The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29

SPEAKING of the abandonment of the
Faribault, Minn.. parochial school,
Archbishop Ireland contends that it
does not mean the failure of the Fari-
bault plan, as has been claimed. He
insists that the plan is being success
fully worked at many places in Mime
sofa.
J. X. STRATToN, the noted mail-box
robber, has escaped from the Colorado
pen.
AT San Francisco, Judge McKenna
ordered Jim Lee, Sacramento China
man, to be deported. This was consid-
cred test case.
The Chicago Evening Journal, the
oldest daily newspaper in Chicago, has
been sold to DIR. s. f. Farrar for s169,
0O0
THROUGH freight rates west-bound
from Chicago are in a demoralized con-
dition.
THE train dispatchers of the United
States and Canada have been in con-
vention at Chicago.
The IS, 0OG race from Chicago to Mil
waukee bs tween the whaleback steam
er Christopher Columbus, of Chicago,
and the Goodrich line steamer Virginia
was won by the Columbus.
The jury at Topeka, Kan, found Sec
retary of State Osborn guilty of libel
ling Cy Leland. Osborn, in an inter-
view, had stated that Leland was in
collusion with George II. Case at the
penitentiary in defrauding the state.
AN express on the Illinois Central
was held up at Centralia, Ill. The
trainmen showed fight, resulting in
the defeat and wounding of two of the
robbers The fireman and engineer
were wounded. Two of the bandits
were captured, one of whom confessed.
The executive committee of the fair
have decided not to extend it beyond
the time originally set
Two Chicago policemen and crook
in a street battle were all shot, the
crook and one policeman fatally.
The town of Perry in the Cherokee
strip is rapidly developing city proper
tons
MANAGER FAvoRITE, of Armour &
Co, denies the truth of the report that
P. d. Armour is to back the Planking-
ton bank, of Milwaukee, and pay its
creditors in full.
PART of the assets of Calvin Arm
strong, the s43, 900 defaulting deputy
treasurer of Upton county. Ind, has
been captured in ST. Louis in the shape
of a string of horses at the East Side
track.
A GOOD, soaking rain has fallen in
every nook and corner of Wisconsin,
heavy enough to completely squelch
the forest fires.
AT Kingsbury, Ind, fast express
train on the Wabash crashed into a
freight train on siding and many
passengers We're killed and injured.
The accident was caused by a brake
mans error.
A DISASTROUS fire visited Red Wing,
Mimi, destroying a large sash and
door factory and large quantity of
valuable lumber.
THE two men who were killed at
Waukomis, on the strip, were father
and son named Liddle, and the shoot
ing was done by ]. C. Williams
THERE is an epidemic of diphtheria
and scarlet fever at Rice Lake, Wis.
The schools have been closed. A num-
Der of deaths have occurred and there
are many persons i'll
THOMAS LYNCH, the distiller, widely
known for long time as the chief op-
ponent of the whisky trust died in
Chicago lately. He leaves an estate of
81, $50, 900.
THE owners Of the steamer Tioga.
whose explosion at Chicago three years
ago caused loss of twenty-four lives,
have been freed from criminal respon-
sibility because in the indictment the
word vessel was used when it should
have been steamer"
A NUMBER of bodies charred beyond
recognition have been found on the
scene of the recent prairie fires on the
Pawnee reservation.
THE yacht Ollie was run down at the
mouth of the Chicago river by the big
steamer City of London. Everyone of
the fourteen persons on the yacht were
saved.
EX-CoLUMBIAN GUARD JOHN HILL,
suspected of the killing of John Switch
at Chicago, has been set free.