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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Kansas Crop Statistics.
The following figures from the quar-
lerly report Of the State Board Of Agriculture
will be found Of interest:
acreage this year in winter wheat. 1873.
decrease of 24l, s5l acres. as compared with
the acreage of 1880. The estimated number
of bushels this year is D. Isl. ss9, an average
The acreage in spring wheat this year is aOS,-
i79, last year. s22S ga decrease of eO,3iS
aces. The acreage in rye this year is 66,4iO;
last year. 5, 74s-an increase of II 80. acres.
The acreage in corn this ye,r is ALI ,5l4; last
year, 1854 ,S96-an increase of Gil, l5S acres.
The acreage in oats this year is 33s .l30 last
aga in buckwheat this year is 6,4lO; last year,
2,6i1-aR increase of 3 ,7;S and fraction. Til
acreage in IRISH potatoes this year is q, $50:
last year, 81, 233-an increase of 1904 acres.
Ike acreage of sweet potatoes this
year. is 3,547; last year, 4.G2l-a decrease of
4.i is: 100 acres. The acreage in sorghum this
year is 1888; last year, 3. Stan increase of
1854 acres. Acreage in pearl miliet this year,
10. .05; last year, s,G;i-an increase of ALA
acres. acreage in mllet and Hungarian this
year, 354 ,249; last year. 36S 4S5-an increase of
year. $3.50; last year, 50.431-a decrease of
4.l77 81 100 acres. The acreage in cotton t. is
year. l last year; sS 81 iocean increase mere OF
l60 500 last year, l27 500 Sll0O-an increase of
81. l0l acres. The acreage in hemp this year.
40; last year, 597 p lO0-an increase of Isl
this year, 1,l42; last year. 600 81 lOO-an in
crease of S34 acres. Acreage in brOom-cOrn
this year, So IT'S; last year, % 507 Ga LOAN in
crease of g, 70S "a 1O acres. The acreage in
rice corn this year 50 545; last year, q, lSs-an
increase of 5 ,407 acres.
Horses in the State this year, 3ss, ISIS; last
year, 367 ,5S9-increase, 49, 26. Mules and asses
this year. 81, 49, last year, s., 30s-increase. AZ.
Mich cows this year 4QS, 1O6; last year. 366 $40
increase, 49, 66. Other cattle this year, $780,
ISL last year, 74S,672-increase. 1913. Sheep
4iel-ncrpESp
319.S3l.
Cheese made in factories this year. $3.50
pounds; last year, $40, 346-a decrease of ,197
pounds. Butter made in factories this year,
2s0,923 pounds; last year. l33. l0l pounds-an
increase of Isl, l99 pounds. Cheese made in
families this year, Isl ,9}S pounds: last year.
133, l0l pounds-an increase of 5AS32., making
the amount of cheese made in this State this
year just about the same as last year. Butter
made in families this year, 20.350,S53 pounds;
last year, l6, 6ll .3l5-increase, 3,7S9, 53S.
The report shows corn on hand on March
LIST, 1881, 2l0 bushels; March LIST. 1880, 49,,
III, S29-a decrease of 5726A.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19
Cheap Living Abroad.

Before the era of railroads it was DOS
sible to find out-of-the-way places where
one could live on very small sums of
money. 1t was the custom in England,
when a family met with pecuniary mis-
fortunes, for them to retire to some OBJ
scure place on the Continent, where they
could live in an economical way until
their means had increased so as to be
enabled to live with their accustomed
comforts and luxuries. But railways
have equalized values wherever they
have penetrated; and now hotels charge
about the same rates, and living does not
differ much, comparing one locality
with another. But it seems in Italy there
are still places where the cost of living
is at minimum. A correspondent of
the New York Tribune, living in Italy,
tells how she and her husband manage
to get along on about $1.40 a day. On
this sum they had the attendance of two
servants, and INDUCED in bill of fare
that was really luxurious. The letter is
dated from ViariggiQ, near Leghorn.
The house the couple lived in was nice
one, with seven rooms, and the rent for
q hundred days was 5000. There are,
places in this country where rent and
food are cheap; but the comforts of .
nicely furnished house, two intelligent
servants, and q course dinner could not
be procured for any such sum as that
ssked in Italy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A CONFERENCE Of Civil Service Re-
formers was held in New York on the 18th,
of which George VIM. Curtis, Carl Schurz
and Dorman B. Eaton were the principal
promoters. Senator Pendleton's bin regu-
lating appointments to the Civil Service was
Endorsed.
BRADLAUGH is suffering from a Sc
we're attack of erysipelas, said to be the ia
direct result of his personal encounter in
the lobby of the House of Commons.
Two parties of hostile Indians are now
operating along the line Of the Atlantic &
Pacific Railroad in New Mexico, and three
companies of infantry from Fort Wingste
have been sent out to protect the settlers.
Garcia's settlement, twelve miles from Els
rita Station, has been burned by the Indians
and five men and two boys were killed. VOL
unteers have been dispatched from Albu-
querque to guard the railroad line.
GEN. GRANT has bought large and
very handsome house on the north size of
East Sixty sixth Street, between Fifth and
Madison Avenues, New York. The price
paid was So, Oe0. It is understood the
General proposes to make this his future
home.
The steamer Laura Lee, valued at
$4,000, was sunk near Baton Rouge, La.
DIR. JOSEPH G. HUGHES, formerly
Surgeon General of the State of Iowa, died
Ut keokuk from blood-poisoning.
The Governor of South Carolina Of
fers a reward of 800 for the arrest of the
murderer Of Deputy u. S. Collector Brayton.
BENJAMIN BIRD, colored, was hanged
at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th, for the
murder of Policeman Nelson, also colored,
during riot in June, 1880.
AT Visalia, Cal, Miss Maggie Blaine,
aged 16, was fatally burned while kindling
the fire with kerosene.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners Of America have recently held ses-
sion at Chicago.
The widow of ex-President Willard
Fillmore is dead.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has
rendered decision that the high.license
liquor law is constitutional In every particu.
lar. It compels saloon.keepers to;pay s., 900
license, give bonds in the sum q 81, 900, etc,
in cities of over 10, 900 people, and in cities
of under II, 600 the license is $500.
FRIDAY, Aug. II, was the hottest day
ever experienced in st. Louis, the Signal
service thermometer registering maximum
temperature of 1864.
The Atlantic FIGURING Mills at St.
Louis, owned by George Balm & Co., were
totally destroyed BY fro On thenight Of 12th,
caused by a lightning stroke. seven nea
were badly injured, two 1T least fatally.
The total loss on property Is about &o6o, 90;
Insured for about $77,00e.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19
A Boys Peril.

William St0nestreet, q twelve.year.old
son OF MIR. James StOnestreet, had narrow
escape from sudden and terrible death
yesterday. The boy says he was throwing
baseball, when the ball lodged in the gut
ter at the top of the house. He Immediate
ly started up to get it, going out on the roof
through q hatchway. The house has three
stories and an attic; the roof is rather
steep, and as the boy slowly edged over
toward the gutter he felt a sinking at the
heart. His little sister was standing in the
yard cycling her brother and calling out to
him every instant to come down. He made
some boastful answer and continued his
dangerous journey. He reached the edge Of
the roof, caught firm hold of some pro-
1ecting shingles, and, leaning over, seized
the ball. Before he could arise from his
STOPPING position he felt the shingles to
which he was clinging giving way with him.
He clutched them nervOusly and began to
draw himself up slowly. Suddenly the
shingles gave way, and in an instant the boy
seemed to be hurrying to instant death.
The pavement was fully thirty feet below,
and there seemed nothing to prevent his be-
ing dashed to pieces on the bricks. just as
he was rolling over the gutter he involun-
tarily seized hold Of it and chung there
desperately. The gutter was an ordinary tin
affair. not very strong; nor was it bound to
the roof very tightly. The sudden weight
Of the boy made the tin sag down, and a few
Of the fastenings gave way, leaving the boy
hanging down the abyss, with only broken,
rotten piece Of tin between him and eterni.
ty. William was now thoroughly aroused
to his danger and cried out for help. his
sister ran into the house, and happening to
find q colored man there told him of her
brothers danger. The man ran out and
getting long ladder which was lying in the
yard put it up against the side of the house.
The boy was now almost exhausted. The
perspiration was. running down his face In
streams. His eyes were dilated with terror
and exhaustion, and it seemed impossible
for him to hold on till the assistance came.
The colored man ran up the ladder nimbly.
Scarcely had he reached the top when the
boy, who could hold on no longer, dropped
into his arms. The colored man took him
down, and when the boy reached the ground
he tainted. He was taken into the house
and physicians were summoned. Last night
he was still insensible, and it IL not known
how serious his nervous injuries may prove.
-LoMsviue (Ky) Commercial
"A rod and lynn catches the biggest
fish of the seas0n.-lb.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

THE President underwent another sur
gical operation on the morning Of the 9Th,
necessitated by the partial stoppage Of the
flow of pus from the wound, by reason Of the
gradual healing Of the original aperture.
DR.. Agnew performed the operation as be-
fore. The patient was put under the influ-
ence of ether, beside which the rigor line
was used to deaden the SPOT where the in
cision was made. The incision extended
downward and forward, and counter open
ing Was made into the track Of the ball be.
low the margin Of the twelfth rib. BY this
means the old wound channel and the re-
gfon above the battered rib have {. free
chance to heal up, being now entirely sep.
arated from the pus channel. The Presi-
dent bore up well under the operation, and
the physicians expressed themselves well
satisfied with the result.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

GENERAL CHALMERS has announced
himself as a Greenback candidate Tor the
u. S. Senate in Mississippi in opposition to
Lamar. ..f
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

The Boer Government has been form
ally proclaimed. 1t is to be known as the
South African Republic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

MAUD S has again lowered the trot-
ting record by quarter of second, having
made mile in 2:10 Ia at Buffalo, on the
18th. This leaves st. Julien just an even
second behind.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

THE American Bankers Convention
assembled at Niagara Falls on the 10th, with
q large attendance.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

Experiments have been made with
compressed gunpowder, made to fit tho
drill-holes, and cut into short lengths.
1t was found to possess many advan-
tages over loose powder, among which
u saving of forty Per cent. in powder.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

REBATE tickets from New York City
to Chicago have been sold as low as ninety.
five cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

HARTMANN, the self-confessed Mill
list, recently arrived in New York, has
taken a hasty departure for Canada, owing,
as claimed, to fear of being extradited.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

CAPTAIN JOSEPH L. STEPHENS, one
Of the best.known citizens of Missouri, who
has been identified with many of the largest
enterprises of the day, died at his home in
Boonville, on the 11th, aged IS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.

GENERAL HANCOCK will command
the troops at the Yorktown Centennial.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

JOHN DILLON has been released from
fail, and it is said nearly all other persons
arrested and imprisoned under the Coercion
act, save those guilty of participating In
outrages, will soon be set free.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

The Mississippi Greenback State Con-
vention will be called to meet on the oath
and the Republican Convention on the 18th,
at Jackson. 1t is anticipated that the two
bodies will agree upon joint ticket.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

PRESIDENT GARFIELD, on the 10th,
performed his first official act since the I'd
of July, signing formal requisition for the
extradition of criminal who some time
since took refuge in Canada.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

The Socialists of New York have held
meetings to sympathize with Hartmann, the
Nihilist. and to protest against his extradi-
ton. Secretary Blaine, in reply to letter
of inquiry from Hartmann's attorney, says
Hartmann's surrender has not been demand
ed, and he refuses to say what the State De-
partment would do in hypothetical case
such as is propounded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

The International Exhibition of Elec-
tricity at Paris was formally opened on the
10th, President Grevy and other prominent
officials assisting at the ceremony. Some of
the departments, especially that Of the
United States, were in a very incomplete
condition, but it was promised that 500 Ed
ison lights would be burning within few
days.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

Hon. o. H. BROWNING died at his
home in Quincy, ILL.,, on the 10th, aged Is.
He was Secretary of the Interior under
President johnson, and previously served in
the U. 8. Senate, being appointed by Gov.
Yates to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Stephen A. Douglas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

THE Memphis cotton crop report for
July shows that continued drouth has re-.
tarded the growth of the plant and caused
it to fruit and mature too rapidly. Worms
have appeared in . few localities, but no
damage from this cause is so far reported.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

A TERRIFIC storm cloud burst over
Central City, Colo, on the Sth, and immedi-
ately thereafter volume of water from four
to five feet deep rushed down Nevada and
Eureka streets, sweeping everything before
it. Great powders weighing nearly ton
were rolled around like pebble-stones. I'm
mense quantities of debris were washed
down the gulch at an incredible speed.
Roadways in the track Of the food were en-
tirely destroyed. A number of small houses
were washed away, and at least one life was
lost. The damage is estimated at $50, 900.
Idaho Springs, Virginia Canyon and other
towns similarly situated, suffered severely
from the inundation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

ADvICEs from Havana received by
the National Board of Health state that dur
ing July there were nety-eight deaths
from yellow fever, and during the week end
ing August 8, thirty-six deaths from the
same disease,.with 200 cases reported. Dur
ing June there were 235 deaths from yellow
fever at Vera Cruz. Yellow fever also pre-.
walls throughout Colombia, at Guayaquil,
SAM Jose de Guatemala and at La Libertad
and Salvador, in the three latter places the
deaths averaging twenty daily. Along the
Isthmus Canal route an average of five
deaths has occurred daily.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

THE Virginia Republican State Con-
vention, as was anticipated, resulted in a
clean split between the two factions. The
Straightouts resolved to stand firmly by Re-
publican party principles, chief among which
is declared to be the sanctity of all public
obligations, and to make no alliance with
regulators in any form. 1t was declared
inexpedient, however, to make any nomina-
lions for State officers. The Coalitionists
squarely Endorsed the platform and candi-
dates of the Readjusters. Many of the
Straightout Republicans, it was said, would
cast their influence, if not their votes, for
the Democratic candidates, in preference to
supporting the Malone ticket.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

"A rod and lynn catches the biggest
fish of the season.-lb.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19

Young farm, near Columbia, st. Clair C0un-
ty, Ill. exploded on the 9th, with most dis
astrous results. Ten men were working on
or about the machine, six of whom were in
stantly killed by the conclusion or scalded OF
burned to death, and the other four were so
badly injured that there was no possibility
Of their recovery. The wheat and straw
stacks took fire and were totally consumed,
and the probability is that some Of the VIC
Tins, who were merely stunned, were liter
ally roasted to death. The names of the six
killed are: Christian Diehl, lessee of the
farm; Joshua Morgan, Charles Stewart,
Fred Bartheleber, Alfred Arnold and Ma
than Brown, the last two colored. The four
who survived are Conrad Linderman, tho
engineer; Henry Diehl, son Of tho lessee;
Grant Hart and George Storm, the latter
colored. The two former have since died.
The Coroner's Jury returned verdict that
the explosion was caused by the careless
ness Of the engineer. i--i AIsv - -
AT Lowell, Mass, Edward Donnelly's
child, aged nine months, died from an OVER
dose of morphine furnished by Geo. Teele,
drug clerk Of only two months expert
ence. s-....
AT Madison, Ind, Leonidas Robert
son, . well.to. do farmer, arrayed himself in
his wife's clothes and sun bonnet and hung
himself. No cause Is known for the singu-
lar act.
D. & J. SADL1ER, the well-known
Catholic publishing house of New York have
made IN assignment.
THE reunion of -Confederates at
Dallas, Texas, was largely attended.
The residence of J. w. Billings, East
Saginaw, Mich, was destroyed BY fire on
the 10th. Edwin Billings, 81 years Of age.
The National tribune., 1881-09-10
ALL SORTS,

Sparks set fire to underbrush ten miles Sonth
of Bradford Pennsy ylvania, September I, and two
hundred acres of forest We're burned over. involv
ing the destruction of forty-nine oil-well rios
numerous tanks, and five thousand barrels of oil
Loss, $4,000 The fire is extinguished.
Driving up to a letter box in Long Branch the
other day he mOdestly stepped from his carriage
and posted some papers While he was vet
standinga negro dressed in gorgeous livery drove
up and pOmpOusy exclaimed to young boy
Sonny, put dis hear letter in dat box" The by
ISLANDERS appreciated the matter and rOared.
Colonel Dudley, the New Commissioner of
Pensions, is making thorough cleaning out of
old pensions. The examining surgeon at Fort
Dodge, Iowa, received twenty-five orders of ex-
animation at one time.
Ex-COmmissiOner of Pensions Bently is en-
gagged in practicing law in Denver, Col, and
writes to friend that he has met with splendid
success. GOOd-by, John.
Three of the Presidents physicians have been
discharged, viz, SurgeOn-Genera Barnes and
Doctors Woodward and Reyburn
The drOuth still continues, but the prospects
for rain are increasing Vennor, the weather
prophet, is in this city, and has promised the peo
pie to confer with Hazen and see if things
cannot be mOistened up little.
The weather is several degrees warmer at Long
Branch than in this city
The National tribune., 1881-09-10
LIPPINCOTT,S MAGAZINE,

We have received from the publishers the Sep
tember number of LippincOtt's Magazine, and
find it fully up to its reputation a sterling
monthly. A Glimpse of the Cumberland BOr-
der rich in descriptive matter and full of in
terest is concluded, and is followed by Sylt" a
sketch in which is portrayed something of the
surroundings, customs, and peculiarities of the
people inhabiting the island of that name lying
off the coast of Schleswig in the North Sea.
vivid description of the country is also given.
Following a chapter on bats, under the title of
Geological CuriOsities," are the opening chapters
of a new story of Southern life since the war
The Valcours and which from the manner Of
its starting out bids fair satisfy the most critical
reader OF light literature One two short
poems. AN Afternoon in West Jaalam," The
Haunts OF the CRAWLING by Maurice Thompson,
Frant,'''A Dish of Vegetables " The Dress
maker at Green HarbOr,' 4 Pretty Kettle OF
Fish" and "Old Nantucket" with the monthly
gossip, make up the contents OF the volume,
every part of which is thoroughly readable and
enjoyable. Several articles finely illustrated
which fact adds greatly to the general interest.
The National tribune., 1881-09-10
THE GENTLEMAN,S MONTHLY.

This candidate for popular favor Volume
l. No. /, for September has been placed upon our
table by the publishers, and from the examination
made of its contents we believe it viii speedily
take rank among the leading standard periodicals
OF its kind in the public estimation. 1t is ably
edited by Mr.. II. D. Mcintyre. for many years
connected with JGUkes' Spirit, the v !. Sports
naa and the TafJ, Field and Farm, and is devoted
to the promotion OF the manly sports. Among rs
contributors appear several names of well-known
writers, and the articles themselves show kn0wl-
edge of the subjects treated and careful prepara-
ton Included in the table Of contents are the
following: The Dogs Of America; Poem by Eu-
gene Scott Billiards: Past and Present: Hunting
the Arctic Seal; the Brigands of Brighton Beach
and Oarsmen OF the Potomac. the latter by J. ID,
Doyle, I. :. \.
The Magazine is published monthly, and, con-
sidering the amount OF reading matter, the terms
50 per annum, twenty cents per single copy
are exceedingly moderate Those desiring to keep
informed as to events in the sporting world would
do well TO subscribe
The National tribune., 1881-09-10
PRESIDENT GARFIELD,s CHILDREN

President Garfeids children are FIVE in num-
ber. Harry A. and James, the eldest two are
well along in their teens" MolIe, who is next.
is about fourteen, and after her comes Irwin
Mcdowell, with Abram following, the youngest
OF the five. Two other children have been born
to him, but they are dead. Harry and James,
with their cOmrade, Don Rockwell, son of Col
Rockwell, left for Williams College September
. III charge of their late tutor, DR.. w H. Hawkes..
The party will breakfast, by invitation, at Sun
nyside- on the Hudson, late the residence of
Washington Irving, now the home of Cyrus W.
Field, Mr.. Gaillard Hunt. second son of the
Secretary OF the Navy, accompanied the party
as far as New York
The National tribune., 1881-09-10

Last week we referred briefly to certain charges
made through the Press against the management
OF the Pension Office. We now take occasion in
another column to speak OF the matter more fully
and, as we trust finally.
Every pensoner and claimant is interested in
tho proper administration of the office presided
over by Colonel Dudley and we believe should be
fully informed as 10 the manner in which he con-
ducts the public business SO far as our ability
GOES we shall endeavOr to keep our readers fully
posted. We desire to see justice done to all
nothing more, nothing less. There are those,
however. who from false notions of economy
hatred to the soldier, other unworthy motive.
are ready to do everything in their power to
hamper the Commissioner in his administration
OF affairs by circulating false reports in the ex-
pectation Of stirring up discOrd and involving
claimants attorneys, and officials in strife the
only result Of which will be injustice to all three
classes concerned. We therefore warn our read
ers against such mischiet-makers. The truth is
easily ascertained: and hence we advise every
one before giving credence to any untavOrable
report set in circulation to inquire for themselves
as to its truth. or to read the TRIBUNE. in which
the real facts will invariably appear.