The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-07

numerically guyed for his singing
on the stage at Chicago
Gov. WAITE, of Colorado, has vetoed
the bill creating railroad commission.
TRAINS will soon be running into St
Louis over the Missouri, Kansas Il
Eastern road by way of Boonville and
St Charles.
WESTERN roads have decided that,
commencing April l, meals served in
dining cars will be charged for at the
rate of 81 per head instead of 20 cents,
as heretofore.
A NUMBER of prominent citizens have
been indicted at Hillsboro, Ill, on a
charge of gambling.
THERE was a destructive fire at East
Prairie, Mo-, the other morning.
A CASE of leprosy is reported at Oak
land, Ill.
THE Colorado senate, after a stormy
session, passed the bill abolishing the
railroad commission over the veto of
Gov Waite.
A REPUBLICAN tariff banquet was held
at Canton, O., at which Gov. Mckinley
was the principal figure. The coupling
of his name with the nomination for
the presidency in 1896 brought out tre-
mendous applause.
THERE was great excitement in the
Chicago wheat pit on the Goth, May
options dropping cents.
THE Wisconsin legislature has adopted
a memorial to congress for the election
of United States senators by popular
vote.
The Ohio assembly has adopted a
piece of freak" legislation by which
punishment is meted out to married
men who go sparkling" unmarried
females
A HORSE at Alton. Ill, was afflicted
with hydrophobia and was shot
The Alliance Advocate has been
made the official state paper of Kansas.
In landslide north of Edmunds,
Wash, Robert Baker was killed and
two other men badly injured.
The committee of the Nebraska house
has fully decided to impeach three of
the state officials and action will be
commenced at once.
RIVERS in southern Minnesota were
out of their banks and serious danger
was threatened from floods and ice
gorges.
FIRE destroyed the Forest City Var
nish Co.'S works at Cleveland, o., and
one of the employees lost his life.
PRESIDENT HIGGINBOTHAM, of the
worlds fair, has made a statement de-
nying the numerous stories about eX
tortions which were to be practiced.
THERE is serious split in the Chero-
kee council over the manner in which
the final settlement and payment of
the strip money shall be made.
No WATER, the leader of the refract-
ory Sioux, has been captured and the
prisoners wanted will be brought in as
soon as they are able to be moved.
DAVID SCANNELL, for many years
chief of the San Francisco fire depart
ment, died suddenly the other morning
aged 20 years. Scannell served through
the Mexican war. In the city's troublous
times he was sheriff of San Francisco,
and took prominent part in the work
of the vigilance committee.
RI. REV. BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM
KIP, of the California Episcopal do
cese, was reported dying at his home in
San Francisco. The bishop was 50
years old.
THE territorial supreme court of Utah
has affirmed the judgment of the lower
court in the case of Enoch Davis, who
was sentenced to be shot for the mur-
der of his wife.
J. L. ToDD has transferred his patent
on a registering thermometer to the
Columbian Electrical Co., of Chicago.
The consideration was in the neighbor-
hood of 500, 1000 The machine regis
tiers the temperature every minute.
CHARLES BoHANNoN was found guilty
of the murder of George w. Doane and
sentenced to 10 years in prison at Vim
cennes, Ind. Bohannon killed Doane
out of jealousy.
ALLISON, the Okland Qll.) farmer af-
flicted with leprosy, has been taken to
the poor farm
THE Illinois supreme court has rem
dered decision ending the internicine
strife in the Evangelical church by
ousting the Dubbs faction.
THE News s-Record of Chicago prints a
long dispatch from Washington assert
ing that officials engaged in the Beh-
ring sea case have been drawing double
salaries Elijah w. Halford is impli-
Gated and so is j. Stanley Brown, who
married Garfeld's daughter Mollie.
Bob TALTON who was to have been
hanged at Tahlequah, I. r., was
granted thirty days reprieve by Chief
Harris.
THE Nebraska legislature in joint
convention adopted the resolutions for
the impeachment of four state officials
by an almost unanimous vote
THE Ho-O-Den or Sacred Palace of
the Japanese at the worlds fair
grounds in Jackson park has been ded-
icated with interesting ceremonies
A GOOD many horses in the vicinity
of Carthage, Ill, are afflicted with pc
culiar ailment called ''straugles" 1t
resembles the distemper, although IA
talities are few.
THE Western Passenger association,
it is said, will agree on 22-10 cents
per mile worlds fair rate.
The date for the reciprocity conven-
ton to be held in St Paul, Mimi, has
been fixed for June 3 and g.
THE SOUTH.
IN an affray near Danville, KY, Dick
Crowder shot and instantly killed
James Member and wounded John Harp