The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-26
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
A BOLD bank robbery was committed al
Bradford, Pa, on the night of Septem
Der a..
On September 18th skiff in the Monon
gahela River, near Pittsburgh, containing
John Williams, colored, and three sons,
was run down by an excursion steamer,
killing the father and seriously injuring
the sons.
OLIVER WoRMALD, painter of Buffalo
N. Y, proposes to go over Niagara Falls
in an Theoretically sealed rubber ball
covered with tarred rope. He will take
air enough to last him fifteen minutes, and
he anticipates no trouble in getting over all
right. 1t is novel scheme, and will per
baps be tried this fall.
THE most important political matter for
several days past is to be found in the pub.
LEGATION of additional letters from Mr..
Blaine, called Mulligan letters. Mr..
Blaine's friends claim that the letters can.
not injure him, while his political enemies
are positive they will. They have been
the basis for many late editorials.
THE Attorney General of New Jersey,
having been asked recently for an opinion,
declares National Bank officers eligible on
an electoral ticket, they not being officials
of the United States
THE Garfield COMMITTEE for the State of
New York reports having collected 49,.
629.22 for the monument OF Cleveland.
AN Indian tablet, seven inches long, was
recently plowed up in field near Doyles.
town, Pa. The matter is an important one
for biologists, since if the stone could be
proved genuine it would settle in tine af-
firmative the question of the co-existence
of man and the mammoth.
Two great concerts were organized in
New York for the cholera sufferers of
France and Italy.
Mrs. ANN RUTTER, of Reading, Pa.
while suffering from mild attack of one
OF Harrison's revivals, imagined herself a
funeral pyre and set fire to it. She held a
club and beat away those who attempted
t. save her. She said she was Offering a
sacrifice to the Lord.
THE sixteenth annual reunion of the
Army of the Cumberland began at Roch-
ester, n. Y, September 18th. General
Sheridan presided and delivered brief
address. Among the distinguished veter-
ans present was General John A. Logan.
THE miners strike in the Pittsburgh
coal district is being aggressively main.
tanned. The mine-owners find it almost
impossible to find men to work at less than
the strikes demand. It is not improbable
that a compromise may be agreed on. 1t
is reported that some of the operators are
already employing union men at the price
they have asked.
ANOTHER Presidential candidate has been
placed in nomination. W. L. Ellsworth, OF
Pennsylvania, is the nominee of the Amer.
lean Political Alliance. Charles H. Water.
man, of New York, is the candidate for
Vice-President on the same ticket.
THE Rev. ]. F. Smith, of Boston, who
wrote the national hymn entitled "Amer,
ica,,' celebrated his golden wedding al
Newton Centre, September 16.h. About
four hundred people responded to invita-.
lions and sat through the singing of the
hymn.
A STATUE of General John F. Reynolds,
who fell at Gettysburg, was recently un.
veiied at Harrisburg, in front of the City
Hall.
MRS. JOSEPH STEVENS, of Hollisterville
Pa, who was for years in the habit of eat
ing raw ham, suffers SO terribly from
trichiniasis that she constantly pleads
witn her friends to kill her. The worms
keep her flesh in perpetual motion, and
frequently twist out from the muscles in
wriggling masses.
Mr.. BLAINE wrote a letter to William
Walter Phelps on his marriage, which the
latter has made public. In the letter he
says that he was married in 1851 at Pitts.
burg, but that he had been secretly mar
ried in Kentucky some time before. Fear.
ing that the Kentucky marriage was not
valid, he afterwards had a ceremony per.
formed at Pittsburg.
RINDsKoFF BROS. & Co., of New York
City, made an assignment on September
18th with 1900, 900 liabilities. The prefer
ences were divided among firms all over
the country. Their sales last year exceeded
a million dollars, and the members of the
firm are all of high standing and favor
ably known for their charities and public
spirited enterprises.
THE WEST.
GENERAL GREEN B. RAUM is a candidate
to succeed Senator Logan in Illinois.
The Chicago and st. Louis freight pool
has dissolved, and there are prospects of a
lively war of rates. The meetings held
recently by Western railway managers
were too numerous to mention, but the
most important was that of the tripartite
alliance in Chicago.
The annual meeting of the Public Health
Association will meet in st. Louis October
IA, and continue four days. The Confer
ence of State Boards of Health will also