davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

DAVID DAVIS failing to appear on the
I'd, the Senate adjourned till June 8. The
Love- Wheeler contest was resumed in the
House, but went over.
A BROKEN rail wrecked q Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy train near Fredericks-
vile, ILL.,, June L. Three coaches were
overturned and thirty passengers injured,
but no lives were lost.
WILLIAM MEAKIN and wife, immi-
grants bound for St. Paul, Mimi, blew out
the gas in New York hotel and were suf-
located.
THE boiler of Dickerson's saw-mill,
Ruckersville, Va, exploded the other day,
killing Young Davis, engineer, and James
Carpenter, colored. Several others were
severely injured.
The international monetary confer
ence is postponed till next April.
SANDY MATTHEW'S, colored, was
hanged at Memphis, Tenn, Jnne 2. James
C. Harvey was executed at Carrollton, Ga,
on the same day.
The jury in the case of George Ellis,
one of the three men convicted Of the MUIR
der of the Gibbons family at Ashland, KY. j.,
in December last, found verdict of man
slaughter, June I'd.
KOEzBERG & Rims extensive plan
ing mill, Chicago, was destroyed by fire
June 1. The loss on stock, machinery and
building is $3OO, 900, with no insurance. John
Kartheiser, an employee, lost his life in an
effort to save some papers.
MAJOR G.. n. BLISS, of Providence,
r. l., who was last week elected State
Senator, has become insane from the excite
ment of the contest.
MARIA HOGENMEYER, of Brooklyn,
N. T.. left property valued at "a, 600, be-
queathing s. to each of her three sons and
the residue to the Catholic Church to pay
for masses for the repose of her soul.
REV. j. E. RICHARDS, pastor of the
Congregational Church at St. Johns, Mich.
has commenced suit against NJ. Babcock,
locally noted infidel, claiming SIC, 900 dam.
ages. Babcock made statement in Ger.
tain circles to the effect that he believed
Richards would preach Ingersollism if i,
paid better than the gospel, and that he
thought more of rich mans fleece than q
poor mans soul. This constitutes the libe
complained Of.
FIVE additional British war, vessels
have reached Alexandra, and France has
forwarded more iron clads. The Porte does
not favor sending squadron so long as the
allied fleet remains. Representatives of all
the powers urged the Sultan of Turkey to
declare in favor of the Khedive, and sum.
mon to Constantinopie the leaders of the re-
volt. The Egyptian army is plundering the
garrison towns.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

There are no Jews in Bethlehem o.
Nazareth. In Bethlehem, two EnelisR
women have girls school with more
than thirty pupils.
I'm Nebraska, out Of 1873 churches
only fifty have buildings. In Minneso.
ta, out 120 Missionary churches, seventy.
nine have no church home.
-Messrs. Thomas and Henry Slosn,
Of New York. are about to erect . lab
oratory for Yale College as a memorial
to their father. Henry Sloan. to cost
about $50, 900. -
The Kansas Methodist Conference
reports II, ISL members, gain of 500.
and 3,469 probationers. an increase q
ga. It has 211 local preachers, ~
churches, and $40 Sunday schools.
Brooklyn Tabernacle was decorated
with flowers Sunday, the occasion being
the reception of 164 new members. fifty
four Of whom were baptized by DR.. Tai.
mage. This addition makes the total
membership of the Tabernacle 2,751.
Mrs. B. H. Hill and Mrs. F. 81
Hicks were elected trustees of the West
minister Presbyterian Church in Roch.
ester. The statute says ''any discreet
person may be so chosen, but choosing
woman is believed to be unprecedented
Ats Methodist Conference held a
Malone. N, T.. recently, Chaplain Nc.
Cabe made 80 strong an appealin behalf
Of the church extension enterprise that
ex-Vice President Wheeler Presby.
terian-gave $1,000 to it. Mr.. McCabl
says they have built 40 new churches
the past year, and expect to increase the
number during the year. He thinks Z
critical campaign on the temperance
question is going on in Kansas. and he
proposes to garrison the State with a.
many Methodist churches IS possible.
/ Chicago Herald. ~
An ingenious method of arriving al
an estimate of the number of children
who succeed in evading the compulsory
bylaws of the School Board has been
adopted by the Ragged School Union Of
Liverpool. A band of music was hired
to play for two hours day during school
hours in different parts of the city, and .
record kept of all the juveniles who were
attracted by the music. In four days
they counted no fewer than 5000 chill.
dren of school age, for the most part
squalid and il-fed, standing round the
band at time when they ought to have
been at school. HEss fF
"A lady who had tickets to sell for .
church concert met bright little boy on
the street a day or two ago and inquired
If his mother was at home, as she
wanted to sell her some tickets for con-
cert and readings at one of the churches.
With beaming face the lad said: g IN
buy one myself" "Where will you get
your money, Freddie?" He lifted up
his large brown eyes to her face, and
standing on tip-toe. replied: "rveple
ty of money in the bank for the church;
come home with me and I'll get the
money" The young banker not only
bought the ticket, but loaned his mother
money to buy q second.-Chicago Jour-
H0I. %
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09
PONGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Describe suit of old clothes in TIVE
letters?-C D (seedy.) A-----.-. ~
Which is heavier, a half or q fun
moon?-The half; because the full moo1
is as light again.
Mistress Forgot it! Why I told
you to impress it upon your mind"
Bridget-''1t was on my moind put it,
mum. an me moind whit asthray with
it'-Rdrpcr's Bazaar. "a -
-s'What becomes of all the pianos?''
asks a writer: When they get too old
and frail to be of any fnrther service We
believe they are cut down and made into
accordions.-N 7. Commercial.
An old salt, when asked how fa
north he had ever been, replied that he
had been so far north that .'the cows
when MIXED beside a red hot stove gave
ice cream"
A little oil its wrath assuages,
And helps e6ectually to soOth 1t;
The ships path, too, it serves to smooth T.
How curious. is it not that speM Oh
They had terrible time at Kentou
horse race recently. The horse that was
set down to be distanced took the bit in
his teeth and in spite of pulling went to
the front and won, cleaning out every.
body but a green old countryman who
had bet on that horse.-ErchanQe
"A gentleman made a rockery in
front of his house, in which he planted
some beautiful ferns, and having put up
the following notice, found it more eff.
Gent and less expensive than spring.
guns or man-traps. The fear-insPiring
inscription was: "Beggars. beware!
Soolopendriums and Poiypodiums ars
set here"
"A clergyman named Way. Of,
rather ocular nature and very cadaver-
Gus build, was recently accosted by a
man with the inquiry, ..Are you pastor
Way p" /" Passed away!r was the
response; ...bless you, ID! srmaa good
deal of skeleton, I'll own, but haven't
quite passed away yet.-Ronse Sentinel.
Hamilton. Ont, has police force
of forty-fve men. The saEeraee hight
is almost precisely six feet The Chief
A. D. Stewart, is six 1t -four and hall
inches in hight. There are fourteen
other officers over six feet high, and only
four are under five feet nine inches. The
men are big enough to be good. Detroit
Free Press. &s<t "a
The Fargo argus says q st. Paul
youth attempted to shoot his anomoriata.
Will the argus please ten us what that
is?-E1change. With infinite pity for
your ignorance we kinetellgySu.s SX&
Moriata'' is the eldest sister of care
You-There Moriarity,'' and is now re-
siding in New York with her brother,
who IS member Of the police force
Foreign journals tell Of q young
German couple who triedStoskiss each
other ten thousand times in ten hours.
Three thousand kisses were given in
two hours, bat at the expiration of the
third hour the girl tainted and the
young mans lips were paralyzed. Il
appears that it is possible to get too
much of good thing. Three thousand
kisses in two hours should have sufficed
until the next night, anyhow. Very few
Norristown young men exact more in
one evening-save Sunday night. when
they work few hours overtime. ANss.
Sistos0n Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

Philip Speyer, sixty-four years of age. of No.
$40 East Eighth street, died.On Friday from the
bite of a cat. About three weeks ago pet fe-
male cat, which had been with the Speyer fam
lily for years, gave birth to kittens and carried
her young to a closet in the cellar Of the house.
The cat then abandoned the little ones and
could not be induced to return to them. Mr.
Speyer endeavOred to force her to do so, and
with this purpose carried the cat to where the
kittens lay. Twice the cat got away, but was
caught, and in trying again to compel her to
stay with the kittens Mr.. Speyer was bitten on
the thumb. He paid no attention to the bite,
however, but when he went up to his room he
was surprised to see that his clothes were
bloody. The marks made by the teeth Of the
cat were very small, but the blood freely
er tied his thumb in rag, thus stopping the
flow of blood, but the pain increased and soon
became unbearable. Mr.. Speyer then went to
a neighbOring drug store, where he obtained q
lotion that temporarily relieved the pain. Dur
ing the night, however, he was restless and
could not sleep, and almost before daybreak
started to work, fancying that in the hustle Of
business he would nnd some relief. At noon
he was compelled to 60 home and take to his
bed.
Toward night his thumb and arm began to
swell: he grew feverish and excftable, and re-
quested his daughter to send for the family
physician. The doctor found his patient suf-
fering from lymphangitis- Inflammation Of
the Emphatic vessels-that turned into cry
sipelas, crept up his arm and made suppu-
ration of the tissue. Remedies were applied
and the arm was lanced in several places. but
the agony of the patient still continued, and his
arm began to swell to immense proportions.
In spite Of all efforts to save him he finally
died on Friday afternoon, after many dayB of
most excruciating agony.
For the first week after being bitten Mr..
Speyer was at times delirious, and often f. re-
quired several persons to hold him in bed DIR.
Lilienthal said that death was due to exh aus.
ton, and that the poison which produced the
erysipelas may have come from the cats t,eth
or have been absorbed from the atmosphere
into the bite.-N. !. Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

MIsCREANTs defaced the soldiers
monument on the grounds Of the State Nor.
NAL School Ut Millersville, Pa, May 30.
bespattering 1t with ink and other sub
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS I'm BRIEF.
REDUCTION of public debt during
May, $40, 81, Al.

ADv1cEs from Sonora state that the
hostile Indians, pursued BY Mexican troops,
are fleeing In the direction Of Arizona.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

"A Salado correspondent of the Eos,
son Journal writes: / will venture to as
sert that one of the most novel weddings
that ever took place in Texas was the
marriage, on May 4, of Mr.. S. Gentyle
of Burleson County, to Miss Rachel
Watson, near Salado. The groom was
six feet high and weighed 100 pounds,
inches and weighed only sixty-dye
pounds. Miss Watson was twenty six
years old, and well known as the
''dwarf of Bell County,"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

REED, counsel for Guiteau, has ap-
piled to Judge Gray for writ OF habeas
corpus. The Judge preferred to wait until
the ease had been presented to his associ-
ates.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

SERVICES in memory of Abraham
Lincoln were held at the monument near
the entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 18th, in the presence Of a
large number of visitors. The monument
was decorated with flowers. The graves In
the cemetery of the Naval Hospital, the
MARTYRS Tomb" in Fort Green Park, and
the graves Of Grand Army companions and
soldiers In the Catholic Cemetery were also
decorated.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

MEETINGS in Chicago and st. Louis
between Representatives Of the mills and Of
amalgamated workers in iron and steel re.
suited only In . determination to close the
works over vast region Of country, either
by lockouts or strikes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

Mr.. Ella, auditor of post-ofice &C
counts, who Is really an officer Of the Treas
ury Department, refused to obey an order
of the Postmaster. General to remove to the
treasury quarters. Secretary Folger de-.
clined to interfere in the matter. By order
Of Mr.. Howe, the auditors room was un-
locked and his furniture, books and papers
were quickly transferred to the upper floor
by q hundred messengers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

ENGLISH papers print a story that both
Gladstone and Harcourt have been warned
that at recent Irish meeting in London the
hope was expressed that Gladstone would
be assasMnated next, and this expression
was received with loud and significant ap-
nlaIlse. ---r
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

The vote in the Senate Military Com
mittee on the question Of favorably report
ing Sewell's bill for the relief of Fitz John
Porter was as follows: Yeas-Messrs. Sew
ell, Cockrell, Maxey, Grover and Hampton.
Nays-Logan and Cameron Of Pennsylvania.
Harrison and Hawley were absent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

GENERAL TERRY has information
from Milk River that Big Bear il making
ready to come south of the boundary to hunt,
with five hundred lodges, and has sent word
that he will fight II an attempt be made to
drive him away. 80 ~
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

SECRETARY FoLGER has recently had
sstartling experience in the engraving and
printing bureau. The other night Prof.
CASTELAR, found two Of the Government dies,
representing the tens on the National Bank
notes, lying outside the safe and within the
reach of the watchmen. Through Col. Irish
the dies were sent at once to Secretary Fol-
ger, who took time to satisfy himself that
the eventwas caused wholly by careless.
ness. Mr.. Bell, the custodian Of the plates,
was dismissed, and Captain Burrows, of
New York, was temporarily placed in charge
of fhe safes -s--st'- '-a-7--
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

Theodore Triton is about to print q
new volume of poetry.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

Valley Editorial Association proved pleasant
and profitable to the craft.
A bloated body recently found float
ing in the river has been identified as that of
Hiram Sweet, the Atchison jeweler.
A great amount of cheese and butter
is being shipped from Southern Kansas to
Colorado and New Mexico.
Hays City and vicinity suffered consid-
erably from the recent storm. Big Creek
became a rushing torrent, carrying away
Yost's dam and part Of his mill.
At . largely attended temperance
meeting in Leavenworth, a few days ago, .
resolution was passed asking the Mayor to
remove saloon recently opened adjacent to
the public reading-room of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. In case the
city authorities do not act, the aid Of the
State will be invoked.
Emporia people want music in the
public schools.
Sedan druggists are taxed $50.
A drove of sixteen hundred Texas
cattle passed through Sheridan County re-
Gently, on their way to Nebraska.
There are forty-three churches in
Leavenworth County, twenty-one being in
Leavenworth City. The Methodists have
eleven, the Catholics ten, Presbyterians five,
Baptists three, and Christians three. NC
1t is not improbable that mixed trains
will be put on between Atchison and Oma.
ha on June Is, and regular passenger trains
after July 1. Several train loads will be
sent this week. but nothing regular, as the
track is still in imperfect condition.
Emporia will build two new school
houses this summer. to cost $4,000.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-08
\ Pus-UP Job OF BiSanly.

B~oRDENToWN, N. j., Jan. 23.-Linda
Blair, alias Page, of Johnstown, has been
before the Burlington County Court, in
Mount Holly, in answer to a charge of biga-
my. Several years ago she married VIM. II.
Blair, of Burlington county, who soon after
ward went to Montana. For a number of
years she heard no tidings of him and in the
meantime James Page, of Johnstown, made
her an offer of marriage, which she refused,
saying she had y husband living somewhere
in the West. On Ayril 9th, 1881, q notice
appeared in the county newspaper announc-
ing che death Of her husband in Montana
Territory Oh March 10th Of that year. Page
renewed his offer, ard they were married.
They were living happily together when just
before the sitting of the Grand Jury of Bur-
lington county, Blair the supposed dead hus-
band, appeared in the village of JohnstoWn
and on learning that his wife had married
again, had her indicted for bigamY. She as
serted that she was innocent of any attention
to do wong, and supposed that the death
notice was proof positive Of her husbands
demise. It is said that the notice was pub
lished to cause trouble. The Court suspend
ed sentence.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-08

Leadville Democrat The season of
sleighing is In rull bloom, if such a phrase
be admissible, and yesterday our beautiful
avenue WAS crowded with cutters drawn by
blooded horses racing along at the top Of
their speed. LeadYille is full of fine horses
pretty women and handsome cutters, and
that kind of a horse drawing that kind of a
cutter containing that kind of a woman ia .
combination about as attractive as q man
wants to look at. No city in the east can
surpass Leadville in this respect. and it is al
most worth a trip to the Carbonate camp in
midwinter just to see the sight on Harrison
avenue on such q day IS yesterday when the
sleighing is perfect. The keen afr lends q
glowssto the female cheek and a lustre to the
female eye here on the summit of the great
Rocky mountains, not elsewhere seer, and
in view of the fact that 90 many of our
charming young ladies take to cutters and
fast horses, and SO many of our charming
young men do the same thing, It is no Q
der that the matrimonial market Is 30 brisk
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-08
WichcrafG i'm Pennsylvania.

Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, has rather
more than its share of weak-minded, credu-
lous and superstiilous persons, if the follow
ing story is to have full credit. 1t relates to
a case in Salisbury township:
In the early part of last fall a young man,
newly married, became affected with a ner-
vous affection closely resembling st. Vitus'
dance. His commissions were periodical,
and while unde. there influence his antics
were very strange. His friends and others
in attendance upon him were unable to &C
count for his conduct, and soon the story of
his sf1 ction began to spread abroad. Pub
lie opinion finally settled down to the con-
vjction that it was a genuine case of witch
identity of the witch. Instead of seeking out
some old crone, the Salisbury people allowed
their suspicious to fasten upon a Winsome
young woman, resident in the township. In
consequence of this superstitious belief she
has become an object of terror to her former
friends and acquaintances, and they shun
her as one possessing an ''evil-eye." Parents
in the immediate neighborhood have grown
fearful Of the influence Of the supposed
witch, and restrain their children from
going out of doors after dark unless carefully
guarded. If a child falls sick and acts a
little strangely the parents are at once seized
with the idea that he witch has brought it
under the influence of her mysterious power.
Men and women are overcome by fear, and
throughout the community the people have
nailed old horse-shoes over their doors, be-
lieving that in no other manner can they
ward off the witch's power over persons
and property. The terror in the neighbor-
hood is SO great that many grown people,
who are supposed to be intelligent, are actu-
ally afrai. to venture out after nightfall.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-08

IN this camp. A young man who wouldn't
court a young lady after two or three rides
with her in a cutter, behind a fast horse,
hasn't got any blood in his veins, and we
don't grow that kind of a young man in this
camp. Leadville young ladies affect cutters
and fast horses because it shows off a seal
skin saque to wonderful advantage, and a
sealskin sacque is one Of the greatest aids to
matrimony in this vale Of tesrs-in fact a
sealskln sacque. snugly fitting a graceful fe-
male form, seems like the very down of an
angel.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-08
AN
And One Of Those Very Kind and Con-
stuerate Females.

Recently a woman visited a dry goods
store in Lockport and asked to be shown
some fine silks. The obliglng clerk hauled
over the stock. made the goods into pleats,
heid them at arms length, expatiated on their
merits, but the customer languidly found
fault and said she would call again. Just as
she was about to leave the store the clerk
gathered up a beautiful lus+rous silk, and
holding it at arms length about three feet
above the counter, after the style of a dress
when completed, and made no more at
tempts to dispose of the pattern. Just -.
this instant the woman caught sight of her
sister through the plate glass doors. please
hold that there a moment till I call my sister,
will YOU" The clerk said he would. but at
ter holding it a moment or two relinquished
his grip, and the woman not coming back.
put up his tumbled goods with much mental
conversation. Three days after, the clerk
saw the same woman coming across the walk
leading to the store and hastily taking down
the identical goods, gathered them quickly,
and assuming An exhausted air. awaited her
appearance. She entered and walking down
the store spied the clerk with solemn face
still holding the goods, She remembered her
former visit instantly. and quickly said:
why, you haven't been holding that dress
pattern ever since l was in here the other
day, have you 2" Certainly, madam" he
responded, ''our aim is to please, and obey
that don't beat all. Such loyalty deserves
recognition" and then and there taking out
her purse she purchased-a spool of thread,
remarking meanwhile that she would call
again With her sister and look at the silks by
gasllght.
Thus doth veulting ambition occasionally
take a tumble to itself, as it were.