The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-25
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TIE rubber boot makers of Worcester,
Mass. have been on a strike for eleven
weeks. The other day the Knights of
Labor called on Mr.. Prather, proprietor of
the factory, proposing arbitration. He re-
fused and the Knights then assumed direc-
tion of thu Strike and boycotted the works.
A FIRE occurred the other morning in
the four story tenement house % East
Eighty first street, New York, in which
nineteen families, embracing over 100 per-
sons, most of them young children, lived.
Mrs. Ruettinger, wife of baker living in
the house, fell down an air shaft, distance
of sixty feet, and she and her baby were
instantly killed. The other persons were
all rescued.
WALTON & Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa, have
commenced suit against number of their
miners who went out on strike without Civ.
ing thirty days notice as called for in the
agreements.
A SALE of twenty-seven head of reg.
istered Jersey cattle took place recently at
New York. A bull calf, son of Black
Prince of Linden, sold for s. 1000; Fill-the-
Pail Second, a four-year-old COW, for
$1,000; the bull Black Prince of Linden, for
M,sJO; the cow Westphalia, for 81 100, and
the famous COW Oxford Kate, for $3.50.
Mr.. BONNER has decided to retire Maud
s. for the present. Her record is 2:osz.
AT the Coal Miners Convention, held at
Monongahela City, Pa, on the 18th, it was
unanimously resolved to demand three
cents per bushel for mining.
A BOLD attempt was made at Attica, n.
". the other morning to rob Loomis &,
Sons Bank. Assistant Cashier Barross
was overpowered and the thief escaped
with $500, when he was stopped by A. L.
Larish, who, after a lively tussle, captured
him.
Fox & Co.'s glass works, at Durham
vile, N. Y, were burned the other night.
Loss, $4,000; insurance about $4,000.
Ar the regetta at Lake Maranacook, Me-,
on the 10th, the race for the professional
double SOULS was won by Hanlan and Lee.
Hosmer and Peters second, Mckay and
Hamm third. Time for three miles, 1902
TIE second and deciding race between
the Puritan and Genesta yachts came of
successfully on the 10th, the race being
won by the Puritan, with one minute and
thirty -eight seconds to spare. The race
was q very close one, but the result leaves
the international cup, won by the America
in 1851, still on this side of the Atlantic.
The time of the Puritan was 5:OS:I4; that
of the Genesta, 5:O4:52.
A NEW trial having been granted the
Bethlehem Iron Company, of Allentown,
Pa, in suits brought against it by former
employees for recovery of money deducted
Alo:- q,
contracted at the company's store, the
second trial resulted in the jury returning
a verdict in favor of the company in each
case.
QUITE q large female vote was cast at
the Binghampton IN. VI election for
School Commissioners on the 18th.
THROUGH the long strike of the Pitts
burgh, pa. nailers the stock of nails has
been almost exhausted. Dealers report the
supply smaller than for twenty years, and
say that an order for 100 kegs could not be
filled.
GEORGE BUTLER, formerly United States
Consul General to Alexandria, was re-
Gently locked up for drunkenness at New
York in default of $40 fine.
The American Paper Manufacturers
Association has written the Quarantine
Commissioner at New York complaining
that the process Of disinfection now in use
Injuries the rags that are imported.
The five story cooperage building of s.
Ellis Briggs, at the corner end Of Rutgers
and Monroe streets, New York, was burned
the other night Loss, $4,000; partially
insured.
The regatta given by She New York
Yacht Club came Of at Sandy Hook on
the 18th. There were eleven entries and
the race was won by the English yacht
Genesta.