The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-19
THE EAST.

Two more men nave been xii! ed in Chi
cago by the falling of a trestle in the Mil
waukee avenue cable railway power
house.
SIMON QUINLAN, of Chicago, is the new
Grand Ruler of the Elks.
One hundred and seventeen young In
dians belonging to tribes in Dakota, Mon
tana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, the Indian
Territory, New Mexico and Arizona, hav-
ing finished a FIVE years. course at the
Government school at Carlisle, Pa, have
left for their homes. The young men have
rad good training as mechanics and
farmers, while the girls have been well in
structed in household duties.
A FREIGHT train on the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad, twenty miles east of Pittsburgh,
was wrecked recently by broken axle.
Three persons were seriously injured.
mostly tramps stealing a ride.
CARNEGIE PHIPPs & Co., are taking
steps TO carry out their threat that unless
the Homestead employees signed the firms
scale they would go into the open market
and hire other workmen.
ATALIE LANG, a German nurse girl, lost
her life at Rondout \. Y, recently. she
jumped into the water 10 save child
from drowning, but both persisted.
ALBERT ORLAwsKL a German, aged
sixty-four, hanged himself to the
transom of his home in New York City
the other day and then shot himself in the
head with an army pistol.
RICHARD LEWIS, colored, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, recently killed two colored women,
sisters, and then committed suicide.
THE Grand Lodge of Elks met in annual
session in New York on the 9th.
The retail shoe dealers national
association met in Boston recently and
discussed matters of interest to the trade
SAMUEL L. BARLOW, the noted lawyer of
New York City, died recently at his sum-
mer residence of apoplexy.
TYPHOID fever was reported epidemic at
Philadelphia.
JOHN KELLY, convicted of the murder
of Eleanor O'Shea near Geneva November
6. lsSS, was hanged at CanadaIgus, y. Y,
on the 10th.
MAURICE B. FLYNN. the noted New York
City politician. died at Long Branch on
the 9th.
The labor troubles at the Homestead
mills (Carnegie's steel plant took active
shape on the 18th. strikers maltreating an
employment agent and three German
workmen brought on to take their places.
WHAT is supposed to be gold, silver and
copper ore has been discovered in War
rem County. n. Y, in the mountains
Four big brewing firms of Brooklyn.
n. Y, have been consolidated into a stock
company. They are the Ochs, the Freze,
the Wetz & Zerwich and the Schlitz. The
company represents capital of s., 2o0, 900.
The breweries do not pass into the hands
of English capitalists, but in other re-
spects the scheme resembles those of
foreign syndicates.
SECRETARY RUsK has protested against
the raising of the State quarantine against
pleuro- pneumonia in New Jersey.
Two men named Horner and Rei!snyder
were killed in a barn ten miles south Of
Gettysburg, Pa, recently, by a stroke Of
lightning. The barn was set on fire and
DESTROYED.
The people of the Titusville Oil regions
of Pennsylvania are making arrangements
to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary OF
the striking of the first oil well by Colonel
Drake, August 90, 1859.
AS the result of an investigation of tn {
DOS; office at New Haven, Conn.,, Henry
II. Cummings, a carrier, was arrested
charged with soliciting political assess.
ments.