The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-26

LIZZIE Bolt. the woman accused OF
the murder of Detective Lowenstein, "a
Cincinnati, was acquitted. She was in
dicted for murder in the first degree
but the court ordered the jury to re
turn a verdict of not guilty. Thus the
tragedy goes down as suicide. Low
enstein was found dead in his room
with a bullet-hole in his head. The
Bolt woman was his mistress
THE local directory of the worlds fair
decided to open all portions of the fair
on Sundays and return the conditional
grant of s., 500, 900 to the government
A COMPROMISE has been effected be
tween the imprisoned St Clair county,
Mo-, judges and the bondholders at 81
cents on the dollar at per cent. inter
est. This makes the debt $500, 900 with
SIG, 900 annual interest.
BY the capsizing of tug and dredge
boat on Lake Conneaut, o., five persons
were drowned.
The worlds fair continues to be short
of funds. The running expenses are
s45, 900 daily. The pay of janitors and
helpers has been long overdue.
THE First National bank, of Cedar
Falls, Ia, has failed.
HUGH ADAMS, aged SIS, has sued his
wife, aged 62, at Martinsville, Ind, for
divorce.
ScHUREMAN's private bank at Nor,
NAL, Ill, has closed.
IT is said that ex-Secretary John w.
Noble will soon take up his residence
in Oklahoma having in view his eleva-
ton to the United States senate when
the territory is admitted to statehood.
The government commission has been
inspecting the work on the Missouri
river in the vicinity of Kansas City.
ONE phase of the Sunday opening of
the worlds fair is that the directors
believe that it will entail financial loss
rather than gain as is generally sup
posed.
THERE is some talk of the Chemical
National Bank of Chicago resuming.
THE c., B. & Q. directors have been
reelected.
WARREN & Co.. of the Chicago board
of trade, have assigned.
FIRE at Starbuck, Wash, destroyed
the Union Pacific car and machine
shops, nineteen locomotives and all
other railroad property except the coal
bunl1ers. Loss, $780,
EX-SENATOR VAN WICK, of Nebraska,
suffered a stroke of paralysis which
may result fatally.
THE Santa Fe wants return rate of
S16.5O to the worlds fair from Missouri
river points.
THE failure of the First National
bank at Cedar Falls, Ia. shows peculiar
transactions.
THE National bank of Evanston failed,
causing great excitement in that sub
urb of Chicago.
LAWSON RUNYoN, prominent Chero-
kee. was shot and killed by ex-Deputy
United States Marshal Creekmoor.
CHARLES H. JONES, editor .of the st.
Louis Republic, has resigned his Office
to Charles W. Knapp, president and
publisher, though still retaining his in
terest in the paper.
THE Oakland, Cal, ferryboat Bay
City ran down a rowboat containing
five persons and all were drowned.
A DAM restraining the water of Lakes
Ida and Milton, in Minnesota, broke
and large area of land was flooded
with the escaping water.
NINE young men have been arrested
for distributing boycotting circulars
against the firm of Diel & Bro, gents
furnishings, st. Louis.
JAMES E. MURDOCH, the well known
tragedian and teacher of elocution,
died at Cincinnati on the 10th. He was
S3 years of age.
j. A. r. ELLIOTT, of Kansas City, Mo-,
captured the Missouri state trophy as
the champion wing shot in the state
tournament. He killed thirty straight
birds.
JUDGE RICKs, at Cleveland, o., ap-
pointed a receiver for the Clover Leaf
the Toledo, Kansas City e st. Louis
railway.
THERE is great excitement in Normal,
Ill, over the failure of the Exchange
bank of that city, and the president has
been arrested for receiving deposits
after he knew the bank was insolvent.