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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-26
POLITICAL PALAVER.
Willy Sherman's Tactics to Secure
the Presidency.
BOB LINcoLNs CLEVER LITTLE BLUFF
For Bagging the Same Persimmons-Gres-
ham Gazing WstfulIy in the Same
Direction - Bluff Ben
and Little Bill.

WASHINGTON, December 25.-The reasons
which have caused the Republican Senators
TO hesitate to elect Senator Anthony Presi-
dent of the Senate strengthen with time.
Senator Sherman sspires 10 succeed Ell
munds. By artf1l ways he stimulates the
objections to electing Anthony. There is
no want OF good feeling for Anthony and
but for the precarious state Of his health
there would be no hesitation about elect.
ing him. Sherman urges the wisdom OF
not taking chances unnecessarily, and sug-
gests that there is no knowing what the
high living at the White House
may bring about or how undesirable
condition Of things would be produced
were anything to happen there with sens-
tor Anthony, whose feeble hold on life is
admitted by no one more readily than him
self, the vice president. Sherman covets
the chair himself and unless Senator An
thony becomes Unexpectedly robust there
is fair prospect of his getting il.
Getting Into Line.
1t is not solely the chances in life in the
Presidential office that Sherman counts.
Gradually be is getting place in the list
from which the Chicago convention will
choose the candidate. This is being sys-
tematically worked up. In view OF the un-
mistakable tendency in the Republican
ranks TO avoid fight between
Arthur and Blaine or others, Sher
man is being showed ahead as
ha uuln nj ho A
part Of the plan is TO elect him President
OF the Senate. 1t is argued that il wodld
be valuable Endorsement, would elevate
him before the country and help 10 Chi-
Csro. Shermar'S supporters say that there
is nothing in the idea Of electing Anthony,
except the gra'ilicatinn To him, which, II
is urged, would not Justify the risk. With
Senator Anthony the election to the post
of President Of the Senate is sentiment
This Sherman is willing 10 crafty il il is
insisted on, and Anthony is understood 10
be willing TO tender his resignation at the
end of a brief period and let SAerman try
his hand.
shernan's Relations with Blaine.
The relations between Blaine and Sher.
man are most friendly. A variety OF cir
cumstenCes favor the report that an un.
derstanding exists between them about the
nomination. There is good authority for
saving that Blsines plan is rather than
run serious risk to withdraw under an
rstauding which will give him the
place he held under the Garfield admins.
tration. That such an understanding has
been reached between Blaine and Sherman
is the substance OF O recent rumor. The
Blaine Senators are generally for Sherman
to succeed Edmunjs as President Of the
Senate.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-26

Iva msn can't be both good and rich, be
ought ct least 10 Be sise: let every men
trtrsrs for the dsy Of sdver,ity By iayins
IN sirck DIR. Buirs Cough Syrup, sufs
cure for coughs and colda
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
Fair Woman's Latest Accomplishment.

A train on the Fitchburg Railroad wa:
Just pulling out of Cambridge, Mass.
at the rate of about twelve miles ar
hour, when woman apparently about
quarter of a century in years, grace
full, pretty and charming. said in 6
healthy tone: SIS this Cambridge?
A nod from the Intercepted party ir
the affirmative caused the fair one to
Jump from her seat and rush to the real
end of the car. The men were startled
and one or two ancient relics of the
feminine gender uttered consumptive
shrek as the belated passenger reached
the platform, and both men and womer
rose in their seats all expecting that the
excited beauty would alight from the
moving train and go through series OF
gyratiOns which should put to shame 3
Fourth of July pinwheel after it came
off the barn door and was going il
through the grass on its own response.
bility. But in this all were mistaken.
She did nothing of the sort; she grasped
the guard rail with one hand, sent one
one dandy little foot earthward, poised
for a moment, and then swung off that
,rain in a manner that would have
Ilade the brakeman on the head end OF
q local freight train pale with envy.
Yhe agile young lady landed and kept
Aght side up, raised her parasol, and
With a saucy toss of her head, walked
towards the depot, proud in an achieve
ment heretofore never dreamed of by heI
SeX.-BOStOn Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
Conyicts Exchange Personalities.

One of the queerest eases on record
developed itself to-day. Policeman
Garham Yesterday took a captured con-
Wet to Huntsville penitentiary and re-
turned to the officers there. This morn
ing Garham, having nothing to do,
thought he would call up George Has
selmeyer, who had been sentenced at
the last term of the Harris County
Court to seventeen years in the peni-
Tertiary for horse-stealing. Garham
knew Hasselmeyer, so when the con-
Wet who answered TO that name was
brought up he was astOnished to find
that it was not the same person who
had been sentenced under that name.
The penitentiary Warden insisted that
it was the only Hasselmeyer confined
in the penitentiary, whereupon the con-
vict, seeing that further concealment
was useless, made confession. Ii
seems that James kennon, who was
sentenced at the same term of court as
Hasselmeyer to three years, and Has
selmeyer were chained together, and
on the way to Huntsville Hasselmeyer
made the astounding proposition to
Kennon that they should change names
and terms, Hasselmeyer offering Ken
non 81 900 to work his seventeen years
sentence, while he should work the
three years sentence of kennon. Ken
non accepted the proposition. When
Hasselmeyer' name was called at the
penitentiary and he was told to registe!
kennon stepped forward and declared
that he was the man. As neither the
Warden nor the guard who brought the
cOnvicts to Huntsville knew the names
of the men the ruse was completely
successful. and had it not been for the
mere chance of Garham asking to see
Hasselmeyer, whom he happened to
know, it is something that might hap
pen at any time, and yet none of the
officers would be any wiser, as they are
not supposed to know the convicts per-
sonally until after they are registered
at the penitentiary Hasselmeyer was
found on convict plantation working
under the name of kennon. He had
been working outside of the walls, as
short-term prisoners are not so closely
confined and guarded as are those IN
for a long term Houston (TeI. Special
10 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
No ssDuIl Season for News"

Talk about .'the dull season for
uews!" There was once, but now is nc
more All the news centers of the
world are tapped by the telegraphic
wires. The ticking of the instrument
is unceasing. Newspaper men, like
race-horses, appear to go faster in hot
weather than at any other time. In
every well-regulated office in the coun.
try, in the small hours every night, .
cross kind of man, called a managing
editor, goes around with big club
knocking off .'heads,' knocking Out
columns and squeezing up the paper
go it can buckle its belly-band for red
hot run through the press to catch the
first morning train. o, no, thank you.
The man who was constantly coming
around asking: Don't you want some
thing with which to fillup your paper?
was shot down stairs long ago. Cinci'.
natl Commercial Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
Brother Gardeners Health Hints.

'.Seb'ral members Of dis club, said
the President as the bars were let down
and the meeting driven in, ..have axed
me to write out set of rules, reguia-
shuns an medical hints to be followed
durin' the heated sezun. have dashed
off de followin':
/. .Doan' war ObercOats nor ober-
shoes nor ear-muffs doorin' July an
August.
:. Hire cheap ham to crar de
snow off yer sidewalks, so as not to
oberheat yer blood,
8. "Let de ole woman split de wood
an de chillen hoe de garden. an doan
let nobody beat yer in foot-raee fur "a
prize of fifteen cents.
4. Hang out late nights. lay abed
late in de mawnin', pick up your meals
at beer saloons, an talk null Polytlchs
to keep de blood circulatin ~,
5. s.Slidin' down hill, skatin, sildin
an snowballin' am dellyterlous to health
in midsummer.
..Dat's about all de advice have 70
gin YOU. an we we will now pureeed to
bizness. ''-DetroI Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24

famine. Cisterns have been drained, gar
dens dried up and the effect of the drouth
plainly seen in the poverty of the vegetable
market. Persons who for weeks had de-
pended on their neighbors for drinking
water have had even this supply cut of.
SURGEON OWEN reported case Of vel.
low fever in the Marine Guard at Pensaco-
la, Fla, and two other probable cases.
Measures were Immediately taken to ise-
late the patients.
THE other morning E. NJ. Mooney, City
Marshal and Chief of Police of Helena,
Ark, was shot and killed by some unknown
| assassin.
A BOILER at the Falls City Brewery,
situated outside the city limits of Louis
vile, KY, exploded the other morning. 1t
tore out the boiler house, passed through
a shed adjoining and went two hundred
feet in the air. In descending it struck a
slaughter house, crushing through the roof
and floor, brining up in the cellar. Though
| several persons were about the boiler, not
one was injured.
LIEUTENANT TAYLOR, commanding the
detachment of Marines at the Pensacola,
Fla, navy yard, teIegraphed the Depart
ment that one private died of yellow fever,
three were in the hospital, two doing well,
and one very sick. Strict quarantine had
been established.
MARTIN BRADLEY, negro, was hanged
by mob at Terrill, Texas, for an outrage.
GUS assault upon a white woman.
THE Lower House of the Georgia Legis.
lature voted s., 0O0,OO for a a new Capitol
building.
A TORNADO recently swept over Chat.
tanooga, Tenn. The G. T., Va. & Ga,
and Ala. Great Southern Depots were un.
rooted, and large number of buildings
were unroofed and several blown down.
Flying timbers seriously injured ]. H. Jen.
nings, going through a box car before il
struck him. There were several other
casualties. A heavy hail storm prevailed
which caused several horses to run away,
one being killed and many injured. Tele.
graph wires generally were FRUSTRATED.
The Mt. Sterling, KY, accommodation
going to Lexington ran into the rear car OF
train on the Kentucky Central at Win.
chester crossing, recently, exploding four
hundred kegs of giant powder. The depot
was wrecked and the engine blown to
atoms. Engineer Schiller was not found.
Yardmaster Randolph was killed. Con.
ductor Michel was fatally and several other
persons badly injured. The explosion was
said to be perhaps the heaviest ever heard
in America. The debris was thrown SC
high that it did not come down for fully ten
minutes, and people from five miles in
the country rushed in to see if Winchester
had suddenly been destroyed by @ earth
quake. 1t was regarded as the worst rail
road accident that ever occurred in Ken
! tucEy
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
Seventeen Men Fall from a Staging.

BOHEMIAN, N. T., August 12.
Seventeen men were working on staging
In the west end of the Bozeman tunnel. The
staging was fourteen feet from the bottom
of the tunnel. The timbers spread and the
men dropped to the rock bottom amid the
wreck of heavy timber. One, an Italian.
was dangerously injured. The County Ply.
stefan from Fort Ellis went at once to the
scene of the accident, and found seven more
of the men with broken arms, legs and
shoulders, besides being seriously cut up by
Jagged points of timbers. Their limbs were
SO swelled that the doctor could not givs
the results, except as to the Italian.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
The London Lancet stoutlv oppose

The London Lancet stoutly opposes
thepractice of putting binders on horses.
1t says: ut seems to us that they are
useless, ugly, and, to some extent. in
furious to the eyesight. The most beau.
tiful feature of the horse is the eye. II
it were not hid from our gaze it would
serve to denote sickness, pain or pleas
ure. Many time would the driver
spare the whip on seeing the animals
lmploring eye"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
A Pair OF PrOdigies.
BRUNSWICK, Me-, Augu

DHUNbWICk, uE.s august II.
Two very youthful citizens of Bridgton
distinguished themselves yesterday. A
little five-year.old son of Z. Hamnay, while
playing near a pond, fell into water six
feet deep. In some unaccountable manner
he padded to log, and climbing upon 1t
by his own unaided efforts walked ashore.
Then, instead of running home haIf-fright.
ened to death, the little fellow set to work
to get his hat, having secured which he
started for home, dripping wet, but not q
bit scared by his adventure. The other
prodigy is Walter Douglas, aged six, who
caught twenty brook trout, one of which
weighed pound.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24

Headlines in the Louisville Courier
Journal: "Murderous-At tornado steal;
out of the quiet of spring day and
sweeps from Chattanooga nearly to the
Gulf path of death and devastation I'M
squalled in the history of that section "
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24

The cost of keeping in first-class
style a horse and carriage in New York
CITY is from forty to forty-five dollars q
month. 1t takes "a mint OF money" to
run Robert Bonner's one hundred and
seventy-horse power stable.-M Y. Her
aid.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
GENERAL.

A FLORENCE, (Ariz.), dispatch states
that the Wells & Fargo express was robbed
between Riverside and Pioneer of 500,
the express agent, John Collins, was killed,
one passenger wounded and both stage
horses killed.
THE private insane asylum in town Et-
ting, Essex County, England, burned re-
Gently. Five of the inmates persisted, and
others were severely burned. DR.. Boyd,
proprietor of the institution, was killed
while attempting to save the lives of pa
tients. His son also persisted in the flames.
THE German Government notifies the
Austrian Government that all pig flesh inn
ported into Germany from Austria must
be accompanied by a certificate that it is
not American meat.
The text of the treaty of commerce and
amity between Mexico and Germany is
published. The treaty is said to contain
the most favorable terms to Germany. A
clause is that Germans are not to pay taxes
not levied on Mexicans; to be exempt from
military service and from contributions in
lieu thereof, also from forced loans.
AT Quebec, Canada, all the telegraphers
who went on strike returned to work, and
at Atlanta, Ga, all strikers applied to be
reinstated.
BUSINESS failures for the week ending
August 10th, 40, as against 1872 the previous
week.
IT has recently been learned that the as.
sassinated informer, James Carey, early in
1882 sent two men to London to shoot VIM.
E. Forster, then Chief Secretary for Ire.
land, but their courage failed them.
TWENTY-FIVE young men, who were
students at the university at st. Petersburg,
and connected with the Nihilist journal,
| have teen sent to Siberia.
THE Emperor of Germany contributed
$4,000 marks to the fund for the Lct ia
earthquake sufferers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
Vineyard Haven, Mass, Scourged.

BOSTON, MASS, August IL.
At one o'clock yesterday morning fire
broke out at Vineyard Haven, near Cottage
City, and at 2:45 a large number of cot.
tages, mostly belonging to summer resi-
dents, had been burned. 1t originated in
the harness mandatory of r. W. Croker,
and owing to the brisk northeast gale
quickly swept throegh the village to the
westward. There being no fire apparatus
in town, assistance was summoned from
Cottage City by telephone. Nearly al
the population of that place hastene
to the scene. The territory burned over
embraces about fifty acres of the heart
of the village. The loss can not be correct.
ly estimated, though it probably will fall
little short of 100000, and strikes almost a
death-blow at the ancient village. 1t leaves
hundreds ofpeople homeless, many of whom
are thrown upon the charity of their neigh.
bors. There is considerable insurance on
the property destroyed.
There was no loss of life, though the fire
spread quickly and covered territory
thickly settled. The town is at present full!
of summer boarders from Washington anc
elsewhere, and probably two hundred Of
them are burned out Of doors.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
THE LATEST.

in the Police Court of Washington City
recently in the civil rights case of Rev.
George h. Smith, colored, of Norwich,
Conn.,, against James w. Bell, proprietor
of a restaurant. The ground OF complaint
was that Bell had denied the accommoda-
lions of his restaurant to the plaintiff on
account of the latter's color, and suit was
brought to enforce the criminal provision
of the act known as the Civil Rights act.
The decision was in favor of the plaintiff,
and the defendant was found guilty of a
misdemeanor.
A LETTER received in San Francisco from
Alaska announced large gold discovery
near Yukon River, Alaska. Owing to the
extreme cold weather, twenty-eight degrees
below zero, it was impossible to do much
prospecting. The miners who made the
discovery were partly fitted out by man
who made discoveries in Arizona, and who
cleared over s., 0OO, 900 in that section.
A DECREE has been signed in Paris ex-
polling from France NJ. Boland, the Belgian
journalist.
BEFORE the United States Sub Commit
tee on Labor and Education, in session at
New York, Samuel Yompers, President of
the Amalgamated Trades and Labor Union,
denied that the socialistic element had
gained control of all labor organizations in
this country. 1t might be the case in few
| of the smaller ones, but the object of the
great union was only to secure benefits for
their members by mutual combination and
by legitimate means.
JUDGE JEREMIAH BLACK died at York,
Pa, August 18th, in the 74th year of his age.
A HALIFAX IN. So dispatch states that
in December, 1872, the brig New Dominion
sailed from Cowbay, Cape Breton, for Var
mouth with cargo of coal, and nothing
was ever heard of her. A diver working
at the wreck at Cedar Grove, near
Torbay Grove recently, discovered her
hull on the bottom, making out easily her
name on the stern. She is supposed to
have run on some reef at Cedar Grove, slid
off and sunk with all hands.
WHILE Richard and William Hams, two
young men of Williamsburg, N. Y, were
recently out in boat fishing, William fell
overheard and was drowned. Richard was
so overcome at his brothers. death, that he
made an attempt to strangle himself with
the anchor rope, but was prevented by a
fisherman who made his appearance.
THE saw mill of the Heater Lumber Com
pany in Moline, Ills, was recently burned.
The flames spread to the yards where there
| were piles of lumber thirty feet high, the
main portion of which was seasoned, and
they were soon a mass of flames. The fire
spread to houses across the street. The
mill cost 1900 and there was about 500,
600 worth Of lumber in the yard most Of
which was burned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
THE SOUTH.

PROCTOR KNorT's majority in Kentucky
is about 1900.
AT Luling, Texas, recently, Lawrence
Denman met Rev. r. G. Sewell on the streets
and shot him dead. The causes that led to
the shooting were of a domestic nature.
Sewell was q Methodist clergyman and
local agent of the American Bible Society.
IT is reported that cotton in and around
Greenville, Miss, has been attacked by
worms and whole fields eaten up. Green
vile is in Washington County, which is
the largest cotton producing county in the
United States.
ALL members of the late Board of Fire
Commissioners of Baltimore were indicted
by the Grand Jury for malfeasance in
Office, except Samuel W. Register, ex-
President, on his way to San Francisco to
attend the conclave of Knights Templar.
They gave bail in the sum of S, 900 each.
A LATE storm at Pine Bluff, Ark, de-
stroyed number of buildings and killed
one woman.
AN incendiary fire in Lexington. KY,
the other morning destroyed Bush & Sons
planning mills and several other buildings.
Loss about 1000.
AT Oakland, Miss, the people, white and
| black, turned out en- masse and tried, con-
victed and hanged Joe Payne, a negro, for
the murder of Townes Sayles, young mer.
chant of the town.
PRoTRAcrED drought nearly ruined she
crops in Virginia. In many places the
corn was cut up for fodder, but recent
heavy rains made farmers more hopeful.
The city of Galveston, Texas, has water
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
LATER.

VINEYARD HAVEN, August IL.
The fire was checked this morning. The
village is visited by thousands from all
parts of the island and from the main land.
The loss is estimated at $780, 900; insurance,
fG4 200; All the stores in the place but one
are burned. The wife of James Davis, an
aged citizen, died from the excitement con.
sequent upon the fire. The following are
the heaviest losers: r. W. Croker, harness
mandatory, $4,000, insurance, $4,000; j.
H. Lambert, store and dwelling, S2i 600, in.
surance, $4,000; Baptist Church, 5000;
Luce Bros, dry goods, $4,000, insurance,
the sufferers.
Connecticut western news., 1883-10-24

kept by criminal for criminals. It is startling to think, says the Sun, that such desperate men coffio and go at will, mingling by day with the throngs of honest men and women i'll the busy thor oughfares, and at night gathering to plot crimes against society. The report that detectives kept nightly watch on their meeting place affords some assurance of protection, but it would seem as though men of such character might by some means be driven from the city.
 A VERY BEAUTIFUL and touching story was telegraphed the other day from some far Western town, which told how white dove flew ill at church window and lit upon the shoulder of Q fair young bride who was just being given away at the altar. The poetic thrill which was caused by the incident has been turned into grief by the discovery that the fair young bride spent over six months train ing the dove for this matrimonial net with the one blessed purpose of getting her name in all the papers.
Connecticut western news., 1883-10-24
A Child's Prayer Quickly Answered.

Something stayed his feet; there was a fire in the grate within-for the night was chill-and it lit up the little parlor and brought out in startling effects the pictures on the wall. But these were as nothing to the picture on the hearth. There, by the soft glow of the firelight, knelt his little child at her mothers feet, it's fair head bowed, and as it's rosy lips uttered each word with childish distinct ness the father listened, spell bound to the spot
 ''Now lay me down to sleep, Ipray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take" Sweet innocence. The man himself who stood there with bearded lips shut tightly together had said that prayer once at his mothers knee. Where was that mother now? The sunset gates had long ago unbarred to let her pass through. But the child had not finished; :; he heard her say:-"God bless mamma, papa and my own self there was
 
 eyes to her mothers face.
 "God bless papa," prompted the mother, softly.
 "God bless papa," lisped the little one.
 "And-please send him home sober. ' He could not hear the mother as she said this, but the child followed in a clear, inspired tone:-
 "God-bless papa-and please send him-home-sober. Amen."
 Mother and child sprang to their feet in alarm when the door opened so sud denly, but they were not afraid wher they saw who it was, returned so soon but that night, when little Mamie was being tucked up in bed after such { romp with papa she said in the sleepies and most contented of voices:
 Mamma, God answers most as quick as the telephone, doesn't He ?"