The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-25
THE EAST.

The formal order remanding Kemmler,
the Buffalo wife murderer, to the prison at
Auburn, N. Y, for execution by electrici.
ty has been filed.
In case Of an adverse decision In the
New York State Supreme Court the sugar
and other trusts will probably apply for
receivers and take other steps to bring
the combinations within the pale of the
law.
GEORGE and Richard Hankins, brothers,
while trying to capture q tame decoy
duck on Cayuga lake. New York. the other
morning were accidentally wounded by
q hunter, who shot at the duck.
EDWARD BENNETT, employed in the
powder ruills at Schaghticoke, N. Y, was
killed by an explosion the other day. He
was the only man in the building.
CONGRESSMAN NEWTON A. NUrTING died
at his home in Oswego, N. Y, on the 10th.
THE American Forestry Congress met
in convention at Philadelphia on the 18th.
THE Association base ball pennant fell
to Brooklyn.
II. B SCHoEN & Co, importers of dry
goods, N. Y, have failed. Liabilities,
$4,000
The New York Board of Education has
decided against permitting the teaching
Of typewriting in the public evening
schools. The vote was - to l. The op-
posing commissioners gave as q reason
that it would put too many young ladies
in the typewriting business.
The victims of the mysterious poisoning
at Morgan's boarding house, Woodbury.,
n j., were sill in fair way of recovery.
The oyster soup was being snaly zed to de.
for h. -
A BosroN dispatch says the entire plant
of the Bush Electric Company has been
sold to the Thomson. Houston Electric
Company for a cash consideration Of 50. :
25Q0O0.
g. b SouIREs, Of Brooklyn, N. T.,
special agent Of the General Land.office,
has been dismissed. Squires was formerly
private secretary to Pension Commits.
sioner Tanner.
The United States man.of-war Pensa.
cola has sailed from the Brooklyn navy
yard for Angola, Africa She carried
twenty scientific men on general explor-
ing expedition, the main object of which
is an observation of an eclipse of the sun.
The Loyal Legion met at Philadelphia
on the 10th. when ex- President Hayes was
reelected Chief
GENERAL HARTRANFr, Ex-Governor of
Pennsylvania, died at Norristown on the
18th from q combination of kidney
troubles.
THE American Board Of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions in session in New
York elected officers as follows: Presi.
dent r s. 6torrs, d. D.; vice. president
E W. Latchford; recording secretary,
Henry A. Stimson; assistant recording
secretary, E N. Packard; treasurer,
Langdon s. Ward
Ex-MAYoR LEWIS, Of New Haven, Conn,
proposes as a Worlds Fair feature to re.
cosnize the 400th anniversary of the dis
covery Of America, by lighting great bon
fires simultaneously on the hilltops all
over the country.
ONE man was killed and three fatally
injured by the fall Of q scaffolding at the
new water works at Bethlehem, Pa, re-
Gently.
AMOS J. CUMMINGS, the well.known cor
respondent and member of the editorial
staff of the New York Sun, has been
nominated by Tammany to fill the vacancy
in the Ninth district caused by the death
OF Sunset" Cox.
TIE Atlas line steamship Athos, which
has reached New York after q terrible
voyage, reports that Hippolyte, Of Hayti,
was busy preparing for his election.
THREE cases Of smallpox were reported
in Boston recently, the first in over a year.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY and Mary s. An.
fhony have begun action against the
American Glucose Company Of Buffalo,
n. Y, to recover Sl25, 600 in stocks and
back dividends. The defendants claim
that they never issued to Colonel d. r.
Anthony and his sister the stock in ques-
fion.
The first of the series for the worlds
baseball championship between Brooklyn
and New York was played at New York
on the 18th and was won by Brooklyn by
q score of IL to 10.
TIE coffin containing the remains of
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been placed in
. securely bound box. which has in turn
been deposited in grave composed Of
blocks of granite. cemented together and
securely fastened with . granite covering.
(, TIE cotton oil trust has fled application
at Trenton, N. j., to increase its capital
stock to g 0o0, 900 and form a corporation,
thus avoiding the legal penalties to which
s t<as liable In New York.