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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23

In the District Court at Washington,
Judge Cox set aside the verdict for So, 900,
recently rendered in favor of Hallett Kill.
bourne against John G.. Thompson, on the
ground that it was excessive.
The resignation of the notorious Major
Nickerson has been accepted by the Presi-
dent, to take effect November 10.
SECRETARY FoLGER has called ten million
three per cent. bonds. .....
The south-bound passenger train on the
Illinois Central Railway, collided with a
train bound north, near Bradford Station,
Tenn, the other afternoon, killing colored
porter, Telegraph Repairer Coburn, and
an express messenger. Both engineers
We're badly hurt, and five cars were burned.
WoRKMEN in the Pittsburgh, Pa, iron
mills are reported to be filed with the
gloomiest forebodings and apprehensions
for the future by the announcement that a
number of mills had closed down, owing to
lack of orders and general unsatisfactory
condition of the iron trade.
RECENT fire at Philadelphia DESTROYED
the American Line of Steamships Com
pany's wharves. The piers were enclosed
by large frame buildings, and the lower
floors were used for storage of freight, and
the upper stories as temporary home for
emigrants. Thousands of dollars worth of
goods awaiting shipment on the steamer
Lord Give were swept away. Loss $40, 900.
The steamer VIII Kyle, en- route from
New Orleans to Cincinnati, struck pro.
truding log while making a landing at
Australia, Miss, recently and sunk. Her
cargo consisted of four hundred tons, prin-
cipally Of sugar and moIasses. She was
towing a barge containing five hundred
bales of cotton, which was damaged.
JAMES DoBSoN has been held to bail for
issuing fraudulent tax receipts on election
day, in Philadelphia, and George Holland,
colored, held for voting tax receipt on
which the name of another person had been
erased and Hollands substituted. This
prosecution was brought by the Committee
Of One Hundred.
DR.. d. II. DEvEREAUX, an American,
connected with one of the best families of
San Antonio, Tex, and a physician of no
ordinary ability, was recently sentenced
to four years hard labor in the penitentiary
at Saltillo, Mexico. A few months ago at
Monclova, while intoxicated, he stabbed a
Mexican policeman.
GREAT excitement was caused at Wheel.
ing, WA, recently, by the announcement
that Samuel B. McCollock, clerk of the
Circuit Court, had mysteriously disap-
peared. He left for his home, few miles
in the country, about ten O'Clock one night,
since which time he had not been seen. {.
b. FNDLAY and Edward Smith, injured
in the late railroad accident near Streator,
H.. died the following day, swelling the
list Of killed to eight.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
THE FIRE FIENp.

"A Million Dollar Blaze ut shenandoah,
fa.-seven Squares Swept Away-Two
Hundred and Fifty Families Rendered
Homeless-An Appeal for Aid.
SHENANDOAH, PA, Nov. Il.
A terrible fire occurred here to-day. II
originated this noon in the United States
hotel, large three-story frame building
Inc wind was blowing regular hurricane
from the west at the time. and the flames
spread rapidly. By two oklock seven
squares right in the heart of the town were
swept away as If by magic. Among the
buildings destroyed were the United States
Hotel. Odd Fellows Hall, Bells Hall, Rose
Opera-house, the Academy Of Music and
Francis large brick building. Over go
families are homeless, and unless help is
sent mnch suffering will prevail. The loss
will be fully 81 100000. The amount of the
insurance can not be computed at present.
Among the heavy losers are: P. J. Fergu.
son, George r. Litzel, Charles Higgins,
Mining Herald Company tlimited), P. J.
Rose q Bro, VIM. Z. Reick, VIM. Sawys-,
Rosbins g Co., Henry Weidenhold, John
Grant. Thos. Eagen, ]. P. Williams s. Bro,
Franey 3 Son, Delaney & Son, Mrs. NJ. E.
Doyle, j. A. Reilly, John F. Higgins, G,
Hirschter, Isaac Ball, Charles Rice, Thorn.
as Beelis, DR.. E. c. Lokes, DR.. J. c. Biddle,
Levi Refowies, P. W. Delaney and others,
Three newspaper offices were DESTROYED.
the Herald, Niaing Herald and SATURDAY.
Ecening Netrs. They lost everything. The
fire departments from Mahanay City, Cir.
ard Village, Ashley and Pottsville were
telegraphed for. They responded prompt.
", and did efficient service. George
Heaton, young man on his way to the fire
from one Of the collieries, in attempting to
Jump on an engine, had both of his legs cut
of, and will probably die. A special meet
Ing Of the Borough Council and citizens
was held tonight to take measures to pro.
tect property and appoint relief commit.
teeA A large force Of police was sworn in,
and the following appeal was issued:
To the Public: A terrible fire has swept
the town. Two hundred and fifty families
are homeless tonight. Most of them have
lost all, and are without provisions or q
change of clothing. The weather is bitter
cold, and a strong northwest gale is still
blowing. Everything possible for their i'm.
mediate relief is being done, but we must
have help. Who will aid us, and give at
once? The Council met tonight and ap.
pointed relief committee. They named
James Gathers, Treasurer, who win receive
all contributions of supplies, clothing or
money q generous public may be charitable
enough to send.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDucIrIONAI.

The First Congregational Church,
1t Dover, N. H., was built in 1888, and
is still used as place for worship.
The faculty of Texas female coli
lege has forbidden the wearing of hoops
! or bangs by the students.-C Chicago Her
1ld
AT Salem. Mass, a citizen hires
seven different men to attend church,
paying them seventy-fve cents each
STANDARDIZATION Post. = -
Forty thousand dollars has been in
vested in trade school in New York,
and about two hundred young men are
in attendance, learning how to lay
bricks, to paint houses, to make pat
terms, and to do plumbers work.-N.
r Times.
The wider use of laymen and lay
women in the church was lately empha-
sized at Philadelphia as a thing to be
sought. The Churchnlan says that il
this wider use becomes fact it means
the beginning of a great stride forward.
The Examiner (BaptisD says, that the
point is one for other Christians than
Episcopaiians to ponder. Lay work
needs to be developed in every church.
AT the Seventh Day Adventists'
camp-meeting at Worcester. Mass, the
following resolution was passed: That
we continue to maintain strict integrity
in carrying out the principles of health
reform; that our ministers study it in
the light of the Bible, and enforce it in
all our churches'as an element of Chris
tan character, and in a judicious man.
ner counterfeit every tendency in back
sliding in this important grace. Dos
ton Herald.
Fifty years ago, when Rev. Allen
B. Freeman arrived in Chicago to or
ganize the First Baptist Church, he had
in his pocket, as all his remaining ready
means, the sum of seventy-fve cents.
Not very large capital that to move
upon. And yet, with so much of q
financial equipment, he began an en-
terpriSe of enormous dimensions. His
capital, after all, was not insignificant
1t was all-sufficient, incompatible. The
hand of the Lord was upon him, and
the gracious end is not yet.-Chtcdgo
Standard
The Philadelphia Industrial School
of Mr.. Charles G. Leland is highly
praised by Carl Werner, one of the high
est authorities on education in Ger
many. Prof. Werner declares that,
simple as it seems, Germany has as yet
ignored the main principle of the Amer
lean system; that all the minor arts, and
with them most of the major, are SIM
ply nothing but applied design, and
that this may be easily taught, as Mr..
Leland has practically shown, to all
children of from twelve to fourteen
years of age--Philadelphia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
All Saved But Two.

CHICAGO, NOV. II.
Early this morning special from Saug.
atuck, Mich, reports that all men on the
tug Protection are safe except two, w.
Kelly and one of the firemen, who were
lost. Her tow, the schooner Arab, was
sunk off Racine early Sunday morning.
The Protection was disabled while taking
of the crew of the Arab by a rope catcl.-
Ing in her wheel. The steam barge A. Kelly
lowed the Protection until she herself be.
came disabled Monday night. The tug then
orlfted until she came at anchor near Saug-
atuck. OF the nineteen men on the two
vessels seventeen are saved. Captain Kelly
went down with the Arab.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
THE SOUTH.

AT Comanche, Tex, the other night,
while the Sheriff was absent, fifty armed
masked men battered in the Jail door, over.
powered the guards after a hard struggle,
and, taking out the two Bailey brothers,
hanged them to tree in the graveyard,
one mile from town.
A SHOOTING ARRAY occurred in the Cher.
okee Nation, near the Arkansas line, re-
Gently, resulting in the killing of James
Boyd and wounding of B. L. Summerhill.
A BOILER in Pondley's sugar house, at
Bayou Bluff, La, recently exploded, kill.
ing the chief engineer and two other men.
BY the recent caving in of gravel pit
near Dallas, Tex, two negroes were killed
and two whites badly injured.
A LATE fire at Eureka Springs, Ark,
burned the Mountain House, Commercial
Hotel, Fritz stable, Fowlers' drug store,
Waite's store and several other buildings.
Loss, S25, 900; little insurance.
A FIRE broke out in the freight ware
house of the Norfolk & Western Railroad
depot, at Norfolk, Va, the other day, and
rapidly extended to another freight house.
1t consumed four thousand bales of cotton,
CdT iOdus VI t"cANC Col anu
quantity of miscellaneous freight. The
wharves of the company were badly dam
aged. Loss, 500, 600; insured.
THE Norton Iron Works rolling mill and
nail mill, at Ashland, KY, were burned
the other morning.
HARRIET HAWKINS and child, colored,
were found dead in bed the other morning
at Lexington, KY, having died, twas sup
posed, from hunger and cold.
AT Vicksburg, Miss, the other night. the
theater was the scene of the unprovoked
and cowardly murder of d. R. Allen by
Frank E. Stark. The murderer, who had
been discharged from the position Of ad-
vance agent, went into the dressing room
where Allen and his wife were getting ready
to 60 on the stage. After having some
words with Allen he drew a pistol and fred
four shots at him, two taking effect, one
passing through the heart. Stark was ar
rested and jailed. He admitted he had no
provocation in committing the act, and at
tTibuted it to his bad temper. Allen was
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
A Tragedy Not on the Bills.

VICKsBURG, MISS, Nov. IA.
Just as the curtain was about to rise on
the play of "Top of the Morning." by the
John F. Ward company tonight, four pis-
tol shots, fired in quick succession behind
the stage, startled the audience, creating a
panic for a while. D. R. Allen, business
manager of the troupe, and Frank e.
Starks, advance agent, had some words,
when Starks pulled his pistol and shot Al.
len twice, one shot going through the
heart, the other through the bowels, killing
him instantly. The audience was dismissed
epd money refunded. At the inquest yer.
dict was rendered that Allen came to his
death by pistol.shot wounds inflicted by
6tarks. Starks is now in jail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
Destructive Fire With Attendant Loss of
Et Life at Charleston, Sc.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Nov. Il.
Fire broke out this afternoon on Hayne
street in Wilbur's clothing mandatory,
spreading to Robertson, Taylor & Coz
wholesale groceries. Both buildings were
Quilted. Luding's bag factory, adjoining,
was damaged. Loss estimated at 100000.
There were eight women and one boy en-
ployed in Wilbur's factory, most of whom
jumped from the third story. ti
Ellen Heron was killed and Susie Bond
MORALLY injured. $3.50.
Mary Walfe was badly burned, but may
recover.
Maggie Quinlisk and Annie Tylee were
badly hurt, but will recover.
Abigail Guy and Laura Green are sup.
posed to have burned In the building.
A little boy named Lightheart jumped
and was caught unhurt. Only the nine
persons named were on the third story.
The fire broke out under the stairway, on
the second floor, cutting of escape, and the
fire spread rapidly. Persons on the second
floor escaped with difficulty.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SECRETARY TELLER, it Is said. has undel
consideration plan, Endorsed by Commits
sioner Dudley, to prevent such scandals a:
have recently been brought to light in the
practice of certain pension attorneys. The
suggestion is that only members of the bal
regularly admitted to practice and in good
standing, be allowed to appear before the
Department. f t-# el.. ID
THE annual report of the Treasurer of the
United States showed total net revenue
of 1895, 2S7 ,5s1, decrease OF s., 23i ,66S The
only increase in the receipts was from the
sale of public lands. The Treasurer recon.
mehded that the compensation and mileage
of members of Congress be made by the
disbursing officer instead of the Treasurer.
He also urged the restoration Of salaries in
the Treasurer's office reduced in 1876
SECRETARY FoLGER has written the Col.
lector at San Francisco that II there are
any reasons to suspect fraud or imposition
In landing Chinese he must make rigid in
vestigation and refuse permission to the
passengers TO land till satisfactory evidence
Is produced, and parties feeling aggrieved
because of such refusal can have the cor
rectness of the action of the custom officers
decided in the courts byiwrits Of. habeas
corpus.
SECRETARY TELLER has rendered an i'm
portant decision in reply to the question Of
the Commissioner of Pensions, asking for q
proper and uniform construction of the re-
yised statutes concerning pensions to de-
pendent mothers. The Secretary main
tains that if the son was a minor the father
was entitled to his services, or, IL not liv-
ing, the mother was so entitled, and there
fore the dependent father or mother should
be allowed pension.
AGENT WILCOX, of the San Carlos Agency,
Arizona, held quite long conversation
recently with Secretary Teller and Com
missioner Price, in regard to the captured
Apaches, at which, it is stated, he peremp-'
torily refused ITO take the renegades into
his charge unless ten or twelve of them
were hanged as a punishment for their
diabolical work in destroying the whites.
SINCE November the General Land OF.
fee at Washington, has held for cancella-
tion one hundred and eighty entries under
the presumption, homestead and timber
culture laws. The majority of these en-
tries were in Minnesota and Dakota. Most
Of the cases were for fraudulent entries
under the presumption laws, the lands hav
ing been entered by persons hired by land
SPECTATORS. Since March last fifteen hun.
bred fraudulent caseswere reported to the
Department and over three hundred and
fifty entries cancelled. .-. .
1T is said no change will be made In stand.
ard time at Washington for the present.
GENERAL CROOK telegraphed to head
quarters recently that Captain Rafferty,
had arrived at San Carlos with ninety
Chiracahuas. The total number on the
reservation is eighty-three bucks and
three hundred and forty women and chill
dren. There are only forty now out, and
they will be in soon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
A Monster Cargo.

New ORLEANS, Nov. n.
The British steamship Silverton left her
wharf this morning for Liverpool with TO-
61s bales of cotton, p, 12s bushels of corn,
300 tons of oil cake and 13,00o slaves. At
the time of sailing her draft was twenty
five feet two inches aft and twenty-five feet
six inches forward. She went to sea
through the jetties tonight without assist
ance or detention. This is the largest
cargo of cotton ever carried by any vessel.
In fact, next to the Great Eastern, this Is
the largest freight-carrier afloat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
The Corn Crop.

WAsHINGroN, Nov. II.
The November report OF the Department.
Of Agriculture gives the local yield per acre
In October, final report: Condition of
corn, which averaged IS, was Interpreted
to mean product "close to sixteen hun.
dred million bushels" The average Yield
per acre appears to be % lilo bushels per
acre, one and half bushels per acre lower
than the yield of 1882. On the acreage re-
ported in July, sixty-eight and three.tentk
millions, exact figures would be 1871, 0OO,.
900 bushels. In the revision Of the seasons
returns this result will not be materially
changed. The product will, therefore, be
about A, 900 900 bushels short Of the previ.
Gus crsp.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
Missionary Appropriations.

NEW YORK, Nov. Y.
The General Missionary Committee Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church appropri
ated $1,000 for the Austin, Tex, Conference !;
Arkansas, $500; Blue Ridge, $1,000; Cen.
trail Tennessee, $500; Colorado, IS 900; De.
troit, $1,000; Kansas, 1880; Kentucky,
5000; Michigan, $500; Northwest Kan.
sas, $500; st. Louis, $500; South Kan
sas, $500; Southwest Kansas, s. 800; West
Virginia, 300; Nebraska, $4,000; North
Nebraska, 5000; Northwest Iowa. 81, 900;
West Wisconsin, $500; Wisconsin, $1,000;
Minnesota, $4,000,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23
WIT AND WISDOM.

,--'".Anna. what must you do, before
everything else, to have your sins for
given?" Commit the sin. Herman
Paper.
-Courting is sometimes called spark
ing because the real fire doesn't COM
mence until after marriage.-PhiLalei-
phia Chronicle.
When drove of cattle get to bel
lowing you can't get so far away from
them that they will not be herd Gin
cinnati Traueter.
Clergyman Tin astonishment)-
"What name?" Clementina
Sopfionisba Rosalie fCelestine Sarah
Jane Clergyman-"Why on earth
give the child all these names?" Faith
err If you please. sir, we've nothing
else to give her. "-Butalo Express.
Don't dwell on the beauty of wom-
en- not present; on the splendor of other
peoples houses; on the success of other
peoples entertainments; on the supe-
riority of anybody. Excessive praise of
people or things elsewhere implies dis
content with people or things present
IN. y Times. --r..----
-'.Look at America, my boy," said q
Kerry pot-house orator; 'that's the
place, my boys, for wealth. Look at
her teeming millions "Yes, look at
EN-" shouted listener; ..my brither
is there; he's wan of the teeming mill
ions and he's doing his job of work for
two dollars a day and owns his cart,
too, begorrahr'.N. Y Mail.
"A Partisan author has translated
Shakespeare's line, 'Out, brief can
der into French, thus: "Get out,
short GAMBLER That isn't as bad as the
translation of an exclamation. of Mil
toms by Frenchman. who rendered
Hail, horrors, hall" thus: How d Eye
do, horrors. how dye do?"-Chieayo
Tribune. go
"A Cold Dream
had a dream.
Was IL dream?
Well, 1 should screaml
1t was dream
OF sweet ice-cream,
And of a maid
Who with it played.
Will that dream fade2
Not much-I paid. ---s.
Puck.
The victory was won, but General
Wolfe lay dying on the Heights Of
Abraham. Hearing the shouts of the
soldiers: 'They fly! they flyr' the Gen.
eral stood on his elbow and anxiously
asked: "Who tiy?" "Hoss fy." re-
piled the sergeant near by, and Wolfe,
recognizing the forerunner of the Ameri-
can paragrapher, was glad to lie down
and die before the batch of 1888 came
along. Burlington Hd,okeye.
"A man going home at late hour
in the night saw that the occupant OF a
house standing flush with the street had
left window up and he decided to
warn them and prevent a burglary.
Putting his head into the window he
called out: Hello! good Poop"
That was all he said. A whole pailful
of water struck him in the face, and as
he staggered back 4 woman shrieked
out:-,s. Didn't Itsn You what you'd get
if you wasn't home by nine o'clock?"-
Chicago Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23

was found dead In pork barrel In North
Petersburg, N. T., recently, with her feet
protruding and with wound on the fore.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-23

Party Of Seven Men, Including o. NJ.
Chase, Superintendent of the Michigan
State Fisheries, Drowned While Attempt.
ing to Cross the Bay mt Neutrality-suspicious.
Damage to PrOpertY by storm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-16

News Briefs.

Francis S. Street, one OF the proprieiors OF tho
New York Wees'p, died suddenly Yesterday In
brooklyn. He leaves an estate or Sl.5o0.000
A jury in the United States circuit court In At.
lanta, Ca on saturday returned a verdict finding
). NJ Robinson guilty OF presenting false accounts
for his services as deputy marshal.
The British steamer HISTORIAN arrived In Boston
saturday with Go passengers, most OF them i'm.
poyertShed irish people sent over at the expense
OF the English government
Marvin, the bigamist, who had sixteen wives,
and injured his back.
Six more men have been taken into custody IN
Limerick on charge or conspiracy 10 murder
During fight In New York Saturday nfght two
coloted men were thrown from an upper window
To the pavement below and killed.
Richard Cross, a Philadelphia toy importer
dropped dead in New York just as he let the
steamer from Europe.
j. r. Joyner, tailor, of Portsmouth, Va, commit
te suicide Saturday.
Ex-Mayor De Boise, OF Long Island CITY. L. l..
against whom verdict for sio0, 700 was rendered
on Friday, IN a suit brought Tor the recovery Of
money embezzled during his term OF once, was ON
saturday surrendered Wy his bondsmen and COM
Olney Burgess, Of Foster, r. l., on saturday shot
Daniel and Henry BuElingame, at killingly, Conn,
slightly inIuringDanle and dangerously woundIng
henry Burgess was locked up, but committed
The nve-story building. Nos. s7s, ssl and 80
Broadway, occupied by Bradstreet's commercial
agency, E Remington & Sons. the rife manufac-
turers, etc. was yesterday Quilted by nre the total
Windsor, Berthe county, n G, last Wednesday. for
assaulting daughter OF Jas. Freeman, a respect.
able farmer of the neighborhood.
Ihos. Coleman, wealthy banker OF LafayettA
lnd-, ana his wire, nearly lost their lives from
poison administered by dissipated son who
wanted money.
The competitive match for place. on the team
TO shoot In England at Creedmoor wiz begin on
the 18TH OF this month. The team viii ssll for
England June 10Th.
A. L. Boulivare, OF Richmond. the receiver
for the Greenbrier White sulphur Springs prop
erty.
smallpox Is raging at Nashville, Tennessee.
ON the llth inst 1quque, Peru. tor the third
time In six years. was visited by q disastrous con-
Migration.
Earthquakes are OF almost daily occurrence on
the Isthmus OF Panama.
The principal theater OF Lima was burned down
on the night or March Is.