The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-01
THE EAST.

The Pittsburgh Iron Works Company,
at Verner's Station, recently ordered 12Ii
per cent. reduction in the wages of all en-
ployes except those governed by the Anal
gamated Association scale. The workmen
met and decided to continue work at the
reduction. Five hundred men We're af-
fected.
THE Cannon Gas Company struck heavy
vein of gas recently on their property in
the Twenty -second Ward, Pittsburgh, Pa.
BY the sinking of canal boat at Brook
lyn recently two children were drowned.
The south school building on Slower
street, Beverly, Mass, burned the other
! morning. Loss, $4,000. Four hundred
children We're in the building, but all got
out safely. 60
The indictments against the sporting
men who took part in the recent Sullivan
Greenfield fight, were dismissed in New
York on the sd.
HARRIGAN & Harris Theater Comiaue,
Broadway, opposite the New York Hotel,
was destroyed by fire recently. The the
alter cost 900.
John c. Emo, the New York fugitive,
won a SO medal in Quebec billiard tour
nament recently.
THE British ship Lornty was sunk off
Bedloe's Island, New York, recently, by
collision with the steamer Cornwall. The
crew were saved. The Lornty was laden
with case oil. Loss, S150,0O0.
THE estimated liabilities of Ward, Sta
ton & Co., of Newburgh, n. Y, are esti-
mated at 100000.
GEORGE MoRICowIsZ, Michael Swigo-
wish and Michael Briawisky were fatally
injured in a fight at Montana, Pa, the
other day.
THE engine house, boiler and machinery
of the Mineral Spring Colliery Lehigh VAL
ley Coal Company, near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
recently burned. Three hundred men and
boys were throEn out of employment.
A RECENT fire at Clarion, Pa, destroy ed
property valued at $4,000.
JAMES MCFARLAND, at one time q cook,
was found under an elevated railroad arch
at Philadelphia the other day SO badly
frozen that he soon died. A large yellow
dog was in charge of the body when found,
and the police had much trouble in remov-
ing the remains because of the animals
jealous care.
MRS. JANE L. VANBUREN has been
troubled with four corns on her right foot
for ten of the twenty years during which
she has been teacher in the public schools
at Kingston, N. Y. Four weeks ago she
put paris green on her corns, by the advice
of an intimate friend. A week afterwards
she was taken very sick and died after lin
gering in great agony.
THERE was panic at Bunnell's Museum,
at New Haven, Conn.,, Christmas night, &C.
casioned by cry of "Firew No one was
seriously hurt, though many received
bruises.
A PRIVATE telegram from Buffalo an
nounces that the Globe Fast Freight Line
viii not go out of existence, but will con-
time with new arrangements.
THE Eagle Hosiery Mills, of Troy, n. Y,
burned recently. Loss, S36, 900; insurance,
$3S,50O.
THOMAS VAN VALIN, aged one hundred
and four years and eleven months. died on
the 18th at Syracuse, n. Y. He was pen
sioner of the war of 1872.
BALzAR GEHR, a resident of Crawford
County, Pa, died on the Goth, aged one
hundred and three years and six months.
JUDsoN E. PARcE, postmaster of South
Ostelic, Chenango County, n. Y, commit
ted suicide recently.
An attempt was made recently to kill
Anthony Comstock at New York by means
of an Internal machine. The machine,
however, failed to work. The miscreant
who attempted the assassination escaped.
OFFICIALS of the Taunton (Mass.) Insane
Asylum denied the story telegraphed from
Chicago charging that many insane pau
pers had been shipped West from that and
similar institutions. In one case an inmate
named Walsh had been sent to his uncle in
Pullman, ILL.,, and the authorities since re-
ceived a letter thanking them for the
action.
A BUTLER, Pa, special of the 9th says:
The fire at Fishers oil well No. was ex-
finguished yesterday, and the oil is now
flowing.
THE missing New York preacher, Rev.
John Riley Thompson, has been heard from
at Boston, where he was reported sick.
ELLIOTT Bros. & Co., dry goods mer-
chants of Philadelphia, have announced
their inability to meet their payments.
The firms assets were SCR, 900; liabilities,
1900. They offered, to settle at sixty
cents on the dollar.