The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-20
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W. G. GEORGE, England's sprint runner,
arrived in New York recently on the
steamer Aurania from Liverpool.
WATSON & BARTHoLow, dry goods COM
mission merchants, of New York, assigned
recently to Charles Newalls, their cashier.
Liabilities are thought to be nearly 1000.
Assets unknown.
The court martial selected to try Lieu
teuant Colonel Sneathen, of the Eighteenth
Regiment for conduct prejudicial to mill
tary discipline in purchasing pay warrants
at discount from men during the State
encampmeat at Lake Conneaut, convened
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th.
THE State of Massachusetts, offers for
sale second mortgage bonds of the New
York & New England Railroad to the
amount of 81 81, 900.
Nj. BARTHoLDI. the sculptor, brought
with him to Washington two models of the
proposed Lafayette monument. They will
be placed in the Office of the members of
the Monument Commission.
THIRTY-Two workmen in Pittsburgh, Pa,
have been poisoned lately by drinking
water from lead pipes running from the
river. Four were dangerously i'll.
FIRE in New York recently destroyed
the five-story brick plaster mills of August
Isaacs & Bro, causing q loss of $4,000.
Several firemen narrowly escaped being
crushed under falling walls.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, has ap.
pointed Alton B. Parks to be Justice of
the Supreme Court of that State to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Justice
Westbrook.
J. w. PURDY, wanted at Batavia, N. Y,
for q defalcation from the New York Cen.
trail Railway, was arrested at Denver,
Col, recently after two years wanderings.
The pumping station of the National
Transit Oil Lines near Cooley Run, Pa,
was destroyed by fire the other day and
the engineer was burned to death.
A FIRE broke out the other night on the
stage Of the Union Square Theater, New
York. It was quickly suppressed, and the
drop scene being lowered prevented .
panic among the audience, who were UNI
aware of the situation of affairs behind the
scenes.
A NUMBER of Chinese laborers who
landed in New York in June in transit to
San Francisco, where they were to take
the steamer for China, have not been heard
from since their arrival in New York and
the suppostion is that they are concealed
in this country and have no intention of
leaving.
AN explosion of gas occurred at the Pine
iron works village near Reading, Pa, re.
Gently. Jeremiah Zimmerly, William
Eagle and William Baughber were fright.
fully burned.
THE Washington express on the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad going west, went
over an embankment near Collinsville, Pa,
the other morning and was badly wrecked.
Congressman Boyle, Of Fayette County,
and fifteen others were seriously injured.
NEW YORK Chinese merchants have sent
an address to President Cleveland. thank
ing him most heartily for issuing his proc.
lamation protecting their countrymen on
the Pacific slope, and expressing high ad-
miration for his fearlessness and sense of
Justice.
CHARLEs B. OSBORNE, for many yesrs Q
prominent figure in Wall street, died the
other night Of kidney disease, aged forty.
eight. During the Black Friday panic in
1869 he was Jay Gould's most trusted bro
ker. The fortune left by Mr.. Osborne is
estimated at from "a, 000, 900 to sS,0O0, 600.
He leaves q wife and son.