The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-27
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
a Summary OF tho Daily News

4 Summary OF tho Daily NewA
WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE President left Washington on the
10th for his summer vacation, proceeding
TO the Adirondack mountains.
The Treasury Department has issued q
warrant for nearly 81 ,0O0, 900 to meet def
ciencies in the postal revenues in the last
three years.
MISS IDA HowGArE, daughter of Captain
Howgate, of Arctic fame, and who is also a
Government defaulter, has been appointed
to . clerkship in the Treasury Department.
The Secretary of the Interior on the 18th
drew warrants ON the Treasury Depart
ment for 81, is, 400 on account of the quar-
terly payment of pensions.
The State department has received Of
fetal information of the acceptance by the
Japsnese Government of the modification
made by the Senate prior to its ratification
of the Japanese extradition treaty ON June
q. The exchange of official copies Of the
treaty will Cite it full effect.
a TELEGRAM has been received from Lon
don by Mr.. Dodge, statistician OF the De-
partment of Agriculture, stating that the
shortage Of wheat in Great Britain for the
present year was estimated At 100000
buShels.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury,
Fairchild, has issued another call for SIS
600 600 3 per cent. bonds to mature on Oc-
tober 1 next.
IT was rumored in Washington that As
sistant Secretary Ports would resign.
A DISPATCH received AZ the War Depart
ment states that Geronimo, with forty In
dians, is cndeavoring to make peace with
Mexican authorities ON the Mexican
frontier.
THE EAST.
THE defalcations of William Gray, treas
urer of the Atlantic and Indian Orchard
mills, Boston, are said to amount to $780,
600.
The following was the visible supply Of
grain on August IA, as prepared by the
New York Produce Exchange. Wheat as
81, 200, increase 1,7l4.l39; corn sos, OOO
increase 1,a6s.O 900; oats 2,54OOO0. increase
S2l 600; rye 40, 900; barley 3l6,O 200, increase
64,OOO.
TIE operatives in the clothing houses Of
Boston are preparing to fight a new bast-
ing machine which, it is claimed, will throw
hundreds of girls out of work.
MCCLANE's planning and saw mill at
Twenty second and Eleventh avenue, New
York, burned the other night. Loss, e5O, OOO
PATRICK H. MCCARRoN, q Providence (R.
J. barber, while insane cut the throat of
james Crosby while shaving him. Crosby
ran into the street, but died ON the side
walk.
ELI WHITNEY BLAKE, inventor of the
Blake stone crusher, and a nephew of Eli
Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin,
died on the 18th in New Haven, Conn, aged
ninety-one years.
CHAUNCEY NJ. BLACK, of York County,
has been nominated for Governor by the
Pennsylvania Democrats.
An oil train of twenty -four cars became
detached on the Jersey Central near White
House, N. j., causing one of the cars to
take fire by conclusion. The blaze caused
the other cars to explode one after the
other. Loss, $4,000
THE National Association of ex Prisoners
Of War recently in session at Buffalo, n.
Y, has selected Chicago as the next place
of meeting.
THELewiston (Me.) Steam Mill Company
has made an assignment. with 81 ,6sS, GOO
liabilities and assets unknown.
JUDGE BARRETT, who sentenced the New
York boycotters, has been warned out of
Litchfield, Conn.
1T has been definitely learned that Gray,
the defaultihg treasurer of the ::Atlantic
and Indian Orchard mills. has committed
ssI nlx
near Boston.
Two persons were killed and seven in
jured in railroad accident at Brattleboro
Vt, recently.
The Weymouth Mass Iron Company,
nail manufacturers. stopped payment on
the Goth. The trouble was brought about
by losses caused by the flood last spring
and the suspension of the Bridgewater Iron
Company. Liabilities, $500. 1000; assets the
same.
HoN. EZRA MILLER, ex-Mayor of Omaha,
died suddenly at Syracuse, n. Y, OH the
Goth, of heart disease. His remains were
sent west. He was president of the Com.
mercial Bank of Omaha.
THERE will be a monster socialistic con-
vention in Auburn, n. Y. in the middle of
September, at which, it is expected, over
10000 socialists from all parts of the coun-
try will be in attendance.
A SEVERE hail storm visited Hancock,
Me-, recently. Many windows were broken
and the crops were seriously damaged.
The next day was SO cool that the hail
which had gathered in the cutters did not
melt.
The Cambria Iron Company, of Johns
town, Pa, is making war on the Knights
Of Labor. Sixty men have been dis
charged without cause being assigned
Half the employees are Knights and it was
expected all would strike.
The New York Produce Exchange has is
sued positive orders against trading before
and after hours.
THE WEST.
GEpDEs & BERTRAND's mill, located on
Secret Canyon, near Eureka, New, was de-
ktroyed by fire the other night. Loss,
$4,000.
A MASS of human bones and clothing
were found in the vault Of Q saloon kept
by one Joe Nasserang in St Louis several
days ago, and the keeper of the gin mill,
together with his wife and another party,
are charged with murder.
The Republicans of the Eighth Ohio dis
trlct have nominated Lieuten ant Governor