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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
EHE LATEST.

In the Senate the 10th, Mr.. Plumb presented
. memorial from the Legislature Of Kansas
asking that lumber be placed on the free list.
Wisconsin presented a remonstrance against
1t. The Pension Appropriation bill was passed,
when the Senate resumed the Tariff bill. The
House was also in Committee on the Tariff.
1 The Director of the Mint states that the
amount of silver dollars in the treasury is
$97, $50, 969; total certificates, So, Gas, .96;
amount of certificates in the treasury, a, $685.
$50; certificates outstanding, SIS, 43s, 800.
1t is stated on good authority that the Senate
Judiciary Committee has practically agreed to
report the bill appropriating $4,000 to pay
General Lee for the Arlington property, the
Government to be responsible for back taxes,
and General Lees counsel has consented to
accept this sum.
The cotton mills at Wilmington, Del, closed
| few days since on account of strike, throw
ing out of employment 500 hands. A reduc-
ton Of three per cent in wages was made
month ago, and notice was given of further
reduction of wages. The manager said the
prevailing dullness Of the cotton trade caused
the reduction.
NJ. Kavanaugh, the Dublin carman, has
turned informer against the prisoners charged
with conspiracy to murder Government:
officials. He has been IS a witness examined
in the Investigation at Kilmsinham, and will
testify that he drove the car employed by the
assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and
Burke in Phoenix Park, and described the
whole affair.
The river at Cincinnati was higher on the
10th than it had been since 1S47. 1t was sixty
two feet above low-wster mark and still rising.
The lower part Of the city was submerged and
boats used to reach business houses. A great
amount Of property was damaged.
Information has been received at Tucson,
Arr, Of two fights with Apaches on the south
side of the Papigochie River in the foot hills
of the Sierra Madre mountains Of Chihuahua.
The fight was between the citizens and SOL
diers of the town of Temoschie and the sur
rounding country and the Apaches. A large
number of Indians were killed and horses cap
tured. The citizens lost six killed.
At Sedalia, Mo-, recently. Price & Stevens
livery stable burned, together with thirty-fve
horses and one mule.
One night last week man named Freeman,
of Roxana, Mich, attempted to elope with
the daughter of John Day. Day followed the
couple and shot Freeman with . rife, infict-
ing mortal wound.
Burglars recently raided the savings bank
Of Wyandotte, eighteen miles below Detroit
Mich. They blew open the safe, obtained u, :
500 i'm cash and seventy-fve Erie bonds.
The Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific train en-
countered broken rail and jumped the track
near Fort Wayne, Ind, recently, overturning
day coach and chair car. Four passen-
gers were injured, one ]. W. Bowers, of To-
ledo, seriously.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
THE EAST.

A passenger train on the Buffalo, New York
and Philadelphia Railroad from Olean for
Buffalo, recently plunged into creek near
Ischua. Engineer Hall and Fireman Briggs
were killed. Conductor Love was seriously
injured. Several passengers were slightly in
jured. The accident was caused by high
water undermining the track.
At Berlin, Mass, James Livingston killed
Ids wife with Ratchet, and then notified the
neighbors. Both had been drinking and
uuarreled Livingston was aSed 66. his wife
s. They had four children.
The people of Newport, Rhode Island, are
greatly surprised to learn that the estate OF
the Rev. DR.. Mercer, Of that city, soon after
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
Six Hundred Knives Lost.

Passengers on the Peninsula and Oriental
steamer Midway were placed in a strange
predicament recently. An Indian knife-cleaneI
on board got drunk. tied all the tabie-knives
upward of six hundred in number, round his
waist, and jumped overheard. The ship was
stopped and turned round, but all efforts to
rescue the unfortunate man with the much
needed .able-knives were unavailiug, and the
passengers were compelled TO eat with PEN
knives and other substitutes until the vessel
reached Alexandria--Pdnamd Star and Her.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

The business of canning fruits and vegeta-
ties has grown to enormous proportions.
Over &, OO0, 900 cans Of tomatoes were racked
last year, making one for every man, woman,
and child 10 the country. Nearly half Of this
work was done In Maryland and Virginia The
wholesale price for three-pound cans ranged
from four to five cents each.-N y SSn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

SINCE the Milwaukee fire patents for nine.
teen new life-saving inventions for use at
hotel fires have been applied for at Washing.
ton.-Chicago Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

was found frozen 70 death standing in the
snow, and Thomas Scott, the Superintendent,
was found standing straight up in the snow,
frozen 90 be could not move. He viii lose
his hands and feet. W. v. Stark, apassenger,
had not been found. They were out three
days and nights. The stage which LETT Mes
soula for Deer Lodge, Montana, was also iost
In the blizzard in, the Flint Creek Hills, ana
horses, driver and several passengers frozen
to death.
A call signed by known Anti Mouopolists In
all parts of the country, for q delegate con-
ference for the formation of new party, ves
issued at Chicago one day last week. Inc
conference viii be held on July 4, on the
basis Of four representatives from each
Congressional district four from each
Territory and four from the Dis
trict Of Columbia. The principles enumerated
in the call are opposition to confederated
monopoly; public lands Tor actual settlers;
suppression of corners in the necessaries OF
life; opposition to a protective tariff; in favor
of the election of President, Vice-President
and Senators by direct vote.
Reports from the cattle range section OF
Colorado say the loss Of stock by the snow
storms and cold weather will amount to ff-
teen per cent.
B. j. Gier's saw mill at Charlotte, Mich,
blew up recently, instantly killing the pro-
prietor and VIM. Gordon, the engineer.
Governor Hale, OF Wyoming, has written an
open letter to Senator Saunders, Chairman of
the Senate Committee on Territories, protest
ing against the proposition to take the Vel
lowstone Park from Wyoming and giving it to
Montana.
THE SOUTH.
Alfred c. Thomas, editor Of the Sea Island,
8. c., Ne,cs, hanged himself one day las week.
The postofice at Birmingham, Ala, was
recently robbed of money and stamps amount
ing to $1,000 or 5000 and fine diamond
ring. I'D.
The Mardi Gras was celebrated at New Or
leans, the 9Th, with the usual festivities and
grand street spectacles. The city was gaily
decorated and illuminated at night. An i'm
mense crowd was in the street, there being
%, GOO visitors present.
1t is estimated that quarter of a million
gallons of whisky go out of bond in the Louis
vile, Ky, district under the law requiring the
payment of taxes and the failure Of Congress
to pass the bill extending the bonded period.
In shooting ARRAY at Catulla, Texas, be-
tween Green Mccullough and another man,
Judge Williams was killed in his office by
bullet from McCullough's pistol.
The eastern floods continue to work great
amount of damage. At Parkersburg, West
Virginia, the river is higher than it has been
for more than twenty years, being forty-four
Feet above low water mark. At Newport, ky,,
people we're compelled to abandon their homes.
At many other places the destruction was
great
A Little Rock special says: Advices from
Cheyenne and Arapbahoe, Indian Territory,
SAYS an unknown and fatal disease is creating
great ravages among horses. They fall dead
without warning. There is great alarm among
those in the neighboring sections owning
large herds of horses.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

GOLD shippers say that the average loss by
abrasion on shipment of q million OF gold te
Europe IL about two hundred dollars.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

In one satisfactory in Linn are thirty d.
vorced wiyes.-Boston Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

ana then went 10 sleep Inc cause OIL the
tragedy is supposed to be jealousy.
The steamer Gem was recently burned on
the Pacific coast near Port Madison. T. C.
Vickery, school teacher, and his wife and
three others were drowned.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, . few nights since
the eastbound train being late, the mail was
carried into the baggage room at the depot,
and while there the pouches were ripped open
and 14o registered letters taken out. The
amount of loss is unknown. One letter con-
tanned 8, 600 bill and . 800 bill, being the
amount Of Postmaster Smiths monthly re-
mittance to the department There was no
clue to the robbers.
One night last week two robbers broke into
the House Of Vim. McGregor, farmer, seven
miles south of Rockfeld, Ills, shot him and
his ten-year-old daughter, gagged his wife and
robbed them of q small sum of money. The
man and his daughter were not expected to
live.
The boiler in the large tile factory at Tay-
louisville, Ills, exploded recently. Five men
were killed and the proprietor, Peter New,
had both legs broken and was otherwise badly
injured.
The Triennial Conclave Committee of
Knights Templar at San Francisco recently
appointed q finance committee including
prominent business men from all parts of the
State. 1t was decided not to permit California
Communicates to compete for the drill prizes
at the approaching National Grand Eneamp-
ment. The trophies won shall be the property
of the Commandery subject to no challenge.
The stage which left Pacific Springs (the
line which runs from Green River to Washot-
kie, Wyoming Territory was caught in q
snow storm one day last week. The coach
was abandoned and the party started back OF
foot to the station. The driver, N. ]. Stewart,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

bling around the abdomen portion of pa s
remains, and my chum took rough
piece of ice and began to saw his leg
of, while the other boy took
hold of the leg and said he
would catch it when it dropped off.
Well. pa kicked like steer. He said
He wanted to make one more appeal to
us, and we acted sort of impatient, but
we let up to hear what he had to saw
He said If we would turn him loose he
would give US ten dollars more than we
paid for his body, and that he would
never drink another drop as long as he
lived. Then we whispered some more
and then told him we thought favorably
Of his last proposition, but he must
swear, with his hand on the leg of
corpse we were then dissecting that he
would never drink again, and then he
must be blindfolded and be conducted
several blocks away from the dissecting
room, before we would turn him loose.
He said that was all right, and so we
blindfolded him, and made him take
bloody oath, with his hand on piece of
ice that we told him was apiece OF an
other corpse, and then we took him out
of the house and walked him around the
block four times, and left him on q
corner, after he had promised to send the
money to an address that gave him.
We told him to stand still five minutes
after we left him, then remove the blind
fold and go home. We watched him,
from behind board fence, and he took
offth handkerchief, looked at the name
on street lamp, and found he was not
far from home. He started off saying:
..Thatsapretty narrow escape, old man.
No more whisky for YOU" I did not
see him again until this morning, and
when I asked him where he was last
night he shuddered and said none your
darn business. But I never drink any
more, you remember that Ma was
tickled and she told me was worth my
weightin gold. "-Peck's Sxl
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-12
A Fearful Fall.

Edward Floyd, of Detroit, was re-
Gently engaged III painting the cornice
on the. lofty roof of the new CamDau
building, in that city, more than six
stories from the ground. lie was
standing on step-ladder which leaned
against the roof almost perpendicularly.
and the bottom Of the ladder rested in
gutter on the caves. Floyd had fin
ished painting as far as his arm could
reach and started to come down the
ladder for the purpose of changing his
position, when either the ladder slipped
or else he leaned over too far backward,
and the ladder and man went over the
edge and started for the ground. The
ladder went first and Floyd followed.
No cry was heard by the group of hor-
rified spectators in the street below.
Whirling over and over with out
stretched arms III his terrible decent
Floyd finally encountered several tele-
graph wires, about half way down.
Thoy parted under him, but broke his
fall so much that a big telephone wire
beneath them stood the shock and sus.
tanned his weight. 1t staggered great
ly, however, and Floyd, clmging con-
vulsiyely to the wire, found himself
suspended out over Griswold street,
about thirty feet from the ground.
A crowd gathered and steps were
hurredly taken to save Floyd before
his hold gave way. A rope was thrown
to him from scaffolding OH the build.
ing, but while pulling himself along
the wire the rope broke. At last some
body got long pole, The crowd held
it erect. A ladder was placed against
1t. Floyd slid down the pole to the
ladder and safely reached the ground.
Returning thanks to those who helped
him, ho picked up his step-ladder from
where it had fallen, tried to find his
hat, which somebody had stolen, and
then started back for the roof which he
had quit in such an abrupt and terrible
manner only d fow moments before.
His back was little lame from COM
ing in contact with the wires, but he
said he "didn't mind the fall much, -
and "wasn't going to quit work just
for that" In a few moments he was
again at work on the roof, as If nothing
had happened. Floyd has wife and
family and lives on Brewster street.
lie says he kept his senses while fall
ing, and knew his only chance was to
catch the wires and break his fall as
much as possible.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-12
He made IL Clear.

"Speaking OF curious condolences, :"
said lawyer who had business in the
City Hall recently. ''I think have the
most curious case on the boards"
"What is it?''
Gone day last week q woman came to
me and engaged my services to file a bill
for divorce. hadn't got through with
her when her husband came in to secure
my service for the same thing. They
were the same age, had the same grounds,
and had not met before for months.n
'tAnd you took both casesp"
ooh, no, that would have looked q lit
tie queer.
",Then you sent one to another law
ycr2" at
ooh, no, again. 7 am not furnishing
clients to other lawyers. / saw that /
was in a fix, and that I must do some
thing to prevent one or the other from
consulting another attorney, and so L
acted as a mediator and advised 'em to
settle their trouble and live together,
which, they have done, y 4 y. i5 q,
isIsWhatl X You advise q settlement and
lose your feel (" .i 81 d 81 Il si,3
IN ots exactly replied the lawyer as
he strOked his chin. i charged twice
as much for the advice as for securing
the dIyorcesln
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-12
Gould's Cosy Nest.

Jay Gould lives in O very large brown.
stone mansion, once occupied by Ex.
Mayor Opdyke, on Forty.seVenty street,
opposite the Windsor Hotel. The
vestibule is fifeteen feet long and fin
ished in French burnt walnut and
birdseye maple. In a large recess stands
marble statue of Miss Nellie Gould,
IN recumbent position, taken when
i've years old. An excellent picture of
Jap Gould, by Ierkomer, hangs on the
wall, while near 1t, q painting by Rosa
BOnheur-Mr. Gould's last purchase,
representing cattle scene--was placed
ready for hanging. This picture alone
cost $4,000. The hall is lighted by
Oriental lamps III glass mosaic The
floor Is of marble. On the left of the
hall the reception room is placed. The
walls are hung in embossed velvet of
an old-gold shade. Yellow silk cur
tains give the chamber a softened.
agreeable tint. Upon q red velvet
carpet is extended huge tiger robe
trimmed with bear skin. The mantel-
piece supports two curious Japenese
statuettes in brass, and between them
u curious French clock of hammered
bronze surmounted by a mythical figure,
also Of bronze. In each corner is a
bronze statuette resting upon black
marble pedestal. The mirror, some
six feet height, is of gold, inlaid with
ivory: There are only four paintings
IN this cosy nest of elegance. The al
ticles III the room cost about $40, 900.
The parlor does not contain a single
chair the upholstery of which is not
embroidered by hand in the most bril-
liant contrasts. In the corner nearest
the window facing Fifth avenue stands
a marble statue of II Penseroso. Each
side of the Fifth avenue windows SUP
erb SeyreS vases fit into inches made to
receive them. Midway between the
door and the entrance to the library
into which this apartment opens, stands
a magnificent cabinet of ivory inlaid
with gold, that cost $4,000. The mar
yelous frescoes cost $4,000. In the
library there are pictures that cost
about $4,000. The library is perfectly
cosy and perfectly lovely. The dining
room is richly upholstered in embossed
leather. A solid mahogany extension
table fills up the centre space, at which
thirty people can sit comfortably. The
dinner service is of china, painted by
hand, each piece having different
subject. The complete set numbers
over one hundred and fifty pieces and
was painted III Paris for Mr.. Gould,s
use.
George Gould's private room is per-
feet copy of Turkish divan. There
is not bed in it, its occupant prefer
ring to sleep upon the luxurious loun-
ges that surround it. Mr.. Gould's
room, as also that Of Mrs. Gould, is fit
tea with Bayonne tapestry and the bed
chairs, writing and dressing tables to
correspond. Miss Nellie's room is up
holstered with maroon -colored silk and
the furniture is Of the Queen Anne
style. Miss Anna Gould's is of bright
blue silk, gOrgeously ornamented with
embroidery and flowers.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-12
The Mexican Hat.

The hat is beyond comparison the pet
article OF a Mexican's dress. Even ule
matter Of the dents in the crown is
used to convey a meaning. Four dents
must be arranged in every sombrero.
One on each side, one in front and one
behind. The significance Of this ar
rangement is that, when there was
difference of opinion in this country in
regard to the rights of the church, and
the two parties were formed, one in IA
Vor Of the church and one against it,
the church party adopted this device as
distinguishing mark, and these four
dents are intended to give the crown a
rude form of the cross. There has been
no burning question dividing the ma
ton recently, SO the four dents have
remained, as is the case with many
other customs, long after their original
significance has been forgotten. The
sOmbrerO is exactly analogous to a
lady's bonnet. The only way in which
the individual taste is hampered is in
regard to the general shape. The
amount, style and cost Of trimmings is
left wholly to the owners will. THE
Mexicans have evolved an article
whose variations III trimming are posi-
lively bewildering. The band comes
next as we descend the crown. The
most popular form now is a double coil
of silver rope varying from one-fourth
to three-folrths of an inch in diameter.
Before the band took it's present form
1T was a heavy braid Of silver cord, and
the indications are that the cumbrOus
shape now III vogue will soon be succee-
ded by several turns of a lighter cord i,
occupying from two to four inches at
the base Of the crown. The chance for
display which the brim affords is not
sighted. There may be only narrow
ribbon of silver running around the
outer edge, or as is frequently the case.
it Is wholly hidden by the amount of
trimming on both the upper and the
under side of the brim. This silver
ribbon is woven into various fanciful
and intricate designs, and forms an i'm
pOrtant element in the decoration of the
hat. There Is the utmost diversity of
color among the sombreros, varying
from pure white to simple black. Drab
is the most used color, doubtless on ac-
overwhelming. The material generally
used for the manufacture of sombreros
Is felt with a smooth or furry finish as
the owner may wish. Many fine SOM
breos of straw with trimmings of leather
are seen. Silver is almost universally
used as trimming, although gold is
occasionally met. Indeed, the sombrero,
both literally and figuratively, forms the
browning triumph Of the Mexican's
dress, and the amount Of money which
may be spent on 1t Ia only limited by, the
sWisest OF. the owners. s36s
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-12
The Country's Ouarries.

The compedium Of the tenth census,
recently issued, contains some figures
which will serve to give an idea OF tho
magnitude Of the quarrying interests
Of the country, which in 1880 gave en-
ployment to 80, 1923 men, $3.50 horses
and 861 mules; had $50 machines for
quarrying, $3.50 machines for hoisting,
1908 machines for dressing, and used
$192, 175 worth Of explosives. The cap
ital invested Is given at $25 .414, ,407, and
the value Of the product in the census
year at $13,356, ,055, there being 1926
quarries in all. Marble and limestone
lead the list with 65, ,523,965 cubic feet,
followed by the sandstone quarries with
"a, nc, $50 cubic feet; ;crsytalline silicious
rocks, with 6,118,998 cubic feet; and
slate with 457, ,267 squares, or q, 4,672,6
cubic feet,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-12
Biting OHTails.

OF tlie' 'GItt GGIftGteltyy" Inflicted iii England on
dumb animals arises much lass from u
deliberate intention to. cause physical
suffering than from sheer ignorance; and
it is, consequently, desirable to give the
widest possible publicity to cases III
which stupid adherence to barbarous
custom has brought persons within the
province Of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Recently, at the Croydon Petty Ses-
slons, young man appeared to sum-
mons issued at the instant Of the officers
OF the society, charging him with cruel
ly ill-treating dogs by biting off their
tails. The defendant pleaded guilty.
1t was shown that the dogs maltreated
were TWO terrier puppies six weeks old,
and their caudal appendages had been
bitten Off at about an inch and a half
from the tip. a veterinary surgeon was
OF the opinion that the puppies would
suffer an acute, irritating pain until tho
wounds made by the bites were healed
This anguish they might endure during
some twenty-fOur hours. Tho witness,
1T is stated, admitted that the dogs would
not be worth anything unless their tails
were taken OFT and added that the prac-
tlce OF so removing them was a cruel,
but an universal one. That, however,
is only All individual expression of opn-
ion. A very distinguished authority on
dogs, Sir Edwin I.andseer, publicly de-
clared that it was not only cruel but
useless and pernicious to crop either the
ears or the tails Of dogs. In the Croy-
don case the defendant was fined 1G shil-
lings and Is shillings costs; and we are
quite willing to believe that he was not
actuated by the slightest intention of
cruelty in mutilating his two terrier
puppies. lie only complied with an old,
savage custom, corresponding to the
barbarc.practice, now happily fading
out of use, of docking the tails of horses
to within a very short distance from the
root. Ladies in Rotten Row, seventy
years since, used to ride horses whose
tails were docked to degree of exigui-
ty which, at the present day, would be
thought not only cruel but ridiculous.
Equally inhuman with tho practice Of
docking horses and cropping dogs is that
Of biting off the tail of young lambs.
process not unfrequently resorted to by
shepherds in some parts Of the kingdom
at this season Of the year.