The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
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States Hotel, at Shenandoah, Pa, together
with large number of other buildings, in.
Guiding Odd Fellows Hall, Academy of
Music, Mining Herald and Neus offices.
Two hundred and fifty families were left
homeless. A young man, George Henton,
on his way home attempted to jump on a
passing fire engine, and had both legs cut
off. go
CRUELTY on the part of her brother
caused Mary Russell, aged eighteen, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, to commit suicide.
THE other morning the West Shore Rail.
road construction train was thrown from
the track, near Rochester, n. Y, and three
box cars loaded with workmen sent down
an embankment thirty feet high. All the
workmen were more or less hurt and sever.
al had arms and legs broken and skulls
fractured. The cause of the accident was a
broken Journal.
A DELEGATION of Mexican merchants
and capitalists were recently given pub.
lie reception and banquet at Kansas CITY.
The recent fire at Shenandoah, Pa, de.
stroyed two hundred houses, and property
valued at half million dollars. Two lives
were lost.
AT meeting of the Western Nail Asso.
citation, at Pittsburgh, Pa, a general sus
pension of nail machines was ordered for q
period of five weeks, beginning December
p.
THE strike of the window glass workers
of Pittsburgh, Pa, is about two months
old, and settlement seemed to be as far
off as when the strike was inaugurated.
A CYCLONE recently passed through por
lions of Maine, doing an immense amount
of damage. In Afford County the damage
was reported to be fully 100000. Houses
and barns were destroyed and cattle killed.
The damage was heavy throughout North.
ern Maine. Much timber land was dam.
aged, and lots on Androscroggin and Sandy
Rivers were totally destroyed. In King.
field two thousand acres were destroyed.
Forests were leveled to the ground, and il
was estimated that the total damage
throughout the State was 100000.
The oyster schooner, Willie F. Thomas,
Of Deals Shore, was lost in a gale on Ches-
apeake Bay the other morning, off James
Point, and her Captain and crew of nine
men were drowned.
al the ldOt LlcetlIiS VI Tue MeIuOulSI MIS-
sionary Association, in New York, the offer
Of $4,000 made by Mrs. Philander Smith,
Of Little Rock, Ark, for the endowment of
. medical college at Nankin, China, was
accepted. The committee also accepted
the donation of Rev. DR.. Goucher, of Balti.
more, of S, 900 towards the establishment
Of an Anglo-Japanese University at Toxic,
and of 5000 from the same clergyman for
theological schools at Foo Chow, China.
THE General Committee of Church Ex-
tension of the Methodist Episcopal Church
met at Philadelphia, Pa, recently. The
Corresponding Secretary of the Board read
q statement showing that the amount
asked for from the Conference was S153, 900.
The amount received was Sf0S,433. The
reports of the Corresponding Secretary
and Treasurer for the fiscal year which
ended October 81, showed an increase in
he net receipts for the year and a cash
balance of Sl04 1874.
The first public meeting of the Huguenot
Society of America was held in New York
recently. Addresses were made by John
Jay, President of the Society; Bishop
Quintard, of Tennessee; Assistant Bishop
Potter, of New York, and Rev. DIR. Vermil-
gal
PETER SMULL, the horse thief who tasted
:hirty-eight days, escaped from jail at
Selvidere, n. j., the other night.
j. C. BARNES, a well.known coal dealer
and Councilman of Pittsburgh, Pa, COM
mitted suicide at the st. Cloud Hotel, New
Castle, Pa, the other evening, by shooting
himself through the head. Financial en-
barrassment was said to be the cause.
MRS, j. II, ELDREp, aged seyenty-two,