The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-05-24
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MRS MARY T.. DICKINSON, mother OF
Susan E. Dickinson, the writer, and Anna
Dickinson, the lecturer. died at her home
at West Pittston, Pa, the other morning.
She was over ninety years of age.
THE Ancient Order of Hibernians began
its fifty-seventh annual meeting at New
York on the 18th with closed doors. About
15G delegates were present from all over
ths country.
THE recent count of money at the New
York sub-treasury revealed a discrepancy
of S35 out of total sum of S1S4, 000, 900 to
be accounted for. The shortage resulted
from the acceptance of a few counterfeit
notes in the hurry of business and the
loss of few pieces of silver.
The mother and wife of Washington
Irving Bishop, the mind reader, declare
their belief that he was not dead when the
autopsy was made. They assert that he
was murdered in the name of science, and
both were laboring under great excite
ment bordering on hysteria-
The New York Assembly has defeated
the Local Inspection bill by an over
whelming vote.
s. 6. OLIVER. a Jersey Central station
agent and operator at Ashbury, n. j., has
disappeared, leaving his accounts and
other matters badly mixed.
ALEXANDER BAXTER, foreman of the
Butler pa Electric Light Company, was
recently thrown upon the belt of a fy
wheel and instantly killed.
RoBERT I. LINCOLN and family and
Andrew Carnegie and family sailed from
New York for England on the 10Th.
INSPECTOR WATERS of the life saving
station at Newport, r. l., reports that a
two-masted schooner was run down and
sunk off Beaver Tail and it was feared her
crew was lost as a dense fog prevailed at
the time the accident occurred.
THE New York Tribune says: Eek
President Cleveland has rented the house,
SIC Madison avenue for two years with
privilege of purchase Tor 100000"
GENERAL ADNA ANDERSON, of New York
shot and killed himself recently in his
room at the Lafayette Hotel, Philadelphia.
He was well known railroad man. The
cause of the suicide was unknown, but he
had latterly been drinking heavily.
THE number of saloons in Philadelphia
have been cut down under the new license
law from 5, 7TS to 1.20S
COLONEL FREDERICK GERKER, collector
of internal revenue for the Philadelphia
district, died recently of apoplexy. He
was about fifty years of age. He was APP
pointed collector by President Cleveland
and assumed the duties of the office in
August, 1885.
ALIEN THoRNDIKE RICE, lately APP
pointed Minister to Russia, died at New
York on the 10th, the day after he had in
tended sailing for his new post of duty.
He was but thirty-six years of age and
had made literary reputation as editor
of the North American Review.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY will next year
begin a two years course in electrical en-
cheering. The course of instruction will
be full and freely illustrated.
AT the South Glastonbury Conn May
festival the other night over one hundred
persons were poisoned by eating ice
cream. Physicians in attendance ex-
of thirty-four of the victims
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
West End Mining Company, a corporation
pwnining iron mines in Hunterdon County,
n j., and in Pennsylvania. The liabili-
ties of the company are reported to be
from 500, coo to $50, 600 greater than its
assets.
The doctors who performed an autopsy
on Mind Reader Bishops body SO soon
after his supposed death have been held
in -. 500 each to await the result of Inc
coroner'S investigation.
SEVENTEEN abe-bodied miners, heads
of families, recently applied to the poor
board of Pleasant Valley, Pa, for relief.
They claimed to be on the verge Of star
vation.