The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-01-30

REPRESENTATIVES, Rumberger, Pet
roof and Clarke Of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature, ex.State Treasurer Kemble, and sew
eral other prominent politicians, and lobby
lists Of that State have been indicted for
bribery in connection with the Riot Claims
| act.
SETH A. TERRY, Secretary of the Ter
ritorial Savings Building and Loan Associa-
ton of Washington, d. c., has defaulted in
$25, 900. Terry was for many years connected
| with the Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands, under Gen. o. O.
Howard. He lost heavily in specializing in
Government claims Of various kinds.
THE Springer heirs, to the number of
over 200, held convention in St. Louis, on
the 21st, to consult as to the best means of
getting possession Of the estate they lay claim
to. This comprises the entire site of the city
of Wilmington, Del, and a large money de-
post in bank in Sweden.
ROHRER, the defaulting Cashier of
the Louisville Savings bank, has been locked
up in jail. His deficit is now said to exceed
$4,000.
GEN. CHARLES r. BRAYTON, Postmas.
ter at Providence, r. l., is a defaulter to the
Government to the amount of $4,000 or
over. His bondsmen are said to be good for
the amount. His successor has been ap-
pointed.
MISS SARAH M. CARPENTER of
Poughkeepsie has been appointed member
Of the State Board of Charities in New York.
Gov. Tilden made the first appointment of
lady as member Of the Board, Mrs. jose
phine Shaw Lowell, whose term continues;
and Gov. Cornell is reported to have said:
If there were good reasons for the appoint
ment of one woman as a member of that
Board, certainly there are as good for in
creasing the number of women upon it."
GEN. BOYNTON, the we'll known Wash
ington correspondent Of the Cincinnati Ga
zette, announces that he Is about to COM
mence suit for libel against Gen. Sherman.
Boynton sharply criticised the accuracy of
certain statements made in Sherman's auto
biography, which made the General mad,
and in recent interview the warrior de-
scribed the newspaper man as "person
entirely without character, who for 500 |
would SANDER his own MOTHER" and more |
to the same effect.
The widow of ex-President Tyler has
asked Congress for pension, on the ground |
OF the immense depression in the value of |
her real estate, the mortgages on her north
ern property having been foreclosed, and |
those on her southern property constantly
troubling her. She says: 81 find have
scarcely any thing whatever left to live up
on"
A. G. BOTKIN, formerly of the Mil
waukee Sentinel, but now United States
Marshal of the Territory of Montana, is at
present suffering from partial paralysis of
the limbs, the result of an affection of the
spinal marrow, brought on by over exertion
and exposure during recent trip to Fort
Sully on official business.
SENAToR-ELEcT GARFIELD began life
as wood chopper and canal driver.
COMMODORE HOMER G. BLAKE,
United States Navy, died at his residence in
New York City on the 21st.
WALTER r. IRWIN of Illinois, Chief
If Private Land Division in the General
Land-office at Washington, was found dead
n bed, at Mobile, on the morning of the
list.
MAJOR BRODHEAD, Paymaster U. S
A., was recently robbed of $4,000 while on
lis way from Fort Leavenworth to Fort
Reno. Particulars not given.
DANIEL BARRETT, Supreme President
Il the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association !
Il the United States and Canada, died sud-
lenly in Medina, N. Y, on the Odd.
DE LEssEPs. has formally broken j
round for his Inter oceanic Canal, under :
he authority of the Republic of Columbia, e
nd with the blessing of the Church in the 7
erson Of the Bishop of Panama. q
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the American c
xplorer, has established the first Belgian 4
rading station in Congo, near Yalala, which
lace is claimed by both England and Port =
Gal.