The Iola register., 1886-08-20


10000 Of the three per cent loan of 1852.
IT was reported In Washington that
Treasurer Jordan was much dissatisfied At
Acting Secretary Fairchild's course in call
ing bonds and was prepared to send in his
resignation.
THE EAST.
DR.. GERxER, president of the Pennsylva-
mia State Board Of Health, was in Pitts
burgh recently investie ating causes Of the
typhoid fever epidemic raging on the south
side. He reported the sewerage bad and
the water impure.
TIE schooner Griffin brought into Glou-
cester, Mass, recently, 81, 600 pounds of
Goldfish, the largest catch of the season.
TnDEN's will was read at Greystone, N.
r, on the 9th. The particulars were kept
private, but Hon. John Bigelow stated that
of trustees, who were to use about one
third Of it in the payment Of legacies to rel
atives, the rest to 70 in establishing free
libraries and other public enterprises. The
estate was valued at about S, 100000.
Ar Newark, N. J., the stable Of the New
ark & Irvington Street Railway Company
was burned; also the car sheds and few
tsnements. Fifty horses were burned to
death. Total loss, $4,000.
CAPTAIN FRANK d. LoNGFoRD went out
to capture sword fish near Gloucester,
Mass, the other day. He harpooned one,
which rose to the surface and drove its
sword through the boat, penetrating the
abdomen Of the Captain SO that he will
die.
SQuIRs and Flynn, charged with official
corruption, have been indicted by the New
York grand jury.
A GENTLEMAN who has been with ex.
President Arthur at New London, says the
General is looking much better than the
public generally believes.
GKokGE l. SENEY, Of New York, has
given the Board of Managers Of the wes-
aeyan University . check for $1,000
making good an endowment projected ne
tore his failures which was precipitated by
ENHANCEMENT with Grant & Ward.
A DEAD BEAT Mason named Spaulding, of
North Adams, Mass, recently threatened
to expose Masonic secrets unless the order
gave him pecuniary relief.
Two months ago the fishing schooner
Woodruff was fitted out at Portland, Me-,
for bank fishing. Some Of the crew while
drunk became involved in . row with the
captain and attacked him. The latter,
Hodgkins, shot three men and retreated be-
low. The crew batteued down the matches
and sailed to Cape Race. It is now believed
the vessel and all went down.
One man was killed and two freight
trains wrecked by q collision near Falls
creek, Pa, on the 11th.
The New York Republican State Com
mittee has decided not to hold any State
convention this year.
The three daughters OF Henry Wyman, a
fisherman of Far Rockaway, Nellie, aged
twelve; Lizzie, aged ten, and Sadie, aged
eight, went to point only q short distance
from their cottage bathing recently, when
they got into deep water and all three
we're drowned.
NATIONAL bankers met in convention at
Boston on the l1th.
The sale of the Pittsburgh, Charters &
Youghiogheny railroad to the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company is announced.
The annual meeting of the American
Missionary Association will be held in New
Haven. Conn.,, October 10, 20 and 81.
The Somers machine and bobbin factory
At Dover, n. H., has closed down indefi-
nitely because of strike.
DR.. FRANK HAMILTON, one of New York's
mcst noted surgeons, who was one of Pres
ident Garfeld's physicians, died on the
IIth, aged seventy three. DR.. Hamilton
was the author Of many valuable medical
snd surgical works. He was also success
tul lecturer and inventor Of . number of
surgical instruments
SARAH JANE ROBINSON and Thomas R.
Smith were arrested recently at Somer-
vile, Mass, charged with poisoning They
were credited with the murder of eleven
persons for the purpose of obtaining insur-
ance money.
The schooner Oregon capsized in Boston
harbor the other night, and four Of the five
men composing the crew were drowned.
GENERAL SICKLKs has written . reply to
the letter recently published, written by
the late General Meade, accusing him of
faulty generalship in the battle of Gettys-
burg. He claims that Meade's instructions
were all verbal and extremely vague and
indefinite.
fHE WEST.
A RUNoR is that upon completion of the
change of gauge of the ST. Louis, Arkansas
& Texas, it ~ill virtually become part of
the Illinois Central system.
The -four mill of l. Comstock, Jr.. & Co.,
at Gallipolis, O., was burned to the ground
the other morning. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
ZIxsNER, HERMAN & Cos brewery, near
Woodstock Ill. was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Loss, $4,000; insurance. $4,000.
THE boiler of thresher engine exploded
on the Foster farm. near Jefferson, Wis,
the other day, killing five persons instantly
Anthony Klein, the engineer, and his son,
Joseph Lester and his tea-year-old boy and
Joseph Haas. Another of Lesteres sons,
aged eight years, and q man named Fisher
were fatally scalded. Several others re-
ceiveG scalds.
Hoe cholera, which gave considerable
trouble to farmers near Janssvilie, Wis,
last spring, has again broken out, q herd
from the Chicago stockyards being at.
tackled with the disease
THE Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen
held a meeting st Lafayette, Ind. recently.
An address Of welcome was made BY Mayor
Caldwell