The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-03
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, has
been reelected by the silverites in the
legislature.
CHICAGO lawyers adopted resolutions
calling on President Harrison to resign
so that Morton can appoint him to the
supreme bench.
DIPHTHERIA is prevalent at Gales
burg, Ill.
FIaE at Burlington, Ia, destroyed the
Mozart block.
THE board of education of Kent, o. &,
is having a serious time enforcing the
truant law. The 0mish sect have
practically ignored it They declare
that their religious belief forbids them
to give their children an education.
AUGUSTUS CRoSKHITE, treasurer of
Warren county, Ind, is s63, 900 short in
his accounts.
NICK ROBERTS, of "Humpty Dumpty"
renown. has been relieved from the
management of the Fountain square
theater at Cincinnati
ONE fireman was fatally and two
badly injured by the fall of the walls
of E. w. Frost's planning mill in Chicago
Loss, $50, 900.
THE Kansas legislature in joint ses-
sion elected John Martin for United
States senator. Republican members
refrained from voting and attempted
afterwards to elect Ady. but failed for
want of a quorum
A MEMORIAL to congress, introduced
by Ignatius Donnelly, was passed by
the Minnesota senate calling on the
general government to take absolute
possession of all the anthracite coal
lands and operate them in the interest
of coal consumers
THE Lake Erie 81 Western switch
mems strike at Muncie, Ind, has ended.
j. II. CALDWELL is charged with be-
ing the champion bigamist at Cincin-
natl, having seven known wives
ORLANDO KEIFER, farmer of Van
dalia, Ill, was telling timber when a
limb struck him on the head, killing
him instantly.
FRANK HENscHEN fatally wounded
his sweetheart and shot himself dead at
St Louis He was cigarette fiend.
A WATER snake IA inches long has
been elected from the stomach of Mrs.
Esther Frasier at Denver, Col
In the Wyoming legislature the pop
ulists cast five votes for Mrs. Bartlett
for United States senator.
The senatorial contest in Wisconsin
came to an end when Mitchell defeated
Bragg for the democratic nomination.
In Wisconsin three Chippewa Indians
got on a drunk and attacked a camp of
Pottawatomies and murdered three OF
them.
A STOCK famine is possible in north
western Iowa. Hogs are extremely
scarce.
FUNERAL services over the body OF
the late Bishop Dwenger, of Fort
Wayne, were held on the 10Th.
BY the explosion of escaping gas at
so and SOL Halstead street, Chicago,
three persons were burned. Mrs. Anna
Graham, the landlady, was severely
burned about the head and shoulders
and may die.
THE United States Banking Co, al
Gervais, Ore, has suspended payment.
The company has three banks one al
Gervais, another at Junction City and a
third at Sheridan. Farmers are the
principal losers.
Two robbers raided the bank al
Waverly, Kan, in regular Dalton style.
After obtaining a small sum of money
they took flight, killing one of theiI
pursuers, but were finally captured
after considerable firing.
BY decision of the Indiana supreme
court, it becomes necessary for the pres
ent legislature to make reapportion-
ment of the state for Legislative pur
poses.
THE courts of Oklahoma have de
cided that separate schools for white and
colored children are constitutional.
FooTPADs are terror at Fort Wayne
] Ind.
The Cincinnati charity ball brought
$1,000 net receipts, which will be turned
over to the city board of charities.
HENRY FROST, diamond dealer o
Chicago, has disappeared and as he al
ways carried nearly $1,000 worth o
diamonds upon his person it is feared
he has been foully dealt with.