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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23
Terrible Fire at the Kansas City Expe1
sition.

A terrible disaster occurred ut the Kansas
City Fair Grounds on the 18th, reuslting in
the destruction Of the Main Hall and all the
surrounding buildings. Tho flre broke out
in the west end of tho Hall at 3:45 p. m. At
that hour the Hall was densely crowded,
and at once panic seized upon the multi.
tude. All efforts to quiet the excited and
terror-stricken people were Of no avail, and
In their confusion they rushed hither and
thither, trampling each other down, while
shrieks, groans and cries filed tho cir. An
immense heavy black cloud of smoke came
from the burning buildings and settled ike
pail over the grounds, which were literally
black with . moving mass of humanity, %.
timatcd at not less than 20 900 people. A
strong wind was blowing and the fire spread
with wonderful rapidity, quickly commune
eating to the surrounding buildings. In an
almost incredibly short space OF time the
main building with all contents was an un.
slightly heap Of ashes. The flames leaped
across the avenue to Newspaper Row, quick
~ swallowing up the buildings of the Times,
Journal and Mail, the Secretary's Office and
o number of refreshment stands in that vi
cinity. They next attacked the Grand Stand,
in which not less than L, 600 people were
seated at the time watching the
races. The people fed in terror before
the advancing fire. Many fell and were
trampled upon, and large number were
MANNED and mutiated. The confusion was
indescribable. A panic had seized upon the
vast multitude and it seemed impossible to
n,,iot their foaro There were M facilities
at hand for extinguishing the fire, and 1t did
not stop until there was no more material
for 1t to feed upon. The Fire Department
went to the grounds, but could not reach
there in time to be Of service. It had to lay
1,5OO feet of hose to get water. The money,
etc. of the Association was saved from the
Secretary's office. Power Hall, Fine Art
Hall and the stalls with all the horses we're
saved. The fire started from pile Of rub
bish lying on the ground outside the west
entrance of the Main Hall. A party Of
young fellows were standing in the doorway
smoking and the fire Is supposed to have
been started by one Of them throwing
cigarette stub into the pile of shavings. The
losses will foot up fully $50, 900, including
the buildings and their contents. The losses
are distributed among the various exhibit
ors and there was very little insurance. The
Exposition Company loses about SIC, 900 on
the buildings destroyed. The Board of Dr.
rectors held meeting after the fire, and an
nounced to the public that they would clear
up the debris and proceed with the pro-
gramme, beginning where is was broken of
by the unexpected disaster.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

TIE Presidents condition. on thu
10th was not quite so favorable as on previ'
Gus days-pulse, temperature and
respiration all indicating re-
Progressive condition of the patient
The wound was not discharging quite 80
freely or satisfactorily, and there was gen.
eral apprehension that most serious crisis
vas close at hand.
MAURICE c. STELLHE1MER, aged 26,
coupon clerk in the Office of j. & W. Selig.
man & Co., New York, is under arrest
charged with embezzling $50, 900. The
money was mostly lost in stock speculations.
Stellheimer fled from the city upon the dis.
covery of his defalcation, taking with him q
young lady companion. A detective wa
placed upon his track and his arrest was
finally accomplished on q lake steamer bound
for Duluth.
GEN. STONE, q Confederate soldier
in the late war, and now an officer in tho
Egyptian army, was the leader of the mutt
ny reported by telegraph the other day a.
having taken place at Cairo.
THREE colored children were burned
to death near Carthage, Texas. Parents
were at church, and the house caught fire.
GEN. w. F. TUCKER, o well-known
resident Of Okalona, Miss, was assassinated
the other evening while standing in his own
doorway, to which he had been called by
some one outside. A young negro
named Houston Parish, with whom the Gem
eral had some difficulty few days before. is
suspected of the crime and has been arrest
ed. Gen. Tucker was Brigadier. General
in the Confederate service and won distinc.
ton as gallsat soldier during the war.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic in Russia.
In some parishes all the children under Is
years have died of the dread disease. The
eontagion first appeared In Bessarabia in
1877. Since then it has spread over the south
of Russia, from whence it has spread toward
the east and northwest. In the Province of
Pultowa, which has less than 100000 peo-
pie, there have been Al, 543 persons stricken
by the disease, and Of these Is, 765 have
lied.
AT Urtcn's Crossing, O., on the Little
Miami Railway, James barrow, a we'll
known farmer, received fatal injuries while
trying to rescue drunken man lying on the
track.
DIR. w. w. GREENE, of Portland,
Me-, delegate to the International Medical
congress at London, and graduate of Ann
Arbor Medical School, died returning home
and was buried at sea.
Two passenger coaches and Superin-
car on the Vicksburg & Meridian
4 ,ilway were thrown from the track by
broken rail near Edwards, Miss. They fell
down declivity Of about six or eight feet.
The passenger coaches were crowded.
Eighteen persons were injured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

In the special election held at Lewis
ton Me-, on the 18th, for Representative to
Congress, to fill the vacancy caused BY the
resignation Of Senator Frye, Ex-Governor
Dinghy, Republican, was elected.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

BENJAMIN H. BREWSTER, Of Phila-
delphA, and George Bliss, Of New York,
hsve been retained by the Government as
counsel In the Star.rOute cases.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

THE work of collecting funds for the
relief Of sufferers by the Michigan confagra.
ton is progressing actively in many cities
and towns throughout the country. Up to
the 18th New York City had already for
warded upward Of $4,000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

The old convent in st. Augustine,
Fla, whose building no man remem-
bers, is being demolished to make room
for new structures.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

"A Mormon temple is being erected
IN San Francisco.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

A CALL has been issued for q Nation
NJ Convention Of representatives of the agri-
cultural, manufacturing and commercial in
terests of the country, to be held in New
York City on the 3Oth Of November, "for the
purpose Of considering and recommending
such Congressional action as will best pro-
mote domestic and foreign commerce, and
afford adequate protection to American in
GustFv.0
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

THE colored Bishops and other repre-
sentatives of the African Methodist Churches
Of America now attending the Ecumenical
Conference are to be honored with public
breakfast, the object being, as stated, ''to
make demonstration in favor of the pfin-
ciple of social equality Of the white and COL
ored races" The promoters of the affair
are the Templar Mission, acting in conjunc-
ton with the Anti-Slavery Society.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

Ar q meeting held by the Virginia
Republican State Executive Committee.
chosen at Lynchburg by the Coalition Con-
vention, resolutions were passed calling up
on Government officials in Virginia for two
per cent. of their salary for campaign
fund. The assessment, it is explained, is
not obligatory upon those called on. Several
prominent representatives of the Govern
ment in the State have been named to col
tect the fund.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

thousand delegates being present, including
twenty lone members of Parliament. Par.
nell occupied the chair. He said the Land
act left the rent question as q continual
source of discomfort and strife between Diff
ferent classes in Ireland. He had no doubt
this was designedly SO arranged by the
British Government. He warned farmers
not to trust to the Land act. 1t was, he
said, designed to break the League. No.
body should appeal to Land Courts until
test cases to be prepared by the League had
been submitted. They should press for
ward to the abolition Of landlordism and
to legislative independence. He adj
vised farmers to borrow money under
the Land act SO as to give work to
laborers, and invited she latter to join
branches of the League. He pledged himself
to head laborers' movement If the farmers
did not. Parnell in his speech reasserted
that fair rent would be the value Of the land
in state of nature, before it was improved
by tenant or any of his predecessors. In
regard to the industrial question, he said
Hishmen should encourage home manufac-
lures, even If they had to pay dearer than
for foreign goods. Things not producible in
Ireland should be bought in America. En-
glish goods should not be bought In any
event. Sexton then moved collectively the
Land Leagues resolutions, and they were
carried by reclamation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

pears it shows q state of the air which
is sure to be followed by fine weather;
but II it increases in size, take YOUR
great coat with you if you are going
from home, for falling weather is not
far of. The reason is this: When the
air is becoming charged with electricity
you will see every cloud attracting all
lesser ones towards it. until it gathers
into q shower; and, on the contrary,
when the fluid is passing of, or diffusing
itself. then large cloud will be seen
breaking into pieces and dissolving.
Mr.. Drummond Hunt, of Lexing-
ton, KY, is eighty.seven years of age,
but attends actively to his farm every
day. Mr.. Hunt is the first man in that
section who employed Senator James
u. Beck. About forty years ago Mr..
Hunt kept the old Phoenix livery stable.
One day brawuy young Scotchman,
with bundle swung at his back, an.
piled to him for work. Mr.. Hunt was
so pleased with his straightforwardness
that he employed him and sent him out
to his farm. placing him in charge.
Here he stayed several years, working
all day and occupying most of the nights
studying law. It required two courses
Tor students attending the law depart
ment of Pennsylvania University to get
through. Mr.. Beck, however, by dint
OF great industry and perseverance. got
through in one course. He then began
practice with Mr.. Shy. since which
time he has steadily climbed up the
ladder OF reputation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

AT the recent election in the Chicka-
saw Nation for member of the Legislature il
was decided in favor of B. f. Overton, the
present Governor.
The citizens of Deadwood have held
mass.meeting to promote the division OF
Dakota on the forty-sixth parallel and the
admission Of the southern portion as State.
A PARTY of fifty tramps boarded a
Pennsylvania freight train near Harrisburgh,
Pa, and threatened vengeance II any at.
tempt were made to put them of. The train
was delayed until carload Of police could
be transported to the scene Of trouble, when
nearly twenty Of the tramps were cap.
tured.
JESSE L. WARTMAN, the Deputy Col
lector of Customs at Cincinnati, has been
suspended from office. There is deficit in
his accounts of from 500 to $4,000, which
arose, as is alleged, from the robbery of his
safe in 1879, during q parade in honor OF
General Grant. The money lost is due to
the railroad companies.
AT Richmond, Va, q three-story
brick building in course Of erection for the
Richmond & Allegheny Railroad Company
fell, and several workmen were injured, four
seriously. The disaster is attributed to a
badly planned roof, which was crushed in
by the weight of the states.
ROBERT and William Handy, broth
ers, well-known planters residing near
Bonneville, Logan County, Ark, were re-
Gently assassinated while riding side by side
on their way home from town. Robert
dropped from his horse and died instantly,
two bullets having pierced his heart. Will
liam was also fatally wounded, but rode
nearly mile, when he fell from his horse,
fainting from loss Of blood, and was drag
ged some distance before help could reach
him. The assassins escaped unseen. It is
believed that two negroes, who have been ar
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

FRANCE CHANDLER, the present Cen
eral Passenger Agent Of the Missouri Paci-
fic, has been appointed General Passenger
Agent Of the Gould Southwestern system,
comprising the Missouri Pacific, Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, Iron Mountain, Interna-
tional & Great Northern and Texas Pacific
and their branches and extensions. o. w.
Ruggles, at present General Passenger Agent
of the Iron Mountain, is appointed Assist
ant General Passenger Agent of the whole
system.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

The death is announced of Ambrose
Everett Burnside. He was born May @,
1924, at Liberty, Ind, was graduated at
West Point in 1S47, served In the war with
Mexico in 1918, took part In the civil war
as Colonel of the Rhode Island three months
volunteers, and in 1851 was appointed Brig
adler General. In the year following he was
promoted to Major General. He was Gov
ernor of Rhode Island from 1861, and
since then has represented that State in the
United States Senate.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23

A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says: Secretary Kirkwood, Adjutant- Gen.
eral Drum and Governor Fremont had a
conference to-day relative to the defense Of
the Inhabitants Of Arizona from hostile
movements on the part OF the Apache In
dims. 1t was decided to furnish the Gov
ernor at once with the needed supply Of
arms, to be distributed among the people in
that portion of the Territory threatened with
invasion. Governor Fremont left for Arr
IONA tonight.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-22
SnERIFFS SALE.
DY VIRTUE OLA DECREE AND ORDER

DY VIRTUE OLA DECREE AND OEDEE
the HonorabIe ] Second judicial ia District court in
and for Ormsby county, State of Nevada, on ths
directed, wherein it is set forth that a judgment
was recovered in said Court on the l9th DAY ol
a. D. 1ss in & Tor OF Mary T. deend
ant for the sum of $50 principal. together with
the sum of 500 interest to January TO- 1851, and IN
uary 10, 1881, together with counsel ices IN the
sum of $50, and costs of suit taxed at s42 55ieo'
gether with interest on the sum of $500 nom the
date Of this decree until paid, at the rate OF one
| and one half per cent per month until PAID, ana
all costs which may hereafter accrue by reason OF
sale. In said order of sale it is adjudged and de-
creed that all and singular, the mortgaged prem
ises hereinafter described, be sold at public sale
and at the expiration OF the time allowed by law
| chaser. and that the defendant and ali persons
claiming or to claim from under him. and all
persons having claims subsequent to said mort
ali persons claiming to have acquired anyinierest
in said premises subsequent to the Ming OF The
corder be forever barred and foreclosed Of and
from all equity of redemption and claim OF IN
and parcel thereof from and after the delivery of
the said Sherilf's deed. Therefore by virtue of
auction, l to the M highest ] bidder @ for cash. in s
gold coin or its equivalent in legal tender notes
of the United states, in front ofthe Court House
door, liz Carson City, Ormsby county, Nevada, |
on the
Thirteenth Day OF April, a. ID. Fssi,
At the hour of one O'Clock P. NJ the following de-
scribed real property set out and designated in !
said decree and order of sale, to-wit: All those |
certain pieces and parcels of land and town lots
situate, lying and being III Carson City, county
of Ormsby, State of Nevada, and more particu-
larly designated and described by the official
map of Carson City as lot one %, and the east
twenty (20) feet Of lot two (2) in block No. seven
teen (17) in Sears, Thomson and Sears division
OF Carson City. S. T. SWIFT, Sheriff.
T. Coffin, attorney for plaintiff.
Carson City, March %, 1881.
The above sale hereby postponed until Saturday the
sixteenth day OF April the hour Il ny and in
front OF the Court House Is bsfore advertised.
S. T SWIFT, Sheriff.
Carson, April Is, 1881.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-22

ME n11 pes diy ash,ns. Samples rti Ma;f
NC GUOIJ Address stin soa Il O., Portl and ner
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
For THE TIMES.
Killed in Jail.

An affray or drunken fight occurred In the
Clearield county Jail during the afternoon of
Friday the Sth inst, in which Edward Good
man was stabbed and almost instantly killed
by fellow prisoner named George Evans.
Goodman, a sturdy, rather fine looking young
coal miner about 10 years of age, was commit
ted by Du Bols Justice the day before on a
charge of larceny. On the day of the killing,
his brother Patrick Goodman, drove up to the
jail In buggy with woman whom he claim
ed was his sister, but who proved to be an
abandoned woman. Bothwere admitted, then
went out, probably for more whiskey, and were
admitted a second time. The cells of all the
prisoners Except that of John Newling, who
is under sentence of death for the murder of
man named Pennington, at Houtzdale) are
opened during the day. giving them free access
10 the several cells and the corridors. They
have lately employed themselves making small
iancily carved and vanished bureaus and
dressing cases filled up with drawers and mir
rors, from old cigar boxes and have had pock-
et-knives allowed them for the purpose. 1t
seems the woman had trafficed with Evans for
one of these articles and then he refused TO
give 1t to her, offering her only an inferior one,
whereupon Goodman expostulated with him
ana they came to blows. The woman tried to
part them but Pat Goodman rushed into the
cell and forced her out. Goodman got Evans
down and after giving him several blows let
him up when Evans seized the knife and struck
him on the left side, but one of the ribs seems
to have glanced 1t and it closed and cut his
thumb. second bow pierced the left breast,
and as the post mortem examination sho we'd,
passed through the lung and entered the left
ventricle OF the heart. Goodman rushed out
crying, i am stabbed,'' walked down the
steps to the lower corridor and fell dead.
Evans Is young man of about twenty, also
miner, and is under conviction of manslaugh-
ter for killing Swede named Hogonsen, and
seriously wounding another named Bergstrom,
In drunken brawl that occurred on the way
10 brothel In Houizdale, In June 1880, and is
confined pending an application for a new trial
which is yet undisposed of. He is, though so
young, desperate character, being blamed
with the death ef an 0sceola stable boy some
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26

time ago, and also with violently assautlng
fellow workman with sharp coal pick during
the late strike, the man only saving his life by
dcdglng backwards when the pick grazed his
breast and passed down between his person and
his clothes. His attorneys depend principally
for n new trial upon the alleged suppression Of
evidence by the prosecuting attorney. The
defense set up being that In the melee the
wounded Swede shot his companion, In proof
of which they displayed the bullet taken from
the body of the murdered man, which had a
concave base and unlike any American make,
from which they argued that II was shot from
the revolver of the Swede, which he had
brought with him from Sweden few months
before. The prosecution claimed that the
Swede, who fled as soon as wounded and was
found next morning almost dead had lost his
revolver In the flight and that he had no
remaining cartridges either. But the defense
subsequently discovered that the Common
wealth's attorneys had seen and handled some
of the Swede's remaining cartridges and con-
cealed the fact though they exactly correspond
ed with the bullet taken from the dead ewede's
body. IL is generally agreed however that q
new trial would result in a verdict of murder,
as despite the above, the case was but lily tried
for the Commonwealth.
Immediately after the killing In the Jail
much excitement was caused by the report that
party had entered the Jail, killed a man and
escaped. This was caused by the brother
and the woman Immediately driving off in
the buggy. They were overtaken by the
Sheriff and detained as witnesses at the Inquest
when they were discharged. The fiourishlng
of revolver by the brother In the cell and the
brag of how he could break out caused an uu-
founded report that they had entered to aid the
prisoners in escaping. They seem to have had
no purpose in their visit different from other
visitors of their class, and the bad result can
only be attributed to bad passions inhamed by
bad whlskey, had through bad prison discipline.
d. II. s.
Cear6eld, Pa, April IA, 1881.
The above letter was received too late for
insertion last week, though intended for that
issue.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
Church Notices.

Reformed Church. Preaching next
Sunday at q P. M. Prayermeeting on
Tuesday evening.
Lutheran Church. in the
Lutheran church next Sunday at 1890
A. M.
Uuion meeting in the Methodist
Church, next Sunday evening by Rev.
Spangler.
Presbyterian Church-Preaching next
Sunday at IL A. M, and Sunday
school at $3.50 A. M, and prayer
meeting o'clock Wednesday evening.
Eggs for Hatching from pure bred Ply
mouth Rocks. Price $125 per dozen,
$500 per two dozen.
II. d. STEWART,
Landisburg, Perry Co., Pa.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
A Grand Work.

j. Russell Manning, M. D., " s., for twenty
five years practical Stock Raiser and Veter-
mary Surgeon, has written book called the
"Illustrated Stock Doctor and Live Stock En-
cyclopedia, )" and we learn that IL is attracting
special attention. He has treated the subject
with mastery hand, and any person inter
ested in Horses, Cows, Sheep, Swine and Poul-
try, would DO well to obtain copy at once.
1t tells how to buy, cell, breed, shelter, train,
etc., how to know and cure disease, and in
language all can understand. The Publishers
have rendered 1t object teaching, by ilustrat-
ing 1t with over 400 fine engravings. 1t is by
far the most complete and valuable book lately
issued by subscription, and we do not wonder
that agents make money rapidly selling it.
Published by the well-known firm of HUB
BARD BROTHERS., of Philadelphia.