The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
THE EAST.


head bookkeeper of the Massachusetts, Loan
and Trust Company, of Boston, has con.
Eessed to embezzling $4,000 of the COM
pany's funds, owing to mining and other
stock speculations.
LIZ the libel suit, in New York, of August
Belmont against John Dewey, editor of the
Irish Nation, who charged Belmont with
misappropriating the funds of the Irish
Society the jury returned a verdict of
guilty with a recommendation to executive
clemency. Belmont seconded the recon-
mendation.
The death sentence of Joshua Clifford,
wife murderer, at Albany, n. Y, was COM
muted to life imprisonment.
Ar Albany, n. Y, the steamboat express
brain, owing to a misplaced switch, ran
into siding and struck box car under
which John Wallace, master mechanic, and
William Hayner, yardmaster of the Della
ware & Hudson Canal Company, were re-
pairing truck. The two men were killed
Rnd the engine wrecked.
WILLIAM 7. Cook & Co., straw goods
manufacturers, Foxboro, Mass, failed,
-svith liabilities of 100000.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Western Nail
Association was held at Pittsburg, Pa, the
other day for the purpose of considering
the advisability of curtailing the produc-
tion by the suspension of operations. The
matter was postponed to next meeting.
Reports showed stocks light, demand good
and prices unchanged.
A DISPATCH from Provincetown, Mass,
states that Mate Durham and six or eight
of the crew of the whaling schooner Ellen
Rizvah, were lost in a whaling voyage. The
captain and the mate struck whale at the
same time, and the mates line becoming
fouled, his boat was dragged under and
was never seen afterwards.
THE residence of Ezekiel NJ. Patterson, of
New Brunswick, n. j., was robbed of
50, 900 in bonds and gold during the abb
sence of the family recently.
THE WEST.
Or the morning of the 18th there was a
frost at Sioux Falls, Dakota, and on the fol-
lowing day the Thermometer ranged at go.
"A NATIONAL Convention of colored edi-
tors viii be held at st. Louis, July 10. The
Convention is expected to be one of the
greatest Importance to the colored race.
Besides most of the leading editors of the
country, there will be present and take
part in the Convention Fred Douglass, ex-
Senator Bruce, Rev. DIR. Crummell and
other notables.
The Williamson & Stewart Paper Com
pany of st. Louis has failed. Liabilities
about S220, 900.
The rapid rising of the Missouri and
Kansas Rivers caused some alarm at Kan
sas City on the 18th. Harlem, opposite
Kansas City, was under water and the peo-
pie had left the town. A white boy and
negro woman were drowned the day be-
fore. West Kansas City was threatened
with an overflow.
The schooner T. c. Wilson, thirty five
Ions which left Racine, Wis, the day be-
fore the cyclone there, has not been heard
From since. 1t is now thought almost GER
tain that she has gone down with Captain
Moss and two men, who composed her
ereW.
yogs j. KELLEY, an Alderman of Gin
ffanati, recently shot and killed James
Teal over a very trivial matter.
FRANK JAMES was recently arraigned for
timed until the third Monday in August.
FIRE recently destroyed the greater part
Of the town of Grants Station, Oregon.
Loss S1J0,0 900.
The Milton Hydraulic Mining Company's
reservoir, at Smartviile, Cal. containing
6ssG0o.0o0 cubic feet of water, burst re-
Gently. The rush of water was irresistible,