The Iola register., 1889-08-23
THE EAST.

HE decree Of absolute divorce recentlv
granted to Mary E. Flack from her hus.
band. James A. Flack sheriff of New
York. on her petition has been annulled.
In her affidavit Mrs. Flack stated that she
had never applied for a divorce.
DR. ALEXANDER BROWN Mort, a noted
American surgeon, a son of the famous
surgeon, Valentine Mott, died at his coun-
try seat near Yonkers, n. Y, on the 18th
of pneumonia.
STEPHEN F. SHERMAN, manager of the
Associated elevators at Buffalo, n. Y,
and his assistant, Edward c. Loveridge.
have been arrested for 'hypothecating'
warehouse receipts. The frauds were said
to amount to S1I5, 900.
A RECENT transform at Easton, Pa, was
the most violent ever seen in that section.
Within two hours the water in the Lehigh
river rose eight feet Two bridges and a
dam on the Clinton branch of the Lehigh
Valley railroad and all the Warren Coun.
ty bridges between Phillipsburg and
Stewartsville were swept away. The
banks of the Morris canal were broken in
two places.
A FULL statement of the situation Of the
leather firm of 4. H. Bachelor & Co.,
of Boston, who failed recently, is
promised by September Il The liabilities
are about 81. SOC, 600 and the assets will
probably pay 50 cents on the dollar.
FIRE in New York City recently caused
1900 damage to the Giles Lithographidg
Company, E z. Billiards. tool factory and
the building.
Four more bodies were found in cellars
in Johns;own, Pa. on the 14th.
TIE letter carriers of Portsmouth, n. H !,
have refused to resign at the demand OF
Postmaster Sides
THE six-year-old daughter Of Jacob
Mann, a hotel.keeper of Hicksville, n. Y,
died recently from the effects of large
drink of whisky which she had taken for
a cold.
A RECEPTION and banquet was given to
Henry George recently at Philadelphia by
the Henry George Club, as a welcome after
the tour abroad, where his single tax
theory has been adopted by Liberal clubs.
JAMES d. LEARY, the ship builder, of
New York, will soon build a timber raft
in British Columbia and tow it to San
Francisco. He was the builder of the two
Joggins rafts, one of which broke up
On the way to New York from Nova
Scotia.
ELIAS LOOMS. LID, Munson professor
of natural philosophy and astronomy at
Yale, died at the New Haven Conn
Hospital on the 18th
AT curve on the Reading railroad near
Hamburg, Pa, the Williamsport express
ran into the rear end OF a freight train
standing on the track. Seven cars of the
freight train were completely wrecked.
A TERRIFIC cloudburst occurred at Pat
erson, n. j.. the other morning. Streets
were washed out, cellars flooded and the
sewers choked so that the waters spurted
out of the manholes
TIE vicinity of Mammoth, Pa, was vis-
tied by a snow storm shortly after day
light on the morning of the 18th. The
white fakes fell until the ground was
completely covered.
TIE price of pig iron at Pittsburgh has
been advanced 81 per ton because of the
high prices of coke and freight transpor-
eation.
NAPOLEON GAUDETTE, horse thief, es.
capped iron the Jail at St Albans, VT, the
other night by burrowing under the jailto
the street with a chisel.
The schooner A. Vickery, with g, 900
bushels of corn. has been wrecked near
Watertown, n. Y. The crew escaped.
WILLIAM TRAINER. the young man who
entered Broker Leib's Office, 269 Broad
way, New York. a few days ago, pointed
q pistol at him and demanded his money
and fired at HIM when he refused to COM
ply, has been sentenced to fifteen years
and six months in the State prison.
THE new cruiser Boston's damage bv
running aground of Newport R L, is
quite serious, extending over q space of
thirty-six feet long.
EBEN s. ALLEN, the former president of
the Forty-second street railway, New
York, who was convicted of frauduently
issuing the company's stock, has been
sentenced to fourteen years at hard labor
in the States prison. The prisoner had
entered plea of guilty.
THREE passengers were instantly killed
and many others injured by an accident
on the West Pennsylvania road near
Freeport, Pa, recently.