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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
FACTS AND FIGURES.

California Is at present producing
not far from $l8,000,0OO of gold and
silver bullion annually.-San francisco
Call.
Three of New York's leading life
insurance companies have written $780,
900, 600 of new insurance the past year.
M Y. Tribune.
"A Denison CTex.) thief stole
peach tree which had been planted in
front yard. He pulled it up by the roots
and carried it Off
The Niagara Suspension Bridge is
1850 feet long. that at Kief, Russia. is
2.562 feet, and that between New York
and Brooklyn $3.50 feet.--Bufalo En-
press.
Over "a, GOO of the 4,44O, 1922 pieces
of mail matter that were sent to the
Dead-Letter Office last year contained
checks, money, ETC., to the amount OF
about 81 ,O3o, 0O0.- Washington Star.
The State of New York gave its
paupers 81, 1853. 175.17 in 1883, of which
New York and Brooklyn paid $780,
1857. The whole number of the re-
lieved was 135, 154, of whom $1,000 in
round numbers were natives and A, 900
Irish and 10000 German.-N. Y. Times.
Some Indian tribes have always
been Under the protection of the United
States, and the number has steadily in
creased with the progress of industry
westward. The total expenditure for
the maintenance of these tribes from
1889 to 1882 amounted to S203, 400, 443.
Chicago Inter Ocena.
The last census reveals the encsur-
aging fact that the pr portion of the
blind to the population has decreased
with each successive enumeration
since 1851, in which year account of
them was taken for the first time. The
decrease in the decade ended in 1881
was much greater than in ether of the
preceding decennial intervals, the num-
Der of cases returned on this latter oc-
casion being 1852, being equal to one
blind person in every l, 133.-Detroit
Post.
Statistics show that Tennessee has
at least 100000 dogs. The food for
each dog would raise one hundred
pounds of bacon, which would be 3d.
000. 900 pounds of bacon. This at ten
cents per pound, would be worth
SIS, 100000. This, is not all. These
dogs probably destroy $4,000 sheep.
worth two dollars per head, and they
prevent the raising OF Sl.000,OG0 worth
of wool and mutton that otherwise
would be raised. Thus it costs more
than "a, 100000 to feed these worthless
dogs. The food of these dogs would
feed 100000 able-bodied laborers, and
the wool lost would clothe 1,5O0, GOO
people. Chicago Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
WIT AND WISDOM.

1t is not the range but the depth Of
our experience which conviEces US.
He that judges, without informing
himself TO the utmost that he is capa-
BILE, can not acquit himself of Judging
amiss--I.ocke
A little fellow of five, with his first
boots on, being told that the baby
wanted to kiss him, replied: Yes, he
takes me for his papa!''
Lord Lytton spoke wisely when he
said that the stomach is the seat of
memory, for 4 man is not likely to for
get that he's hungry.
Fog complains that he got moth
ing by complaining to his landlord. 1t
was like putting new piece of cloth
into an old garment. The rent was
made worse.--B0stOn transcript
There is something exIuisitelv cool
in a Yankees reply to the European
traveller, when he asked him if he had
Just crossed the Alps: "Wall, now you
call my attention to the fact, guess !
did pass r.sin' ground"
-"Papa's Home Tonight is the title
of a new song. So the old man has
yielded at last. Let's sect must be
about fifteen years since they began to
coax him with Father, Dear Father,
Come Home. "-Chicaqo Herald.
Miss Gimps." said a lady to
another during Il recent call, ''why
don't YOU join the daughters of temper
ance?" cause" "Cause Why"
"Why -, why =" was the blush
ing reply. Il intend joining one of the
sons in month. Chic tqo Tribune.
The countcrleiting trade has been
dull during the year, the only danger
Gus piece being silver dollar. 1t is
when the $1,000 bill is successfully
counterIeited that the newspaper man
sufiers.-Gt City Derrick. Yes, it is
then he suffers the want of it.-Scissors.
More deaf than formerly.--Little
girl" Papa, did mamma say yes to
you right off when you asked her to
marry you?" faDa-'' Certainly she
DID," L. c." Why don't she say yes
now 'ust as quick when you ask her &c
do things Papa. Mamma's hearing
is not so good now, darling that all. a."
Philadelphia Gail.
- have more trouble than any llv-
ing man, or dead one, for that matter"
What's wrong now?" inquired a
friend. why, You see. about two
mon his ago l was trying to put a note
in bank" "Yes." well, now / am
trying to take it out. Just why there
should be trouble ut both ends of such
an affair l don't understand. Err
chance
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
WHAT The STORM DID.
Devastating Effects of Tuesdays Storm In
Alabama, >outh Carolina and Georgia.
Hundred or More Lives Lost, and Euin
Everywhere Visible In its Path.

Devastating Effects. OF Tuesdays Storm in
Alabama, >outh Carolina and Georgia.
Hundred or More Lives Lost, and Euin
Everywhere Visible in its Path.
COLUMBIA. S. C., Feb. 80
Specials to tho Daily Register Indicate
that the storm was fearful throughout the
State. At Chester the Baptist and co.ored
churches were blown down. The Presby
terrain Church tower and bell were blown
hundred feet. The cotton-seed .oil mill
buildings were partially demolished. Many
private residences and business houses
were damaged. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
At ID. D. Dickert's plantation. Newberry
County, hundred acres of original forest
was swept away. st. Matthew's Lutheran
Church was blown down. William H. FL
lers' residence was carried of, and he and
his child seriously injured. al tie plan
tarions were badly damaged. Several
large fires were observed in the track of
the storm.
Chappers Station was swept away; not
q house left. The wife ami Guild OF George
F. Read were badly hurt. Ms. Rosalie
Simpkins had an arm broken and colored
mans skull was crushed.
John Scarry's Residence was DESTROYED
and he and his wife and child hurt. Mrs.
David NJ. Dickeri's skull was fractured.
C. NJ. Stafford, Postmaster; Bozeman W.
Reed, and one or two Others We're in the
second story of Reeds store. Stafford was
killed; Bozeman had an arm and leg bro
ken, AMI Reed an arm and rib broken. 9th
ers were more or less GU NJ.
Eight loaded cars stan Ing on the track
we're carried forty yards and tern to
pieces.
A woman and child are reported killed at
Anderson.
In the lower part of Clarendon County
James Cuubage and Ben Baggetts child
were killed.
In Darlington County the dwelling of r.
w. Boyd was destroyed. himself seriously
injured and two neg oes Led.
The dwelling of Mr.. White, near Darling
ton Courthouse was blown down and hIm-
eel and wife killed.
Mrs. c. Edwards was seriously injured
In the all of her house. Six persons are
known to be killed in the county and tiltean
wounded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
G. ENERA

SIMON HOWARD, a wealthy merchant of
Evansville, Canada, was arrested recently
at Montreal on his bridal tour upon COM
plant of Miss Ann Howard, to whom he
had been engaged since 1872.
THE French Government has called the
attention of the English Cabinet to the
danger of an uprising and massacre at
Cairo if the English garrison is weakened.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH has again been
elected to the English Parliament.
THE police have seized a quantity of
Revolutionary prints in several of the sub
urbs of Vienna.
Troops are arriving at Suakim, Egypt,
so rapidly that an advance will be made
on Tokar probably Saturday. Two thou
sand men have mustered at Trinkitat. The
Military Council has decided to leave
] SO English soldiers at Suakim, sending
$500 to Trinkitat.
A GOVERNMENT crisis is imminent in the
Dominion of Canada.
ENGLAND has offered the Arctic steamer
Alert for use in the Greeley relief expedi-
ton.
STORMS on the coast of Great Britain
have caused considerable damage.
A FIRE at Charlottetnwr, Prince Ed
wards Island, destroyed 5000 600 worth of
prop.r'y.
CREE Indians threaten trouble in the
Northwest Provinces of Canada.
JOHN HULLAH. the we'll known English
musician, is dead.
THE London Times considers the Con-
gressional resolution regarding the death
of Herr LaSker as ill-adyised and Ris.
marck's treatment of it as ungracious.
ToKAR has been surrendered to the fol-
lowers of Ell Mahdi, the False Prophet.
The news created great excitement in Lon
don.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
Public Suicides in China.

The most barbarOus of all the death
rites which have been obs ,rved in China
was that OF immolating human beings
at tne tombs of the departed great As
high as one hundred and seventy-seven
men have been buried alive in the tomb
of a single individual. This horrible
custom does not prevail at all now. Of
course, but the same false and made
uuatc notions of the sacredness OF
human life do prevail universally. But
of all Chinese customs the most remark
able has been the prevalent, public,
fashionable sCic .dcs, conducted in pub
lie with every show of pOmp, and some
times actually under the general di-
rection of Mandarin. A gay process
sion would be formed and delighted
throng would follow the prospective
victim to a scailold which had been
erected with great care. The seats
commanding the best view of the sacri-
fee would be sold. and there would be
IL grand turnout OF the suiciding party's
friends. as well as OF the public at large.
Perhaps ii would be 4 young widow,
who had resolved to end her miserable
existence on account of the death OF her
husband, a widow not being privileged
to remarry in China. The occasion
would be treated as q regular holiday
by the natives. For time the woman
would chat pleasantly with her friends,
partaking of a beautiful feast with them
on the gallows. Then, having caressed
4 little child that was placed upon the
table before her, and adorned it with
necklace, she would take a basket of
flowers and scatter the blossoms gayly
among the crowd, after which She
would eheerfully place her head in the
moose and swing off into eternity. As q
rule suicides are nowadays performed
without such publicity, but they are
very common. Shanghai Cor. Raiiadel-
phia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
PITH AND POINT.

DE fust step toward spilin' chile Is
ter laugh an call him smart when he
sasseS yer.-Jncle RemuS
The peach crop is ruined. AS We
do not wish to repeat this news every
week cur readers will Flease bear it il
mind.-OH CITY Derrick.
81 wonder what has taken away
my appel t. for breakfast" asked 6
festive Eff h avenue man. II suspect il
was your happy tight last night, DEAR
replied b wife.-N. Y. JO.rnai.
A health writer says: ..Sleepless
people should court the sum-" If he
had only said daughter" thousands
would embrace the remedy whore one
will now only laugh at it.-M 7. Mail
The indianapolis Journal says that
the average citizen wants a lock with
four keyholes. Unless the average citi.
zen has improved of late, one keyhole
is usually about all he can find.-M y
Graptic.
Where are the Boston
.?lo5e. You drop into n church occa-
sional'y and you will see for yourself.
and not lead the world to suppose that
editors don know such things.-Chica-
go Inter-Ocedn.
"A certain poetess is said to make
good jellies As well as good poetry" 1t
is suggested that she also make a new
DEPARTURE. e., send her jellies to
newspaper offices and can her poems.
Jellies discount poetry as ''inS de mat
ter every tin.e.-Norristoun Herald.
..T.o-s ,o;l Mo;,;lI l.r;,,- ,yo,,x.
the paper. "fhat old finchnickle has
willed his property to Scroggins, the
saloon-keeper. Flows that? sup
posed that he left it all to his son Har-
ry." "WelI, he did. Butt was only
an indirect way of leaving it to Scrog-
gins. "-BostoB Transcript.
Cant you MANAGE to give my son
one of the prizes at the examinat on?"
asked 3 mother of teacher. mo,
madSn," was the reply; '.your son Will
stand no chance; he oDst nately persists
in idleness." 20. but them" exclaimed
the fond mother, ''if that's so. you can
give HIM a prize for perseverance. -
n. y. Post
IL say, Jim, you'd better 60 back
to the offi,e. They're busy as nailegs
to-day, and they were inquiring about
you as I came away" "Were they?"
replied Jim, coolly knocking the ashes
from his cigar. '.If they want me WHY
don't they come after me? The office
should seek the man, not the man the
Office. Chicago Herald.
IL was just reading your advertise
ment. DOCTOR" said Smith to the pro-
prietor of Jalap universal cure-all;
..you say that thousands are fastening
to their graves. DO you think. now,
honestly. that your medicines viii stop
them?' Doctor Jalap well. Tom,
between us, you know, don'tthink the
stuff will do them any good; but as they
are fastening out of the world, You
know. l might as well have their mon
ey as anybody else. They can't take it
with them, you know. "-Bostoa Tran
scr.pt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
THE LATEST,

ABOUT thirty passengers were injured
and one killed by the fall of bridge under
passenger train on the Hannibal & st.
Joe Railroad $40 miles east of Kansas City.
The train struck broken rail just before
reaching the bridge, which precipitated
the cars against the thin structure, causing
its collapse,
INGALLS, and johnson, the murderers of
the Taylor family near Cincinnati, have
confessed. They knocked their victims
down like cattle and then sold them to the
Ohio Medical College for SIS piece.
The Senate Committee on Territories has
agreed to report bill providing for the
admission as State of that portion of
Dakota south of the forty-sixth parallel.
The wind blew two coaches off the Col
orado Central track near Georgetown,
Colo, recently.
A DISPATCH from st. Paul, MIMI, states
that Yellow Calf with some seventy-five
braves, has taken possession Of the store
houses on Long Lake reserve. Colonel
Herchmer, with twenty policemen. went
20 restore order, but seeing the odds
against him, Withdrew.
CAPTAIN BERGMAN and the crew of the
wrecked ship, Lizzie Marshall have arrived
at San Francisco.
IT is expected that a Mexican Consul
Generalship will be established at either
st. Louis or Chicago.
In the House, on the 23i, Mr.. Foran re-
ported a bill prohibiting the importation
of foreigners under contract. A debate
took place on the pleuro-pneumonia bill,
L.
whole. The Senate was not in session.
JAMES BAswELL was killed by vicious
COW at his home in fancy County, Mo.
PEDRO MoNPALDU, Professor of Spanish
at the Naval Academy, was found dead at
Annapolis.
A CATHOLIC school burned at Kershena,
Wis. Seventy pupils and six sisters es.
capped in their night clothes.
BEHAN and Fehan, two of the men ar
rested for the recent riot at Hot Springs,
have been discharged from custody.
NEIL MCKAIGUE, young butcher, has
been arrested for the murder of the aged
Wilson couple at Winnetka, near Chicago,
last week.
THE failures last week in the United
States were 206; Canada, 40-as compared
with 29S of the previous week.
THE river is falling at Cairo, having in
fictej but little damage at that point.
SEVERAL lives were lost in a fire which
burnt down a number of buildings in Jack.
son, Mich, recently. Loss, $4,000; par
TALLY insured.
A CALL has been issued for a National
Convention of Wool Growers of the United
States, to meet at Chicago on the 9TH of
May next, in the general interests of that
industry.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
THE EAST.

TEN freight conductors were recently ar
rested at Springfield, Mass, who were en-
ployed on the Boston e. Albany Railroad,
charged with the wholesale theft of goods
from the Company. The wife of one who
had been dressing extensively told a
neighbor how she could afford such finery
berry.
The wire bridge at Apollo, Pa, parted
its cables the other day aud fell into the
river with q crash. A man and two horses
were drowned.
'FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa, has been infested
with highway robbers. The other day
number of the desperadoes were sur
rounded, and in the fight which ensued
Sheridan Monruth was fatally shot; the
Others escaped.
THE little town of West Lesenring, near
Uniontown, Pa, was recently the scene of
q shocking mine explosion from fire-damp.
About one hundred men were employed, of
whom about twenty were killed.
PEOPLE living in the mountainous re-
gions of Fayette County, Pa, have been
terrorized by band of highway robbers
and burglars, who made their headquarters
In the mountains and sailed forth at night
and frequently in broad daylight to plum
der. Two months ago Fair Chance Post
Office was robbed, and United States In
spectors have since been on the lookout for
the thieves. Early the other morning
members of the band were surrounded
while attempting to rob house, and in the
fight which ensued, Sheridan Monruth was
fatally shot. The others escaped. From
Monruth information was obtained which
led to the discovery of a mountain hiding
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
assault ON the wife of planter named

assault ON the wife of planter named
Gritty.
b. c. TURPIN and John Burnett, rival
sewing machine agents at Macon, Ga,
quarrelled recently, and Turpin was
stabbed to death.
A PARTY of fifteen raftsmen, returning
from the Licking River to their home in
Magofin County, KY, became involved in
q drunken fight. Elijah Lee was shot
dead and six others more or less seriously
wounded by stabbing.
NANCY Rowe, a prominent citizen, rode
up to the depot at Wharton, Tex, the other
morning, dismounted, stepped within three
feet of young fellow named Lewis Charl.
ton, leveled his gun and discharged load
of buckshot into Charlton's right side, kill
ing him instantly. Rowe Immediately
surrendered. He said Charlton insulted
Mrs. Rowe.
AT New Orleans, La, the other day, the
steamboat Clinton burst steam pipe 100
miles above the city, fatally scalding
George Pierce and Patrick Murphy. The
assistant engineer was also scalded.
At Saratoga Tex, recently; Emma
Mccoy, colored, gave a poisoned biscuit
to her husbands alledged paramour. The
latter instead of partaking of it divided the
gift between two children, one of whom
died from the effects. The other was
saved by a physician.
THE late cyclone in North Carolina struck
the town of Rockingham, destroying fifteen
houses. killing twenty-three people and
wounding many more. Several colored
Ia. 81. I'm
River. At Manley and Keyser the cyclone
destroyed everything. Near Ellington,
Harnett County, six persons were killed.
SPECIALS represented the late storm as
fearful in South Carolina. At Chester,
Baptist and colored churches were blown
down. The Presbyterian Church tower
and bell were blown one hundred feet. The
cotton seed oil mill buildings were par
TALLY demolished. Many private resi-.
dences and business houses are damaged.
FURTHER reports of the tornado which
recently swept through Georgia, South
Carolina and other Southern States, show
that the first accounts underest mated the
loss of life and property. The numbers
killed run into the hundreds. The storm
was accompanied with the usual peculiar
features of the tornado.
Tom ALLEN, the st. Louis prize figiter,is
want d in Kentucky on a charge of prize
fighting da ing as far back as 1876.
SHERIFF SMITH, of Dallas, Tex, recently
received a telegram from Kaufman, asking
him to come down with his bloodhounds
for the purpose of capturing a negro, who
had killed white boy in Kaufman, and
had fed.
THE wife of Colonel c. B. Anderson. of
Galveston, Tex, who mysteriously disap-
peared some time since, has been found.
She attempted to commit suicide by
drowning in the sea, but failing, returned
and hid in the city,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SENATOR HILL, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Postoffices and Postroads, ex-
poets that the subcommittee, which has in
barge the subject of postal telegraphy
yill report a bill within a short time. This
will be promptly reported to the Senate,
and will, he believes, be taken from The
calendar at an early day and passed.
The Senate Committee on Claims agreed
to make an adverse report on the bill to
authorize the Court of Claims to hear and
determine the claims of the State of Geor-
gia for Gotten seized by the United States
during the late war. The claims amount
to 100000.
REPRESENTATIVE BRoADHEAD appeared
before the House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures recently in support
of bill to establish mint at st. Louis.
No action was reached.
Senator Plumb reported from the Com
mittee on Agriculture, bill to provide for
the erection of Department of Agriculture
into the Executive Department for making
the chief officer Of that Department Cabi-
officer, with the title of Secretary of Agri-
culture, and at the same salary as other
heads Of departments. 1t also provides
for an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture,
at the same salary now paid Assistant Sec.
rotary of the Interior.
MANY applications have been made to
the Secretary of War for assistance out of
the relief fund in re-establishing dwellings
destroyed by the food.
TIE report of the Proteus Court of Inquiry
has been printed. OF Lieutenant Colwell who
was with Lieutenant Darlington, and has
been designated to take part in the Greeley
Relief Expedition now being filled out, the
report says: sit is considered by the
Court as extremely fortunate for the expe.
dictionary force that the enc officer sent
with it, and who commanded was so ably
aided and supported by the services of
Lieutenant Colwell, of the United States
Navy, who volunteered for duty much
more severe and perilous than that which
he has been regularly assigned on board of
naval vessels and who brought to the duty
he assumed so much capacity courage and
special knowledge"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29

An old record shows that on Long
Island. in 1919, Ma v Case was fined ior
intarrupting MIR. l-cvrrich during his
sermon She sa d: Come down, thou
whited wall. that feedest myself and
sIary st the peopln. "-Br0o.tgn Eagle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29

Since the act of Congress went into
effect against the importation OF spuri-
Gus teas. 225.0 % pounds of the vilely
adulterated stuff has been condemned.
-Hdssin itOn Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29

The total value of property in Men,
lucky owned by the colored people Is
81, $50. 4O9.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
THE SOUTH.

REUBEN HART, colored, and wife, resid-
ing near Crockett. Tex, recently went 10
church, leaving their six children locked
in the house. Before their return the
house burned and the children all per.
ished.
THE break which took place in the EN-.
bankment at Memphis which forced the
road-bed of the Kansas City, Springfield &
Memphis Railroad, it was thought would
cause inundation of the whole country be-
tween Memphis and Madison, Ark, and
will give the Mississippi River at that
point a width of forty miles, but will
check the rise OF the water below that
city.
THERE were two destructive cyclones in
Tennessee, two hours apart, on the 19sh.
THOMAS WILSON, colored, was lynched
in Arkansas, about thirty miles north of
Little Rock recently, for committing an