The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-22
THE EAST.

A CERTIFICATE or the increase of capt.
tai of the Standard Oil Co. of New York
from S5.OO00OO to 100000 has been
fled with the secretary of state at Al
bany. n. Y. The certificate shows that
the amount of the capital at present
actually paid in is S5.OOO,OO0 and that
the liabilities of the company amount
to 81, $50, 500.
JAMES HAYES, trimmer of the Bos-
ton Electric Light Co, was found hang
ing lifeless the other day from the cross
bar of one of the poles in Dover street.
The leather straps that bound him to the
cross-bar prevented him from falling.
AT Albany, n. Y, on the 18th Mayor
James II. Manning and the entire demo-
cratic ticket We're reelected by 5000
majority. The democrats carried seven
teen out of eighteen wards. Mr.. Man.
ming is the son of eX-Secretary of the
Treasury Daniel Manning.
By the explosion of powder mill at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, seven men were killed
on the 18th.
PENNSYLVANIA democrats met in con-
vention at Harrisburg on the 18th.
Resolutions in favor of tariff reform
and of the nomination of Grover Cleve-
land for president were adopted. The
four electors at large are: W. +. Ell
lott. of Tioga: J. C. Bullitt, of Philadel-
phia: Thomas 4. Kennedy, of Franklin,
and David L. Watson, of Allegheny.
Christian Heydrick. of Vanamgo, was
nominated for Judge of the supreme
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of Erie. and Mayor Thomas 7. Merritt. of
Reading, were named as the candidates
at large for congress.
POLICE SUPERINTENDENT MURRAY, of
New York. has retired on account of ILL
health and Thomas F. Byrnes has been
appointed in his place.
CHEMICAL analysis shows that suffi-
Gent poison was found in the stomach
of Gamble Weir, late superintendent of
police of Pittsburgh. Pa, to have caused
death. but the chemist is not confident
that some of the poison found by him
had not been used by the embalmer.
GAMBLE WEIR, late police superin-
tendent of Pittsburgh, Pa, who died
suddenly three months ago, is now said
TO have been poisoned, but the guilty
party cannot be placed.
VERMONT republicans have elected
delegates to the Minneapolis conven-
ton and Endorsed Mr.. Harrison.
SPRECKELs' enormous sugar refinery
in Philadelphia has been shut down for
ten days.
THE casket containing Walt Whit
mans remains have been sealed in the
crypt
A SHORTAGE of $50. 600 in the funds of
the Kingsessing Building & Loan as
sociation of Philadelphia has been Dis
covered. Two expert accountants have
been at work on the books for some
time. At the annual meeting of the as
sociation they reported that there was
a deficiency of $4,000 in the capital of
the association and tie entire earnings,
amounting to $4,000. had disappeared.
THE mill at Pittsfeld. Mass, where
Is manufactured the distinctive paper
used by the United States government
in printing currency, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 18th.
and ali of the stock of paper. with the
exception of 100000 sheets of note paper
and $1,000 sheets of check paper were
burned.
TIE Reading road has put its cars and
repair shops on half time Nine hun
bred men are affected.
AT New York superintendent of Po-
lice Byrnes' first official action has
been the issuance of an order to the
various police captains commanding
them TO see that all saloons in their pre-
cincts are closed on Sunday. If they
are not. the captains will be held re-
sponsible. Wholesale raids are expect
ed on saloons. gambling and disorderly
houses.
THE New York assembly has passed
by vote of 20 to "a a bill giving women
the right 10 suffrage in all state cleo
tions.
THE election at Providence. r. l.. ON
the 18th showed a heavy falling off in
the total vote. it being p per cent. less
than week ago. The democrats have
elected Their state senator, Richard b.
Comstocz. by the small majority of p,
he having 7.947 to the republicans 7.6l6
and the prohibition candidates 2&!.
There was no election for the nine rep
Pesentatives.