The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
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WASHINGTON NOTES

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WASHINGTON NOTES
THE gold reserve In the Treasury has in.
creased to one hundred and twenty mil
lion dollars. A call for ten million dol
lars in hree per cents is about to be issued.
SECRETARY FoLGER was taken seriously
III ON the 18th and had to return to his
home.
THE Treasurer Of the United States has
forwarded to the Governor of Louisiana
free-schooi bonds of the State to the
amount of twenty-one thousand dollars,
which were captured at Baton Rouge by
General Sheridan.
Ar the National capital on the 9th, a
workman attracted some attention as he
was swung slowly to the top of the Wash
ington monument, inspecting every joint
In the five hundred feet of marble. He
reported the column in admirable condi-
ton, Notwithstanding the recent earth
quake
TEE Swain court martial has been post
poned until November.
SENIOR Y. CARA, Secretary Of the Peru
Wan Legation, received a semi-official dis
interprets it as meaning that the trouble
reported in that city is over.
. tire Treasury Department purchased four
hundred and seventy thousand ounces of
silver for delivery at the New Orleans,
Philadelphia and San Francisco minis.
THE EAST.
ROYAL B. CoNANr, who was pardoned
ffo H.
President Arthur, after serving some
years for embezzling from the Eliot Ma
tional Bank, lost his right leg recently by
falling under train at Peabody, Mass.
Ma. BLAINE was SC disabled by sore
throat on the 26th that his physicians ad.
vised him to remain at Ber Harbor and
abandon his engagements in Northeastern
Maine.
TIE safe in the First National Bank at
Albion, New York, was forced open
recently by experts and found to contain
nothing of value.
Ar Coal Center, Pa, number of strik-
ing miners were arrested for trespass.
Their wives came with babes in their arms
and wanted to be locked up, too, claiming
they had nothing to live upon.
The foreclosure proceedings against the
Rochester & Pittsburg Road have been
withdrawn until October, because a de-
faulto sixty days in the payment of inter.
est is required by law.
THE coal miners in the third pool of
Pennsylvania weakened. and one hundred
and thirty menreturned to work.
The Chautauqua Assembly closed on the
18th, with fine singing exercises.
RECENT Boston dispatches mention the
discovery of counterfeit silver dollar,
differing only slightly from the genuine
as to weight and thickness.
SOME citizens of Trenton, N. j., who
favor cremation, have purchased pottery
kiln at Pennington, and will transform it
into an oven for burning bodies.
A SHORTAGE of six hundred thousand
dollars has been found in the sinking funds
of Essex County, N. ].
JOHN BURROWS, a well known business
man of Chicago, recently died very sud-
denly at Springfield, Mass.
A CATHOLIC priest of Pittsburgh named
Charles Sharp, while in the last stages of
consumption, lately took his life with re.
volver.
TwKNTY-oNE cars were smashed by an
accident on the Schuylkill Valley Railroad
at Coatesville, Pa, on the 9th.
WILLIAM B. ROBERTS shot Jessie Tracy
at Utica, N. Y, recently, because she
would not marry him.
SAMUEL ROBERTS, of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
failed recently in the sum of seventy five
thousand dollars.
THREE young ladies, Bridget Hayes,
Anna Hayes and Mary McCabe, of New
York City, were drowned in the Catskill
River not long since.
GENERAL SHERIDAN recently received a
very warm welcome at Wier, n. II.
ID. P. BLooMER, travelling salesman
from New York, was horribly beaten by
unknown parties recently at Minneapolis.
TIE New York Firemen's Association
met at Utica on the 9th.
The villa of John G. Hecksher, a well
known society man of New York, which is
at Newport, was robbed of diamonds and
jewelry on the 2sth by unknown parties.
The steamer Rose Standish was recently
sunk in Boston Harbor.
CARL SEIZURE has accepted an invitation
from some Germans in Milwaukee to visit
that city and make speech on the politi.
cal condition of the country.
WATERFOWL, N. Y, was greatly dam
aged by fire on the 18th.
MAUD S. is in training at Hartford for the
purpose of preparing to lower her record
The Coroners of Long Island have de.
cided to ask for proof that Miss Dora Buck,
of Lincoln, Neb., is the sister of Private
Charles B. Henry before his body is ex-
ahumed upon her order.
THE WEST.
DAVID PRESTON, a well known Detroit
bsnker, in public letter says he will ac-
-cept the nomination of the Michigan Pro-
hlbitionists for Governor. if rendered it,
beaense the Prohibitionists in their Con-
stitution acknowledge Almighty God as