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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
AND EDUCAT1oNAI.

Frederick Billings recently present
ed the late George p. Marsh's library
to the University Of Vermont, and has
now given $75, 900 for q library build
ing.
"A Turkish pasha has shown his ap-
probation of the work of our mission
schools in that country by the follow
ing remark: "When a girl has come
back from the American mission school,
you should not say girl, but school
has come. christian Union.
The Baptists have raised $4,000
for the renovation of the university hall
of Brown University, Providence. The
work goes on at once. The legacy of
$3.50, 600 recently received by the uni
versity, is t.. be spent on the scientific
department.
President William w. Folwell, OF
the University of Minnesota, has re-
signed, to take effect at the end of the
present collegiate year, and has been
elected to the chair of political science.
He has been President since 1867
Chicago Journal.
The Bombay Guardian states that
the decenial census of Protestant mis-
sions in India will show that the number
of native Christians has about doubled
in the last ten years. 1t ventures the
prediction that if the rate of increase
continues for nine decades the number
of Christians in India will equal its pres
ent population.
-Stepats Yamakawa, the talented
Japanese girl, who was president of
her class at Vassar, has returned to her
home in Japan, and is becoming again
accustomed to the ways of living there.
She writes that she can eat and dress in
Japanese style easily, but she can not
bring herself to arrange her hair in
true Japanese fashion.-N. Y. Times.
The students of the Agricultural
College at Toronto became SO unruly
the other day that the President of the
institution was obliged to call in the
police to aid him in enforcing discipline.
The boys had been hazing some new
Corners and enjoyed it SO much that
they extended their attention to the new
head-master, whom they fain would
have tossed in a blanket and treated to
other indignities that college boys wot
of.
Efforts made to increase the ef1i-
cheney of the public schools of Phila-
delphia appear to show some hopes Of
success. The grading of the pay of
teachers, so as to make it possible to
secure for the primary schools teach
ing ability and experience of the high
est order, was one long step in advance.
Another was taken when the Board of
Education was authorized to appoint a
Superintendent of the public Schools
PHILADELPHIA Record.
The latest statistics of the M. E.
Church South show the following fig
ures, which are an increase in every
item over the statistics of 1881. Trav-
cling preachers, 1882, 3, 1856; superannu-
ated preachers, 500; local preachers,
$500; white members, SCI PA; colored
members, 1.030; Indian members. s.
Ill; total preachers and members, S74,-
299; infants baptized, 1926: adults
1882; Sunday-schools, 9,649;
Sunday-school teachers, 65,19S; Sum-
day-school scholars. 1888, 426; collections
for conference claimants. SS1,432.S2;
collections for missions, S207, 1906
N. w. Christian AdUOcdte.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
THE SOUTH.

An extensive strike among the cowboys in
the Panhandle of Texas has been inaugurated.
They demand an advance from $50, the present
wages, to $50 per month, which stockmen re-
fused to pay. The cowboys threatened vio-
fence to new men if they were brought into
the ranches, and cattle owners viii call upon
the State forces to protect them if their own
means fail. 10 Isl very critical time for such
trouble, as preparations for the seasons drive
are at hand.
Perhaps the largest transaction in cattle
ever made in this country was effected at Fort
Worth, Tex, recently, the sale being 5000
head OF grown cattle, by the lizards and the
Harold Brothers, to the Franklin Land and
Cattle Company, of New York The price paid
was reported to be g 900.
Gwendolin Dickeshed was recently ar
rested at Wheeling, w. Va, charged with
stealing $500 from the residence OF DR..
sehuckhsrdt, who was murdered March 19, by
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
Shooting a COmrade in Play.
LACROSSE. Wis March

La CROSSE, Wis, March &c.
Yesterday afternoon Louis May, Frank
Maher. and three other youths went to the
gun-room of the Light Guard aImory to play
cards. May watched the other four, and, sec
ing some cheating going on, went to the lock-
er, and taking ou.a gun, said: I'll shoot the
next man that cheats" He then hela up q
brass sheS, aud placed it in the gun.
Boon he saw. Frank Mnher pass a card
to his partner, and called out to him
TO look out. Nsher turned to May. placed his
hand on his heart, and said q Fire away" This
May did, and the ball entered Makers left eye,
coming out near his left ear. He fell to the
floor, but the boys thought it only continue.
ton of the joke until they saw blood streaming
from the hole in the unfortunate youths head.
May was nearly crazed with grief, for he and
the dead youth were close friends. He haG
taken the shell from box containing til.
shells fired in target practice a few evenings
syo, and supposed that it was not loaded.
May was not arrested.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
G EN- ER Al.

The London telegraph considers as prepos-
ferrous the report that the English Govern
ment had sent a menacing note to Washing
ton in regard TO utterances' and writings of
the Irish dynamite party in America. 1t says
the United States Governments attitude OF
indifference at the rawlings Of these men is the
same as that which England has always adopt
ed toward exiles taking refuge in that coun-
try.
Twenty-siX persons were arrested at Balm
robe, Mayo, ireland, charged with completely
in the murder Of Feerick in June, 1880. The
jury at Belfast rendered verdict OF guilty in
the case OF six members of the Armagh Assas-
sination Society.
The craters of Mount Etna continue active.
Rumblings of the volcano are frequent, and
signs of an earthquake evident.
The London police are In receipt Of a letter,
purporting to emanate from Fenian sources,
threatening that unless the men charged with
the Phoenix Park murders, now confined in
Jail awaiting trial, are at once released, the
central telegraph Office Of London will be
blown up. 1850 x F's'' t
Mrs. EmeIine Meaker was hanged at Wind
sor, Ont, for torturing her little daughter to
death. Her son turned States evidence and
got life sentence. She protested her inno-
cence.
An analysis Of the chemical explosives
seized lately at Liverpool developed the fact
that they were composed of nitro glycerine
mixed with saw dust, chlorine, potash and
vitriol. The composition was of a nature SO
infammable and explosive that it is miracle
it did not explode in transit through the
streets.
The business failures the past week were 1Ss
against 1875 the week before. Fifty-eight were
in the Western States.
A portion of the people of Lorraine still
avow hostility to Germany and sympathy for
France, which occasionally breaks out in agi-
tation. Such is the case now, the immediate
cause of excitement being an address
just issued by Deputy Antoine, ac-
knowledging the receipt of money collected
by the Patriotic League for the benefit of suf
ferers by the recent foundations along the
Rhine and appeals to the French Government
not to forget those unhappy children OF
France who, although parted from her tempo
rarily by force Of arms, are awaiting day Of
revenue
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Man
WARRINGTON NOTES.

The officers and employees of the Postof1ce
Department held = meeting in Washington
and adopted resolutions OF respect to the
late Postmaster General Howe.
The Grand Jury at Washington City have
returned two indictments against ex-senator
Kellogg, Of Louisiana, for unlswfully receiv-
Ing money, while Senator, from James B.
Price, mali contractor, for the service Of pro-
curing, persuading and inducing Thomas j.
Brady, Second Assistant Postmaster General,
to award and allow to Price an increase of pay
and compensation for carrying the mail with
increased speed, and corruptlY influencing the
action Of Brady therein. Brady was also In
dicted.
1t is said that the Naval Advisory Board win
report in favor of equipping League Island
yard with Plant and machinery necessary for
the sonstrucsion 4 Of siroa apd steel ship.
Naval officers lbkliefe that THE action 81
Congress in authorizing the construc-
ton of new steel cruisers is forecast OF the
future policy of this Government touching
Its navy. That war ships of the future will he
OF steel or iron, and that this Government will
soon appreciate the Importance of being able
to build its own ships.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that the rate Of duty, as between the
old and new tariff, Is to be fixed by the date
Of the arrival Of the importing vessel
at the ext erior Port Of entry, and that
the goods imported before the new act
takes effect and shipped to western ports un-
der immediate transportation will be dutiable
under the present tariff, unless they remain in
public store and bonded warehouse when
the act goes into operation.
The statement of gold coin and bullion in
the Treasury the 29th was SIS, S57, 5S3; silver
dollars and bullion, $106, 975, S04; fractional
silver coin, $27, Isl, 127; United States notes,
44,655,eO4; total, $685., 800 357.
The President has received from Berlin
bankers an additional contribution of 1900
marks for the food sufferers, 5000 of which
were from the Emperor and Empress.
The internal revenue receipts the Goth were
SIG, 900; customs, s150,000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
THE WEST.

The hostile Indians are becoming very bold
md murderous in Arizona. Over twenty
men have been killed within week. By firing
the grass the country for miles was devas-
lated.
The Union Club House, at Chicago, oneo
the finest structures of the kind in the coun-
try, just approaching completion, was partial
Iy burned the other morning. Loss, SIS, 900;
insurance 500 600! TT c..
The Umatiila Indians in Oregon begin to
show signs Of hostility.
Russell Brown and Pat McGraw, charged
with the murder Of Mrs. Sarah Doris,
Browns grandmother) in st. Louis about q
gear ago, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in
the first degree and we're sentenced to the
Rsnitenriary for ten years.
Beach Camp on the Gils river, Arizona, was
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06

his nephew Guenther schnelle. The money
was buried in the cellar of the murdered mans
house. Dickeshied attempted to express It to
Cincinnati, but the Adams express refused to
receive II, when be deposited in the Exchange
Bank.
Senator Garland was recently banquetted by
the citizens of Little Rock, Ark, without
party distinction.
A severe wind and rain storm recently pre-
vailed all over Western Texas, flooding the
country, causing streams to become very high,
and blowing down fences, trees and light
houses. In some sections hail fell a. large as
Q mans nst playing havoc among young
lambs.
Thomas Fl. Herndon, member-elect from the
First Alabama Congressional District, died
recently at Mobile.
The libel suit of Mrs. Hite against the
ages was recently decided against Mrs. Hite.
The Courier-Journ some time since pub
lished q full account Of the Hite family and
their connection with the Jesse James gang
Of robbers, and charged that Mrs. Hite had
more tender regard for Jesse James than she
had for her husband. The evidence upon trial
caused the Jury to take the same view of the
case and their verdict was rendered accord
ingly.
Two transfer trains of the Louisville and
Nashville road and of the Nashville and Chat
tanooga road collided on the trestle at Nash
vile, lately, and were badly wrecked. Two
cars were thrown from the trestle twenty feet
high, and the cars of the other train piled up
on the trestle. Charles Abbott, conductor,
had his right arm broken in three places, and
general Commissions about the body. Thomas
Hutchinson, conductor, was severely injured.
Joe Tulley, engineer, and Thomas Sheet, fire.
man, were supposed to be fatally injured.
1t has been discovered that the Missouri
Pacific Railroad has been paying claims at
Fort Worth Texas, for men who are dead.
The claims were put in and money drawn by
section bosses, several of whom have been ar
rested.
Tennessee has banished the gambling fra
ternity from her borders by law making
gambling felony punishable by three years
in the Penitentiary.
The negroes employed in the tobacco fac
tories in Lynchburg, Va, have gone on q
strike and the factories have shut down until
May. Fears of trouble were entertained.
A fearful accident took place on the Cincin-
natl & Southern Railroad, near Mason, Ky,
recently, caused by land slide. Sixty pas
sengers were injured, about q dozen supposed
fatally.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
THE EAST.

Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Harwood,
United States Engineer Corps, was found
dead in his room at Young's Hotel, in Boston,
the other morning. -
When Dukes, the murderer of Captain
Mutt, for which the jury acquitted him, re-
turned to his home at Uniontown, Pa, he was
waited upon BY q committee of citizens who
gave him twenty-four hours to leave town.
Owing to the anticipated caving in at Pine
Ridge colliery, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, the
Delaware and Hudson works suspended. The
timbers supporting the roof in the main gang
way gave way, and serious results were eI-
pected.
c. P. Marlle & Sons, of Pittsburg, the
largest paper manufacturers in Western
Pennsylvania, have made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors Liabilities, $500, 900;
assets nearly 100000. Heavy failures in the
West was given as one of the causes Of the
failure, and an official statement says the fail
ure wss precipitstei. by Captain Cassius Z.
Markle, one Of the firm, who left the city for
the West, taking with him, it Is. estimated,
from SCI, 900 to 500, coo of the firms money,
leaving their bank account bare, and no funds
to meet maturing obligations. . "'e
A house in Allegheny City, Pa, occupied by
Edward Graham, was recently destroyed by
IRE Two twin boys, aged fifteen months,
children of David Faulkner, who lived in two
of the rooms, persisted in the flames.
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed bill
prohibiting political assessments.
The Western Nail Association met at Pitts
burg recently and reafiirmed the $40 card
rate. Trade was reported better, and owing
to the improved demand it was decided to
continue the factories in operation for five
weeks, instead Of closing down for four weeks
on April z, as previously agreed on.
The Scranton (Pa-) Steel Company have
started new mills, employing over !, Zoo men.
At Greenfield, Mass, recently, Conductor
E A. Hosley of the New Haven & Northamp-
ton Railroad was found guilty Of man.
slaughter in disobeying orders and causing a
collision At the State Road last September, in
which three persons were killed and others
uniInded
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06

A woman blacksmith has been dis
covered in small hamlet near Port
Jarvis, N. Y. She is protected lby the
regulation leather apron, and shows o
handsome, muscular arm.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
A Big Nevada Wildcat.

On Sunday night last, as Daniel Tyer and
Bill Dye were stroling about mile from their
home near Wallace, Calaveras County, they
heard their dogs making a noise a short dis
lance away. On reaching the scene of the
trouble they found that the dogs had freed
monstrous wildcat. The cat seemed to feel
quite secure, and it stretched itself at full
length along one of the branches of the tree
and turned its half-sleepy-lookinge eyes on the
dogs beneath. Tyer got his shotgun loaded
with buckshot as quickly as possible, and,
blazing away, knocked the wildcat of the
limb to the ground. A terrible fight at once
ensued between the animal and the besiegers.
1t soon vanquished the dogs, and then started
for the young men. Tyer was just as quick as
the cat. He had but one charge in his gun,
and he knew he must put that where IL would
do the most good. As the cat made spring
Tyer fired, killing the Infatuated animal. The
cat weighed a hundred pounds. 1t was TWEEN.
ty-four inches in height and four and half
feet in length, and measured thirty-eighf
inches around the bOdy.-VirInid City ChrJn
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The News It Washington,
WASHINGTON, March o.

"Frank, your father is dead" 1t was in
this cruel manner that a comparative stranger
informed young Mr.. Howe upon the street
this afternoon that his father was no more.
The shock which the son received was scarcely
greater than that felt by the entire commu-
nifty this evening when it became known and
the surprise was less, for dispatches which
had been received by members of the family
during the day had prepared them for fatal
termination of Judge Howe's illness. Assist
ant Postmaster-General Hatton, early this aft
ernoon, received a dispatch from Kenosha in
dicating that Judge Howe's illness had be-
come of more alarming character. He i'm.
mediately dispatched messenger.to the Pres
ident and to the house OF Judge Howe. This
messenger had hardly left when another dis
patch came indicating still more alarming con.
ditions, and soon after came the news of his
death. Mr.. Hatton Immediately took a car.
rage, went for Secretary Lincoln and for Sec
Rotary Chandler, and with them proceeded 20
The White House. The President was visibly
affected. He had scarcely heard of the serious
turn in the illness of his Postmaster-Generai
before the news came to him that he was dead.
The death of the Postmaster-General, out.
side of his immediate family, will bring sin.
cere grief to no one more than to the Presi-
dent of the United States and to the remain
ing members of his Cabinet. And to Judge
Folger, who is himself lying upon a bed of
pain, the news, when his physicians permit
it to be broken to him, will be q terrible
shock. They were nearly of the same age,
their habits were judicial. and, though COM
parative strangers before they had entered
the Cabinet, their relations had become of the
most cordial character. The President had
learned to look upon Judge Howe as one of
the most trusted of his counselors, and, while
the Postmaster-General seldom volunteered
opinions, there was no one about the Execu-
tive council-chamber to whom the President
more readily TUNED for suggestions than to
the late Postmaster-General.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06

MANUFACTURED in the New Jersey State
Prison will be the legend on the soc OF
every pair of boots hereafter made in that
institution.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
Kellogg eaid recently he would
on Ne able TO make a Fatsment whielw ould
a pplee d eiaiAf ihe md atioas regard.
g him d Ae Pfia aasdaSjt. He would
Ow FRY r. ssosas = ae fossaeee PEI

partmentJEAt he had never indorse0S an an
plication for the expedition of service on
any mail route except for one steamboat route
on the Red River in 1876 or 1877. He would
also show what was the arrangement made by
the prosecution with Price, who he said, had
been promised immunity for his services in
this matter.
The annual reunion Of the society of the
Army of the Potomac will be held in Wash
ington City on May 16 and IL, and promises to
be OF unusual interest. The local committee
OF arrangements have practically decided up,
on the, programrne for the two days, and have
arranged with the leading hotels for the meet
ings of the various seorps. Ssh $40 WsAs
The President is pressed by applicants from
all quarters for the position of Postmaster
G General made v'crafa by tsessssafh q Mr.
The President appointed E. o. Graves As
sistshs Treasurer Of the United states, to fin
the place of A. NJ. Wyman, promoted Mr..
Graves mas hitherto been Superintendent OF
the national bank redemption division of the
Treasury Department.
The Comptroller of the Treasury decides that
the salary of Ochiltree, of Texas, must be paid
to him, notwithstanding his Indebtedness to
the United States.
The Rev. Mr.. Hicks, Of Washington, Gut
teau's spiritual adviser, has entered suit
against the Baltimore American for $S5, 600
damages for a publication asserting that
Hicks disposed of Guiteau's bones for q
money consideration.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
appointed Captain T. N. Burrill, of New York,
Chief of the Bureau Of Engraving and Print.
Ing. Captain Burriu was Purchasing Agent
of the Bureau.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
appointed committee to examine the books,
money and accounts Of the Treasurer of the
United States, preparatory to the transfer of
that Office to Mr.. Wymsn, the newly appointed
Treasurer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06

The Arkansas Legislature has
changed the name of Dorsey County to
De Soto County.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06

THERE are 10000 women in New York
City who support themselves.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06

THE Louisiana Supreme Court says ho-
,els are responsible for valuables stolen
from guests, and that warning notices do
not relieve them of the responsibility.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06

IT is estimated that s., ooO, coo human be
ings die every year.