The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-30

1T was stated Dy a Denver, Ool., paper
that in case the supreme court decided
adversely to Gov Waite In the fire and
police board controversy he would pro-
ceed to storm the city hall by force of
arms at midnight on the day the de-
cision was rendered. The governors
lieutenants were quietly swearing in
deputies, as the loyalty of the militia
was suspected.
The supreme court of Michigan has
rendered a decision sustaining Gov.
Rich in removing Secretary of State
Joachim, State Treasurer Hambitzer,
and Land Commissioner Berry, for
gross negligence in failing personally
to canvass the returns of the amend
ment election of 1898.
In the Iowa house the liquor bill was
passed by vote of 53 to AZ.
FIRE in the South Evanston, Ill,
public school on the 21st caused panic
among pupils. Many were seriously
injured by jumping from windows
The building, valued at $4,000, was a
total loss.
THOMAS p. TUT, ex-treasurer of De-
troit, Mich, has been arrested on the
charge of having stolen SIS, 722 from
that city's treasury.
A CYCLONE passed over West Madi-
son, Ind. on the 22d barely touching
the ground. In some places great
trees were uprooted. There was pc
culiar noise and friction in the air,
with red and blue colors, followed by a
hail storm.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance
apostle, has lately been holding tenn
perance meetings in Joliet and other
places in VIII county, Ill, and not less
than 5000 people have signed the
pledge.
THE Iowa senate on the 22d passed
the house liquor bill, thus destroying
the policy of prohibition. The law
provides for the taxation of saloon
property, and many conditions are re-
quired before commencing the sale of
liquor.
The immense lumber plant of the
Foster Lumber Co., at Kildare, Ok, was
destroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss,
$50, 600. The fire was incendiary
FATHER MALONE, editor of the Colo
RADIO Catholic, has received an official
communication from Rt Rev. Monies
De Oca, bishop of San Luis Potosi,
which denies the report recently sent
out that he had expelled the Jesuits
from his diocese.
A SENSATION has been caused at the
army post situated on Angel island,
Cal, by the discovery that a large
quantity of gunpowder and coal oil,
which was stored on the bluffs at some
distance from the barracks, had been
removed. 1t is thought that both citi-
zens and soldiers are concerned in the
robbery.
BUFF" HIGGINS, the murderer of
Peter McCooey, was hanged at Chicago
on the 23d.
A STRIKE was inaugurated on the
lines of the Robinson Electric Street
railway at Toledo o., on the 22d, 11S
motor men and conductors refusing to
take out their cars, pending the rein
statement of four men alleged to have
been discharged for unionism. The
wires were cut in many places.
AT Golden, a mining camp north of
Albuquerque, n. NJ, Jim Cheeves. in
sanely jealous of his divorced wife,
quarreled with Al Perry over the wom-
an. Pistols were drawn and both fired
simultaneously. Cleeves was shot dead
and Perry cannot live.
BILL GALLAGHER. a cowboy, was shot
and killed at Meeteeze, Wyo., by John
Witham, another cowboy, whom he at
tempted to shoot for interceding for a
woman whom Gallagher was beating.
A TELEGRAM from Buffalo, Wyo.,
stated that the loss of range stock in
the late blizzard will probably be one
half, which will scarcely leave any
stock in the territory this spring.
THE democratic general committee of
San Francisco adopted resolutions pro-
testing against the adoption of the new
treaty with China and requesting the
congressional delegation from Califor-
mia to prevent its ratification
CRIPPLE CREEK mine owners have
agreed to receive a delegation of miners
and talk over the situation. The meet
ing has been arranged by State Mine
Inspector Reed, and the outlook for a
compromise of the strike is brighte r
than it has been at any time before.
J. J. MARSHALL, civil engineer, and
two assistants have gone to the Big
Horn basin country to look over the ir-
rigable lands in that region. They
represent an Omaha syndicate which
contemplates locating a large colony
of farmers in Wyoming the coming
season.
In Los Angeles detectives have ar
rested Hugh Cronkite, the absconding
county treasurer of Warren county,
Ind, who on January 81, 1898, disap-
peared, leaving, it was alleged, his ac-
counts short SOS. .O00