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The National tribune., 1884-09-18
TAKE TIMELY ACTION.

We reprint herewith the favorable recon-
mendations made to Congress last March by the
Pension Committee of the Grand Army of the
Republic. These recommendations were pre-
pared after long aud full consideration of the
subject, and they undoubtedly express the best
thought of representative soldiers upon the
equities due from the Government to its de-
Tenders, and the best way in which Congress
sional action can be directed to relieve the
necessities of deserving comrades They re-
ceived the unqualified sanction of the Order at
its National Encampment, and are, therefore
the expression of the whole body of the GAR
in the Nation. There is no doubt that they also
represent the views of the great body of sol
diers not yet in the Order, and of the mass of
people Of the United States who strongly favor
justice, if not generosity, toward those who
fought the war through. The recommendations
are as follows:
70 DC Honorable, aic Seaaors and Representatives u,
C0Rgress.
GENTTEsIES: The undersigned beg leave to re-
specially represent 10 YOU
Isl. That they comprise The Committee on
Pensions OF The national body of the Grand Army
Of the Republic and that this committee was nsti-
tuted Cor the express purpose of having some
oenized medium through which The Grand Army
conid officially address the Congress of the United
States.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
THE EAST.

MISS BLANcH TILToN, a young lady Of
Philadelphia, who died recently; by he,
will, ordered her remains to be ere.
mated.
In the United States Court at Pittsburgh,
Pa, John Fowler was appointed receiver
o. the Shenango & Allegheny Railroad.
An independent Republican State Con.
vention assembled at Providence, r. l.,
with delegates representing half the State.
Hon. George H. Corless was nominated for
Governor.
REPORTER of the Philadelphia Press
recently arrested Henry C. Gordon, a
prominent spirituaiist, while in the act of
materializing persons" at his rooms. Cor.
don was caught enrobed in all his parapher.
MALTA.
THE exports, exclusive of specie, from
New York, for the week amount to SC, I07..
206, against 1888, 400 for the previous
week, and S, As, $50 for the corresponding
week last year. Total exports since Janu-
airy /, ST. s9s, AIS, against SIS, ,52S for the
same period last year.
1t was reported that the coal operators
of the Monographs and Youghiogheny
Rivers have combined to reduce wages
one-fourth of cent at each pool.
TIE heaviest lot of hogs ever slaughtered
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BREAD CAST ON THE WATERS.
Returning After Many Days-Grateful
kansans Send of their Abundance to Their
Flood-Impoverished Bretheren of the
Ohio Ealley-The Grasshopper Train.

ST. Louis, Mo-, March 20.
a freight train consisting of thirty-one
cars, heavily laden with corn, the gener-
Gus donation of Sedgewick County, Kas.,
to the Ohio food sufferers, reached St.
Louis over the Chicago & Alton Line this
afternoon, and will remain at Clark ave-
nue. ard Eighteenth street until morning.
In the way of a contribution this is the
most novel thing seen in this country,
and its progress from Wichita, Has, has
been marked by demonstrations all along
the route, at Lawrence, Kas there being
5000 people out to see it pass through,
while at Mexico, Mo-, it was hon.
ored with torchlight reception. Each
car has an immense canvas cartoon on
each side, painted in colors, representing
grasshoppers in all sizes and manners
of performances, the most attractive
being pair of hoppers astride
huge ear of corn on a wagon driving four
of the insects, while in front is a sign
board with the inscription, ITO the Ohio
Valley" 1t is all illustrative of the graft
tude felt by that section of Kansas for the
generosity shown by the people now suf-
tlC hOOtS, WLeu hdHSiS
was Frustrated by the grasshopper
scourge in 1874. This plan of recip-
rocating the kindness took form March |
l, and by the 18th the entire train
had been loaded; but contributions |
were so numerous that the surplus |
was sold for $500, and an imperative stop |
put to any further donations, as they |
could not be handled. The train |
has been given free characterization, QUAR-
the Santa Fe, Chicago & Alton and Ohio |
Mississippi Roads, and it is expected |
will reach Cincinnati Saturday night and |
be delivered to the Board of Trade on /
Monday. 1t is thought the sale of the
corn will realize about $4,000. Those
who are attending the train are Mayor
Grifenstein, of Wichita; W. S. White,
Beacon; Major W. T. levitt, represent
ing the farmers; Prof. Norvall, decorator
of the A, T. & S. F.; T. j. Shelton,
Wichita Times
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
TIE MT. PULASKI TRAGEDY.

Cory Evidence Of the Triple BIuSler, Con.
cealed for Two Years, Brought to Light to
Aid in UnraveliDg the 8Iystery-The Arti.
cles Identified rs Having Belonged to Ono
of the Parties Now In Custody.
BLOOMINGrON. ILL.,, March 81
Detective Press Butler, of Bloom
ington, divulged to your correspondent q
most important clew to the perpetrator
of the horrible murder of McMahon,
Matheny and Carlock at Mt. Pulaski in
August, 1882. Soon after the triple
tragedy, farmer, living not far from the
scene, discovered in the hedge upon his
farm shirt and overalls of q peculiar
checked pattern, which were a mass of
gore. The pants were thoroughly sat-
urated with blood from the knees down.
and splashed with stains in other parts.
as well also as the shirt. The farmer.
whose name for prudential reasons the
detective will not divulge, had
his attention directed to the
bloody garment by his dog, which.
scented the gore and nosed out the spot.
The farmer took the clothing home and
laid 1t away, and has said nothing about
the matter, fearing to become suspected
by dangerous and murderous men. Butler,
it was, who caused the arrest of WIN.
Hoaglin, now i'm the Lincoln Jail, and who
accuses that man and his brother Eugene,
still uncaptured, of the Mt Pulaski MUIR
ders. At the time of the murder, VIM.
Hoaglin worked for neighbor of the
man who found the bloody garments, and
to go home from the scene of the murder
must have passed the hedge. He has
since worked for the man who made this
discovery. Butler says that previous to
the murders VIM. Hoaglin wore suit of
oyeralls of the same peculiar check.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
A Categorical Inquiry.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Ms oh &c.
A dispatch was received yesterday from
the Chief Veterinarian of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, as follows:
KINsLEY, KAs., March 10, 1884.
To DR.. JOHN II. RAUCH, Secretary ILL.,
nois State Board of Health-Foot and
mouth disease at NeoSho Falls not
spreading: no contagious disease aDong
cattle in counties further west.
d. Z. SALMON.
This is the first authoritative intima-
ton that true foot and mouth disease ex-
lists anywhere in this country west of
Maine, where it was introduced direct
from England. There is certainly none
in Illinois, and in the hope that DIR.
Salmon's dispatch may have been injudI-
ciously worded, Governor Hamilton has
caused the following categorical ques-
tons to be telcgraphed him: "Have yol
found veritable foot and mouth disease
anywhere? If so, to what extent? In
what localitieS?"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28

A Reverend Drug Dispenser Endeayors to
Increase his WO,lily Wealth by Robbins
Confiding Friends-His Penchant for Quiz
nine Leads to His Detection.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, March2I.
A sensation was created here yesterday
by the arrest of j. Il. johnson at the in
stance of Sam j. Smith G Co., wholesale
druggists. Johnson was for four years
connected with the house as salesman
and year or two ago went to Colorado
and opened drug store of his own. He
has two drug stores in that State He
spends his summers in Colorado and his
winters at his home in this city. He
makes the house of Smith & Co. his head
quarters and sells to country merchants
when they come to town. He is a
Christian preacher, young, very devout
and apparently as spoticss as babe.
Owing to his good name, he vas given
the privilege of the store. a few days
ago they began to think that certain ar
ticles of drugs, such as quinine, NOR
phine, and other valuable goods, were
disappearing too fast. One clerk sus-
pccted johnson. A detective was put or
his track, and Wednesday, this detective
declares, he saw him put some quninc I'm
his pocket and leave the store. He was
followed, and went to secluded room,
where he remained a short time, after
which he emerged and went to his home.
In the morning his private room was Wis
tied, and over $500 worth of the firms
quinine found concealed. A memoran-
DUN showed that he had shipped over
$4,000 worth of goods from that room
to his Colorado stores. He was arrested
and offered to give the firm $4,000 to
hush the matter up. He is at liberty |
and the firm is considering what to do. |
He acknowledges $4,000, and they fear
this Is not the half. He has young
family, living in the eastern part of the |
city in style, and the family moves in the
best circles. He is superintendent of the
Christian Sunday School, and no man in
the city stood higher or was more
He is pretty well-to-do. The.
robbery has been kept as quiet as posi-
BILE, but it has leaked out.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE House Committee on Agriculture
authorized favorable report to be made
on the bill to allow any person to manufac.
ture wine or brandy out of apples, peaches,
grapes and other perishable fruit raised by
himself or his tenants free from any inter.
nal revenue tax or restrictions.
SPEAKING of the new fast mail, Post
master General Gresham said: "We are
simply using the means at our command to
give the public the best possible service.
The new fast service has not cost the pub
lie dollar more than the old service did
The people will get the improved facilities
without additional cost"
PRESIDENT ARTHUR entertained General
Grant at the White House the other even.
ing.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
agreed to report favorably bill to author
ize the return of the residue of the Chinese
indemnity fund to China.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
Over a Game of ssDrav.n
CHICAGO, ILL.,, MAJ

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March IS.
Dispatches report the occurrence OF a
fearful tragedy at Big Bottom, near Hats
burg, Tenn, last night, the most bloody
that has startled this community since the
war. j. E. Gossett, W. G. Crockett, and
q man who called himself "Hammer-
head" were playing draw poker. The
stakes were very heavy and all the men
were slightly intoxicated. "Hammer-
head' was raising his opponents out of
the game, and when accused of cheating
he drew q revolver and shot Gossett and
Crockett dead. He was arrested by
Captain Curenach and is now in jail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
A Foregone Conclusion.

CHICAGO. ILL, March u.
A special from Salt Lake City says: An
drew Petersons, Mormon ex-Congress-
man indicted in 1882 under the Edmunds
law for voting, is on trial to-day. Seven
polygamist Mormons are on the jury with
consent Of Chief Justice Hunter. Ore
has three wives. All seven swore they
believed the divine law superior to the
laws of Congress, and believed polygan:
right and revealed from Heaven. Defend
ant admits his marriage, according to
Mormon law, but says it was proxy for
eternity and not for time.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
A Race for q Railroad.

MINNEAPOL!S, MINI, March 20.
A meeting of the prominent business
men of Brainerd was held last night to
project railroad from Brainerd to Mile
Laos Lake. The plan is to cooperate
with the enterprise of the State road
from Leech Lake to Mile Laos via
Brainerd, now building, using the sam,
right of way from here to the Lake, and
if possible, joining with the ST. Paul,
Brainerd & Grand Forks system. The
movement is fastened by the discover
that st. Louis syndicate, under the
management of b. Graft Brown, has
secured Il right of way for the same pur-
pose.
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carry out such a system as the emer-
gency now upon the State requires
learn from the State Treasurer
that but a small amount of money is ON hand
available for such purposes. In that case it
might be advisable to provide for issuing
bonds of the State of the necessary amount.
at rate of interest not exceeding I'VE per
cent, and limiting the actual issue to the
amount that might be required from time to
time to meet necessary expenditures. If de-
cisive and heroic action ia taken at once,
before stock are turned on pastures, the dis
ease may be eradicated; If not, the conse-
quences may be disastrous in the extreme.
But feel confident you will be equal to the
emergency.
Knowing that you would be called here at
an inconvenient time of the year. and that
you would be DESTROYS of ending your labors
in the shortest possible time, l have asked
Major Sims, Secretary Of the State Board Of
Agriculture, Hon. s. o. Thatcher, Hon. James
ID. Snoddy, and Veterinary Surgeon A. A.
Holcombe to prepare bills covering matters
which you were convened to consider. They
cheerfully complied with my request, and the
result of their labors will be submitted to you
for your consideration G. W. CLICK
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, TOPEKA, March
IT, 1854
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28

| In New Jersey was slaughtered recently al
wrightgtown, amid tho awful clangor Of Q
brass band, the salvos Of artillery and the
shouts of thousand people. The twenty
three hogs when hung up averaged s1s
pounds, the highest weighing $50 pounds
and the heaviest 1850 pounds.
Ar Erie, Pa, q sensational slopemeni
was frustrated, recently, the lady being
Mrs. Biffin, q young married woman OF
good family, and the man an illiterate col.
ored youth employed as a hod carrier.
PEOPLE of Mahoney City, Pa, are pro-
testing against the New York emigration
agencies sending them Hungarians.
LAWRENCE BARRETT has sailed for Liver.
pool.
The hop, skip, and jump record OF
twenty-eight feet three and half inches
was beaten at the New York Athletic Club
exhibition by NJ. W. Ford, who scored
twenty.nine feet two and half inches.
MADAME ANNA BISHOP, once a famous
singer, died suddenly in New York of apo
plexy recently.
JAMES DONOVAN, a burglar, catured by q
Boston policeman, tripped the officer and
beat him with club he took out of the pc
liceman's pocket. The policeman, however,
succeeded in drawing his revolver and
shot Donovan dead. F1sk-
JOHN DILLMAN, wife murderer, of Eas-
ton, Pa, pleading insanity, has been found
sane by a commission and ordered for exc
cution April Sth.
CHARLIE LANGHEIMER, well known as
Chickens Dutchman," died recently in
Philadelphia. He was seventy-five years
old, and had spent fifty years of that time
in prison.
THE Republican State officers of Rhode
Island have been re-nominated.
LONGS tobacco warehouse at Mannheim,
Pa, was burned recently. Loss, S35 600.
FIVE of the officials of New York City
have been indicted by the grand jury. The
charges comprise forgery, perjury, extor-
ton and theft.
THE New York Coffee Exchange was
again excited over a refusal to readmit the
Brazilian firm of Wolff & Seligsburg, who
had suspended. A further decline took
place.
FRANCIS W. WHITAKER recently Sc
cured a verdict against the Harlem Railroad
Company for 900 for the loss of his arm.
An explosion of sulphur in the Enter
prise colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa, in
stantly killed Carl Yakubokoskey, Seach-
airy Younger and Peter Spoloskey. The
brattice work and other timber in the mine
was badly shattered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
"Never, Since the Days of Bolingbroke."

IVNDVN, -IdrCU e.
The Daily Ne,es, discussing the
probable dissolution of Parliament
and urging the Liberals to be
read" to take action at a moments
notice, says: "Never since the
days of Bolingbroke has England seen a
great party so INSCRIPTIONS and unpa-
triotic as the opposition, which take every
advantage of the difficulties of the Gov
eminent and allies itself with any cause
or party which promises to embarrass the
Cabinet. Sir Stafford Northcote is not
the originator of these tactics, but be
wipkS ut them"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
ENER Al.

The Ultramontanes have notified Bis
marck that they will oppose the measure to
extend the operations of the anti-social.
ist laws, unless the law exiting certain
Catholic clergy be repealed and exiles re.
calleds
A CAIRO dispatch says telegraphic COM
munication beyond Berber is still cut off.
The Bedouins are massing at points on the
Nile. They have already occupied the re-
gion about Sabooka Cataract and block
AIDED the river at that place. The Batak.
heer tribes are preparing to attack Shendy.
Crown PRINCE GUSTAV has been ap-
pointed Viceroy of Norway.
The bill legalizing the Orange Society
was defeated in the Canadian Parliament.
ADMIRAL LEssoFFoKY, commander of the
Russian squadron in American waters
during the civil war, is dead.
THE ravages of locusts at Ticul, Yucca
tan, are causing a genera! emigration of
the people, and have paralyzed all indus
tries.
ADMIRAL HEWITT has withdrawn his re-
ward of FL 900 for Osman Digna's head.
THE French have decided to readiust the
frontiers of Tonquin.
BUSINESS failures last week: United
States, 116; Canada, 81; total, 2l3: as
against PIG last week. The failures are ex-
ceptionally few in the Western and Pacific
States, and in New York City. Some de.
crease in Canada
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
THE LATEST.

| 1RfE LATEST.
THE Kansas Legislature, on the ODD
made considerable progress with tn
various bills relating to cattle diseases A
conference committee has agreed to a bill
for the protection of domestic animals
which will be presented Immediately &c
both Houses.
! The Democrats of Kansas City have
nominated the following persons for city
officers: Mayor, Leander J. Talbot;
Treasurer, Lewis B. Eveland; Auditor
John Conlon; City Attorney, John ].
Campbell; Recorder, Charles NJ. Ingraham
Supervisor of Registration, George Selman
SIX childrea from the village of Vallonia,
Pa, went out in search of sugar water.
Not finding any the boys tapped some kind
OF tree with a pocket knife and all the
children slipped the juice and all were taken
sick. George Custy, aged ten, died. Three
others expected to die.
A SERIOUS conflict of authority is threat.
ened at Gallipolis, O., between the United
. States Marshal and the State officers. The
Western Union is involved, and the dispute
is over the right of way across a bridge.
NUMBER of important Nihiist arrests
were made at kieff, Russia, recently. One
officer wa. mortally wounded while assist
ing in making the arrests. 1t is rumo red
that dGaeffe, the leader of the party who
murdered Suderkein, is among the pris.
oners.
The funeral of General Godfrey Weitzel,
at Spring Grove, Cincinnati, the 23rd, was
veE:v numerously attended.
70 -
I'D. The House debated the Bonded Ex-
tension bill and adjourned without action.
The French Communists, Russian Mill
lists and German Socialists united in cele-
brating the thirteenth anniversary of tie
Paris Commune at New York on the a3d.
Herr Most and Victor Drury were the
speakers.
JOE FOSTER, the gambler who was
wounded at the time King Fisher and Ben
Thompson were killed at the Vaudeville
Theater in San Antonio, Tex, has died of
his injuries.
The New York bank statement for the
week shows an increase of nearly 50 ,Oo0,.
600 in the reserve.
The Pension Appropriation bill reported
to the House appropriates SIC, 1884 400 out of
the revenue, and reappropriates $66,OOO,O0O
of expended pension balance.
A TACOMA, W. T., special says fire is
raging in the New Castle coal mines, the
most valuable belonging to the Oregon I'M
provement Company. The mine has been
on fire for eighteen months. The fact that
it had obtained mastery over the manage
ment has been concealed.
In. e, . H.
Turkey has complained to the United
States Government Of Minister Wallace's
recent conduct.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
THE SOUTH.

ROBERT SMALLs, colored Republican
was elected in the Seventh Congressional
District of South Carolina to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of E. w.
Mackay. There was no opposition.
THE river at New Orleans was up to high
water on the 18th.
MRS. ALsoP, of Louisville, KY, gave
opium to her four children in mistake for
powdered rhubarb. Two died and the
others are in a doubtful state of recovery.
GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON, of Georgia,
has invited the Ex.Confederate soldiers,
now in New York, to meet him for a con.
ference with a deputation from the Grand
Army of the Republic in the interest of a
home for disabled Confederate soldiers.
This movement is in aid of the one Inaugural
ted at Richmond.
MANY important levees between Vicks-
burg and Baton Rouge are in imminent dam
ger. Great efforts are making by the
Federal, State and parochial authorities,
and the people along the river, to prevent
further breaks and hold the levees now
standing.
The Maryland House of Delegates laid
on the table a bill prohibiting the sale
of Western slaughtered beef in the Balti-
more market, by vote of sixty-six yeas to
eleven nays.
RUDOLPH and Camp Fitzpatrick were
hung at Columbia, KY, recently, for the
brutal murder of Miller Brewster.
AN effort is being made to consolidate at
Dallas the cattle interests of North Texas.
A mass meeting has been called.
SERIOUS breaks are reported in the
Louisiana levees.
MRS. JOHN SMITH, of jackson County,
Ca, filled pot with water, put it,on the
fire, and when it began to boil, plunged her
head into it and died from the act.
H. L. DOUGLAS, United States Engineer
in charge of Hard Times levee on the Lower
Mississippi, writes for 1900 sacks, as the
is critical, and six inches more
water or rain would break the levee. Boats
are requested to keep to the other side of
the river opposite the levee. as there is
great danger of a break at any time.
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by collision recently. Four persons were
slightly injured.
JUDGE GARDNER, in the Supreme Court
of Illinois, decided against the validity Of
the Chicago ordinance requiring commits
sion merchants to pay an annual license of
SIS.
COLONEL MAPLEsoN, of Her Majesty's
Opera, was found guilty at San Francisco
Of violation Of the city fire ordinance by
blocking the aisles Of the Grand Opera
House.
The river at Yankton, Dakota, is on a
serious rise. Farmers are leaving the low
lands.
An epidemic is raging among cattle in
the vicinity of Rockford, Ill. They are
suddenly i'll at night and in the morning
are dead. The bodies are terribly bloated.
Quite number have died.
G. b. MUGGY suicided at the Bell House
at Manitou, Col, recently, by sending a
bullet through his brain. He was found
dead in his room with a revolver by his
side, and letter on the floor, showing that
the act had been premeditated. He was
one of the proprietors Of the hotel, and
formerly came from Ottawa, o.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
A REGULATING PARSON.

Reverend Drug Dispenser Endeavors to
Increase his VOL lily Wealth by Robbins
Confiding Friends-His Penchant for Oui-
nine Leads to His Detection.