
brought suit against President Green
hut OF the Cattle Feeding S Distillery
Co. for $50, 900 libel.
SMALLPOX is reported near Fillmore,
H.
OWING to the low price of silver the
Coeur d'Alene mines, of Idaho, are 10
shut down.
J. STERLING MORTON, of Nebraska, is
suggested for secretary of agriculture
THREE prisoners, among them Will
liam Vanorman, the Waverly bank rob-
Der and murderer, escaped from Jail at
Burlington, Kan.
TURTLE mountain half-breeds in
North Dakota are in revolt over being
temporarily cut off of the ration list
A VISIT to Terre Haute, the home OF
ex-Secretary Thompson, by the COM
mittee investigating the American end
| of the Panama scandal is likely, in or
der to hear the eX-secretary's evidence.
He is too i'll to appear at Washington.
GHoULs have been desecrating graves
at indianapolis. Ind. and Nauvoo, III.
THE Wyoming legislature strongly in
dorses woman suffrage, which, it says
is a success
GEN BRINKERHoFF, of Mansfield, O.,
it is stated, will succeed the late Ruther
ford B. Hayes IS president of the Ma
tional Prisoners Aid association.
THE Cherokee council has announced
emphatically that it will not ratify any
changes made by congress in the pres
ent treaty.
II. C. YEAGER. grand recorder of the
! A. o. L. w. of Montana, has been in,
dicted by the grand jury for malfeas
auce in Office and embezzlement.
Ice gorges near Ottawa, Ill, caused
high water and the flooding of the low.
| lands.