The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-13

PSI; nominal value of real and personal Q.
tate, 4,179,392; estimated actual value
$6s2, 594. ~
D. Lutte & SoN's brewery burned q
Pittsburgh, Pa, the other night. Los.
So, 900.
ULYSSES GRANT, JR., was a defendan
in the Supreme Court at White Plains,
Y. recently, in a suit brought by John F
Bailey, for $4,000 damages for injurie
alleged to have been caused by one of Ger
eral Grants Arabian stations which wa
presented by the Khedive of Egypt. Tn
case was continued.
OHIO Insurance Commissioners hav
fled complaint against the Citizens Mu
tual Relief Insurance Company, Of Wei
| lington, o.
The Convention of Exposition Fair Man
| ayers of the United States met in st. Loui
on the Sd for the purpose of organizing ,
general association for the United State
and Canada. A temporary organization
was effected by the election of II. j. Hill
of Toronto, as Chairman, and s. W.iYea
man and F. J. Wade, Of st. Louis, as Sec
retaries. About forty delegates were il
| attendance.
GEORGE F. ORRrN, the circus man and th,
Barnum of Mexico, died the other day il
the City of Mexico.
MORMON immigrants Numbering abou
three hundred arrived recently in Utah.
A large number stopped off at Ogden, Oh
went north not over half going to Sal
Lake.
FIVE Mexican States have declared wal
against President Gonzales on account OF
the reXenue stamp act. Troops were being
concentrated in the interior.
A sNEAK.THIKF recently secured abou,
one thousand dollars at the Wayne unity
Bank in Corydon, Iowa, during the dinner
hour.
Mrs. GEORGE HARVEY, of Leoni, Mich,
committed suicide the other evening by
hanging herself. She went upstairs, fast
ened rope to the door knob, threw it over
the door, and, tying it around her neck,
kicked away the chair upon which she was
standing. The deceased left a husband
and seven children.
road Company have given the required
three months notice of withdrawal from
the Transcontinental Railroad Association
which pools all business west of the Mis-
souri,.
THE other afternoon at Detroit, fire at
Stearn & Co.'s extensive laboratory, COM
pletely burned out the milling building,
two stories high and one hundred feet long
The injunction suit to restrain the
Knights of Honor from removing their
headquarters from Louisville to st. Louis
was withdrawn.
JOHN STANTON, a steamboat engineer of
st. Louis, threw a gobletful of sulphuric
acid over his wife as she lay in bed early
the other morning, infiicting injuries which
will kill her. Her eyes We're eaten out,
and she was terribly burned on the face,
neck, breast and shoulders. On a previous
occasion Stanton shot her twice aud then
attempted to kill himself. Jealousy was
the cause.
GOVERNOR HoADLEY has issued procla.
nation calling the attention of the Ohio
ton Exposition at. New Orleans.
A PORTLAND, ORE, special of the 4th
says: Complete returns of the State cleo.
ton are still wanting. The majority of
Herman, Republican, for Congress, will be
fully loo. 1t is believed Thauer, Demo
crat, has been elected Supreme Judge. The
returns received are that the Legislature
will have Republican majority of four on
joint ballot
In the United States Court at Winona,
Mimi, in the case of the United States VS.
tho n,,lutb Jro, Co,,n.,x, o. ,,%t;uo e;x.h.-
on Government land, the jury found ver-
dict against the defendants for $1,000.
G. 7. FOSTER & Co., wholesale medicines
at Detroit, have failed.
JOHN T. EMERY, a ticket broker, suicided
at Columbus, O., recently. .r
MAcALIsrER & Co.'s planning mills at
Cleveland, were damaged to the extent of
1000 the other morning, by fire Of un-
known origin.
THREE HUNDRED leading merchants at.
tended the annual banquet of the Mer.
Milwaukee, the other night.
A CosHocToN, O., special says: The
Democrats of the Sixteenth District renom-
mated Beriah Wilkins for Congress,
Charles c. S. Brady and George NJ. Jewett
delegates to Chicago, and instructed them
for Tilden and Hendricks.
FIVE members of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, who form the sub-com-
mittee of arrangements for the coming
National Convention, met in Chicago on
the 4th and appointed local committees.
THE Elevated Railroad bill, which had
been dragging along in the st. Louis NUM-
cipal Assembly for many months, and
which everybody thought was killed, was
taken up by the Council, recently, and
passed.
W. J. SPIcER accepted the general man.
agement of the Chicago & Grand Trunk
road.
Miss CORA PETERS, a young lady Of
has been missing from her
home at Vevay, Ind, for a week. She was
sent by her mother for some groceries and
never returned.
A GANG OF drunken roughs went to the
agency of Gipps' Brewing Company at
Streator, ILL.,, and demanded drink. On
being refused they assaulted the son-in-law
Of the agent, who was iu charge, and he
drew his revolver and shot one Mike RYAN.
The wounded man was not expected to live.
MRS. JONES, an old lady living few
miles north of Stanwood, Mich, was walk
ing to town on the railroad track recently
and was caught upon long bridge by
freight train. To escape she leaped from
.he bridge to the water, a distance of thirty
Teet. When picked up she was unconscious
and could not recover.
ADoLPHUs BLooMENAU, of Bay City, the
Jockey crushed under his horse at the races
1t Lansing, Mich, died next day. Ed.
Nichols, injured at the same time, was re-
covering.
SEVERAL horses died and and O number