The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-07
A BIT OF HISTORY.
Frauk Montgomery.

FOrty-tOur years ago TINS week Is. |
f. Stringfellow Knocked Governor
Reeder down, at Shawnee Mission,
for having said that Stringfellow was
a "bOrder ruflian.r The phra, e |
BORDER ruhian" was caught up and !
became national one. Forty-three
years ago this week Congress voted
on the admission of Kansas under the
Lecompton constitution and defeated
the bill by majority of one vote.
-Four days before this the Republican
national convention at Philadelphia
had declared for the admission of Kan
sas. Forty-two years ago this week
Abraham Lincoln made a speech i'm
Springfield, ILL.,, on Kansas, saying:
Look, Douglas, and see people flee
ing see the full columns of brave men
stopped-see the press and the type
living intothe river-and tell me what
is thi, ! 1t is your squatter SOW
ereignty! Let slavery spread over
the territories and God will sweep us
with brush of fire from this solid
globe - Thirty-nine years ago this
week President Buchanan vetoed the
homestead bill. Thirty-eight years
ago this week Kansas troops with
regulars were quartered in Kansas
City, and Jim Lane was made briga-
dier general. Thirty. years ago
this week Governor Charles Robinson
was acquitted by court of impeach-
ment, and Congress incorporated the
Union Pacific railroad. Thirty-six
years ago this week Colonel James
Montgomery was raiding through
Georgia with the colored regiment
organized i'm south Carolina Thirty
five years ago this week the State
Agricultural College issued its first
catalogue, showing an attendance OF
los pupils. Thirty-four years ago this
week the Fifth Kansas veterans were
mustered out at Duvall's Bluff, Ark.
Thirty-three years ago this week Jim
Lane committed suicide at Leaven-
worth. Thirty-two years ago this
week the grasshoppers began to fly
back to Colorado, and Governor CraW-
ford called out four companies OF
troops to protect the western borders
from Indians, Il battalion known as
the Eighteenth Kansas. Thirty-one
years ago this week seymour was
nominated for President by the Demo-
Gratis. and General Tom Ewing, the
Kansas man, was defeated for the
nomination for vice president because
of his famous order No. IL. Thirty
wears ago this week flood drowned
many people in Central Kansas ano
the lower part of Junction city wa'
four feet under water, Twenty-nint
, years ago this week a company com
menced to take out coal at Leaven
worth. and the first term Of court was
concluded i'm Wichita.
Twenty.eight years ago this week
the threats of so-called "Nigilantes
, TO assassinate Bent Murdoch led to tn,
death of his wife and child. Twenty
, seven years ago this week the Chicago
~ southwestern was completed a
o Atchison. Twenty.siX years ago thi
week the famous st. Ananias Clul
q was incorporated at Topeka, and t.
, this day it continues doing busines
, ON its platform of "honesty, sobriety
chastity and veracity." TWENTY-FIVE
: years ago this week George ;. smith
>. the detaultmg treasurer OF leaNen
q worth, was conYicted at Atchison
, Twenty-four years ago this Weel
@ McDaniels. the Muncie train robbel
escaped from the Lawrence Jail an'
- was killed i'm resisting recapture
: Twenty-three years ago TINS wee
. Custer and the,Seventh cavalry wer
> massacred by Sitting Bull and Tildel
q was nominated for president. Twenty
:, two years ago this week Noble !
q Prentis started ON the trip whlc
yielded his book, "A KansanAbroad. !
i Twenty-one years ago this week tn
~ steamer, Grand Lake, started iron
=. Kansas City with tow of barges AM
10000 bushels of wheat for st. Louis
Twenty years ago this month ther
was excitement over the Hillmo
II murder, and the Wichita Eagle dt
% clared that the body was not that
h Hillmon but of Frank Nichols. Thi
h was the beginning of the famous in
T, surance case, still unsettled. Nine
e teen years ago this week Presiden
, Grant visited Kansas and was give