The Iola register., 1891-10-09
Frank Haunah,s bow was fatally man.

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The Central Trust company Of New
York has been appointed a receiver OF
the Chicago house of S. V. White &
Co, to assist the Illinois Trust and Saw
ings bank, which had previously been
appointed.
Deputy Sheriff B. n. Melton of Gads-
den, Ala, was overpowered by five con-
yicts. who hanged him, but he was cut
down by officers before life was extinct.
Drexel, Morgan & Co. of New York,
received over g, 900. 900 in subscriptions
Monday to the new Union Pacific notes,
making the total subscription Sc, 200, 900,
or 500, 600 more than was required.
Upon covering by shorts OF Septem.
Der contracts, coffee advanced sixty
points Monday at New York, selling at
l405 cents, against I3. 45 cents Saturday
evening.
Last Saturday the visible supply oi
grain was: Wheat, 26.S6I, ,527 bushels;
increase, 2.311,923 bushels. Corn, s.
SS1:0O9 bushels: decrease, 362, 326 bush.
els.
White & Allen. dry goods merchants
at Lampasas, Tex, have made an as
signment. Liabilities S45, 200; assets
$4,000.
Captain Gustavus A. Hall, U. S. A.
retired, died Sunday evening OF pneu-
monia at San Francisco. He was born
at Fredonia, N. Y, April Is, 1927.
The annual convention OF the Amerl-
can Bankers association will be held at
New Orleans November ii and II, in
stead of October IA and Is, as first an
nounced.
AS result OF the recent experiments
with smokeless powder, Emperor VIII
liam has ordered all steel or ornament
ed helmets of soldiers replaced by cloth
caps of design not yet decided upon.
The checker championship games,
twenty-five in all, with fifteen openings,
were concluded in the rooms OF the Chi.
cago Chess ana Checker club. The
final score was: Baker, 5; Reed. o:
drawn, 81. Charles f. Barker OF Bos-
ton. the winner of the tournament, de-
feated ). p Reed of Chicago for purse
of 81 900.
Lena Dohbert arrived at New York a
few days ago and was refused permis'
sion to land because she' had neither
husband, guardian or money. Carl
VanhotT of Milwaukee, offered to mar
ry her by proxy, but that wouldn't
work, and she will be sent back to Ger
many.
Dave Thrash settled debt of Sl.25
which he owed VIM. Dimney, by fatal
ly stabbing him at Galveston, Tex.
Andrew Anderson, Martin Nelson
and an unknown man were drowned by
the capsizing OF boat near Madaline
island, Wis.
Late advices from Nicaragua indicate
that the reports of revolution in that
country were the product of lmagina-
tive special correspondents.
The Peninsular and Occidental COM
pany's steamship Rome, at Greenock,
Scotland, was damaged by fire to the
extent of $4,000
John Long, freight conductor, was
struck by the spout of water tank at
Hallville, Tex, knocked off the train
and instantly killed.
Tom O'Brien, the all-round crook and
confidence man, is in the clutches OF the
New York police for buncoing a man
out of SO, 900.
John Topyrel was shot and killed by
a huckster who caught him in the act
of stealing apples from his farm near
Kansas City.
General Boulanger, the noted French
leader, committed suicide at the grave
OF his former mistress on the Both ult.
He had been melancholy for some time,
but his friends were not aware that he
contemplated suicide.
Wheat receipts at Duluth aggregate
nearly three million bushels per week.
Lawrence Leslie was run over and
killed by an east bound freight on the
Frisco road, near Carthage, Mo-, while
attempting to jump it for ride.
Mr.. Dorset of Tarrant county, Texas,
passed through Denton in quest of his
runaway wife and hired man, with whom
she is supposed 10 have eloped.
A misplaced switch at Columbus,
Wis. caused the wreck of sixteen cars
Of the Milwaukee & St. Paul road, and
the death OF Brakeman Splctstover.
George Lewis was run over and killed
by a freight train on the Louisville s
Nashville road. while asleep on the
track near Robard's Station, Ky.
Michael Bianco, an impetuOus son OF
Italy, is in the New York Tombs for
shooting at Annie Blondi because she
refused to marry him.
Last week the private coach Grass
mere, containing John W. Mackey and
party, reached New York, four days,
twelve hours and forty-eight minutes
from San Francisco, the fastest time
across the continent ever made.
Hon. J. A. Henneman. mayor of Spar.
tanburg, S. c., was shot and killed by
negro whom he attempted to arrest.
The negro is in jail, but will probably
be lynched.
The Yankee schooner Daylight
smashed ten feet of the starboard bow
of the ocean steamer Circassia, in col.
lision, obliging the Circassia to put
back to New York for repairs.