The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-10
THE EAST.

CHARLES HOOP and E. D. Lisson, of Paw.
catuck, r. l., were drowned recently by, the
capsizing of boat.
A LATE storm did a large amount of
damage to crops in the vicinity of Lancas-
ter, Pa. Over one thousand acres of tobacco
was completely destroyed.
The caulkers employed at several boat
yards at Pittsburgh, Pa, to the number of
about 200, recently struck against reduc-
ton from $3.50 to 1925 per day.
Boston had two heavy failures recently.
One was the heavy shoe manufacturers,
Charles W. Copeland & Co., house estab-
Eshed in 1885, and the other F. Shaw &
Bros, said to be the largest tanners in the
world. Shaw d Bros. were creditors of
Copeland & Co., fully 100000. Shaw &
Bros. employed in their various establish
ments from ten to fifteen thousand persons.
THE number killed by the late accident
on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg
On. W Railroad was twenty-five. Thirty
five were injured, three of whom, it was
thought, would die.
JOHN WALTERS oil cloth factory at
Albany, N. Y, recently burned. Loss,
$4,000.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention met at Harrisburg and nomi-
mated Robert Taggart, of Warren County,
for Auditor, and Joseph Powell, of Brad
ford, for State Treasurer.
A CERTIFICATE of incorporation for the
Exchange Telegraph Company was filed at
New York recently. The line is to run from
that city to San Francisco. The capital
stock is 100000.
In Philadelphia, the other day, William
Walker, aged eleven, was fatally stabbed
by Edward Troddeu, aged eight.
GEORGE w. CURTIS was unanimously re
elected President of the Civil Service Re-
form Association at its late annual meeting
at Newport, r. /.
THE steamer Elizabeth recently ran into
ana sunk the Octorora, of the Ericsson line,
plying between Baltimore and Philadel-
phia, within sight of Chesapeake City. The
passengers were safely gotten from the
sinking steamer without injury.
BECAUSE his uncle declined to board him
any longer, without pay, John Brixus, of
Newark, n. j., aged twenty, recently shot
his uncle and then ran to stream, shot
himself twice and jumped in. He was fished
out dead, but his uncle will recovrr.
DExTER's hat factory at Danbury, Conn.,,
recently burned. Loss, 100000.
ABOUT four hundred laborers on the
Pittsburg, McKeesport & Youghiogheny
{Pa.) Railroad, now in course of construc-
tion, struck against a reduction of wages
of from fifteen to twenty-five cents a day.
About one thousand more, it was thought,
would soon follow.
The Executive Council of the Irish Ma
tional League of America met recently in
New York. There were present Patrick
Egan and Matthew Harris, of Ireland, and
Rev. DIR. Charles O'Reilly, of Detroit,
Treasurer of the National League of
America. President Alexander Sullivan
was in the chair. The League disposed of
a large amount of business and received
reports from various sections of the coun-
try. Among the subjects considered was
that of land grabbing in the Southern and
Western States and Territories by English
aristocrats and English corporations. A
committee was appointed to secure a COM
plete report in each State and Territory of
the quantity of land purchased and the
names OF the purchasers, and make state
ment showing whether such purchasers are
residents of the United States. The con-
stitution was amended SO as to provide for
election by State Convention of Vice
President in each county in the several
States.
CHARLES Il. WARD & Co., boot and shoe
manufacturers, of Boston and Brockton,
Mass, failed with liabilities of $50, 900.
The failure of the big tannery of Shaw 6,
Bro, who owed them SaO0, 900, crippled
Ward & Co.
FIFTEEN passengers were injured, sew
eral fatally, by recent accident on the
Southeastern Railroad, near Newport, VT.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America, recently in session at New York,
elected the following officers: Rev. j. N.
Cleary, of Wisconsin, President; Rev. j.
ID. Bowles, of Ohio, Treasurer; James c.
Nolan, of st. Paul, Mimi, Secretary.
THE New Hampshire Legislature, after
balloting about two months, finally elected
Austin r. Pike, United States Senator.
TIE northern part of Monroe County, N.
Y, was recently swept by a terrible storm
of wind, hail and rain. Grain and fruit
sVere badly damaged. The hail killed