The Iola register., 1886-01-08
THE EAST.

PETER B. SWEENEY, notorious in the
Tweed regime, returned the other day to
New York.
The anthracite coal trade was reported
greatly demoralized. Another cut has
taken place.
A RECENT dispatch from Gloucester,
Mass, says: The schooner Nellie G. Thurs
ton, from Grand Banks, reports the loss Of
three of the crew Of the schooner Lizzie
Griffin by capsizing. Their names were:
William Cummings, George Arnold and
Louis Barnes.
A COMMITTEE has been appointed at Nan
ticoke, Pa, to solicit aid for the families
dependent upon the labor Of the twenty
six miners entombed in the slope which
caved in recently.
Polish Church, Pittsburgh, Pa, against
whom charges of drunkenness were pre-
ferred before Bishop Phelan of the diocese,
has been suspended by the Roman Catholic
Church. 1t was said that his followers in
the church were very much exasperated
over his removal, and threats of mobbing
the episcopal residence have been made.
An order has been received from Com
missioner Fink to reduce the rates ON live
sheep from st. Louis to New York to so
cents This is a reduction from 45 and so
cents, respectively.
SECRETARY EDGE visited tie farm of
Henry S. Rish, near West Willow, Pa, and
inspected the herd of cattle suffering from
pleuro-pneumo onia. One COW was killed
and thirty-four inoculated. Other herds
in Pennsylvania were also reported in
fected.
The will Of ". h. Vanderbilt has been
admitted to probate.
Two hundred and fifty miners at Keeling
& Co.'s mines in the third pool of Pennsyl-
vania went to work recently at the old
rate.
The New York Staats Ze;tung publishes a
special cablegram from Vienna denying
that Count Kalnoky's original dispatch of
May to Baron Schaeffer, the Austro- Hun
garian Minister at Washington, contained
the words: 'The position of foreign En-
voy welded to Jewess by civil marriage
would be untenable and even impossible in
Vienna" The Staats Zeitung adds: Baron
Schaeffer has, without other authority than
his own, given an expression of his own
opinion.
The auditors in the case of the trustees
of the estate of Clapp & Ballou, of Boston,
against the Boston & Albany Railway
have found for the plaintiffs in the sum of
S1O7, 1850. This was liability arising out
of the purpose of the former management
of the road to use the South Bosom fats as
its freight terminal and the filing of the
fats.
W. T. WARNER and J. Henry Work, in
dicted for completely with Ferd Ward, re
Gently made a proposition to the Govern
ment to refund to the Marine Bank credit
ors the amount charged in the indictment
against them. Their offer was declined.
The propeller Pequot crushed into the
ferryboat Alaska at New York recently.
No lives were lost.
WnKEsBARRE, Pa, is excited over an un-
expected coal discovery.
GOVERNOR HILL was inangurated at Al
bany, N. Y, on the LIST. In his address be
spoke extensively of the patriotic career of
New York's first Governor, De Witt Clin-
ton, and the work of other Executives.
TIE long strike of the river coal miners
was declared virtuully over. The miners
of Walton, Hayes, Rusher and Munhall
have returned to work at the 21< cent rate,
and now almost 2, 600 men are at work at
that place.
TEE Cory City (Pa.) Touring mills were
destroyed by fire the other morning. The
building was large three-story brick and
was equipped from top to bottom with the
latest improved machinery for the roller
process. The loss was $4,000; insurance,
SIS, 600.
THERE were $500 fires in New York in
1855, and the total loss was 50, 500 900, as
against 2,4O0 fires, with a total loss of
$3,474,647 in 1854 The cost of 1,s43 build
ings protected during the year is s54,0OO,-
O0O
The wholesale dry goods firm of Bates,
Read & Cooley, of New York, has been dis
solved.
TIE Edgar Thompson blast furnaces at
Braddock, Pa, five in number, were closed
down for an indefinite period on the 31st,
throwing out of employment 200 men.
The stockholders of the Pennsylvania &
Schuyikin Valley Railroad held meeting
at Phiiadelphia recently at which they
agreed to increase the bonded indebted
ness of the company from 81, SOC, 600 to S10.-
OO0.O00, and approved the lease to the Penn
syiyanic Company.