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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

DISCUSSING the matter of pensions,
on the 9Th, Senator Davis (W. Va.) said he
had stated last year that arrears in the PEN
sion bill would cost the Government q sum
greater than the national debt, and the
statement was laughed at. Present indica-
tons seemed fully to justify the statement
he then made. Mr.. Logan, replying to Mr..
Davis, said statements not based on accu-
rate information should not be allowed to 60
to the country uncontradicted. The asser.
ton that pension arrears would cost more
than the national debt was certainly not
based on any reliable basis.
SOMETHING of . sensation has been
created in Washington Star-route circles by
the wholesale arrest of members Of the ring.
The arrests were made cautiously and quiet
~. and the matter was a profound secret
excepting to few newspaper men.
The President has nominated Samuel
C. Parks, Of New Mexico, to be Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming,
and Joseph Bell, of New York, to be Asso.
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of New
Mexico.
DR.. E. A. ADAMS, Assistant Medical
Superintendent of the Michigan Asylum for
Insane, was fatally stabbed by q patient in
one of the wards while he was making his
daily rounds. The patient was, hitherto
supposed harmless. The stabbing was done
with large pocket. knife recently lost by
one of the attendants.
The hangman was busy on the 9Th.
Joseph NJ. Kotovsky and Charles Ellis (col-
ored), st. Louis, and John A. Phelps, Mar
shall, Mo-; Martin Kankowsky, Jersey
City, N. j.; Joseph Abbott, Elmira, n. Y. !;
Terrence Achille and Sterling Ben, both
colored, at Franklin, La, were all suspend
ed between heaven and earth.
Rev. JAMES CAMERON, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, Oakland, CAL,
died from the effects of poison. His wife
gave him a dose of carbolic acid by mistake
for medicine.
Mr.. DONOVAN, attorney for Mr.. Frost
in the FrOst-Sessinghaus contest case, has
filed protest against the dispositions being
regarded as evidence. Also, a protest
against receiving transcript Of a record of
the United States Court, which had never
been offered in evidence, but was placed in
the dispositions as if it had been.
NEAR Cincinnati, Mrs. Mary Muller
committed suicide by cutting her throat
with razor. She had been driven insane
by an importunate sewing machine agent
who threatened to sue for payments she
could not make.
The railroad and express Office at
- ~ m
was broken open and three mail pouches
were rifled while two watchmen were quietly
sleeping.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

A brother and sister have met sitter sspa.
ration Of tweaty years, and the meeting has
been brought about in Davenport BY the little
son Of the sister In most peculiar way. One
week ago yesterday tie raft steamer Clyde
went into Davenport on her way Moth and
Captain Douglass tied up his boat foF awhile
In order to permit some Of the crew to 60
ashore and make purchases. Among others
who went ashore was Aaron Carter, rsfts-
man. The Weather was very cold, with keen,
northwest wind. While going along the street
Carter met . poorly-clad little boy, who was
running along, crying bitterly. Carter asked
him what was the matter, and the little lad
sobbed out: I'm cold" "Come with me,
said Carter, and, taking the boy to clothing
store, he bought him suit Of warm clothes
and pair Of mittens. He then asked the boy
his name. "Aaron Dunlap" was the reply.
Carter was thunderstruck. "Aaron Dunlspw
he cried "Where are your father and
motherr' "FatAer 10 dead" the boy replied.
"V'ell, take me to your mother, then, -
quickly as you cam" said Carter. The boy
took him to his humble home, and when Car
ter entered the house the boys mother rushed
into his arms with shrek that made all the
other occupants Of the tenement house rush
into the hall to see what was the matter.
Carter had found sister whom he had not
seen sincs the year 1852, when he went to war
with Maine egiment.-Ddsenport DsnsssrsG
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13
Completion Of the Alpine Tunnel II
Colorado.

The recent completion of the Alpine tun.
ael by the Denver, South Park Il Pacific Rail.
Dad Company demonstrates the daring ma.
lure Of the nineteel4h century engineering;
md in addition thereto the tunnel is an oh.
ect Of interest as work of no ordinary char.
scter. Through the courtesy of Superintend.
The Neps has been enabled to present the fol-
owing facts regarding the huge artificial
cavern.
The tunnel is situated in Alpine Pass and
pierces the great continental backbone. The
summit of the mountain is also the boundary
line between Chahee and Gunnison Counties,
entering the tunnel in the former county
and emerging in the latter. The town Of Han.
cock is situated about three miles to the east
Of the eastern entrance, and Pitkin, nine miles
away, is the first town encountered while jour-
neying westward.
The elevation Of the tunnel was one of the
serious obstacles encountered while perform
ing the work. At an altitude Of II, 5A feet il
enters mountain whose crest is 1900 feet
cessitated among the workmen, for only the
most robust could endure the effects of that
rartfed atmosphere. From the eastern en-
trance to the western exit the tunnel is Liza
feet in length, while its height is Is feet, with
width of 161f feet.
ago and It was pronounced finished on the
second day OF the present month. While the
benefits accruing from the work to the rail-
road company warranted the expense, it was
nevertheless expected or anticipated that ore
veins or bodies would be encountered. Any
hopes of such q nature were not realized,
however, for throughout its entire length de-
composed granite was the predominant char
acteristic of the rock. The interior is finished
throughout with California red wood, and
when completed the aggregate cost of the
work was found to be $2OS,O00. BY means of
the tunnel Gunnison and all points westward
are brought eighty miles nearer to Denver,
while the disadvantages accruing from con-
slant warfare with the SHOWS are greatly
diminished, as snow sheds for ashort distance
from either end of the tunnel will protect the
track anu permit uninterrupted transit, when
this would not be practicable were the road to
traverse the labyrinth of canyons necessary to
gain the desired point.
To certain extent railroading at very high
attitudes is even now experimental, and the
difficulties to be surmounted are more serious
than would be imagined from q hasty glance
at the subject Shorter curves and sleeper
curves than were deemed practicable ten years
ago are now constantly and advantageously
employed by the mountain roads, and think
ing men are beginning to appreciate the ad-
vantages to be derived by employing tunnels
as a saver of distances, while the danger from
floods and SHOWS incident to the traversing of
canyons are an important factor
in the estimates embodying the original cost
and the repairs.-Den.sr Ne'os.
Nearly one-seventh of Ireland is bon
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13
c. c. CLAY, ex-United States sena-

c. c. CLAY, ex-United States Sena-
tor, is dead.
BURON, the Treasury carpenter. sticks
to his statement that he was paid out Of the
Treasury contingent fund for work sup.
posed'to be done for the Department, but
which was in reality done upon John Sher.
mans house.
A DISPATCH from Gloucester, Mass,
says the crew of . wrecked schooner who
took to the boats were driven almost to can.
nibalism. Five men were badly frozen and
two died.
MITCHELL Brown, Sherman, Wis.,,
was fatally burned while attempting to
get his team out Of burning barn.
LEWIS, q three-year-old son of Lewis
and Hannah Rocklige, residing in Island
Creek Township, O., was burned to death
on the 4th.
As an east-bound passenger train on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road was
crossing the tracks of the Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati & st. Louis Road, near Western
avenue, Chicago, it struck three workmen
on the track, killed two of them and NOR.
tally injured the other.
CHLOE ANN VIOLET, of Washing
ton, D. c., die after fast of forty.three
days. Her delusion was that God COM
handed her to commit suicide by fasting.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

JAY GOULD has assumed the Presi-
dency Of the Wabash Road, vice Scion Hum
phreys, resigned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

IT is authoritatively stated that Hon.
John C. New will be sent to succeed Foster
ut st. Petersburg.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

The Havana Lottery managers have
been swindled out Of nearly $3O0, 900 by clev-
cry forged telegraphic dispatches.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

THREE Oskaloosa Iowa) lads select
ed as target for rifle practice . magazine
owned by the American Powder Company.
Five hundred kegs were exploded with ter
rifle noise and dire consequences. The boys
were hurled several hundred yards from
the magazine and all instantly killed, being
burned and mutilated almost beyond recog.
milton. their bodies presenting q sickening
sight. A large number of houses were bad.
ly wrecked, and many persons injured by
flying glass and wood. Nearly all the BUSH
ness houses in the city were damaged, show
windows being smashed in and the goods
scattered about in confusion. The body Of
John Phillips was found fifty yards down
the hill, clothing nearly all gone, back por-
tion of the head carried away, and the body
Otherwise horribly mangled. John Stedman
was blown through wire fence, hundred
yards away, and fearfully torn. Gerald
Joyce was found in the creek 150 yards
away, with the head almost completely
gone.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

THE business of New York for the
year, - exhibited by the returns Of the
Clearing house, reached the unprecedented
total Of S49, 400 900 900.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

REDUCTION of public debt during
December last, $12, 793, 723.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

GEN. BREWSTER has assumed charge
Of the Department Of Justice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

Nearly one-seventh of Ireland is bon
Much is reclaimable, but at great cosk
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

SENIOR ROMERO has been appointed
by the Mexican Government IS . special en-
voy, charged with power to negotiate a
treaty Of commercial reciprocity with the
United States. Senior Romero has been re.
peatedly Secretary Of the Treasury in Mexi-
co, and he has lived many years in this
country as Mexican Minister. He is . pro.
gresSiye man.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

A COMMITTEE appointed by Secretary
Folger, assisted by thirteen gentlemen from
the Treasury Department, have begun to
count the money in the United States Sub
Treasury ut New York City, preparatory to
action of the newly appointed Treasurer
taking possession of the Office. The COM
mittee will have to count about 800 tons of
silver, amounting to about $26, OOO, 900.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

SOUTH CAROLINA planters arc ap-
prehensive that the colored exodus now
taking place from that State will cause the
loss of the cotton crop.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

UNDER the Presidency of Thomas
Davis, a company has been organized in
Boston to build steamships which are ex-
pected to cross the Atlantic In less than
week. Nearly 100000 stock has been
taken
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

THE President will send special
message to Congress pointing out the neces-
sity for immediate legislation looking to the
suppression of small. pox.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

JAMES GORDON BENNETT has gone to
St. Petersburg to confer with the Gear in
regard to polar expedition on new plan,
in which the base of operations will be at
the mouth of the Lena.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

TEsrIMoNr in the following contested
election cases has been prepared and sent to
the printer by the Chairman of the House
Committee on Elections: Gilett vs.. Hern-
don, Strabach vs.. Herbert, MADISON vs..
Oates, Smith vs.. Shelley, Bisbee vs.. Finley,
Anderson vs.. Reed, Buchanan vs.. Manning,
Lynch VS.. Chalmers, Lee vs.. Richardson,
Mackey vs. O'Connor and Smalls vs.. TILL
man.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

The Grand Society of Railways, of
Russia, is issolvent. The misappropriation
Of q, 0OO. 900 rubles Of Government money
on the Nicolas line Is announced.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

The Secretary of the Interior has in
structed Indian Agents that they have pow
er to put (white) intruders of the reserva-
lions, and may call on the military to assist
them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13

IT is believed that the present Con-
gress will pay more attention to war claims
than the last. There are many which may
be termed legitimate war claims, North and
South, now before the Committee, q mum.
Der Of which were pending before the last
and previous Congresses. Among these is
the Pennsylvania war claim, known as the
border claim, in which is involved some
s., 100000. This is for damages done and
property taken by the Union and Confeder.
ate troops in the Gettysburg campaign, dur.
ing Lees raid in Pennsylvania.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13


started down the bank with loud yells Of in
dignation, gathering arms and missiles
ready for an assault The Sheriff, seeing
the mob descending, boarded the ferryboat
with his party and turned her downstream.
The mob took possession of the Mountain
Girl and commenced q determined chase.
The steamer not yet having sufficient pres
sure, soon fell behind, but subsequently
she got in shape and commenced gain.
ing rapidly on the slow-going ferry, and in
. short time approached SO closely that
capture seemed imminent; but
fortunately the Mountain Boy, faster
boat, appeared on the scene on her regular
trip up from Ashland to Louisa. She was
hailed by the Sheriff, pressed into service,
and the party rapidly transferred 10 her.
When the transfer had been successfully
made, the Girl, black with an excited, en-
ragged and bowling mob, appeared in sight,
and the exciting chase was resumed; but
the Boy soon distanced them. Further on,
some militiamen were transferred from the
steamer Hudson in midstream, who took
charge of the prisoners, whea~npon the
chase was abandoned. The murderers were
lodged in Jail at Msysvile late at night.
A DISPATCH from Red Wing, Mimi,
says Andrew Gunderson and Fred Matter
were drowned while skating.
ST. PETERSBURG dispatches say the
natives Of the Kuldja frontier massacred the
inhabitants of two Chinese settlements in
retaliation for recent cruelty. defeating $50
Chinese troops.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13


of hands, has had great success among
of invalids who had not much the matter
with them, and to whom imagination
was much the same as medicine. When
he tried his ecclesiastical hands on .
balky horse, he made q lamentably con-
spicuous failure. The man who owned
the horse had paid the Bishop three dol
lars, as the ecclesiastic would not make
the attempt unless paid that price in adj
vance. The laying of hands on the
beasts head had the effect of frighten-
ing him and making him furious. So,
from baker, he suddenly changed to q
kicker. Knocking the Bishop down, the
animal ran away, and, as he ran, kicked
to pieces the buggy which was fastened
behind him. The Bishop reputation in
Salt Lake City as healer of disease
does not stand as high as it did before
he attempted that experiment in horse
dOct0ring.
While the Portuguese church of st.
John the Baptist in Boston was under
going repairs last September, the work.
men found a spring of pure water be-
meath the building. A well was dug,
above it shrine was erected, and the
water was consecrated. The pastor of
the church assured the people that there
was no miraculous power or even medi-
cal virtue in the water, and that If any
cures had been effected they were simply
the result of faith in God. But the peo-
pie would not accept the explanation, and
the stories of the remarkable virtues of
the water spread rapidly. Soon there
was a perfect rush Of people to the
church and it was found necessary to
establish restrictions in regard to sup
plying the coveted fluid. Applicants are
now required to repeat prayers for the
souls in purgatory, and to drop q cent
into the contribution-box, and are sup
piled with the water in bottles N
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-28
Brother Gardner's Philosophy.


aft had chance to lib nv life over
agin," said the President of the Lime
Kiln Club, as solemn hush fell upon
the meeting, Il should chalk down sartin
fings dat should 'spect to come to pass,
an ] should chalk down some odder
sartin' tingS dat l shouldn't reckon on
anless cyclone got loose an tore down
de fences. should look fur:
"De man who eats onions to stop an
argy wild cherry man he meets gwine
down town.
81 should 'spect men who owed de
moas' an war de least able to pay to
FAR de bes' clothes an have de moas'
change when circus comes along.
81 should 'spect my naybur TO empty
his ashes on de spot moas' convenient to
himself widout any reference as to
wheder de spot was on my land or his.
81 should 'spect dat broadcloth an
silk would be worn on de street by peo-
pie who fill up on cold Eaters at home.
Il should 'spect de enmity of men
whom l did not lend to, an be beat by
nine outer ten of SIGH as | favored.
81 should 'spect to be looked upon as
a fanatic by men belongin' to different
church from mine, an to be abused an
called fool by men votin' de opposite
political ticket.
81 should 'spect about so much bad
weather-about so much sickness-about
so many pains an aches, an hungry
days an lonely nights, an KNOWN de
world as know it now, | should 'spect
de boats TO run, an de trains to 90 out,
an do TO c,lo,, 7
bed wild de ager or ober in de cabbage
lot in de bes' of health.
''As fur de fings l should't look fur,
dey am almoas' too numerous to men
shun.
81 shouldn't look fur laborin' man
workin' fur ten shillin's day to permit
his whisky to cost mo- dan his flour.
81 shouldn't look fur a girl airning'
TO- dollars 3 week to dress like bank
er's wife nor put on de agony of prin-
cess.
81 shouldn't look fur my naybur to
sweat his collar drivin' cows outer my
garden, any mo- dan he would expect
me to bust my suspenders keepin' de
boys away from his harvest apples.
Il shouldn't look fur my chill en- to
come up widout faults, nor my fam ly to
lib widout bein' hit by malice or wounded
by gossip.
81 shouldn't look for any mo- room in
de street kyar dan paid fur nor better
suit of clothes dan my circumstances
permitted.
81 shouldn't look fur any mans word
or promise to stan good onless he was
sartin dat he would be de gamer by
maxim EN- so. 1t am now time to pro
coed wild de bizness which has reinstated
us togeder, an de triangle will be stricll-
en- in due form an colleckshun taken
up to defray the expenses of obsarvin'
de transit of Venus from de northwest
co'ner of de City Hall Market. "-DetroI
Free Press,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-28
Stopped the Wrong Man.

Among the spectators at the Demo-
cratic Convention, recently, for short
time in the afternoon, might have been
seen the benevolent and handsome coun-
tenance, even at his age, of Dr. G.. V.
Williamson, of Lodi. The doctor no
longer takes an active part in politics,
but he has been a war-horse in times
gone by, and little of the old fire could
yet be seen to sparkle in his eye when it
came to making nomination or casting
a vote. In ante bellum days he was a
Representative of "Old TuOlumnen in
the Assembly for one term, and this calls
to mind an incident of the period when
he was a practicing physician in Sonora.
In those days the doctor was one of the
"boys'-an Apollo in feature, took his
toddy straight and often, fought the
tiger and played monte, although his
favorite sport was d" draw poker" in a
game of which he would leave the
dining-table any time to take hand.
nor would he leave so long as he could
get anybody to play with him; indeed,
it was a prOverbial fact that he never
sought his pillow so long as he had a
cent in his pocket. But Just here it
might be well enough to state, paren-
thetically, that the doctor has long since
settled down, got married, attends
church regularly and has class in Sab
bath school-in fact has gone through a
general reconstruction. To continue
with the story: One dark, dreary night
he was called out several miles into the
country to see a patient, and on his way
back was stopped by some highwaymen
and ordered to surrender his wealth.
The doctor reined in his horse, looked
down at the road-agents, and said: -
guess you do not know who l am, do
you?" The leader of the band informed
him that they did not, nor did they care,
but if he didn't hurry up and hand over
his money and valuables they did know
he would soon be corpse. /" Well, by
gosh" he said, ''my name is DR.. Will
hanson, and was never known to leave
a gambling-room so long as had cent
in my pocket. Have you got any chawin'
tObacker?" That name was sufficient.
The robbers knew they had stopped the
wrong man, and the chief courteously
rendered the professor of physic chew
of tobacco and told him to pass on
Stockton (Cd[ I11depende1at.