The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-16

6 Pittsbargh and Allegheny was expected.
he u,anufactursrs were reported to have
naAds . compsst - redsss wages IN Ill
shops, 20 ~ 20 hrtng down Ne cost Of pfo-
duetion, and the moaldss, Who are we'll
orgasiEsd, have decided 70 strike ra3her
than accept the reduetion.
0sosaE BAKER wss found lying ON H.
truck of one of the cars of the limited ex.
press the other morning when the train
reached Enan Station, forty miles west Of
Pittsburgh, Pa. He was nearly dead, and
said be had ridden on the truck from Chi
cago, distance of over four hundred
miles.
ROLAND G, Hazard, the stakeholder
upon whose complaint q receiver was APP
pointed for the Credit Mobilier Of America,
has fled in the United States Circuit Court
at Philadelphia, an answer to the petition
of the Union Pacific Railway Company for
the removal of Oliver Ames from the Re
eeivsrship. a-g-s,r---s
PROF. s. d. GROSS, an eminent surgeon,
died recently in Philadelphia. He had
been elected an honorary member Of many
Of the medical societies of Europe.
AT an entertainment the other night In
the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in aid of
the Home for Confederate Soldiers at
Richmond, the house was well filled, and
Henry Ward Beecher presided. 2
w. H. MEYER, of Lockport, N. Y, who
several years ago was convicted of embez-
cling large amount from the Niagara
County National Bank, and who served a
term in Auburn on a charge of forgery,
was recently sued in the Supreme Court
for the amount of the deficiency by said
bank and a judgment obtained against
him for $4,000.
JOSEPH P. AsCH's furniture factory at
Norwalk, Conn.,, burned recently. Loss,
$4,000. Sixty hands were thrown out of
employment.
EX-ALDERMAN FITZGERALD, champion
pedestrian, was vel
coined home by 10000 residents of Long
Island.
The steamer City of Portland, plying be-
tween Portland, Me-, and ST. Johns, N. B.,
struck ledge near Fisherman's Island, re-
Gently and broke up. The passengers and
crew were saved. Loss, $4,000.
THE remains of DIR. Samuel d. Gross, of
Philadelphia, were cremated at Washing
ton, Thursday.
TIE Alice Oates Opera Troupe was
stranded at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently. The
for some time had been playing
to exceedingly small houses.
PATRICK SHEA, serving five years. SEN
tence in the western penitentiary of Penn
sylvania for burglary, was recently iden-
titled as the murderer of Policeman Pat
rick Duray in st. Louis in 1882.
THE belief was general in New York that
the condition of the broken Marine Bank
was worse than anticipated. 1t was feared
that depositors would come very badly off.
IT was reported that the affairs of Grant
& Ward, the firm which went down with
the Marine Bank of New York, were in
far worse condition than at first expected.
One>report said the liabilities reached up
to $40 900 900, while the assets would turn
out to be small. General Grant was
believed to have been sadly victimized, as
he was in the habit of giving his notes for
paper.
EX-MAyoR SANDERS, of Lawrence, Mass,
has been held for trial for ballot box stuff
ing.
DANIEL c. Ritter and Alexander Burket
were crossing the Allegheny River recently
at Freeport, Pa, in sandboat, when it
sprung a leak, and the two men were
drowned.