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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are now sixty-nine Bricklay-
er's Unions throughout the United
States. with total membership of over
IL, 0O0.-Chica3O Journal.
There are about &C. 600 locomotive
engines in the world. and 10000 pas
senger and 500. COO freig ht cars. There
are 200. 900 miles of track, and the cap
ital invested is $4,000, 900, OU0.-M Y.
Herald.
Postal cards were introduced by
Prof. Emanuel Herman, of Vienna.
They were first used in England, Ger
many and Switzerland in 1870. in Bel
gium and Denmark in 1871. and in Nor
way. Russia and the United States in
1872 73.-BoSt0m Post.
The Public Printer of the United
States is at the head of the biggest
printing establishment in the world,
employing over 1920 men, and turning
out annually about 20O,OOO,OOO
blanks, envelopes, etc, 32j, 900 blank
books, and 100000 pamphlets and
books. He uses up every year about
$1,000, 000.-Phdac'elyhia Press.
From 1910 to 1880. horses increased
in the United States 800 per cent: in
the latter year they numbered 12.OOO.-
600, value $40, OO0.nOO. Mules in the
same period increased 400 per cent,
numbering 2.0OO,OUO in 1880, at a value
of $40. 100000. Mich cows the same
year numbered 13.0O0.GO0, while other
cattle footed up 10 23.&S2, $50, value
SiSl ,6S6,0Sh. Sheep value So, 00O,-
600, and swine S224, III, j0O.--Dctr0&
Post
The biennial report Of the Kansas
State Board of Agriculture Tor 1881 81
recalls attention to the remarkable
growth of this new State. In the ten
years from 1872 To 1852 there was an
increase in population from 364, 399 to
995, 966; in cultivated acreage from
2.476. S62 to II ,Oi3,31g acres; in value Of
live stock from S30,0l3.S9 to SS}, S74,-
$50. In 1882 there were 500, 6!S horses,
l,404,4 cattle. 97S,l77 sheep and
l. 22S, 6S3 head of swine. Nearly 4,.OO,-
900 acres We're in corn, and more than
100000 in ChicGG0 Journal.
Senator John p. Jones, who is said
to have lost so. 900. 900 within the past
ten years. is trying TO get another fort
une. He has leased tie Bonanza
mines from the 1,5jO level upward.
The Bonanza, which has turned out
over Sl00,O00,00O OF gold and silver.
was found at a depth of 1.5jO feet, and
Jones expects to find valuable ore de-
posts above that level. His lease ex-
tends three years. and he will explore
the ground for all it is worth. He is
to account for seventy per cent. of the
assay values of the ores found; all over
that is to be his.-Chicdgo Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
The Romance and the Reality.

Among the inhabitants of Watts street.
in that particular part where it mikes
itself up with Canal street in some
what brwildrrinr fashion, there ha>
been some cN, itcmrnt recently on ac-
count Of Il rJmor tina. Il youH~ and beau
titui Bavar.an servant -rirl had fallen
heir To an in!mensn fortune. In the
ci@ar stores and becr->hops of the guar
ter there We're bets - 10 whether it was
only 500, 900 or 81. 2JO.ODO. Those who
Were apparently the best informed said
thai the estate }nrludcd one OF the
largest brcweries n Munich. and that
the girl WAS s'nTularly bcauti!ul-a sort
Of stare CinG .relia with Just enough
smut> on the arms to show their white
ness and on the face 10 strengthen the
miSchievOUs expression and give a pleas
Ing wildness to the features.
When 4 reporter sought information
about the happy fair one at the office OF
the German Society, at No. Is Broad
way, an official led him into a room
where sat the heiresS in question. Mrs.
Lima Hinterwimmer. She was an HON
est, hearty, healthy-looking German
woman, wife and a mother, cook
and scrubber, and subordinate laun-
dry-maid, who had worked in German
boarding houses of cheap character
for respectable immigrants. Her aunt
died in Munich some months ago, and
left some property which was TO be
divided among her nephews and nieces.
Mrs. Lima Hinterwimmer, with flush
of happiness, calculated that her share
might amount to S40O.-N. Y. World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A great number of peach orchards
have been set out on the Maryland pen
insula this fall.
Louisiana gratis Japan persimmons
on the native American tree, and the
fruit is as large rs tomato.
The lumber business in the swamps
Of the Iazoo and Tallahatchie Rivers
in Mississippi is assuming immense pro-
portions.
A number of capitalists have pur-
chased eight hundred acres of land in
Pickens County Georgia, for the pur-
pose of quarrying marble. Chicago
Hera!d.
Mattresses made of needles from
South Carolina pine boughs are said to
cure lung and rheumatic complaints.
and an active trade in them is establish
ed.-SOHthCrn Trddc Journal.
A Philadelphia scientist claims that
he can tell, on exam ming 4 hair pin,
Tie color OF the owners HAIR. and readi-
" detects in the same way Il woman
who wears false hair.-RtiiaGclphta
Press.
An illustration of the activity in
cotton manufa curing in the South is
afforded by the mill in Rome, Ga,
which has doubled its machinery since
its start, eighteen months ago. 1t is
running night and day.
The prospect now is that only
about two-thirds as much lumber will
be cut on the kennebec and its tributar-
les the coming winter as usual. says the
Augusta JOHrHdi, owing to the low
prices which operators have received
for Their lumber. A leading Augusta
operator in lumber saws that, practical
ly lumbermen received nothing for the
stumpage of last years cut.
A method of washing butter has been
patented IN Germany. 1t consists in
taking the small particles out of the
churn when about Il tenth of an inch in
diameter, and placing them in CEN
trifugal mach ne whose drum is pierced
with small holes and lined with strong
linen cloth. Pure water is added from
time to time till that which is thrown
out contains no butter-milk.
Some of the conclusions of science
would indeed be appalling but for their
practical harmlessnpss. Thus, geolO-
SlSbS a~SCll lIdJ IL anu
the bottom of the ocean were graded
down to uniform level the whole
world would be covered with water
mile deep. SO much greater is the de-
preston of the ocean bed than the ele-
walton of the existing land.-N. Y.
Times.
In Arkansas the couD ties lying con-
tiguous to the Mississippi or any navi-
gable stream, are rapidly filling up with
Northern, Western and foreign immi-
grants. They are building saw-mills.
and many have already begun cutting
timber. Land is still ch APP in most
places. yet the advance has been mar
velous within few years That which
now commands from one dollar to five
dollars per acre was at that date posi-
lively unstable. TmeS.
The exceedingly delicate photo
graphs colored on glass which have re-
Gently come into fashion are produced
by fixing paper photograph upon a
cushion-shaped glass with transparent
cement and when it is dry rubbing
away two-thirds of the photograph with
sandpaper The thin film left is then
rendered transparent-by soaking in
melted parafiine wax, after which trans
parent colors are applied, which appear
softened down looked at from the front.
Chicago journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
WIT AND WISDOM.

There is difference between the
lips of Il Young man and the lips of 4
Young lady-but sometimes it is a
mighty small Detroit Post
Many 4 young flop imagines that a
girl takes an interest in his Deljare,
when in truth She is only eager for his
fdrcUcH.-CHj:Ggo IiiJuaC.
Overcome by gas y is the headline
on a daily paper. We knew these ire
mcndouS Gas bills would kill somebody
sooner or la,er-BOStOn Commercial BuL-
ietin.
When your friend is married put
Your good wisheS into the shape of an
old English saving: ..One year Of JOY.
another OF comfort, and all the rest OF
contcnt.-N T. HeraN.
Extract from letter from Angeli-
ca: ''Dear Henry. you ask if | return
your love. Yes. Henry. have no use
for it. and return it with many thanks.
By-by, Henry. ~. !. Gruphl'.
The man who can thoroughly en-
Joy himself at a fashionable reception
after discovering the bow of his white
tie is under his left ear i superior to the
pOmps and van ties OF this wicke.l world.
-Chicdgo Times.
1t is a sight worthy OF an artists
cravOn to see 4 woman. while talking
through Il telephon" to her grocer three
miles away, stamping her little foot and
shaking her fist Is though the poor man
was GUailing right before her, IoRtcrS
Statesmen.
Trust men and they will be true tC
yOu.' says Emerson. We showed this
TO Il respectable grocer. lie grew livid
with rare. seized 4 club. and wanted tC
know where that Emerson fellow lived.
There was mischief in that grocer's
cy,. We did not tell him. B1riiTQt0H
HaWkcye.
washington Irving once said to Il
lady: Don't be ANXIOUS about the ed
ucation of your daughters: they will dc
very well: don't teach them so many
things: teach them one thing" What .
is that. Mr.. Irving" she asked. Teach .
Them he said. Ito be easily pleased /.
". J. Grapiic.
ANY thing that is worth doing Is .
worth doing well" Remember this, .
young man. when YOU are cOurting
girl. and don't sit looking at her with .
your thumb in your mouth when she ,
feels faint and needs your strong arm &c !
support her. Waist no time, but seize .
tie opportunity-and the girl.-Detroit
Free Press.
flood morning, children" said an
Austin physician. rs he met three OF .
four little children on their way to .
I 4
ing?" I'VE darsn't tell you,' replied
the Oldest OF the crowd. 4 boy of eight.
.'Dare not tell me, exclaimed the ply
stefan, land why EOt?' Cause, papa
sail that last year il cost him over fifty
dollars to have Won come in and ask us
how we We're = Trra& SJtingS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
UNDER SHRJUDS OF SNOW.
Iycnty-SevCn Lives Lost and Immense
Damage Done to Mining Property in Col.
Oraio by AvalanciIes of Snow.

DENVER. c ~, Dec. IS.
\ special dispatch from Telluride, Col,
dated the 2ith, via Montrose 26Jh, states
that about noon on Monday a snow-sl;de
came down in the Marshall basin and car
ried off the shaft-house of the Mendoza
Mine, which at the time of the accident
contained fourteen men. Eight of the &C.
cupants We're killed outright. Four sue
ceeded in digging themselves out, aud
these four. subsequently rescued the two
r manning men in a badly injured condi
ton. As the telephone wires from the
mine 20 the camp were in damaged con
dit!on the news was not received in the
camp until five O'Clock that afternoon, and
then only these few meagre details were
given. A large number of men immedi-
ately left for the scene of the disaster. But
as yet they have not been heard from. 1t
has been showing for Il week, and it is now
over four feet dep on the level. The pres.
ent storm is the most extensive and dam
aging OF any ever known in that region. 4
stage-Jlriver who had made his way on
foot over the surrounding country reports
that twenty-s2ven men have lost their lives
by snow-slides within the last few days,
while tie damage to mining proper
ty is enormous. Two men named
Gunter and Peck were killed
by a snowslide at the Nevada mine, also
al Telluride. The latest Information from
Opi.ir and Ames, neighboring towns. re-
ports that the maii-carrIer from Silverton,
who was due on Friday, had not been
heard from and lie is supposed to have
been lost and persisted III making an at
tempt to cross the range. The Mendoza
mine is the most promising IN the San
Miguel mining district of the San Juan. IL
employed the largest force OF men, and was
one of the few mines which continued work
during the winter months. There is the
greatest interest here to learn the names of
the unfortunate miners, as some of them
have families living in Denver.
a special received AZ one o'clock this
morning gives the names or killed at the
Mendoza mine as follows: j. II. Bond. c.
5. Hcrrick, Thomas Dunnegan, VIM. Tay-
lOr, john Davis, VIM. Applewhite, F.. Sla-
ter and L-wis HutchinS. The latter lived
about twelve hours after being rescued.
Thomas Nheatly was found about twelve
feet under the SNOW, with his leg broken,
but still alive, and it is expected that he
will recover. H. was buried fOrty-SiX
hours. Two men, Joseph FrelinghuySen
and James Burns, We're found dead to-day
by George Pohivar in the Goldhug cabin.
\ slide struck this cabin on Friday and
moved the cabin about 100 feet. Many
more accidents are known to have occur
red, and an excited crowd is around the
telephone office. the only means of COM
municatiUn, all day.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
A FRiGHTFUL EXPERIENCE.
The Sufferings of the Crew of the Barb
Mohawk in Long Island Sound During o
Recent Blizzard.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Dec. ef.

Aecent Blizzard.
NEW HAVEN, CONN, Dec aG.
The crew of the bark Mohawk, OF Quebec.
Captain Grassland, met WITH a terrible ex.
perience while passing through Long
Island Sound. The vessel sailed from New
York Saturday night, bound for Calcutta,
laden with a choice cargo of merchandise,
and while passing through the sound was
in chage or Pilot John O'Brien. The crew
consisted of Captain Grassland, three
mates, two stewards and thirteen sailors,
made up of Irishmen, Norwegians and
japanese. To-day nine of these men lie in
New Haven Hospital, suffering from the
effects of frozen feet, hands, ears and faces
The injuries OF three are so severe that it is
feared amputation will be necessary. Sun
day was n terribly bitter day, and Pilot
OBrien says that during his thirty years.
experience he never saw anything like it.
The wind was north, and an icy blizzard
set in. The pilot lost his reckoning from
the steam minglinS with the ice and SNOW,
which converted the atmosphere into an
lmpcnetrabie III st. An effort was made to
reach this port. The ship was covered
with ice and snow. None among the crew
escaped iroSt-biteS, and some of them were
so badly frozen that their limbs refused to
respond to duty. Several OF the crew were
sent aloft 10 loosen sail. They crowded up
the slippery rigging onto the long
arms of the loreyard. The work
was nearly completed when, with
Wild shrek which chilled the frozen
veins of all. one of them slipped
from the icy rope on which he was stand
ing and fell headlonS to the deck. thirty
feet below. He died three hours atterward
from broken hack. The suffering of the
crew was terrible. When the weather
moderated yesterday, the frost began to
ooZe from the bodies of the unfortunateS.
As the frost worked ont the frozen skin
would puff up and fill underneath, so
that their hands and feet looked like great
bags Of water. Their agony was such
that they We're unable to sleep. and there
was nothing on board to relieve their pain.
Owing to the storm of Monday an anchor
age was impossible, and it was found when
al attempt was made to clear away a boat
that there were not enough able-bodied men
to man the boat. The Mohawk finally
reached New Haven harbOr yesterday, and
after perilnuS trip in a light boat. Pilot
O'Brien reached there ami notified Health
Officer Lindsay o, the distress on board,
and reached the vessel this morning, and
the disabled sailors We're taken TO the hos
pital. Coroner Boltman visited the vessel
on n tug. and viewed the remains of Sonita
Ogete, who was killed by the fall. He is Il
Phillipian, and will be buried here. Those
injured are John kimbe, Japanese: Toms
Diy, Japanese; Frank Silva, Portuguese;
James J. Hoped. Dane; Charles Fortune,
French: Henry Bache, German; Joseph
HuSta, German, and Peter Flores, Domn-
70. No such terrible experience in Long
Island Sound has been euualled for fifty
years.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
A Fiery Visitant During Mass.

DCBUGUE. IA, Dec. 81.
While RI. Rev. Bishop Hennessy was
celebrating pontifical high mass Christmas
morning the lighted candles on the altar iH
some mysterious manner set fire to some of
the fabrics, and in few moments the altar
was in flames, projecting to tie height of
about ten feet. For a time it seemed that
the whole cathedral would be enveiOped in
the flames. Tie jauitor aud attending
priests quickly removed the burning fabrics
and after much difficulty and labor the
flames were eXtingtl,s ed and a disastrous
panic averted. The church was crowded.
Mass was proceeded with after the blaze
was extingushed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.

TX a recent interview, ex-senator Spencer
stated to a Washington correspondent
that the investigation of the star-route
trials by Congress would be urged, his
object being to learn why some persons
were tried and others were not, and why so
much money was paid the Government at
torneys. Dorsey was but small fry in the
star.route cases; there were Western men
deeper in than he.
JUDGE WYLIE discharged ex-senator
Spencer, arraigned at Washington for con-
tempo, owing to an informality of the sub
pGna.
Mr.. BLAND, Chairman of the Committee
on Coinage, Weights and Measures, is said
to favor recoining trade dollars into stand
ard, and thinks the issuing of the latter
should not be stopped. he is also of the
opinion that a mint ought to be established
in the Mississippi Valley.
The wife of General II osecrans died at
Washington a few days since. after n
lingering illness.
THE Secretary of the Interior has ordered
Inspector Benedict, Agent Tufts and Special
Agent Townsend to proceed at once to Mus
kogee, Indian Territory, to investigate the
Greek troubles arising from the recent cleo
ton of Chief, and make recommendations
looking to settlement The recommenda-
ton will form the basis of final action of
the Interior Department. The gentlemen
above named are instructed to inform the
Greeks that the Department will, If neces
sary, inforce the action recommended.
THE House Committee on Appropriations
held a meeting recently and decided to
prepare, if possible, Pension, Fortifica-
ton. Consular and Military Academy APP
preparation bills during the recess, so as
to be presented to the House when Con-
gress assemblies.
IT is said that Perry Belmont has got
splendid new house in Washington, and is
having it fitted up in a manner to make
Vanderbilt enyious.
THE issue of standard silver dollars for
the week ended December sd was Si16,jO0.
THE first five months of the present fiscal
year the total internal collections were
So, 279, 4SS, being S11,34S.911 less than the
corresponding period last year. In spirits
the total increase of collections were ST.
OATH; fermented liquors, increase, $780,
SSS; total decrease of collection in taxes
on tobacco, S9,191, COL; from banks and
bankers, S10,6S2 ,921; miscellaneous taxes,
S3,6o6,231.
A PETITION requesting Congress to pre-
vent the Importation of foreign laborers
under contracts made abroad was said to
be receiving many signatures of working
men in the mining and manufacturing dis
tricts of Pennsylvania
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
THE EAST,

WILLIAM HATFIELD, an escaped convict
from Michigan, was arrested recently at
Malone, n. Y, by Sheriff Stockwell. Hat
field stabbed the Sheriff, also Allen Stock
well and wife. He was finally captured
after being shot through the thigh.
A sLE1GH1NG party, numbering fifteen
persons, went over an embankment at Mill
Village, Pa, recently, and James Krouch,
Charles Imshwaler, Mary Kutter, Caroline
Green and Mary Hessler were seriously
injured.
CAPEN, Superintendent of Schools at
Canton, R. J., and Joseph Morton were
killed by snow pillow on the Boston &
Providence Railroad the other morning.
II was reported that there were pros
poets of trouble in the bituminous coal dis
tricts Of Pennsylvania. Over fifteen
thousand miners have expressed willing
ness TO cooperate and assist in a general
strike.
r S. SMITH & Co., of Providence, r. l.,
have assigned. The firm operated two cot
ton mills In Provid ence, two in Johnstown
and one IN Woonsocket, in all $1,000 spin
dies. TIE failure involves the suspension
of tie Providence Steam Mill Company.
Grafton Manufacturing Company and the
franklin Manufacturing Company. The
total Indebtedness of the firm is about
SI.1O0,"ol. The company's property will
be sold and the proceeds divided among the
creditors.
J. P. DEHL, formerly Collector of Gus.
toms at Philadelphia, was found dead in
bed at Jersey City, n. j., recently. Coal
oasis believed to have been the cause of his
death.
The Free Thinkers Convention met al
Salamanca, n. V, the other evening. There
was a large attendance. Among the
speakers present were ex-Rev. Burnham,
Kansas.
THREE men while recently digging coal
near Girardville, Pa, were buried by fall.
ing earth. One was fatally and the others
seriously injured
A RECENT dispatch from Hanover. Ger.
many, stated that Colonel Henry X. Rath-
bone killed his wife and committed suicide.
They were connected with the most prom
inent families of Albany, n. Y. She was a
daughter of ex-United States Senator
Harris.
The number of failures in New York
City in 1888 was 343; liabilities, SO, So, S43;
actual assets, 1884, AL.
HEAVY snow storms lately blockaded
travel and interrupted Geographic COM
nunication in the Northern and Eastern
States.
IT was currently reported that three
thousand employees of the National Tube
works Company at McKeesport, Pa, will
accept the reduction of from twelve to
twenty-five per cent. announced to take
place soon.
ARTHUR g. CURRIER was probably fatal
ly shot by Lena West in a bar-room at
Newburyport, Mass, on Christmas night
The woman knocked Curriers' hat off,
when he pushed her away. Then she shot
him.
A FEW nights since General Grant while
stepping from carriage at his residence
in New York, slipped and fell on the side
walk and was reported badly hurt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
Run Down by n Train.

HOUSTON, TEX. Dee. 20.
ThiG afternoon f. T. Lewis, conductor,
had IA hand-car and three men on the Inter-
national and Great Northern Road, return
ing to town, having been repairing n wire
fence. While near Old Summit, wOr;
train, consisting of an engine and caboose,
ran into them, killing one white man, badly
wounding negro and another white man,
and seriously iniuring Lewis. A passen-
ger-train brought the victims to town, and
the wounded were sent to the hospital. The
negro recovered CONSEQUENCES momeutari-
ly, and gave his name as Henry Bentley.
The wounded white man died soon after he
arrived az the hospital.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-04
Fracas at q Christmas Festival,

FULTON, Mo-, Dee. 20.
At the Richland Church, about six miles
north of town, the negroes had festival
and oyster supper last evening. Every
thing passed off quietly till about ten
O'Clock, when the peaceable crowd was con-
verted into mob. Clubs, razors and pis.
tolls filled the air, rendered hideous by
screams and profanity. Sam Bruner, Dave
Brown, Sim Leach and Geo. White taking
active parts. Bruner was struck over the
head with a club and taken from the church
for dead, but came to life after a time. He
was reported dead this morning. A num-
Der of others received slight injuries.