The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-01
THE EAST.


THE Massachusetts, executive council
has recommended the pardon of James
Dunlap, the notorious Northampton
bank robber, who has already served
thirteen years in prison.
EDWARD NJ. FIELD has been declared
a lunatic before the commissioner of
New Jersey.
THE executive committee of the pro-
hibition party of Pennsylvania has
taken preliminary steps to test the con-
stitutionality of the Baker ballot bill.
The Ulster county savings institution
of Kingston, \. Y, has been permitted
by the courts to resume business
The liabilities of the Bank of Tyrone,
Pa, are $50, 600 and the assets virtually
nothing. The stockholders are not to
be found and the depositors are wild
against the cashier.
THE Philadelphia grand jury has ig-
nored the bill of indictment charging
Robert Clendenning and George A.
HUM, brokers, with aiding ex-City
Treasurer John Bardsley in the en-
bezzlement of s1,75O, 600 from the city.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is al
ready at work laying an extra track
from Pittsburgh to Chicago for worlds
fair traffic.
GEORGE II. PAGE, lessee of the Lang
ham hotel, 1897 Washington street,
Boston has assigned. Liabilities, $751;
OCO. There was substantially nothing
for the unsecured creditors.
WILLIAM BRENNAN, an old recluse liv-
ing just outside of Huntington, Pa, was
beaten insensible by unknown men and
then robbed of 81, 900.
THE grippe is becoming epidemic in
New York. Four of the city officials
are laid up with it
In collision between a beer wagon
and a cable car at Pittsburgh, Pa,
BENJAMIN Wise and Abner Edwards,
passengers, were fatally injured and
six others were more or less hurt
LATER reports show that eleven per-
sons were killed and four badly in
iured by the telescoping of the sleeper
Gibraltar at Hastings, n. y. Only
three occupants of the car escaped.
JOIN OWENS, the missing heir to
$3.50, 600 in Cortland, n. Y, was found
in Wheeling, W. Va, and taken home.
He had been tramping for two years.
AT a meeting of the Boston chamber
of commerce resolutions were adopted
recommending the passage of the bill
to transfer the revenue cutter service
of the United States from the treasury
department to the naval esta blishment
THE WEST.
WHILE the steamer Westcoast was
hauling alongside the wharf at
Point Arena, Cal, the other day her
mooring parted and her storm lines
fouled the propeller The captain or
dered the sails hoisted Immediately and
the steamer had just gained Roadway
when heavy seas struck her, sending
her on the south reef. Ten of the crew
took the ships boat and the boat cap
sized and nine men were drowned. She
will be total loss.
AT the annual meeting of the state
board of agriculture at Topeka, Kan,
January Is, II, Is and 10, Chief Sal
mon, of the national bureau of animal
industry. Will read paper on Ameri-
can meats and European markets, and
Kansas agricultural college professors
will deliver addresses, while Chancellor
Snow, of the state university, will dis
cuss chinch bug information.
j. L CASE, tine noted trotting horse
owner and manufacturer of Racine,
Wis, is dead.
4 HEAVY wind and rain storm pre-
Taiied on the sound at Seattle, Wash,
on tie ed