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

THE mayoralty of Maroa, Ill, was
decided by Tipping a coin. The vote
had been a tie.
THE Illinois and Sangamon rivers
near Virginia. Ill, have flooded thou
sands of acres
SYLVESTER GoRBY, state geolOgist of
Indiana, has been afflicted with
dementia.
THE railway ticket brokers have won
their habeas corpus case at Chicago,
which means that the law against
''scalping' is unconstitutional
CLAUDE WILSON, a Methodist minis
ter of Shawnee, o., took poison on the
porch of the house of his betrothed,
with whom he had quarreled.
AT the Transmississippi conference
Gov. Mcconnell, OF Idaho, was elected
president after spirited contest with
A. c. Fisk.
GEN. ROBERT SMITH, aged Sc, died re-
Gently at Hamilton, Ill.
WILLIAM c. GoUDY, n leading demo-
crat and lawyer of Chicago, dropped
dead at his desk.
TIE Ingham County Savings bank at
Lansing. Mich, has suspended.
THE financial embarrassnents at
Sioux City. Ia, extended until most of
the business firms was affected.
THE international Y. W. c. A. is in
session at Toledo, O.
AN expert, by order of the railroad
board, is examining Ann Arbor engines
which recently exploded.
THE Western Baseball league has
been formed, to commence play May
20. There are six clubs, representing
Denver, Pueblo, Wichita, Omaha, To-
peka and Kansas City.
The Transmississippic congress took
vote on the silver resolution, passing it
by vote of 230 for free coinage and 40
against. the opposition coming largely
from California and Missouri.
THE list birthday anniversary of
Gen. Grant april 27) was celebrated ut
Galena, ILL.,, by public demonstration
and a speech by Gov. Mckinley.
THERE is great excitement in south
ern Oregon over the discovery of rich
gold fields in the Willow Springs dis
trict.
FROM latest reports from the terrible
storm in Oklahoma it is believed that
not less than seventy-five persons were
killed.
NINE log rollers were killed by the
breaking of jam at Menominee, Mich.
A RECEIVER has been applied for at
Toledo, O., for the Ann Arbor rrOad.
THE Liberty bell arrived in Chicago
all right and was received with great
demonstration.
TIE Navajo Indians located in north
ern New Mexico. are on the warpath.
Eight settlers have already been killed
and more bloodshed is feared. Troops
have been ordered to the scene.
THE chess tourney at Kokomo, Ind.
ended in the victory of Lasller over
Showalter. Ten games We're played.
Lasler winning 6 and Showalter ,:
drawn, ..
JAMES RoTHFORD. a fifteen-vear-old
boy. was killed at London mills, Can
ton. H.. by falling on circular saw.
THE bar at bloomington, H.. gave
Minister James S. Ewing farewell
banquet.
WILLIAM COwAN. of Monmouth, Ill, a
veteran of the Seminole war, has just
been granted a pension.
CHARLOTTE L. ZIMMERMAN, of Chi
cago. who was saved from drowning.
stabbed herself and then jumped head
long from a window. Her neck was
broken.
THE TransmisSissippi congress at Og-
den. Utah. just before it adjourned
passed resolutions in favor of the ad-
mission of Arizona, New Mexico and
Utah as states.
RED river has been out of its banks
in Minnesota and thousands of acres
have been covered. Many farmers lost
everything and will not be able TO put
in crops.