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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02

CONSIDERABLE hilarity has recently
been excited il Austro- Hungarian mill
tary circles by an incident quantity il
Illustrating th4 rigid strictness with
which Macy non-commissioned Off
GERS are won't to carry out, to the very
letter, the instructions contained in the
Imperial royal military code. A few
days ago a private soldier died in the
barrack infrmary at Kaschau, and his
body, in due course, was consigned to
the grave with customary military hon.
ors. 1t was observed, however, by a
superior officer present at the ceremony
of interment that the firing party fol-
lowing the coffin marched into the
cemetery with fixed bayonets, contrary
to the established military usage in SIM
liar cases. As soon as the burial rites
had been concluded. he sent for the
Sergeant commanding the party and
asked him, with some asperity,
whether he did not know that it was
contrary to regulations for funeral
escort to march with fixed bayonets?'
Standing stiffiy at the salute, the con-
scientious Sergeant replied: Yes, sir;
I am quite aware of that. But beg
respectfully to report that the deceased.
during his illness and at the time of his
death, was under arrest. 1t was, there
fore, the duty of his escort to fix bayo-
nets" Every well, you may CO." was
the rejoinder; and the model discip-
linarian retired with the proud con-
seriousness that he had triumphantly
proved his case.-Londlon Telegraph.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02
How the Shakers Exercised the Devil.

A CURIOUS story, which will be new
to many, is told at T yringkam, Mass.
Several years ago there lived in Tyring-
ham Hollow prosperous family of
Shakers. Atone time several of their
porkers were taken sick, and they could
account for the complaint in no way ex-
cept on the supposition that the devil
had entered into the swine. They tore
down the pens to find him, and in the
midst of the work a weasel ran out
from the rubbish. 1t was perfectly evil
dent that the devil had passed out into
the weasel. SO they gave chase. The
creature ran to the top of the
hill, and the people, breathless
and excited. followed. At length
he was captured, killed and
buried. After that time the place
where the weasel was killed was called
by them "holy ground" An inscribed
monument was erected, and it became
a favorite place with Shakers for as
sembling for solemn dances and wor-
ship. The monument is broken now
and the place is polluted by stranger
feet. The inscription is forgotten and
cannot be deciphered, but the story re-
mains and the place is known in the
vicinity as "Shakers' holy ground"
People who visit it always carry away
with them piece of the devils grave
stone as a memento. = Springfield
(Mass.) Union.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02
HUxORoUs.

To TEACH one who has no curiosity
to learn Is to sow q field without pl0w-
ing it.
The higher education Of women
Learning how to walk in French boots
with six-inch heels.
As THE FREELY only shines when on
the wing, so it is with the human mind
when arrest it darkens.
ARAr poison is advertised that will
make rats 90 away to neighbours
house and die. It fills want long felt.
HOME is the dearest place on earth
when the wife strives to keep ahead of
all her neighbors in style.-Goranda
Enterprise.
WHEN some politicians are weighed
they are found wanting every Office in
which there is q vacancy.-Ci'acinnati
Commercial.
MARRIAGE is certainly conducive to
longevity. You never hear of an I'M
married woman attaining to over twen-,
ty-six. Boston Post.
The Cashier of an Eastern bank ran
away with all the funds and the Direct
ors placarded the door "No Cashier"
Philadelphia Herald.
The man who drives the heaviest
wagon has the best show on the road.
Everybody has to turn out for him.
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
DR.. ELY claims that tobacco Injuries
the eyesight. That is all well enough
in theory, but if you have an extra cigar
about your person a smoker is pretty
sure to discover it.
The Philadelphia North american
tells of a man given up by the doctors.
When a man is given up by Philadel-
phia doctors it is strong evidence that
his money is all gone.-Boston Post.
OF COURSE you've met him, for he's every
Go on the street and you will find him there.
Go to the parlor; he's the first you'll meet.
Go to the theater; at the door he stands.
Go to the park; you see him on all hands.
Still to your elbow he il be ever nigh.
Take to the wool Is. or rush to caverns dim:
You'll find him there. There's no evading
Where's you go, he's always on the spot;
We mean the man who asks you: =" Amt 1t
hot?'-BOstOn Post.
PROF. BENCKE, of Germany says the
growth of the human heart is the great
est in the first and second year of life,
and doesn't grow much after the twen-
tieth year. We have noticed this. A
fve-year-old child has heart so big
that he will give away all his possessions
on this earth; but when he reaches fifty
years and accumulates fifty thousand
dollars, his heart is so contracted and
sordid that he won't give five dollars to
uniform baseball club.-NorristoU
Herald, - tat-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02
An Agreeable Surprise.

Night before last a gentleman who
announced himself as an English agent
drove to the house of Frank Eaton, in
Southwest Oswego, and impaired to
that gentleman the astonishing intelli-
gence that there was q fortune of
1900, 900 awaiting him in England.
that had been left by an uncle who died
twenty years ago. The agent said be
had been searching the country for the
heirs, and had examined the titles of
several cations, but to no effect. He is
now assured that he had the right man.
The agent said he wanted no money
from Mr.. Eaton, as he had been prom
ised two per cent of the entire amount
of the fortune if he would find the heir.
Mr.. Eaton is, of course, taken entirely
by surprise, but he will see at once what
there is of the matter.-OsUego en- ~
Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

ALoNzo WOODS, fireman, and
Thomas Beasley, blacksmith, were killed
by collision on the Vandalia Road, some
five miles east of East st. Louis, on the 18th.
A freight train and wrecking train came
together on a single track while both were
running at high rate Of speed, causing a
general demolition of both locomotives and
smashing several cars into splinters. Anum-
Der of other train hands were injured more
or less severely.
D. P. NEWELL, a well known real es-
tate dealer of Chicago, became monoma-
MAC on the subject Of inventions, his pet hob
by being life-preserver which he claimed
to have invented, composed entirely Of lead.
A few days since he took passage on
steamer for Grand Haven, Mich, leaving
word for his wife: that he was going out to
try his invention. When about midway
across the lake he quietly stripped off his
clothing, and, attaching his so-called life
prescrver about his body, jumped into the
water, going to the bottom like plummet.
AT Paris, O., on the Goth, Mrs.
Keiger, young and beautiful widow from
Hardin County, o., who had been on visit
to the Zeigler family, distant relatives, at.
tempted to kill Will Zeigler, young man,
and failing in the attempt shot herself
through the forehead, causing instant death.
The shooting was evidently premeditated, ,.
and was instigated, as understood, by young
Zeigler's efforts to break of his engagement
with the widow.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, dissipated young
man of Elkhart, Ind, on the 9th shot Miss
Mamie Dacy, aged 10, twice in the head,
causing fatal wounds, and then blew out his
own brains. The young lady had been en-
gagged to Elliott, but on account of his DISCO
lutte habits had broken of the en-
gagement. Elicit formerly lived
at indianapolis, where his IA.
ther was at one time > successful real
estate agent, but subsequently took to drink,
became impoverished and ended by commit
ting suicide. The unfortunate young lady
was from Dunkirk, N. Y, where her parents
now live. She is said to have been an unu.
sually bright and attractive girl.
A PASSENGER train on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was ditched
nesr Sergeant, Kansas, on the 18th.
j. j. jenkins, Of Dubuque, Iowa,
vas instantly killed; Mr.. Hee-
nan, Of Arkansas, and his wife were
both fatally injured, and at least q dozen
other passengers were hurt, several Of them
very seriously.
The Denver and Rio Grande Rail-
road is completed to within point six miles
of Leadville.
TIE President has commissioned
Paul Selby Postmaster at Springfield, ILL.,,
vice d. L. Phillips, deceased.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02

FORTY per cent. of the Chinese of San
Francisco have been back and forth
between this country and China four or
five times. Most of the Chinese 90
back once in five years, ard rarely any
one stays longer than eight years con-
tinuously in this country. Many Chi
nese merchants return regularly to
spend the Chinese New Year at home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02

dyspepsia, md this b supposed to have led
lin to RM himself
Col. J0HN HANNA, Of Wooster, O.,
aeeidsnaaly shot and killed himself while
eleaning revolver.
JAMES HAxDzN BRowN was hanged
at Hun4sville, Ns., on the 18th, for the mnr-
der q his mother-in-law, Mrs. Parrish, in
July, 1877. Thousands Of spectators wit
messed the execution, SEINE Of whom came
hundreds Of miles to crafty their morbid
curiosity. On the scaffold the condemned
man nadea rambling speech Of ten minutes
duration, in which he spoke afectingly
of his dead wife and of his little
bey. He said that liquor was
what brought him where he was to-day, and
he urged other young men to take warning
from his example. He denied that his wife
committed suicide, IS reported, in accord
ance with pfearranged plan with him, but
admitted that he got his poison from her.
Brown was only about "a years OF age at the
tine Of his death. His father was also q
murderer, having killed VIM. Penny at Jack
sonville, No.. in 1865.
THRBE boy murderers were hanged
together at Canton, o., on the 18th. They
were Gustave A. Ohr, aged 16, George E.
Mann, aged II, and John Sammett, aged 18.
Ohr and Mann were tramps and murdered
an old man named John Watmough, q
weaver from Philadelphia, in order to Sc
cure possession Of silver watch and
five dollars. Their victim had tramped in
their company for several days, and on the
night of the 9Th Of June, 1879, as he lay
sleeping in grove near Alliance, they
Drained him with coupling pin. Sammett
killed Chris. Spuhler last fall on the eve of
Sammett's trial for burglary, Spuhler being
awitness against him.
A REVENUE posse had a fight with
moenshiners near Red Oak, Ga, in which
one of the latter was killed and one MORALLY
wounded.
WILLIAM 81. WOOD, a fireman, and
William Loseby were killed by falling walls
at the burning Of building at Elizabeth, n
j. Several others were injured.
THOMAS B. HOPPER was hanged at
Greenfield, Mo-, on the 18th, for completely
in the murder of Samuel c. Ham
on the night Of the 9th Of last
August. He denied to the last moment
any knowledge of the murder, and charged
that he was the victim of conspiracy on the
part of vigilance committee of Humans
vile, because he would not agree to help
lynch man.
By the explosion of cannon at a
Democratic ratification meeting at Des
Moines, Iowa, on the night of the oath, Jacob
Miller was instantly killed; Charles Duck
had one arm torn and both eyes destroyed,
and Jack McGraw had both hands badly
lacerated.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

THERE were thirty deaths from yellow
fever in Havana, Cuba, for the week ending
June Is. 1
AFTER determined effort to capure
Buenos Ayres, lasting three days, the army
of the Argentine Confederation was forced
to retreat.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are raging
in the vicinity of st. Johns, New Brunswick.
Many villages are threatened.
WILLIAM RALsTON and three others
were arrested at Ell Dorado, Kans., on the
23d, for counterfeiting. A search of Rail
ston's house disclosed chest full of tools,
including dies, furnace, acids, block tin and
other apparatus for this kind Of work.
IT is reported that the Conference at
Berlin is at loggerheads; that Austria and
Russia are now unwilling to 60 as far as
France and England desire, for fear of re-
opening the whole Eastern question. 1t is
reported that Italy theoretically protests
against the extension of Austria's right Of
control in the Adriatic, and that the pro-
jected settlement of the Montenegrin diff.
Guilty bv the cession of Dulcigno is likely to
fall through.
An imperial Russian ukase fixes the
number of men to be enrolled in 1880 for the
completion of the army at $4,000.
NEWS from Cabul confirms the reports
of general rising in Central Asia.
JAMES T. HARRIS, late President of
the Bank Of Commerce at Georgetown,
Texas, is under arrest for alleged swindling
osr tod int
circulars throughout the country represent
ing that the people Of Williamson County
were in great distress on account Of total
loss of crops, etc., and raised a large amount
of money in this way. His scheme was
worked principally in the North, East and
West, the South being avoided. Banks were
yictimized from Maine to California, his po-
sition giving him unusual facilities for car
rying on a scheme of this character. The
arrest was made by special agent Of the
Post-ofice Department. Harris was taken
to Austin and locked up.
THE Secretary of War has suspended
the recommendation of the West Point
Board that Whitaker be dropped on account
Of deficiency in his studies. This will give
him an opportunity Of demanding court
martial in his case If he desires to vindieate
himself. II he should be dismissed now he
would have no chance Of being further
heard.
GEN. SHERMAN win soon pay q visit
to Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg in order to
consider the Indian question in that country
and look into the condition Of Sitting Bulls
Indians, both those who have surrendered
and those who are yet in the British Possess
siOns.
THE village Of Tarport, just north Of
Bradford, Pa, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Thirty.one
buildings were burned, valued At $50, 900.
The large paper-nal of the Woods
dale Paper Company, six miles north Of
Hamilton, O., was burned on the night Of
the oath. Loss, $50, zoo; insurance, $S5, 900.
Sixty employees are thrown out Of work.
BRADLAUGH appeared at the Bar Of
the House of Commons and insisted on his
right to take his seat. Sir Stafford North
cote objected, whereupon LAbouehere, who
represents nottingham. the seat from which
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02

A WRITER in the New York Herald
says, on the question of trimming toma-
to vines to promote early ripening, that
if the season is hot and dry and the soil
not very rich, you will scarcely hasten
their maturing, while you will material
ly diminish their product, by trimming;
but if the soil is rich and the season wet
and cool, it will check their tendency
to run to vine and hasten their ripen-
ing by trimming pretty freely.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02

The Hartford Courast gives a list Of
parties who have been reported as killed
by lightning this season, and adds, as
a noticeable thing about the list, "that
none of the accidents occurred in cities
or in the presence of telegraph wires
and accumulations of metal. These
seem to act as safeguards"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GEN. GRANT has accepted the cour-
tesies of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Road, and will make an extended trip over
their lines through Colorado and New Mex
leo. He will reach Kansas City on the
morning Of July 2, and 60 direct to Merriam
Park, on the Fort Scott and Gulf Road, and
receive the people of Kansas during the day,
returning to Kansas City in the evening. On
Saturday, July 8, he will be entertained by
the people of Kansas City, going to Leaven-
worth in the evening, spending Sunday with
Gen. Pope at the Fort, and starting West
Monday morning.
The House of Commons, by vote OF
e75 to go, decided that Bradlaugh should
not be permitted either to take the oath or
to make affirmation. This has the effect OF
unseating Bradlaugh.
PRISONERS in the Sangamon County
Jail at Springfield, ILL.,, attempted to over,
come the officers on the evening Of the I'D.
and in resisting the attempt s. n. Shoup,
Sheriff, shot and killed jacob Mitchell,
of Charleston, Cole County, who was
the ringleader and assaulted the
Sheriff. The Coroner's Jury returned q
verdict of justifable homicide. Mitchell
was awaiting trial in the U. s. Court on an
Indictment charging him with selling liquor
without paying special tax.
THE Greenback Congressional Con-
vention for the Second Iowa District nomi-
mated Lindley Hoops, Muscatine County
farmer, for Representative.
PRESIDENT HAYES attended the an
nual commencement exercises of Kenyon
College, at Gambler, o., of which he is an
alumnus.
THE Republican Congressional Con-
vention for the Third Kansas District re-
nominated Hon. Thomas Ryan by acclama-
ton.
The Maine Republican State Conven-
ton renominated Gov. Davis.
The Vermont Republican State Con-
vention nominated Col. Roswell Farnham
for Governor, Gen. John L. Barstow fol-
Lieutenant Governor, and John A. II. Page,
present incumbent, for Treasurer.
THE Texas Greenback State Conven-
ton, held at Austin on the oath, placed in
nomination the following ticket: For Gov
ernor, Gen. w. II. Harmon; for Lieut..
Governor, Geo. Owens, Of Dallas; for At
torney General, Henry F. O'Neil, of Cass,
for Comptroller, K. S. Kennedy, of Gregg.
The Republicans of the Second Maine
District have renominated Representative
Frye.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

The new census returns give the fol-
towing population in round numbers to the
cities named: Chicago, 474 ,4O4; Philadel-
phia, 81, 900; Pittsburg and Allegheny, 232,-
GOO; Nashville, 1887; Brooklyn, $4,000;
Milwaukee, 10000; Springfield, ILL.,, 20, 900;
Peoria, 1850; Quincy, $1,000; Aurora, L..
600; Galesburg, 1900; Joliet, II 900.
THE Farmers and Mechanics Bank
at St. Paul, Mimi, suspended on the 25th.
The immediate cause was inability to. pay
check for SIC, 900 drawn by the City Treas.
urer. The suspension is believed to be only
temporary.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has
decided that option contracts, where it can
be proved that there is no intention to de-
liver the goods contracted for, are unlawful,
and fall within the provisions OF the Wis
consin Gambling act.
IT is estimated that the crops in
France this season will fall short at least %
per cent. of the average yield.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-02
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
WILLIAM PEN1CKs, aged about SO,
until recently employed as farm laborer by
Kirk Bandy, in Lynn Township, Posey
County, Ind. ), on Sunday night, the Goth, shot
and instantly killed Bundy's daughter, let
ia Ann, aged II, while she was returning
home from her grandmother and then shot
himself. The two bodies were found early
Monday morning lying together in the road.
Penicks had become enamored of his en-
ployer's daughter, and pressed his suit SO
ardently that she, not reciprocating the at
tachment, complained to her father, who
thereupon discharged the man from his
service.
Ar Richmond, Va, on the night Of
the 10Th, william Burke, shoemaker, in q
fit of jealousy beat his wife in most shock
ing manner. A neighbor, Patrick Harris,
hearing the woman's cries, went to the door
to expostulate, when Burke, drawing pis-
tel, shot Harris through the mouth. An in
furiated crowd soon gathered around the
house and threatened to lynch Burke, when
he declared he would kill his wife If they at
tempted to molest him. Finally some one
set fire to the house, when Burke carried his
threat into execution, by shooting his poor
wife through the breast with . charge of
buok-shot. The crowd then rushed in and
seized the murderer, and would have
lynched him upon the spot had not q large
osse of policemen come to his rescue and
ore him of to Jail. The affair caused the
most intense excitement. Neighbors say
that Burke had not the least cause for sus-
picion against his wife.
Mrs. HoLzAANN and her eighteen
months-old child were run over by q railway
train at Grant Park Station, Kankakee
County, H., on the 21st- Mrs. Holzmann
was fatally injured and her baby instantly
killed.
DIR. JAMES A. McCREA, q prominent
and wealthy resident Of Philadelphia, COM
united suicide by cutting his throat while in
his bath-tub. He was great sufferer from
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-06-17
Farm Machinery.

Last week the FARMER reviewed
the damaging results of purchasing
machinery for which there is no ne.
cessity, and, Of course, some machine
agents felt that we were Il little hard
on them. Now the truth is land ev.
cry farmer ought to think Of it) that
every machine an agent sells, adds to
his wealth, and he will try to convince
you that you are in dire need of Il ma
chine in order to sell you one and get
his commission, even if there is not
the faintest shadow Of I'LL excuse for
using one, This is what we object to.
When Il farmer actually needs a ma.
chine, then it is all right and proper
that agents come in and compete for
his order on the merits of their re.
spective machines, and here they
ought to regard it as their duty to stop.
10 supply demand is sufficient, but
to palm a machine on a farmer when
it is known that he does not need it,
is injuring the man and the country
in which he lives. Machine agents
are entitled to respect so long as they
conduct their business on business
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-06-17
WADENA MINI, THURSDAY, JUNE y, $780, Iems

sourses of taint. Others would have
said this butter was ''cowy.' Don't
lay such charge to the poor cow; she
did her part faithfully. The butter
we complain Of is not cowy; it is
horsey, or piggy, or, worse yet, filthy.
The cow-keeper and the mixer are
the persons to blame.
Let every butter maker who has any
regard for the reputation of his or her
product, insist upon every possible
precaution being taken by the mixer
to keep the milk pure and clean. No
really good butter can be expected if
the milk is taken from an unclean bag,
or by a mixer with dirty hands or
clothing, or if the milking is done in
filthy or ill-ventilated stable, or the
milk allowed to stand, even a short
time, surrounded by impure air. It
is the greatest mistake to suppose that
if dirty or foreign matter gets into
the milk, careful straining will rem
edy the evil; the object may be re-
moved, but the taint remains. It
must also be remembered that there
are invisible things as sure to spoil
milk as those we can see. There are
now improved implements which
greatly protect the milk, guarding
against carelessness and accidents, but
nothing will take the place of careful,
cleanly lpilking."
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-06-17

Cultivate your vineyard frequent.
ly, but not when the vines are in
bloom, neither when it is too wet.
In cultivating, we prefer a one-horse
plow, throwing the ground, in the
first plowing, from the vines, and re"
versing it at the next towards the
vines, and so continue until the fruit
is ripe, and then discontinue entirely,
as it is of no benefit. In the last plow-
ing the earth should be thrown to-
wards the vines, giving them some
protection in winter.-Er.