The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-11
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
"A Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE public debt increased during the
month of November ASST, 1851. The in
Of receipts and increased pension charges.
A BILL authorizing the distribution OF
$500, 600 received from the lease Of grazing
lands of the Territory to cattle syndicates
among the Cherokees per capita, was re-
ported causing some excitement in the
lower house of the Cherokee Legislature.
ONE of the immediate results of General
Eheridan's flying trips to New Mexico is
an order issued by Secretary Endicott de-
taching New Mexico from the Department
of the Missouri and annexing it to the Dis
trict of Arizona, with General Crook in
command.
THE President has appointed Albert A.
Wilson, Of Washington, United States
Marshal for the District of Columbia. Mr..
Wilson is President of an insurance COM
pany, Vice President of railway company
and bank director in Washington City.
REPUBLICAN Senators in caucus at Wash
ington on the 4th unanimously nominated
Senator Logan for President pro tenn. Sen
ator Logan declined the honor.
THE EAST.
THREE children named Fitzgerald were
burned to death in Providence, r. l., re-
Gently. They had been playing with luci-
fer matches.
JAMES F. d. CRANE, County Clerk of
Westchester County, N. Y, became finan-
cially involved and fed recently. Every
thing was straight at his Office. His in
debtedncss was over $4,000.
Six men were drowned while skating
near Skowhegan, Me-, recently.
AT a largely attended meeting of the
Baptist ministers at Boston on the LIST reso-
buttons were passed approving the action
of the Bowdoin Square Church in closing
its doors against the Rev. W. W. Downs,
notorious in the Tabor divorce case. The
ministers also resolved that he should be
expelled from the conference and that all
fellowship with him should be disclaimed.
AT Herr's Island. near Pittsburgh, Pa,
the other morning, the tow boat Iron City
was blown to pieces, killing one man and
seriously injuring six others. The crew
numbering six men were blown into the
river. Engineer George Ashton was in
stantly killed; Fred jackson was fatally
injured, and others seriously. The vessel
burned to the waters edge.
A BAD accident happened near Washing
ton, Pa, on the I'd on the Baltimore a.
Ohio Railroad. The first ''S6'' local freight
east bound, had started from the Washing
ton yards with orders to run to Finleyville
When in the Workman cut it collided with
the west bound first 1897 through freight,
with terrific force. Conductor John Rider
and a brakeman were instantly killed and
other train hands injured.
The Pennsylvania Road has obtained
control of the Washington & Waynesburg,
and will make it standard gauge.
TRAIN No. 4, the st. Louis limited ex-
press, on the Erie Road bound east, was
wrecked at Scio, near Elmira, N. ", early
on the morning of the Sd. Engineer Henry
Allen was killed. The passengers were
more or less shaken up. but none were seri-
ously hurt. The train took fire and the
baggage and smoking cars were burned.
The accident was caused by a misplaced
switch.
ABOUT $50 shoe manufacturers of New
England met in Boston recently and formed
an organization intended to cope with the
Knights of Labor.
The striking prescription glass-workers of
Pittsburgh, Pa, who have been out for over
. year, compromised recently by accepting
. ten per cent reduction.
GOVERNOR ABBOTT, of New Jersey, was
reported recovering satisfactorily from the
severe effects of a surgical operation per-
formed recently for an affection of the
cerebral bone.
An explosion took place in the chemical
laboratory of Tufts College, Boston, re-
Gently, several large sealed tubs filed with
q poisonous alkaloid bursting while at a
temperature of 800 degrees centigrade. A
furnace was also blown to atoms, one
piece just missing Assistant Palmer's head.
The freight brakemen on nearly all the
roads in Pittsburgh and Allegheny are join
ing, in large numbers, the secret organiza-
tion known as the BrakemenS League,
which was recently established in the West
JOHN KELLY, the Tammany boss, has been
assured by his physician, DR.. Reyes, that he
will entirely recover his health, and il will
not be necessary for him to seek q warmer
climate than that Of New York this winter.
THE clock case shop of E. N. Welsh e.
Co, of Forestville, Conn, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire recently. Loss, $1,000; in
surance, S4S, 900.
PITTSBURGH iron dealers report an ad-
vance of 81 on pig metal and fifty cents on
ore. This has been brought about by .
steadily increasing demand, and is the first
apparent substantial evidence Of o revival
of the iron trade.
The tug boat Dory Emory blew up on the
East River, New York, recently. The crew
of six on board the vessel were killed, not
a trace of them being found when search
parties went out. The tug was blown to
pieces. 1t was valued al S10,O00.
THE committee in charge of the affairs of
the National Base Ball League has decided
to limit the number Of clubs in the league
to six. They are: Chicago, st. Louis,
Detroit, Philadelphia, New York and Bos-
ton.
TIE New York Chamber Of Commerce re-
Gently adopted resolutions deploring the
decline of American shipping, and sug-
gesting as a remedy the establishment of q
Bureau of Commerce under the control of
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
JUDGE SINoNToN, of Pennsylvania, has
handed down an opinion in regard to the
constitutionality of the act prohibiting the
manufacture and sale Of oleomargarine
The court holds that the act is entirely con-
Stitutional.
NATURAL gas exploded at SIS Grant street,
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 4th. One woman
was fatally burned and several others Sc
Fiously injured. The damage amounted to
$4,000.
SEVENTEEN prisoners, among the number
some of the most notorious criminals in the
State of Pennsylvania, escaped recently
from the Beaver County jail by cutting the
corridor and window bars and letting them