The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-26
THE EAST.

ANOTHER man was interrupted while
making preparations to jump from the
Brooklyn bridge the other evening. This
one gave his name as Parker F. DAILY, a
cornetist of Jersey City.
THERE were ten persons overcome by
the heat in New York on the 10th, two of
whom died.
GENERAL GRANT, with his family, went
10 Mount McGregor, N. Y, on the 10th to
pass the summer. The trip cost him much
pain and fatigue.
BooKAAKING in New York City has been
stopped by order of the Chief of Police.
The police captains were told that the
selling of pools must be stopped in the city
even if an injunction protected Jerome
Park from invasion.
HENRY w. BLAIR was elected Senator in
the New Hampshire Assembly on the 18th.
The New York Central Railroad Direc-
tors recently elected Chauncey NJ. Depew
President, and Horace G. Hayden Second
Vice President, the position formerly occu-
pied by Mr.. Depew.
THE French steamer "Isere," with the
Bartholdi statue on board, arrived at New
York on the 18th.
VESSEL rates on wheat and corn to Buff
faio dropped to one cent per bushel at Chi
cago recently. Rates by the lake route
had been growing more and more demon
allied for some time previous. The Bate
offered is the lowest ever known.
A PETITION was filed at Greenwich,
Mass, recently asking that Lamson &
Goodnow, cutlery manufacturers at Shell
burne Falls, who were embarrassed to the
extent of several hundred thousand dol
lars, be placed in insolvency. The suit is a
friendly action to guard against attach
ments.
THE health of ex-senator Roscoe Conk-
ling was reported in precarious condition.
His physicians have prescribed absolute
rest and trip to Europe.
THE steamer Guyandotte, of the Old
Dominion Steamship Line, which was
lying at her pier in the North River, New
York, was sunk the other morning by the
carelessness of two fremen, who pulled a
twelve-inch plug from the bottom of the
vessel. The damage amounted to $4,000.
C. A. BUDDENsIcK, whose row of tene.
ment houses on Sixty-second street, New
York, fell some time ago, killing one of his
employees, was found guilty of man.
slaughter in the second degree, by a jury.
The penalty is from one to fifteen years in
the Penitentiary. A motion for a new
trial was entered.
The directors of the Exeter On. H.
Manufacturing Company have decided to
shut down their mills until September.
This action was due to the mills being
~ a.
hands were thrown out of employment.
THE will of Robert Treat Paine, of Bos-
ton, Mass, bequeaths $4,000 to Harvard
College for the maintenance of a professor
ship of astronomy in the university.
The formal reception of Bartholdi's
statue took place in New York on the 18th.
At the City Hall the guests were given a
banquet and afterwards speeches were
made by Mayor Grace, President Sanger
and Frederick r. Condort.
NEARLY the entire force employed at the
Para Rubber'Sh Company's works at
South birmingham, Mass, went out on a
striking bootmakers.
JAMES P. AUSTIN, an insurance agent of
Boston, Mass, has failed for $4,000. His
assets aggregate $1,000.
FIRE at Portland, Me-, destroyed the
building owned by s. NJ. Layman and
damaged the two adjoining buildings.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
JAMES T. TANNING, Familiarity known all
over the country as an impersonator of
.Uncle Tom" but now a broken down
man, was, at his own request, sent to the
house of industry, at Boston, recently, on
a charge of vagrancy.