The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-05-03
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BY the collapse of a shanty on the out
skirts of South Boston, Mass, and tn
fire which followed, Mrs. Patrick Joyc
and her three children were badly in
jured.
PATRICK FARRELL jumped from Brook
lyn bridge the other day and was take,
in dangerous condition to the hospital
Whether his intention was suicide or .
jump for a wager was not known.
Two thousand German immigrants wer,
landed at Baltimore, Md, on the 23d by
the steamship Dresden.
An application by Anthony Comstocl
for membership in U. s. Grant Post G. A
R, at Brooklyn. n. Y, was rejected
thirty-seven black balls being cast
GREAT gale came over the lake, strik
ing Erie, Pa. on the afternoon of tn,
oath.
THE nineteenth annual assembly of tn.
Women's Foreign Missionary Society o.
the Presbyterian Church began in Phila
delphia on the oath.
The mammoth hotel at Rockaway
Beach, near New York, was sold on the
Oath for S29,0 600
Pittsburgh, Pa, adopted q resolution re.
Christ in state papers, especially Thanks.
giving proclamations
ALBERT N. FREY, who had held the pool
championship for the past three years,
died at New York recently.
The yacht Coronet which has sailed
around the world. has returned to New
York in good condition and with all well
on board. R L Bush, the owner, and his
family were on the yacht She left Gibral-
ter thirty-two days previously and en-
countered at least a half dozen storms
without any serious mishap
CHAUNcEY III. DEPEw gave q dinner the
other night in New York to Whitelaw
Reid, Minister to France Many notables
were present
ANDREW d. BoGARr, prominent real
estate dealer of New York CITY, com.
mitted suicide recently by shooting him.
self through the head
The New York Senate has passed the
Sa1ton Electoral Reform bill.
The Bingham mill Of the White Manu-
featuring Company, at Rockville, Conn.,,
has been shut down on account of strike
Of $50 weavers, and its other mills will
also close, throwing 400 employees out of
work.
JOSEPH Dion, the we'll known billiard
player. has been declared insane by a
sheriff's jury at New York.
THERE was a rumor that Judge Veazsy,
of Vermont would be appointed to succeed
Mr.. Walker on the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
An accident occurred recently to O.
freight train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, causing fatal injuries to the engi-
neer and fireman. The train ran onto a
burning bridge over Roaring creek, near
Wilkesbarre, wrecking forty cars. One
brakeman was dangerously hurt
A LADY, fifty-seven years old. fell from
a fourth-story window in New York and
was killed
The Reading road demands that its en-
ployes shall sever connection with all la
Dor organizations.
The business men Of Portland, Me-,
have passed resolutions against any leg.
islation tending to interrupt the esent
commercial relations with Canada.
II. B. SPoFFoRD the historian of Claren.
don, n. b, died recently.
THE Harlem Electric Light Company's
old shops, q wooden church, q carriage
factory and half a dozen tenements in
upper New York City were destroyed by
fire the other night causing $50. 600
losses.
THERE was a collision on the b & O., at
Baltimore on the Goth. Vice-President
Morton, General Schofield and Foraker.
OF Ohio, were on one of the trains, but
they escaped unhurt The only person
injured was trainman.
THE WEST,
A THIEF named Mccarthy attempted to
rob Collins & Sons bank at Ventura, Cal.
by drawing revolver on the cashier. He
grabbed package containing s., 600, but
was brought to surrender by the sheriff
with shotgun.
Rev. JAMES MCLEOD, pastor of the Sec.
ond Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis,
has been guest Of President and Mrs.
Harrison at the White House.
THE slaughter house and pork packing
establishment of F. A. Lainly g. Co., on
Spring Grove avenue, Cincinnati, was de-
stroyed by fire recently. The loss was
nearly $50, 900.
A NUMBER of squatters were reported in
the Cherokee Strip, and General Merritt
on the oath gave orders to drive them out
COLONEL DUDLEY says he has been mis-
represented In what be said disparagingly