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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
PiTH AND POINT.

Men who live crooked careers are,
nevertheless, very often in Strengthened
Observation-Disclosures Cal.
The happiest man on earth is the
man who has sense enough to appre-
ciate his mother in-law. This is not
funny. but it is true.-ChicaJo Herald.
-"Thece IS but one good wife in
tins town." said clergyman in the
course of his sermJn-the congrega-
ton looked expectant land every
married man thinks he's got her." adj
ded the minister.-Troy Times.
Wearing natural fruits in the bon.
net is said to be be coming. A bachelor
advises women not 10 attempt to trim
a four-iuch square bonnet with more
than four watermelons and two pump
kins. 1t might give them the head
aehe.-N y Graphic.
Mistress of the House Ito new nur-
sery maid. whom she finds deeply alb
sorbed in a dime no ely: '.Why, Annie,
YOU can't read aud mind the baby at
the same timet' Begging your pard-
iny. mum, the child doesn't disturb me
. bit ~ y indcDen3eH'.
They now fill teeth with electricity.
A woman with tooth fall OF electricity
and an eve full of ire Will BE- balmy
object for a man TO meet on the top
landing when he comes hone from bal
ancing his books ut two a. m.-P.tts-
bhrsh Chronicle.
WHATS all this l hear about the
Mother Hubbards? What are they,
any way" ''Oh, they're dresses that
are not pleasing to the fastidious West
erners. They seem to be afraid of
them" ..Women wear them in the
Fast. too, don't they2" ..Oh, yes,
they're worn all over Have YOU
seen anything in them TO be AFRAID OFF,"
'Yes, my wife. ''-RocheSter PoSt-Er-
ireSs.
The neon beat silently upon the
waves. and the waves beat noisily upon
the sand, anG they strolled quietly
along the bea h, and as he looked
down into her eyes lovingly. he asked
..Mildred. will you return
nv love?" "les. George" she an
swered, hesitatinglv. ION one condi-
ton" Only tell me that condition.
he pleade breathlessly. ut H." she
replied solemnlv. that YOU do not
again ask me to accept it." and the
waves and his heart continued to beat
IS they walked home sJrrowfully aud
ton Pot
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
MCCULLOUGH INSANE.
A Report that the Great Actor is In

A Report that the Great Actor is In.
sane.
NEW YORK, September 12.-At COney
Island last evening strange man was dis
covered attempting to walk the trestlework
of the Marine Railway from Manhattan to
Brighton Beach. An officer put him aboard
the train, when the man was recognized as
John Mccullough. A watch was kept on
him as it was feared he would attempt sui.
eide. After the train started Mccullough
attempted to jump off but was pre-
vented. On his arrival at Brighton
Beach he complained of his head
and the fearful heat of the past few
days. 1t was evident that the eminent
actor was suffering terribly, and close
watch was kept until he reached his friends
in New York, who had been
NOTIFIED OF HIS CONDITION.
1t seems that Mccullough fancies he is fol-
lowed by men who want to kill him, and he
keeps lodging imaginary foes constantly.
The Tribune says: Mr.. Mccullough dined
at Manhattan Beach Wednesday evening
with Wright Sanford, w. Z. Conner, and
some other members of the blue ribbon
brigade. The lemonade with which their
frugal repast was washed down,
dCCOludllCc Will CuotOm VI
the party, was of a peculiar potency.
Whether there was triie too
much sugar, or whether the baleful lemons
had been supplied with too liberal hand
does not appear, but certain it is that it
affected the digestive organs of those pres
ent after a marvellous fashion. Mr.. Nc
CullOugh, in fact, rose from the table while
NIGHT WAS YET YOUNG,
and murmuring something about shat in
fernal lobster salad always playing the
deuce with me" went for a short walk.
While counting the calming evening breezes
along the shore he was approached by a
consderate stranger who knew
him by sight The stranger took
his arm, and noticing that he was suf-
fering from what seemed to be an over
dose of quinine, tenderly put him on board
homeward bound train and sent dispatch
to New York newspaper speeding after
him simultaneously. Mccullough reached
his hotel, the st. James, in safety, and felt
SO far recovered yesterday morning that he
breakfasted with his manager, Joseph
RrOOkS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
Prison Reform Association.
SARATOGA, N. Y, Sc

SARATOGA, N. Y, September.
The National Prison Association met
here yesterday. Ex-President Hayes, pre-.
sid d. Rev. Lyman d. Abbott de ivered
the initial address. Last evening DIR.
Prime, Rev. II. L. Waite, of Philadelphia,
and others discussed "Christianity and
the Criminal" To-day papers will be
read on "Inter-State Extradition" by Par.
don c. Brown, of Albany, and on The
Pardoning Power" by Professor Francis
Wayland, of Yale College, to be followed
by debate. Many persons who are prom.
inentIy identified with prison management
in every section Of the county, ire
gathered here
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
Names Vote.

PORTLAND, Me-. September 1.-THE fol-
lowing dispatch was sent to General Logan
yesterday: THE result of the election may
be thus summarized: The Republicans have
carried every county in the State, with the
possible exception of Knox, which is close.
They have elected twenty-nine Senators,
and the Democrats only two. They have
chosen fOur-fifths of the representatives
in the Legislature. They have elected four
Representatives in Congress by large
majority and have given Governor Robe
popular majority of 1900. The Repub-
iican vote will reach very nearly $4,000;
1000 to 5000 larger than ever cast before
Our majority is the largest we have had
since the Presidential election of 1865 and
far exceeds our most sanguine hopes.
WALKER BLAINE"
Full returns from the First Congressional
District gave Reed 1854. CleaveS 10000;
Reeds plurality 915. In 1880 Reeds vote
was 10. 1920, and Andrews 16,S93; Reeds
plurality III. The entire Republican ticket
g elected by big majority.
The latest as to the House of Represen-
tatives show III Republicans elected to 81
Democrats; a net Republican gain Of Z.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
The Peoria Elopement.
PEORIA, Ill, September 8

EONI-k' I'LL, SCP CuHUCI
J. C. Dillingham;, who eloped with Jen.
ME Ward during the absence OF his alleged
wife, reached here Saturday evening in
the custody OF an officer, in company
with the girl. There is some specula.
ton as to what can be done with him,
as it is now ascertained that Miss Ward
is of age, and Dillingham; insists that
he was never married TO the woman he
passed off as his wife while he was liv.
ing end doing business in Peoria. He
was placed in jail, and Miss Ward taken
to the residence of her parents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
Cyclone Damages.

ST. PAUL, September 12.-Advices from
the country visited by cyclone show that
the damage was greater than at first re-
ported. At Chippewa Falls, Wis, the loss
by the cyclone and the food which followed
100000. Many families are homeless.
Robert Wallace was drowned. At Clear
Lake, Wis, Mrs. Ii. NJ. Burdick, VIM. Cav
anaugh, A. II. Saund rs and Walter Lewis
Were killed. Bill Nye, the humorist, had a
leg broken and was otherwise badly injured.
John Z. Growers mill was damaged 100000.
The total loss was S250,000. At Clayton,
Wis, half the frame buildings in the city
was destroyed. In pastures where wire
fencing was used the animals were blown
against the fences and badly cut.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
Heavy storm Damage.

la CROSSE, WIS.,, September 10.-Re
ports of damage to roads and farming com
munities by Saturday nights storm continue
to come i'm. In all the numerous valleys in
this and adjoining counties the bridges and
culverts are gone, and roads nearly impas-
sable. Huge piles of what constituted hay
and grain stacks are scattered ever the
bottom lands. The water deseen,ied the
bluffs in torrents, frequently tearing huge
gullies through cultivated lands, and de-
posting wreckage of all sorts in the fields.
No estimate of the damage could be nc.
curately made yet but it is large. Tha
washouts on the railroads have been re-
paired and trains have left here on the Greel
Bay and Chicago & Northwestern Roads
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
THE WEST.

A STRATA of gas was struck recently
near Tolono, Ill, at a depth of ninety -thre.
feet. 1t is proposed to use it for illuminat
ing and heating purposes and to furnish
motive power for stationary engines.
The commission dealers at the Chicago
stock yards lately rendered to the National
Committee ten head of cattle, to be placed
among herds said to be afflicted with pleu
ro-pneumonia, as an experiment to decide
the, guestion of contagion.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN, of Ohio, will
make campaign speeches in Wisconsin mex,
month.
c. b. THRoSDoRFF, the owner of several
farms near New Philadelphia, Ohio, re.
Gently went to Cleveland to be treated for
an affection of the brain. When he was
Hent to the Lake Park and ended his life
with a revolver.
HANNAH RUTLEDGE, q resident of Chi.
-cago since 1873, died on the 9th, in her one
hundred and third year. On one of the
coolest days Last winter she walked seven
miles.
TIE Jail in Kansas City is represented by
the grand jury az having from four to seven
prisoners in each cell, besides invisible in
mates, and complaints are made that
tainted meats are served on the table.
CHAPMAN, who was arrested In Missouri
for the murder of Nicholas Hubbard at
Charleston, H., made to the Shenfff a vol
antary confession Of his guilt, bit fmpli-
Gated smother person In the crime.
DuRxNG the first eight months of this
year u. 80 immigrants settled in Wiscon-
stu
SUDoR CRowELL, the newly appointed
sixth Auditor of the Treasury, is rest
dent Of b. Paul. e. A. Clifford, formerly
postmaster at Evanston, Ill, is his deputy.
OKLAHoMA PAYNE has been released on
d.00o bail at Fort Smith, and seven of his
followers were set free.
An assignment has been fled by the
Union Catholic Publishing Company of
Chicago, with liabilities of $4,000. The
Rounds Type Press Company of Chicago,
falied some days ago, but the fact was not
publicly known until lately, when nearly
All the creditors met and resolved to con-
finue the business under trustees. The es-
adjustment owes about SOC, 600, and has a
very valuable plant.
THE Republican State Convention of Mis-.
souri, met September 9th and nominated
partial ticket, indorsing Hon. Nicholas
Ford. the Greenbacker, for Governor.
A MEXICAN woman, reputed to be
witch. was horribly murdered by three
men il Bio Arriba County, New Mexico,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
Fatal Explosion.

PEORIA, ILL, September ia most
dire calamity occurred at Pekin yesterday
morning about 7:30, in the explosion of the
cookers at the Enterprise distillery. The
building is owned by Spellman and Doheny
of this city, and is total wreck. The loss
viii probably reach $4,000. There were
seven persons in the distillery at the
time, three of whom are dead. Andy Duff
fin was instantly killed, the top of his
head being cut off. He leaves . wife and
four children in destitute circumstances;
also in des.itute circumstances; K. Welsh
Miller is also killed; j. Murphy, the epgi.
neer, is alive. but will die, as his flesh il
badly sca!ded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
Disasters.

ST. JoIrNs, n. F., September 10.-Tha
latest Labrador news is appalling. The
Goldfish catch is short five hundred thousand
quintals, and on the northeast coast of New.
fOundland famine is imminent. About
eight hundred families are reported starv.
ing and sustaining life at present on squids.
The whole coast of Newfoundland and
Labrador is studded with icebergs. Captain
Manuel OF the mail steamer Pioyer, reports
two hundred and fifty-three icebergs be-
tween Wadham Island and Cape Freels,
Vonayista Bay. Thirteen icebergs lately
drove south of Cape Spear down into tbs
tracks of the ocean steamers. Advices from
Trepassey this evening report two more
disasters IN consequence of the hurricane.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
MORE CANNlBALISM.
A Party of Castaways on the Verge of Death
by Starvation, with PRAYER for Forgive
ness for the Deed, Sacrifice One of Tseis
Number to Allay the Pangs of Hunger
The Rescued Survivors Arrested for Muir

LONDON, September 8.

The Rescued Survivors Arrested Tor Muf
der.
LONDON, September 8.
Captain Dudley of the yacht Mignon-
cite, land the two seamen who, survived the
wreck of that vessel in the Indian Ocean,
were arrested Saturday evening and viii
be charged in court this morning with
the murder OF the cabin boy Parker, who
persisted On the raft on which they float
ed until picked up by the bark Monte.
yuma. From statements made rs to the
nature of the testimony to be given, the
case seems likely to be one of the great
est sensations of the season. One
of the Survivors states that when the
desperation of hunger had brought them
to the pass of fastening Parker's death,
each man still drew back and signalled to
another to do the terrible deed. Parker
in his weakness was meanwhile Obvious
to the scene around him. Finally the
captain kneeled aud prayed forgiveness
for the act which he was about to per.
form. lie then approached the boy ana
said.
Snow, Parker, the time has come"
The lad reused by these words, and
seeing the knife in Dudley's hand, real
lied the dread fate in store for him.
"What me, sir!" he cried, appeal
ingy.
ayes, my boy" replied the Captain,
"it will be only one stab, and all viii be
over"
With these words lie plunged the knife
into the boys trembling form, aud almost
before life was extinct the crazed men
were quenching their thirst with the
flowing blood. Parker's flesh was after
ward eaten, Captain Dudley doing it out
to his fellow unfortunates.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19

6tarvation md Death in a Land of Plenty
The Pathetic Story of q Polish Family
Who Died for the Wants of the Bare
Nece-saries Of Life in Leayenworth, Kan.
sas.
LEAvENwORTH, KAN, September !.
Several weeks ago these dispatches gave
an account of the death Of Polish lady
named Brolsaw, as result of starva-
ton. As stated. the family had arrived
here penni.ess and hungry, having paid
all their money for railroad fare, and
their condition was unknown until 1t was
brought to light by the death Of the wife
and mother.
The death of Mrs. BrolSaw was fol.
lowed by the sickness of her husband,
due to his long privations, and although
he was assisted and kindly hands and
hearts did all in their power to bring him
back to health, his death is now chrOni.
cled. ALI that remains of the family now
is two children, boy two years of age,
and little girl six months, and they, too,
have taken sick and beyond recovery, it
is thought. Everything will be done for
them that is possible, but with little hope
OF saving them.
Inc pathetic side OF this case, whole
family perishiug from hunger in a
land of plenty, wnere all that was neces-
sasy to bring succor was a simple an-
nouncement of their condition, has at
tracted considerable attention abroad,
and the original story WAS copied into
the San Francisco Cal, where it came
to the notice of Mrs. Josephine An.
toniessius, Polish lady. She wrote
to Mrs. Peat, who had been
prominent in aiding the family,
sending leaf and a lew immorteIles
to place on the grave, aud saying that al
though poor herself, the family were ner
country folks, and ii the exact address
of Mrs. Peat was furnished her she had
some gold jeweiry, brought from her IA
tive land, which she would gladly sell fol
the benefit of the suffering Brolsaws.
The case is one of the saddest in history.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
who were laboring under . super,

recently, who were laboring under . super.
stitious delusion.
GEORGE MOORE, Superior Court Judge
Of jackson County, California, was found
dead in his room September 9th. It is be-
lie-ed he was murdered.
A. DISEASE, the nature Of which is not
known, has broken out among the cattle
of Uriah Blue, near Clinton, Ill. Some
many that the cattle have eaten poisonous
weeds.
OFFICIAL reports of the State Of crops in
Nebraska are encouraging. The condition
of corn is placed at LOG per cent, wheat
100, rye 100, oats 90, barley 96h, Irish po-
tatoes 104k, tobacco 100, apples 109K.
This is splendid showing.
AN inexhaustible supply Of natural gas
has been reached at Findlay, o., at depth
lao feet.
JOHN CHAMBERS, one of the pioneers Of
Michigan, died recently at Vermontville,
leaving large estate to an adopted son.
THREE men were suddenly killed by an
explosion at Pekin, ILL.,, recently. 1t &C.
Cured in distillery in the cookeries. The
charge of criminal negligence will be
brought against the proprietors.
The Indiana corn crop has recently been
estimated at about seventy-five per cent. of
the average.
A. r. TOPPING, of Delavau, Wis, lately
drove out with Miss Winnifred c. Dewey,
and both were instantly killed while cross
ing the railway track.
LATER reports from the cyclone which
recently visited Wisconsin, Michigan and
other Northern States, show that the dam
age was very much greater than was at
first expected.
A COMPANY has been organized at Belle
vile, H., to construct a railway from that
town to point opposite st. Louis.
In the Circuit Court at Fort Wayne, a
jockey named Gibbons A. Fitch recently
obtained Judgment for $1,000 for being
struck on the head with sulky whip by
Homer Hale.
j. E. NORTON g. Co., well-known cigar
dealers in Chicago, recently made an as
signment to cover liabilities of about seven
thousand dollars.
RECENT estimates show that the Michi
gan wheat crop yields somewhat more than
sixteen bushels per acre on the average.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
An Outrage Oh Tourists.

MAHDRID, otpttWUOr
An American clergyman and two daugh.
ters arrived at San Sebastian after .
months tour in Italy and Spain. The
father was there attacked with heart
disease and died. The attending
physician, Spaniard, certified
the cause of death correctly, but
the authorities nevertheless took
possession of the body, and stated the
case to be one of cholera, and buried the
clergymaa's effects, including his books
and papers. The daughters of the de-
ceased nave lodged a complaint with ths
authorities at Madrid, together with
claim for damages.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WARRINGTON NOTES

WASHINGTON NOTEE
DR.. FRANK I. HOWE, of the editorial staff
of the National Republicax, formerly OF
Boston, was stricken by the heat recently
and his case is considered serious.
J. Il. SoUIER. q private banker in Wash
ington, who recently made an assignment,
killed himself with pocket-knife.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
GENERAL.

| LHSliSu oulCo TcCtutiy
dered that strict neutrality be observed
between the French and Chinese.
| An offer of fifty thousand dollars has
been made to Sir William Dawson, of the
McGill University of Montreal, for the
establishment of free library in that in
stitution provided the public subscribed q
similar amount. The person who has
made the offer is not known.
| SEVERAL French papers announce that
the real object of the King of Sweden's re.
cent visit to England was to settle the pre-.
liminaries of marriage between his sec
ond son, Prince Oscar, and the Princess
Louise of Wales.
| AT the International Medical Congress,
which the King of Denmark has just opened
at the Palais d'Industrie, in Copenhagen,
America was more numerously represented
than any other foreign country.
CHARLES s. PARNELL lately telegraphed
| Patrick Egan his congratulations on the
| determination to hold the Irish National
League neutral in American politics.
THERE are rumors of Congress in Paris
which is to settle the nature of the off ences
| which demand duel.
y
man who died recently of heart disease at
a watering place in Spain demand COM
pensation for the burning of his effects.
Even the furniture of the room in which
he expired was consigned to the flames, as
il he had died of cholera.
HANLAN, the Canadian oarsman, who
was lately defeated in the Paramatta
River, near Sidney, by Beach, the Austria
liam, claimed foul. The claim was dis
allowed by the judges
TIE German Consul at Canton has tele-
graphed to his Government that the Chi
nese have closed the mouth of the Canton
River to steamers.
By Russian imperial order, the delivery
of the works of LIS different authors, ma
tive and foreign, to libraries and public
reading rooms is strictly prohibited, as
well as of eight Russian newspapers.
Mr. CHARLEY MANDY, builder of the
Aaron Mandy, the first iron steamer which
ever went to sea, died lately He had been
Secretary to the British College OF Civil
Engineers.
QUEEN VICTORIA has pretty well re-
covered from the accident to her knee, al
and the loss for SO long a time of her
usual active exercises has had an unfaySr-
able influence on her health.
A GREAT famine is threatened in Labra-
do and the northeast coast of Newfound-
land, owing to the failure of the codishing
this season. The catch will be $1,000
quint ais short. About 800 families are re-
ported to be starving already. To add to
the hor, -ors the coasts of both Labrador and
dland are surrounded by icebergs.
One Capt, lin reports having seen 253.
CHOLERA is running the Parisians and
making the fortune of the London hotel
and boarding house keepers. Altogether
there were four. zen thousand more visitors
in the gay city il, July last year than in
the same month this year.
The Countess De L a Tore was fined the
other day, at The rat.' of ten shillings a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19
THE SOUTH.

THE Molin lumber mills, about twenty
three miles from Pensacola, Fla, belong
| ing to the estate of d. F. Sullivan, were
destroyed by fire recently. The loss is one
hundred thousand dollars; the insurance
was ten thousand dollars.
WILLIAM DIXON was convicted of murder
at Little Rock. Ark. He shot Sam Lester
at dance on Red River last December.
In investigating the affairs of the sus-
pended commission firm of Payne, Wiley
G. Co., of Louisville, it has been discovered
that the senior partner hypothetical ware
house receipts for 1900 rolls of bagging for
his personal Indebtedness to the Kentucky
National Bank, making the total value of
| of goods thus pawned 81 ,S31 900.
EVANS ALNUT, formerly well.known
lawyer of Louisville, died at the Anchor
age insane asylum from brutal injuries
by the guards six weeks ago. He received
| no medical attention.
On September 10th torrents of rain fell
in Southern Texas, where live stock valued
| at $1,000, 900 was threatened with death
from thirst, the ground having been dry
for fifteen weeks.
ToLER, the Chief of Police at Hot
Springs, having been apprised that his
life was in danger from desperate man
named Edward Howell, took double-har-
relied shotgun and slew his enemy.
THE last spike on the Louisville, New
Orleans & Texas road was driven on the
18th at point about one hundred miles
south of Memphis.
SAMUEL CHEcIT, Chief of Creek Nation,
died of Bright's disease at Dennison, Tex,
| September 18th.
A LATE fire at Lexington, KY, destroyed
the stable of Smith & Merritt and eleven
horses and two mules.
JOHN ROBERTS was recently arrested at
Havil, ILL.,, on a charge of throwing a
switch, by which freight train was
ditched and the engineer and brakeman
killed, August q.
IT is reported that the fairs all through
the West this year have been successful SO
far.