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

corner IN en0 OIL m0rket. Allegotlons Oh
downright theft Of the banks assets were
made.
The skeleton remains of an unknown
man were found on the shores Of West Bay,
near Galveston. At the inquest held moth
ing was found to establish his identity
His remains were evidently those Of some
poor unfortunate who lost his life at sea.
TIE National Greenback Convention, on
the Goth, at Indianapolis, nominated Gen
eral B. F. Butler for President and General
A. II. West, of Mississippi, for Vice-Presi.
dent. .r.. ~ .U ia, .-gr. o.
CAPTAIN W. &. DOVE, of the Twelfth
United States Infantry, was drowned while
attempting to cross to tho Canada side
from Fort Niagara.
The office and store of the Wellstan
mines, in jackson County, O., were burned
by strikers recently. The Coalition mines
closed about two weeks ago. and their un.
employed laborers forced q strike at
Wellston. ........... a.. ...a
TIE Spanish Liberal press is indignant
at the Government dissolving a meeting of
the opposition journals to discuss means
Of lettering the condition of the impris.
oned journalists. .aa 81.
The Belmont coal mines, in jackson
County, Ala, which were purchased by
Grant & Ward from General John B. Cor
don, shut down recently, throwing severed
hundred men out of employment.
THERE will be no June term of the Fed,
eral Court at Springfield, ILL.,, because of
the exhaustion of appropriations to meet
expenses. "-
DECORATION DAY was observed in nearly
all the cities of the Union, on the 3oth,
with more than the usual display of bunt-
ing, patriotic addresses, and so forth.
Some places reported exceedingly fine pro-
cessions.
JIM TUCKER, colored, was hanged at
Paris, Ark, on the goth. He murdered his
companion for a small sum of money last
December. ~ 'f'"..
A CAVE in under the track of the Reading
Railway at Turkey Run, Pa, recently, rem
dered six collieries idle. ALI traffic on the
railroad was suspended. The body of a
workman was not recovered. The breach
covered two hundred feet. A new track
was being built around the breach. 80 q.
WILLIAM BROWN, who murdered the pad
der La Vigne last February, at Cahokia,
H., was hanged at Belleville on the Goth.
RoCHEFoRT, editor Of the L'Iatrdnsige-
ant, of Paris, continues his violent attacks
upon General Grant. It was reported his
reason was that Grant refused to receive
him when in America. a-:7r-- -r..r
THE Hooper cotton warehouse at Balti-
more fell on the 3nth. A large number of
l. nd
injured. The disaster was due to the build.
ing being overloaded, the foundation sud-
denly sinking. .-r .r...n ., ...r
The men who recently struck on the
Wabash Railroad returned to work on be-
ing assured their pay would be forthcom-
ing in a week.
FRoST was very general on the Goth and
30th. The damage in the Eastern States
reached hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Along the West Shore Railroad and other
places there was quite heavy snow fall.
Six degrees of frost was reported in New
Jersey. ....'
THE French Government proposes to
celebrate the centenary of the commence
ment of the French revolution in 1889. 1t
is also intended to make an especially bril-
liant exhibition at Paris in 1889.
The work shops of the Swan Electric
Light Company at Lille, France, the CAPT.
tai of the Department du Nord, burned re-
Gently and four persons were injured by
falling floors.
SPIKGEL Bros, book and gents furnish
ing store, at Greenburg, Pa, was closed by
the Sheriff on executions amounting to
$4,000.
FERDINAND WARD the other day said the
responsibility of General Grant and John
D. Fish in the firm of Grant & Ward, was
the same as his own.
PERRIN H. SUMNER, a broker, was ar
rested at New York on the charge of
swindling Daniel NJ. Davidson, late of West
Virginia, out of $4,000.
KATE COTTON, a colored girl of Cairo,
ILL.,, was convicted of murder in the second
degree and sentenced to imprisonment for
life. She poisoned whole family last
September, and one person died from the
effects.
THE stove molders of all establishments
at Pittsburgh, Pa, have struck against a
fifteen per cent. reduction. .-... 60 Pep.
The murderer Suggs, who escaped from
Jail three months ago in Texas, was cap.
tured at Carterville, Ark He was the
actor who killed Manager Plotter in
Adairsville last fall