The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-09
THE EAST.

CHAIRMAN J. III. MANLEY, of the re-
publican state committee, has issued
letter to leading republicans through
out Maine announcing that the COM
mittee desires to print and distribute
$4,000 copies of Hon. Thomas B. Reeds
speech on the tariff, recently delivered
letter asks for IS contributions for this
object This step is regarded as the
first move in Congressman Reeds presi-
Dental boom.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, Pete McNabb,
pitcher of the Boston club, shot and
dangerously wounded Louise kellogg,
of the Alvin Joslin Co, and then killed
himself
In the Kearsarge inquiry at New
York into the wreck of that ship. Lieut..
Lyman, the navigator, stated that he
had reason to believe that Roncador
reef was from three to five miles west
ward of its position as shown on
the chart The chart used was made
from a survey taken in 1885 when
methods were not very accurate.
PRITCHARD. Bella and Niclulinec, the
entombed miners in o. T. Williams &
Sons slate quarry at Williamstown,
Pa. are still buried in the tunnel
where the cavern occurred. All hope
of finding the entombed men alive has
been abandoned.
A GREENPoRT, L. l., dispatch said
that later reports from Gardeners
island confirmed the news of the col
lapse of the lighthouse there during the
late gale. The island is separated from
the mainland by ten-mile expanse of
floating ice, and the full details of the
disaster had not been obtained. 1t was
known, however, that Frank Miller,
the son of Keeper Jonathan Miller, was
buried beneath the fallen stone and
timbers- He was the only person in
the structure at the time of the col
lapse.
THE five men who were imprisoned in
the Boston Run, Pa, mine by a fall of
coal have been rescued. They were un-
injured The damage to the works will
be repaired at once and operations re-
sumed
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March showed an average de-
SACdoC o. OOhAPoA Win llIC
spending week of last year of $40; in
New York, 4S.6; outside, 500.
An explosion in the separating build
ing of the Repauno Chemical Co at
Gibbstown, n. J., wrecked the build
ing, and a workman, Levi Evans, was
blown to atoms.
ANOTHER explosion of metal occurred
the other night at furnace c of the
Edgar G. Thompson works at Brad
dock, Pa, in which three men were
dangerously burned
DUN's Weekly Review of Trade on
the Sd stated that during the past week
more works had started up than had
stopped, but reductions in wages still
continued. Continued weakness ap-
peared in the price of metals. Receipts
and exports of wheat had been only
half of last years There was a de-
crease in the number of failures, the
number in the United States for the
week ended March 2, being 464, against
2e6 last year and ~ in Canada, against
45 last year.
JOSEPH WALLwITZ, alias John Nal
witt, sentenced to twenty years in the
Hew Jersey state prison, sawed the
bars Of his cell door the other morning
and gained access to the corridor.
where he obtained a rope and then
1assoed Keeper James I. Waters and
choked him into unconsciousness- Gen.
ter Keeper James p. Lippincott ap-
peared on the scene and the convict Sc
cured the gun of the unconscious man
and killed Lippincott Wallwitz was
reca ptured.
THE Moosic, Pa, powder mills ex-
ploded, killing one man and seriously
injuring two others. The report of the
explosion was heard sixteen miles
away.
SIX dynamite cartridges were found
In the new Kent & Stanley building
mt Providence, R. l.. with fuses at
fached in such a manner that when
the engine started they would have ex-
aloded and wrecked the structure.