The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-21
THE EAST.

EDWARD w. O'DELI, OF new orR. son
of the New York agent of the Old Colony
Line Steamship Company. suicided re-
Gently.
The Cigarmakers' National Assembly
met in session at New York on the 10th.
REPORTS from New Hampshire detail
damage done by the recent storm. At
South Berwick the Berwick Academy,
erected in 1892. was struck by lightning,
the bolt entering the school room. affect
ing fifty-three scholars. A great deal of
damage was done to houses and trees.
The destitute about Lockhaven. Pa,
have been generally relieved by supplies
of provisions from various points in the
East
THE Engineering News, of New York,
says the dam at Johnstown was faulty
piece of patchwork of incompetent men.
The first break occurred in 1850. after
which it had been rebuilt and strength
ened" for the use of the members of the
South Fork Fishing Club
The doctors who performed the autopsy
on Mind Reader Bishop have been held in
New York in $500 bonds.
GENERAL FITzJoHN PORTER was made
president of the Fifth corps at the reunion
of the Army of the Potomac at Orange,
n. j., and General Butterfield presented
him a solid gold corps badge set with dia-
monds as a mark OF appreciation of his
vipdication in his late unpleasantness.
A HARRISBURG special says Governor
Beaver and his Cabinet have become dis
satisfied with his scheme to take s., 900, 900
out of the State treasury to pay the ex-
penses of clearing away the Johnstown
wreck. Offers to indorse his bonds are
few and far between and he will probably
try to raise enough money to pay the ex-
pense by loans from citizens who will
take the chance that the Legislature when
it meets in 1891 will reimburse them.
CALVIN S. BRICE has been chosen chair.
man of the National Democratic Commit
tee TO fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Hon. W. II. Barnum.
A SENSATIONAL story from Pittsburgh,
Pa, that the Chicago Johnstown relief
committee had withdrawn So 900 because
of dissatisfaction is denied by the COM
mittee.
THE thirty fourth biennial session of
the Lutheran Church of the United States
was formally opened at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 18th. a prohibition resolution was
unanimously adopted.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York, refused
to honor the requisition for Maroney and
Mcdonald, charged with completely in the
Cronin murder in Chicago, on the ground
that no direct charges were made.
BY the upsetting and explosion of a can
of benzne in the Bear Greek oil refinery
at Coleman, Pa, the other evening one
man was burned to death and four others
fatally hurt The buildings were de-
stroyed.
The charge of criminal libel preferred
by O'Donovan Rosa against Patrick Cas-
sidy at New York has been dismissed by
Judge Smith. Much testimony was drawn
out the evidence tending ito show that
Rosa had received various sums of money
which had been misappropriated.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania,
has granted respites to Peter Baronski,
who murdered two women, and James H.
Jacobs both of whom were to be hanged
June %, to October % 1t is claimed that
both men are insane
The opinion of well-posted people at
Johnstown is that the loss Of life will be
between 5000 and 1000.
An unknown woman between forty and
Fifty years old jumped into the rapids Of
Niagara river above the falls recently and
her body was whirled over in a moment
She had evidently contemplated suicide.
A MRS. KIRocHNoR and her grandchild
were suffocated in a tenement house fire
in Norfolk street. New York, the other
evening An oil stove exploded.
FOURTEEN thousand people are still I'M.
registered in the Conemaugh valley. Over
9 Zoo bodies have been recovered. There
ives an overpowering odor of burning
fash. How many lives were lost will
therefore remain a matter of Mcclure.
THE WEST.
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