The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-16

unuef the treasury, 1nueriOT anu SuSuce
Departments.
F. A. TRIBE, Governor of Arizona, has
sent his resignation to Washington.
The suit to test the validity of the Bel
telephone patents at Washington was dis
missed by Solicitor General Goode on tech.
nicalities. Further attempts would be
made, it was said, to break the telephone
THE EAST.
MRS. DRUsE, who murdered her husband
with the aid of her son, daughter and
nephew, in Warren, Herkimer County, N.
Y, last December, and cut up and burned
the remains, was sentenced by Judge VIII
Hams to be executed.
THE New York Daily Commercial Bulle-
tin estimates the fire loss of the United
States and Canada for September at
$685., 600, which is less by $4,000 than
in September, 1884.
A LARGE meeting of Irish-American
Nationalist was held in New York re-
Gently, and appointed representatives to
aid Parnell in the pending elections in the
United Kingdom.
SEVEN HUNDRED glass blowers, Of Phila-
delphia, Pa, went on a strike on the 9Th.
A TRAIN on the Pennsylvania Railroad
was robbed by four men near Allegheny
Furnace recently. After robbing the pas
sengers they assaulted the conductor and
jumped off, escaping to the woods.
A DISPATCH from Woods Run, Pa, says:
Work was resumed to-day in five coal
mines in the third pool at the advance de-
Inv ho CT 9th
pits are preparing to start up in a few
days.
Ex-Governor TALBOT, of Massachusetts,,
diei at his home in Lowell on the 9Th.
Ex-Governor JAMES E. ENGLISH, of
Connecticut, was married recently to Miss
A. R. Morris, of Brooklyn. He is seventy
three and she q bright brunette of about
thirty years.
THE manufacturers of flint glass In
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, New Bed
ford, Meriden and New York met recently
and unanimously determined to refuse the
demands made by employees for increased
wages and decreased output.
F. o. PRINCE, of Boston, was nominated
for Governor by the Massachusetts, Demo-
Gratis recently. The other nominations
were: Lieutenant Governor, H. H. Gil.
more. of Cambridge; Secretary of State,
Jeremiah Crowley, of Lowell; Attorney
General, Henry N. Braley, of Fall River;
Treasurer and Receiver General, Henry NJ.
Cross, of Newburyport; Auditor, James E.
Delaney, of Holyoke.
JOHN LITTLE, x.Postmaster at Benning.
ton, Vt. who absconded in March, 1884,
was arrested recently on a sheep ranch
where he was working, about twenty five
miles southeast of Greeley, Colorado. His
shortage was $500.
JAY GOULD, Russell Sage, George J.
Gould, A. L. Hopkins and Captain Shack
ford left New York on the Sth for trip
over the Missouri Pacific and other South
western railways with which they are
identified. The object of the trip was to
inspect the Southwestern system.
Two cases of smallpox were discovered
at Newport, r. l., on the Sth. Stringent
measures were being taken to prevent the
disease from spreading.
A RowBoAT was capsized in Boston Har.
Dor the other afternoon. Two men were
picked up by the crew Of a tugboat, but
both died in a short time. There was said
named W. c. Cave, whose body was not
recovered,
AT the Luke Fidler breaker, Shamokin,
Pa, recently, a Polish boy employed as a
slate picker, missed his footing and fell
headlong into box in which were swiftly
revolving pair of monkey" rollers. Be.
fore the machinery could be stopped his
body was ground to pieces.
NEARLY full and official returns from the
recent town meetings in Connecticut show
that in 162 of the l67 towns, 20 are Repub-
lican, s. Democratic and Is equally divided.
Last year the standing was almost exactly
the same.
CARDINAL McCLosKEY died at New York
on the 10th, aged seventy five He was
born in Brooklyn, n. Y, March 20, 1910.
TIE postmasters at Graniteville aud
Sherley, small towns adjacent to Boston,
Mass, have been recommended for removal
for mailing matter at their Office that
should have been mailed at Boston. In the
case Of the Sherley postmaster it was al
legged by the Inspector who investigated
the matter that the postmaster paid thirty
pr cent. of the value of the stamps to per.
sons who brought quantities of circulars
70 his Office for mailing.
A VERDICT for the defendant was rem.
dered in the case of Anthony Bonner vs..
the Middlesex Horse Railroad Company,
OF Boston, to recover $4,000 for personal
injuries caused by alleged negligence Of
the defendant.
On the cross actions for divorce between
George h. Rowell, the well-known adver-
fising agent, and his wife, Chief Justice
Doe, Of the New Hampshire Supreme
Court, has rendered decision refusing to
grant the application Of either party.
The WEST.
TIE st Louis street car drivers struck
o. the afternoon of the 9th.
1HE schooner Ansa Tomine from Mus
keEou for Chicago, loaded with lumber,
got wateriosged and capsixed the other
corning about five miles west of Grand |
Haven. The crew of six men were saved !!
BY the life saving crew.
TEE street car strikers at st. Louis. on /
the 9Th. got somewhat unruly. Five of the
new drivers were dragged from cars and
nssaulted, and several arrests followed.
VI. S. HuBBELL, well to do and promi.
nent farmer living thirteen miles east of