The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-07

the pugilists Kilrain and Mitchell while
they were attending Kiernan's Theater,
Washington. No one was hurt. His object
could not be ascertained.
THE EAST.
EMERY 8. TURNER, a noted Western
swindler, recently from Cortez, Cal, has
been arrested in Boston, after a chase of
over three thousand miles by detectives.
JAMES K. KELso, ex-chief of police of
New York City, and chief of detectives at
the time of the Nathan murder, died re.
Gently.
BY the explosion of a key Of powder in
George Palmer's store at Scranton, Pa,
the other evening, Bertha Palmer, aged
ten, was killed and her father fatally in
jured.
SURGEON SIMON, of the United States
steamer Boston. in quarantine at New
York, died on the 9th of yellow fever.
The two other patients were steadily i'm
proving, and the rest of the ships com.
pany were in good health.
The New York police have proof that a
duel with pistols was fought in Central
Park the other night; that one of the COM
batants was wounded; that the affair was
about a lady, and that the lady tried to
warn the police that the duel was to be
fought, but her letters were received too
late to prevent the meeting. The names
Of the parties were unknown.
The ale and porter brewers of New York
and New Jersey have decided to lock out
all their union men because of the con-
tinued boycott on Stevens brewery in New
York City.
The regular ticket of the New York,
Lake Erie & Western railway was elected
without opposition in New York City.
The steamship Allentown foundered in
the recent gales off Cohassett, Mass. The
crew Of eighteen men were drowned. The
vessel belonged to the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company.
The bronze bust of John Mccullough,
the dead tragedian, was unvailed at
Mount Moriah cemetery, Philadelphia, on
the 18th in the presence of many noted
actors and others.
The proposed lockout of the ale and por-
ter brewers of New Jersey has been avoid
ed, the men having agreed not to contrib
butte in any way 20 boycott
A CASE of yellow fever in the person of
a recent arrival from Jacksonville, Fla,
was found on the 2Sth in a crowded tene-
ment house in New York City.
AT meeting of the directors of the
Kelly Motor Company in Philadelphia all
differences were said to have been settled
The wife of General W. 7. Sherman died
al New York on the 2Sth.
GARDNER, the chief of the opium snug
glers of Ogdensburg, n. Y, has been
found guilty on six counts.
A FORMAL tender of the position of chief
marshal of the Inauguration parade at
Washington on the 4th of March has been
made to Governor Beaver, of Pennsyl-
vania.
The insurance suit against General
Daniel E. Sickles by a widow named Cave
was tried in New York on the 2Sth. The
jury found that under the contract the
widow was entitled to S2,259 more than
had been paid her, which verdict Sickles
was willing to accept.
A STORY was current in New York that
the trunk line rate cutting troubles, which
have occupied so much attention of late
were merely a bluff to scare the railroad
men from projected movement for an in &.
crease ofwages.
MARY CORNELL, aged forty-two, fell OF
was thrown from fire escape of the tene.
ment house, 1Ul Greenwich street, New
York, and was instantly killed during g
general fight which followed Thanksgiv.
ing orgie among a number of her relative:
and friends at that place.
THE dismasted vessel Amanda Morrison
: has been towed into Provincetown. Mass
and run aground on the fats. The body Of
man about sixty years of age has beer
taken from the wreck, and has besn
identified as Captain Daniel Morrison, OF
Jordan's Ferry, Nova Scotia.
THE officers and crew of the Haytien Re.
public have arrived at New York. having
been sent home by the American Consul.
DURING Thanksgiving celebration by
the Hudson Guards at Manhattan Park
New York. the explosion of can of pow.
der caused severe injuries to three men
and resulted in a fire which destroyed the
shooting pavilion. Louis Mudhauk was
badly wounded by the accidental dis.
charge Of a musket.
THE Boughton acid works near Titus.
vile, Pa, was destroyed by fire ON the
Both. Loss, $4,000.
THE New York Sun is authority for the
statement that prominent Democratic vet.
Grams in various parts of the country are
we'll satisfied with the Grand Army and
will not join the Indiana revolt.
SIX men were buried in trench while
working on a sewer recently in Philadel.
pbia- One was killed and another fatally
injured. The rest escaped.
SELLINGER & Co., dealers in glassware
and owners of the Mutual Glass Company
of New York and Pittsburgh, have been
closed up. Their liabilities are said to be
$50, 900.
TIE coal mines along the Monongahela
river in Pennsylvania were smut down for
an indefinite period on the 1st.