The Iola register., 1889-08-16
THE EAST.

THE United Brooklyn, n. Y, Brewing
Company has been incorporated with a
capital stock of &, 200, ,0O0.
In making trial trip off Newport, r. l.,
the United States war ship Atlanta broke
part of her machinery and was sent to
New York for repairs.
FIVE of the most extensive coal mines in
Illinois have been consolidated under the
name of the Illinois Coal & Coke Com
pany. 1t is proposed to build a new city
in connection with the company near
Peoria, to be named Reed City. The COM
pany is capitalized at $40, 000, 900.
E B. WILDER has been expelled from
the Buffalo IN. Y Merchants Exchange
on charges of appropriating grain after it
had been sold.
THE New York Sun has given $4,000
toward the 1892 Exposition fund.
THE property of the r verside & Oswe-
60 Mills Company, owning extensive
worsted mills at Oswego Falls, Oswego
County, n. Y, has been attached for
S4l2, 900. The mills employed l. 600 hands.
The National Electric Light Association,
in session at Niagara Falls, n. Y,
passed a resolution calling upon the Gov
ernor and Legislature to repeal the law
for the execution of murderers by elec.
tricity.
MRS. EDMUND PENDLEToN, of Bar Har-
tor, Me-, a relative of Mrs. Pendleton
Bowler, reported captured by Italian
brigands, states that she has been in con-
slant correspondence with Mrs. Bowler
and has no information of the capture.
IT is reported that the wool firm of
Brown, Stees & Clark, of Boston, is finan-
ciaIly embarrassed. The firm is Gideon
p. Brown, who is treasurer of the River
side & Oswego Mill Company, Edward
Stees and Amaza Clark.
EBEN S. ALLEN, president of the Forty
second Street Car Company, New York.
has been arrested for forging certificates
of stock for about 200 shares. The amount
of his defaication is stated to be Sl25, 900
or $50, 900 The money was probably
sunk in a worthless fire escape patent.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
convention met at Harrisburg on the 7th
and Senator Delameter was elected per-
manent president Henry K. Boyer was
nominated for State Treasurer.
By the explosion OF a naphtha engine
on a pleasure boat at Buffalo. n. Y, on
the afternoon of the 7,h, the four children
of Mr.. Crocker, the owner, and a man
named Rugenstein, lost their lives
A DISPATCH has been received at New
York police headquarters from Detective
Phil Reilly, dated Panama, announcing
chat he had given up all hope Of recaptur-
ing Bushnell the defaulter, and that he
was on his wav home alone
TwENTY-EIGHT United States soldiers
recently deserted the barracks at David's
Island. near Rochelle, n. Y.
TIE finding of bodies at Johnstown, Pa,
is yet daily occurrence. The body of q
ffteen-year-old girl was found on Locust
street, near the business part of the town.
At meeting of business men it was de-
cided to heartily support Messrs. John
Thomas & Sons in their suit against the
South Fork Fishing Club
THE coke strike, according to a report
from Everson. Pa, ended in favor of the
men, who obtained an advance averaging
about 20 per cent.
THE Columbus Iron Company, of Lam
caster, Pa, recently posted a notice of an
increase from so to S.. S. for pudding
and other wages in proportion, thus keep
ing the promise made four months age
that when trade grew better they would
advance wages to the old standard.
The President and party arrived at Bar
Harbor, Ne, on the Sth. He was warmly
welcomed and was the recipient of much
ovation while en- route from Washington.
An explosion of natural gas occurred at
Pittsburgh. Pa, on the afternoon Of the
9Th. Two men were killed and many Sc
verely injured. The accident was due to
the bursting of pipe by compressed air.
WHILE a caboose containing Conductor
Otto Sanders. Brakeman Mark Christman
and William Garren, was lying on a sid.
ing of the Lehigh Valley railroad, at Penn
Haven Junction, Pa, an engine dashed
into it, wrecking the caboose to splinters.
killing Garren and fatally injuring Christ
man.