The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-18
THE EAST.

John FITZPATRICK. better known al
Liverpool Jack" was sentenced at New
York to nine years in States prison BY
Judge Cowing for abducting men to wori
in Yucatan.
Rev. T. DEWITT TALMAGR, the famous
Brooklyn preacher, will shortly pay q
visit to the Holy Land.
TIE opening Of the pottery exhibition
at Philadelphia took place on the sth in
Memorial Hail. William Platt Pepper de.
iivered an address on American art and
American workmanship in the industries
represented.
WIrH all but twelve towns to hear from
the returns from the election in Connecti.
cut gave &c. 34 majority against prohibi-
ton.
LOUIS LUTz wealthy importer of New
York.City, fell from a second story win
dow of his home and was instantly killed.
1t was thought by many that it was a case
Of suicide.
The triennial conclave Knights Templar
opened at Washington on the sth. The
parade was witnessed by President Harri-
son and about 80, 900 visitors with many
thousand residents. About %, 900 Knights
were in line.
TAMMANY has installed ex-Judge A. b.
Tappan Grand Sachem, who succeeds
Sheriff Flack, forced to resign because of
recent matters which have eliminated in
his Indictment
WHILE Charles B. Bishop, who assumed
one Of the characters of Lord Chumleyn
at the Lyceum Theater, New York, was
changing his costume the other night he
was suddenly taken ill and died almost
Immediately. Mr.. Sothern dismissed the
audience
PROF. JOSEPH E NouRsE, for many
years connected with the United States
Naval Academy and recently on duty at
the naval observatory in Washington, is
dead, aged seventy years
GOVERNOR BEAVER. Of Pennsylvania,
has appointed commission to determine
the feasibility of constructing a ship
canal to connect Lake Erie and the Ohio
river.
The hosting shaft and engine house of
the Bellevue breaker, at Scranton, Pa,
burned the other night Seven men work.
ing at the bottom Of the shaft were res
cued from what appeared to be certain
death
In the case of Kemmler, the Buffalo, N.
Y, wife murderer, the courts have held
that death by electricity is constitutional
The pneumatic guns of the cruiser We
suvius were officially and satisfactorily
tested on the Delaware river on the 9th.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
is putting its wires under ground in Buff.
falo, n. Y.
The Choctaw Council met in session on
the 7th.
The general time convention began its
second annual meeting at New York on
the 9th. q. s Haines, general manager
of the Savannah, Florida & Western
railroad presided. There are lie rail.
road companies in the association, rep.
resenting III 900 miles Of road.
The six white survivors Of the negro
riot on the island of Navassa. in the West
Indies, arrived at Philadelphia on the
10th. They were rescued by q British
cruiser in response to an appeal from the
American Consul at Kingston, Jamaica.
The steamer Herman Winter ran into
and sunk the lighter Manhattan in New
York harbor recently. The fifteen men on
the lighter escaped.
AMONG the passengers arriving by the
City of New York was Mra George
delivered Of a still born child during the
voyage
MEMORIAL services over the late s. s.
Cox were held at Cooper Union, New
York on the night of the 10th. Ex-Presi.
dent Cleveland presided and after an
appropriate address introduced Proctor
Knott, who paid an eloquent tribute to
the deceased Congressman.
TIE largest double track drawbridge in
the world, which spans the Thames river
in Connecticut was formally opened on
the 10th.
THREE bodies were found at Johnstown,
Pa, on the 18th by workmen while max
ing an opening to a sewer outlet The
work of search has been stopped although
the stream is believed to contain many
dead bodies at the bottom.
A NEW YORK paper says that Tammany
Hall offered to make ex-President Grover
Cleveland its candidate for Congress in
the Ninth district to succeed s. s. Cox,
but that Mr.. Cleveland declined the honor.
The same paper says that Amos J. Cum.
mings was slated for the position.
THE twelve-year-old daughter of Mr..
living near Carlisle, Pa, was
gored to death by an Infatuated bull.
child was severely injured.
Four members of the family of Patrick
Daily were killed recently by natural
gas explosion at Q village thirteen miles
from Bradford, Pa
TIE trotting match between Belle Ham.
lin and Harry Wilkes at New York on the
llth was won BY the former in 2:l6x first
heat and 2:iss second heat.