The Iola register., 1889-09-20
THE EAST.

facturer, committed suicide at summer
hotel near Gloucester. Mass, the other
day. He had been crazed by Roman
fever.
RR DUNN, ex.president of the Maine
Central railroad, died at Waterville, Me-,
recently, aged eighty-seven.
Two women perished in McArdle's four
story rag warehouse at Albany, N. Y.
which caught fire on the 9th. Several
others were more or less hurt The loss
was $4,000.
THE Democrats of New Jersey have
nominated Leon Albeit for Governor.
THE eighth National Encampment Sons
of Veterans met at Paterson, n. j., on the
10th.
IT is denied by the men on board of the
Maid of the Mist that Steve Brodie went
over Niagara Falls as he alleged.
TwENTY-sIx cases of scarlet fever are
reported in the colored orphans home in
Allegheny City, Pa.
Hon. S. S. Cox succumbed to his attack
of malarial fever on the 10th.
OCEAN storms played serious havoc
along the coast adjacent to New York on
the 9th and 10th. The pleasure resorts
were the worst sufferers.
J. ORDwAY. aged eighty, a well.to-do
farmer, of Concord, N. H, who had a
farm for sale, was induced by alleged pur.
chasers to draw So 500 from the bank and
when the robbers found they could not
get him into a game of cards, a revolver
was used to persuade him to give up his
money. He did so.
THE great Thomas iron works at Hoken-
dagua, Pa, has been sold to an English
syndicate for S. 500 900 cash
THIRTY acres of land near Plymouth,
Pa, settled alarmingly recently. Several
mules in the mine underneath were killed
and the workmen lost their tools.
ABRAHAM H. TAPPEN, of the Twenty
fourth Assembly district has been elected
Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society in
place of Sheriff Flack, resigned.
CHAUNcEY II. DEPEw has returned from
Europe.
EUGENE D. MANN editor and proprietor
of Town Topics of New York, has been
secretly arrested and locked up in the
Tombs in default of 1000 bail on an in
dictment for criminally libeling DR.. Allan
McLane Hamilton in an article on the
Robert Ray Hamilton case.
AT Buffalo, n. Y, DR.. Bartlett finished
his effort to beat DR.. Carver's record of
3
six days. He broke 60 OIL in ALL
The Phoenix Woolen Mills Company of
East Greenwich. R. l., have offered to
cents on the dollar.
ALDERMAN CHRISTIAN GoETZ, of New
York City, has been acquitted of the
charge of having bribed voters at the last
election.
lar -
New York City, in trying to clean a gutter
in front of his place, caught "live''
electric light wire in his hands and was
instantly killed.
MRS c. H DUNsEoRp. the wife of a
leading citizen of Reading, Pa. died the
other day after being thrown into spasms
while laughing heartily at a theatrical
performance. Her artificial teeth were
missed and a post mortem examination
developed the fact that she had swallowed
them. They were found lodged in her
stomach.
The business part Of Dandy. n. Y,
burned the other day. Cause. no fire ap-
paratus Loss, 45 600
FIVE hundred miners at Clarion and
Clear Run. Pa, have struck for an ad-
vance. The strike was in corporation
with the striking miners cf Adrain and
Watson.
Hon. a. E. ToUzALIN, of Chicago, pres
ident of the Chicago, Burlington & North
ern railway, died at Bennington, Vt, re-
Gently. He had been out Of health for
some time.
F. W. GEsswEIN, the millionaire i'm
porter. and manufacturer of jewelers.
supplies and tools, was shot dead at New
York recently by Christian Dehle, an old
German, who said he committed the crime
because Gesswein had robbed him of his
patent and left him penniless.
A CATTLE disease either Texas fever or
black ton ngue, is reported ravaging the
herds near Scottdale, Pa.