The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
A Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Summary OF tho Daily News
WASHINGTON N0TEs.
the Comptroller of the Currency re
gently fined five National banks $500 FOL
delinquency in responding to his calls fol
monthly reports. These banks, the Comp
troller says, will be fined 500 each FOL
every day they are delinquent in respond
ing to future calls.
A WARRINGTON special says: The Score
tary of State, notwithstanding the release
Of Cutting, will, it is said. insist upon the
abrogation of article 1856 of the Mexican
penal code, which confers upon Mexican
.ourts Jurisdiction, under certain circum
stances, over foreigners for o6enses com
mitted outside of Mexican territory.
IT was stated that Henry F. Beecher, son
IT Henry Ward Beecher, and late collector
ut Port Townsend. Washington Territory,
10 wanted by the Treasury Department to
explain deficiency. He can not be found.
Mr.. Beecher was appointed q year ago last
June, and had the Office until the Senate
rejected him, the day before it adjourned
The authorities at Washington deny the re-
port and say it is Q canard.
GENERAL DRUM, Acting Secretary OF
War, has given instructions that Geroni.
mo, Natchez and the other hostiles who
surrendered with them must be stopped al
San Antonio and kept in prison there until
q determination shall be reached as to
what course of procedure shall be taken
against them. They will probably be tried
by a military commission.
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appointed chief of the private land claims
division of the General Land Office.
THE EAST.
ALLEN & NOBLE, hardware dealers, have
filed apetition of insolvency in Cambridge,
Mass. Their direct liabilities are about
$1,000 and the indirect nearly 100000, be-
ing Endorsements on paper of failed firms.
NEW YORK merchants, jobbers and COM
mission merchants are generally satisfied
with the condition of the fall trade. Bust
ness is picking up and shows, in most
cases, very decided Improvements. Buyers
for the fall trade have been numerous.
THOMAS F. PLuNKETT, President of the
Hartford Silk Company, and Treasurer of
the Union Mandatory of Manchester, has
disappeared. He was in New York Aug
ust 81, and has not since been heard from.
designations of his offices recently found
indicate that he has gone away and has
not met with foul play as was feared at
first.
NEARLY SIS, 600 have been raised in Phil
adelphia for the relief of the Charleston
Is. CO. earthquake sufferers.
SUPERVISORS Larkin, Gallaher and Car
Ill - Ill
to defraud Kings County.
The first of the series of races between
the MayHower and the English cutter Gala
tea for the America cup, which took place
on the eth, was won by the Mayfower with
Twelve minutes two seconds to spare.
Boston master tanners have decided to
have nothing further to do with the
knights of Labor. A strike of 1900 men
is threatened.
A sEA-sERpENT 100 feet long was seen by
two excited gentlemen in the Connecticut
river on the Sth.
STEPS have been taken in New York for
the organization Of q trust company to
raise the funds needed to rebuild the
ruined portion of Charleston, s. C.
An explosion of gas occurred in the
I q.
the Sth. Four or five men were badly hurt.
Two hundred and five out of 24O Vermont
towns have made returns and the result
shows that Edmunds is assured of re-elec-
ton by an overwhelming majority. The
Republican State ticket was elected by IT,
600 to $1,000 majority. The Republicans
have elected all their county ticket. The
State Prohibition vote will be smaller than
expected.
The yellow fever case (Francis Golden)
ended fatally in New York on the 9TH.
THE Westinghouse Air Brake Company
find that it has q profitable business and
will increase the stock from 5000, 600 to s., :
100000
A SNEAK thief stole $90, 900 worth Of booty
from the safe of j. G. Harrison's Newark,
N. j., commission store the other day.
HARMON & SONs, shoe manufacturers of
New York City, have agreed to make their
shop union one.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
directors have decided to pass the next
regular quarterly dividend.
The excursion steamer Empire State,
with 400 passengers, was recently reported
ashore q mile and q half below Sandy
Hook. There was quite q sea on and a
dense fog. The other excursion steamers
are coming in cautiously.
ERNEST SCHILLING, once coachman for
Giovanni P. Morosini and later Mr.. Moro
sini's son-inlaw and conductor of q Sixth
avenue car, quit railroading very suddenly
the other day, and took his trunk AMI dis
appeared with it from his boarding house.
TH i kol Al.H :-s
pleased at his daughters abandonment of
her husband that he sent Schilling (the
husband) his check for $4,000.
A CASE that physicians pronounced gen.
uine Asiatic cholera was recently reported
at Taunton, Mass. The patient was q young
lady, who died few hours after being at
tackled.
The socialists of New York are making
great preparations for . reception to be
given to DR.. Edward Aveling, a socialistic
leader in England. and wilhelm Lieb
knecht, . prominent German socialist and
member of the German Parliament, Sep
TENDER 19, at Union Park.
ANEW political party has sprung into
existence in Philadelphia, called the En-
glish American Political Association, and
starts out its first lodge with membership
of 500 The organization is to extend
through the East and West during the
winter.
IT was rumored that the yacht Puritan
was being prepared for an ocean race with
the Galatea-
THE WEST.
BIZ an explosion Of natural gas in . sixty
foot well being dug Eve miles from War
saw. Ill, the other day, Henry Miller was
killed. John Hope probably fatally injured