The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15


gan at San Francisco on the 5th. About
/ ZOO members were in convention.
THE big rolling mills at Newburg, o.,
have closed down for want of fuel. 1t
is estimated that between 1900 and A.
600 men are idle asa result of the shut
down.
THE city of Chicago has fled twenty
eight suits against as many railroads
for amounts aggregating more than
s., ,OOO, 900 for damages resulting from
the construction of viaducts over vari-
Gus streets.
JUDGE EWING. of Chicago, rendered
decision recently that citizen of
the United States cannot acquire title
to real estate by inheritance when the
inheritance has to be traced back
through alien ancestry, for the reason
that such alien ancestry is without in
heritable blood, which is necessary to
transmit an inheritance from one per-
son to another.
THERE was battle at Little's coal
mine. near Pekin, ILL.,, on the 9Th, be-
tween sheriff's posse and gang of
strikers. Two men were killed and
several wounded. 1t was feared that a
number of miners in the shaft were
suffocated. The sheriff was forced to
retrea. Pekin was reported wild with
excitement.
The election for chief and second
chief of the Seminole nation came OFF
on the 5th at Eufaula, 1. T., and the
present chief, John L. Brown, was
elected by nearly 200 majority. Hol-
butta Hario was elected second chief
without opposition.
R. b. LANGDoN & Co., of Minneapolis,
Mimi, have secured a s2,000,0 900 canal
contract in Arizona. The country to
be irrigated is 4OO,OO acres, mostly in
Maricopa county, and the water is to
be obtained from the Rio Verde. The
canal will start above Phoenix and will
be ITO miles long.
THREE hundred commonwealers, COM
posed of Poles, Bohemians and Aus
trians. started from Chicago on the eth
for Washington. The aggregation was
commanded by Joseph Rybakowski,
who claims to be Russian nobleman.
The army was escorted from the city
by detail of police.
MARSHAL LoDERBACK and detach-
ment of police, of Brazil, Ind, have
arrested six strikers who are supposed
to be implicated in the killing of
Engineer William Barr, east of Har-
mony on the Vandalia, and the injur-
ing of two other trainmen, and the ar
rests of twenty-five others are ex-
pected to follow. 1t was said one of
thSse arrested had made confession
divulging the names.
THE Dawes commission addressed
about 1000 Indians on the 7th at Du-
rant, l. T., urging the necessity of ac-
cepting statehood. The addresses
made a favorable impression. The
commissioners, who were all present,
were treated to an old-fashioned Indian
barbecue.
BILL DALTON, the notorious outlaw,
was Killed at Giddings' ranch, 80 miles
north of Ardmore, L. T., on the sth.
A NUMBER of Coxeyites were recently
drowned in trying to navigate the
Platte river in Colorado. OF one boat
load of eight, six are said to have been
lost. Many others are believed to have
been drowned from boats being wrecked
at the bridges.
MAIN street, of Bonner's Ferry, Ida,
was reported on the sth as under water
from to 10 feet. Bonner's Port, where
all the business houses are located. was
completely deserted. The old town
was big river, with a terrific current
down the street. More than twenty
buildings have been washed down the
river.
G. w. FovAL, proprietor of large
harness store at Webster, Ia, was
burned to a crisp on the morning of
the sth. While intoxicated he was
placed in the city Jail, which he set on
fire, with the result noted. He has twice
before attempted the same thing.
THE village of Foster, ILL.,, was excited
over a death from poisoning and sew
eral more threatened. Mrs. Sophia
Dwellinger, wife of a prominent farm
er, died from drinking coffee supposed
to have been poisoned. A number of
neighbors also drank the coffee and
were almost Immediately Frustrated.
THE railroad station and express Of
fee at Gibson, /. T., We're robbed by
two masked men on the night of the
10th.
THE bronze statue, "Signal of Peace"
the gift of Judge Lambert Tree to Lin
coin park, Chicago, was unveiled on
the 9th with simple ceremonies.
ILLUMINATING oil sold by the Stand
ard Oil Co. has touched the lowest
point ever reached in Chicago cents
the result of fight against outside
dealers.
THREE lives were lost in the lake
near Vermillion, O., on the 10th by the
upsetting of pleasure boat in which
were seated five persons. None of the
drowned persons were over is years
old. Their bodies have not yet been
recovered.
A TELEGRAM from Pomeroy, o., on
the 10th stated that the palatial Cincin-
natl and Pomeroy packet Sunshine,
while returning from Charleston,
where she was compelled to go for coal,
struck an obstruction in the Kanawha
river at Buffalo and sank, water run
ming over the deck.
THE SOUTH.
THE other afternoon fifty-two COM
monwealers at Parkersburg, W. Va,
went to the Baltimore & Ohio wards