The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-17
THE EAST.

THE Vermont National Bank of st. AL
bans, Bradley Barlow President, has closed
its doors. Barlow is also President and
owner of the Southeastern Railway of
Canada and it is understood he has failed
and that all of his property is involed, be-
sides a considerable amount loaned by
banks and individuals to assist him in his
railroad management. The st. Adams
Trust Company also suspended. Its Presi-
dent, Lawrence Brainard, who was heavy
indorser of Barlow's paper, made an as
signment for the benefit of the Trust Com
pany.
NATHANIEL SMITH RICHARDSON, d. D.,
editor of the Church Guardian, New York
City, was found dead in bed at his resi-
dence in Bridgeport, Conn.,, the other morn
ing. His age was seventy-three.
THE Western Nail Association met at
Pittsburg, and after a full interchange of
views on the condition of trade, it was de-
-cided to order general resumption of the
mills for period of four weeks from the
18th instant.
The warehouses and wharves of the
Knickerbocker Ice company, and stables
of the company in Philadelphia burned re-
suffocated or burned. Two thousand tons
Of ice were destroyed. The roof of the
Philadelphia & Reading railway freight
depot, adjoining, burned, and considerable
freight was damaged by fire and water.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
COMPARATIVELY few of the railroad tele-
graph operators of the East obeyed the
order of the Brotherhood Committee calling
them out. Some left their desks, but the
railroad companies asserted that the ma
jority remained. In the Pittsburg Divis.
ion of the Baltimore & Ohio road about
one-third of the operators struck.
FIFTY weavers in the Wonsocket, r. l..
company's employ struck for more pay.
They are getting 1S1I cents cut; they
were offered 1871 cents, but demand q
cents.
A WARRANT was recently issued for the
arrest of James Gaffey, an attendant at the
asylum fer the insane at Norristown, Pa,
upon the Charge of maltreating and caus
ing the death of an inmate named Fiss
The trustees offered a reward of 500 fol
tie arrest of Gaffey, who absconded.
MRS. FANNY SPRAGUE. mother of the e1
Governor, has accepted the offer of the
Union Company, which bought her home
stead, to lease it to her during life at one
dollar per month. She accepted upon the
advice of Governor Butler, her counsel.
MRS. WILLIAM G. FARGO, widow of the
President of the American Express Com
pany, was married in Buffalo, n. Y, re
Gently to F. F. Fargo, formerly City Clerk
The second husband is no relation of tn.
other Fargo family.
THE jobbers and wholesale dealers il
glass and crockeryware met at Pittsburg
Pa, recently, for the purpose of forming 1
national association. Delegates were pres
emit from New York, Boston, Philadelphia
Baltimore, Chicago, st. Louis, Minneapolis
Leavenworth, st. Joseph, Omaha, st. Paul
Davenport and Pittsburg.
JOHN FISHER and Miss Butler wer
drowned while boating at Quincy, Mass.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature inall,
passed Congressional Apportionment bill
giving the Republicans seventeen an'
Democrats eleven Congressman.
JAMES STEEN, for wife murder, has beel
sentenced to be hanged at Pittsburg, Pa.
BERNARD PHILLIPS, a stock broker and I
prominent politician, of Mauch Chunk, Pa.
was arrested recently charged with tn
embezzlement of about $500 entrusted t.
him by ]. p. Sutton, President OF tn