The Iola register., 1883-09-07
THE EAST.

In North AttleDoro, Mass, the other
night, Harry Collins, teamster for F. L.
Staples, fatally stabbed John Conklin,
book-keeper for Staples. The trouble was
about two dollars that Collins claimed was
his due.
On the afternoon of the 2Sth the steamer
Riverdale took over one hundred passen-
gers aboard at the foot of Harrison street,
In New York City, for Haverstraw. Soon
after leaving her boilers exploded, tearing
the vessel to fragments. Many of the pas
sengers were hurled into the air and fell
back into the water. Others were COM
PEELED to jump into the river to escape the
kissing, scalding steam that had filed all
parts of the vessel, or to avoid going down
with her. About fifty lives were reported
. lost, some being blown to pieces, and others
met their deaths by being drawn with the
whirlpool caused by the sinking of the ves-
sci. Those who were floating or swimming
about in the river were picked up by tugs
and row boats that went to the rescue.
JOHN W. BIGELow, of New York, was
found dead in bed at his cottage at New
port, r. l., the other day. He was recently
rescued from drowning, when a rumor pre-
vailed that he had attempted suicide, and
it was supposed that he finally killed him
self.
JOHN ]. HALL, of New Brunwick, n. j.,
has disappeared, and also large amount
of money he borrowed. He also forged
notes to the amount of 81, 5000. He was a
contractor for the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and it was an easy matter for him to bor-
row from sub-contractors.
The other day Frank R. Foster, Secretary
of the Trades Union Federation, addressed
the Senate Committee on Labor and Educa-
tion in New York at some length, and held
that workingmen had just as much right to
organize and fix the value or price of their
labor as the Standard Oil Company, grain
or other merchants had to to set the price
of oil or other commodities. He thought
the eight-hour system would work great
benefit for the laboring classes.
THE Pennsylvania House passed resolu-
lion requesting all Senators and members
of the Legislature to resign, in view of their
inability to agree on the apportionment
question.
THE trial, at New Haven, Conn. of Isaac
II. Lockwood on the charge of using the
United States mails for the purpose of de-
frauding those who wrote him by claiming
he would lend money left by deceased
banker to the amount of S7S0, 900 to default
ers and those who had stolen money, re-
suited in his being found guilty and sem
fenced to fine and one year in the peniten-
tiary. Lockwood was much disappointed
at the finding of the jury, as he confidently
expected to be acquitted, and was prepared
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pected to obtain $1o0. 200, go to Washington
the coming session of Congress, and go into
the business of hiring diamonds to ladies at
ten per cent of their value, so they could go
10 parties and receptions without the ex-
pense of buying the necessary jewelry.
HARRY PACKARD, of Hartford, Conn.,, an
employee of Barnum's, was crushed at Gin
cinnati the other morning by one of the
elephants and afterwards died in the City
Hospital
An express train on the Philadelphia &
Atlantic Railroad was thrown from the
track near Pleasant Valley recently. Sew
eral cars were wrecked and thirty passen;
gers injured.
The beach at Atlantic City, N. j., was re-
Gently seriously damaged by high tide and
heavy surf. Houses, restaurants, photo
graph galleries and stores with dwellings
attached, which were built so far from the
surf that it was thought that no sea could
reach them, were undermined and carried
bodily into the ocean and beaten by the
waves into fragments. 1t was by far the
heaviest tide ever known there. The dam
age to property was fully $4,000.
CHARLES E. BRowNHILL, for some years
past an engineer on the Rock Island e. Pa
cific Railroad, was drowned in Grand
River, at the ferry, near Trenton. No., the
other night. He had driven his team upon
the boat, and when about the middle ofthe