The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-15

sum i On6 70 the secretary OF Stdtc requiring
him to show cause why he should not pay over
to certain claimants money in his possession,
under what is known as the Ben Well Mexican
claim. The claim amounts to over S4OO,OOO.
The claimants fear their rights may be inn
paired by the treaty with Mexico now pending.
THE EAST.
The auditor of the Lake Shore Road has
been examining the accounts Of 8. Wright
Gilbert, ASCENDING cashier Of the Buffalo d.
vision, and finds the amount of peculation al
ready discovered is $4,000, and it is thought
much larger sum has been appropriated, as
Gilbert has been heavy Spectator in grain
and oil, and met with very large losses.
An accident on the Lehigh Valley Railroad
occurred at Rummerfeld, Pa, the 9Th.
freight train on a siding was run into by an
express train. Engineer Foulke and Fireman
Kingsland, of the freight train, were burned
to death. r. NJ. Mullan, a brakeman, was
badly hurt.
Chas Flick has been put on trial in New
York for attempting suicide. 1t is the first
trial under the new penal code which makes
any attempt at self-destruction felony pun
ishable by fine or imprisonment Desponden-
CIV at the death of his wife and children and
business reverses were alleged to be the mo-
tive for the act. Flick denied the attempt at
suicide. The Board of Aldermen ask the
Legislature to repeal those laws of the penal
code Originating in fanaticism."
j. B. Parmenker, editor of the Troy, n. T.,
Press, was lately cowhided by VIM. Carr, son
of the Secretary of State, for publishing
defamatory articles about him.
In late railroad accident near Towanda,
Pa, in which portion of the wreck was
burned, Engineer Foulke, who was pinioned
in the cab in his own wrecked locomotive, saw
the flames spreading around him and called to
the train hands to cut away the cab His right
leg could not be extricated, and he knew he
must roast alive unless the cab was cut away.
Every effort was made to relieve him, but
without success, and he persisted in the flames.
The State Temperance Alliance, Of New Jer-
sey recommended the 9th day of January as a
day of prayer and conference on the subject OF
prohibition.
The excess of imports of merchandise for the
twelve months ending October 81, 1882, was
$40, SO5, go. Excess of exports of gold and
silver, coin and bullion for the same time, S33,
273, 0S9. Value of imports Of merchandise same
period, s751, S75, $50.
Capt. Emmons and three men were recently
lost with yacht going from Long Branch to
Barnegatbay.
Recently a stock train bound East on the
New York Central Railroad broke asunder near
Memphis and Dairy, and another stock train
following dashed into the general heap. The
st. Louis Express going West rushed into
the shattered cars, making quite respectable
grand total of disaster in a comparatively
short space of time. Considerable live stock
was killed and the damage to railroad property
was heavy.
The vegetable soup works of H. c. Zero,
Sydonville, n. Y, were burned recently. Loss,
$45, 600. The adjoining buildings were saved
BY free use of cider from the tanks near by.
One thousand gallons were used by the bucket
full.
The five-story building on Canal street, New
York, owned by Arnold, Constable & Co., and
occupied by the Manhattan Suit and Cloak Co.
and Powers & Co., dealers in hosiery, was
damaged $40, 600 by fire recently.