The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-10
THE EAST,

TIRE great battleship Indiana was
successfully launched on the 2Sth at
Philadelphia with imposing cere-
monies.
IT is reported from New York that
ninety tanneries have joined a trust to
limit production and increase prices
RICHARD OINEY, the Encouragement
In Cleveland's cabinet, refuses to let
photographers take his picture for the
newspapers
FIRE in Hobol1en, n. J., destroyed the
wood factory of Isaac Ingelson and his
dwelling and a tenement Two fire
men were injured
AT the annual meeting of the Grant
Monument association President Horace
Porter announced that enough money
to complete the monument had been
raised, and that the contracts to build
had been let The monument is to be
finished in the fall of 1895.
THE revenue cutter Washington while
entering the slip at the Barge Office,
New York, was run into by Annex No.
of the Pennsylvania road The boat
struck the cutter amidships and par
tally sunk her Nobody was injured.
THE additional sum of $500, coo has
been appropriated by the New York
senate to worlds fair purposes.
A PORTION of the line of the Crescent
Pipe Co, near Johnstown, Pa, was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire the other
night
TYPOGRAPHICAL union No. 6, of New
York, has appointed a committee to
visit President-elect Cleveland and pro-
test against the appointment of C. W.
Edwards, of Wilmington, Del, as pub
lie printer.
ROBERT A. MAXWELL, of Batavia, n
", is mentioned as the probable first
assistant postmaster-general under Mr..
BisselL
NEAR Norwood, r l., two trains col
lided through a misunderstanding of
orders and child was killed and sew
eral people injured
The statement of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad Co. for the month of
January shows deficit of $3.50, 7S+.
AT meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Western New York & Penn
sylvania road a resolution was adopted
declaring that as the net earnings of
the company were not sufficient to pay
the cash interest due April 1, that the
cash portion of the coupons due on that
date will not be paid.
A SPRING harrow trust has been
formed in New York city with 81, OOO,
coo capital
IsADoR WoRMsER was struck in the
face by C. E. Chapman during a quar-
rel on the floor of the New York stock
exchange.
EX-PREsIDENT MCLEOD, of the Read
ing, and now its receiver, and j. Pier
pont Morgan, the banker, are said to
have patched up their little differences.
THE American Bank Note Co, of New
York, whichhas the contract for printing
the admission tickets for the worlds
fair. struck of the first sheets on the I'd.
Half a million tickets viii be sent to
Chicago on April l and the rest will
follow at short intervals.
THE Episcopal bishops in session at
New York have adopted resolutions
against anti-Chinese legislation and
against appropriations for sectarian
schools.
By the bursting of 4 pulley in an
electric power house at Lowell, Mass,
. one man was killed.
RUSSELL SAGE bought the New York
& Massachusetts railroad at auction for
$4,000. It's original cost was 81, 500. 600.
FIVE children were suffocated in
tenement house in New York.
THE Geographical club, of Philadel
phia, decided to support Lieut. L. E
Peary in his next expedition to the
Arctic regions The amount of funds
to be contri buted by the Geographical
club will be from IS, 900 to $40, 900.