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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15
WASHINGTON NOTES.

A BILL is pending before Congress, that
wasprepared by the Post-office Department,
which provides for payment of the rent of
all post-offces of the third class. This
expense is now borne by the Postmasters
themselves. The Government appropria-
ton required will be S6i0,000.
THE Committee on Public Health in the
House recently had under consideration a
proposition to take fom the sanitary de-
partment of the Treasury all work pertain
ing to the investigation and obtaining Of
statistics as to the health in different for
eigh and home stations, and giving the
same to the control of the National Board
of Health. DR.. Hammond and other prom
inent physicians were to be heard on the
slbject.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON, of the
Marine Hospital Service, stated recently
that it was his intention to take immediate
steps and use every precaution against the
introduction of the yellow fever epidemic
this year. Congress will undoubtedly pass
a National Quarantine law, and exposed
Southern cities and communities will
rigidly enforce inspection, house by house.
1t is believed that yellow fever can be
driven of.
THE Senate Committee on Agriculture
has unanimously ordered q favorable rea
port on the bill to prevent the spread of
pleuro-pneumonia, prepared by representa-
tives of the cattle interest and introduced
by Senator Miller.
The Cabinet st a recent meeting, with
all the members present, entered into a
general discussion of the questions iuvolv.
ing changes in the present classification OF
the Ciril-Service. 1t was thought the re-
suit would be embodied in the Presidents
message to Congress transmitting the re-
port of the Civil-Service Commission.
In regard to the proposed amendment to
the Constitution to permit an export tax
on cotton Representative Robinson, of New
York, recently said that should the amend
ment be adopted it will be followed by a
proposition to fix the tax at one cent per
pound. which he estimates will bring an
annual revenue to the Government of S13,-
O0e,0
TIE House Invalid Pension Committee re-
Gently agreed to report bill, predicated
upon Congressman Morrel's resolution, de-
claring it unnecessary that soldiers whose
services were accepted by the Government
and who served in the war, should be re-
Qnired to prove that they were sound in
health at the date of their enlistment in
order to obtain pensions.
TIE President has issued his order form
ally retiring General Sherman.
The House Judiciary Committee has de-
cided to investigate the charges preferred
-
leo, by r. s. Webb.
TIE President has appointed the follow
ing Commissioners to the Worlds Indus
trial Cotton Centennial Exposition of New
Orleans: Charles ]. Harrow, of Louisiana,
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The Borough of Hazleton, in the lower
end of this county, town of 5000 inhabi-
tants, was this afternoon thrown into a
fearful state of excitement by the caving
in of an entire square in the central part
of the borough. The drop was about three
feet, caused by the giving way Of the tim.
bers in Sugar Loaf Colliery underneath.
Three or four houses, including hotel,
were entirely wrecked, while numbers
Of others were more or less injured. The
residence of Master Mechanic Clark, Of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad shop, was utterly
demolished. Fortunately no lives were
sacrificed or anybody injured. 1t is report
ed here tonight that grave apprehension
exists in Hazleton concerning further set.
Ting of the surface, and much anxiety ex.
lists. This is the first town known to have
suffered from q cavern directly in its bust
ness center, and it naturally gives rise to
much curiosity among residents of other
undermined towns to know the exact causes
that operated in bringing about the disas-
ter OF to-day.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

SPRINGFIELD. MO-, Feb. Z.
Ike Pruits, the most noted of the illicit
whisky distillers of Texas County, this
State, Yesterday voluntarily surrendered
himself to Deputy United States Marhal
Gum Roper, at Baskets store, Texas
County, and was brought to this city where,
before the United States Commissioner, he
stated that he had been operating an Illicit
distillery and that he still owned the still,
but did not know where il was. In default
Of bond he was sent to the Cole County Jail
to await trial at the March term of the
United States District Court at Jefferson
City. Pruitt says that be is heartily tired
sf running an illicit distillery and that he
5iii devote himself to some other occupa-
lation in the future,
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A Disguised Judge.

MsMPHIS, TENN, Feb. q,
The jury in the case of Pat Haley, the
young Irishman charged with killing Alex.
Dunlap, an aged negro, last summer, by
cutting his throat with butcher knife, re-
turned verdict at noon to-day of no. gull
ty. This was the second trial, he having
been convicted of murder in the first de-
gree, but new trial granted on a techni-
caiity. When the jury announced the YER
dict to-day Judge Greer remarked that il
was perfect surprise to the court and
disgrace and insult to any civilized com.
hunity. He had the jury polled and their
nimes spread upon tine minutes, with in
struetions never to again be summoned as
jurors in his court,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15
PITH AND POINT.

Addison says: "Laziness grows Oh
people," but laziness is no sign of cult
vatiOn, no matter how fast it grows
Boston Pos.
An Indian named "Man-Afraid-of-
Nothing" married white woman in
Montana recently, and in one week
after the wedding applied to his tribe to
have his name changed.-Bismorck
Tribune.
Joseph Cook says he does not wish
to underrate the Roman Empire; but he
would rather be an American to-day
than Roman under Cesar. So would
almost anybody; the Romans under
Caesar are all dead.-BostOn Post.
What this country is yearning for
is a public school system which viii
teach the wives OF the future that light
housekeeping is something more than
reading novels and starching their hus-
bands stockings.-FaIR irer Adcance.
New Customer: ~ don't so much
care what the things are made of, you
know All / want is to look like gen
tleAhan." Tailor with uncalled-for
difidence): "Well, Sir, | can assure
you that will do my very best. M
Y. Independent.
"A bankrupt's lament
Had known all that know row,
Had sOwn that which SOW now,
Had my better sense co ltrolled me,
Had needed what it told me,
Had the future condescended
An horizon more extended
To have granted. poor and ailing,
had 'scaped the pangs of failing;
Had been good deal wiser
I'd have been an advertiser
The New Haven Board of Health
has presented railway whistles as pub
lie ruisances. Some people a,e easily
disturbed. And 1t is always the fellows
who come down street about half-past
fifteen O'Clock Saturday night breaking
street lamps, singing 'In the morning
by the bright light" and fighting
wooden Indians, who go into the courts
and complain that the Ginning of the
church bells disturb their rest on the
holy Sabbath morn.-BurlingtoD HaUk-
eye.
The value of literature entirely de-
ponds. IL book has q caf-skin cover,
it is valuable as arazor-strop If it is a
foot thick, it CONES in tirst-rate to put
under the corner of bureau which has
lost leg. Ii it has q clasp on it that
will keep it closed. it can not be
eclisped as missile to hurl at dog. If
it has large cover like geography it
is as good as pie:e of tin to nail over
q stove pipe hole or a broken pane of
glass. II the paper in which the litera-
ture occurs is one of the large ones
known rs q blanket sheet, then it is
much enjoyed by the young lady who
wishes to cut out a pattern OF anything.
As we said before, the value of Etera-
ture entirely depends.-Puck.
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THE EAST.

W:nLR Masons were assembling fn kali
at Guilford, N. Y, the other day prepaf.
atory to attending q funeral, the floor OF
the third story gave way, precipitating
seventy men to the floor below. Many
were severely injured, but none fatally.
The debris caught fire but was soon extin-
guished.
A NUMBER Of the Fall River (Mass.)
mills recently shut down, throwing nearly
four thousand hands out of employment,
stopping the production Of forty thousand
pieces of cloth weekly, and the weekly
payment to employees Of about $24, 900. The
strike of operatives against the late reduc.
ton in wages was one of the causes that led
to the shutting down of the mills.
CLARA BELDEN, the actress, was recently
taken to the hospital in New York with
violent condition of insanity and died soon
after. She was a native of st. Louis.
The weavers at the Pocasset mills, Fall
River. Mass, recently struck and the mill
closed. This mill employed seven hundred
hands and had payroll Of s., 400 weekly.
Brown mill was also closed by the strike of
the weavers. Thirteen mills have been
shut. The strikes and closing Of mills
have resulted in the throwing out of en-
ployment over five thousand operatives and
cutting off of a weekly payroll of about
$50, 900.
THE funeral of Wendell Phillips, at Bos-
ton, was very generally attended, State Of
ficials and other prominent persons
being present. A post norton ex-
animation showed disease of the
heart, both of long standing and of
recent date. The heart was extensively
enlarged and fatty, with the blood vessels
supplying it nearly obstructed by the early
disease.
JOHN d. HARRINGTON, the lawyer who
was recently acquitted at Jersey City, N.
j., of the charge of defrauding the Ameri-
can Legion of Honor, was soon after re-
arrested upon a similar charge.
WHILE firemen were recently working on
fire in the factory Of Kassmer s Kluch-
per, at Allentown, Pa, the walls fell out
ward, killing five and severely wounding
eight firemen.
A LATE fire in the Standard Oil Works
at Long Island City, N. Y, destroyed oil
and other property to the value of $I13,0 900.
T. C. WELLS, of Lockport, n. Y, recently
killed himself at Dallas, Tex. He was six
ty-five years of age, and once prominent
merchant of Lcckport, but failed and went
to Texas to retrieve his fortune. He was
unable to find employment, and in such
Strengthened circumstances that the week
before his death he subsisted on one meal a
day.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15
TIE EATRST


THE principal street of Hot Springs,
Ark, was recently the scene of a terrible
tragedy between two factions of gamblers.
AS Frank, Jack and William Flynn, broth
ers, were riding in a hack, a rival faction,
seven in number, headed by Alexander
Doran, stepped out of a saloon and opened
fire on the Flynns from doubled bar
relied shot guns and Winchester
rifles. Jack Flynn was shot through
the forehead and died in few
minutes; William Flynn was shot through
the breast; Frank Flynn received a shot
through the hand; Frank Howell, a friend
Of the Flynns, who went to their assist
ance, was shot through the back of the
neck and died an hour afteward; Robert
Hargrave, a bystander, was shot through
the breast, probably fatally, and j. H.
Craig, prominent lumber man, received a
charge of buckshot through the back, and
his condition was precarious.
A LONDON paper stated that ENGLAND.
although opposed to the annexation Of
Egypt, will be under the necessity of exer-
cising absolute authority over the country
for the next five or ten years. The exigen-
cies of the present crisis demand immedi-
ate action, and further delay on the part Of
England to assume control would be moth
ing less than criminal"
The other night j. c. Dent, of the firm of
Wells & Dent, druggists, went into his
wholesale and retail drug store at Bridge
port, w. va, suburb Of Wheeling, with
an alcoholic lamp. The store had been
81. r.,
rel Of gasoline upset, the gas from which
igritsd and an explosion followed, setting
fire to the building. Dent jumped from the
second story window, badly burned and in
his fall was seriously injured internally.
The loss was about $4,000.
The House Committee on Post-offices and
Post-roads has agreed 20 report favorabiy
the bill providing that letter carriers be
employed in every city containing five
thousand inhabitants, and may be en-
ployed in places containing not less than
two thousand and producing gross postal
revenue of at least - 900 per annum.
THE entire Texas delegation have united
in a request to Secretary Teller to revoke
the order of Indian Agent Miles, closing
the cattle trains through the Indian Terri
tory.
DURING the late food at Wheeling, W.
Va, woman fell from the second story
window of her house and was drowned.
A child also fell from a house into the wa
ter and was drowned. The house of man
named McCarty was swept away and be
lost &, 800 in gold. Tie total loss of prop
erty would reach 100000.
DURING late riot at San Juan, in the
Argentine Republic, the Governor was
killed any many others wounded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

Commissioner; W. ]. Hodgson, Alternate;
VIM. F. Goulding, Maine. Commissioner;
81. s. Howe, Alternate.
A BILL has been reported favorably by
the House Committee on Banking and Cur
rency for the exchange of trade dollars for
standard silver dollars at par, by January
l. 1885,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

He went into wholes, lie store and
asked to see some of their broken ware.
He was shown a vase badly broken
which in good condition would have
been worth S15, but the remains" he
could get for 3d. He bought the ire
mains" and Lad them carefully packed
and forwarded with his card, imay ming
hat the recipients would think the vase
broke on the way. A clever dodge, but
the dealer carefully packed each piece
of the remains" by itself.-Troy Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15
Another Gasoline EXPLOSION.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, Feb. About one
o'clock yesterday morning a violent eyplo-
sion startled the people in this city. At Lin
dale, five miles out, John Kramer, freight
conductor on the Bee Line, crawled under a
tank-car which contained gasoline to inspect
it. The lamp igni;ed the gas still lingering
around the tank. Tie car was torn to frag-
ments, and Kramer will probably die.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

the robbery of the Pacific Express car on
the Wabash Railroad last September was
a put.up Job, in which the Express messen.
ger, Burt Loomis, was concerned. Loomis
and Downer were Jailed at Wabash, Ind.
A COWBOY named Watson recently shot
and killed Police Judge Edwards, of Mont
rose, Col, and wounded City Marshal
Murphy. He escaped.
DETECTIVE Brown, who was investigat.
ing the murder of the Crouch family at
jackson, Mich, was assassinated the other
night.
Ar Coshocton, O., on the 9Th the flood
was at greater height than ever before
known. A lady was drowned and three
brothers who were in boat were struck
by drift wood and drowned.
A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated at st.
Louis among some of the carpenters and
plasterers looking to a demand for an ad-
vance of wnges to $3.50 per day during the
coming season.
CURTIS, the young st. Louis dude who
about a year ago ran away with Mrs.
Dixon, married woman, and afterwards
deserted her and sneaked back home, the
other day eloped with another married
woman, Mrs. Wilson, the wife of a grain
merchant. Mrs. Dixon never returned to
st. Louis after her escapade with Curtis,
and it is said fills an obscure grave in
Florida.
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The Boston Journal regards the
publication of fictitious news sensations
e. degradation and disgrace. and saws
the papers which are regularly guilty OF
it ought to be known and branded for
what they are. That's the right kind of
talk.-C Chicago Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

Wild mint scattered about the
house will rid it of rats and Eliee.-Chi-
caJo Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

There are 10000 900 envelopes used
in the United States every day y.
Graptic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

The variable weather in Kansas is said to
have killed large area OF winter wheat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15
THE SOUTH.


The negro, JEFF Rogers. who brutality as.
saulted Mrs. Striblen, in Chambers County,
Ala, some time since, was hanged by
mob, who forcibly took him from the
Sheriff.
The Democratic caucus of the Kentucky
Legislature finally nominated Blackburn
for United States Senator to succeed
Williams.
REV. BEN JENKINS, who killed Rev. J. l.,
Borden at Mansfield, La, last fall was re
Gently tried and found guilty of murder,
The difficulty grew out of q supposed in
suit from Borden to younglady acquaint
ance OF Jenkins, which subsequently
proved to have been imaginary.
THE infant son of Mrs. John George, of
Galveston, Tex, was recently drowned in
boiler of water which had been carelessly
left where the child had gone to play.
THE town of Lonoke, Ark, was almost
wiped out by a recent fire.
Two Republicans in the Joint Conven.
ton Of the Kentucky Legislature voted for
Blackburn for United States Senator. His
vote was one hundred, to nine for Bennett.
Over one thousand guests sat down to the
banquet thai followed his election.
CAPTAIN JOHN SARGENT, of the steamer
Harry, recently shot and killed his en-
gineer, William Phillips, on the Sunfower
River, at Rolling Fork, Miss. Sargent re-
proved Phillips for neglecting the boiler
and making an explosion imminent, when
the engineer attacked him and lost his life.
At the examination Sargent was acquitted.
cENEuax
VENNoR's predictions were partially
verified by heavy storms in various parts
of the country on the Ash.
JUDGE COOPER, formerly United States
Senator from Tennessee, was recently MUIR
dered by Mexican robbers in chihuahua.
ABBE GRUss, editor of the Ultramontane
organ, at StrasburG. has been sentenced to
six weeks Imprisonment for publishing
libel against the Crown Prince of Germany.
THE record of fires in the country for the
month showed that an aggregate of 49,.
COG, 900 in property was destroyed by fire
during January. No such fire waste has
occurred but twice since 1872. and that was
in July 1877, and January 1879.
A PORTION of Baker Pasha's (Egyptian)
detachment of the army of the False
Prophet. Baker lost all his camels and
munitions of war.
REPORTS as to the condition of the fruit
crop, recently published, showed that in
Illinois peaches were entirely killed, some
small fruits damaged, while red raspber-
ries, strawberries, apples and other fruits
are in good condition. In Kentucky the
peach buds are severely blighsed. In Mis-
sissipi, Texas and Louisiana no damage is
reported, but in Alabama the report was
bad. The crop in Kansas was reported
promising well generally.
A MOVE was recently made in the Cana
dian Parliament looking to the impeaching
of the Finance Minister for having adj.
vanced $500, coo to the Exchange Bank, of
Montreal, last year, when he was aware at
the time of making the advance that the
bank was embarrassed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

A Railway Train Caught In the Mountains
of Southern ColOradO-Terrible Expert.
enee Of the Passengers-The San Juan
Country Showed Under.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15

Publication of mott. of the dissolu-
ron of partnership in a newspaper at
the place where the business is carried
on is not sufficient tn relieve retiring
partner flom liability for subsequent
transactions in the firm name with one
having dealings with the firm prior to
he dissolution. In such n case the
court held that motto, must be ought
home to the dealer. or it must appear
that facts came to his knowledge suffi-
cient to advise him. o. to give hira rea-
son to believe. that dissolution had
!aken place.-Gilch ist vs.. Jrand, SUI
creme Court of Wisconsin
EIyER-LOCK TOLLS.
The State of Illinois, in the absence
If National legislation on the subject,
I'm improve the navigable waters with
IN it, limits in such mode and to such
extent "a to her seems best. The stat
ute authorizing tolls TO be exacted fo-
the use of the locks on the Illinois River
are not in conflict with that clause in
he National Constitution which forbids
State, without the consent of Congress
from LAYING duties Of Tonnage.
LOOMS Il Co. vs. Glover ct al. United
States Circuit Court, n. D., Illinois.
WILL.
When win properly signed by the
maker ard two attesting witnessed,
,o,k cs xko-c .s.s'ifv ths. :hey were
present and saw the icstat0r sign it in
heir presence. and that they believe ne
was of sound mind and memory at the
lme OF executing it. this in the absence
Of the proof of any fraud, compui>ion
n other improper conduct is sufficient
to make out a prima facie case and en-
title the will to probate. OF Critz
SIS. Pierce, Supreme Ccnst OF Illinois.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-23
DIED.


AZ LLES On Thursday morning; May aad. lssA e
years
Funeral viii take place from the shiloh Bsptius
cnurch. street between siKteepth and Seventeenth
stets on sunday. May 25tn 1t two O'Clock D. RelaS
yves ana friends are invited 10 attend.
BERRY; On Thursday May 22d 1884 as O'Clock u
m MAhf the beloved wifeof Robert Berry. sgsd fortys
May she rest In peace Amen
Her funeral will take pHce from her iate residence
2l26 Seventh street northwest sunday NAV 2bth Il
invited to attend .
BlLD; On Thursday, May % 1884 At ten minutes 70
two O'Clock O. m, CAROLINE, eldest and beloved
OF twenty five years.
Dearest Carrie thou hast left ua
We thy loss most deeply feel;
But It's God that has bertft us,
he can all our sorrows heal
Friends and acqusntances are invited 20 attend tha
funeral on SATURDAY. the oath at 10 O'Clock m from
her parents residence. No. $40 street southwest 2.
Nh, NELSON Suddenly, on Thursday. May 22d. lssA
MELVILLE EGLESToS. only son Of Henry L and Ida
r. Nelson aged \ years, months and IL days
street.
SINTEs On May % 1884, at o p. m. MATTHEW
SlNIES. IN the sixty eighth native u
city.
Funeral Sunday May 25th at four O'Clock .. m. from
invited D
TAYLOR In Baltimore, on Thursday May n 1854
at 10 O'clock m. GEORGE McUILI infant son Of DR.,
george r. and Nj. Janet Taylor