The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-09
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The following ticket was nominated by
the Massachusetts Greenbackers on the
18th at Boston: Governor, James Sumner,
of Milton; Lieutenant Governor, James NJ.
Buffum, of Lynn; Secretary of State, H.
w. K. Eastman, of Lawrence; Treasurer
and Receiver, General Walton Harmon, of
Boston; Auditor, A. b. Wood, of Lunen-
burg; Attorney General, A. F. Hall, of
Hudson.
MEssRs. SoUrTER & Co.. bankers and
brokers, doing business at No. IL Wall
street, New York, made an assignment re-
Gently for the benefit of their creditors.
LUcIUs PARKER, the oldest cotton cloth
manufacturer in Connecticut, died in Mans
field recently Of softening of the brain,
aged seventy-seven. He left an estate of
$500, 900. sacsRss
THE hon. Lyman A. Cook, of Woon-
socket, r. L, has made an assignment
His assets are unknown.
VIcE-PREsIDENr HENDRICKS addressed
the New Jersey State Firemen's Associa-
ton at Paterson on the 3Oth.
ONE of the crew of the steamer Craig
hill, recently arrived at Boston, is at quar-
antine very sick with yellow fever, having
contracted it on the voyage from Mexico,
and three others are down with the dis.
ease.
CHARLES BRoADwELL, a cutter in the
employ of Hutton & Son, manufacturers
of fiannels, Philadelphia, was arrested the
other day on the charge of stealing flannel
to the aggregate value of $15,O
The other afternoon Prof. j. E. DeLeon,
of Springfield, O., walked across the river
at Portage, N. Y, on a tight rope stretched
$50 feet from side to side at distance of
800 feet above the rocky bed and directly
above the falls.
The meeting of General Passenger Agents
at New York has adopted the report of the
Presidents upon the reorganization of pools
and resumption of rates.
An express train at New Britain, Conn.,,
the other morning ran over a stage and
killed the driver and two lady passengers.
WHAT was thought to be q sensational
mystery in Boston turned out to lie that
of a dog which had been shot, tied in
a bag and thrown into the Charles River.
The window glass trade was reported at
a recent convention held in New York to
be in very unpromising condition.
AT meeting of the New York Chamber
of Commerce resolutions were adopted re-
questing the President and the Secretary
of State to make public at the earliest ap.
propriate time the provisions of the new
treaty with Spain.
The sealer, Bear, which was one of the
vessels of the Greedy relief expedition, is
now t'eing fitted out at New York for use
in tho r avopuo Mor;no Sorv;ca Sho ~,;1I
relieve the steamer Corwin on the Alaskan
Station.
The three cases of smallpox found in .
French Canadian family in Fall River,
Mass, proved very malignant. It was
thought that all the victims would die
City Solicitor jackson went to Boston to
wait upon Governor Robinson to see if the
city could not be placed under quarantine
to prevent the immigration of French Can
adams from Canada.
A MEETING Of the Central and Erie fast
freight line managers was held at Buffalo,
n. Y, recently, and the announcement
was made that the Red, White and Mid
land fast freight lines would be consoli.
dated, with General Sherman of the Red
Line as General Manager of the console
0ated companies.
SEVENTEEN men and boys were fearfully
scalded by an explosion recently at Clark
& Co.'s iron works, Pittsburgh, Pa,
caused by the rupture of drum. Several
of the injured, it was thought, could not
possibly recover.
In recent prize fight at Pittsburgh, Pa,
pepper was thrown into the eyes of one of
the pugilists, who was getting the best of
the contest, binding him. His seconds
raised the question of "foul," which was
allowed, and the affair broke up in . gen.
.eral row.
WILLIAM HEATH & Co., stock brokers of
New York, suspended on the I'd. Liabilities
amounted to nearly 100000. Henry N.
Smith also failed for 100000. The two
firms were partly connected in stock oper-
,ations, and the failure of the one dragged
down the other.