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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
THE LATEST.

The PRESIDENT on Recommendation OF ClLi-
zen's Committee, of Washington CITY, has
pardoned Murphy and O'Leary, the three card
monte men. The Citizens Committee wanted
these men pardoned so they might use them
as witnesses before the Grand Jury in the case
against the detect yes. +.
The statement of the United States Treas
urer shows the gold, silver and United notes
in the Treasury the 18th to be, gold coin and
bull on, S1So, ,272; silver dollars and bull
lion, sos, $50 2O4; fractional silver COIN ST.
6S5. 1886; United States notes, S45, 9s3, O66
Total. s359. 372, SIS.
At Forsyth, fancy County, Mo-, the other
night, the safe in the store of Moore d Riggs,
In which tie funds in the County Treasury
were deposited, was drilled and blown open,
and s.. 600 in money, besides a lot Of county
warrants, business papers, etc, were stolen.
During storm recently near Humansville,
No., colored man was rid ng one horse and
leading another, when lightning struck and
killed both horses but did not hurt the man.
A late fire at Jacksonville, Texas, destroyed
awhole block, including the Postofflce. Loss,
500, 600; insurance light.
The steamer Grand Island was burned at
Wilson's Landing, on the Black River, lately.
The boat and cargo of 800 bales of cotton and
2,0O0 sacks Of seed we're q total loss. No lives
were lost.
Mrs. Henry T. Dolan shot and killed herself
in the presence of her husband at their resi-
dence in Kansas City q few days since. They
had been married only a few months and her
husband being out of employment intended
to seek work elsewhere. She being of ner-
vous disposition her husband thought former
neighbors had induced her to believe he might
desert her. Her age WAS twenty-three.
Indian Agent Tufts, of Muskogee, ]. T.,
telegraphed to the Commissioner of Ind an
Affairs that unless troops were sent to Union
Agency at once, there was great danger of q
ight between the opposin factions of Creek
Indians. The War Department was advised
of the impending danger
The white lead works at Washington, Pa,
were recently burned. Loss, 500, 600; insur-
anee, $4,000.
Just before the close of the performance in
Taanta's theater, New Orleans, the other
night, the alarm of fire was given and a
stampede followed. After the fire was sub
dued and quiet restored, it was found that
two men, two women, a girl and boy and q
colored youth were severely crushed, being
trampled upon. 1t was thought their injuries
were fatal.
Enos j. Crowther, lately on trial at St.
Joseph, Mo-, upon the charge of completely in
a bond steal over year ago, was acquitted by
the jury.
The Chicago and Northwestern freight train
was badly wrecked at Woodbine, Ia, recently,
killing Engineer E. NJ. Smith and Brakeman
Lerz and badly scalding Fireman Montgom-
ery
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

A MExIcIy woman Ill years OF age dies
recently at New Laredo.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

r T. HUBBARD, a lawyer of Lynchburg.
Va, was arrested ~ for pro osing to
fight duel with L. 8. Marye, OF the Advance
saf. The officers failed to find the latter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

A CAR in the middle of a freight-train, on
the Rome, Watertosn & Ogdensburg Rail-
az, jumped the ira few days ago. but
remained upright and rolled al ng for three
mics, even safely crossing long bridge, till
Adams. N. Y, was reached, VIII the condi-
ton of affairs was discovered. Ties, spike
h ads aud fi<h p ates were dana led to grea'
aYfpuf
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
In Search OF an Alibi.

He was LAWYER and came home from
the lodge in the gray dawn of morning
and found the bosom of his family clothed
and in her right mind.
Charlie" said she, on family re-
turninga proffered kiss. '.yoa have spent
another night of carousal and dissipa--
tion."
Why do You say that, my dear?''
Because your breath smells horrid
with whisky"
But, my dear, don't you know you
would be ruled out Of court on a single
point of circumstantial evidence like
that? You ought to have a eoncatena-
ton of cumulative facts and illative cir
cumstances that would establish your
charge irrefragibly. At it is, what you
allege is a mere supposition that will not
holt water a minute"
Then the fires of practical logic blazed
out or her black eyes, and seizing a dip
per she exclaimed: "Here is something
that will hold water, / reckon and as.
she plunged the argument into kettle
of boiling water. Charles struck out Wig
orously for the gate in quest OF an aiibi.
Toledo Ameri;aa.
Among the curious things which
some St. Louis men want to do on wagers
are: To eat soda cracker in half a.
minute, to eat thirty Wiennerwursts per
day for thirty consecutive days, to con-
sume more bananas in given time.
than any other man can eat. to eat six
large pigs feet in one hour and half
to eat one goose per day for fifteen con-
seeutive days. the goose not to be over
forty years DID, Chicago tribune.
"A New York man who got suddenly
rich and bought nice place in the coun-
try. purchased goat and let it roam
through his park because it was a funny
animal to have about. 1t proved So
The day sixteen swell guests arrived to
see him the goat butted him seven times
around the house and then through
window, while all the party looked Oh
and laughed. Boston Transcripts.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

In defending the action of the Democratic
Legislature in the passage of the metropoli-
tan police bill, upon the ground that all
police power inheres in the State. and that
the State can make and unmake subordinate
corporations at will, the News seeks to
strengthen its position by saying: t
''The State has, as matter of convenience,
granted the exercise of that right to munich
pal corporations as its agents. to act for certain
specified purposes within certain specified
limits and under State laws, but it may with
draw that grant at any time, and may, in
consonance with the rights granted, with
draw not only this particular right, but all
rights, and wine the city itself out of exist
ence as Tennessee did in the case OF Mem
phs."
OF course, there is no use in trying to talk
with a newspaper upon an important ques-
ton which does not know that Memphis SUR
rendered its corporate existence by its own
act, and that the State of Tennessee did not
take away the charter of the city. The State
has police power. 1t never has surrendered
it, 1t still maintains 1t, and it exercises it
through its system of sheriffs and constabu-
larry. If the State of Indiana desires to exer-
else its inherent police powers in Indianapo-
lis, we know of no earthly objections, and it
does il every day in the year and every hour
of the day. But when the State steps in and
appoints State police power to enforce or
dinances and regulations exclusively munici-
pal, which have never been before the Legis-
lature of the State, it assumes an unconstitu-
tional and illegal function. The State of Indi-
ana has not attempted to discharter indian
apolis to destroy its corporate and municipal
powers. Its Council still remains, with full
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

Lunacy, and such letters shall be transmit
ted promptly without inspection. 1t also
provides that person who is admitted to an
insane asylum at his own request can be re-
leased when he desires 1t would be well for
future Legislatures in Indiana to take this
bill under advisement While no such dis
closures have been made in this State as have
is a matter that should receive the carefullest
attention, that no sane person be incarcer-
ated, nor kept after sanity has been restored,
and that the really insane are properly and
humanely cared for.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13
ABOUT PEOPLE.

RERDELL is a native of Georgia, and was a suit
Ter in General Shermans army.
REV DIR. HOWARD CROSBY says there is no
doubt that the efforts to bring about total absti-
nence have proved failure.
"SAM'I. OF PosEN" CURTIS has made $150,00O
by caricaturing his race on the stage, and is now
laboring under the mental delusion that he is an
actor.-Pcayune.
EX-SENATOR TABOR was the only man in the
Senate who could boast of having two living
wives, ard that he had been twice divorced from
one OF them and twice married 10 the other.
LOUISE MICHEL. is described as an elderly lit.
tie spinster, with coarse, gray hair, twisted mp
into corkscrew enrls, from which we infer thar
she is not likely to visit us as a professional
beauty.
GOVERNOR WALLER, of Connecticut confined
his fast-day proclamation for Friday OF next
week Good Friday to the space of five and
half lines and still found room in it for refer
ences to "the religious character of the people
of this Commonwealth" and the "revered GUS
tom of our pious forefathers."
NEW YORK Tribune: General Grants sons are
all in business here now. JESSE who IS said to
have the best commercial head is in operations
with q young man from Boston. once the Gov
ernor's clerk there, named Moriarty. Colonel
Fred retired from the army because his fathers
military prominence made Trim the Yice-captain-
general in extending hospitality to all the oil
GERS as they passed through Chicago, and he Is
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

THE United States did much to get a railway
built to the Pacific, and whole tones have been
written condemning the land grants that were
made, the entire undertaking being denounced
as an Unprecedented piece of extravaganza. 1t
appears that the Canadian government has out
done the United States in making land grants
and comforting other benefits upon its Pacific
road. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company
is one of the richest corporations in the world.
1t started out with grant of 756 miles of road
built and In operation; another grant of 5,0O0,-
900 acres OF land, said to be worth on the aver
age So per acre, and government guarantee
of the clear gut of $25 100000 to he paid by
installments, so much upon the completion OF
each section of twenty miles. Its charter ex.
empts the road, equipment and capital stock
from taxes forever, and 1t has free right OF way,
with all the materials for construction and
equipment free from duty. The whole mileage
to be built by the company Is less than 2.4o0
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13
ocratic paper, says:

THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, of
yesterday, reviewed the work of the Indiana
Legislature at considerable length, conclud-
ing by saying:
"Such is the record of the late Democratic
Legislatures record which must make
every decent Democrat blush with shame,
and which is likely to be kept in long re-
membrance for its disgusting scramble for
petty offices. its high-handed attempt to
wrest the right of self-government from the
two largest cities in the State, its utter neg
lect and disregard of the important interests
OF the people, and its determined effort to
force an extra session by refusing to ap-
propriate money for carrying on the public
institutions OF the State. The record is made.
1t remains to be seen whether or not it will
be ratified by the people of the State of In
diana in 1881"
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

power to make needful regulations for mu-
nicipal government; but the Legislature pro-
poses to step in and say it shall not have
power to enforce them, but must abdicate
that duty to foreign agency, over which it
can exercise no control. No inherent po-
lice power" nor no State authority over sub
ordinate corporations, can be stretched to
cover such an assumption as that contained
in the metropolitan police bill. If-as did
mphis-Indianapo by sovereign act of
its people or government, should dissolve
the corporation, and resolve itself into the
general state, then of course the State
would have authority, as it would be its
duty, to extend the police power of the State
over this territory, and assume all needful
governmental functions as over unincorpo-
rated portions of the state. But so long as
the city is ready and willing to use its own
governing power, the interference of the
State is impertinent, violatve all the prin-
ciples of local self-government, and we be-
lieve unconstitutional.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

FAMILY butcher" in Brooklyn who had
been purveyor of tough steaks and aged lamb
to a couple who in the divorce court,
was called as witness in the case. The worthy
man testified that he had never met the pair ex-
cept in his shop. but had always been under the
impression that they were very happy together
because "when one bought meat the other
seemed satisfied" This was deep reasoning,
but, as events prove, was falIacious. 1t will be
remembered that
Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife cOud eat
no lean,
And so it fell, betwixt them both, they licked the
platter cleaL."
There is every reason to believe that this his
torio couple dwelt harmOhiously together, but
they undoubtedly had different sort of caterer.
The Brooklyn butcher will perhaps remember
that he trimmed the fat close. Had 1t been
otherwise this happy family might be blissful
vet.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

THE late Independent party, Hon. David
Davis, will tomorrow attach himself to, or
rather permit to be attached to him, Miss
Fannie Burr, of Fayetteville, N. c. Our
pleasurable interest there over the event, as
Mr. Davis is universally beloved by the peo-
pie among whom he has lived for so many
Years. He also denies the story that Mr..
Davis is to settle a half million dollars in
currency and bonds upon his bride Such
action is held to be inconsistent with the
judges character, and utterly out Of the
est part of his fortune is in the shape of real
estate,
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

The Lawrenceburg Press thus refers to the
generous nature of the State, and the work of
indianapolis particularly
"In spite of the fool Legislature Indiana,
generous old Hooserdom, was bound to com
mend herself to the love of every one OF her
sons and DAUGHTERS, and to the admiration of
everybody else. The needs of each drowned
town were not only instantly answered by
the surrounding towns, but the generous
people, through that magnificent Indianapo-
lis Board of Trade, sent three steamers down
the river as far as Shawneetown, relieving
the distress of farmers and villagers who
were out OF the ordinary reach OF help. Ken
lucky and Illinois sufferers Jared as well as
the Hoosiers. How handsomely the old
Hoosier State stands and will stand for many
day in the eyes of many a family down
this great river"
And the Lawrenceburg Register, the DEM
ocratic paper, says:
sour city and all points along the river
from Cincinnati to Shawneetown, ILL.,, are
greatly indebted to the Indianapolis Board
of Trade for the noble work they have done
and are doing to aid the suffering in the late
overfowed districts, The people of Law
renceburg, especially, feel deeply grateful to
the Board of Trade for the timely service
and the liberal bestowal of the comforts and
necessities of life, without which there is no
telling what calamities would have been
added to the already distressing condition of
the sufferers. The action of the Indianap-
oils Board of Trade was prompt earnest and
successful; and in behalf of grateful people
we return the thanks of all for the good work
they have accomplished, and in the future
will kindly remember the capital city OF our
great Commonwealth"
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

A GOOD many criticisms have been made
or Indiana divorces but the State certainly
has nothing on record which can equal case
in Quebec. Twelve years ago Mr.. Burgess, of
that city, married Mrs. Gagnon, widow, and
apparently lived happily with her. Having
been friend OF the Gagnon family previous
to the marriage Mr.. Burgess had acted as
godfather to one OF Mrs Gagnon's children.
When this circumstance lately came TO the
knowledge of the parish priest, that worthy
at once declared that the act of standing
sponsor to the child had created spiritual
affinity" between Burgess and the mother
which forbade marriage, and rendered it null
and void in this case. He therefore ordered
the parties to separate until they could get
a dispensation and be married over again.
Instead of this the gay Mr.. Burgess says that
if he is free he is going to marry younger
and better-looking woman, and has appealed
to the court to have the marriage set aside in
agreement with the behests of the church.
The Spiritual affinity" theory seems to work
curiously in northern attitudes.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

IT is to classic Boston that one naturally
turns for information concerning the vari-
Gus tributary centers of intellectual culture
When, therefore, the eye falls upon para
graphs like the following, taken at random
from a column of college news" in the Ad-
vertiser it is something of shock, unless
the readers were previously aware of the rev.
olutionary state of affairs:
"How Tit inquiresl shall we characterize
Amhersts course? The original scheme OF
Harvard embraced also the expulsion of Am
herst from the league. In her distress Am
herst sought the support of Yale and the
delegates of the latter college stood by her,
although they ran a decided risk by so doing.
Amherst repaid this kindness by selfish de
sertion OF Yale the moment the opportunity
presented itself. When Harvard, Princeton
and Brown found that Amherst and Dart
mouth by the help of Yale could defeat their
purpose they determined to withdraw from
the league and form another. leaving out
Dartmouth and Yale. Amhers. lent herself
to this arrangement the moment a member
ship in the proposed new league was offered
her and abandoned Yale to her fate without
tie slightest compunctions. Fortunately the
Withdrawal of. Dartmouth from the league
prevented Amhersts action from working
the harm to Yale which it otherwise would
have done"
Having been under the impression that
the. comfy of the great colleges was in a
good state of preservation and the giant in
tellects in each worked as harmoniously to-
gether as if they were oiled, this evidence of
conspiracy and intention to crush one or
more universities and to ruin Yale is start
ling to the unsophisticated reader and he
anxiously looks for further disclosures. lie
finds them. After considerable investiga-
ton his mind is relieved to learn that no
immediate danger menaces the proud insti-
tutes of learning The 'league" which
wanted to expel Amherst and has abandoned
Yale 10 her fate does not include all the stu
dents nor the respective faculties but is
composed of the various baseball mines
and their adherents. Some OF the most pow
erfui minds in the colleges are of course con-
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

A PUBLIC meeting OF the citizens OF Law
renceburg was held last night in the court
aouse, Judge Givan, Democrat, presiding.
A resolution was unanimously adopted de-
nouncing the article published last week in
the Press, of that city, attacking Governor
Porter, and rendering to the Governor ''es-
TEEN, confidence and profound thanks" for
the aid and service he had rendered both per-
sonally and officially in connection with
measures of relief
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

JOHN JACOBS, of Caseyville, ILL.,, aged
twenty, is the latest-discovered idiot who did
not know it was loaded, and lady friend,
eighteen years of age. was murdered through
his stupidity. Seeing her approach, he
thought it would be fine fun to scare her
with gun. He ran into the house, got the
gun and slipped cap on the tube. When
she was opposite the door ne snapped the
cap, the gun fired, and the lady fell dead at
his feet not knowing what killed her. The
wretch was saved from well-merted lynch
ing by being hurried aboard a train and
taken to jail
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

WHEN the infamous Brown bill, for the re-
organization of the benevolent institutions,
was pending in the Legsl ature, a number
of Democrats who were inclined to oppose
it were influenced to its support by
the promise that Drs. Rogers and Thomas,
to whose efforts the admirable management
of the Insane Asylum for the past two years
was greatly due, should retain their posi-
tions. Senator Brown and the politicians
who were insisting that the bill should be-
come law, as measure of party necessity,
claimed that their only desire was to turn
over the institution to the party followers,
scalp of John Fishback. Since the bill has
become law, however, it is apparent that
there were other considerations, insomuch as
a determined effort is being made
to oust DR.. Rogers and give his
place to DR.. John C. Walker, whose
record for loyalty during the war
is only equaled by that of his distinguished
associate Horace Heffren. He is a bitter
partisan, and so far as is known, has never
shown any SURPRISING ability in his profess
sion to cntitle him to such an important po-
sition as he is seeking. Among the most
earnest supporters of the bill was Mr.. Heff-
rem, and it was he who managed it both in
the Democratic caucus and the House of
Representatives Messrs Heffren and Walker
were Sons of Liberty together during the
war, and in peace they are not divided.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

nected with the league, but they have not
yet gained entire control of the institutions.
From further information which appears in
thesam column, it would seem that the
students who are delying into baseball are
not really in the majority but that the ath-
letic associations, bicycle clubs and gvmna-
siums so divide the attention of the students
that no preconcerted action to destroy any
college with baseball bat need be feared
this season
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

A DISPATCH from Washington indicates
that Mrs. Harrison, wife of the Senator, is in
a critical condition, and that General Harri-
son viii not be able to return home for some
time. Mrs Harrison has been ill nearly all
winter requiring the frequent presence of
her husband in New York, where she
has been receiving treatment Her many
friends would be glad to know that the
report is exaggerated, and will earnestly
hope for her complete and speedy recovery.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

THE Denver Tribune hears a rumor that
the Passion Play is being rehearsed in that
moral city under the innocent and delusive
guise of the broom drill, and warns the pious
people who meant to patronize the drill that
they are on the brink of an awful precipice.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-13

RECENT Investigations of the ASYLUM at
Utica, n. Y, are about to result in new
law governing commitments to insane asy-
luins. A bill has been prepared by the
Attorney general and State Commissioner of
Lunacy for presentation to the New York
Legislature providing that no person be con-
fined III an insane asylum except upon the
certificate of two physicians stating the facts
and nature of the insanity, etc. Every JUS
tice approving such certificate shall certify
that he has read the same, and in his opinion
1t is a proper form and constitutes prma
face evidence of insanity. The bill makes
it misdemeanor, punishable by fine of
rot less than 500 nor exceeding 50 600, or
Imprisonment not exceeding one year for
each person. for malice, corruption or other
reason, to make false representations for the
purpose OF causing a certificate to be made
whereby person is declared insane or COM
mitted. Better still, the bill also provides
for visits to asylums, without notice, at least
once a month, and opportunity TO patients
to make statements to visitors in private. II
any two members examining a case think
that the cause OF commitment no longer ex-
sts, or that further residence in the asylum
S not necessary, they shall report to the
president, who shall summon a meeting of
the board TO take action on the case. Asy-
lum superintendents shall furnish stationery
70 patients who desire to write to the author
ties OF an asylum, to members OF the govern