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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
Tho City of Y.zoo Goes Down.

NEW ORLEANS, August IA Baton
Rouge special says: John Fl. Hanna has
arrived with the report of the sinking of the
steamer City of Yazoo at ST. Delphine, nine
miles below this city. The accident was
caused by collision with stump. The
wreck is said to be complete. Steamboat
men say the City of Yazoo was sunk by the
anne snag which proved fatal to Laura Lee
ONE time ago. The cargo was forty bales
of cotton, fourteen hundred sacks OF seed
and five hundred barrels of oil. No lives
were lost. She struck the snag at the stern
and ripped to amidships. She was valued
at $50, 900 and insured i'm Western companies
for $4,000. 1t is doubtful whether she
can be raised.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08


Colonel John P. st. John, the nominee OF
the Prohibitionists for President, was born
ut Brookville, Franklin County, Ind, Feb
!uary 25 1888, to which place his father
moved from Orange County, New York,
some years previous. Colonel St Johns.
early opportunities for education were
only Of that character furnished by the
Indiana log school house of half century
ago, but still he was diligent in improving
whatever facilities the times afforded and
succeeded in obtaining a fair education
Ambitious to earn his own living, at an
early age he entered store at six dollars
per month. The family located in Illinois
and before attaining his twentieth year
young St John went to Cali
fornia, where he worked at mining, wood
chopping and such other employment as he
could secure. From California he made
voyages to South America, Oregon, Central
America, Mexico and the Sandwich Islands.
In 1893 he took hand in the Indian
wars of California and Oregon. Returning
to Illinois in 1860, he entered the law-office
of Starkweather & McLain, at Charleston,
as student and one year later be-
came partner. During the
year 1861 he enlisted as a private in Com
pany G, Sixty-eighth Regiment of Illinois
volunteers, and was unanimously chosen
Captain of his company. His regiment was
stationed at Alexandria, Va, and Captain
st. John assigned to duty as Acting Assist
ant Adjutant General. In 1862 his regiment
returned to Illinois and was mustered
out. Captain St. John was after
ward chosen Lieutenant Colonel of
the One Hundred and Forty-third
Illinois Regiment and served until 1854. lie
then resumed the practice of law at Charles
ton, Ills. In 1865 he removed to Independ-
ence, Mo-, and took an active part in the
politics of the day. In 1869 he located at
Olathe, Kansas, and commenced the prac-
tice of his profession. Was elected State
Senator from johnson County in 1872, but
declined a denomination at the end of his
term. He was prominently before the
Republican Convention for Governor
of Kansas in 1876, and declined the nomina-
ton rendered him by the State Temperance
Association, although an ardent temper
ance advocate. Colonel ST. john was nomi-
mated by the Kansas Republicans for
Governor in 1878, and elected by large
He was re-nOminated and elected
in 1880; was again nominated in 1882, but
defeated by the present Governor of Kan
sas. Since retiring from Office Governor st.
John has devoted much time to the cause OF
principle which through him,
more than any other one man, has been
grated upon the fundamental law of his
adopted State.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
The Cholera.

PARIS, July 30.-Twelve deaths from
cholera at Marseilles last night. Ten deaths
at Toulon. The force of the epidemic at
these two cities continues to decline.
Three hundred fugitives returned home.
1iARsEILLEs, July 3O.-The sale Of mel
ons has been prohibited. The cholera is
gaining in area what it is losing in inten-
sity. 1t has made its appearance in several
villages previously exempt. Owing
to popular prejudice it is posi-
lively dangerous FOR doctors to walk alone
in the suburbs at night. One instance is
reported of doctor who while visiting
woman seized with cholera, was assaulted
by her son, who drew revolver and COM
PEELED him to leave the house.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08

Mrs. Gesner, who lives in two
story house at Manuel, Rockland Coun-
ty, N. T., was sitting in her kitchen
with her babe in her lap one evening
recently when the heavy thunderstorm
struck the town. While watching the
lightning which flashed into the room
through the windows, a ball of fire
suddenly appeared in front Of the stove
close to her feet. The ball was OF .
vivid brilliancy, and made noise like
q Huntington. Mrs. Gresner did not
move, although thoroughly frightened.
A moment later the ball exploded with
a slight report. but did no injury either
to the mother or her child, or the furni-
ture in the room. In q room on the
next floor, however, Mr.. Gesner found
that a mirror stand had been shattered
N. Y. Mail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
A Tenement Horror.

New YORK, August 2.-The six-story
building at SO Water street; the upper stories
of which were occupied by two families,
while the rest was devoted to business.
caught fire yesterday morning. Bartholo-
new O'Keefe, janitor, was fatally burned
Ann Gibbons and children, George, aged six,
and John aged two, were terribly burned.
James Gibbons, aged four, was burned to
death. JanitOr OKeefe was so badly
burned that he will die. Mrs. Gibbons
climbed the stairway to the roof with two
.hildren in her arms, all having their
clothes burned. The police found them on
the roof with their clothes burning. They
tore the clothing of, their flesh coming of
with the clothes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
Women. both in France and Swift

Women, both in France and Swift
zerland. have a far more important role
in the family. among the middle and
lower classes, than with us. The te-
male, though not exempt from hard
work, undertakes the thinking and
managing department in the family
affairs, and the husband is but the ex-
ecutive officer. In Switzerland es-
pecially the female is notably superior
Ia manners, habits, facts and intelli.
geuce to the husband.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
An English Judge has decided that

An English Judge has decided that
a kiss is not a legal consideration"
A surgeon in Lambeth kissed work.
ingman's wife; the husband valued the
kiss at Is. and the surgeon gave him
AM o U for that amount. A month
after date an action was brought on this
document, but the Judge promptly
ruled there was no consideration and
gave verdict for the defendant.
"A ten-year-old Brooklyn boy has
been sent to the House of Refuge
charged with setting fire to a number
of stables in that city. He acknowl-
edged his guilt. and said his object was
to assist in rescuilg the horses, and then
claim a reward from the owners
brooklyn Eagle. fn er
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
WANTS TO BE RELIEVED.

PHILADELPHIA, July 29-In the United
States District Court Oliver Ames, receiver
Of the Credit MObIier of America, asked to
be relieved of the recevership. No reason
Is assigned. His counsel privately states
hat the cause was the pressure of the
official duties of Mr.. Ames, who is Lieuten-
ant-Governor of Massachusetts, and finds it
impossible to attend court. Samuel r.
hipley, President of rhe Providence Life
Insurance and Trust Company, of this city,
was appointed his successor.
REDUCED WAGES.
BETHLEHEM, PA, July ga reductions
of twenty per cent. in salaries and wages of
officials and men of the Bethlehem Iron
Company is announced to take effect Au-
gust /. The reduction is made, it is said.
to enable the company to sell its steel rails
at market prices.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
TRADE TOPICS.

The Clearing House Observation-Disclosures
Decrease-Oliver Ames-Reduced Wages.
BOsToN, July 29.-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 July 90. with
the percentage of increase and decrease
compared with the corresponding week Of
1888.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
There is a child in Vernon

There is child in Vermont that is
rather queer. Every effort to have it
use its legs was made by its parents.
but it had no inclination that way. It
will raise itself upon its hands and
move rapidly across the floor. and when
it has picked up the article it seeks.
places it between its feet and moves
away on its hanG.s-Bostos Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08

"A lump of Alabama coal weighing
100000 pounds is On exhibition at
Birmingham, in. that State.-Chicago
Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
III charge of the, At,sni. possosaoe. was

arrested. himself on arrival on the same
charge. Ns.-l-. 49, -. -A-s ~ -
A BOY named Gibbons, aged four years,
was harmed - deasAs IN o tenefnese dfe ~
New York recently. O'Keefe, the janitor
of the building, was also fatally burned.
The mother of the boy and two other chill.
dren were also terribly burned.
A CIRCULAR issued at Philadelphia re-
Gently stated that the business Of the CAN
ada Southern line had been transferred
from the Philadelphia g. Reading to the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Man
WASHINGTON NOTES

An application was recently received at
the Treasury Department. for admission at
the port of New York of . consignment OF
rags shipped at Marseilles in May. The
last vessel showed a clean bin Of health
and passed quarantine at New York. APP
plication was denied on the ground that the
order prohibiting the entry of rags from
infected ports was imperative and allowed
no discretion. Ri
THE Surgeon General of the Marine Hos
pital Service, having received information
that yellow fever is spreading rapidly in
Sonora, Mexico, has Instructed the In,
spector at Nogales, Arizona, TO use extra
vigilance to prevent its introduction into
the United States. yt5Sdt-- :
SPECIAL AGENT BURNS, of the Treasury
Department, in his report, exonerates Su-
perintendent Kimball, of the Life Saving
Service, of the charges of inefiiciency
brought against him by an Erie pal
newspaper.
REPRESENTATIVE CULBERTsoN, OF Ken
lucky, who attempted suicide In W ashfngs
ton, was reported better, with hopes Of his
recovery. is Sea Sac " P
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-08
THE SOUTH.

THE Texas Board of Education has made
an apportionment On the available school
funds. The total amount apportioned is
s, 052 ,s1e, being five dollars per. capita ON
the scholastic census Just computed.
A. A. McDoEALD, postmaster of Char
lotteville. has been appointed Lieutenant
Governor of Prince Edward Island. ,..
, A MRS. RACHEL JOB was killed at Keys
Siding, near Del Bio, Tex. recently. She
got off train and fell through ths trestle
tventv.fiye feet 5fueJ T9g4Fg5s .lsts
A HOUSE of ill.fame In the outskirts of
Walnut Ridge, Ark, occupied by seven
n omen, was set on fire the other afternoon
by four or five men who were somewhat
und. sr the influence ofliquor. The buildisg
was destroyed. Fl gH'R.gYsg E#gH ,as
IT is stated that irregularities have beex
discover ed in the General Land Office in
the Surv. yor Generals Office at New Or.
leans, La, which will lead to change liz
the manager ient of the offices there. >,
GREEN GRE of Marlboro, Carroll
County, Tenn, was killed recently by his
stepson, whom h. attacked with a knife
Tor beating mule. After the boy bad
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-05
PUNSTERS' PICNIC.

Banana custard is the latest alleged de-
licacy. If you want to see banana cuss-
ed hard you have only to leave the peel
on the sidewalk of busy street.-Bos-
ton Star.
"That's the she tanker of the house
hold" remarked Main street man as
he allowed his wife to fill the heavy wa
ter tank on the stove, without his lifting
a single pailfll.-Marathon Independent.
An anxious inquirer wants to know
the fashionable color this Spring for dogs
pants.-Philadelphia Call. Well we'll
tell you; we delight to impart useful in
formation. 1t is purp--l-Oil City Der.
rick.
A Western agricultural society offers
a very valuable oil painting to the man
who will hoe an acre of potatoes and NOV
an acre ofgrass quickest. This is new
use for Observation-Disclosures Times.
June know / predicted warm weather
for May" asked Smperkins.
"Yes; and what did July 50 about it
for?" returned O'Dude; and they march
ed off arm in arm, with the August air of
two very smart young men.-Boston
Times.
A new evening paper is talked of in
PIttsburg with j. s. Ritehour as editor.
Ritehour is an appropriate name for an
editor, and he may think now that he
will only write an hour; but if he doesn't
write several hours a day his paper will
be short of editoria, matter.-Norristown
Herald.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-05
Brother Gardeners Sentiments.

DE man who has manhood in him
needs no savin'. He saves hisself.
"Heaps o. tears am bein' shed ober dis
or dat unfortunate, as folks calls 'em, an
dey am being coaxed, advised, fattered
an dey am bribed into leadin' sober
lives. Don't you suppose dat every man
who drinks knows what whisky leads
to? If it am weakness on his part he
will stay sober only as long as somebody
holds him up. If it am because he has
no moral standard, den de sooner he
drinks hisself into de grave de better for
de rest efus.
"Ifsartin citizens want to band to-
gether to fight de saloon bizness, let
'em band. No man who likes beer OF
whisky will drink one drop de less
while some may drink de more. Dar'
am not boy in our city to-day 10 vars
of age who doan' fully realize de evils
of drink. He knows dat it will rob a
man of his character-dat it brings pow
erty and degradation-datit it means sick
ness, rags, and grave in potters' field
On de odder hand, he realizes Just as
fercibly dat sobrlety means happiness
respectability, friendship, an mo- or less
wealth. Let him choose. If he prefers
de gutter dat's his own look. out, an
an. perfeckly willin' to let him 90 his
way.
81 tell you, my frens, de man who
can't lib plumb up an down bekase dat
am de lawful an moral way who can't
lib sober life widout law to force him
who can't be a good naybur an a
squar' citizen out of his natural moral
natur-can't die anv too soon. l have
10 tears to shed Ober him; l have no
words TO waste on him. He rolls into
de gutter bekase dat is his level. He
goes dar of his own choice. When any
body tries to make me helieve dat it am
my duty to interfere wild him he states
a case I can't accept. Let us now pur-
ceed.i
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-05
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

The total number of species of Austral.
ian fishes thus far described is reported
to be ,291.
Rabbits are said to be increasing in
Australia with astonishing rapidity, and
they have become 80 destructive to CROPS
that schemes for their determination are
now being discussed.
The perceptible earthquakes of the
civilized world are estimated to average
mors, detected by delicate instruments,
are everywhere numerous.
Mr.. w. J. Knowles has exhibited to
the London Anthropological Institute a
Clipped flint implement, which he found
in undisturbed boulder clay in Ireland,
and which he therefore regards as evil
dence Of the existence of man in the
glacial period.
A Cylinder of Gas-At recent meet
ing of the Berlin Physical Society. Prof.
Landolt exhibited s,lid cylinder of
carbonic acid, wlich he had made an
hour before by lIammering fakes of the
solid acid in cylindrical vessel. The
hammered mass of solidified gas re-
sembled common chalk, and could be
touched by the hand.
Mr.. C Reid, of the British Geological
Survey contends that the formation of
soil cannot have been wholly due to the
weathering of the underlying rocks, since
a good soil must contain mixture of
materials from different rocks. The
mixture must have been effected, in high
places at least, by the action of winds in
distributing dust.
Mr.. s. III. Trowbridge has described a
shovel-nosed sturgeon, taken frouI the
Missouri river, whose eyes were conceal
ed by complete overgrowth of skin.
Mr.. Trowbridge suspects that the entire
species is becoming sightless, as these
surgeons now have eyes smaller than
those of most fishes; while their life in
mud must make sight as unnecessa ry to
them as to the blind fishes of the caves.
Food for Babies.-The manufacture of
artificial human milk is growing into an
industry in England. 1t is made from
pure cows milk, which is first boiled to
destroy all germs, then treated with a
digestive ferment called.pancreatine, by
which artificial digestion is produced,
and is finally brought to the same consti.
tuition as human milk by the use of di-
luted acids for precipitating the excess
of albumen. Sick children in hospitals
have BEEN fed on this product, and have
gained most rapidly in health and
weight.
Fairy Rings.-The dark green circles
of grass known as "fairy rings" have
been a puzzle to scientists, but Messs
! Lawes, Gilbert and Warrington, of Roth
amstead, England, believe that they can
now correctly explain the phenomenon
The rings appear to depend upon the
growth of fungus plants, which abstract
from the soil large amount of nitrogen
and it is supposed that the grass derives
from the fungi an extra supply of nitro.
gen, giving tia very luxuriant appear
ance.
Lightning in France to the
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-05

Paris Academy OF Sciences ON the light
ming strokes in France during 1888,
show that sucli ac, idents were largely
confined to tic months of June and
July, the number reported for July being
143, resulting in thirteen deaths. Most
of the persons struck occupied positions
near a tree, chimney, or house on an
elevated site with trees around it; bat
there were cases of death i'm an open
field and on u roadway. Several ac-
cidents from lightning happened to per-
sons carrying umbrellas.
The Sun-Spot 'Cyele.-Astronome
have found reason for believing that the
activity of the sun, as indicated by the
dark patches on its disc, wakes and
wanes in pretty regular period, and
have concluded that eleven years may
be taken as a close estimate of the time
which must elapse between one season
of greatest disturbance and the next.
To accord with this theory, a season of
greatest disturbance-thati is, a sun-spot
maximmn-should have been reached in
1882 or early in 1888, but, instead, the
day.eod still continues to show increased
energy, and it even.appears qlite proba-
BILE that the maximum of spots has not
vet arrived.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-05
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Some Interesting focts ConcernIng our
National Obelisk.
Washington Letter.

bcttcI.
The obelish, being plain and chimney
like, composed of square blocks of white
marble, the lapidarium in which are de-
posted the gift stones is the most inter-
esting feature about the place. They
are of all sizes and qualities, and come
from all parts of the globe; forty of them
have already been placed in the interior
walls and eighty-three are stored in the
lapidarium. II will require an ingenious
mechanic 10 arrange them properly with
in the walls.
One of the most suggestive of these
presentation memorials is block of gray
sandstone from William Tells chapel on
lake Lucerne, erected in 1888. The in
scription says it is taken from the very
spot where the hero of Switzerland es-
capped from Gsssler Near il is a marble
from the ruined palace of Hannibal, at
Carthage. 1t bears mosaic in a black
disk, showing the yellow horse, the red
earth and the green cocoanut palm, sym-
boIical of that great kingdom which COR
tested with Rome for the mastery.
A large white marble comes from a
temple on the Nile, erected by Augustus.
The marble is conspicuous. for an inlaid
fragment of an ancient Egyptian head.
supposed to have been carved /, 700 years
ago. Close to 1t is modern marble,
from an institution also passed away
the volunteer fire department of New
York. The bss relief representing be-
nevoleuce and charity is fine specimen
of art.
Some of the stones will possess an
archaic interest as time goes by. For
example, there is the one that comes
from the former fire companies of Phila-
delphia, whose terrific combats with
each other were the terror of the COM
muDity, the feuds of the town. Their
gift is of large size and has an old-fash-
ioned hand fire engine, with its brakes,
drag ropes and other paraphernalia.
Then, from an establishment OF great re-
pute early in the SOS, an accurately carv-
ed relief Of locomotive of that period,
quite different from the locomotive of
to-day.
Historical places are well represented.
There are finely chlseled stones from
Braddock's Field, Bunker Hill, and the
home of Stark; Vesuvius, and the Bhud-
dist pile, of Siam, from the temple of
Esculapius, in the Isle of Paros, and red
pipe stone from the Indians sacred re-
gion of the Upper Mississippi. All con-
tinents and all nations have contributed.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-05
wilkins STIR Proverbs.
xuvI ..-lrl rr.-
whitehall Times.
A. I'll

Talk is the froth of action.
A man without enemies is like a gun
without powder.
The only time dead man leads is in
a funeral procession.
The mouth is too often the sewer of
obscenity and vulgarity.
A small soul has plenty of elbow room
in narrow minded man.
Character is to intellect what loco
motive is to train of cars.
Time wasted in fault-fnding can be
better employed seeking profit.
Genius can erect temple, with in
tegrity and enterprise as foundation
walls.
Prosperity is mask for hypocrisy
adversely reveals the virtues of the truly
good.
The pages of history record no great
er victories than the victory of man over
himself
The man who earns his bread by per-
sisteHt hard work is the man who urns
it.
To bring up child in the way he
should 60, take care he doesn't see where
you go, dear parent.