The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-08
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THE EAST.
DIR. A. d. MARLEY has been named for
Congress by the Democrats of the Seventh
Pennsylvania district.
A LAMP exploded in the home of Mrs.
Flanagan, No. 2Ol1 Penn avenue, Pitts
burgh, Pa, the other evening, fatally burn
ing her daughter Sadie, aged eight, and
her eighteen-months-ol baby. Mrs. Flan-
nigan and man named Mcclure were also
seriously burned.
THE tide in New York harbor on the 18th
reached an unprecedented height
PLECRo-PNEUMoNIA is raging with UMPIRE
cedented violence among the cattle in
Montgomery County, Pa. Many have died.
hartley CAMPBELL has been declared in
curably insane.
W. F. MAHoDY, under arrestin New York
for blackmail, is not chief of police of Sara
toga, but a night Waterman. The chief of
police is George W. Blodgett.
AN explosion of an ammonia tank took
place in the Carlton Clubhouse at New
York recently, setting fire to the building
At a fourth-story window appeared q red
headed man clamoring for help from the
flames. 1t was Tom Ochiltree, of Texas.
He was rescued.
HOWARD, SMELLING & Co., coal dealers of
Boston, have failed. Their liabilities are
estimated at sl52, liz and their assets at
$4,000.
A STRIKE took place recently at Sar-
gent & Co.'s New Haven Conn lock fac
tory.
JOHN F. ANDREW has been nominated
for Governor of Massachusetts, by the Dem.
Ocrats.
A TERRIFIC explosion of dynamite &C.
Cured in the Ditmar powder works at
Bartow-on.the-Sound N. Y, ON the 3Oth.
Fear men were blown to atoms. The
shock was felt at extreme distances and
was at first thought to he an earthquake.
CONGRESSMAN SAMUEL J. RANDALL has
been unanimously nominated for another
term by the Democrats of the Third Penn.
sylvania district.
WILLIAM E. GOULD, the Portland me.
bond defaulter, has been sentenced to ten
years in the .'pen."
The Democrats of the Fourteenth New
York district have nominated the Hon.
William g. Stahlnecker for Congress.
WILLIAM ". RICE has been selected as
the Republican candidate for Congress in
the Tenth Massachusetts, district, While
General William Coggswell is the chosen
one in the Ninth.
The laborng men of Boston have formed
a union card league and propose to support
only candidates friendly to the claims of
the workers.
In the Third district Of New Jersey the
Democrats nominated William MacMahon
for Congress
JOHN ". WEsTCoTr has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the First
New Jersey district.
The Hudson County N. j. grand jury
has found an indictment for 5igamy
against Edward Solomon, husband Of Lii
liam Russell They were married in Nay,
1855, by the Rev. DR.. Enrich, pastor of the
Hoboken Lutheran church.
G. II. DrER has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Prohibitionists of the First
Massachusetts, district
JUSTICE julius ROCKWELL, who had been
on the bench Of the Massachusetts, Supreme
Court since 1853, has resigned
THE WEST.
TEXAS fever is reported ravaging cattle
in the vicinity of Chicago. Pleuro-pneu-
monia, on the 18th was as virulent rs ever
FIRE in Des Moines, la, on the 9th, en-
tirely destroyed the Iowa seed store, caus-
ing an aggregate loss of $4,000.
The bonds of two of the crooked Cincin-
matt officials are not to be found
GOVERNOR DAWES, of Nebraska, has quar-
antined against Illinois cattle.
HOG cholera continues to rage in Grant,
Crawford, Lafayette and Iowa Counties.
Wis. Farmers are discouraged over the
outlook. No shipments of hogs are al
lowed to be made from the district by Or
der of State authorities
JAMES GOULD and Joe Clark, who held up
the station agent at Mutt station, New Mex
leo, have been captured and it was thought
have been lynched.
THE Cree Indians are reported killing
cattle by The wholesale in Montana.