The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-05-10
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POSTMASTER VAN Corr, of New Yorl
City, took charge of the office on the LIST
Colonel Sexton also took charge of tn,
Chicago Office the same day.
TWELVE noted desperadoes have been
captured in Pennsylvania.
Hon. WILLIAM H. BARNUM, chairman OF
the National Democratic Committee, died
at LIMERICK. near New Haven, Conn, on
the 3Oth. He was born in Connecticut
September IL. 1878
AT meeting recently of the creditors
of Thomas F. Seaman, doing business as
the New England Piano Company at Bos-
ton, statement was presented by Mr..
Seaman showing direct liabilities of S492 :
$40 with assets of S53S, ISL.
A GRAND reunion of veterans of the G..
A. R posts of New York City and vicinity
was held on the last day of the centennial
in honor of COMMANDMENT Chief Warner,
of Kansas City.
The carpenters strike for nine hours as
days work instead of ten, at the same
pay, began at Newport r. L, on the Ist.
All but two contractors yielded and only
seventy-five men went out
By the fall of barn in Lowell, Mass.
the other day Joseph Evans, the owner,
and workman were fatally injured.
The first annual dinner of the Spanish
American Commercial Union was held in
New York on the 1st. Secretary Noble
was one of the speakers.
CHARLES BAILEY was drowned near
Ithaca, n. Y, recently by bridge giving
way beneath a wagon load of lumber on
which he was riding.
THE great strike in the Pittsburgh (Pa }
building trade was inaugurated on the LIST.
Five thousand men Were affected
The schooner Shiloh with fourteen men
from Gloucester, Mass, for the fishing
banks, has not been heard from since
March IS and has been given up for lost
JAMES LEGG was accidentally drowned
recently near Paterson, n. j.
MICHAEL HILLIAR jumped from a burn
ing building in New York recently and
was fatally injured. His brother, Igna-
titus, was burned to death.
The storage building of the Roman
Catholic College in Germantown, Pa, was
destroyed by fire recently and Ignatius
aemmerle. aged eighty-five lost his life.
The damage amounted to $50, 600
The steamship Viendam, which arrived
at New York on the ID from Rotterdam
reports that on April 90 she passed a raft
made OF pianks and spars nailed together
There was no one on the raft and no clew
to its identity could be ascertained
THREE thousand railroad coal miners of
Western Pennsylvania are on Q strike
against a reduction of wages.
The dynamite factory at Odell, near
Hastings. N. Y, was blown up at noon the
other day, just after the workmen had
left the building. The shock resembled
an earthquake and damaged houses and
other property for half a mile around, but
no one was injured.
ONE OF the members of the Duouesne
Bessemer steel works strikers finance
committee stated at Pittsburgh, Pa, that
Andrew Carnegie and Captain Jones of
the Edgar Thompson steel works, mad
placed =, 500 at the disposal of the str .kers
and had intimated that if more aid should
be needed it would be forthcoming.
w. d. MATTHEWS & Co.'s large malt
house, Leroy, N. Y, was destroyed BY fire
the other day. Loss, S200,000
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of PENNSYLVANIA.
has signed the death warrant for Michael
one of the murderers of Mcclure.
near Wilkesbarre He will be hanged |
June %.