The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-26
THE EAST.


WHAT promises to be an important move
in the formation of railway trust is the
announcement of meeting of the West
ern and Eastern managers at New York
Immediately after Gould's return from
Bar Harbor.
MICHAEL BoLAK was hanged at Belvi-
dere, n. j., recently for the murder and
robbery of Michael Bollinshire, bis fellow
countryman.
SIXTEEN men belonging to the fishing
schooner Edith Emery, of Boston, are re-
ported missing, They were away from
the ship trawling and were lost in a dense
fog.
PROF. HOGAN was swept out to sea in
his balloon at Brooklyn, n. Y, on the 10Th.
When last seen he was clinging to the net
ting in the lower part of the car.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York, has issued
a call to call to wealthy Eastern men for
a conference on the advisability of hold
ing an international exposition in that city
in 1892
PRESIDENT d. B. G. PEPPER, president of
Colby University, Portland. Me-, has re-
tired and Prof. Albion W. Small has been
elected his successor.
THE stable of the Lowell (Mass.) Horse
Railroad Company was burned the other
night with 100 horses. Thirty cars and
other contents were destroyed. The Hotel
Belmont was damaged. The loss was
$780, 900.
Two men were killed and several fatally
or seriously injured 10y an accident on the
Lehigh Valley road near Shamokin, Pa.
recently. Two runaway cars colliding with
passenger train was the cause.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever is re-
ported at Path Valley, near Chambers
burg, Pa
WHILE W. H. Bristol & Co.'s circus was
exhibiting at Milford, Mass, the other
evening large portion of the entire west
side seats gave way with a crash and let
about GOO people to the ground, badly in
juring and bruising hundreds of them
Five persons sustained broken limbs or
were injured internally.
The captain of the steamer Caroline Nil.
Ter, which arrived at New York recently.
declared that when he left all was quiet
in Northern Hsyti. He denied that Legi-
time had enlisted female troops.
THE New York Express states that
Archbishop Corrigan has been summoned
to Rome to give an account of his admin
filtration of the New York diocese.
JAMES COPELAND, prosperous resident
of Amityvilie, L. l.. visited his sons grave
in Greenwood cemetery the other day and
shot himself twice in the head. He will
lie. He left letter saying he feared he
was becoming insane.
The New York Times recently pub
lished The outline of a scheme to CONSOLE
date on an immense scale several trunk
railroad lines with a capital of 500, 600,
600. The objective point would be Boston,
which the promoters intended to make
the great metropolis of the continent,
with steamship lines, etc.
CHAIRMAN ABBOTT. of Carnegie. Phi pps
& Co., emphatically denied that his firm
had reduced the price of steel plates Sc II
ton, OF made any other cut whatever in
the selling price of their products.
JAMES BEGGs, a we'll known mechanical
engineer of New York. committed suicide
recently. He had showed symptoms of
insanity.
MCQUApE on trial for boodleism in the
Broadway, New York, combine, has been
acquitted.
1T was reported at New York on the Is, h
that Claus Spreckels was in with the sugar
trus. 1t was believed that the market
was cornered and that a grand coup was