The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-22
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A REPORT was published in the New
sYork Times recently that the Greedy party
was not so harmonious as had been thought.
1t was said that INSTRUMENTATION manifested
itself and that Private Henry had been
shot and his body eaten. Interviews with
Secretary Chandler and General Hazen
give color to the report, and it is probable
that Congressional inquiry will be or.
dered- .
' LIEUTENANT GREEDY admitted in an in
terview that Private Henry had been shot.
Hesays that Henry was in the habit of
stealing food and they killed him to pre-
serve their own lives. He says there may
have been isolated cases of cannibalism.
FURTHER suspension of the window
glass factories at Pittsburgh was probable.
j. G. BLAINE spoke at a public meeting
at Maranacook, Me-, on the 18th. There
was a large crowd present to hear him,
and considerable enthusiasm was mani
tested.
NOTICE of a reduction of five per cent.
in the wages of the weavers in the Barna-
by Bingham mill at Fall River, Mass, has
been posted. There was no apparent dan
ger of strike of the weavers.
The New York Petroleum Exchange has
adopted a resolution forbidding all confer
ence exchanges from connecting by tele-
graph or telephone with any oil exchange
not a member of the conference of oil ex.
changes. If two-thirds of the conference
of oil exchanges adopt a similar resolution
it will become law.
JOHN WALLACE, formerly an employee of
Paymaster Daniels at Philadelphia, was
held in 5000 bail for trial on charge of
embezzlement by the United States Gov
eminent.
j. BRUCE HALsTED, Professor of Higher
Mathematics at Princeton, has been elected
to similar position in the University of
Texas.
90 THE American Bankers Association as
sembled in annual convention at Saratoga,
N. Y, on the 18th. Quite large repre-
sentation of prominent bankers Were pres
ent. The meeting was called to order by
President Lyman I. Gage, of Chicago, who
delivered the inaugural address.
TIE annual convention of the Irish Ma.
tional League commenced on the 18th in
Boston. .....
The schedule of jeremiah Steebman, in
setyentcommission merchant OF New York
show liabilities, $4,000; nominal assets,
SJs,eeo; actual assets, $4,000.
SCHEDULES of the insolvent jewelry firm
of Goodman & Rosenberger, of New York
show liabilities, 100000; nominal assets,
So, 600; actual assets, $4,000.
Tu-p f.ox,-, of Moth E,.+ 49,. r. n
was destroyed by fire recently. The loss
amounted to 500, 900.
W. II. DUPAH, lessee of st. Marks Hotel
Stapleton, L. l., abandoned the hotel tc
escape his creditors. Dupay was disap
pointed in the expectation of good sea
son.
TEE Prohibitionists of the First New
Jersey District have nominated Samuel B
Harbinson for Congress.
JAMES B. REILLY, of Pottsville, Pa, was
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Thirteenth District.
MICHAEL MCDONALD, engineer in box
mill at Milford, Mass, caught his sleeve il
the screw of a shaft, and for some time wa.
Whirled at the rate of four hundred revolu
tions per minute. Every stitch of clothing
The floor he was absolutely uninjured.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY has asked for ar
inquiry into the execution of Private
Henry for stealing provisions from the
Arctic party on the'6th of last June.
The body of Lieutenant Kislingbury, OF
the Greedy Arctic expedition, was exhumed
the other day. The remains showed that
the aeshy parts had been distracted, cor
roborating the charges that the survivors
had been addicted to cannibalism.
JAMES G. BLAINE has commenced a sui,
against the indianapolis Sentinel for pub
fishing certain scandalous charges relat.
ing to his early life in Kentucky.
A PHILADELPHIA company struck an.
other heavy gas vein recently at Home.
wood, Pa, inside the city limits.
The American Y acht Club gave dinner
at Delmenieo's, New York, on the 18th, to
the officers of the Greedy relief expedition.
Frank z Lawrence presided. The vel.
come of esident Lawrence was responded
to by Commander Sehley. Other speeches
were made in which Commander Schley
was highly cemplimented on the success of
his expedition.
TIE New Yerk grand jury has found
seven indictments again. Frederick Man.
delbaunn, her son. Julius, and her confiden.
tial man, Sfroude. for recsixisg stolen
goods.
THE WEST.
The Grand Jury at San Francisco in
saicted Emf Kennedy, President, and
Charles Swezy, Manager of the Peoples
Railway Company, on the charge Of con-
spiraey in inducing E. ]. Elliott & Co. to
invest 1900 in stock of the alleged COM
pany. Swezy was arrested Kennedy was
missing.
The northwestern and Wabash roads
have given formal notice of withdrawal
from the tripartite alliance, and the latter
retains only the Union Pacific, Rock Island
and 81 Paul,
COLONEL John c. UNDERWOOD, of Gin
cinnati, brought suit recently against the
EreafRs Post for $4,000, for alleged libel.
Underwood was formerly manager of the
Nelce-J0zrRdL
The Rev. II. N. Collision, pastor of the
Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Chicago, shot and kfaled his wife recently
and then ehat hir,eaIf fbror,l a. La,5