The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-12
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GENERAL B F. BUTLER, in speaking
upon the annexation of Canada at Water.
willie, Me-, recently said he preferred the
alliance of the entire English-speaking
races. Such alliance could be accom-.
plished without arousing the antagonists
which would inevitably follow the attemp
TO break off fraction OF the British
Empire.
A wATERsPoUT ravaged the vicinity of
Altoona, Pa, on the night Of the I'd. De-
struction was widespread and the people
were apprehensive of further disastrous
foods.
The band and four seamen from the
Nipsic and three seamen from the Van.
dalia, survivors of the Samoan disaster,
have arrived in New York from Aspin-
wall
REV. DR.. THOMAS DAVIES, of Philadel-
phia, has accepted the Protestant Episco-
pal bishopric of Michigan, subject to the
approval of the general convention.
An oil fire caused by lightning striking
a q, 600 barrel tank of the Atlantic &
Western Pipe Line Company, near Wash
ington, Pa, burned fierceIy. About 200
yards of the CHARTERS railroad tracks
were destroyed. The loss exceeded
S50,090.
A PARTY of four girls and two young
men were boating on Duck creek, near
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 4th when they
were cap-ized and all of the, party but
one of the young men were drowned.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was the guest of
II. c. Bowen, at Woodstock, Conn.,, on the
4th The exercises were marked by an
address from the President and the read
ing of an original poem by viii Carleton.
TAMMANy HALL, New York, celebrated
its centennial on the 4th.
AT WATERFORD Me-, the other night dur
ing a quarrel Rice Smith forty-four
years old, churned the head of William
Written, aged sixty five, against a stone
step until the old man died. Smith was
locked up
THERE was a furry in the New York
Coffee Exchange on the 9Th. Influenced
by an advance Of Ia francs in Havre and
an upward movement in Hamburg the
local market opened from 8 to Is points
higher and %, 600 bag changed hands dur.
ing the first hours business
A MRS. WARD, Mr.. Heating, a nurse
and a child were killed at a railroad cross
ing near Long Branch, n. j., recently by
coming into collision with an express
train. The parties belonged to New York.
WHILE celebrating the Fourth at East
Boston a signal bomu exploded in a crowd
of children, killing two and shockingly in
jurIng others.
AN exploding mortar at Salem, Mass.
on the nigh: of the 4th killed two boys anG
badly injured several other children.
SERGEANT KAUCHER and Officer Ward
man, of the coal and iron police. while at.
tempting to arrest two tramps at Reading,
Pa, met with a desperate resistance
Wardman was shot and had his leg broken
and Kaucher was shot in the head and
terribly beaten.
FRANK HoYT, paying teller OF the First
National Bank, of Hoboken, y. j., has
been arrested on the charge of having
stolen SIS 600 from the bank.
THOMAS E. SHERMAN, oldest son of the
General. was ordained a SUBJ deacon in
the Catholic Church at Philadelphia on
the 9Th.
THE Goodyear Rubber Boot and Shoe
Company, of Providence, R l., has made
an assignment the attachment placed on
them by the Sears Commercial Company
being followed up until $4,000 attach
ments swamped the firm.