The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-17

/ utterances.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
directors have decided to pass the next
quarterly dividend.
The Western Nail Association at its re
cent meeting in Cincinnati advanced the
price OF nails to 81. 40 per keg.
FIELD, THAYER & Co., an old shoe firm
Of Boston. failed on the 9Th for $GOO,0OO.
| DR. BARTH, the Liberal leader Of the Ger
man Reichstag, was on the floor OF the
House recently and was cordially greeted
| by Representatives He witt, Cox, Morrison,
Phelps, Long and others.
THE N. Matthews L. Willard Manufac.
turing Company Of Waterbury, Conn.
! was fined s65 and costs recently for EN-
ployiDg two boys under thirteen years OF
| age. The case was appealed. Senator
| opposed to the law.
AMEErING of holders of Central Pacific
railroad bonds was held recently in Lon
don, Joseph Price presiding. The chair.
| man said that the company was in the
hands of directors who held no stock. A
committee was appointed to protect the
interest of the English bondholders.
The knitting mill owners of Cohoes and
Waterford. N. Y, have advertised for II, OOO
skilled operatives, guaranteeing permanent
employment and good wages.
THE WEST.
THE will of the late Charles Francis
Adams makes a bequest of $4,000 to the
Adams Academy at Quincy. The rest of
the estate is equally divided among the
family.
The jury in the case of Paul Grottkau,
charged with leading a riot in Milwaukee
last spring, were unable to agree and were
discharged.
JUDGE GRESHAM, at Chicago, on the 9TH
removed Scion Humphreys and Thomas
E. Tut from the receivership of the Wa
bash railroad for misconduct. The Judge
severely censured the receivers, who were
accused of having acted in concert with
Jay Gould, Dillon and Sage, but who care
fully conc ealed the latter's names.
On the San Francisco Stock Exchange
on the 9th R. Dinsmore & Co., stock
brokers. assigned. Their liabilities aggre-
gate 100000. Three other failures of
stock brokers were announced during the
day, c. F. Anderson suspending with
s150,O08 liabilities and nominal assets,
Fred F. Franks with liabilities estimated
at s25O, 900 and F. P. Gray with unknown
liabilities and assets
JOHN 7. LESTER, the Chicago millionaire,
has agreed to pay the duties and costs,
amounting to $1,000. and a penalty of
5000 for undertaking a lot of imported
paintings.
REUBEN HILL and his three sons were
killed near Laporte, Ind, on the Grand
Trunk road recently by train striking
their wagon as they crossed the track.
The dead bodies of three Indians who
persisted in the late storm have been found
near Ashland, Mont. Several moro Indi
ans are believed to be lost and to have met
the same fate. The dead Indians are sup
posed to belong to the Fort Berthold
agency.
THE wine season in California, just over,
was the most favorable ever known.
A DANvILLE, ILL.,, special of the Sth says:
zone hundred and fifty colored miners at
Grape Creek struck yesterday, the super.
intendent having offered only sixty-five
cents per ton, powder and tools to be fur
nished by them, or 81 with three and one
half tons output, powder free. It is ex-
pected other miners will follow
The bank of Gold Hill, New, has sus-
pended.
THE Supreme Court of Colorado has or
dered the disbarment of H. B. johnson and
L A. Green of the Denver bar. A few days
ago they lodged a complaint in the United
States courts charging Judge Rodgers of
the Superior Court with having received a
bride for having deciced against them in a
case which they were defending. Their
charges were not proven and hence the dis
barment.
A TIE up occurred on the Suffer street
railway lines, San Francisco, ON the Sth.
The strike was caused by the refusal of
the company to comply with the demands
of the men for an increase from $2.25 to
$3.50 a day, and the working hours de-
creased from thirteen and half to twelve.
ROBERT GARRETT has been reelected pres
ident of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Company.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has con-
firmed the sentence of Willie Baldwin, con.
victed of the murder of his sister.
SERIOUS riot broke out in Traverse
County, Mimi, recently, consequent upon
the removal of the county seat from
Browns valley 70 w hedt0n.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany has announced further reduction in
night rates between all principal cities east
of the Mississippi.
THE business portion of the village Of
Attica, O., was destroyed by fire ON the
10th. The loss reached $50, 600, while the
insurance was about one-half.
FRANCIS PALMS, the Detroit multi.mil-
lionaire, left s., 100000 for charitable pur-
poses.
ARCHBISHOP ELDER, of Cincinnati, has
forbidden Catholics from singing in the
choirs of Protestant churches.
TMR SOUTH.
IT is reported from Tascosa, Tex, that
extensive prairie fires prevail on the
ranches twenty miles northwest of Clar-
endon, The burned district covers about
8, 500, 400 acres.
The steamboat St. John dropped her
guards near Monroe. La, recently and
precipitated 1000 bales of cotton into the
river. The cargo was recovered.
CoNNANDER-IN.CHIEFF AIRcHILD, of the
g. A. R has issued an order relieving A.
E. Sholes of the position of department
commander for Tennessee and Alabama,
and appointing Hon. II. R Gibson, of
Knoxville.
CARDAzA & Co, dry goods, Richmond, Va,
have made an assignment with liabilities
amounting to about $4,000; assets to
about $4,000, and preferences to LOCO.
Two men were instantly killed recently
by an explosion of dynamite in the Back
bone tunnel of the Frisco road near Fort
Smith, Ark.
Ar Denison, Tex, on the 9th the Missouri
Pacific switchmen walked out at the sound
of the whistle, on a strike, asking s65 per