The Iola register., 1886-11-05
THE EAST.


pieces on the New Jersey coast recently.
The woods between Whiteside and Bay
side, L. l., were burning fiercely lately and
the village fire department was out all
night working to prevent the flames from
reaching dwellings. A large quantity OF
timber had been destroyed, and the fire
was still burning.
The Davis malt house at Watkins, n Y,
with a large amount of barley and malt,
was destroyed by fire the other night. The
loss was about s1OO,0OO
EXTENSIVE forest fires have broken out
near Great Darlington, n. II. 1t is esti
mated that 1,50O acres have been burned
over. No estimate of the amount of loss
could be made.
GENERAL WILLIAM F. ROGERS has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Twenty third New York district.
At Hamerburg, N. j., Edward Vaughn
was fatally injured by James Pitney in a
duel the other day.
FORTY EIGHT writs have been issued
against the Riverside Woolen Company
for importing labor from England under
contract in violation of law.
AN increase of ten per cent. has just been
granted to the employees of the Reading
CPa.) iron works. Under the new scale,
puddlers who formerly received $3.50 will
now be paid S3.S5; helpers, ,Sl.59; rollers,
S2.43; and laborers Sl.25.
The old rolling mill of the Old Colony
Iron Works at East Taunton, Mass, burned
the other morning, causing a loss of Sl5O,
600; partially covered by insurance.
JOHN DELANTr, who a few weeks ago
married Forepaugh's $4,000 prize beauty,
ing his he ead on the rail in front of a train.
His body was terribly mangled.
The officers of the National Brotherhoo
of Locomotive Engineers were reelected
at New York as follows: Grand chief en-.
gineer. P. N. Arthur, of Cleveland; second
grand engineer, j. r. Spragge, of Toronto,
Ont. first grand assistant engineer, Harry
C. Hays, of Cleveland; second grand as
sistant engineer, A. B. Glavner, of San
Francisco. The term of the grand chief is
three years, and the others one year.
NATHAN FINKELsTEIN, a Boston dry goods
dealer, has assigned Liabilities 5000; (;
assets, S22, 600.
THE New York creditors of A. s. Gage &
Co., of Chicago, agree to settle on the
basis of forty five cents on the dollar.
FATHER ARcADIUs MAGYoRosI, of Boston,
a prominent priest of the Franciscan order,
has married Miss Edith Clare, of Newark
n. j. Father Magyorosi was formerly pro.
fessor of theology in St. Bonaventure Col
lege at Allegheny, n. y.
THE remains of the widow of A. T.
Stewart were inferred at Lower Marhat-
tan on tue 2Sth, Bishop Littlejohn officiat-
ing.
The Bartholdi statue of Liberty Enlight.
ening the World was unveiled on the 18th
In the presence of the President, the Cabi-
net and Che French visitors. Immense
numbers participated in the procession in
New York, and it was calculated LOO, ,OOU
sightseers were present
The ore bank owned by D. ". Cox. az
Millshurg, York County, Pa, caved in the
other morning, killing two men and in.
juring several others.
The grand Jury at Plymouth. Mass, has
indicted knights of Labor officers who or
dersd out the men at Emery's shoe factory
for using boycotted leather.
A SERIOUS smash up occurred recently
at Gassett's station. on the Central Ver-
mont railroad. No. 4, a mixed freight and
passenger train, was run into in the rear
by an extra freight train following it. No.
6, another freight train. then ran into the
rear OF the extra on a bridge, wrecking
all three trains. No one was seriously in
jured, but the damage to rolling stock was
large.
ARRASGEMEHTs have been completed
in New York City by which all the
electrical companies have agreed to take
stock ia the subway company and put
their wires under ground
THE WEST.
In letter to Truman II. Allen. Pension
Agent at San Francisco, Comm issioner
Black takes strong grounds against the
assessment system. and intimates that auy
official who yields to the demands of a self
constituted committee and pays money in
to a campaign fund is in danger of losing
his position.
BT a collision at Pine Bluffs, Wis. re-
Gently between wild engine and a pas
sengef train one man was killed and two
fatally injured, while the baggage and
mail car were burned