The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-11

a valuable gold mine which he wished to
work in secret for ten years, that it was
either q clever dodge Of the old Chief to in
duce the Government to buy portion OF
his reservation, or to attract prospectors
| who could be plundered by his tribe. He
explored the whole country in 1873, and
pronounces Red Cloud thorough diplomat
| and an accomplished liar.
Ar Corrine, Me-, the other day George
Parkman of incorporate habits, married
the previous week, jumped out OF bed
| through a window, and savagely attacked
his wife, mother-in-law and a neighbor. He
died shortly after he was secured.
JOSEPH BARK, formerly City Treasurer
of Buffalo, N. Y, and lately convicted of
misrepresentation of the city funds, was
sentenced to five years at hard labor in the
Penitentiary. fa.
The cigar-makers generally in the East
ern cities struck for an advance OF one dol
lar per thousand May /. At Pittsburgh,
nearly all the manufacturers conceded the
advance. So did the manufacturers of Gin
cinnati, Louisville, Trenton, N. j., Boston,
Columbus, and partially at Detroit. The
manufacturers of Richmond andLynchburg,
Va, and Reading and Wilkesbarre, Pa,
closed their establishments. Seven hun
bred cigarette-makers in New York went
on strike.
A DIVORCE suit was lately tried in Bos-
ton in which the plaintiff, defendant and
all the witnesses were deaf mutes. The
cause of the trouble was another woman,
also q deaf mute.
TROUBLE exists among the iron manufac-
turers of Pittsburgh, Pa, and the Amalga-
mated Association, growing out of pro-
posed reduction in wages. The manufac-
turers state that if the reduction of ten to
twenty per cent is not accepted, the mills
will shut down June 1 and remain closed
until the men come to terms. The manu-
facturers freely stated that they expected a
strike, and have booked no orders for de-
livery after June 1. Nearly 900 are EN-
ployed i'm the mills of the West, including
laborers, and their idleness will greatly in
crease the existing depression of trade.
GOVERNMENT officers recently raided two
private mail delivery establishments in
New York City and seized a large amount
of mail matter which had been collected
L
spector of the Postoffice Department, esti-
mates the Government has been losing
about 81 900 daily by the operation of these
private letter offices. There are similar
offices in operation in other large cities,
and the Government has determined to
close them without delay.
THoS. B. PHEBY, for some time the Super
intendent of the Inyo Consolidated Mining
and Milling Company of California, was
arrested in New York recently, in an &C.
ton for the recovery of $4,000 alleged to
have been converted to his own use.
AT Oswego, n. V, Joshua Clifford, aged
seventy-seven, was sentenced to be hanged,
June %, for the murder of his wife. -..
A CHICAGO physician reports five cases
of leprosy in that city.
FIRE the other morning at Arlington.
Wis, destroyed two newspaper offices and
several business houses. Loss, 5000; in
surance, $4,000.
In the United States Circuit Court at New
York, recently, verdict was given for
Sl5, 900 in favor of Gustaf Lundburg and
and Steel Company. Plaintiff shipped iron
from Sweden to the company, which they
refused to take on its arrival.
The Free Thinkers of the United States
and Canada are invited to general con-
vention at Rochester, n. Y, August 90, and
lasting five days.
AN explosion of gas occurred the other
day in the Darrance shaft of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company, near Wilkesbarre.
Pa. Edward Rinsler and Henry Boxer
were plumbing on platform sixty feet
below the surface. They were almost
roasted alive. The head-house, 800 feet
from the bottom of the shaft, was blown to
pieces and carried forty feet into the air.
The explosion took place as the night shift
was getting ready to descend the shaft.