The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
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Rev. j. 81. BOYD, pastor of the Warren
Street Methodist Church of Trenton, n. j.,
has been mysteriously missing for week
or more.
A GANG of railroad laborers were buried
by a cavern on the Philadelphia, Norris
town & Phenixville Railroad at Consho-
hockton recently. Three men were fatally
injured.
THE Brooklyn bridge, so recently opened
to the public, was the scene of a fearful
catastrophe on the 30th. About four O'Clock
as thousands of people were on the bridge
there was a temporary jam of the crowd
on the New York side and the cry, "the
bridge is falling" passed along the line.
There was an instant panic and the jam
became frightful. Men, women and chill
dren were crowded over the approach to
the bridge and trampled upon in the des-
peration of the moment. From the heap
of human beings nineteen were taken out
dead and thirty-ffve injured. The scene
was one of the utmost confusion and terror.
The Superintendent attributed the catas-
trophe to pickpockets who commenced the
blockade in order to ply their vocation dur
ing the confusion.
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morning burned the saw mill of John John
son, with ninety tons of bark, store and
dwelling of ]. F. Derr, the saddler shop of
Edward Fitsberg and the shoe shop of J..
Lloyd; losses unascertained.
The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists nomi-
mated Ira C. Howard, of Franklin, for
Treasurer, and John r. Tondham, of Scran-
ton, for Auditor General. The State Con-
vention at Pittsburg adopted platform of
principles enunciated in the platform of the
National Prohibition Home Protection
party.
Ar the late annual meeting of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company in New York
President j. B. Houston reported that the
act prohibiting the immigration of Chinese
had caused a falling off of several hundred
thousand dollars in receipts, but that the
number carried to British Columbia had
made up for this loss. The war between
Chilli and Peru had been injurious to the
company's interests, but the work of the
Panama canal had added to their. freight
receipts. The total earnings for the year
were s, 102, 764; expenses, 50, 19O,5 O6.
The yacht Skylark capsized in the harbor
of Boston the other afternoon and the fol-
lowing were lost: David Butler and Mat
thew Kenney, Forest Hills; James Wood
and James Cleary, Boston; Richard
O'Brien, South Boston; and another un-
known man.
DURING a performance at the Academy
of Music at Pittsburg, Pa, recently, an I'M
known man who was somewhat under the
influence iof liquor was mesmerized by
Kennedy Bros, and at the conclusion of
the act they were unable to restore him to
consciousness. Several physicians were
called in, but all efforts to revive him had
been unsuccessful.
JAMES IRVING, an ex-member of the New
York Legislature, wss recently sentenced
from New York City, to the Penitentiary
for two years and to pay fine of $3.50.
The Pittsburg Pa.) Conference of Iron
Manufacturers and Amalgamated Associa-
ton Committee met recently and reported
that manufacturers had signed last years
scale, $40 per ton, for pudding. This
action averted strike and insures the rum
ming of all mills in the West at least one
year longer.
INSPECTOR ByRNEs denies that the panic
at the Brooklyn bridge was caused by pick
pockets. 1t was due, he claims, to the in
efficiency of the bridge management by not
paying the salaries of regular policemen.
The Superintendent of the bridge frankly
admitted that the footpath was not safe.
1t was not intended to accommodate any
such travel as had been passing over it.