The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-03
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.
4 Summary OF tho Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
OWING to the great demand for ono, five
and ten-cent pieces, the Treasury Depart
ment has called on the mints Tor N addf
sional supply.
The Treasury Department has decided
that Canadian vessels can carry passen-
gers from Cleveland to Chicago, using two
tickets.
REPoars from Washington discourage
hopes Of Secretary Maaaing's carly rseurn
20 his duties.
Ow1SG to She absence OF The -Conmis
sioner of Indian Affairs and the assistant
secretary Of the same Office, Miss Minnie s.
Cook was scting Is 4he head of the Indian
Office
. BRIGADaER GENERAL JOIN NEwreN, CHIEF
OF engineers, having served mere than
forty years as an officer Of the army, has
been at his own request by direction of the
Presidcat retired from active service.
TEE experts sent from Washington to
count the money in the United States sub
their task and found that the money and
the accounts balanced to a penny. The ex-
perts counted about 81, 100000, of which
SIS O00, 600 was silver.
THE EAST.
The employees in the pipe mill of the
Reading, Pa, iron works have been
granted an increase of from 10 to Is per
cent in wages.
JAMES A. McELHANHr, aged twenty, of
New York City, brutally murdered his
mother, who had reproved him for idleness
and drunkenness.
SAMUfa. COLvILLE, the popular theatrical
manager, and proprietor of the Fourteenth
street New York; theater, died suddenly
recently.
DIR. FREDERICK H. HoADLEr, medical di-
rectorof the Greedy relief expedition, has
become insane aud has been taken to the
Bloomingdale On. W asylum.
BoYD C. CALDWELL. cashier of the City
National Bank, of Williamsport, Pa, has
been held in 1000 bonds on a charge Of
-embezzlement.
The largest oil well ever struck in the
Pittsburgh region began to flow at Sham
okin, Pa, on the 23d, at the rate of $500
barrels per day.
The Republican campaign in Maine was
opened at Sebago Lake on the 24th by
Hon. j. G. Blaine.
TWENTY miners were seriously injured
the other day at Lykens, Pa, by two ex-
plosions of gas, caused by lighting lamp
in the airhole.
A STRIKE occurred at John brakes
Quincy, Mass, shoe factory because last
ing machine and non-union men were in
PRODUCED.
AT picnic of the knights of Labor at
Luzerne grove, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, re-
Gently, General Master Workman Powder.
iy made an address in which he strongly
denounced the rioting and violence carried
on in the name of the Knights of Labor.
Rev. JAMES c. BEECHER, of Coscob,
Conn, brother of Revs. Henry Ward and
Thomas K. Beecher. committed suicide at
She water cure at Elmira, N. Y, on the
18th, by shooting himself through the head
with a rife. He had been suffering under
severe mental troubles for a number of
years and for time was under treatment
at the Middletown asylum.
The Boston yacht Mayfiower won the
second trial race and will be matched with
the British cutter Galatea for the America
cup.
The international polo match between
the birmingham English) and the West
chester (American) clubs came off at New
N<nv.< Il
won easily and rapidly, by 10 goals to f.
Percy Belmont, of the Americans, subse
Quently dined both clubs.
IT is now said the victims of Mrs. Robin
son, the Somerville (Mass.) poisoner num-
Der ten, the tenth being Joseph Field, a
wealthy widower who died of arsenicai
poisoning at Mrs. Robinson's house in 1876.
JOHN VAN SCHAUCK, an aged miser at
4attawan, n. j., believing he was dying,
sent for a local judge and revealed the
hiding place of various kinds of currency
to the amount of about $4,000
The schedule of the assignment of George
r. Palmer, of New York, for the benefit of
creditors shows liabilities SCI, $50; nomi-
nal assets, sci, S27; actual assets, S52,23
The New York Typographical Union re-
Gently refused to march in a parade under
Knights of Labor orders.
NEW YORK roads have made a reduction
ON the freight rate on cotton goods.
PHILADELPHIA manufacturers of hosiery
and knit goods have decided not to re.
duce wages.
The street car strike at New York was
amicably settled on the Goth.
DANIEL SULLIVAN, the actor, better
known as Dan Sully of the Corner Gro
Gerry, has been arrested and lodged in Lud-
low street Jail, New York, on suit brought
by his wife for absolute divorce and ali.
mony. He was arrested while performing
at TonyPastor's, but was permitted to fin
1sh the performance.
TIE Ellenville On. W Press announces
its former editor, Deputy State Comp
froller Thomas E. Benedict, has been ten
dered by President Cleveland and accepted
the position of Public Printer at Washing
ton.
The Delaware & Hudson Canal Com
pany's freight depot at Saratoga, n Y,
was burned the other night Loss, 500,
Geo.
CRAzDALL's toy factory at Montrose,
Sus9ueaanna County, Pa, and thirteen
business houses and two residences were
burned the other night. The loss was S15,-
OOQ.
EHE WHIST.
Isaac 4. MACK, principal Of the first free
school in Cincinnati and founder of the
free school system of Rochester, n. Y,
died IN SandSsks, O., on the sd.
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