The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-23
THE lola REGISTER.
Published Every Saturday.

| Published Every Saturday.
lola. KANSAS.
GENERAL BREVITIES. 81
TAXES were paid in Great Britain last
year upon 1895, $50 dogs.
WATER plentifully administered will
cure some poisonings and benefit all.
THE population of the world is esti-
mated at 1880, OOO, 600
ALEXANDER, the grandfather of the
present Emperor of Russia, said to Ma
poleon at Tilsit: :" must have the key
that unlocks the door of my house."
| AMRs. ALLEN has recovered $1,000
in the Oswego County On. W Court
from the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company for injuries received by means
of a telegraph pole, which had been ac-
cidentally thrown down, though with
out the company's knowledge. @
A SACRAMENTO woman accused her
husband of attempting to kill her, and
he was sent to prison for two years.
Then she begged to be sentenced for the
same term, because she could not bear
to be parted from him, and the Judge
refusing she went away and tried to
hang herself. .-,.f
JOHN ATKINSON, a respectable farm
er of Sayville, N. Y, has become so in
tensely interested in the conflict between
Russia and Turkey that he is now par
TALLY insane and imagines that he is con-
tinually engaged in fighting the Rus
SLAMS, and his wife has become so affect
ed by his condition that she is seriously
sick. s.ca ,sf aa-,F .-.a
THERE is great distress among the
81, 900 coal and iron miners of South
Wales, who are thrown out of employ
ment by the suspension of the works.
Many families are absolutely destitute,
while number of persons have actually
starved TO death. Measures of relief are
being taken.
A ROCHESTER IN. W negro awoke
the other day to the fact that the affec-
tions of his spouse had been stolen away
by a certain dusky Lothario; but, in
stead of committing carnage, as mat
ter-of-fact man might have done, turned
her completely over to his rival in con-
sideration of $35:
THE father of Charlie Ross said to
reporter: This makes 375 boys I have
been called on to see, or have been writ
ten about, and my hundreds of failures
to identify each waif as my own have
taught me to entertain no sanguine hope.
l suppose l shall continue going to see
boys till die, but don't expect to find
Charlie in any of them.''
As freight train was passing over
bridge at New London, Conn, the other
day, the engineer discovered a small
boy struggling for life in the waters of
the cove. He Immediately stopped the
train, and christening the bell cord
threw one end of it to theimperiled boy,
who grasped it, tied it round his body
and was hoistea to place of safety.
KANSAS became State on the goth
of January, 1861. On her seventeenth
birthday she had zoe, 900 people; S229,-
4S4. 900 Improperly; 500, 600, 600 in farm
products last year; 2,311 miles of rail-
road; 1S3, 900 school-children, and 4, O08
schoOl-houses; an Understanding COM
mon-school fund of 81, 237, 931; a land
endowment fund of nearly 100000
acres; college, seminary, or high
school in nearly every county seat.
A NUMBER of foreign-born citizens
resident in Chicago have organized
I" Cosmopolitan Association of Foreign
born Citizens The society is organ
lied for the promotion of brotherly
sentiment among all citizens of foreign
birth, to combine all citizens and their
sons for the purpose of instructing them
in their duties as citizens, and to event
ually protect them, both individually
and collectively, in association and
maintenance of their rights and privi-
ieges under the Constitution and laws
of the United States and State of Illi-
nois." d, sa-. gar4. .=rs
In the United States, with a popula-
ton of A 1874, 814, there are 81, 1888 doc
tors, being doctor to every 600 per-
sons. In France the population is &c.
100000; the physicians 1902, being l
doctor to every 1874 persons. Great
Britain, with a population of 32,4l2,-
O1O, has 1866 doctors, or 1 physician
to every 1872 persons. In the German
Empire there are 1866 doctors for a
population of 41.O6O,695-1 doctor to
every 5000. Austro-H Hungarian EN-
pire, population IS, 904, 435, and IA, 1861
doctors, being physician to every $500
persons. %
THE Icarian Community in Adams
County, Iowa, established rs years ago
by CADET, has since prospered fairly;
but of late Is of the members, not
wishing to own the property in COM
mon with the rest, have demanded that
the estate of the community should be
sold and divided, or that they should be
paid the share that would be due them,
in order to separate themselves and en-
JOY the full, benefit of their own labor.
On meeting with a refusal from the rest,
they have Instituted suit at law, and
the community has been cited to appear
before the Circuit Court of the county.
A MEDFoRD, (Mass.) man, named
Davis, is said to have been buried alive re-
Gently. He fell senseless while shaving,
and, though pronounced dead, the body
was keptint the house and carefully watch
ed for several days, because he had ex-
pressed fears of being buried alive.
Since the funeral his widow and daugh-
ter, having dreamed that this had really |
taken place, caused the grave to be
opened, disclosing the horrible truth,
as the corpse was found lying on its
side, with the face badly bruised andthe
top of the coffin broken. s4
-THEeccentric American, Miss Thomp-
SON, who had her horse shod with gold |
in Edinburg, is in Spain astonishing the
natives. She put up frstat a little town