The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-11-19
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lHE brewers OF New YORK, brooklyn,
Jersey City and Newark have formed a
strong pool for the purpose of regulating
their trade.
THERE are no funds to light the Statue
OF Liberty.
The fire in the Standard coal mines at
MT. Pleasant. Pa. is still burning. Acres
OF coal are on fire and the flames are max
ing their way toward abandoned cells in
which the coal has been exhausted.
The Farmers Loan and Trust Company
OF New York, having secured a Judgment
for a foreclosure of the $500 600 mortgage
upon the property of the Bankers and
Merchants Telegraph Company, it has APP
piled to Judge Van Brunt for the appoint.
ment of a receiver.
AT a meeting of the Connellsville Pa.)
coke syndicate on the 10th, the advisable
ty of advancing the price of furnace coke
twenty-five cents per ton was discussed
but no decided action was taken.
Mr.. EDWIN BOOTH was too ill to appear
at the Star Theater, New York, on the
night of the 9th.
JACOB CLINE, Of Pittsburgh, has been re-
elected president of the National Window
Glass Workers Association.
THE American ship Alice NJ. Minos. Cap
tain Dickinson, of Bath, Me-, loaded with
cotton at West Point, was recently discov-
cred to be on fire. The vessel was lowed
into the stream and sunk to save as much
of her cargo as possible. The damage was
not known, but supposed to be fully COW
cred
THE New York Commercial Advertiser pub
fishes translation of what purports to be
an agreement entered into among the Chi
nesc gamblers of that city for mutual pro-
lection against exposure and police inter.
ference. 1t threatens violence to inform
ers and provides fund to be used in brib-
ing policemen and other officials.
IT is claimed in Boston that George E.
Davis, who died two weeks ago, was an
embezzler to the extent of $4,000, which
had been invested in the Saccarappa
Leather Company at Abingdon, Mass.
Ex-PREsIDENT JAMES d. FISH, of the Ma
rine Bank of New York City, now in States
prison, is reported to be in q deplorable
mental and physical condition.
The Westinghouse Air-Brake Company,
of Pittsburgh, Pa, has increased its capital
stock to s3,OOO,OOO.
JAKE" SHARP and others concerned in
the New York ''boodle'' cases appeared be-
fore the court of general sessions on the
18th and entered pleas of not guilty.
GENERAL JOHN II. SCHoFIEID has been
elected . member of the Union League
Club in place of the late General Hancock.
An explosion occurred in the cigar box
mandatory of Henry H. Shep & Co.,
Nos. 1904 and los Randolph street, Phila-
delphia, on the 18th, which blew out the
rear wall, badly injuring a number of
young men, women and girls, and imperil-
ing the lives of 100 or more. The building
then took fire.
The strikers at the hog abbatoir on
Hackensack meadows, N. J., all went
back to work on the 18th at an increase of
wages. The company refused to dismiss
the two foremen as the strikers demanded,
and also refused to treat with Q committee
from the knights of Labor
HAVEN COFFIN, shoe manufacturer. of
Haverhill, Mass, has made an assignment
TO H. q. Case for the benefit of his cred.
ltors. His liabilities are $4,000.
PRor. A. A. HODGE, of Princeton College,
died on the 18th. He caught cold few
DAYS before, which settled in his kidneys.
The Duffy Malt Whisky Company, of
New York, has been placed in the hands of
Henry Stockbridge, as receiver.
THE steamboat Northerner, loaded with
lime, ran ashore at kelly's Island in Lake
Erie on the 18th and was burned.
THE New York Board of Health has con-
demned $3.50 gallons Of wine in that CITY
which had been made by W. ]. Booream
out of dried fruits such as currants,
raisins and peaches of low grade, macer-
ated with water, mixed with percentage
OF sugar and fermented.
FITCHs, boot and shoe manufacturers. of
Mass, have assigned. Liabili. |
ties about SCI, 900; assets not known.
THE village of Townshend, VT, was re-
ported on fire on the night of the 18th.
ST. PETERS Catholic Church. Allegheny |
City, Pa, was destroyed by fire the. other |
day IosS S10l0lD