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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09
Lowered Into a Burnlng Pit

SCRANTON, Pa, April 3o.-Friday night
Ia shaft being sunk by the Amity Coal
Company at Kyterville, the last shot fired
by the workmen uncovered feeder from
which large volume of gas began to issue.
1t was immediately set OH fire, and the
flames assembled one-fourth the distance of
the shaft. William Higgins, cageman, and
his assistants, James Steele, John Riley and
William Jones, who intended to work ell
night, were lowered into the pit, and when
they came within fifty feet of the bottom
were terrified by the discovery that they
had been lowered into veritable pit of fra
They gave an alarm, but more than a min
ute elapsed before the wOrkmen at the bot
tom hOisted the bucket. The sinkers were
fearfully burned and it is probable that theJ
will die.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09
THE EAST.

In the New York Assembly the bill add
ing an articleto the State Constitution pro.
hioiting the manufacture or sale of intoxi.
eating liquors was defeated.
AT $4,000 fire at New York, the other
day, a ladder fell, striking Samuel F.
Donnelly, of the New York San, ON the
head, injuring him probably fatally.
THE steamer Falmouth, of the Interna.
honal Line, caught fire at Portland, Me-,
recently, and three men were burned to
death. Loss, 500, 700.
JAMES A. KEENE, the well known Wall
street operator, has failed. TWAS reported
that within the last few months he had lost
between two and three million dollars.
ISAAC JOHNSON, who murdered his mis-
fress, Bella Booker. near Canton, Miss,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09

master General Gresham, who says he wiz
protect any postmaster who refuses the
contribution called for by the circular.
A NEGRO named Mat Black, was shot and
killed by Richard Butts, near Franklin,
KY, recently. Black accused Butts Of
stealing money from him.
ANTHONY O'BRIES, an employee of the
Texas& Pacific, at Marshall, Tex, drank
to excess recently, and was found drowned
in branch near the city.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09

The Sandwich Islands are the pop
ulsr resort for people on the Pacific
Coast who wish to make sea voyage
for health, Just as Europe is for the peo-
ple OF the East. TIE tourist travel to
King kalakaua's dominions has
doubled within the past year.-San
francisco CisrUaicle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09

"A newspaper correspondent writes
that there is not oh mney anywhere
in Mexico, as far as he has seen. and
their absence gives an odd aspect to the
architectr,.e. like thatof Arabian towns.
No house has fire. place or a stove, tor
it is never cold, but the kitchen is
equip ell with a SORT of ungainly brick
or stone range, ten or fifteen Ieet long,
having holes for pots and kett.s, and
IA which charcoal is burned. The ume5
escape by the open doors ard windows.
Charcoal is almost the only fuel in Mex
leo. except in the northern States
C.Icdso herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09
Miss Mary Van Vranken. of Geneva

Miss Mary Van Franken, of Geneva,
Ontar County, n. Y, vino has held a
position in the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau, has been promoted, at the in
stance OF Commissioner Evans, TO an
$3.50 clerkshir. This is the second
instance in the records of all the de-
partments in which female clerk has
reached the e1,SoO grade. -BuGato En-
DreSs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09

Fifty years ago DR.. Fisk, of Erie
County, Pa, murdered man before
his sons wife. The dreadful sight be-
reft the lady of her reason. and her
child came into the world with dis
eased brain, that manifested itself most
fearfuliy in after life. An unbroken
line of maniacs followed, demonstrate
ING the trutl of the scriptural predic-
ton relating to the sins o fathers being
visited upon CHI ldren unto the thiri an
fourth gene alton. This has been lit
orally fulfilled in the Fisk family. Re-
Gently the last member Of this ili-lated
family died, ct Erie, after suffering for
years from the hereditary disease
caused by the shocking murder con-
mitted half century ago. -Phaade!-
phia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09
A DISS!PATED HUSBAND.

Edward Thompson Fell> His Wife With an
Axe and Ends His Miserable Existence in
Well.
Dies MONIES. May IA special gives the
details of a horrible crime near Roland
Edward Thompson, a young Norwegian,
went home intoxicated and tried to shoot his
wife. but was preyente: y his wife's SIS
ter, who succeeded in getting the revolver
from him. The wife got out of doors and
started for neighbours, when he
pursued her with an axe, Overtak-
ing her. felled her to the ground,
and repeated the blows four times, each
blow indenting and fracturihg the skull.
Surprising her dead he r;In away. Her SIS
ter called for assistance, and his wife was
found in comatoSe state. The surgeon
worked for hours extracting pieces of the
skull and relieving the pressure from tho
brain. 1t is thought she has slight chance
of recovery. The search made foi ThOmp
son showed that lie had plunged lead fore
most into a deep well, thus ending his mis-
cradle existence. He was diSsirated and had
made his wife'S life unhappy ever sin0a
their marriage.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09

w. T. Station. & Greenrille County,
S. c., is blind. but this does not deter
him from accomplishing as much as his
relatives and neighbo who have their
sight. He rides on horseback or mule
ba k for long d stances, and drives Nth
facility. He drove to Greenville tine
other day, bought new buggy, hitched
mis- orse to the new vehicle, gathered
the lines. and was soon on his way
home. Mr. Station can feed a gin per-
fectly, run rcular-saw. and transacts
m st of the business iOr his family
Louisville COurier-J0nTnGk.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09
WORK.

Where person hi es man or ma
chine by the d at fixed price, and
h SEES The work d ne, he m st pay the
hire if continues the work, and can
not reco er damages for Uad wor done.
=. tark VS.. Crieley, Supreme Court Of
Wisconsin.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09

The Indiana Supreme tourt in re-
cent case ,Dw gyms VS.. Clark, decided
March 81 laid down as fol ows he law
regarding the cho.ce of remed es at the
option of the vendor in the Gaze OF q
sale of ersonal property at a stated
price where the venice refuses to ac-
cept it: i. The vendor may restore or
reta the properly for the vendee and
sue hi or the entire purchase prize.
>. He may Sell the p operty, acting as
agent of the vehi lie for tn 5 purpose,
and may recover the difference between
the contract price and the price OBJ
tanned on such resale. 8. He may eep
the property as his own and re over
the difference between the ma -ket price
at the time and place OF delivery and
the conlrac. price.
HIRE OF MACHINE-sET OFF FOR BAD
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

DR.. George L. Austen is writing a BIZ
ography of Butler, the rare Ben of New
England.
Mrs. Grant, the wife of Colonel Fred
Grant, takes the failure of her husband
philosophically, her first remark being:
Il have lived on army rations once and
I can again"
During Queen Victoria's stay at Darn
stadt Her Majesty caused large brass,
in the form of cross, to be constructed
at Frankfort, and this has been placed on
the steamer Osborne, on the spot where
the coffin of the Duke of Albany rested
during the voyage from Cherbourg to
Portsmouth.
Ralph Beaumont, of Elmira, who is to
walk from Maine to California, stumping
the towns along the way for Butler. is a
very good speaker, and man of much
more thought than his present enterprise
would seem to indicate. He is a shoe
maker, and has been quite prominent as
a representative of the working people.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01

small fruits were destroyed. Some of
the farmers protected their strawber-
ry beds by keeping fires near them all
night
WASHINGTON, May 3O.-Another heavy
frost occurred last night, being the third
in successive nights, doing heavy damage
to corn, oats, potatoes, garden vegetables,
truck farms, and especially to tobacco.
Ice a quarter Of an inch thick is reported
in Canada and freezing temperature re
ported throughout Western PennsyI-
vania, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin.
BUFFALO, May 3O.-There was qnite a
heavy snow storm along the Lake Shore
route this morning The trains on their
arrival here were covered. A few flakes
fell in this city also.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
J. K. RAINEY,
K. B. GARNET,
J. 5. COwDON,
IN CHhNCERY,

State of Florida in the Circuit Court for Put
nam County, 9TH Judicial Circuit of Florida.
James w. Robertson, COmplt
Norman H. Chamberlin, In Chancery.
Mary Ettie Chamberlin,
DCftS.
Itappearing by affidavit, to the satisfaction
of the court, that the said defendants reside
out of the said 9TH Judicial Circuit of Florida,
and beyond the limits of said State, but within
the United States, the particular State being
unknown, nOw therefore, on motion of Cal
houn, Gillis Calhoun, cOmplainant's solicit
Ors, it is ordered that the defendants Norman
H. Chamberlin and Mary Ettie Ciamberlin, do
appear and answer the bill of complaint, filed
by the complainant, in the above cause, on or
before the 9Th day of October 1884, otherwise
said bill shall be taken confessed. 1t is fur
ther ordered that copy of this order be pub
ished in the Palatka News, newspaper pub
liShed within said FifthJudicial Circuit, where
in said mOrtgaged premises arc situated once
in every week, for at least four months before
said 9Th day of October 1884
Dated May 3lst, 1884.
BY the Court.
TSEAL.1 WIN. F. FORWARD,
Clerk Circuit Court.
CALHOUN, GILLIS & CALHOUN,
CmptS Solicitor,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES.
THE LATEST NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS BY WIRE AND CABLE.
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.

CHICAGO, May 30.-It is estimated that
about $40 delegases have arrived, or
about one-sixth of the full complement
Of the convention. By tomorrow night
or Sunday morning twO-thirds Of the
delegates are expected to be on the ground.
50 that the activity, which is to occur an
terror to the assembling Of the conven-
ton proper will be at its height on Sun
day.
The advance guard of the Sherman
men, in the persons of Judge Foraker,
egate-at-large from Ohio, and Luke
A. Sealey, alternate from the first dis
trict, reported this afternoon.
Headquarters of the candidates We're
regularly opened for business to-day.
Consultations are constantly in progress
between the leaders in behalf of each,
while the lieutenants were out making
the acquaintance of the struggling ad-
vance guards of the various State dele
gates as they arrived. In this way the
various leaders were enabled to secure
information at the earliest moment of
the condition of affairs in a large proper
ton of the States, and revise their esti-
mates of the strength of the respective
candidates. This involved almost con-
tinuous private consultations in the in
ner rooms.
The chief centre Of interest during the
day was the Grand Pacific hotel, ir
which is the headquarters of Arthur
Blaine and Logan. The carpets Of the
Railways and parlors have been COW
cred with canvas to save them from the
wear and tear and litter of the in
coming hosts which will fill them to-
morrow.
Tomorrow the tables will be laden
with pamphlets containing a complete
report of the recent Arthur business
mems meeting" in New York. The Ar
thur headquarters are in charge Of Clin-
ton WHEELER of New York, James D.
Warren, of the Buffalo Commercial Ad-
vertiser, and George H. Sharpe, of New
York 1t was stated to an Associated
Press representative at these headquar-
ters that the outlook was cheering and
that the Presidents friends generally
were growing more confident as the stu
alton developed.
The Blaine headquarters are in rooms
40 and 81 of the same hotel, and are in
charge of Stephen B. Elkins, of New
Mexico; Galusha A. Grow, of PennsyI-
vania, and J. S. Clarkson, editor of the
State Register, at DesMoines, Iowa. A
small pacard on the outside of the door,
and a lithograph portrait inside, are the
visible signs that this is the centre of the
Blaine councils.
LOgan's headquarters occupy rooms
Nos 81 and Sc, and are i'll charge of A.
NJ. Jones, chairman, and Daniel Shep-
herd, Secretary of the Illinois State Cen
trail Committee. Thus far no headquar-
ters have been opened for Edmunds,
Sherman or Hawley.
SOME SPECULATIONs.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
PlOWing e by Steam.

Philadelphia Times.
If Cincinnatus with a couple of his
lOng-hOrn steers and his Old-fashioned
straightforward plow, with its wooden
spike driven through, simply to tickle
the ground, had been out at Fargo day
before yesterday, when the Dakotaians
were breaking the virgin soil with steam
plow, the old gentleman would most
likely have sent a special to Washington
advising that the new people of the
Northwest be admitted into the Union at
once. With his rig Cincinnatus could
not have broken one acre a year in Da-
kOta.
In prairie countries, like Dakota and
Iowa, the blowing field is often the whole
length of the farmers quarter section Of
Iand-that is, a half-miIe furrow. And
at the first blowing or breaking of the
soil it takes a man with four horses or
four oxen, and a boy to drive them,
a day to break a little over an acre. An
acre and half a day is good work. And
it is hard tugging forman animal and
plow.
The new sulky plows, by which man
takes his seat on the plow good deal as
he does in a road sulky, made it far eaner
for the man. but a little heavier for the
beasts. By the arrangement just tried
at Fargo a traction steam engine draws
eight plows after it and instead of one
acre breaks twenty-five acres a day.
Breaking by the old method is worth SO
an acre and it is held that the steam plow
can afford to break at 81 an acre. The
main advantage of course is in the fact
that by this saving a great many men
are freed from manual labor and sent
into politics, while twO-thirds of the ag-
riculturit's capital is left for free specula-
ton.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
SOME SPECULATIONS.

In the discussions and doubt prevail
ing in regard to the question of first place
the Vice-Presidency has dropped almost
completely out of sight, for the reason
that the traditions of the party make the
latter depend on the former as a mere
matter of political geography. A new
candidate for that tposition, however, was
developed to-day in the person of Hon.
A. D. White, President of the Cornell
University who was spoken of for the
place in case the fortunes of politics
should make a Western man the candi-
date for President
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
STATE PRESS.

A couple of Waldo onions weigh about
six pounds.
The Walton Signal has been purchased
by Prof. G. W. Eddy.
A number of new and handsome build
ings are going up at Eustis.
Jackson County Circuit Court convenes
at Mariana Monday next
Two petitions for liquor licenses are
being circulated in Gainesville.
Clark Marsh, of Silver Beacn, has sue
cessfulIy grated the pecan upon the com
mon hickory.
w. H. Haskell, the Tallahassee nurse
ryman, has grated II varieties of the
pear on one tree.
A deer was recently found in Volusia
county entangled in barbed wire fence,
where it had died.
Rock fish weighing thirty pounds are
frequently taken from the Chipola river,
in jackson county.
The parties suspected of numbering
Jones Carter at Madison short time ago
have fled to parts unknown.
The Lake Worth people have realized
larger returns from their tomato crop
this season than ever befOre-about 81
per crate.
The leaves of the orange trees in and
around Tampa are beginning to curl
from the effects of the prolonged drought.
II the rain does not come soon the dam
age may be serious.
It is possible that Charles Williams,
confined in the Alachua county Jail un-
der sentence of death, for murder, may
have his sentence commuted to imprison-
ment for life in the penitentiary.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
Notice of incorporation.

pY AUTHORITY OF AN ACT OF THE
ID Legislature of the State of Florida, entl-
tied An act to provide for the Incorporation
of Railroads and Canals, " approved February
18th, 1874, and the acts amendatOry thereto,
notice is hereby given that company mas
been formed under the name Of the
st. ugustine and Palatl<a
Canal and TranSpOrtattO
Company,
to be invested with all the rights, powers, pri-
VileReS and franchises conferred upon cOmpa-
MES formed under said act for the purpose of
constructing, maintaining and operating a
canal and vessels Of various kinds for the
transportation Of persons and property within
the State of Florida.
The main line of said canal shall extend
from a point at or near TOcOi, on the st. Johns
river, to some point at or near st. Augustine,
and from the channel of said river to deep wa
ter in the Atlantic ocean, and said canal shall
utilize the waters of the st. Johns river to-
gether with the waters of MOultrie creek i'll st.
Johns county, Florida, on the East, and those
of Deep Creek on the West end of the prOpOs-
ed canal.
Dated June lSt 1884.
J. K. RAINEY,
K. B. GARNETT,
+ : (OWDON.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
MALONE ON HAND.

WASHINGTON, May 3O.-A Chicago
special to the Evening Star says: Ma
hone and some of his delegates are here.
The proposition to admit both the Vir-
ginia delegations to the convention is
prejudiced by Malone, and the National
Committee are puzzled as to who shall
have tickets of admission primarily to a
reference of the question to the Commit
tee on Credentials. If the Dezendorf del
egation is admitted in whole or in part
Malone says his delegation will leave the
convention. He says Dozendorf has been
outvoted as a Republican, and his coad-
jutor, General Wickham, is a Demo-
Crat.
Mrs. Belva 4. Lockwood, who is a de-
egate to the convention, with Rev. DR..
McNurdy and Dr. Bland, from the Ma
tional Arbitration League and Universal
Peace Union, are here. Her object in
attending the convention is to urge the
insertion of plank in the platform favor
ing arbitration. She will go before the
committee appointed to draw resolutions
and will make an appeal for the adoption
of one providing that, as the women of
this country are citizens, producers and
taxpayers and amenable to all of the
laws of the land, civil and criminal,
which thus far they have had no part in
making, they should be given the right
to vote on equal terms with the men.
Tonight she viii lecture on the Ameri-
can statesmen and his shortcomings; or
who shall be PRESIDENT"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-01
THE FREEZING NORTH.

ALBANY, n. Y, May 3O.-Ice half an
inch thick formed in this vicinity last
night. Nearly all the vegetables and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-23
Colby Notes.

An exhibition is to be given by the junior
class at the chapel on the evening of the
2Sd inst. lS'rhe class is very small and all its
members, including two ladies, will be rep
resented. Music for the occasion will be
furnished by the college quartette and trio,
the latter being instrumental, consisting of
violin, by Fuller IS; cornet by Bickmore,
sc and piano by Flagg, 'S6.-The winter
term closes Jan. Goth, the examinations COM
ing off next Saturday and the following Mon
and Tuesday. A vacation of six weeks inter-
venes before the opening of the spring term,
during which time many of the students will
take schools and few canvassing. -Coburn
Classical Institute has closed for a vacation
of two weeks. The new ediice is fast ap-
preaching state of completion and will be
occupied by the first of next March by all
departments of the school which have hither-
to been confined to the old domitory in the
rear end of the grounds. A fine steel bell of
beautiful tone has just been hung in the bel
fry. The attendance at the Institute num-
bers about hundred. 1t is believed that the
school will become very popular as soon as
the new buildings is opened and equipped
The students in college have adopted the
Oxford caps and very soon they will be quite
generally worn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-23
GARDINER.

The reform club of this city celebrated
their 18th anniversary on Saturday evening
and Sunday several speakers were presen
from other clubs.
AT an adjourned meeting of the Congrega
tional parish, on Monday evening. NJ. z
Wsdsworth, A. W. McCauslsnd and c. s
jackson, were elected parish committee; c.
E. bearing, treasurer, and Samuel Lane
collector.
The comet was seen quite clearly Monday
evening by those who were on the lookout
for 1t
The lecture by Gen Cary of Ohio, al
Johnson's hall on Friday evening was very
,hinly attended; or people didn't seem inter
ested to learn which made mistakes Moses
or Inger>oll.
There was a pleasant gathering of friends
at the residence of Mr.. Elbridge Danforth or
Spring street, ON Sunday evening, to witness
the nuptials of Mr.. Harry E. Larrabee and
Miss Lizzie |. Danforth of this city. The
marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. X
w. jenkins, after which the congratulations Of
all present were extended to the bride and
groom, The happy couple beft for Lowell
Mass, on the lois O'Clock train Monday
A. NJ. They intend to make their home in
that city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-23
The interests of humanity seem to demand

The interests of humanity seem to demand
the publications of the following facts Two
months ago my attention was called to the
case of poor woman who was said to be
afflicted with a cancer. found her with an
ulser on her shoulder, at least five inches in
circumference, angry, painful, and giving
the patient no rest day or night for
six months, | obtained supply of
Swift's Specific, which persuaded her to
try. She has taken five bottles, the result of
which is that the ulcer is entirely healed up,
nothing remaining but a small scab, not
larger than ones finger nail, and her general
health is better than for five years past. She
seems to be perfectly cured.
An old man of sixty-seven years has been
subject to scrofulous sores five years. He
had one on his cheek as large as silver
dollar, swollen, raw and constantly exuding
very offensive matter Another on his foot
of the same character, and several on his
hands, all of about two and half years
standing. His general health was poor. and
he could scarcely get about at all. He has
taken two bottles of Swjft's Specific. Tho
sores are all well, leaving scarcely vestige
of their former existence. and his general
health better than it has been in ten years. |
consider its effects wonderful-almost mirac-
ulous. REV. JESSE ii. CAMPBELL.
Columbus, Ga, October IL, 1882.
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