The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-03
THE EAST.

hECENILf Tue FIERCE Lumber company
of New Jersey purchased 5000 acres OF
land in Saline County, Ark.
The men employed in the yard gang OF
Newcastle, Del, who have been receiving
s. a week, struck for s., and refused com.
promise on $50.
THE report that the President of the
Western Union had cabled from London to
his manager in New York to concede the
demand of the telegraph strikers was de.
MED by the manager.
CAPTAIN WEBB who has won a world.
wide reputation as a swimmer, and who
successfully swan the British Channel in
1875, recently made the fool-hardy attempt
to swim the Niagara River at Suspension
Bridge and was swept into the whirlpool
and lost.
THE stupidity of telegraph operator at
East Chenille, n. Y, in giving improper
directions to conductor, recently caused
a collision on the Saratoga road near
Schenectady, by which one man was
scalded to death and a number of others
badly injured. Both engines were wrecked
and several cars burned.
SPECIAL detectives recently arrested
John s. Gordon, Robert McGeary, Albert
Crusan and DR.. John P. Buck, near st.
Johns, w. Va, who were members of an
organized gang of highwaymen who had
been operating in Pennsylvania, Maryland
and West Virginia for several months with
considerable success.
A DISPATCH received in Boston from the
Crawford House, in the White mountains,
states that there was a heavy frost there on
the night of the Goth.
THE other evening while two pugilists
were pounding each other at Manticoke,
Pa, for prize of 500, the programme was
interrupted by the sudden appearance of a
crowd of women who broke into the ring
brandishing knives and pistols and put a
stop to the fight.
THE extensive works of the Home Sewing
Machine Company, at Bridgeport, Conn,
burned recently. The company employed
four hundred hands and turned out one
hundred and ten machines daily.
AT Northeast Harbor, Maine, recently a
blackboard party consisting ofMr. and Mrs.
Case and daughter, Miss Pierce and Miss
Lewis of Boston, and Miss Calie White of
Baltimore, all prominent in social circles,
running away and Miss Case was instantly
killed, Miss White seriously injured and
the remainder of the party badly bruised.
WARRANTS were issued recently for the
arrest of John d. Nays, Walter Hamilton
and Loretto B. Day of the firm of L. B. Day
& Co., dealers in carpets, Milwaukee, Wis,
who failed for about $4,000, on the charge
of converting to their own use property
belonging to w. & ]. Sloan of New York
THE Hanlan-Hosmer-Lee race near SYRIA
cuse, N. Y. recently, was witnessed by
nearly $1,000 people. The course, of three.
quarters of mile, was rowed over twice,
and Hanlan easily won the race.
THIRTY-sR Italian bootblacks were re-
Gently arrested at Atlantic City, N. j., un.
der special law of the Legislature enact
ing that no child under the age of eighteen
shall be allowed to black boots, solicit aid,
play musical instruments or become medi-
cant, etc. Three boys whose ages range
from five to seventeen years, pay license
of s. each to the city. The city is filled
with Italians under the control of padrones,
who compel them to bring in their daily
stipulated sum or receive severe punish
ment.
The United States District Attorney has
begun suits against 1,60O of the patrons of
Boyd's Private Letter Express in New
York for the recovery of SO in each case
for the violated United States postal law.
Suit was also commenced against the pro-
prietor of the private express for violating
the postal laws