The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-20
THE EAST.

A RECENT fire in Pittsburg, Pa, DESTROYED
property to the value of S125, 200.
A BILL was recently introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature preventing any
attempt to personate or represent any be-
ing recognized as Divinity in the Old or
New Testament in any show or other the
atrical performance.
THE late Peter Cooper, in his will, leaves
N.OOO, 900 to the Cooper Union, and divides
the remainder of the estate, except So, 600
in special requests, between his son and
daughter, Edward Cooper and Mrs. Abram
s Hewitt. The estate is valued at s, OOO,-
300. -.
In the Tewksbury (Mass.) Almshouse in
vestigation recently, Frank Baker, former
ly in charge of the insane building, testified
that the beds were in a filthy condition in
the male wards He had charge of the
bathing of male patients in tank ten by
fifteen feet and four feet deep. AS many
as eighty-four bathed in the same water,
which was rarely changed. The patients
would object to going in and be put in by
force. DR.. Dean, a graduate of Harvard
Medical School, testified that when he was
student perhaps fifty bodies were used
during the winter term.
A LARGE brick building in Buffalo, N. Y,
not yet completed, fell one day recently,
burying about a dozen men in the ruins.
One man was taken out dead and oShers
were fatally injured. The owner of the
building was on the roof at the time and
was badly hurt. 1t had been erected dur
ing the winter, and it is supposed the NOR
tar was frozen, and the warm weather loos-
ened the bricks in the building.
AN Investigation into the manage2ent of
the Tewksbury (Mass.) Almshouse has re-
Eealed a horrid state of. affairs in that in
stitution as to the inhunan treatment of
children and pauper inmates.
sR- A..SAvAGE, ex-Constable, was fatally
shot in the saloon of James Barrett, at
North Adams, Mass, &c was believed by
the proprietor. Savage shot Barrett last
October.
BY recent railroad collision at Plain
field, N. J., the rear coach of the Philadel-
sphia train was overturned and at once took
fire. All the passengers were extricated
before the flames reached, them, but thir-
teen received injuries, some severely and
Die fatally. "a -
The exact sum stolen from the city of
New York by the late John Carroll while
coupon clerk in the Comptroller's Office is
not fully ascertained, but it is pretty GER
tain that the amount will exceed 500, 900.
The fraud was perpetrated by the aid of
outside confeterates, to whom Carroll
would transfer coupons which he had
omitted to stamp, and these would be again
presented for payment at the Cashiers
window. Carroll has now been dead six
months, and it is held by many attorneys
that his death absol1es his bopdsmen from
all responsibility In Che matter.
TIE jury in the case Of ex-Msyor De-
bexoise of Long Islard City, New York,
tried for wrongful conversion of city bonds,
found verdict against the defendant for
S100, 200. Motion tor q NEW trial was denied,
as was also motion for = stay of proceed
fngs.
Dr.. 81. r. PALMER's International Nor
NAL Music School begins Jaly at Mead
vile, Pa, and continues four weeks.
THE WEST.
THE people of Tombstone, Ariz. have Sc
cured one hundred friendly indians to 60
on the war path against the Apaches.
THE Logan House, the oldest hotel in
Murphrysboro, Ills, owned by Mrs. Rogers,
sister to General Logan, burned recently, |
Mrs. Rogers and two girls narrowly escap- |
ing with their lives. r. w. Shape, tray- |
eier for Adams & Wathene, st. Louis, was /
burned to death.