The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-05
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Mr. CLEVELAND is reported to have
prepared letter of withdrawal from
politics, but to have withheld it at the
request of friends who are now study
ing the New York situation.
A New York city towboat and four
scows with 125 men on board are either
drifting on the ocean amid a wild gale
or are all lost. The bat was disabled.
BORNE, SCRYMER & Co.'S great oil
works at Elizabethport n. j., were
destroyed by fire the other night Loss
$500, 900.
The Manhattan club of New York
city gave Senator Hill reception and
banquet on the night of the Goth.
SENATOR STANFoRD's two-year-old
colt Baoy Mckee, full brother of Arion.
was sold at auction in New York for
SIS. 600.
A PARTY of business men interested
in western land irrigation met at New
York on the 27th for the purpose of
forming combination and establish
ing general headquarters in that city
for western irrigation companies.
THE New York senate finance COM
mittee has decided to report favorably
the bill appropriating 100000 for the
states exhibit at the worlds fair.
1t is announced that the Alliance In
surance association has reinsured with
the Phoenix of Brooklyn its outstand-
ing risks, amounting to about 500, OOO,
600
A SENSATIONAL rumor was current on
Ao
Egan had been killed, but it could not
be traced to any respectable source.
When the rumor was brought to the
attention of the state department Off
Gals at Washington they laughed and
pronounced the rumor absurd"
A. PEABODY & Co., diamond dealers
of New York, who lost a trunk of
diamonds by theft in the west have
failed with S75, 900 liabilities and S.0,-
600 assets
Four miners were killed and seven
fatally and nine badly injured by an
explosion of dualin near Hazelton, Pa
Four of the eighteen men on the tug
Webster and dumping boats, blown to
sea the other day from New York, have
been rescued. There is no trace of the
Others.
A PHILADELPHIA e READING coal en-
CINE blew up at Newcastle near St
Clair, Schuylkill county, forty miles
north of Reading. the other morning.
Five men were instantly killed. the en-
Gineer David Zeigler, Fireman \. Baul,
and Jacob Turner, Jack Wintergreen
and Henry Sands, brakemen. The
bodies were horribly mangled. One
has not yet been found
SIXTY New York democratic leaders
held conference on the night of the
18th and entered vigorous protests
against the holding of the state con-
vention February %.
FIRE the other night burned a whole
business block in jeanette. Pa. The
loss on the block burned was Sos, 900.
A MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa, telegram
stated that United States Revenue Of
fcer Mitchell and nineteen deputies
had left for Jones mills in the mount
aims TO capture desperate gang of
moonshiners and Officers Harrow and
Marshall had returned with five prison
ers- They surrounded the moon
sinners and captured two finely
equipped illicit distilleries. The moon
sinners were taken uuawares and
quietly surrendered The distilleries
were destroyed Seventeen officers
are still in the mountains and expect to
capture the other members of the gang.
Ia collision near Mahoney City,
Pa, between an express and an accom-
mediation train one engineer was killed
and five men injured.
ONE man was killed and two others
injured in a collision between freight
trains near Dewitt, n. Y, the other
morning. Six cars were ruined.