The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-11
THE EAST.


opened their season at New York on the
night of the 3oth before large audience.
1t was their first appearance together.
A MEETING of sixty or seventy Demo-
Gratis was held at the Sherman House,
Boston, in the interest of John L. Sulli-
vans candidacy for Congress in that dis
trict.
THE eighteenth annual convention OF
the national board of steam navigators
began at Pittsburgh on the 1st
The annual meeting of the National
Civil-Service Reform League was held at
Philadelphia on the 1st A committee
was appointed to draw up resolutions to
be presented to the meeting next day and
an executive committee elected, after
which the delegates sat down to an in.
formal banquet In the evening George
William Curtis, the president delivered
his annual address, in which he arraigned
the President and the Republican party
for promises broken.
THE newly appointed Minister to Hayti,
Hon. Frederick Douglass, and party sailed
for that place on the United States
steamer Kearsarge from the Brooklyn
navy yard on the 1st The customary
salute of fifteen guns was fired in honor
of the Minister.
As the result of the indictments by the
New York grand jury recently warrants
were served on Sheriff Flack, William A.
Fiack, Judge Mcneil, Referee Meeks, Mrs.
Raymond and George E. Hart
FREDERICK BosTwICK, of Pine Planes,
n. Y, has been appointed examiner Of
National banks.
A DISPATCH from Buffalo n. Y. says
that the two masted schooner George
Finney, with a cargo of 10000 bushels OF
wheat from Toledo, encountered a water
spout while off Port Colborne recently
which damaged her considerably.
The tin plate mill at the Exposition at
Pittsburgh. Pa, was put in operation the
other day under the supervision Of W. C.
Cronnemeyer, secretary of the American
Tin Plate Association, and it was demon
strated that tin plates could be made in
this country as well as in England.
A ROWLING mob recently surrounded the
Office at Johnstown, Pa, where the work
men of the State were to be paid and had
it not been for q detail of militia with
fixed bayonets there would have been
trouble. The men had waited around in
the cold for nearly two days for their
pay.
THE general convention of the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church of America was
opened on the I'd at New York.
THE annual meeting of the National As
sociation of Wool Manufacturers was
held at New York on the I'd with closed
doors The resolutions adopted urge
upon Congress the necessity of a revision
of the tariff, and especially the tariff on
raw material and manufactured wooden
goods in such a manner that both indus.
tries should be properly protected
The friends of Ex-Governor Alonzo B.
Cornell, of New York, were lately consid-
ering the advisability of placing him in
some asylum, as his mind was shattered
and he has to be constantly watched.
WHILE Martin Jascovitz, John Sindosky
and Tomaso Guard were prying down the
top rock at Audenried, near Hazelton, Pa,
recently the mass fell upon them. crush
ing and killing the two former and fatally
injuring the latter.
THE lunacy commission, consisting of
Drs. Fitch and Field, appointed to ex.
anime the mental condition of Chris
Drihte, the old inventor. who shot and
killed Frederick Gesswein on September
II at New York, have partially submitted
a report of their work. DR.. Fitch is of the
opinion that the old man is insane and it
is likely that DR.. Field will concur in the
finding of his colleague.
ROBERT Ray HAMILTON has begun suit
at New York for a divorce from his wife
Eva
GENERAL FAULKNER was found guilty
at New York of making false report Of
the Dansville National Bank in 1857. He
got q seven years sentence.