The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
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THERE was a strike of the workmen EN-
ployed by the Allegheny (Pa.) County
Electric Light Company recently. The
company had engaged new men at lowe,
wages, and this caused the strike.
IT is stated in New York that 20, COX
Arabs are preparing to come to this coun.
try il twenty who arrived recently are
passed through the customs department.
THE New York Democratic convention
will be held at Syracuse October /. for the
purpose of nominating candidates for
State Offices
GILMAN H KIMBALL, Of Middleton,
Mass, died of hydrophobia recently. His
agonies had been subdued by hypodermic
injections.
The Keystone Furnace Company, OF
Reading, Pa, has assigned. Assets, 500
O0l
THE Wauregan cotton mills of Rhode
Island, have suspended. The mills were
capitalized at 500, 900. The liabilities were
81, 100000, with assets, according to the
company, of 100000
AT the annual meeting of the Calumet
& Hecla Mining Company in Boston all
the old directors were reelected, and
President Agassiz presented a plan for
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, the new Min
lister to Berlin, recently visited Secretary
Blaine at Bar Harbor, Ne
THE Reading iron works, which failed
some months ago. will resume in all its
departments in a short time under the
management of the railroad company.
Two thousand men will be employed.
1T is thought the leather firm of W. F.
Lib g. of ,ol. \
recently, will be able to pay 50 cents on
the dollar.
BY a collision on the Erie road near FL.
mira, n. Y, recently two trainmen were
badly scalded and much damage was
done. Several passengers were slightly
injured.
THE oil refinery at Allegheny City, Pa.
was burned recently. Loss, sos, 600. The
fire started with an explosion.
The creditors of the La May Company.
of Lynn, Mass, dealers in stoves, hard
ware, etc, have accepted a secured offer
of so cents on the dollar payable in nine
months.
Two steam yachts, the Wide Awake, of
Beaverton, and the Jessie Lang, of Phe-
nix, collided at the junction OF the Oswego
and Seneca rivers near Syracuse, n. Y,
recently. The Jessie Lang sank and all
on board, about twenty-five persons, went
into the water. All were rescued by the
Wide-Awake except Miss Clara Van
Wormer, of Phoenix, who was drowned
CONCERNING the rumor that a settle
ment and compromise had been effected
in the Flack divorce case ex-Judge Full
lerton, of New York, says there is no
truth in the rumor.
A WARRANT has been issuei for the ar
rest of Gideon Brown, of Boston, on a
charge of larceny. He is in Montreal and
says he will return to Boston in a few
days and settle up his tangled business
affairs.
ABRAHAM BROWNING. first Attorney
General of New Jersey under the new
Constitution adopted in 1S45 died at Cam
den, aged eighty lone years.
THE New York Metropolitan Museum of
Art has just acquired several pieces of
work of great archaeological and artistic
interest from Italy.
BY an explosion of fire. damp in collery
No. 9 of the Delaware & Hudson Canal
Company at Scranton, Pa, the other day
five men who were repairing the damage
done by a cave in were fearfully burned
A GRoCERYMAN named Luca, of Brook
lyn, ". L., was recently murdered Dy u
burglar named McEiwain, whom he caught
robbing his store.
WHILE Ex-Governor Rotie, of Maine,
was walking near his farm the other day
he was attacked with a whip by two
Frenchmen.
THE four murderers of women Patrick
Packenham, Jack Lewis. colored, James
Nolan and Ferdinand CAROLYN, were
hanged in the yard of the Tombs prison,
at New York. on the 23i
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress to pur-
chase the extensive wooden mills of James
Lee & Sons, of Bridgeport Pa, by an En-
glish syndicate.
JIMMY HOPE, the famous bank robber,
has been discharged from the prison at
Auburn, y. Y, his time having expired.
He left for New York.
CHARLES A. DANA, editor of the New
York Sun, who first conceived the idea of
holding a Worlds Fair in America in
1892, has been chosen president of the New
York's Worlds Fair Committee.
BARNUM's circus train was wrecked
near WATERFOWL, n. Y, on the night of
the 22i. A number of the animals were
killed, the loss being $4,000.