The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-11
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At New Haven, Conn.,, the wire mills
started six large furnaces recently, but
not a workman appeared. The proprietors
had thought the strike which took place
previous to the shut down was over, but
they were mistaken.
A DRUGGIST of Hoboken, n. J., recently
filed up 3 prescription for quinine with
morphine. The result was the death of one
young woman and the fatal poisoning of
another. The druggist fed.
ONE of O'Brien's elephants recently
broke loose in Philadelphia. One man was
seriously injured by the animal, being
picked up and hurled a considerable dis
fance.
FIVE persons we're terribly burned by q
natural gas explosion at Marvin & Co.'s
steam bakery, Pittsburgh, Pa, recently.
The employees of the Lackawanna &
Pittsburgh Railroad, running from Belfast
junction to ANGELICA, N. Y, have struck
because of non-payment of wages. They
claim seven months back pay.
II was stated recently that the managers
of the elevated railroads in New York had
found the electric moter q success, and
would shortly run all their cars by this
means.
The ceremony of laying the corner stone
Of the statue to the memory of Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry, of Lake Erie fame,
was performed at Newport, h. l., on the
lst, by the Grand Lodge of Masons. The
statue is in bronze and weighs about four
tons.
Four persons were recently poisoned by
eating toadstools at Shenandoah, Pa, one
Of them fatally.
PHILADELPHIA butchers were reported
preparing to organize in opposition to Chi
cago ana other Western meats.
A CHILD at No. IL. Pitt street New
York, was recently discovered suffering
with q virulent case of smallpox. Part of
the building was used as a school and there
were fears that the infection would spread.
Mr.. AND MRS. JESSE GRANT and Mrs.
Sartoris left New York on the ID on the
North German Lloyd steamer Werra. They
were bound for Southampton, the two first
named on a visit and the last to her home.
An epidemic of typhoid dysentery, due
30 impure water, prevails at Waymaert, a
Pa. Thirty I've cases and five deaths are
eeported.
A YOUNG jockey named Moran was in
stantly killed on the Brighton Beach (N.
~ race track, the other day, by . coll
iision.
TEE ether morning at the lakewood shaft
II the Lehigh Valley Coal Company q
large cage in which nine men were being
lowered had nearly reached the bottom
when . mass of loose coal fell from the
side of the shaft, instantly killing four and
fatally woundfng two others, while the
ssher three were seriously injured.
A BLOCK of buildings on Pearl, Broad
end Alexander streets, Albany, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire recently.
TIE Commercial Bulletia, Of New York,
States and Canada during August at
$500. 600. This is a decided Improvement
upon the former records, the average of
the fire loss in August for ten years past
being $7,000, 900.
FIRE broke out in a row of twenty houses
q West Nineteenth street, New York, at
znidnight on the I'd. For time there was
terrible panic among the people inhabit-
ing the dwellings, but all were safely res
caed. While the work of rescue was pro-
seeding, q ladder broke, and four firemen
were seriously injured.
SIDNEY SoMMERs and James Healy,
sinners at work in No. 8 colliery, Pennsyl-
wanna Coal Company, ut Wilkesbarre Pa,
nero instantly killed the other morning.
hey were buried beneath mass of fallen
coal
A TANK car on the West Pennsylvania
Railway containing oil, exploded at Pitts
hargh, Pa, the other morning, fatally
fWning q brakeman, Thomas Ryan, of
Cleveland, O., and setting fire to the train.
Dr.. STEPHEN TYING, the. weli-known
pastor Of St Georges Church, New York,
died 1t midnight on the Sd.