The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-09
THE FAST.

A CYCLONE storm of rain and wind at
Boston on the 29th uprooted trees, plowed
a furrow fifteen feet wide long distance
and threw water out of the Chicopee river
fifty feet high. Streams rose rapidly.
E ii. ROLLINS, ex-United States Sena-
tor, was reported i'll at the Isle of Shoals,
\. H. He was unconscious and failing
perceptibly.
THE Cramps and all the other Delaware
river ship builders deny the story from
San Francisco that they are negotiating
for ship yards in British Columbia.
BACHELOR & Co, boots and shoes, of
Boston and North Brookfield, failed on the
30th with liabilities of Sl,000,00O.
MCKEAN & APPLETON shoe manufactur-
ers at Salem. ass, have made an assign
ment with So, vOJ liabilities.
TWENTY-FIVE seamen of the bark Little
Ohio, of New Bedford, Mass. persisted
when that vessel was wrecked in the
Behring sea, October g. last year. The
remaining eight survivors We're brought
to Alaska by the Thetis.
NEWARK, South Orange. Bloomfield,
Millburn, Plainfield and other towns of
New Jersey have suffered seriously by
floods.
THE boiler in the mill of John Flanagan
& Bros. at Philadelphia exploded the
other day, killing Johua Amber and
fatally injuring George Schofield, son of
the engineer, and James Stewart. Two
others were seriously injared.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania.
has honored the requisition of the Gov.
ernor of South Carolina for Rev. E. F.
Flemon, the colored preacher accused of a
murder in 1884
HEAVY rains were reported in Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia on the 30th and 3lst
Overlooking rivers and creeks caused the
stoppage of many mills and the derange-
ment Of railroad travel.
SULLIVAN, the pugilist was arrested at
New York on the S1st on a requisition
from the Governor of Mississippi, ap-
proved by the Governor of New York.
EX-SENATOR E. H ROLLINS, of New
Hampshire, died on the 3lst
THE will of the late Charlemagne Tower
has been admitted to probate at Philadel-
phia. He leaves all his estate in trust for
his family. His estate is said to be worth
many millions of dollars.
The National Bureau of Engraving. 3"
of Philadelphia, a large photographic
printing establishment is hopelessly in
volved. Its material has been ordered
for sale.
THE Massachusetts Republican State
convention has been set for Boston, Sep-
TENDER "a Ex-Governor Robinson will
be the presiding officer.
ABRAHAM FINKBoNE. aged twenty-siX,
accused OF arson, hanged himself in the
jail at Reading, Pa, the other night.
THERE was a cloudburst at Watkins
Glen, y. Y, on the 1st.
THE latest effort of Ives and Staynor,
the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road manipulators, to secure release from
the New York Jail has failed.
TIE Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company has
voluntarily increased the wages of its
puddlers fifty-five cents day.
W. J. JOHNSON & Co. leather dealers of
Boston, have assigned with SIS 900 direct
and $40, 900 contingent liabilities The
assets are Sid to be ample.
FIVE hundred striking italian railroad
laborers near Pittsburgh, Pa, recently en-
gagged in riot. Two were killed.
THE rainfall in the Pennsylvania coal
regions was very heavy recently and a
number of collieries were compelled to shut
down. The streams were greatly swollen
and the majority of the collieries in the
Mahoning valley were drowned out.
THE New York Graphic is again in
trouble, Reporters and clerks are clamor-
ing for -aiaries A syndicate, headed by
Steve B. Ekins, was supposed to own it.
THE memorial commemorating the land
ing of the Pilgrims was dedicated at
Plymouth, Mass, on the lst
WILLIAM Anvil, cashier of the freight
department of the Lake Erie road at
Pittsburgh. Pa, is missing His accounts
are being investigated, and it is currently
reported that there is big shortage.
THE Bancroft mills at Media, Pa, whose
product was handled by Lewis Bros. &
Co, the bankrupt dry goods merchants of
Philadelphia have been seized by the
sheriff and advertised to be sold at auc-
ton.
A SOUTH BOUND train on the Delaware
& Hudson went through an open switch
at Kenwood Junction, n. Y, recently
Thomas Commit, a passenger, was killed
and five persons were more or less in jured.
A cLoUDBURsT on the 1st did consider
able damage a: Watkins Glen, \. Y.