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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
Tho Foundation Stone of the Pedest
Laid on BedIoe Island.

! Tho Foundation Stone of the Pedestal
| Laid on BedIoe Island.
| New YORK, August O. ne storm yes
terday interfered very much with the carry
| ing out of the programme for laying the
corner stone of the pedestal for Bartholdfs
| statue at Bedloe's Island. About five
hundred persons were present. These for
the most part were officials identified with
the ceremony, members of the Masonic fra
ternity and invited guests. All stood for
three hours, during drenching rain, whil6
the programme of exercises were being OBJ
served. If it had been good day doubtless
the 10, 900 people expected on Bedoe's Island
each paying fifty cents admission, would
have been there. The guests were met on
their arrival at BedlOe's Island by one hun.
dred men from the Fifth Artillery, U. S. A.,
with corps of policemen. The Governors
Island Band played several National airs.
including the 'Narseilaise." COmptrollef
Grant was the only member of the New
York City Government present. At the ap-
pointed time the stone was laid by the Most
Worshipfu Master of the Grand Lodge of
New York and Immediately twenty-One
guns were fired from old Fort Wood aud
the band played "Praise God freq Whom
all Blessings Flow" Deputy GIf.ld Mas
ter Lawrence, in his address, said Never
since the building of the Temple of Solomon,
have Masons participated in work
more exalted than this" '.Hail Columbian
followed, and with the !'Marseillaise" again
was introduced Albert Lefevre, the minis
ter in charge of the French Consulate Cen
eral. He said: I'm few weeks the statue
of Liberty transported by French ship OF
war would arrive in this country and be
erected upon the spot. Travellers arriving
from Europe would behold II, and TO all it
would be type of the protecting influence
of a free nation. The American Govern
nent never suspended the reign of law. II
never resOrted to proscriptiye measures,
and after the conclusion of the great
struggle, it entrusted to Lib
erty the task of healing the
wounds caused by. the war. William Allen
Butter then delivered an Grafton, and was
frequently interrupted by applause. The
exercises closed with a benediction by the
Right Rev. Bishop Henry c. Patton. Upon
arriving again in the city the musicians
halted before the French Consulate and
played French national air. the compli-
ment being acknowledged by Lefeyre in
person and dipping the French flags. The
company then proceeded to the Washing
ton building, upon the site of WashingtOn's
headquarters, and partook of the hospitality
of Cyrus w. Field.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
Electric Freaks.

TRENTON, y. j., August 6.-Llghtning
played good many freaks in and near this
city Monday. Trees and barns were struck,
cattle stunned and several persons badly
frightened. A tree on Calhoun street was
struck and the noise caused horse to run
away. A man standing at the corner Of
Greene and State streets was partially
stunned. The roof of house on South War
rem street was partly burned. The most curi
Gus freak was with horse car on State
street. 4 bolt of lightning flashed through
the ear, binding the horses and the driver.
The horses dashed to one side. threw the
ear off the track and dumped the driver
into the street The driver was not injured
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
PROSTITUTION IN IOWA.

4 Suoge Renders an Important DecisfoO
IS to Trials for Violating the Law.
MUr~ArINE, Iowa, August 6.-Judge
Hatch, of the Seventh Iowa judicial Dis
trict, has rendered an important decision as
to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace
under the new Iowa prohibition liquor law
The Judge says he holds that Justices have
no jurisdiction to try, determine or pass
judgment upon cases under this law other
than to hold preliminary trial and bind
defendants over to the District Court. The
decisiOn is based upon the opinion tbs. lie
penalties of the new law exceed the juris--
diction of Justices. By this decision all
liquor cases commenced here under the
new law are dismissed. The question, is
one of great importance and will be ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court. Petitioner
Pfeffer, by habeas corpus proceedings
sought to be released from restraint by de-
PENDANT as Sheriff of Muscatine County.
Both parties fully agreed upon the facts,
which are that the petitioner was con-
victed before the Justice of the Peace
of selling intoxicating liquor, first oifense),
and sentenced to pay fine of SI5 costs and
was committed until costs were paid.
Judge Hayes said the only point made re-
lates to the jurisdiction of Justices in such
cases. This question is determined by
penalty provided. The law i'm question pro-
vides that for the first offense the defendant
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and on conviction pay fine not more than
500 and costs, and stand committed to the
county Jail until the fine and costs are paid,
nd m ha ont Hall TO ba Of tJ,a,
visions made for poor eonvicts until he shall
have been imprisoned sixty days. Tie con-
stitution of Iowa says all offenses less than
felony and in which punishment does not
exceed a fine of one hundred dollars or i'm
prisOnment of thirty days, shall be tried
summary. before Justice of the Peace and
no person shall be held for higher Offense
unless through instructions of the grand
jury. The general rule i'm cases other
than for selling intoxicating liquors Is
that no commitment follows at all for non
payment of costs. According to the terms,
of the penalty for selling Intoxicating
liquors, defendant who could not pay the
costs, even if only farthing. would have
to languish in Jail perpetually. except as he
might be relieved or provisions made for
the benefit of poor cOnvicts, and even here
he must stay in Jail sixty days, whereas in
all other cases the law in its plenitule of
mercy only provides for thirty days impris-
Onment 1t would seem that this would, or
might be punishment. Although counsel
for the State agreed otherwise. the Su-
preme Court has said that costs are part of
a penalty, but not of fine, which Judge
Hays says is conclusive of the point under
consideration. The Judge lays stress on
the word punishment" being the one used
IN the constitutional inhibition, and says it
must be conceded that the punishment"
provided does or may exceed the above quo
ted constitutional limitations.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES,


THE Coroner's jury investigating the
disaster to the United States Hotel build
ing at Washington recently, censured the
owners and lessees of the collapsed build
ing, who were perfectly aware OF its un
safe condition. One of the owners was
Judge Cox, Of the District Supreme Court.
The Acting Secretary of the Navy has
cabled Rear Admiral Davis, in command
of the Asiatic squadron, to be guided by
the same instructions for the protection OF
American citizens in China as were given
at the outbreak of the Franco Chinese hos.
Utilities.
In order to avert, as much as possible, a
continued decrease in the gold at Wash
ington, which now amounts to a little over
Sl17,000,000, as compared with $142,000, 900
on the 1st of May, it has been decided to
restrict the further payment of gold GER.
tificates from the Treasury, and, where
possible, to make payments in other funds
than gold or its immediate paper repre-.
sentative.
A FIRE was recently discovered in a
closet in the National Capitol, which might
have proved very disastrous but for the
timely discovery.
The Government investigation into the
affairs of the New Orleans Post-office
brought to light many abuses. The worst
was the fact that the Postmaster's son was
in the habit of purloining letters from the
mail.
A WASHINGTON telegram states that the
Agricultural Department estimates the
American wheat crop this year at 4S5, 900, :
900 bushels.
DR.. O'DoNNELL, the California crank,
having announced in Washington that he
would abandon two lepers on the street,
orders have been given to have him ar
rested and his sanity determined. The
railway officials have no knowledge of
leprous consignments.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

the most direct and Leareet route to q COM
mon market, fxes the rates at the common
points. The long road must adopt the
that the shorter road prescribes. OF go
out of business at those points.
But If rates are to be computed upon a
strictly mileage basis, the rates at .he COM
mon points must rule, as basis upon the
longer road at all intermediate points between
its terminus and common points: this would
i'm many instances be ruinous, and the longer
road would be compelled to reiinquish any
share in the business at such points This
rates anywhere. 1t would deprive the longer
road of the right to participate in the business
at the common points, and the people of such
points of the benefit of competition. If
railroad, which being the longest line between
a common point and a terminus, was COM
PEELED to adopt rates upon an equal mileage
basis, and it chose nevertheless, to strive for
the business at such common point, it would
result that ii would thereby be compelled to
carry the same distance at proportionately
less rates than the shorter road. IL must
either do this or abandon that part OF its road
that comes in competition with the shorter
route. This is unjustand bad policy. The board
have found it necessary to give to this section
such Interpretation as would obviate these
difficulties. and would tend to preserve the
rights of the railroad companies ut common
points. and preserve the active competition,
which we believe it was not the purpose of
the Legislature to destroy.
In doing this. we think that we are not do
ing violence either to the letter or the spirit
of the law. We think that the whole section
should be construed tOgether-that the quail
flying clause ''or upon like condition. and I'M
der similar circumstances" must apply to and
qualify the latter as well as the former clauses
of the section. To cOnstrue it otherwise
would be productive of great confusion, and
of great wrongs, and instead of equalizing
rates, it would create gross inequality every
where.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
THE LATEST.

THREE men were killed in q disastrou,
fire at Catlettsburg, Ky, recently. Three
others were seriously injured, and were
reported in precarioas condition.
CHOLERA continues to hang about French
and Italian cities. The mortality was no,
alarming. In Lancashire, Eng, a few
deaths were reported from English cholera,
FIFTY horse thieves have been hung or
shot in the Mussel Shell country, Montana
during the past month.
AN alarming earthquake occurred on the
10th along the Atlantic coast between Bos.
ton and Baltimore. At New York the
houses swayed and the streets were soon
filled with excited people. No damage or
casualty was reported, however. The
shock lasted about ten seconds.
The steamer Martha Stephens was sunk
ny snag below Boonville, No., the other
day. Three men were reported drowned
or missing. The boat run between Boon
vile and Miami. ''.
Texas fever broke out recently in a
drove of cattle near Lancaster, Pa. The
State Veterinarian also found cattle af-
fected with pleuro-pneumonia. He ordered
strict quarantine and the slaughter of the
affected animals.
AG@;NERAL shutdown Of the Fall River
cotton mills began recently. The only
mills not approving the shut down were
the Borden County, Pocasset, Philip, Union,
Narragansett and Sycamore. The cause
was the dizziness of the market for prints.
A DISPATCH has been received at the of
flee of the Monarch line of steamers, New
York, that the steamer Lydian Monarch
had arrived at st. Johns, Newfoundland.
ZEE Medical Congress opened at Copen-
hagen on the 10Th in the presence of the
King and Queen of Denmark, the Council
OF Sta-e and the King and Queen of Greece,
The Congress includes $50 Danes, IO0
Swedes. 100 Norwegian5 and SO persons of
other nationaiities.
TEE boiler of a field engine exploded on
tie farm of Mathew Rhodes in Jackson
County. His, the other day, killing Herbert
Newton and James NJ. Sullivan and seri-
cusly wsunding Ed Riley.
COLUMBIAN mills, at Southbridge, Mass.
burned recently. Nine thousand spindles
were destroyed.
ADOLF NEn son, Theodore Greezel and
Ambrose Watts; have been arrested in New
York for posting Socialist proclamation
and fined FIVE dollars each. Justus Schwab,
a Communist, paiG the fines.
HUGH J. JEwETT, President of the Erie
Railroad, denied that he was about to re.
sign and retire.
The original papers, comprising arecord
of Greely'S Arctic search and most inter-
estinp relics of that exnedi ion have baa,,
delivered into the custody OF General Han
cock at Governors Island by Lieutenant
SebIee, of the Thetis.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
A Flambeau Fight.

TOPEKA, KAs., August s.-The Man.
haitian Fiambeau Club, just organized, con-
tracted with Z. F. Vaughn for forty of the
Vaughn flambeaux, to be manufactured in
this city. On learning of this fact the
council of administration of Lincoln Post
FIambeau Club served notice on the parties
manufacturing the flambeau that the club
owned the improvement patented, and
would prosecute any violation of its rights.
Litigation is likely to grow out of the affair
between Mr.. Vaughn and the club. Mr..
Vaughn was formerly member of the
Lincoln Post Club, but Withdrew Wednes-
day night
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

The estate of Mrs. Sarah Clark,
valued at $1,000, has been escheated to
the State of Georgia. 1t goes into the
public fund of Muscogee County. This
is the first case of the kind that. ever
occurred in that circuit. Mrs. Clark
was an Englishwoman. who came to
this country from London in 1914, and
TO Columbus, Ga, some forty-three
years ago. She left 4 sister in England,
but though advertisements were insert
ed in several English papers nothing
was ever heard from her or her heirs
81 Louis Post,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

The State authorities had the infected
herds quarantined.
AT the Buffalo races, on the ssh, Jay-Eye.
See made an attempt to lower his record
of 2:10, but failed, his time being 2:1nZ.
| Two miners were killed and a third was
fatally injured by the fall of Twenty-Five
tons of top-coal in a colliery at Shenan.
doah, Pa.
THE Kimble Coal and Iron Company
doing business near Bedford, Pa, failed
for 500, 900.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
Goal Miners Strike

ELIZABETH, Pa, August s.-A mass
meeting of the miners of the first, second
and third pools was held yesterday after
lsOon, which was attended by over thou
sand men. Resolutions were adopted to
continue the strike for three and half cents
per bushel, until operators cOncede the adj
vance. A committee was also appointed to
visit the fourth pool and endeavor to per
suade the miners to come out.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
Chinese Ieners Sent Home,

SAN Francisco, CAL, August S.--Nine
teen lcpers were sent back to China to-day
by the steamer Oceanic. One escaped be
fore sailing, but was recaptured. The city
paid their full fare and gave each five dol
lars. The special dispatches received here
from the East about O'Donnell's lepers
caused much amusement. lie hasn't any
with him
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
Gas Wells.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, August S.--Moorhead
& Co., iron manufacturdrs, have struck a
gas well on their property, IN the Four
tenth ward, which promises to be as large
as any previously struck. At Newcastle,
Pa, the Water Works Company also struck
well with pressure sufficient to supply al.
their wants.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

New YORK, August s.-Schelulcs in the
assignment of y. C. Newell & Sons, lumber
merchants, 70 Joseph Hilton were filed yes
ter,iay. Liabilities, SiG5.0GG: nominal as
sets. Sl30,29S: actual assets, $63.5c3.
Among the liabilities are preferred claims
of Si2,65T; not preferred, S162,411, and
securities, S11,2I3.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
Kerosene Accident.

On CITY, PA, August S.-Katic Curry,
girl of seven years, in the absence of her
mother yesterday, attempted to kindle
a fire with kerosene. Her clothes ignited,
and before assistance could be rendered she
was burned to q crisp, the flesh dropping
from the bones. She is lying in great
agony and cannot live.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

Captain Dunbar, OF the American
bark Moonbeam. has been fined $3.50 in
Baltimore, Md, for allowing five of his
crew to carry sheath knives on board
ship, in violation of the United States,
law, passed in 1872. The Captain
claimed that he was not aware that the
men carried that kind of knife, and did
not know of the law against it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

English papers have charged the
American press with being sensational
and fond of the dark side of life, but
London Truth says: Zone good bloody
murder, from a newspaper point or
view, isworth more than anything else
that can happen, and a murder in En-
gland interests Londoners more than q
campaign on the Nile"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

Captain Condor. of the Palestine
exploration fund. says he has found the
real Holy Sepulcher. 1t is solitary
tomb without the city and made with a
shelf, where the two angels might have
Sat q
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

rate. The train ran on trestle, knocking
It down and causing complete wreck.
Conductor Wynn was killed.
A DISPATCH from Baltimore chronicles
the demise of General James R. Herbert,
Police Commissioners.
SEVERAL persons were injured by an ac-
cident on the Missouri Pacific near White
borO, Tex, recently. ~ b
The Demecratic Convention of the Sixth
District of Maryland, nominated Fred. J.
Nelson for Congress.
The Democratic Convention of the
Fifth District of Maryland, nominated
Barnes Compton for Congress.
HENRY Smith, a coIored boy on Island
No. 65. near Vicksburg, was drowned re
Gently while bathing.
Us. BARBOUR was unanimously renomi.
mated for Congress by the Eighth District
of Virginia Democratic convention.
The second day of the acknowledgements.
union at Dallas, Tex, was occupied with
speech making and parades. There were
many old battered battle flags in line. A
grand parade of State militia concluded
the programme. There were 5000 visitors
on the camp ground.
The people of San Antonio, Tex, have
guaranteed $4,000 toward the cost of one
hundred and forty miles of railway TO
Arkansas Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, with
the design of creating rival city to Gal
weston.
NEAR Fredonia, Tex, the other even.
ing, horrible encounter took place Be-
tween four desperate men, in which one
was shot through the heart, another was
fatally stabbed, the third received dead
ly wound in the shoulder, and the other
was shot i'm the breast. .l.
In the Circuit Court in Faulkner County,
Ark, William Flynn was convicted OF
shooting with intent to kill Robert Pruitt,
and sentenced to three years in the peni.
ueEtiary. A change of venue had been
granted to Faulkner from Pulaski County,
The shooting grew out of a bloody street
fight in Hot Spring last February between
the Flynn and Doran parties, in which
William Flynn and Pruitt were engaged.
WYATT AIKEN has been nominated for
Congress in the Third District of South
Carolina.
A LEXINGTON, KY, special says Holt
(Republican) has been elected Appellate
Judge by majority of LOCO in a district
heretofore Democratic by 1920 to $500.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

in some parts of England bees are
never sold for money. They are ey-
changed for fruit, grain, vegetables and
animals. but their owners believe that
bad luckp attends persons who sell
their bees for money.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
A vonpp married man in this cit,

"A Young married man in this city
was asked by his wife TO order some
kindling-wood. During the forenoon
he met a wood-vender, and ordered a
dollars worth to be delivered. Sud-
denly remembering that his wife had
not change to that amount, and not
wishing to pay the vender before he
had delivered the eight barrels, he very
wisely sent the dollar to his wife by the
dea er. The precise condition of affairs
did not dawn upon him till he asked his
wife in the evening if she received the
money. The dealer said the wood was
pad for.-HdrtJord 1iae5.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15
Soft coal.
%, zoo Ga s1..63 ......l.....
81 5000 SIS. 80
Consignor: A. A. CAREY. .. ..
Received payment July -. 1884.
c. A. BANTER, Agent.
COMMISSIONERS REPORT.

COMMISSIONERS REPORT.
TOPEKA, August l..
L. A. Emerson. General Freight and PaSSen-
ger Agent Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany, Atcbison, kas.:
DEAR SIR:-We are in receipt of complaint,
with accompanying expense bill, from A. A.
Carey. of Atchson, a copy of which we en-
close you. From these it appears that you
charge the shipper in this instance, in addi-
ton to the regular and established rate for
freight. a mileage rate on the car i'm which ii is
transported. This is not only unusual. but in
our opinion unlawful The rate of freight both
in contemplation of usage and the law covers
all lawful charges that can be made against
the shipper. Besides, it appears to us that
this mileage charge is in fact and purpose an
evasion of the order of this board in respect
to receiving loaded cars from a connecting
line for shipment or transportation over the
receiving line without a change of cargo
from car TO car. We have advised the shipper
of this opinion and trust you will hereafter
contine to it. L. j. TURNER, Secretary.
BY the board.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

The number of immigrants arriving for
the year ending June 80 were 509,S3i, be-
ing 81, 400 less than the preceding fiscal
year, ard 2so,5s6 less than the year ending
June 80. 1882
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-15

Shelby, o., is amazed at finding
in the sandstone of her quarry. twenty
five feet down in solid rock, the plain
impression OF ahuman foot. CleUela'sd
Herald.