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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-31
TIE DAYS CASUALTIES.
Two Persons Injured by an Accidental
Discharge Of Gun.
A Denton Boy Loses His Finger-A Ser
iOus Runaway at WeatherfOrd.
ACOIDENTALLY DIsOHAnGED.

ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGED,
Special TO the Gazette.
DENIsoN, Ten Oct. 30.-A serious
accident occurred this morning in a
house on Crawford street. a gun
losded with buekshot, which was
standing behind the door, was acei-
dentally thrown down and both bar
rels discharged. A coIored woman
who was In the room was hit by three
buckshot, one penetrating the ankle
and two lodging In her leg and James
Williams, cOlored, aged twelve years,
was severely wounded In the instep
and will probably lose his foot.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-31
AN Rx-eovERNoR ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

DETROIT, MICH, Oct. 3O.-Ex' Gov.
Moses Of South Carolina, who is under
arrest, charged with swlndling Rev.
DIR. Rexford, Rev. Mr.. Atterbury and
Others, attempted to commit suicide
this morning by hanging himself in
his cell He was cut down and will
be tried Immediately.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-31
IndIoations.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-For the
West Gulf fair weather. light winds;
slight change 10 temperature.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-31

NEW HAVEN, CONN ,-0el 80. Ion
his arrival at o'clock, Gov. Cleveland
will be escorted 20 the New Haven
Albany.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-31
No DEMONSTRATIONS.

ALBANY, \. y, OCT, 9O.--UOv
Cleveland, accompanied 10y his pri-
vate secretary and Gen. Farnswcrth,
drove from the executive mansion
shortly before 10 TO the Bostoh and
Albany depot and took the regular 10
O'Clock train for plttsfleld. There was
no demonstration, In accordance with
the governors expressed desire,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
CARD FROM DIR. L. TozER, OF lola, KAs

Having established an Infirmary in
lola for the treatment of chronic dis
eases and surgery, we would call the
attention of the public to the follow
ing:
We treat all durable diseases with a
success unsurpassed in the west. We
cure all RUPTUREs by process en-
tirelv new, safe and simple. which
does away forever with the truss; NO
KNIFE, NO DANGER. We cure PILES
and FISTULA, without the knife or
pain, STRUCTURES, HYDROCELE, VA
RIOCELE, and diseases of the KIDNEYS
and BLADDER are treated and cured
by the. latest and most approved
methods.
In all private diseases we have a
wide experience and unsurpassed sue
cess. Diseases of the JOINTS and
BONES, OLD SORES, TUMORs, CANCERS,
sCRoFULA, SPINAL CURVATURE, HIP
JOINT DISEASE, HARE LIP, CLEFT
PALATE, and all diseases of the
THROAT, LUNGS and HEART are treat
ed by those improved methods for
which the last ten years are famous.
We straighten Crossed Eyes, operate
for Cataract, remove obstruction to
Tear Ducts, end treat successfully all
durable diseases of the Eye and Ear.
We are especially prepared in the
Infirmary for tue treatment of the Dis
eases of IFomea. If you have any
Chronic Diseases come or send for
Circular. We will visit any part of
the county in consultation or to per-
form surgical operations. Address
communications to DR.. l.. ToZER,
lola Infirmary, lola, Kans.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
LaHarpe Locals.

Oh, the beautiful sonw........ Mrs.
Russell returned home last week, hav.
ing made quite an extensive visit
with her parents. Miss Anna b
Scott returned to her school again
Monday after a few weeks rest. which
she spent with her friend, Miss Oil.
fest ...... Mr.. Coe is putting up barn
for his thorough bred horses, which
they are sadly in need of. Mr.. Trout
says he has also put up barn...........:
Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill, a newly arrived
couple of Moran, were over to spend
Sunday with Mr.. French........Mr
G.. Ohlfest found crochet zephyr
shawl between his house and MIR
Fryar's. The owner WY have it by
calling at his house One-half mile south
of La Harpe. ........ Mr.. +. Toby shipped
five car loads of cattle from the station
Saturday night to Chicago. Mr.. Rowe
accompanied him. a good
literary at Elm Dale at the last meet
ing, considering the weather. The
next will be the second of January
The question for debate will be; re-
solved "that city life is more prefera'
BILE than country life" Affirmative,
Messrs. T.. l.. Hackney and +. j. Press
Ter; and Misses Z. Tozer and Hattie
Pressler. Negative, Messrs. j. w.
Frost and J. Ohlfest; and Misses Let
tie Hackney and Mary G. Ohlfest
The ladies say that the audience
should not expect much of them it be-
ing their first attempt in that direc'
ton. Mr.. F. J. Pressler has been
home during the bad weather and has
now returned to mis- field of duly.
We feel exceedingly thankful to Mr..
French for that delightful sleigh ride.
FORGET-ME-NOT.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19

notice the downward tendency of the
pupils i'm attendance and hardness 1t
surely makes a great difference wheth-
er the pupil is on time in the morning
or not. Suppose that ten or twelve
pupils are tardy five minutes each, as,
has been the case a few times this
month In the intermediate grade, for
three successive days. There is one
and one half hour of the best time to
study, gone; one-fourth of one day
lost by one-fifth of the school, to say
nothing of the time lost by pupils
disturbed by the tardy ones coming in
hope that we shall be able by and
with the cooperation of the parents to
ameliorate the present state of the
school so that our next report will be al
least respectable. Furthermore, 1 would
suggest parents present themselves to
us little oftener. If we knew of the
parents only by coming in contac
with them as they visit us, we would
conclude that most of the pupils arr
orphans. L.sW. DUNCAN,
Teacher in charge.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19

Frank came back and as I turned to
see who 1t was he struck me in the
face, knocking me down. One OF
them also struck me in the stomach
and after 1 was down, one Of them
kicked me in the side. AS I raised up
one of them fired at me. The pistol
was SO close that the powder burnt my
face. 1t then flashed over me that 1
had revolver and as I got up drew
it for the first time and fired. The
first shot, I think, killed Voght.
Scheer chung to me until 1 shot him,
when he let loose and I went away.
I fired four. shots i'm all. / stayed near
Humboldt till Tuesday night. Learned
the state of affairs there ard took a
horse and rode to Piqua. Got on train
there and went to Eureka. Went to
hotel, registered and stayed all night
Gave myself up to sheriff De Ford the
next day. This is the only difficulty
I have had since the war. 1 never
carried a revolver except when on OF.
fic,al duty until warned to do so recent
ly by friends in Humboldt who feared
my life was in danger" Mr.. Ash
craft asked us to express
his obligations to Sheriff DeFord aud
his gentlemanly deputies for theil
courteous treatment of him while In
their charge. He also desired us tt
say that Mr.. Brown was the first maj
who came to him with legal warrant
for his arrest. He expressed some feal
of mob, but as he himself has beer
heavily armed for such an emergency
by the authorities, in addition to thu
usual precautions, we think little dan
ger is to be feared. He has waived
his preliminary examination, and thu
trial will probably be called in Janu
orv
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19

I.amunion and Miss Matte Briggs
were married last Tuesday. .......G0 to
West & Penquite's for vases AM
mOustache cups..-..........R. Dawson
shipped car load of hogs Monda y
........ Go to to the post office for your
jewelry, watches and clocks....... The
oldest inliabitaHt says he never has
seen as bad roads in Kansas, yet some
farmers manage to get some corn to
town and sell for Is to 20 cents per
bushel.. Books of all kinds at
West & Penquite's.........W We saw w.
H. Daniels, of Benton, in town Mon
day. He is talking of going further
west in the spring. Mr.. n. South
ard is back from his trip to the north
west.........Mr. Ezra Rhoads, of Schell
City, Mo-, was in town last week; he
was up on business ...... Finest lot oi
candies i'm Moran at West g. Penquite's
....... Mr.. Thos. Mason is clerking fol
w. w. Crabtree. Dir. M. is brother
in-law of Mr.. C.........Dollsl dolls! o
all kinds and sizes at West & Pen
DULLES. The Smith tribe is in
creasing. DIR. Lambeth reports new
boy at Jim Smiths. He says this Il
the twenty-second birth at which III
has assisted in the last three month!
and in every case it has been a boy
.......Dr. Jewell informs me that Oh
Sabbath morning the 2Sth, instead o
preaching in the morning, meeting
will be held for the purpose of forming
a Bible Society, and at night the Sun
day School, will give concert ant
literary entertainment admittanc'
10 cents. The proceeds to be turnet
into the Sabbath School treasury.
Mr.. John Neff living southwest c
town, is quite sick; also son of Mr.
Doty near Spring Valley.........Mrs. A
E. Fehleisen and her daughter Leora
are visiting friends i'm Iowa..............
Messrs. Mann & Riggs have divided
their store; Riggs taking the dry
goods and Mann the groceries..........
Mr.. Arson Jewell is building quite al
extensive barn %. What kind of
zephyr was that that struck us Tues
day night?. DR.. C. @. Nelson, o
Hillboro, Ohio, is stopping awhile
with his brother, G. NJ. Nelson; he i:
on his way to Edwards county,.
Young & Carter are buying all thu
turkeys they can get. They dress ant
ship them to st. Louis. PENCIL.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
AsHCRAFTs STORY.

By the courtesy of Jailor Brown we
were accorded an interview last Tues
day with Mr.. Ashcraft who. was
brought over Sunday from the Jail at
Eureka. He talked with entire free
dom concerning the unfortunate affair
in which he was engaged at Hum
boldt, and expressed perfect confidence
that fair trial would prove that he
had acted only in self defense. AS
taken from his own lips his version of
the affray is as follows: "When /
met Herman Scheer, he was walking
with Frank Voght and another man.
They were all abreast, with Herman
on the outside. / stepped to his side
and placing my hand on his shoulder
said, Herman, I want to speak to
you.i He turned right round and took
my arm. We walked back some dis
lance until I thought the others were
out of hearing, when said Herman,
the sheriff is in town with warrant
for you and he has ordered me to arrest
you and take you down to the Nickle-
plate.' He jerked loose and hogan
abusing me, swearing he would shoe,
me. He put his hand to his hip pocket
as he said this, but ] didn't think ht
would shoot, and began arguing tn,
case with him, thinking that l could
either detain him there until Gordor
came, or persuade him to go to the no
tel with me, While We were talking
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
HIGH SCHOOL J0TTINGs.

No visitors!
The numbers are all solid from one
to seventy-six.
Oh to think of it! $50 cases of tardi-
ness in the lola schools during the
second month.
There are only four scholars in the
Caesar and Cicero classes.
For various reasons, examinations
i'm the high school have been omitted
for the last two weeks and so fell upon
us with ten-fold vengeance. Last Fri
day the entire school was examined in
mathematics. The papers have not
all been corrected and it is not yet
known which grade will have the
highest average.
Many of the girls are spending the
noon intermission very pleasantly in
preparing for Christmas.
The cart of Expression" class find
the prefix OBJ, means "from." Per-
haps go. b. means from" the girls.
Prepare to enjoy every minute OF
your holidays, for afterwards will
come five long months of school, seas
oned with two important examina-
tons and relieved by no vacations, as
far as we know now.
A comparison between the lola and
Atchison schools was read Monday,
which certainly ought to shame us to
pnt forth greater efforts in punctuali-
ty. During the years 1874 the
Atchison schools had only 271 cases OF
hardness amoug 1000 pupils. During
one month the lola schools, with an
enrolment of something more than
400, have 800 cases of Hardness. This
is an old subject and has been harped
upon until every one is tired of it, but
if harping will do any good, let US
harp.
Miss Mamie Pugh will spend the
holidays at her home in Cottonwood
Falls. We wish her pleasant jour.
ney and safe return.
Snow-balling was favorite amuse'
ment last week, but was prohibited
because of the Inconvenience to pass
ers-by.
i AS school will close Friday the 19th
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
SCHOOL REPORT.

Report of Geneva school for the
month ending Dec. u.
Intermediate department. Enroll
ment for the mOnth-males so, females
20, total 80 Number of actual menu
bers 46. Number cases tardiness-
males Sc, females 81, total 1877. Aver
age daily attendance-males y LOO,
females IA 40, total 35 2-5. Attend
ance in days, 70s. No. of days taught,
%. Pupils neither absent nor tardy
during the month-Nellie McQu;gg,
Minnie Denney, Ida Brickett, Winnie
Spencer, Newman Leavitt.
Primary department. Enrolment
males 10, females 10, total So. At
tendance in days-males 27I, females
291, total $50. Average daily attend
ance-males IA $40, females 10 Clio,
total % 11-19. Cases of tardiness-
males %, females "a, total AZ. Names
of pupils standing above 80 in attend
ance and scholarship-Johnny Brick
Ell, Charlie Brickett, Willie Carpen-
ter, Nora Curtis, Milo Curtis, Maud
Esse, Olive and Maggie Knowlton,
Louisa Sheldon, Pearl Banta, Mabel
Marsh, Sammie Irwin, Susie Mulnix.
HATTIE BERRY, Teacher.
wish to call the attention of pa
rents especially to- this report, and if
you are interested in the school, COM
pare this with last months report and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19

The lola female band has disbanded.
Their tender lips could not stand the
strain. The lola girls are full of enter
prise, and girls who could edit paper
like the Salad ought to be able to blow
anything.-7hayer Headlight.
We hardly know what to say about
this female band business. We made
an innocent little remark once to the
effect that it had disbanded-and the
ladies, some of them, could hardly
keep their fingers out of our hair until
we should take it back" in our next
issue. We took it back gracefully, as
an editor always does such little slips
of the pen,-but alas, the ink was hard
ly dry on the item when a little fist
was fiourished under our nose, and a
little voice was sternly insisting that
"the band has disbanded, and you've
no business to say it HASN'T" And
that is why we beg to be excused from
further comment upon the "ladies'
cornet band" of lola. We have had
it both ways and still we are in danger
of our life. We may venture however,
to say that the Salad girls were (are?)
not connected with it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
PROHIBITION DID IT."

The Inter State, with its usual I'M
prejudiced logic, attributes the MUIR
der which occurred in Humboldt last
week, to the fanatical idea of enforc-
ing one particular law 1.-THE prohibitory
lawl to the exclusion of every other
law" Will the Inter State please
stand up and give us an instance OF
single other law which is violated
with impunity for the reason that an
attempt is made to enforce the pro-
hibitory law? Is the law against theft,
arson or murder any less rigidly en-
forced than it was before prohibition
was enacted? What crime in the
whole catalogue of misdemeanors and
felonies, can a man violate without
fear of punishment because prohibi-
ton is abroad in the land? Another
question the Inter State might ans
wer while it is standing up, and that
Is, why is the prohibitory law any
more to blame for that murder than
the man who violated it?" You
might as we'll say that the law against
murder'is responsible for SO many men
being hung. If the prohibitory law
had never been violated in Humboldt,
Frank Voght would not have been
killed last week, and Herman Scheer
would not be lying with a bullet
through his shoulder. The idea that
the people who ere in favor of the en-
forcement of law should be abused
for the consequences that fall upon the
men who violate that law, is certainly
startling as a legal proposition. If it
was only the Inter State that was
guilty of such sublimated nonsense,
we would not devote so much space to
it. But there are really great many
Observation-Disclosures who seem to take
the same view. Some of them we
know, when a resident of Humboldt
was fatally poisoned recently by
drinking whiskey from a strychnine
bottle, said "there's another man kill
ed by your cursed prohibitory law ~
They seem to look upon the man who
violates the law, as much abused and
long suffering martyr, while the man
who wants the law enforced is fit for
treason stratagems and spoils," an
enemy to society and reptile to be
hunted from the earth It's a mad
| world, my masters.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
COUNTY NOTES.
FROM REGISTER REPORTERS
What is Being Done Throughout the
County-Events and Gossip
of the Week.
CARLYLE Correspondence.

Mud with snow on top of it makes it
unpleasant getting about; a freeze up
would be Welcomed.........We under
stand that Ed. Cain has two brothers
visiting him and looking at the coun-
try; it is rather a bad time to judge
sunny Kansas......... Eugene Whitaker
came up home with Fred Funston
last Sunday and took dinner with him
......... The young men of Carlyle are
going to have what they call rabbit
ear supper. The side that gets the
least number of scalps pays for the sup
per of both sides. Capt. l.. Gilkeson
commands one side and Capt. G. Dick
erson commands the other. The boys
are killing lots of rabbits, but there
will be enough left for stock.........The
L. M. S. are making quite extensive
preparations for the "Tnrkey-oys ter"
supper in the way of literary entertain
ment. Good music will also be in at
tendance. :. Last Saturday, Dec. 9th
the thermometer registered zero.
O..
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
Moran Matters

Tom Matthews says he sold q pairs
of gum boots last Saturday, and not
good day for gum boots either.........
Finest lot of photograph and auto
graph albums ever brought to Allen
county at the post office at moran: ....
TIL creditors of G. w. Chenault clos
ed in ON him Monday and shipped the
goods to Kansas City........Mr. w.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
LADIES' MEDICAL ADVISOR.

A complete medical work for wo-
men, handsomely bound in cloth and
illustrated. Tells how to prevent and
cure all diseases of the sex, by treat
ment at home. Worth its weight in
gold to every lady suffering from any
of these diseases. Over 10000 sold al
ready. Postpaid only 50 cents. Pos
tai note or two-cent stamps. Address
Nunda Publishing Company, Nun
da, New York.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19

and the vacation will continue two
weeks, there will be no jottings, SO we
will be little previous and wish all
q merry Christmas and a happy New
Year and bid farewell until the Sih of
January. 1885. Two JOTTERS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19
LEVY A PROHIBITION TARIFF.

THE REGISTER has already alluded
frequently, to the injustice that is
done our home merchants by licensing
travelling peddlers and statesmen. 1t
is an evil which certainly ought to he
remedied at once. 1t is plain to any
one that the merchants who live here,
who pay taxes and help build up the
town, are the ones that should be pat
ronized, and should receive the benefit
of the trade. 1t is certainly poor econ
omy, to say nothing of the injustice of
it, for the city to license for few dol
lars, statesmen who come here for few
days only, gather up all the loose cash
and go away without spending any
money In the town and without pay
ing any taxes except their trifiing Ii
cense fee. Nobody is benefited by it.
Buyers are often duped into the belief
that they are getting their goods at
half price, and are thus led to buy
things that they will never need simp-
ly because they are "cheap." AS a
rule however they pay every cent an
article is worth, and frequently more
than it is worth. Men do not travel
about the country selling goods at less
than cost, for the good of the people,
| 1t is safer to trade with men that you
know. And il the buyers are not ben
Gifted, the home merchants certainly
are not. The advent of one of these
concerns is always followed by dull
trade, which affects not only the par
ticular line of goods in which it dealt
but every other branch of business
We are not we'll enough versed in the
laws governing cities of the third class
to know whether or not they can all
solutely prohibit the sale of goods in
this way. We are quite sure however
that it is in their power to make their
license so high that no profit can be
made on such sales. If the object can
not be accomplished i'm direct way il
can in an indirect way. We would
suggest that the merchants unite in
petitioning the city council to pass an
ordinance that shall accomplish the
result.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-19

AS rain drop foretells a storm, so does
pimple upou the human body indicate health
destroying virus in the blood, which can be
neutralizei and expelled only by DR.. Harter' S
Irun Tonic