The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-31

The suspension Of J. II. McCoon was an
nounced on the New York Stock Exchange
on the 2lst. This was one of the houses re-
ported in trouble in the recent panic, but
which tided the trouble over.
SOME of the counterfeit silver dollars
with which the Northwest has been flooded
by the gang of counterfeiters recently dis
covered near Pullman, ILL.,, are afioat in
New York. The center of the coin is filled
with q white metal, while the shell is OF
silver. The character Of the coin can only
be detected by experts.
JOHN FORsTNER, a jOurneyman jeweler
with Samuel Simpson, a Philadelphia jew
eler, dropped dead recently. His employer
having great respect for him went to the
dead mans room to arrange his things.
There he found 3, 600 in jewelry, which
Forstner had stolen from him.
CIGARMAKERs' Assembly No. 1914. Philar
delphia, have surrendered their Knight OF
Labor charter. and will stick to their union.
JAMES s. WALSH, Appointment member OF
Tammany Hall. has been appointed assist
ant inspector of hulls at New York by Sec
rotary Manning.
THE street car strike at Brooklyn ended
on the 23d after one days "tie up" The
THE steamer Saltillo arrived at Boston on
the 23d from Hull, bringing Captain Stevens
and seven men of the crew of the bark krl-
olith, taken off that vessel. which was in
sinking condition. One man, Frank Cook,
had been washed overheard and drowned.
THE WEST.
L. Cohen. of Chicago. has been ruled off
the American turf for trying to bride jock
eys to pull their horses at Louisville last
fall.
GREAT mortality is reported among cattle
in the northwest and southwest portions OF
Iowa from disease which the farmers fear
is pleuro-pneumonia.
THE private banking house of /. E. Hush
Il Co., Minneapolis, Mimi, has closed its
doors. Assets sufficient to pay in full
A DISPATCH dated the 2lst from Virginia
City, New. said that the Yellow Jacket
mine was on fire. There were no particu-
lars.
For the publication of scurrilous poem
rejecting on the integrity of the court in the
trial Of the riot cases at Milwaukee. Judge
Sloan sentenced Paul Grottkau, editor of
the socialist organ. the ArJeiter Zei,ang, to
thirty days at hard labor.
UNITED STATES detectives recently seized
a counterfeiter's outfit at Pullman, Ill. A
large amount of spurious silver dollars had
been floated in the Northwest by the par
ties.
THE city hall and opera house at Cheboy
gan, Mich, burned the other night. The
Jail in the rear of the city hall contained
two prisoners, both of whom were burned
to death. The loss was $4,000: no insur-
ance.
THREE robbers in sleigh attacked FL
liOtt's jewelry store at Minneapolis. Mimi,
on the evening of the I'D, smashing the
windows and stealing between 5000 and
5000 worth of diamonds and watches.
They then drove away and escaped.
A TROTTING race. to take place in San
Francisco April .. has been arranged be-
tween Oliver K. and Harry Wilkes for
5000 a side.
THE W. c. I. U. of Sioux City. Ia. has
a corporation to build a memorial
building dedicated to the murdered Rev.
George c. Haddock.
BRUCE, the burglar who broke into the
Catholic Church in South Bend, Ind. and
stole the golden crowns. has been sentenced
to seven years in the pcnitentiary.
POSTMASTER BURTON, of Royal Center,
Ind, was $1,000 short in his accounts and
went to Indianapolis to give himself up.
THE farm house of Caleb Russell. near
o.. caught fire at an early hour
the other morning. When the neighbors
arrived Russell. who was eighty years old.
and his wife, aged fifty, had escaped from
the house, but they Were SO much over
come by the heat and smoke that they died
shortly afterward. A dcmented son who
slept upstairs was burned to death.
THE contract for the construction of the
new building of the Chamber of Commerce
in Cincinnati has been awarded to Norcross
q CO.. Worcester. Mass. for S52i.O0O Wor-
cester granite is the material chosen. This
bid does not include excavation and cary
ing, which will make the total cost 5000 0J.
The Pray Manufacturing Company of
Mimi. assigned to Jabcz b.
Robinson. Liabilities, S2,G0.OGO; assets.
Sl5O.0O0
THE directors of the Cincinnati. New Or
leans 4 Texas Pacific road met in Cncin-
natl on the 23d, accepted the resignation Of
President Frank $. Bond and elected Vice
President Charles Schiff to the presidency.
BRADFORD DUNHAM, general manager of
the Baltimore Il Ohio system. rendered his
resignation recently to President Garrett,
who accepted it. William NJ. Clements,
who was formerly master of transportation
Cf the road, it was believed. would be his
successor.
The Rock Island and the Alton roads. at
Chicago on the 23d, notified Commissioner
Midgley that. commencing January l, 1857,
they would cease to pay any of the expenses
incurred by the present Pacific Coast AssO-
citation. From this action it was inferred
that the Pacific Coast Association would
cease to exist January l, 1857.
THE SOUTH.
THE cattle disease in Texas was thought
by an agent of the Agricultural Department
to be tuberculosis and not pleuro- pneumonia
as alleged.
VILoNIA. small town near Little Rock,
Ark, was destroyed recently by incen-
diaries.
r. G. BARR. one of Wheeling's (W. Va)
most prominent lawyers, was walking near
the Panhandle Railroad recently when q
train dashed around a curve, and in attempt
ing to leave the rails he slipped and fell and
the train passed over him infiicting fatal in
juries. Mr.. Bars wife was waiting on the
other side Of the railroad for her husband
to join her and witnessed the terrible &C
cident.
SIATf-NINE 1relgnt Orakemen on the
Louisville & Nashville road struck recently
because the company discharged two Of
the committee who asked for advanced
wages.
GEORGE GouLD denies that line is to be
from Hannibal to Chicago by
the Missouri Pacific Company.
A HELENA (Ark) special says: ssThe
Phillips County Wheel and Agricultural
Organization adopled resolutions calling on
the National Cotton Planters, Association