The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-14
THE EAST.

Der was $780,, 1872.
THE EAST.
SCHEDULES of the assignment of William
Ester, dealers in furs, to Albert Moore,
filed in New York court, recently, show
liabilSies to be $4,000; nominal assets,
$1,000: actual assets, $11 900.
HERMAT JONES, wholesale liquor dealer,
1T6 Broadway, made an assignment few
days ago without preferences. Hehad been
in business since 1875, and was formerly of
the firm of Wormser g. Jones, Pitts.
burgh.
HEREAFTER the Baltimore & Ohio road
will run no train over the Pennsylvania
road to New York, but a lively war will be
inaugurated between Baltimore and the
West.
IT is said an average of twenty members
of the New York City Common Council are
on hand at every boxing match.
A FIRE was recently in progress in what
ia called the Knoxville coal mine, near
Pittsburgh, Pa. The flames spread very
rapidly through the mine and large num-
Der of cars were destroyed. The fire was
the work of incendiaries, who saturated the
walls with coal oil. The loss was 5000 or
more.
ONE of the smoothest scoundrels who has
manipulated for many days was lately ar
rested in New York. His name is George
c. Branscom. His scheme of fraud was
very well planned, and came near making
him fortune. Branscom was one-a armed,
but welded the pen with his left hand with
wonderful skill. He served three years and
half in prison for forging Florida water
bonds. His scheme was to publish two
elaborate works of interest to visitors and
exhibitors in the New Orleans Worlds
Fair Guide Book, and a costly illustrated
book called Resources and Attractions of
the South" sell advertising space worth
$4,000 and he disposed of the books and
copyright in cash for a round sum, mean
while depending on forgery for the neces-
sary means to keep the scheme going till
its completion. He contracted with the
American News Company to take 100000
guide books and title and copyright at $685.
900, and the Resources" at $4,000. OF the
latter 10,eO0 copies were to be printed and
it was to be sold at $40 copy.
MOODY and Sankey have lately been
holding successful revivals at Worcester,
Mass
THE Havana line steamer Armon de Her
rarand was damaged to the extent of S10,-
900 by fire few nights ago while at pier
IS, East River, New York.
THE dynamite works of H. W. Stump &
Co., three-quarters of mile from Stouchs-
burg, Pa, village of five hundred inhabi-
tants, blew up recently, shaking up the
country for distance of twenty miles.
The works consisted of five frame buildings,
timbers Of which were sent flying in all
directions. Nothing remained but the
foundations. All the men in the buildings
were killed, so the cause of the explosion
can never be learned.
VERY important motion was recently
decided in New York by Judge Donohue, of
the Supreme Court. In the well known
case of Peter Marie and others versus Cor
nelius K. Garrison and others. Garrison
was victorious.
RETURNS from New York showed that
Mr.. st. John received larger vote than he
had expected to get.
CHARLES MCDONALD, of Waterford n.
Y, one of a party of suspected repeaters
sent to Mechanicsville, lately jumped from
a train while being conveyed to prison. His
mangled remains were found on the track
BARTHOLOMEW HAAS, a German at Jer-
sey City, n. j., recently shot his wife and
then himself. The wife died but the muir
derer did not succeed in taking his own
life.
Mrs. JUDGE HoAG MosHER, one of the
pioneers of Niagara County, n. Y, who
died at the age of one hundred years and
xteen days, settled in that county in 1877.
In 1884 her husband died in the seventy
eighth year of his age. Mrs. Mosher leaves
six children, thirteen grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
A FIRE was lately in progress in the
Knoxville coal mine near Pittsburgh. Pa.
The flames spread through the mine, and a
large number of cars were destroyed. The
fire was the work of incendiaries, who sat
urated the wall of the mine with petroleum.
The loss was 5000.
THE American society of Mechanical En-
gineers recently met in Newt York and
elected officers for the ensuing year. J. F.
Holloway, of Cleveland, o., was elected
President.
THE statement of the assets and liabilities
of the affairs of the assigned Lockport, N.
Y, Banking Association was recently made
public by the assignee. By that statement
the liabilities were shown to be $3.50, O37 Al,
of which SI5,6l4.14 was owed to citizens.
OK November a number of the mills of
Fall River, Mass, closed down owing to the
hard times.
Two West Shore passenger trains recent
ly collided near Rochester, Y. Engineer
and fireman jumped into the Genesee River
and saved their lives. Locomotives and
cars were badly wrecked. The accident
was caused by one train running off Of
time.
GEORGE MONTAGUE was recently elected
President of the New York City Second
National Bank in place of defaulter John c.
Emo.
A MIDNIGHT fire recently broke out at
Jersey City, n. J., in the hair rooms of the
japanese Hair Manufacturing Company, at
Bay and Greene streets. The entire build
ing was destroyed. The flames spread to
an adjoining oleomargarine factory, which
was also burned. The total loss was about
$4,000.
THE WEST.
RECENTLY, at Ottumwa, Ia, while the
Sheriff and his deputy were in Bloomfield
attending political rally, all the prisoners
in the County Jail broke out and escaped.
EARLY last August Gerald Moore, a BUSH
ness man of st. Paul, Mimi, was arrested
on the charge of bigamy, and ON being
brought before Judge Brill pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced to three years at Still
water, whittier Sheriff O'Gorman con-
reyed him at once. The charge was pre-
ferred by q certain Thomas Lodge, who