The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-13
GENERAL.


celebrated the Fourth.
DURING the launching of the steamer
Daphne, near Glasgow, Scotland, the other
day she fell over on her side and precipi.
tated a number of people into the water.
The Daphne, which was constructed for
the coasting trade, is a vessel of 800 tons
burden. Two hundred workmen were on
board when she capsized. The accident
occurred in the middle of the river Clyde,
after launching. The vessel ran at a very
fast rate, and when she gained the water
she rolled from side to side. Persons on
board, fearing she would be capsized, ran
to and fro. The vessel finally reeled over
and nearly disappeared beneath the water.
Those who had maintained positions on
that portion of the steamer not submerged
did their utmost to save those who were
cast overheard. At the same time boats
heavily pulled to assist in the work of res.
cuing the unfortunate people, and sue
ceeded in saving quite number. Sixty or
seventy were lost, among them many
visitors.
A RELIGIOUS riot broke out in Belfast,
Ireland, recently. The police charged and
dispersed the mob. Several policemen
were seriously injured.
THE business failures of the country the
past week were only eighty, the smallest
by far of any week during the year.
THE LATEST.
SECRETARY TELLER, Secretary Lincoln,
General Crook, and the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, had a conference at the
War Department, recently, in regard to the
disposition of the captured Apache Indians,
recently captured, when it was agreed that
such Indians and all such as may be here
after captured or may surrender them
selves, shall be kept under the control of
the War Department at such points on the
San Carlos Reservation as may be deter
mined by the War Department (but not at
the agency without the consent of the In
dian agent), to be fed and cared for by the
War Department until further orders.
By direction of the Secretary of the In
terror, party under John H. Renshawe
viii leave Washington, en- route to the
typographical survey of the park. An
other party under Arnold Hague will make
q geological survey Of the park.
The President approved the sentence of
court-martial of Horace E. Mullan, of the
lost Ashuelot, and he has been dismissed
the service from the 9Th Of July.
ONE HUNDRED and seven deaths from
cholera at Damieta, Egypt; thirty at Man.
surah; sixteen at Samanoud.
DIR. ]. H. Rancho, of the Illinois State
Board of Health, has made an inspection of
the sanitary condition of East st. Louis.
He says unless prompt measures are taken
to thoroughly clean localities where filth is
deposited by the recent flood that the city
is in danger of serious sickness, possibly
an epidemic.
THE works of the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany at Allentown, Pa, shut down last
week and all the employees were paid of.
Thirty-two hundred men are thrown into
idleness.
By hegiving away of one of the guy ropes
on the powerful derrick in the Walker stone
quarry, at Joliet, Ills, recently, the derrick
was precipitated upon q number of work
men. Mat Rogers and John Bloomquest
were killed and seven others seriously in
jured.
The Belleville, Ills, Savings Bank was
recently robbed of package containing
s., 454 in broad day light, by three men who
pretended to enter on business.
In 1877 John and Elizabeth King, pickle
dealers, Vesey street, New York, were
robbed Of over $4,000 in United States
bonds, gold and greenbacks, which they
kept in their store. All efforts to recover
the property failed until lately, when after
their death the son and daughter pursued
the search and found the bonds which had
passed through the hands of New York
bankers to the United States Treasury.
WHILE bathing in the Schuylkill River. |
at Reading, Pa, Doctors Arson C. Det- |
wfler and Washington C. Detwiler, broth |
ers, aged thirty-six and thirty-eight years |
respectively were drowned.