The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-22
THE EAST.

urery Department for short time on the
18th. He expressed himself as feeling we'll.
THE EAST.
Mrs. GENERAL GRANT was paid $150, 900
on the 18th as a second payment of her
share Of the profits Of her late husbands
memoirs. The previous payment was $500,
600 and her publishers say she will prob
ably receive $500, 600 in all. A limited edi-
ton de luxe of the work is to be issued at
500 per copy. Each copy will contain a
sheet of the original manuscript.
Hon. S. S. Cox. Minister to Tur key, re
turned to New York on the 10th.
ALL the coopers of Minneapolis, 100 in
number, have struck for two cents more
pay for making each barrel.
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER BURRIDGE, of
Troy, N. Y, has disappeared with $3, 200
sent to the office from New York City.
AwATER famine is feared at Shenandoah.
Pa. But one shower of rain has fallen in
nine weeks.
The affairs of D. Cowau & Co., of Lewis
ton, Me-. have been put in the hands of a
a receiver The liabilities are about S96, 600.
THE released boycotters were given a
banquet by New York sympathizers on
their return from prison.
The brakemen's strike on the New York.
Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad ended on the
18th by concessions.
A NIGHT watchman's lamp exploded in
Ames & Co.'s rolling mill at Jersey, City,
N. j., the other night and it was burned
to the ground, as also were William Howe's
forge, the Hudson foundry, an extension of
the tartar chemical works and several
frame dwellings. The loss was about $3.50, :
600; insured.
AT Long Island City, N. Y, recently,
William Dunn, aged nineteen. fell into a
vat of boiling water at Feutchwanger e.
Todd's chemical works. He soon died
THE Brooklyn Presbytery has found the
Rev. Benjamin Staunton, pastor of the
Fort Green Presbyterian Church, guilty of
unministerial acts, in the shape of whip
ping his wife, etc.
THE Eastern knitting mills have decided
to shut down for a period. Twenty five
thousand employees are thereby thrown out
of work.
THE schedules of assignment of J. De
Rivera & Co., of New York, show labili-
ties 81, l42, 245, with assets merely nominal.
THE Republicans of Hudson County. N.
J., Seventh Congressional district, have
nominated Seigfried Hammerschlog for
Congress.
JOHN G. CAvILLE, general auditor of the
Knights OF Labor, was recently nominated
for Congress from the Fourth district of
Brooklyn by the Labor Union.
THE bonds of Henry L. Pearson and AL
derman Sayles, the New York Doodle alder
men, have been forfeited.
The ''ghastly find' at Pittsburgh, Pa,
proved to he a mummy from DIR. PERISH
ing's female college museum.
TIVE first annual meeting of the Vessel
Owners and Captains National Associa-
ton was in session in Boston recently.
The bottom of the cellar of q man
named Hennessy living in West Coal
street, Shenandoah, Pa, eighteen feet
across, dropped out the other day, falling
into the workings Of Oakland colliery, 100
feet below. The house was still standing,
but fears were entertained not only for its
safety but for the safety of other buildings
in the neighborhood-
HEWITT has agreed to accept the Tam
many and County nomination for Mayor
of New York.
BUFFALO, n. Y, was seriously damaged
by hurricane on the 14th. The "island''
was flooded. Two lives were known to be
lost, but little was known of the effects of
the storm, which was widespread over the
Central States.
EAsTPoRT, Me-, was reported ON fire on
the night of the 18th.
The fire at Eastport, Me-, on the night of
the 18th, destroyed $4,000 worth of prop
erty. Many families were rendered home
less.
The trial of James Titus for the murder
Of Tillie Smith at Belvidere, n. J., ended
in a verdict of murder in the first degree.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars worth of
stolen bonds was recently accidentally
unearthed near Newark, N. J. The treas
urer of the township had been accused of
purloining the bonds, but it is now believed
be will be exonerated.
The glass factory Of King, Son & Co. ut
Pittsburgh. Pa, was partially destroyed
by fire the other aight The loss was
$4,000.
JOIN B. GREEN, Of Brooklyn, n. Y, has
filed a petition with the city clerk of De-
troit, Mich, asking tie city to vacate or
pay for all the property occupied by
Twe0ty-third street., south of Howard
street Mr.. Green elains to have Q valid
title to this tract which is estimated to be
worth more than 81, 100000
TH WEE
The other day George Allen, q laboring
man, was crushed and instantly killed
by the caving in Of a enbanknent near
the distillery at Kansas City.
QUrrE . number of gypsies were gathered
together at Duquoin, Ill, recently training
horses for the raeeA
JAKE BLOUNr, Q ellknoGn character
and formerly . member Of the nokorious
James and Younger gangs, was recently
shot and instantly killed by Lloyd Mare,
a Frenchman- The shooting occurred ut
Mares cabin at the foot of Caxbosate
Hill, near Leadville, Col, whittier Bloant
went with the avowed attention Of killing
the Frenchman.
DR. w. G. GARDNER, professor at tie
Toledo co. Medical College, was arrested
recently for grave robbery. He 10 sus-
pected of many other crimes.
Two men were killed and several others
injured and 5000 worth of property de-
stroyed by careless switchman leaving q ]
switch open at East Liverpool O., where
by a freight train was wrecked
WHILE trying a torpedo water well in a |
refinery at Findlay, O., recently, Charles
ODonnell was terribly mangled and killed |
by premature explosion of nitro-glycer-
inc. Considerable property was damaged.