The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-05
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figuring on a through line to New York
via Newark. n. j.
A PARTY of seven pleasure seekers were
run down by tugboat at Albany, N. Y.
the other evening. Only one of the party
escaped, the rest being drowned.
MICHAEL RIZELLo, an Italian, was
hanged at WiIkesbarre, Pa, on the 25th
for the murder of contractors paymaster
named Mcclure October 49, 1855.
The river channel above the railroad
bridge at Johnstown, Pa, was opened on
the Goth for the first time since the terrible
food of May 81.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has conferred the
following honorary degrees: LII. D.,
Francis Parkmsn, Edward j. Phelps, Jo-
siah Parsons Cooke, Samuel Chapman
Armstrong and David A. Wells; ID. D.,
honoris causa, Thomas l.. Elliott; A. NJ. D.,
honoris causa, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
George w. Ravens, Jonathan Baxter and
Hiram Harrison, from Illinois.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, the well
known statesman, whose life extended
over ninety years, died at Lancaster, Pa,
on the Goth.
A TERRIBLE collision occurred on the
Pennsylvania road near Latrobe on the
26th. Three freight trains were wrecked
on q bridge spanning a creek. A load of
lime took fire, intensifying the disaster.
1t was though. that forty lives were lost
many of the unfortunates being tramps
who were stealing a rine.
JOHN 7. ROBBINS and Henry F. Hall,
iron and steel manufacturers of Philadei-
phia, have failed with S120 900 liabilities
and SO, 900 assets.
MRS WHEELING, the posoner. was exc
cuted at Philadelphia on the 25th for the
murder of her husband and two children
The crimes were committed for a pitiful
amount of insurance money.
MRS. LIZZIE BRENNAN, aged fifty, is
under arrest at Holyoke, Mass, charged
with poisoning her husband and two sons
for S. coo insurance money.
THE committee at Jamestown has issued
an appeal to persons holding relief funds
for the forwarding of the money. Dona-
tons have been held back for various
reasons and the work at Johnstown has
been seriously hampered thereby.
THERE was a sensational finish to the
Cornell and Columbia boat race at New
London, Conn.,, on the 9th. On getting
out of their boat, six of the Columbia crew
fell in a dead faint from exhaustion.
clans being hastily summoned
APPLICATION has been made at New
York for an order directing the executors
of the will of Louis c. Hammersly to pay
to the Duchess of Marlborough 5000
from the accumulated income of her late
husbands estate, she being in need of the
cash.
GEORGE LoRING BRowN, once a noted
of iad of Mold
Mass, recently, aged seventy-five.
A HANDSOME monument to Captain John
Mason. who ended the Pequot war in Con.
necticut in 1857, was unvailed at Mystic,
Conn.,, recently.
The weavers at the Narragansett mills,
Fall River, Mass, struck the other day
because of the discharge of q sub over.
seer.
FLOODS in Northern New York have
washed out the railroads and caused the
wrecking of nine cars at Redwood, n. Y,
GEORGE w. WHITE, a well known bust.
ness man of Philadelphia, who is promi.
nently connected with several beneficial
associations, is said to be short in his &C.
counts as treasurer of the Order of Tonti
and it is understood that warrants for his
arrest have been issued charging him with
being defaulter to the amount of $40, 001
Four men and two women were recently
found dead in a d sreputable resort al
Paterson, n. j., all having been asphyxi.
ated BY the fumes from a gas stove.
YALE won the fourteenth annual eight.
Dared race at New London, Conn, defeat.
ing Harvard. The course was four miles;
time for Yale, 21:3); for Harvard. 81 :55
The record now stands: Yale, svictories
6 defeat; Harvard, 6 victories, s defeats
MARIA MITCHELL, the noted astronomer
OF Lynn, Mass, is dead. She was born in
Nantucket, Mass, August ], 1878.