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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
A Mexican Riot.

PIEDEAs NEGRAs, Mex. August ga
report is current here, backed by reliable
testimony, that terrific fight is in progress
at Rio Grande, town Of one thousand in
habitants, about forty-five miles east of here,
and on the Rio Grande. Local politics
have been at fever heat for some weeks
and the present crisis is owing to the dis
puted election of Judge. Three mel
have been killed up to this time and mum
Der wounded. One party are strongly en-
trenched and both sides are commanded b.
officers ofexperience, formerly of the Mexi-
can army. A majority of the inhabitants
Of the town and great number of the sur.
rounding ranchers are in the fight Troops
have left Las Vegas for the seeuo.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
THE SOUTH.

GEORGE CLARKE. a colored youth, was
recently hanged at Dawson, Ga, for
a criminal assault on a white lady. The
negroes wisely abstained from burning
the town, which they had threatened to
do.
THE directors of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company have agreed up
on plan of reorganization.
The Virginia House of Delegates has re-
ported on the condition of the Merchants'
and Planters Bank. Over drafts caused
the trouble.
The noted outlaw, John Lynch, was
killed at Louisville by policeman on the
26th.
A NEGRO was hanged at Jeannerette, La,
for an indecent assault on white lady
August 26th.
THE Greenbackers of Texas met in State
Convention and nominated a ticket the 26 h.
THERE was a river improvement meet.
ing at Memphis, Tenn, a few days ago.
Two ladies were attacked by burglar
at Abilene, Tex, recently. He was cap.
tured promptly and lodged in Jail.
AT Chattanooga a highwayman was
caught by mob on the 2Sth and shot for
robbing a man of 81 900.
j. S. CUNNINGHAM, an old man at Knox
vile, Tenn, fell under circular saw and
was killed recently.
A RIVER Improvement meeting of consid.
cradle importance was held at Memphis
lately.
SOME men at Duck Hill, Miss, three of
them being negroes, attempted to rob a
train the 18th.
JOE BoGARD, colored, was hanged at
Lonoke, Ark, recently for rape. On the
gallows he made speech warning the
crowd against low company.
In the Tallapoosa matter the Medical
Ne,rs has suggested an examination of the
eyes of the officers for the purpose of de.
tecting whether color blindness exists.
A YOUNG negro burglar at Abilene, Tex,
broke into the Southern Hotel and tried to
rob the inmates, Mrs. Gilstrap and her
daughter. The ladies were murderously
attacked and terribly beaten and choked.
Excitement ran high after the negro's cap
ture.
A LITTLE girl at Dallas, Tex, was Lorri-
bly, burned by kerosene explosion, which
occurred while she was building fire, a
few days ago.
The Matador Cattle Company, of Texas,
lately applied for twenty thousand acres of
lands in the Pan Handle.
THERE has been great excitement at Rufa-
Ia, Ala, over hydrophobia- A few dogs went
mad on the plantation of Punch Doughtie,
and spread hydrophobia far and near, both
among animals and men. A mule chased
Mr.. Daughtie across a field and bit him
Twenty or thirty negroes were
also severely bitten.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
River Matters.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, August 29.-The Dis
trict Board of Levee Engineers have not
yet announced their action in the distribu-
ton of the levee fund allotted the Missis-
sippi River Department by the River Gem
mission. The Yazoo Delta Board met yes
terday. but had no quorum. A full quorum
will be present soon. They will discuss the
Wilson proposition to negotiate 100000
worth OF levee bonds, which are guaranteed
by certain tax on the cotton raised in the
district 1t is limited that Wilson demands
an additional guarantee of one dollar and
fifty cents per bale, and that Representa-
tives from the district to the next Missis-
sippi Legislature will advocate the demands.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
GENERAL.

THE Turkish Council of Ministers has
approved, ST the proposed reduction OK the
petroleum. dues.
GORILLA, the chief of the Spanish Radi-
Gals, is said TO be fomenting rebellion.
A1fonso's Government is taking preeau-
tions to suppress it.
SEVERAL persons were arrested in Lis
bon recently on the charge of uttering Sc
ditious sentiments.
THE average yield of grain in Great
Britain and Ireland from present indica-
tions will be: Wheat, thirty-three bush.
els; barley; thirty,three; oats, twenty
nine. Beans will yieSd about twenty-six
bushels to the acre, and peas twenty-five.
TIE German corvette Bismarck has been
ordered equipped preparst1'ry to proceed
ing to the coast of Africa In October.
IT is announced that Bra dlaugh. the
English Radical, viii deliver q series OF
lectures in America during the months Of
October and November.
TIE celebrated Arsenal at Foo Chow is
in ruins. Eighteen hundred workrse.1 are
out of employment. The Arsenal cost
forty-.wo million francs, and the arms ami
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05

"A young man, meaning to be very
gallant, presented lady with rose,
saying: Madame, allow me to present
you to one of your sisters" Judge of
his chagrin when bug crawled out
and sat down in the middle of the rose.
-1rOy Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05

The reduced son of former editor
of lead NC London newspaper hires 4
cab after dark and picks up 'fares"
till midnight. He says other poor gen.
tlemen in London do the same thing,
anal that their knowledge OF the world
and of European languages stands
them in good stead.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
GROWTH OF CITIES.

The Thermometer of Business Indicates
the Temperature of Trade and the Rate
OF Growth.
BosTON, August 2G.-The following table
compiled from special dispatches to the
Post from the managers of the leading clear
ing houses of the United States gives the
clearings for the week ended August 23, with
the percentage of increase and decrease
compared with the corresponding week of
1SS3
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
THE WEST.

DAVID PRESTON, q well known Detroi,
bsnker, in public letter saws he will &C.
rcept the nomination of the Michigan Pro
hibitionists for Governor. if rendered it
beoense the Prohibitionists in their Con
stitUion acknowledge Almighty God as
the Seve.-eign of all men, from when the
just powers of Government are derived.
NEARLY ten Thousand people attended
the -serices at the recent Methodist camp
meeting at Decatur, III
GABREEL N- McIsaAc, Clerk of the Cir.
-cait Cont of Florence County, Wisconsin,
disappeared, charged with having appno-
priated to his own use about two thousand
dollars intrust I'd to him by settlers.
c. E. HONEY wss arrested in Minneapo-
dis. MINI, the other day on the charge of
taking nuEber Of passenger tickets from
the IBman Steamship Agency in Chicago
and disposingof tl,em for his own personal
benefit.
TIE body of n. A. Woodbury., a teacher
in ward school at Salt Lake was recently
found in deserted arm mile below Park
City. BE had been drinking heavily and
died from the effects. He left wife and
six children in destitute circumstances.
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS has agreed to de-
liver an address at the Peoria fair next
month.
DR- j. II. STEWART. five months Mayor of
st Paul was carried OF by apoplexy on
the 26th.
JONAS WOLF was elected Governor of
fne Chickasaw Nation by SIN all majority.
TIE Grand Lodge of Ohio An ient Order
OF United Workmsn met at Gin. :innati on
the 9th.
HE Minneapolis team was the victor in
The rifie contest at Western Union juno
tion, Wis J. A. Snapper, of Chicago, won
the first prize in the Billiard match and the
fourth prize in the individual shoot.
RoBERf BUTTS was fatally injured in q
a quarrel at Cincinnati on the 18th.
A RECENT conference at Glyndon, Mimi,
between the managers of the Northern and
Canadian Pacific roads, has led to q rumor
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
-Einr Ludwig. of Bavaria. has 4

King Ludwig, of Bavaria, has the
finest horses in his stables. and soon
runs them by hard riding. Sometimes
his ma esty rises in the night. has a
black sliced saddled, and dashes off at
a whirlwind speed up and down the hill
roads-which are well kept for that
reason.-like n hantom horseman pur-
sued by some relentless decree of the
ST pernatural powers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05

Small stuffed birds of brilliant plu-
mage are now worn on the left shout
der One lady. WHO forgot her canary
an.s let it siarve to death, had it mount
ed ard wore it with black costume
A. y Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05
Fierce storm of Bullets at Lima-Death
of a Large Number of Citizens.

of a Large Number of Citizens.
CuARIILos, PERU, August 29.-In Lima
on the 2Sth, there was storm of bullet. Cor
over six hours Caceres entered the city
with his rabble, yelling and firing. The
night before all the government troops Were
withdrawn from Curytel, and the entry of
Caceres, although not unexpected, was a
complete surprise. His men captured Quay
tel and the churches of Mercede and San
Augustin, from which thev kept UP a fusi-
lade. they also attacked Guadelope rail
road station. About one hundred and
fifty persons were killed in Merca-
deres and Bodegones streets, and near
the Palace Square. where the fire was hot
test. Finally the Government troops made
sortie and drove out the mob. Caceres
was accompanied by about ninety horse
men. They appeared to have been
TRAVELLING ALL NIGHT,
and were not in condition to fight troops
well fell and fresh from their beds. Three
hundred prisoners were taken. Caceres es-
capped. The German proprietor of a cigar
store was killed while looking from a bal
c0ny. All telegraph wires were cut for
miles out of the city, and no trains We're
run. Nothing occurred at Charities. The
cable staff is all tight. Heavy guns have
been heard for some hours, bur no news as
to the locality of the firing was received up
to half-past nine a. III. All is quiet in
Lima. The dead men and horses are being
removed, and the pools of blood cleaned.
The services at San Augustin Church pro-
ceeded with closed doors. Caceres is said
to have thirteen hundred disciplined troops
who We're to attack CallaO. These may re-
turn. Last night there were no guards in
the streets
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05

that FLINT lins Win Be built from Whine.
neg to st. Paul for winter outlet from
Manitoba.
TIE Peopleps Bank Of 81 Paul WAS re-
GENTLY robbed Of $4,000. Edward Mason.
aged sixteen, who was bookkeeper in tho
bank, was missing. 81
PoLIck recently had to quell q riot be-
tween union and non.union brickmakers
in the town of Lake, north Of Chicago.
Mrs. CARRIE WILSON, a beautiful widow
at Arrow Smith, ILL.,, mysteriously disap-
peared not long since.
THE veteran sailors and soldiers Of the
Northwest held reunion at Chicago Au-
gust 9th.
ROBERT WATSON was run over and killed
by the cars at Milbank, Dakota, on Au-
gust 18th.
The Southern Illinois Teachers Asso-
citation was in session at Centralia re-
Gently.
EscARINo, the condemned Mexican muir.
derer, has been respited for thirty days by
Governor Ireland, because of extenuat-
ing circumstances.
A WOMAN was found starving in the
woods near Charden, o., recently. She
was reduced almost to q skeleton. She
was too proud to beg and when her prop
erty was sold for taxes she became an
aimiess wanderer.
DR.. s. C. SMITH was killed by being
thrown from his buggy at Salt Lake. the
18th.
TIE eleventh annual temperance meet
ing of the W. c. T. q. will be held at
Chicago.
JOHN FLOYD MASON was murdered at
Washington Court House, O., recently.
DR.. PAAREN, State Veterinarian of Hin
ois, killed ten Jersey cows recently and
found their lungs hepatixed badly.
The bank failure at Xenia, o., is not SO
serious as was thought at first. The Comp
troller of Currency says no receiver need
be appointed.
THE dry goods house of C. L. Luce & Co.,
Of Toledo, burned on the 2Sth. Loss, $20,-
600; insurance not stated.
A DESTRUCTIVE hurricane visited Evans.
vile, Ind, on the 10Th, doing about quar-.
ter of a million dollars damage.
A SCHEME was recently found by which
officers and agents Of the st. Louis & Cairo
Narrow Gauge were robbing the company.
JACOB BEcHER, aged sixty-four, hung
himself in smoke house at Decatur, ILL.,,
August 10Th, on account of bad health.
Two prominent Mexican officers have
been missing some time and it is thought
they have been imprisoned in Gonzales
Military Dungeon.
DR.. SMITH, of Virginia City, M. T., was
thrown from his buggy and killed on the
10Th.
REPORT comes of a serious Mexican riot
at Piedres Negras, over the election of a
Judge. Over one hundred persons were,
perhaps, killed.
A SUIT was recently decided against the
Davenport, Ia, Gazette Company, which
will cost the company eleven thousand
dollars.
JAMES CAMPBELL, a well known citizen
of Rockford, ILL.,, and who was formerly
Sheriff, was lately found dead in his room.
A GASOLINE explosion at Uricksville, o.,
caused damage to the amount of thirty
thousand dollars recently.
Bob FORD was arrested and incarcerated
in prison at Las Vegas recently for shoot
ing at the City Marshal.
FOUR polygamists were recently indicted
in Arizona by the United States Grand
Jury. These were the first indictments of
the kind ever found in Arizona.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-05

Portland. Me-, takes the lead with
seventy-three base ball clubs.-Bosfou
Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14
500 GOO Gnnei

San Francisco, Cal-The Chronicle
publishes in substance the following mar
We, Captain w. FSwAsey the oldest pic.
neer of the coast, makes a statement oil
the intense suffering of his friend Col
onel d. J. Williamson. an Army officer
of distinction, and an Ex-U. S. Consul,
who was attacked in the winter of 1862
with violent rheumatism. So great was
his agony in after years, he became q
helpless cripple, and after trying num-
beriess remedies, the baths of other
countries and spending fortune of $780,
goo, the desease seemed to assume a
more virulent type. Finally, he was
persuaded to try st. jacobs Oil, the great
conequeror of pain. 1t worked a miracle
of cure. In letter to the Chronicle he
confirms Capt. Swasey's statement and
adds; II cheerIully give my unqualified
attestatiou to the truthfulness of the
statement, because / feel perfectly
certain that knowledge of my cure
by st. Jacobs Oil, will prove the means
of relieving hundreds of sufferers"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14


cept that the amount was $50 and on
the paper, wrapper around it was
written in pencil. "A FRIEND Matthew
vi: g., / looked that up and found it TO
be: But when thou doest aims, let not
thy left hand know what thy right hand
doeth.' The letter was addressed to q
woman and it was clearly case OF char
ity. really felt bad that we could not
succeed in the Treasury to-day.
The number of letters opened last
year containing currency, checks, drafts
and negotiable paper was over 1900.
The amount of actual cash taken from
letters was nearly $50, 900 and the value
of checks, etc, representing. money,
about 81 500, 900. During the last year
the number of pieces of mail matter that
reached the Dead Letter Office was
nearly four and a half millions. The
exact number was 4,440,S2 This is
about IL, 500 for every day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14
Hints for Home Dressmaking.

A pretty and simple mode of renova-
ting an old dress made with killing at the
foot and long round overskirt is to di-
vide the plating into two or more mar
row ones. Then sew the oyerskirt on
to the foundation al round, just above
this trimming, and turn it up, gathering
or pleating ii into the belt. forming the
bag-like drapery known as the Worth
oyerskirt. The extra length must be
caught up here and there at the back
and on the sides, to allow of easy full
ness in the effect. The Jersey is the
great resource of those who have wooden
dress skirts which have outlived the
bodices originally belonging to them.
Indeed. it may be said to have taken
permanent places as the fatigue dress
waist in place of bIouses, skirt-waists,
etc. The better grades must be bought
for wear with silks, but for old CASH
meres, etc, q So Jersey is quite good
enough Should this be found too thin
for wesr in cold weather, the old dress
waist. stripped of All trimming and care
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14
Border-Land Insanity.
From The Herald of Health.

FROM lQ6 n6TAlu Oh healtns
The doctrine that the border land oil
insanity is a very narrow one, and that
most sane people are near the line, has
been extensively taught during the last
quarter of a century. Now the truth is,
there is broad line between sanity and
insanity; and that call men are mad" is
not true in any reasonable sense. There
are, however, a large number of per.
sons who have an insane impulse to do
some wicked deed-to kill themselves
or somebody else. to jump into the sea
if on vessel, to throw themselves from
height if on top Of a building or on the
border of a precipice. Only recently,
while listening to lecture on insanity
by one of the most noted neurologists
in New York, he stated an experience
of his own, and said that once while Wis
iting some romantic scenery in the great
West, he desired to look down a deep
precipice. He lay down flat on his face,
close to the edge of it, and gazed into the
depths below. To his utter amazement
he was seized with a desire to throw
himself down the abyss, aud lost the
power of restraint. He called vigorous
" to his friends near to drag him back,
and this alone saved him from the deed.
While, however, such impulses are fire.
quent, we believe they do not trouble
the peace of mind ofthe majority. Such
as have them should sire ngthen their
nervous systems by culture, strengthen
their wills, and take good care of their
brains,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14

A Boston letter to the Philadelphia
Press reports that singular fraud has
just been unearthed at Hazard: at was
found, says the correspondent. ''that
in the present freshman class were two
students who had hired some one to
pass examinations for them. The par
ticulars of one case were told me, and,
possibly, the second is only an addition
made by rumor to the truth. This young
mans father, himself a Hazard grad
uate, hired man, also an alumnus, to
ton would seem to be so easy that it is
strange that 1t has not been tried before,
as indeed, it may have been. In the
present case the student could not be
expelled, as, not having passsd his ex-
animation, he has never been mem
Der OF the college.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14
The Second Empires.

Archibald Forbes writes in English
Magazine: Perhaps in all history
there is no episode so barren of touches
Of natare as was the second empire.
From first to last it was mere scaffold-
ing of meretricioHs artifciality. There
was the sham Caesar, "a flaccid person with
knack of uttering obscurities conveying
vague flavor of ominousness at which
the nations pricked their sensitive ears.
The inner life of the empire was a
strange mixture of rottenness and gim-
crackery. What COURT The atmosphere
of Compiegne had confused aroma
Of bastardy, the demi-monde, the bourse.
bogus nobility. journalism in the degra-
dation of prostitution, milit aryism, half
bravo, half gallant; of intrigue, of dis
souteness. of insincerity, of CHASTITY
hollowness. 1t is among the most
humiliat ng problems of modern times
how long this nasty, gaudy carieature OF
empire was able to impose on the world.
1t is poor copsolation for the worlds
long self delusion that when the wind
bag was once resolutely pricked it should
have collapsed with such headlong swift
ness.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14
Hay for Breeding Swine.

Mr.. A. b. Cohen of Minnesota in de.
scribing hog house in the Breeders
Gazette incidentally mentions the use Of
hay for feed. He has tub of 40 bush.
els capacity and a steam generator
The horse power is connected by belt
with straw cutter in the upper story
which is used to cut hay very fine
which hay. after being cut, is mixed in
the scalding tub with meal, mill stuff
and roots, the whole mass being steamed
together. This hay is second growth OF
aftermath which is better than the frs,
crop for this purpose. | mix it about
equal bulk with other food, and alter
being steamed the hogs eat it with great
relish and thrive nicely. Ensi age is al
so good food for store or breeding hogs,
helping to keep them healthy and III
good condition for the production of
their young.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14
Household Hints.

1t is not good plan to have the white
lawn and cambr:c dresses "done up" as
the phrase is. to lay away for the winter,
for the expectation that they will look
fresh and be ready for immediate wear
in the spring will be disappointed. Of
course, they should not be put away
dirty, but the starching and ironing
may be well left till spring; only COM
mon calicoes should be starched anG
ironed befor packing away.
Handsome bed-linen is receiving con-
siderable attention. Sheets, pillow cases
and shams are hemstitched and en-
broidered. For some simple hem
neatly done with drawn work is enough.
Others are more elaborate, having
squares and diamond shaped blocks APP
pliqued with hemstitching and the edges
finished with ruffies hemstitched or cut
in points.
Starch which will not sick in white
patches on your dark cambria dress is
made thus: Fake the very best fine
starch you can get, mix in the proper
ton of TWO tablespoonfuls to as little as
will make smooth paste, and to this
add pint of clear coffee; let it boil for
ten minutes. Stir IL with sperm can
die, strain it through piece of muslin,
and it is ready for use, and will be found
very satisfactory.
How To KEEP FLOWERS. a general
thing flowers will droop and fade in a
day and night; yet there are kinds. like
the camelias and eupatoriums which
can be kept longer if the water is
changed morning and night, and a few
drops of camphor spirits added to it.
But if the faded flowers are put into a
dish of scalding hot water deep enough
to cover one-third of their stems, by the
time the water has cooled the flowers
will have become fresh and erect. Then
cut off the ends of the stems, and put
them into cool water with small bit of
saltpeter in it. Flowers will keep longer
in dishes of wet sand than in vases of
water.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14
fully darned, may be worn as an under
waist.
Breeding for Butter.

Mr.. G. w. Farlee says: The shadow
OF an out-cross is constantly lowering
over the mind of inexperienced breed
er, and the blood OF some of the best
cows has been th'nned and dissipated
by unwarranted fears of inbreeding. /!
/ was to commence breeding in small
way with view to establishing future
herd of fixed butter characteristics,
would select two good cows of asuperior
strain and bull of another equally good
family, and interbreed them for next 10
years, breeding father to daughter, son
to mother and and half-brother TO half
sister. As the result of my breeding of
shorthorns experiences | have fear of
interviewing full brothers with full
sisters unless it were to produce an inn
pressive bull, or heifer to cross with
some other excellent family. My fears
may be groundless. As the result
of this system, should expect at the
expiration of 10 years to have herd of
cows that would average % to so per
cent. larger butter yields than the origi-
nal foundation stock"