The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
WILLIAM HATTRN, aged eighty -one, re
Gently committed suicide in New Yorh
City.
/. 11LpEN g. ABBOTT, for ten years cashier
of the Union Market National Bank al
WATERFOWL, Mass, has absconded. He is
over $31 900 short.
1t is said that an oath-bound organiza-
ton has been discovered in Pennsylvania,
whose members swear not to buy French
goods, and to boycott all dealers selling
them, until the embargo on pork is removed.
The New Jersey Legislature has defeated
a resolution asking Congress for National
Postal Telegraph law.
THE Boston & Albany Railroad recently
made sweeping reduction in the wages
of its men, and also reduced the number OF
employees.
AN explosion in a burning building at
Rome, N. Y, recently killed Joseph and
Samuel Alexander.
The Phoenix Glass Works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, were destroyed by fire the other night.
Loss, $126,O0O; insurance, $4 900.
j. NJ. RYFoRD, merchant of Moriah, Vt,
with his wife and two daughters
started for Warder, VT, several weeks ago
to visit his father. He drove a team OF
horses, and as they had not been heard
from it was feared that they either broke
through the ice on Lake Champlain or
were frozen to death in the Green Noun
tains.
A LATE midnight fire in O five-story
apartment house in Sixth avenue, in New
York, created a panic among the occu-
pants, dozen of whom OCCUPYING the up.
per floor escaped to thereof in their night
clothes, and jumped to roof six feet be-
low. Mrs. Michaels and her grand daugh.
ter were probably fatally burned.
REPORTS from the wreck of the steamer
City OF Columbus are that she is gradually
sinking, but little of the rigging being now
visible.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the other day, as
three men were engaged in loading pieces
of steel plates on cars, and were standing
on the platform on which there was from
fifty to seventy-five tons of the iron, the
platform gave way and the men fell to the
ground with the metal on top Of them.
John Butler and Thomas Liney were killed
instantly, and John Roach fatally injured.
THE breaking up of the Allegheny and
other rivers in Pennsylvania did great
amount of damage. Bottom lands were
flooded and families had to seek safety in
flight. The town of Freeport was at one
time in danger Of destruction, the ice be-
ing piled thirty feet high.
THE WEST.
Ar Lincoln, Ill, the Grand Jury found a
true bill against Orrin A. Carpenter,
charging him with the murder of Fora
Burns. He was committed without bail.
ANDREW MANGs, four years old, while
playing with fire at Cleveland, O., recently,
was burned to death. He was the last of
five children, the four others having died
recently of diphtheria. The mother be.
came insane upon the death of her last
child.
WHILE cossting at Bloomington, ILL.,, the
other night, sled containing party OF
ten boys and girls going ataspeed of about
forty miles an hour ran into farmers
team that was going up the street and all
the young people were more or less hurt
William Loomis, aged eighteen, was killed
JOHN O'BRIEN, an agent of the Fair
banks Scales Company, while under the
influence of liquor, attempted to board ar
east-bound train at Kansas City, the other
night, when he fell under the wheels and
was killed. He was supposed to be from
Cincinnati.
A BEw weeks ago q man named John
Schramm left his wife and two children a,
his home in Fort Wayne, Ind, and started
West in search of employment. He could
leave them but little to subsist on. For sev
eral days they had nothing to eat but raw
corn meal. Even this became exhausted
and the other day Mrs. Schramm started
out to beg. When she returned to heI
cherries home she found her three-months
babe frozen to death.
A YOUNG man named Carver employed
in the post-offics at Detroit, Mich, was
recently arrested charged with stealing
letters. Upon being confronted with
proofs of his crime, he confessed to having
rifled three thousand letters within the past
six months, having carried on his depreda
lions Systematically. The object, he
said, was to accumulate sufficient money
to marry girl with whom he had fallen in
love.
ANsoN LINsMEIER wan recently arrested
at st. Louis and taken back to Germany
where he, as postmaster. Rad forged many
post-office orders and fled to. this country.
THE Legislature of Iowa in Joint Con
vention on the 3Oth fonsally proclaimed
the election of Senator Allison as United
States Senator.
SEVERAL Leadville (Colo.) banks have
collapsed lately, the last being the Mer
chants and Mechanics. Only one bank is
left in the city.
THE Interstate Industrial Exposition Of
Chicago, having settled its difficulty con
corning the rental fee with the city, recent
ly, announced that its twelfth consecutive
annual exposition will open September 3
and close October IS, of the present year
A. W. Sheldon, Associate Justice Of
Arizona, died suddenly at SAN Francisco
the other day.
HARRY LEE, the Cincinnati forger, wa.
recently arrested in Canada.
IT is reported that the law governing non.
citizens and intruders in the Indian Terri
tory is being vigorously enforced. Thirty.
eight persons in the Greek Nation have
been declared non.citizens and notified to
leave. Seventeen houses in Muskogee and
vicinity, the residences of parties who
could not prove up their citizenship, have
been seized by the National Inspector and
sold as public property of the Nation.
By the recent breaking up of the ice at
st. Louis a number of boats were injured.
The staamer Saliva No was wrecked ant