The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-23
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failed for 500, 900. He was an unsuccessful
candidate for the State Assembly.
BY a collision between an excursion
train and an engine taking water at a
tank at South Easton, Pa, recently, both
engines were wrecked and two New Jersey
militiamen seriously hurt
JOHN h. SMALL, assignee Of claims held
by Corwith & Co., the New York lead
dealers, has brought suit against Gurden
Corwith. q member of the metal exchange,
to recover $50, 900 damages. The defend
ant has been arrested.
WATsoN's grain elevator, New York,
was burned on the 18th. The total loss
was $3.50, 600; insured.
WHEELER's elevator, Buffalo, N. Y, was
burned recently. Loss, $120 900; insured.
THE wine cellar Of the late Samuel j.
Tilden was disposed Of at auction at New
York on the 18th. Five hundred and
twenty bottles of Steinberger brought
from $3.50 to 50 per bottle, some double o
Madeira $3.50 and some bluegrass whisky,
forty years old, S11.50 per gallon. In all
40 bottles were sold.
THE Crispus Attacks monument, dedi-
Gated to the victims of the affair in King
street March 8, ITO, which is known to
history as the "Boston massacre, was un-
vailed at Boston on the 14th.
By the blowing down of q new ice house
at Dedham, Mass, the other day, three
men at work on the structure were fatally
and three badly injured.
THE act incorporating the Nicaragua
Canal Company has passed the Vermont
Legislature. 1t is the same measure as
was introduced into Congress last session.
WILLIAM SHOWERS. aged sixty five, was
hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on the 14th for
the murder Of his two grandchildren. He
committed the crime because Of a woman
who objected to live with him while he
had the children.
The American Turf Congress convened
at the St James, New York, on the 18th,
with closed doors, Charles Green. of St.
Louis, presiding. The business under dis
cussion, it was stated, was the question Of
the increase of weights and the licensing
of jockeys.
ST. RAPHAEL's Church, Suspension
Bridge, n. Y, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Loss, $4,000.
PART of E. n. Cook & Co.'S distillery,
Buffalo, N. Y, was destroyed by fire the
other morning. Four hundred barrels of
whisky were also lost. Loss, $4,000.
JOHN VANKoRFF was arrested for setting
fire to the steam gauge and lantern works
near Rochester, n. Y, by which about
thirty-five persons lost their lives. In
vestigation developed the fact that Van
korff had q mania for setting fire to places.
He was engineer at the factory at the time
it was destroyed.
The liabilities Of w. D. Forbes, EXPIRE
sident of the National Bank of Redemption.
Boston, Mass, are now placed at $250, 0OC
and the creditors may not get 25 cents on
the dollar.
THE New York Star has been sold al
auction to A. H. Shellabarger for SIS, 900.
The statue Of William H. Seward, Lin
coins Secretary of State, was unvailed at
Auburn, n. Y, on the 18th in the presence
of huge crowd.
By the explosion of a lamp in Frank
Knecht's house in Plymouth, Pa, during
the absence Of Mrs. Knecht two small
children were burned to death.
THE trial Of the suit against the sugar
trust commenced at New York on the 18th.
THE official count Of New York gives
Harrison a plurality Of 5000.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, met in
New York on the 18th.
CHARLES JOHNSON was hanged at Water
loo, n. Y, on the 18th for the murder of
John Walters, a guard in the Jail in which
johnson was confined for horse stealing.
IT was reported at New York on the 18th
that the weaker trunk lines had with
drawn from through west bound business
and would not take any freights at the cut
rates.
The Vermont House has defeated the
Woman Suffrage bill by 1872 to 81.
w. p. CoPP, collector for Saugustown,
Mass, has disappeared with a shortage Of
over sc, 600.
C. d. BIRDsALL, editor of the Hartford
(Cohn.) Telegram, was cowhided the other
night by Allen Wyley and L. p. Smith of
the Sunday Globe as the result of long
article in the Telegram accusing the Globe
Of blackmailing operations.
THE Public Ledger blames the Inter-
State Commerce law for the demoraliza-
ton existing in railroad rates. it says
the prohibition of pooling forces the
weaker lines to cut rates as they are not
allowed to make amicable arrangements
with their stronger competitors.
RHODE ISLAND adopted the Constitu-
tional amendment in the recent election
abolishing property qualification for suf-
frage.
THE WEST.
A DISPATCH from Escanaba, Mich, of
the 18th says: An unknown steamer
burped off Poverty Island last night The