The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
THE EAST.

HE Suburban handicap on the Sleeps
head Bay track, n. Y, was won by Race
land with Terra Gotta second.
A FIRE at Cushing's machine shops,
Jersey City, n. j., on the night of the
18th, destroyed the building and adjoin.
ing premises causing a loss of S16A, 600
THE Prohibition amendment was de-
feated in Pennsylvania on the 18th by a
majority of about 200, 000
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Pittsburgh iron
millionaire, entertained William E. Glad
stone at dinner in London the other night.
THE Patriotic Order of The Sons of Amer.
lea met in convention at Washington on
the 18th. Anarchists and the Clan-na.
Gael were denounced.
The coroner's jury at Brooklyn, N. Y,
in the case of Mrs. Jessie Duff who eloped
from Glasgow, Scotland, with Dr.. James
Downie, found that her rapid death was
due to arsenic placed in her reach BY
Downie. Downie was remanded for the
grand jury.
The New York Central freight depot at
Buffalo has been destroyed by fire.
THE alumni of Cornell University have
elected Frank Hiscock, of Syracuse, trus-
tee. There was only one other cand date,
Clarence Estey, of Ithaca Hiscock's ma
lority was sixty-three.
PAPERS and wrecsage picked up off
Massachusetts, lead to the belief that
collision has taken place between ocean
steamers. Bills of lading of two steamers
We're found dated Fiume, October 90, 1885,
1t was thought that the steamer Haytien
Republic had collided with the steamer
Victoria, of the Anchor Tide.
YOUNG CASSIDY, no fired the Catholic
Protectory at White Plains, n Y, has
been sentenced for ten years.
THE men employed in clearing the ruins
at Johnstown struck on the 20th for more
pay and less abuse from overbearing fore
men.
OFFICIAL returns put the majority
against the Prohibition amendment in
Pennsylvania at 1S5 la
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON was stricken
with paralysis at Lancaster, Pa, on the
Goth. 1t was not thought he could recover
his great age (ninety years. precluding
much hope.
The Connecticut Legislature has passed
the Secret Ballot bill
PROF. E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS, of Cornell
University, formerly of Brown alumnus,
has been unanimously elected president
Of Brown University at Providence, R l.,
vice DR.. E G. Robinson, resigned.
O'DoNovAN Rosa has been arrested at
New York for criminal libel in accusing
P. s. Cassidy of being British spy. etc.
The voting in Rhode Island on the 10Th
went in favor of repeating the Prohibition
amendment
GOVERNOR BCLKELEY, of Connecticut
has vetoed the Legislatures resolution
authorizing the policy holders to assume
control of The Phoenix Mutual Life Insur.
ance Company.
A STRIKE or lockout seems inevitable At
the great Homestead steel plant of Carne-
gle & Co. 1t is stated upon the authority
of the firm that no agreement could be
reached with the workmen's conference
committee on the wages question, and that
they will quit work.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic a. Goshen and
Pond Eddy, Y. Y. Schools have been
closed.
MUCH damage was done by terrific
thunderstorm which passed over Scranton,
Pa, on the 2lst. Several houses were
struck by lightning and set on fire. Henry
Somers, aged eight years, while lying on
couch al home was struck by lightning
and killed. George Somers, the boys
father, was seriously injured.
WILLIaN E. HOWARD. the Electric sugar
fraud worker, has been sentenced at New
York to nine years and eight months i'm
prisonE.ent in Sing Sing.
Two men were killed and three fatally
injured by an explosion of fireworks at
Eeyer Bros establishment Boston, on
the 21sh The damage amounted to 500, 600.