The Iola register., 1888-11-02
THE EAST.

GEORGE GORDON, who was arrested IN
New York the other day for false regis.
tration, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
to States prison for two years and six
months.
The Gaysville (Vt) Manufacturing Com.
pany's mill and store house were destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, $50,
JAMES Z. BEDELL, the real estate CLERK
of the law firm of Shipman, Barlow,
Larocque s. Mcfarland, of New York
who robbed his employers clients of about
$264,0 900 on fraudulent deeds pleaded
guilty on the 23d and was remanded foI
sentence.
MONTGOMERY GIBSON, Yale 'S3, is re.
ported missing from New Haven, Conn
He is son of Senator Gibson, of Louisi.
ana. He had received a check for several
hundred dollars and was known to have
cashed it, but was not seen afterwards
either by his classmates or college author.
tiles.
SEVERAL of the trainmen have been ar.
rested for criminal negligence in causing
the recent disaster on the Lehigh Valley
road at Mud Run, Pa.
The steamer Atlas was sunk at New
York on the 23d by collision with the ferry
boat Central. No lives were lost.
A FREIGHT wreck occurred one mile
west of Tyrone, near Altoona, Pa, re.
Gently. Two boys, stealing a ride, were
crushed beyond recognition and thirty.
five cars were smashed.
CONDUCTOR HECK and Switchman Boon
of the shifting engine, at Washington, Pa,
whose negligence caused a bad wreck there
last week, have been charged with man.
slaughter.
MRS. GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN sailed
from New York on the oath for Europe.
THE National Board of Steam Naviga-
tion, at its meeting in New York City re-
Gently, elected officers for the ensuing
year. A. c. Cheney, of New York, is the
new president.
THE forty-second anniversary Of the
American Missionary Society began al
Providence, r. l., ON the oath. Drs. Gill
bert and Dana advocated harder mission
ary work among the Chinese.
MISUNDERSTANDING of signals on the
ferryboat Central is now said to have been
the cause of the collision in New York
harbor, in which the British steamship At
las was sunk.
GENERAL E. B. SPINoLA has been re-
nominated for Congress by the Tammany
Democrats of the New York Tenth dis
trict.
BY collision between two freight trains
at Otisville, n. ", the other day, one man
was killed and three badly hurt. One of
the injured was later run over by another
train.
THE loss to the Pennsylvania railroad
by the freight collision near Tyrone, Pa,
will probably reach 100000.
((UEp -i1 Of ba
Elbe from Bremen have been held at Hoff-
man island quarantine, New York City.
because of smallpox on the vessel.
ALL the right, title and interest in the
New York GrGphic, an afternoon illustra-
ted paper, was purchased for 5000 by the
Southern Trust Company at the sheriff's
sale of that paper on the oath.
DANIEL HAND, an aged and wealthy
resident of Guilford, Conn, has given
$1,000, 900 to the American Missionary
Society, of New York City, to be held IN
trust by the association and the interest
to be devoted to the education of colored
people in the old slave States of the South.
THE trustees of Cornell University have
appropriated 1000 for a new chemical
laboratory.
HENRY S. IVES. the bankrupt" broker,
has sold his Brooklyn residence for Sl25,-
co., and is boarding at fashionable hotel.
THE convention of the Inter- Seminary
Missionary Alliance was held in Boston
recently.
MRS. JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., is reported
by her physicians to be lying quite sick at
New York.
CAPTAIN JOHN DILLARD, of a coast
steamer, died in a Brooklyn hospital the
other night of yellow fever. His vessel
was quarantined.
ALFRED II. LOVE. merchant of Phila-
delphia, president of the Universal Peace
Union, has published letter declining the
candidacy for Vice-President on the Ma
tional Equal Rights ticket.