The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News,
WASHINGTON NOTES.


WASHINGTON NOTEA
1t is contemplated to send the steamer
fhetis, when she returns to San Francisco
to the Arctic sea for the purpose Of reliev-
ing the whaling vessels imprisoned in the
ice.
The Kearsarge has been ordered to Port
au Prince to protect American interests
and to inquire into the causes of the seiz-
ure of the steamer Haytien Republic.
CHAIRMAN RANDALL has called for q
meeting of the House Committee on APP
preparations November q to begin the prep
paration of appropriation bills.
ALLAN d. BROWN will command the
Kearsarge, detailed for duty in Haytisn
waters.
A. c. BERRYMAN, First Lieutenant United
States navy, attached to tie Enterprise,
has been sent home from Europe under
sentence Of q court martial
A LETTER has been sent by the Inter-
State Commerce Commission to the rail-
road and telegraph companies affected by
the act placing the telegraph lines of the
railroads which received Government aid
under the control of the Commission, call
ing their attention to the fact that they
have not complied with the provisions of
the act requiring them to file certain in
formation with the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The decrease Of the public debt during
the month of October amounted to s., 1885,
6l9.
The Presidents thanksgiving proclama-
ton was issued on the LIST, appointing No.
vember % for the purpose.
INFORMATION having been recei-ed at
the Navy Department that the steel cruiser
Boston had arrived at Kingston, Jamaica,
Acting Secretary Harmony decided to re-
woke the orders sending the Kearsarge,
now lying in dock at Portsmouth, n. H.,
to protect American interests in Hayti
and to order the Boston there in her stead
THE EAST.
THE corner stone of the big Spreckles
sugar refinery in Philadelphia was laid on
the 18th with ceremonies. Congressman
Bingham delivered the address.
The Prohibition organ Voice, of New
York, states that General Fisk received a
similar compromising letter of inquiry,
for answering which Minister West got
himself into so much trouble.
TIE wires in the underground conduits
in New York City are reported in bad con-
dition owing to the extreme heat of the
steam pipes laid in their vicinity.
HENRY E. ALBERs, prominent coal and
lumber dealer of Buffalo, n. Y, has gone
to Canada to avoid arrest for forging
Jacob Scheu's name to notes for $40, 600.
The case of General Adam Badeau
against the widow of q. S. Grant for So.
OcJ for alleged services on General Grants
memoirs, has been discontinued on con-
sent of both parties.
GEORGE L. WALLACE, a well known
vocalist Of Troy, N. Y, committed suicide
recently by shooting himself.
W. j. WILCOX & Co., lard refiners of
New York City, have been bought out by
the American Cotton Seed Oil Company.
ALL the railroad miners in Western
pennsylvania are to receive five cents per
ton advance in wages.
A RIOT occurred at Twenty-sixth street
and Sixth avenue, New York, on the 3lst,
between colored Republican procession
and Democratic mob Several persons
were seriously injured, one man having
both eyes destroyed.
WHILE Amanda Montgomery and Gus
w ineman were out for an evening stroll
at Greensburg, Pa, in stepping off one
track to avoid train they were run down
by another train coming in the opposite
direction and killed.
The seventh annual convention of the
Woman's Missionary Society was opened
at Boston on the 1st, with a large attend
ance OF delegates from ell parts of the
country. Mrs. Rutherford B. HAYES. of
Ohio, occupied the chair.
L. HERMAN, a New York money changer
and banker, has disappeared with 5000
belonging to Polish Jews intrusted to his
care to be sent to England.
FRED l. MARCY & Co., jewellers, of Prov
ldence, X. l., have assigned with 1000
assets and S., 900 liabilities.
The principal part of the village of Dur
hamville, Vt, was DESTROYED by fire the
other night. Loss, 5000
w. b. FORBES, president of the National
Bank of Redemption, Boston has made an
assignment for the benefit of his creditors.
He had been dealing heavily in real estate
of late.
EDWARD H. GoFF, formerly publisher of
the New York Graphic, has made an as
signment without preferences.
c. w. DURANT. a New York stock
broker has failed with unknown assets
and liza abilities.
eNAASA "a a Sbcdlh tuIcsueT eIDlOUeQ
on the farm of Joseph Spayd. near Read.
ing, Pa, the other day. Five persons
were instantly killed and two or three
Others shockingly injured.
HERBERT L. CRITcHETr, aged thirty.
three, of the firm of Daniels & Critchett.
real estate and auctioneers. Boston, has
disappeared, leaving large deficit in his
accounts with the firm amounting. it is
sa :, to $4,000.
Two men were killed and seven injured
by the wrecking of hand-car near Hope
well, Pa, the other day.
FIVE thousand dollars reward has been
offered for the arrest of William r. Foster. |
Jr., late counsel Of the gratuity fund of
the New York Produce Exchange, who
disappeared recently with a huge short. |
age.
THE WEST.
The trotter Guy has reduced his record |
to 2:12 on the Cleveland (O.) track, which |
was, owing to its softness, possibly three
seconds slow.
FIRE at Alliance, O., the other morning.
destroyed livery stable and several other |
buildings, causing 10000 loss.
Ar an Indian dance at Adonah- Wis.
the other day two young squaws, over
hearing some remarks made by Mrs,
White Bird, turned upon her and gave her
such terrible beating that she died of her
Oinrias h.