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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
A SAN FRANCISCO SENSATION.

"a. III. De Young, Proprietor OF the " Cnron>
fcle" Shot and Seriously wounded BY
Son Of Claus Spreckcls. the "Sugar King"
Tho Would-se Murderer slightly
Wounded by n Shot From . Handy clerk
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. November 20
A great sensation was created here yes.
terday afternoon by the shooting Of n
II. De Young, proprietor of the Chronicle,
by Adolph Sprcckels, son of Claus
Spreckels, head of the great Sandwich
Island sugar ring. De Young came int
his business Office about Ave O'Clock with
bundle of papers in his hand. Just as
he passed through the wicket gate which
separates the inner from the outer Office, he
heard hfs name called, and turning saw
Adolph Spreckels presenting pistol to-
wards him. De Young instinctively
lodged to avoid the bullet, but it struck
him in the right shoulder. As he was en-
tirely unarmed, he darted around high
desk in the office, and in turning q cor
ncr, stumbled and fell. Spreckles fol-
lowed after him, and leaning over,
fired two shots at the PROSTATE
man, one OF which hit him in the arm-pit
and the other missed him. Chesley,
cashier of the paper, then leaped over the
railing of his desk and grabbed the ham,
mer of the pistol, which was at full cock,
while almost at the same instant Emer-
ron, another clerk, who saw the peril of
his proprietor, seized pistol which was
lying in drawer near at hand and
fired at Spreckels, hitting him in
the arm and infiicting slight flesh
wound. Examination of DeYoung's
wounds showed that he was hit in the
left clavicle by bullet, which badly shat
tered the bone. This bullet was ex-
tracted, together with five pieces of
bone, but its danger lies in the fact that
the bullet narrowly missed the sub-clavisn
artery, and any Inflammation of the
wound may lead to disintegration of
the walls of this large artery. The
other wound was flesh wound, the bull
let entering the front part of the arm,
circling around under the arm-pit. The
doctors think that with quiet and freedom
from excitement no danger need be ap-
pretended in De Young's case, but they
admit that his condition is critical.
The cause of this at
tempted assassination is assigned
to the recent exposure which the Chronicle
made of the proceedings OF the Hawaiian
Commercial Company, of which the
Spreckles family are the head. This
company broke down the price of the
stock from sixty-five dollars a share to
twenty-five cents per share, and the plain
statement irritated Spreckles so that he
lost control of himself.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27

The Independents Outline. In Letter to
Mr.. Cleveland, the Course They Expect
Him to Pursue-Ofiiclal Integrity, Admin
istrative Reform, Freedom From Political
Terrorism, Etc.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, November 10.
A New York special to the journal
gives the text of an address to Grover
Cleveland by the Independent Republican
National Committee, approved by Carl
Schurz and other leaders, and by the
State Committees. 1t congratuIates the
country on Cleveland's election, beliey-
ing in his hands every interest is safe,
ard says: "The Republicans and Inde-
pendents who co-operated in your cleo
ton, voted for you on the single and pre-.
eminent issue of official integrity
and administrative reform; because
they believed your election necessary to
purify the Government. They will up
hold your administration so far and so
long as it is based upon these principles,
which should underlie all political par,
ties in a Government of, and by, and for
the people; ard believing that an honest
and fearless opposition is as necessary to
free Government as an able and vigorous
administration itself, they will not hesi.-
tate to oppose your adminis-
tration when 1t commits itself
to principles which they can not uphold.
The Republicans and Independents
who have supported you rely with conf
dence upon you to maintain above all the
principles of administrative reform in
civil service. They LOOK to you to rain-.
tain, against all party pressure, the vital
principles that the public servant, like
the employe in private business, shall be
free from political terrorism, to which he
had been subject, and shall hold his place,
whatever his party affiliations, providing
he has earned his pay by doing his work
well, and has RETAINED from using for
party the time ard skill for which the
public pays. They look to you
to select from among those
who agree With your principles
and aims the advisers and
agents by whose aid your State policy
must be determined and through whose
cooperation it must be carried out.
Heartily agreeing on our part with these
views, we remind you that if any of our
number should claim your favor by reason
of his connection with this movement,
and seek office at your hands, he, by that
act, ceases to represent the principles
upon which the independent movement
was founded and because of which it has
in your election"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
Escap. of Conv,cts.

JEFFERSON CRY, No., November 90
This morning about five o'clock two con-
victs, Charles Smith, sent up from Greene
County last June for three years for grand
larceny, and Thomas Tudor, sent up from
s. Louis last month for two years for q
similar crime, made their escape from the
penitentiary. As they had been employed
in the culinary department of the prison.
they were released from their cells at an
early hour to assist in the preparation Of
breakfast. Instead of reporting for duty.
however, they secured a ladder, and in tile
darkness succeeded in getting over the
walls unobseived and made good their es-
cape. They have not been recaptured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
FURIOUS FLAMES.


Burning Of tho st. 1oois Opera nouse
The Total Damage.
ST.. LOUIS. No., November 24.-At $3.50
p. m. fire was discovered In the box Office
Of the Grand Opera House on Market
street. between Fifth and Sixth streets,
near heater. An alarm was turned
on promptly, and for q time It was
supposed the flames could be con-
fined to the front of the building but
they spread rapidly, and within ten min
utes had spread to the roof The fire.
men worked theoretically, but the fire
spread In spite of their efforts and soon
reached the stage where It licked up the i'm
fiammable scenery with an irresistible
power. The engine was driven from the
building by the binding smoke and within
an hour afterwarl the whole interior was
quilted. The building is a complete wreck.
Minnie Madden closed Saturday night,
and Nat G. Goodwin was to have opened
at night in Confusion" Both COM
panies saved all their baggage. Ali of
Goodwin's baggage was In the theater, but
was promptly taken out rs soon as the
alarm was turned in.
HISTORY OF THE HOUSE.
The original building was built In 1852 by
q stock company and opened under the
management of q. NJ. Field. In 1865 it
passed into the hands of George
beagle and George ID. Martin, who
held it until 1872. when it passed
into the hands of A. b. Wakefield and
St:lson Hutchins, the present editor Of the
Washington Post, and was remodeled and
called Wakefeld's opera house. Ben De-
Bar took 1t In 1873 and called It DeBar's
opera house. John w. Norton, the present
manager, became DeBar's business manager
in 1875, and after DeBar's death, became sole
manager. In 1881 the house was entirely re-
built by Pierre Chouteau, and was opened
August go, 1881. by j. X. Emmett, in
"Fritz," with John W. Norton manager and
proprietor, and George McAlannus treasurer,
who was succeeded this season by
George Hener, formerly assistant treasurer
Of the Olympic. The latter theater
amp opera house pooled their earnings.
Total loss. S115,OOO; fully covered by in
suirance. The fire originated in pile of
rubbish in the cellar under the box Office.
The house will be rebuilt by Norton and
Charles A. Spaulding of the Olympic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
Postal Points.

WASHINGTON, November 24.-The an
nual report of the First Assistant Post
master-General shows: Number of post
offices established during the year 3,514 an
increase of 161 over the proceeding year.
Number discontinued 1890, a decrease Of
361 and a net increase of 522, The whole
number of post0ffices on June 30, 1884, was
50,011 an increase of 2,154; number filled
by Presidential appointment, 2,322: number
filled by Postnaster-General, 1864, Dur
in the year 1858 pOstmasters were ap-
pointed. The net increase of
pOstoffices during the year was much larger
than any increase for several years past.
The increase was divided among sections
as follows: New England States 49, five
Middle States 225, fourteen Southern States
and the Indian Territory 1910, ten States
and six Territories, West and Northwest
I0I, and three States and three Territories
of the Pacific slope 1O4. The great
est increase in any of the States
The increase in North Carolina was 1876,
crease was in New Mexico. Comparing the
in order, the six highest, June 80 was
Pennsylvania. 3,54O; New York, 3,122:
Ohio, 3,707; Illinois, 2,169; Virginia, 1882,
and Missouri, 1865 OF the territories,
Dakota had the largest number, SIT,
exceeding the number In either Massa-
chusetts, Maryland or South Carolina. 1t
recommended that the free delivery system
be extended to places of ten thousand in
habitants, provided the postal revenue
amounts to $4,000 yearly. The attention
OF Congress is invited to the Importance of
erecting buildings for post offices in all
cities of twenty thousand inhabitants and
UPWARDS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27

OMAHA, NEB., November 20.-At
eleven o'clock last night fire was discovered
in the third story of Stubendorrs new
building, corner of Eleventh and Douglas
streets. The origin is a mystery. The
building Is damaged to the extent of s10..
900. The heaviest loser is the Garfield
Manufacturing Company who occupied the
fouth story, where they employ fifty ma.
chine hands ON overalIs. Their loss is fully
$4,000, insurance unknown. The lower
part of the building is used by the owner,
Fred Siubendorf, as wholesale liquor
house. His loss Oil stock, fixtures, etc,
damaged by water, is $1,000. The total
ms SO far is about SIS, GOO.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
A Second Rate Poet.

NEW 1ORk, NoSemoch -A'
In the Board Of Education, when the
report of the Committee on Course ana
Study and Schocl-books came up there
was considerable discussion. Commis.
sioner Wood was opposed to the use OF
William Cullen Bryant's poetry In the
schools, on the ground that the scholars
should read only the best poetry, such as
Lonsfcllow's and Whittier's. Bryant's
was only secondary poetry and Commis-
sioner Wood remarked that he had great
admiration for Bryant as poiiticai
economist, but he did not think tiiss sec
on.l-ratc poetry should be permitted 70
enter the schools. Bryant was excluded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
Paving An ELECTION Bet.

BEARDsTowN, I'LL, November Il
About three O'Clock yesterday after
noon large crowd of citizens assembled
1t the City park, the occasion being City
Marshal f. L. Swear, Democrat, being
wheeled around the City Park on
.wheelbarrow by C. Pilger, Republican,
and a prominent merchant tailor and
clothier of this city. The procession
was headed by the Democratic drum
corps and large number of citizens.
Messrs. Swear and Pilger were hearth
ly cheered at the disarmament OF the pro
rcssiOn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
Explosion of n Gas Well.

CLEVELAND, o., November 24.-The
gas well of Hon. j. NJ. Poe, five miles west
of Cleveland, exploded yesterday, and seri-
ously burned the engineer, John Keith, and
his assistant, Silvanus Fink. One of the
visitors at the well carelessly placed an old
straw hat over the six-inch stream
of gas as it issued from the
well. This turned the stream toward the
engine fires, and in an instant the whole
Volume of gas exploded with terrific re-
port. Fink was thrown down ravine
distance of forty feet, and score of men
standing near were thrown from their feet
The well was burning last night, sending
beautiful blue fame twenty-five feet in the
air, which could be seen reflected ten miles
distant Large crowds of people are visit
ing the scene day and night. The vein is
at distance of $50 feet below the surface,
and the gas is sufficient to supply light and
heat for all of West Cleveland.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.


the issue of standard silver dollars for
Tie week ended November 10 was 4ss,991.
The issue for the corresponding period last
year was S3S 1893.
SECRETARY McCULLocH recently refused
Ben.ral Adam Badeau's application ask
ing for an arbitrament by the Court of
Claims of the Governments claim against
him for $4,000 in notarial fees, alleged to
have been illegally retained, and the Solic-
itor of the Treasury has been instructed to
begin proceedings to recover the amount
In dispute.
WITH a view of preventing the introduce
lion eff cholera into this country the De-
partment of State lately directed the Uni
ted States Consuls- General at London and
Paris to appoint medical examiners to in
spect all vessels leaving English and
French ports for the United States.
The friends of the Hennepin Canal pro-
sect will make a vigorous effort in the
Forty ninth Congress to secure the neces-
sary aid for this important work. As pre-
liminary to this end, the Commission was
reorganized few days ago and new OFF,
Gers elected for the ensuing year.
MISUNDERSTANDING HATToN lately is
sued an order providing that whenever 1t
shall become necessary to increase the
speed upon which mail is carried on any
post route, service shall be readvertised for
increased running time required; provided
the contractor, with the consent of his sure
lies, shall have the option Of continuing
service upon the expedited running time
without additional compensation therefor.
ACCORDING to the late annual report of
Che Fourth Auditor of the Treasury the
growing evil in the expenditure of money
by the Naval Department has been in.
creased by disregard Of the law re-
quiring advertisements and contracts for
purchases. Among other laches cited, it
was stated that 100000 worth of open
and exempt purchases was made of six
individuals, one of whom rendered an ac-
count for over 100000. Supplies
were bought virtually without COMPETE
zion, and over $4,000 was paid as commits
sicns during the fiscal year of 1888 to
Beligman Brothers, London, and nearly
5000 in interest. In the Auditors opinion
the commissions were about twice too large,
and the interest wholly unnecessary. The
recently discovered irregularities in the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, it was
stated, were mostly committed upon the
continuous hospital fund, whose large, un-
expended balance seems to have proved a
peculiar temptation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
A Fatal and Unknown Disease.

LfSCHbuk6, VA, November .
A tale ofdeep distress comes from Buck-
snan, Wise and Dickinson Counties, oc-
cupying isolated positions in the extreme
Western limit of Virgins. For some
weeks fatal disease has been prevalent
there, and the number of deaths Is terrible.
The nature of the disease is yet un-
defined, but it is supposed to arise from
poisonous water. The drouth there for
months nearly dried all streams, springs
and wells, and it Is supposed that the
water left is impregnated with mineral
poison. A correspondent tells pitiful
story, and says in some eases four corpses
were found in single house.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
Archbl.hop PureeII,s creditors.
CrScrSNArI, o., n,

CINCINNATI, o., November 20.
The creditors of the late Archbishop
Purcell, being organized to push thci-
claims against his successor, Archbishop
Elder, have sent circular letter to the
Archbishops and Bishops attending the
Plenary Council at Baltimore, hoping there
BY to secure relief. The letter Is signed
by Patrick Dwyer, Chairman, and Henry
Meyer, Secretary, and contains severe
structures on Archbishop Elder, who re-
pudiates the debt, amounting to several
million dollars. The letter closes
with the following paragraph:
" People are beginning to
think that If Heaven needs all the SUBJ
stance of the widow and orphan to keep
the clerical profession in opulence and
splendor, it is time to retire from the
sanctuary and delve for other schemes OF
salvation"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
PaciiyinE the Negroes.
NASHVILLE, TENN. November ID.

NASHVILLE, TENN, NOvtmOer II.
As soon as Cleveland had been elect
ed report that the victory signifed the
reinstatement of the cOlored people was
circulated throughout Tennessee. This
aroused the gravest fears. The erroneous
idea was promptly met with emphatic as-
Eertion by Democratic and Republicans
leaders that the colored element had
nothing to fear. Prominent colored
pastors have counseled the negroes to
put no faith In the stories and to rest as
sured that there is 60 danger of return
To slavery,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27

"A German paper-trade journal says
that waterproof paper which will shine
in the dark can be made of forty parts
paper stock, ten parts phosphorescent
powder. ten parts water. one part
gelatine and one part bi-chromase of
potash.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27

The commonest kind of nN-zs print
ing paper in Mexico costs twelve cents
a pound, and when an editor hasn't got
the twelve cents he suspends publica-
ton for a week and goes to see bull
fight.-N y Mail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27

"A band of from two hundred to
three hundred bison or mountain buffa-
10 were seen in the National Park few
days ago. They were watched by a
gamekeeper, so that hunters could not
modest them.-SGn francisco Call.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27

"A few nights ago a field of dry sage
On the battlefield of Missionary Ridge
became lighted, and soon the flames
were spreading with lightning-like "a
pidity. A stump standing in the battle
field blazed up, and in few seconds q
roar like thunder reverberated down the
valley, and the stump was blown into
ten thousand pieces. Investigation de-
veloped the fact that three shells were
Embedded in the stump and exploded
from the heat.-ChtcdgO Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27

decided to ask Congress for an appropria.
ton 10 aid in the suppression of pleuro-
pneumonia. Several other resolutions were
Rad and referred, and the Convention
listened to . number Of papers on pleuro-
pneumonia and other cattle diseases.
A DEFICIT of 81 200 was lately discovered
In the accounts of Rev. J. Mexican, POST
master at Boise, Idaho, by Postal Agent
Brannaman. The postmaster was sus-
pended and his Office put in charge of his
bondsmen. No explanation was made by
Mexican or his clerks.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27
rHE sOUrH.

A VERY serious accident recently hap
pened near Trace Fork, w. Va. William
PAUL was grinding sugar cane in Q horse
power mill. His son, twelve-year-old
boy, was feeding the machine. He stopped
down for something and as he rose the lever
| struck him on the head and knocked him
against the rollers of the machine, between
which his head was drawn and horribly
crushed. In attempting to rescue his boy
Mr.. PAUL had his right arm SO badly
mashed that amputation was necessary.
QUEEN VICTORIA lately conferred upon Sir
John Mcdonald, the Canadian Premier, the
order of the Grand Cross of Bath in recog-
milton of his eminent public services.
CHINA lately arranged for English and
American vessels to run the French block
ade Of Formosa. The Chinese army in
cludes thirteen German officers, and forty
more are expected.
j. SrADEKER & Son, prominent mer-
camille firm at Canton, Miss, recently
failed with liabilities exceeding $4,000.
B. Fl. BLACK, Sheriff-elect Of Lamar
County, Tex, was called to the door of his
residence few nights ago, by some un-
known person, and shot dead.
AT Negley's Rancho, fifteen miles from
Eagle Pass, Tex, the body Of an unknown
man was discovered few days ago, the
head beaten in and two bullet holes in the
body. The corpse was in the BRUSH near
stream of water, and had been exposed
about ten days. 1t was impossible to fix
the age or nationality. 1t was decently
dressed in shirt and pants with broad stock
mans hat and boots with heavy spurs.
THOMAS c. MCCULLocH, a well-known
boot and shoe merchant of Nashville, Tenn,
was lately convicted and sentenced to six
years. imprisonment for setting fire to the
store of Oliver & Co., Of which firm he was
n member,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27

offered resolution which contemplated
reorganization Of the American Society 20
that the National body would have juris-
diction over the local societies. The reso-
luton met with considerable opposition
and the matter was finally laid on the
table, after which the meeting adjourned.
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS SHIELDS
lately decided in New York that All kee,
the Chinaman who shipped at Calcutta on
the bark, Richard Parsons, as cook for the
round voyage and return to Calcutta. but
who ran away from the vessel at New
York, must leave the country. The Cap
tain of the Parsons was held responsive
for All KEGS departure. All Kee said nc
was willing to return to Calcutta, but not
by the Parsons, where he was reduced, on
account of laziness to the position Of boy.
His counsel had argued that the China
mans employment did not properly come
within the meaning of the word "laborer"
of the statute.
JULIUS BLANK, for illegally registering
before the late election, was lately sentenced
to Sing Sing Prison for eighteen months.
Emil Meyer, alias Godfrey, who aided him,
got two and half years.
A RECENT fire at Haverhill, Mass, de-
stroyed hotel and several stores, and in
volved total loss of about $4,000. A girl
was fatally injured in jumping from the
hotel windows, and the inmates generally
expert need very narrow escapes.
AN unusually important decision was
rendered recently by Judge Shipman, OF
the United States Circuit Court, New York,
in favor of the Government and against
the Lamar suit for the value of lot OF
cotton confiscated during the war.
THE State Canvassers of New York met
at noon, November 81, all present. Secre-
tary Wood announced the footings of the
tables as follows: Highest Democratic
elector, Priest, 563, 154; highest Republican
elector, Carson, 562,OOo; plurality. 1,149.
Lowest Democratic elector, Ottendorfer,
563,O4S; lowest Republican elector, Harris,
SCI ,971; plurality, 1917; highest Prohibi-
ton elector, Miller, 25,006; lowest, Ellis
worth, 24,94S. Highest Butler elector, H.
004; lowest, Campbell, 1880. After the
announcement the members of the Board
signed the tables and the certificates.
A FEW cases of yellow fever in New York
a few days ago created no little excitement.
AN acquisition was made to the Balti-
more & Ohio lines recently by the purchase
at auction for $4,000 of the Pittsburgh &
Southern Road, running from Pittsburgh
to Washington, Pa. The Baltimore & Ohio
has operated the road for nearly two years,
but its recent sale for debt gave MIR. Gar
rett's company entire possession and abso-
Lutte control.