The Iola register., 1885-10-30
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FIVE girls, the oldest fourteen, th,
youngest eleven, were arrested the othel
afternoon at Lowell, Mass, in q state o.
groveling drunkenness. They had mo-
been home for weeks, and were sent to tn,
State Industrial School.
The iron trade in the Lehigh (Pa.) Val.
ley continues on the increase, and the prep
aration of furnaces for blast is being heard
Of nearly every day.
The New York County Democracy and
Democrats of the Eighth Congressional
District nominated John Calvin to oppose
Timothy Campbell in the race for the va.
cant chair of Minister Cox.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, of the
18th says: A serious break has occurred
in the strike of the fourth pool miners and
work will be resumed at the terms offered
by the operators. The operators claim
that the backbone of the strike has beer
broken. The families of the striking min
ers were in an extremely destitute condi-
tion. s-.,sE
MALcoLM HAY, ex-First Assistant Post
master General, died at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 10th of consumption. He was born
in 1872
WALT WHITMAN was reported seriously
sick at Philadelphia on the 10th.
FOUR miners were killed and twelve
others fatally injured recently by an ex-
plosion Of gas in the mine of the Delaware
& Hudson Company at Plymouth, Pa.
MORTON c. WARREN, importer of laces
at 49 Green street New York, has assigned.
The liabilities are upwards of $4,000,
mainly due in Europe. Assets unknown.
JUDGE VAN BRUNr in the New York Su-
preme Court dismissed the complaint in
the suit of Mrs. Mary Maud Watson, grand
daughter Of the late John Anderson, the
millionaire tobacconist, to establish her
claim to more of her grandfather's money
than she was awarded by the will.
Two New York customs inspectors have
been suspended; one for wearing a coat
with large open pocket in which a pas.
senger from abroad was seen to drop two
suineas; the other for receiving money for
expediting goods through the customs
house.
CHAs. A. DANA presided the other night
at New York over a large meeting of the
Irish National League, held for the pur.
pose of raising money to aid Parnell in
Ireland.
Ar Boston, on the 21st, United States
District Attorney Sanger brought two suits
against Hon. George B. Loring, lately United
States Commissioner of Agriculture, to re-
cover money improperly expended by him
while in office.
THE widow and other heirs of Robert
Treat Paine, who, by his will, gave $4,000
to Harvard College to found an astrono-
mical professorship, have filed an appeal
against the clause on the ground that Mr..
Paine was not of sound mind.
The City OF Boston did official honors to
the memory of General Grant in the Tre-
mont Temple on the I'D. Rev. H. w.
Beecher was the orator of the occasion.
The other evening, near Bedford, Pa, a
boy aged thirteen years, son of Joseph s.
Smith, started to the woods for cows. In
the morning his dead body was found in
the skirts of the mountain nearly devoured
by some wild animal, supposed to be a
panther, which had been seen at various
times
AT q meeting of the directors of the
Western Union Telegraph Company at
New York, Dr. Green was reelected Presi.
dent, and General Eckert General Man.
ager,
EIGHT THOUSAND persons were said to be
present at the Republican ratification
meeting held at the Madison Square Gar
den, New York, on the 23d.
A FARMER Of Wayne County, Pa, named
John Howell, the other afternoon, killed
four of mis- children and then co,,m;ftol
suicide.
A LARGE herd Of cows owned by B. Sat-
enstein, dairyman in Westchester Coun.
ty, n. Y, were recently discovered to be
suffering from pleuro- -pneumonia, and six.
ty-fve Of then we're killed.