The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
THE Massachusetts, Prohibition conven-
tion has been postponed to September 10.
Ar the Democrat District Convention at
Portland, Me-, Nathaniel Cleves was
nominated for Congress. The Greenback
Convention also nominated Cleves for
Congress.
THE loss of Baldwin Locomotive Works
at Philadelphia was estimated at Si50, 900.
Fully insured.
A RECENT severe hail storm in Lancaster,
Pa, did much damage TO buildings, besides
destroying the tobacco crop.
j. OGDEN WITHERsPooN, the New York
broker who suicided short time ago, has
been billed as a swiniler. He purchased a
bill of exchange for $4,000, and then de.
sired it exchanged for two smaller bills.
hese were given him, when he returned a
forged bill for f6, 900, which was DESTROYED.
The genuine bill he subsequently got dis.
counted.
An Internal machine was found in the
Post-cffice at New York recently. 1t was
addressed TO an Italian and was concealed
in cigar box. The suspicious appearance
caused it to be opened from the bottom
when cooked pistol and dynamite cart.
ridges were found. -.
The steamer Amsterdam, bound TO New
York, grounded on bar off Sable Island
recently. About three hundred persons
were on board. In landing some of the
passengers boat got swamped and six
men were drowned.
AN explosion at an oil refinery at Green.
point, l.. l., recently, caused loss of
$1,000
The managers of the Central Vermont
Road have purchased the Ogdensburg &
Lake Champlain Road.
THREE boxes, each containing infant re.
mains, were discovered recently, under a
doorstep in Cohoes, N. Y.
The wages of the weavers in the Wyman
& Chase mill at Woonsocket, R. l., were
reduced from nine to eight cents pei
cut. The mill was only running alternate
weeks.
THE strike of coal miners in the fourth
pool, Monongahela City, is practically al
an end. The miners have given up the
strike as hopeless. Many have returned
to work at operators figures.
DAVIS cracker and Perkins coffee and
spice mills were damaged in Boston re-
Gently by fire. Loss $4,000.
HENRY A. Frederick and DR.. ]. B
Weida surrendered to the Philadelphia
officials. They confessed to body stealing
JAY GoULD's handsome hotel and clut
house on Charles Island, opposite Milford
House, was burned the other night.
KATIE CURRY, girl of seven years, al
Oil City, Pa, attempted to kindle a fire
with kerosene. Her clothes ignited, and
before assistance could be rendered she
was burned to crisp, the flesh dropping
from the bones. ..
ANOTHER heavy gas well was struck in
Pittsburgh, at Hamewood in the Twenty
first Ward, this time on the property Of
Dillworth Brothers.
SOLOMON and David and Frank Slusher
of Nescopeck, Pa, in sinking well were
overcome by foul air. Solomon and David
died. Frank was unconscious, but would
recover.
A YOUNG man named Cheney Ames, q
shoe dealer at Elmore's Corners, Kingston
N Y. shot himself through the heart the
other morning because his girl went riding
with rival sutton.
WILLIAM J. LANSING, q lawyer in Co.
hoes, n. Y, was charged with drunken.
ness. He tried to kill himself in the court
ROOM When returned to the station house
he seized kerosene oil can and drank a
quantity of oil.
THE depression in the iron business in
Pittsburgh, Pa, is said to be greater at
present than fora number of years. Many
mills that continued in operation through
the panic of 1873 are now closed, while
Others that had plenty of orders then are
running slack.
The Board of Aldermen of New Yoxk
has voted in favor of q horse railroad in
Broadway.
JESSE @. CARTER and Frank ". HYDE.
cowboy and ranchman respectively, the
former from San Francisco, and the latter
from Wyoming, were sentenced in New
York to the State prison, two years each,
for burglary.
JOIN RoAcH's ship yard at Chester, Pa,
was on fire on the Sth. The loss was re-
ported at first to be very heavy, but Roach
says that it will not amount to more than
Sc, 600.
-FOUR roughs were arrested In Science
tady, n. Y, recently, for interfering with
the Salvation Army. An uproar ensued,
and a crowd of fifteen hundred persons
followed the prisoners to jail threatening
their rescue and also threatening to burn
the Salvation barracks.
a DISPATCH from New York says: Com
modore Garriscp's inventory shows liabili-
ties, S14, 710, 22S; nominal assets, S11.617,-
P2S; actual assets. 1894 ,S1s.
SEVERAL cases of Texas fever and pleu-
ro-pneumonia have been discovered among
the cattle in the vicinity of Lancaster, Pa.