The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
THE Pullman Car Company Is building
S1,5OO,OOO worth of rolling stock for the
Vanderbilt lines.
IT is rumored in Brooklyn that Colone
Debevoise, late chief clerk in the STAMP
department of the post-office, who died q
few days ago, had committed suicide t.
avoid arrest for defalcation.
JAMES A. HANLoN, of Medina, N. Y, ha,
been appointed collector of internal reve
nue. for the Twenty eighth district of New
York.
The steamship Anchoria of the Anchor
line was overdue five days on the 5th, and
fears were felt in New York for her safety
The annual Grand Army parade at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 5th was participated in
by fully 5000 veterans. The day was beau
tiful ard the decorations tasteful and lib
eral.
The United States circuit court in ses
sion in Philadelphia has refused to dis miss
the Reading railroad foreclosure suit, and
appointed Austin Corbin as the third re
ceiver.
THE nomination of Henry George fol
Mayor of New York was formally made
and accepted on the 9Th at Cooper Insti
tute.
RETURNS from 100 towns I'm Connecticut
give the Republicans "a, the Democrats 81
and divided Is.
The brakemen on the Youngstown divi
sion of the New York, Pennsylvania &
Ohio railway have struck for increased
wages and extra pay for over time. One
hundred and ten men are ont
EDGERToN, the nurse on trial in Brook
lyn for causing the death of a patient in
the Flat Bush Insane Asylum by scalding
him in q bath, was acquitted.
NEW YORK stock jobbers pledge them.
selves to support j. Edward Simmons fol-
mayor, in opposition to Henry George.
The trustees of the Peabody Educational
fund held their annual meeting in New
York on the 9th. They were afterwards
banquetted.
The Republicans of the Ninth Massachu.
Uetts congressional district have nominated
Hon. Frederick d. Ely, of Dedham.
GOVERNOR PArrIsoN, of Pennsylvania
says all infected cattle coming from Chi.
eago will be destroyed and a quarantine
ordered.
The miners of the Philadelphia & Read
ing Peerless Colliery struck recently on
account of scarcity of cars. The breaker
could not supply coal steadily, and several
miners demanded that time should be al
lowed them which was thus lost. The re
quest was refused.
The waterworks at Sheepshead Bay col
The tower went down.
FIRE in New York recently destroyed
the Harlem beach bath and other property
worth SIS, 600 in all
THE Philadelphia Common Council has
postponed action on Mayor Smiths i'm
parchment for the present.
A CHARTER for an underground railway
through Philadelphia has been granted by
the Pennsylvania Secretary of State.
PHILADELPHIA is to have an underground
railway fifteen miles in length.
MISS KATE TAYLOR, aged twenty five,
was blown to pieces by an explosion of full
inmate of mercury, at the Winchester
arms factory, New Haven, Conn, recently
The young lady was an inspector of the
explosive.
Dan DRIsCoLL, ex-leader of the Wbyc
gang of New York city, has been sentenced
to be hanged December 8, for the murder
of his mistress.
The ex-Town Treasurer of Pittsfield,
Mass. Josiah Carter, is reported $4,000
behind in his accounts
AUSTIN F. PIKE, United States Senator
for New Hampshire, died suddenly a,
Franklin Falls, Mass, October S. He was
born October 16, 1916.
The United States court sitting in Fhila.
delphia has granted decree of foreclosure
of the Reading railway under the general
mortgage bond.
D. CowAN & Co., wooden manufacturers
of Lewiston, Ne, have failed for $50, 0Oa
Their assets are said to be ample.