The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-24
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have been ignored.
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The United States Minister and Mrs. Cox
left on September Is for New York on a
two months leave of absence.
GOVERNOR SAWYER, of New Hampshire,
was nominated on the first ballot at the
Republican State convention at Concord,
N. h. on September IA.
The Aveling socialist campaign in Amer
lea was inaugurated recently in Bridge
port, Conn.
A NIAGARA FALLS excursion train on the
Nickel Plate road collided with a freight
train on September IA and sixteen persons
were killed outright and number fatally
or severely injured.
PIERRE LoRILLARD has concluded to sell
his racing stable by auction about the mid
die of October.
The County Democracy executive com.
mittee of New York have instructed their
chairman to appoint a committee of 100
members to wait on ex-Mayor Edward
Cooper on his arrival from Europe and to
press upon him the leadership Of the Or
ganization.
BURGLARS entered the house of John Park
in Remington, Pa, recently, and after ter
ribly abusing the inmates succeeded in car
rying off from 81, 900 to 81. 500 in cash.
The jury in the case of the Coney Island
Jockey Club, whose officers were on trial in
Brooklyn for violating the State law
against betting on race grounds failed to
ag1ee and were discharged.
The colored men of New England held a
conference in Boston on September 16 to
protest against the discrimination of the
race in society, business and every thing
else.
SEPTEMBER Is was the first day of the
honeymoon of George j. Gould and he at,
tended to his business in the Western I'm
ion building. In the afternoon he and his
bride went to Jay Gould's residence at IT.
vington on the Hudson.
THE Bay State Prohibitionists met in
Worcester, Mass, September 16 and
adopted the usual resolutions declaring
hostility to the liquor interests together
with one which hailed with joy the steady
and strong increase of the Roman Catholic
Total Abstinence Union.
The Governors of the thirteen original
States met at Philadelphia on September
IL to make arrangements for celebrating
the one hundredth anniversary of the adop-
tion of the United States constitution.
ALFRED HAHN, an insurance agent max
ing $40 a week, was lately commanded by
. New York court to pay S week for the
support OF a woman who says that she is
his wife, but whom he swears he has never
before seen.
Ar Boston recently Sylvester Fletcher,
colored. picked up q stone, walked to a
baby carriage in which a six-months old
child lay sleeping and struck the child a
terrific blow on the head, infiicting fatal
wound. The only excuse he gave was that
he was starving and wanted to be arrested
20 as to get something to eat.
DorGLAs SMITH, a clerk in the Auditors
Office at the Custom House at New York,
has been accused of embezzlement. His
duty was to receive all monies from duties
on books at the postofice.
A RECENT dispatch from New York says
that it has become almost certain that the
estate of the late Samuel J. Tilden will not
be settled without an unpleasant contest
LATE advices from Honduras to New
York state that the revolutionists there
we're met by the troops and completely
routed.
THE WET.
The city clerk of Quincy, ILL.,. is alleged
70 be q defaulter and he has been sus-
pended from Office by the mayor.
THE following have lately been nomi-
mated for Congress; Joseph B. Cheadle,
Republican, Ninth Indiana district; Will
liam p. Neece. Democrat Eleventh Illinois
district; Ralph Plumb, Republican, Eighth
Illinois district; Isaac Stephenson, Repub-
lican, Ninth Wisconsin district