The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-17
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has been arranged to be made on May 4,
by officers and soldiers who participated
in that battle.
airs. THUMB" the wife of General
Tom Thumb" was married at New York
recently TO Count Primo Magri.
Ar Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, Judge
Ewing decided that store order given by
a company to an employee, was illegal.
ANTONIO BARRIos, son of the President
of Guatemala, was at the Windsor Hotel,
New York, recently. He has been for a
year or more a cadet at the West Point
Military Academy. He was awaiting
news from Guatemala before deciding
upon his future movements. He did not
believe the pu lished report of the death
of his father and the defeat of the army.
THE CITY Treasurer of Worcester, Mass,
has received check for $4,000 from
George Bancroft, the venerable historian,
to found scholarship in memory of his
parents.
THE firm of Byerson & Brown, livery
stable keepers of New York, failed recently
with liabilities of over half million and
assets that may equal that amount in time.
THOMAS MCCLINToCK, of Chicago, was
robbed on the train at Allegheny City, Pa,
recently, of nearly 5000 in cash and notes.
When the train stopped three passengers
jostsed against him, and after they left the
cars he discovered his loss.
THE Tammany Committee on Organiza-
ton adopted resolution recently indors-
ing the prompt action taken by the Admin
istration to protect the interests and rights
of American citizens on the Isthmus of
Panama.
RICHARD GRANT WHITE, of New York,
the well-known scholar and writer, died of
gastritis on the Sth.
SUIT has been brought against General
B. F. Butler for $4,000 alleged to be due
from him as Treasurer of the National
Soldiers Home.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT at New York on the
Both. granted the motion made in behalf of
Lucille Yseult Dudley, who shot O'Dono-
van Rosa, for a commissioner to be sent
Go England 10 examine certain witnesses
regarding Mrs. Dudley's sanity. Proceed
ings were ordered stayed in the meantime.
The manufacturers of and jobbers in
hemlock lumber adopted uniform selling
rate in their recent convention at Will
Transport, Pa. 1t was understood that a
slight advance would likely be agreed upon
at the next meeting.
THE Eastern and Western passenger
agents, recently in session at Buffalo, n.
V, decided to maintain excursion rates to
Eastern points via the Niagara Falls and
st. Lawrence River routes.
1T was reported that Jay Gould had taken
81 ,OG0, 600 of West Shore Railroad bonds.
APPREHENSION was felt at Bath, Me-, for
the safety of the ship Louisiana, Captain
Oliver, from San Francisco for Dublin,
wheat laden. The Captains wife and four
children were aboard the ship.
CYRUS W. FIELD recently resigned as one
of the Executive Committee of the Man
haitian Railway Company and of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Western Union
Telegraph Company.
CHESS, Cook g. Co., and Shoenberger &
Co., extensive nail manufacturers of Pitts
steel instead of iron nails hereafter. About
30 men will be thrown out of employment.
GENERAL GRANT continued to improve.
His friends, on the 18th, were quite hope
full.
A BODY, supposed to be that of s. s.
Conant, the missing editor OF Hdrper's
Weekly, was discovered in Coney Island
Greek recently. The body was very much
Jecomposed.
A SYNDICATE of Shenango and Mahon-
ing Valley blast furnace owners has been
formed for the purpose of buying large
block of coking coal lands in the Con-
nellsville (Pa.) field. The furnace men
are actuated by desire to escape from the
domination of the coke pool.
A PRIVATE cable dispatch received in
Boston on the 10th from London says: at
is reported that the English ultimatum to
Russia is twenty-four hours in which to
recall General Komaroff or 60 to war;"
THE WEST.
An internal machine was found in the
new court house at Joliet, ILL.,, recently.
1t was thought to have been placed there
by the striking quarrymen.
The employees of the Mccormick reaper
works, at Chicago, to the number of six
teen hundred, went on a strike recently.
THE Mormon bishop, Stewart, and Elder