The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-29
THE EAST.

coarse, scratchy appearance, not very well
executed.
THE EAST.
there was n Butler demonstration at
Providence, r. l., on the 10Th. About three
thousand persons were present. The de-
monstration was considered failure in
point of numbers, ten thousand at least
being expected.
j. j. WOODWARD, one of the physicians
who attended President Garfield after the
assassination, died in Philadelphia the
other day.
VANDERBILT refused to state to reporter
the amount of the consideration he re-
ceived from Robert Bonner for the trotter,
Maud S. Guesses range from $4,000 to
100000. The mare will not be allowed on
the turf unless Jay-Eye-See beats her rec
ord, when a free exhibition of her speed
will be given.
SCHEDULES in the insolvent assignment
of Hand & Ellsworth, paper manufacturers,
Beekman street, New York, show liabilities
of $2S1 900; nominal assets, 1884, 900; actual
assets, So, 5S1.
VINCENT L. BRADFORD, Of Philadelphia,
bequeaths his library of law books to the
Washington and Lee University, to be
added to the books for which he had pre-
viously given the institution money. The
testator's collection of paintings also goes
TO the Washington and Lee University.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
Army of the Cumberland, of which Gen.
eral Sheridan is President, will be held at
Rochester, N. Y, September II and Is.
The failure of Werner & Merritt, fruit
importers of Philadelphia, is reported.
Liabilities, 100000.
JUDGE BARTLETT, of New York, granted
an attachment against the property of John
p. Dickinson, defaulting cashier of the Wall
Street Bank, in suit by the bank for the
recovery of $4,000.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN was installed at Phil.
adelpnia on the Goth, in the presence of
about ten thousand persons.
GRAHAM, LODGE & Co., wholesale white
goods, of Philadelphia, failed recently.
Liabilities unknown.
E. L. MINGER, JR., wholesale canned
goods, Philadelphia, was reported embar.
raised by the failure of Warner & Merritt.
AN official report shows a deficiency of
Bank in New York. Suit has been brought
to forfeit the franchise, and Judge Bartlett
enjoined the officers from disposing of any
of its property.
1T having been rumored that compro'
mise was being arranged in New York by
which Ferdinand Ward would be released,
another order of arrest was obtained by
William H. Bingham, a broker, who brings
suit for 900 obtained by the firm OF
Grant g. Ward under false representa-.
lions.
THE Buck Ridge mine, owned by the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron
Company, was recently reported on fire.
A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting of oil
producers recently held at Oil City, Pa,
unanimously resolved to stop the drill un.
til January l, 1856. This will control the
production to great extent, as seven
eighths of the producing wells and Irritable
territory is in the hands of members of the
association.
The First National Bank, of Albion, n.
Y, suspended on the 21st, in consequence
of the mysterious disappearance of the
President, A. S. Warner. Warner was ad
ministrator of tie Burrows estate, valued
at o,0O0, 900, and with his disappearance is
coupled the poisoning of William R. Bur.
rows, one of the heirs. A very dark cloud
was reported to be resting on Warner.
In attempting to extinguish the fire in
the Buck Ridge mine, Shamokin, Pa, seven
men lost their lives. The intention was to
flood the mine by boring hole through
from the Greenback mine, thirty-six
feet long. While thus engaged, gas and
fire broke through, killing the seven
workmen and setting the Greenback mine
also on fire. Loss thus far, 500, 200.
Mrs. PARNELL has been holding q con-
ference at Boston with leaders of the Irish
National Land Leage and several Catholic
bishops. She explained that she had ex-
pressed no preference as to Presidential
candidates, but sought to secure a pledge
from one or the other party for the intro
duction free Of duty of many articles pre-
duced in ireland which do not compete
with American labor.
TIE Republicans of Connecticut have
nominated for Governor Henry H. Harri-
son, of New Haven.
THE deliberately carved Italian marble
column of Governor Edward Morgan at
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Conn.,, was ruined
by fire the other night.
Two freight trains collided recently in
the west yard of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road at Columbia, Pa. The caSoose and
gondola car of the front train and the en-
CINE and four cars of the rear train, the
latter filed with sheep and hogs, were
mashed. The wreck caught fire and was
consumed. Upward of eight hundred ami
mails were killed.
THERE was a heavy rain, accompanied
by thunder and lightning, on the 2sd at
Dover, n. h. Many persons were killed
by lightning, and houses were damaged.
Miles of telegraph and telephone wires
were blown down.
THE WEST.
]. 7. RIPLEY has resigned the Assistant
General Freight Agency of the Wabash
Road, to take the Commissionership of the
Wabash & Burlington Pool at Chicago,
September l.
Il q. HoRR was nominated by acclama-
fion for Congress in the Eighth Congress
sional District of Michigan.
THE body of Private Whistler, one of the