The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
THE EAST,


THE freight steamer Pequot of the
Providence line, bound for New York,
struck upon Man-of-War rock in East
river and sunk shortly afterward She
carried heavy cargo which will be
badly damaged.
ISAAC SAwTELI.E, awaiting death at
Concord, n. H., for killing his brother
Hiram, has asked for new trial on an
nffidavit in which he confesses having
been at the scene of the murder which
occurred in Maine instead of New
Hampshire and promises on a new trial
to tell who was present and who did
the killing.
REV. FATHER PETER HAvERMANs
concentrated at st. Mary's church at
Troy, n. Y, the sixty-first anniversary
of his ordination in the priesthood.
He is the oldest priest in this country,
having been born in Belgium in 1905
and entering the ministry in this coun-
try twenty-five years later.
THE protectory building, connected
with the convent of the Sisters of
Mercy, two miles north of Newburgh,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire. There
were 24O children sleeping in the build
ing, but all got out safely. The loss
was about $40, 900.
The New York Central Chicago ex-
press rushed at full speed into local
train at Tarrytown, n. Y, but strange
to say, not a life was lost
THE dynamite factory at Haverstraw,
N. Y, exploded on the I'd Four men
were blown to pieces and another man
killed.
A. c. HowEs & Co.'S pulley works in
North Cambridge, Mass, were burned.
Some hundred hands were employed.
Four men were killed by an accident
to a passenger train on the Harlem
railroad at One Hundred and Forty
ninth street New York, on the night
of the I'd.
J. MCMANUs, a triple murderer of
Philadelphia, has been hanged. He re-
moved his shoes before ne was exc
cuted.
ALL the mercantile appraisers of
Philadelphia have been ordered dis
charged from Office as the result of the
Rardsley defalcation.
A DISASTROUS conhagration occurred
at Plainfield, n. j., on the night of the
Sd. The total loss amounted to nearly
500, 600.
Gov. HILL has removed the county
clerk of Onandaga county, n. Y, who
refused to countersign certificates of
election of democratic candidates to
the legislature.
THREE men were killed and seven
badly injured by a collision on the
Reading railroad at Pennington, n. j.
SUIT has been entered against ex-
Mayor Richard Pearson, of Allegheny,
Pa, for embezzlement He is charged
with retaining 1854 of Jail and work
house commitments The charge is
similar to the one preferred against
Mayor Wyman.
Ar A. J. Cassett's Chesterbrook farm,
near Philadelphia, the once well known
race horse Eurus died He was years
old and was by Eolus, out of Majestic.
A MADMAE, supposed to be an es-
capped lunatic named H. D. Wilson, de-
manded 81, 100000 from Russell Sage in
his Office at New York and when re-
fused caused an explosion which tore
the man himself to fragments, caused
another death and badly injured sew,
eral others Mr.. Sage escaped without
serious injury.
The worst storm in years swept down
the mberland valley, in Pennsyl-
vania, doing great damage
THE daughter of Rev. DR.. Talmage
(Niss May Mortimer Talmage) has been
married to Daniel Delavan Mangam, Jr.
By the sudden capsizing of brick
barges in the Hudson river, opposite
Haverstraw, n. Y, probably twenty
lives were lost
Two passenger and two freight trains
were in collision at East Thompson,
Conn. Three persons were killed and
several injured A dense fog was the
cause.