The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
THE EAST.

MAYOR SMITH, of Philadelphia, sent a
cablegram to the Paris municipality ten
dering his coincidence, officially, on the
death of Victor Hugo
THE inauguration of the new State Gov
eminent of Rhode Island took place at
Newport on the Goth.
WILLIE PRENTICE shot his father dead
the other night at Orange, Mass. The
father while in drunken fit ordered his
son to shoot at a cup which he held on his
head.
JOHN R. HEAT, a veteran of the war of
1872, died in Brookline, Mass, on the 9th.
A TENEMENT house fire at 9S East Fourth
street, New York, created great excite
ment recently. The building was occu-
pied by twenty families, but all were res
cued, though some were rendered insen-
sible by the smoke.
THE assets of James s. Fish, late Presi-
dent of the defunct Marine Bank, were sold
the other day at New York. His seat in
the Produce Exchange brought $3.50, and
two Tammany Society bonds, valued at
$500 each, due in August, 1887, sold at
$3.50.
MARGARET BROOKS and her daughter
were sentenced in Philadelphia recently to
four months Imprisonment, the mother for
being common scold and the daughter
for contempt of court.
A FRAME tenement house in Jersey City
collapsed on the morning of the 9th. Three
or four children were killed and several in
jured. Five families live in the house and
the accident was thought to be due to the
rotting of the piles supporting the building.
EX-AgDIToR FREDERICK A. PALMER, of
Newark, j., died in State prison at Tren-
ton recently. He was serving out term of
twelve years for embezzling two hundred
Thousand dollars of the city's money. He
had served about three years at the time of
his death.
p. Hastings, who repeated their preaching
services on the common at Boston on a re-
cent Sunday, in spite of their arrest and
fine for the previous Sundays ppeaching,
were fined thirty dollars and costs. They
appealed.
A CAN of benzine exploded recently in a
five-story building, Second and Market
streets, Philadelphia. Two other explo-
kions followed, the walls being blown out.
A woman on the sidewalk was killed by
the falling walls. A young man was
badly burned and many had narrow es-
capes. Loss, $4,000.
ATwo story frame building on Jackson
avenue, in Long Island City, N. Y, fell
with loud crash early the other morning.
It had been condemned by the Board of
Health, and several families living on the
second floor had been driven out the day
previous.
ARTHUR E. MARSH, Ascending Superin-
tendent of the firm of Kochson & Co.,
New York, was arrested at Queenstown on
hoard the steamship Nevada, which ar.
rived there on the 18th. eS-
MARION NJ. OGDEN, a reporter of the
Pittsburgh PAY Dispatch, was arrested
recently on a charge of conspiracy, pre-
ferred by City Assessor Hays. Ogden, it
was charged, entered the Assessors Office
surreptitiously and copied from the record
The list of returns made by business men
showing the amount of business transacted
by them during the year.
THE Shackamoxon Bank at Philadelphia
failed recently, causing great excitement.
THE petition OF the pugilist Sullivan's
wife for a divorce was refused by the
SQUIRT
TIE Grand Jury recently retIrned an in
dictment against the Town Council of Ply
mouth, Pa, for maintaining a nuisance
and with criminal neglect of their official
duties in not keeping the town in good SAN
itary condition.
BROWN & Co., of the Wayne Iron and
Steel Works, Pittsburgh, Pa, have signed
She Analgamated Associations scale and
work will be continued without Interrupt
zion. This was the first break in the man
facturer's lines.
THE entire personal property at Border
town, N. J., of Mrs. Della 7. s. Parnell,
mother of the famous land Lacquer, has
bsen attached at the suit of Joshua Turner
Asd others and advertised for sale. -