The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-25

Cuban uncle, has written to O'Donovan
Rosa that he will give $100, 900 for scien.
tifc warfare against England when his
ship comes in.
The funeral of Mrs. Singerly, the highly
respected wife of the proprietor of the
Philadelphia Record, took place December
18th. The representatives of several char
liable institutions with which Mrs. Singerly
was identified were at the funeral.
| THE recent strike at Woonsockett, X. l.,
was complete. At the Knoxville mills $50
left work and $50 the day after. This
threw $500 out of employment. The
| weavers said the reduction of wages
threatened amounted to an average of %
| per cent.
A RECENT fire on Ninth avenue In New
York destroyed about $4,000 worth Of
property. Byron & Shotwell, leaf tobacco,
and Getty, builder, were the losers.
The weavers employed in the mills Of B.
B. and r. Wright, at White Rock, r. K,
struck recently against ten per cent. re-
tives out.
JUDGMENTS aggregating $4,000 were
granted against the wall paper manufac-
turing firm of Trout, McIkrain & Elder, Of
Philadelphia. The firm hoped 30 arrange
with creditors.
The depositors of the defunct Townsend
Savings Bank of Connecticut, which failed
in 1874, have voted to ask the Legislature
to instruct the receivers to wind up the af-
| fairs by June.
JAMES MITCHELL, arrested at Philadel-
phia on suspicion of causing the death Of q
man named Muldoon in prize fight, was
discharged q few days ago, the accuser
failing to appear. There was much ex-
element over his arrest.
THE Pennsylvania National guard is go
ing to the Inauguration of President Cleve-
land. Arrangements have been made to
carry the entire militia to and from the
Capitol without cost to the members.
The Pillsbury, Pa, machinery molders
have issued circular calling a meeting
of the craft to consider the proposed cut in
wages, and requesting all to stand out
against any reduction.
THE employees of all the tanneries in AL
legheny City were notified few days ago
that very soon their wages would be re-
duced 10 per cent. 1t is thought the reduce
ton will be accepted.
ANOTHER great cave occurred lately at
No. II mine of the Lehigh- Wilkesbarre
Company, known as the Lance Colliery.
Three acres of land sunk nearly five feet.
One house went down with the surface.
THE Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum at
Brooklyn, N. Y, took fire on the morning
of December 18th, and burned to the
ground, in spite of all that could be done
in the way of saving it. The scene was
heartrending in the extreme. After all
was over it was found many hairbreadth
escapes had been made, and six boys from
the infirmary room had been burned to
DEATH Many tainted on the stairways,
and many jumped long distances, and were
thus saved.
A GENERAL suspension of operations in
all coal mines along the Monongahela and
Youghiogheny Rivers is probable.
AFTER an idleness of several weeks,
Shoenberger's nail factory at Pittsburgh
will resume at once, giving employment to
200 men.
An explosion in the building of the Phila-
delphia Metallic Cap Company recently
killed the Superintendent, G. NJ. Hughes,
and George Owens, boy.
RICHARD FRoUKE will be hanged at Phil
adelphia on February 18th for numbering
his paramour.
THE New York tobacco packers have APP
pointed a committee to go to Washington
and oppose the passage of that clause of
the Spanish treaty admitting manufactured
tobacco free of duty.