The Iola register., 1889-05-17
THE EAST.

1HE WORK OF removing Telegraph poles
and wires has been renewed in New York
City by order of Mayor Grant
By the explosion of the boiler of saw.
mill near Freedom, Pa, one man was
killed outright and his father seriously
injured.
The Fifth avenue marble arch to com.
memorate the recent centennial in New
York is now assured. 1t will cost 500, 900.
THREE men were fatally injured by the
falling of an elevator sixty-five feet at
Providence, R L
ONE man was killed and several others
injured by the explosion of dynamite left
over from an unexploded blast while driv.
ing tunnel near Ashland, Pa, recently.
THE new suspension bridge at Lockport,
N. Y, which replaces the one destroyed
early in January, was thrown open to the
public on the 7th.
THE dwelling house of Watson Bownes
at Westchester, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire recently and five persons burned to
death.
The twenty eighth international con-
vention of the Young Mems Christian As
sociation was called to order at Phiia-
delphia on the Sth by General o. o. How.
ard, U. S A, vice-president of the last
convention. There were about LOCO dele
gates present from all parts Of the world
FOREST fires are burning in the Shawan-
gunk mountains and the Catskills, also in
the highlands below Newburgh and also
on the Fishkll mountains. of New York.
THEODORE WILDMAN, who was secretary
of Typographical Union No. 6, New York,
for Q long time, is said by an expert who
has examined the books to be between
5000 and 5000 short in his accounts with
the union.
Ex-MINISTER PHELPS is about to resume
his duties as professor in the Yale law
school at New Haven, Conn.
DANIEL SMITH, who burned two little
boys in New York with nitric acid and
sent them out on the street to beg for his
benefit has been sentenced to four years
and six months in State prison.
NATHANIEL THAYEs and Francis Blod-
gett of Boston, and William ]. Rotch, Of
New Bedford, are directors in the new
that has been formed by the North Chi
cago Rolling Mill Company.
THE strike of the wor&men in the ALE.
gheny Bessemer steel works at Duquesne,
Pa, has resulted in the virtual defeat of
the men, every department being filed by
non-union men.
Two women were killed and several
workmen injured by the collapsing of an
old house in Boston recently.
Ar Kaska William colliery, near Mid.
dleport Pa, recently a cage containing
ten miners was wrecked by q car being
pushed over the top of the shaft by two
hungarian laborers. The shaft was 500
feet deep and all the men were killed, be.
ing horribly crushed and mangled.
ALMOST every business house in the viii
lage of Shrub Oak, Westchester County,
n. Y, was destroyed by fire the other
night Loss SAC, 600.
JUDGE BARRETT, in the New York Su.
preme Court gave Judgment dissolving
the Electric Sugar Refining Company.
Alex Cameron. representing the corpora
ton. consenting thereto. 4 Burnha m
Moffett was appointed receiver and di-
rected to furnish a bond of $4,000
A STORM passed over Pennsylvania and
parts of New York on the afternoon of the
10th. causing wholesale destruction of
buildings and serious injury to persons.
The lightning caused the death of miner
at Mahanoy City, also of William Clapper,
at Gulf Summit Panics occurred in
silk mill at Pottsville, also in Barnum's
circus while performing at Wiliiamsport