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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01
A New Mexico Lynching.

SoCoRRo, N. NJ. Jan. %.
About one O'Clock this morning 150 men
silently surrounded the Jail and, overpow-
ering the guard, quickly and quietly took
out the notorious murderer, Joel A. Fow-
Ter. Taking him to tree just west of the
Jail, they hung him and then dispersed.
Fowler's crime was the murder of Jas. E.
Cole last November, and was one of the
most brutal and cowardly murders ever
rerpetrated. Fowler, with a number of
drunken companions, took possession OF
the town and marched through the streets,
firing into the windows and making the
Sitizens dance and sing at the mouth of
their reyolvers. Cole interfered to pre-
vent bloodshed, and was stabbed TO death
by Fowler.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01
THE SOUTH.

CAPTAIN NELSON, who had wife and
three children in Maryland, went to Nor
cumberland County, Va, and became
very devoted to a young woman, whose
brother, learning that Nelson had wife,
interviewed him with shotgun and depos-
tied load of buckshot in his face, NOR
tally wounding him.
UPON the arrival of train at Little
| Rock, Ark, from Memphis, the other night,
on passenger coach was a dead man sit
ting bolt upright in his seat. He was q
| tramp, and was put aboard the train at
Brinkley while in dying condition.
A BLOCK of business houses at Arkansas
| City, Ark, was recently burned. Loss
over $4,000.
OVER one thousand tobacco factory en-
ployes at Petersberg, Va, recently struck
against a reduction of wages. The strikers
subsequently held a meeting and appointed
| a committee to solicit aid to enable them to
hold out until employers consented to pay
the former wages.
THE Legislature of Kentucky continued
! at a deadlock on the election of United
States Senator. Senator Williams was in
the lead, with Blackburn close to him.
A NEGRO at Round Top, Tex, recently
had dispute with farmer named Sum-
merfield, when he shot Summerfield dead,
brutally beat his wife and escaped.
NEAR Carthage, Tenn, recently, nine
men on a raft were drawn into a whirlpool
and drowned.
TIE steamer Sam Fowler was recently
| sunk near Nashville, Tenn.
THE highwaymen who robbed the stage
carrying the United States mails, near Lam
pasas, Tex, a few weeks ago, were arrested
at Austin recently. Some of the stolen
property was found upon the robbers.
AS Ignatz Puslejotsky, a farmer, was re-
turning home with his wife, near Schulen-
burg, Tex, the other day, his horses got
frightened, upset the wagon and both were
mangled SO that the woman soon died.
The man would also die. He was too
drunk to manage the team.
A RESOLUTION asking Senator Malone to
resign recently passed the Virginia Senate
by vote of % to 10.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01

National Colored Convention, held at Louis.
vile, were present and urged that the col.
ored people should be aided by an appro-
priation for educational purposes.
In his statement to the House Committee
on Commerce lately, prominent Eastern
railroad official took the broad ground that
no power of Congress could regulate rail.
road Interstate commerce in the sense pro-
posed by the bills before the committee. He
asserted there was no such thing as COM
merce between the States by rail in the
constitutional sense of the words. He ar
gued that the roads are chartered by the
States, are under State control, have rates
regulated by States, and 1t is only through
agreements between railroad companies
terminating at State lines that Interstate
commerce is now carried on.
THE EAST.
E. 8. PECK, the cashier who wrecked the
Patchogue Il. L. bank, was threatened by
a mob Of creditors, when he wenthome and
shot himself.
HAIGH's wooden mill at Newburg, N. Y,
employing fifty hands, burned the other
evening. Loss, $780, 600; partially insured.
A BILL recently introduced into the
House by General Slocum, of New York,
limits the time of presenting claims
against the Government arising from the
late war with the exception of pension
claims) to two years from its passage.
Claims hereafter accruing must be pre-.
sented within six years of the event from
which they originated.
The jury in the case of young Mutt, who
killed Dukes, tho slayer of his father, at
Uniontown, Pa, returned verdict of &C.
quittal. He was tried at Pittsburgh.
JOHN FRAZER, Liverpool lumber mer-
chant, lately arrived in New York, was
found the other morning sitting on stoop,
frozen to death.
ALL the factories in Lowell, Mass, re.
Gently gave notice of another reduction Of
ten per cent. in wages on February 1.
EDWARD ]. MEANEY, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who for sixteen years had been Treasurer
of the Moulders' Union of North America,
is missing, together with $4,000 of Union
funds.
A BILL recently passed the New Jersey
House providing for the burial of honor
ably discharged soldiers who die in pow
erty.
The National Executive Committee of the
Prohibition party have decided to hold
national convention to nominate Presiden-
tial candidates in Pittsburgh, Pa, early in
May.
A BILL has been introduced into the New
York Legislature authorizing Magistrates
to fine spectators twenty-five dollars for
each offense of selling theater tickets above
box Office prices.
ELIZABETH r. BEACH, recently lost in the
Inflated City of Columbus, was organizer
of the famous McAll Mission Band in this
country, auxiliary to religious work in
Paris, (France), under the name of the Nc
All Mission.
The falling of portion of the roof of a
school-house on East Broadway, N. Y,
the other day, created panic among the
children which resulted in the injury of
number-none serious.
On the 25th heavy snow storm pre-
vailed in the New England States. In Can
ada all trains were abandoned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01

CHICAGO, Jan. %.
During the trial of James H. Melville fer
alleged embezzlement in the Criminal
Court before Judge Howes yesterday, the
prosecution desired to prove that part of
The money was sent to Melville through
The Western Union Telegraph Company.
The money order clerk of the telegraph
company declined to produce the original
message on the ground that a message
souid not be made public property. TIE
court ruled that telegraph communications
could not be considered more confidential
thar any others and that no communica-
ZION could he excluded when the cause OF
justice renders its production necessary.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01

Many of these are married men and leave
families, many living here. At this hour
everything is in such confusion that it is
impossible to give details. A special train
left Gunnison at two O'Clock this afternoon
with surgeons and large number of citi-
tens to render all the aid possible. The
town of Crested Buttes is i'm mourning, and
crowds of women cluster about the entrance
TO the mine praying and wringing their
hands and crying piteously, presenting q
scene most heartrending.
1t is said at the time of the explosion
there were ten kegs of black powder in
chambers one and two where the men were
working, and where the explosion is sup
posed to have taken place. The mine has
three miles of drifting and so it is impossi-
ole to definitely locate the accident until
rescuing parties can gain admittance.
At eleven o'clock tonight no bodies had
been recovered.
DENVER, COL, Jan. q.
Crested Buttes mine, where the great dis
aster of this morning occurred, has long
been considered dangerous by those ac-
luainted with it. While one of the best
producing mines in the country, its opera
lion has always been attended with more
Or less apprehension and real danger.
at is fire damp mine," said Superin-
tendent Cameron, now in Denver, land
seems to constantly generate the most
leduiy gases. lueY Se6In W Rchti
the coal or under it, and pour out of the
seams in the walls of the tunnels and
shafts; yet the mines are the most perfect
Iy ventilated in the world. Air is forced
in along the shaft by machinery. No less
than $4,000 cubic feet of fresh air is forced
into the mine every minute. This is quite
sufficient to fully supply the wants OF the
miners and keep the air perfectly pure I'M
less some accident happens to cut off or in
terGere with the supply. This is a greater
amount of fresh air than is furnished to
any other mine in the country. We send
a mine reviewer through every chamber
every morning before S.ny of the men are
allowed to 60 in. He must have returned
this morning before the workmen started
in, and everything must have been all right
when he passed through the workings"
John Mcneil, State Mine Inspector, left
for the scene of the disaster this evening.
He saws he has no donbt that every man in
the mine at the time of the explosion was
instantly killed. He said he visited this
mine five weeks ago and then found it in
good condition. He considered it a dan
gerous mine unless properly worked, be-
cause there was more or less gas constant
ly exuding from the mine. He said he
found every appliance for ventilating the
workings and considered that the manag-
ars understood how to run the mine, and
were fully aware of the danger attending
if the mine was not properly ventilated.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01
HORRIBLE NINE ACCIDENT.

Fffty-Seven Men Imprisoned in a Colorado
Mine BY an Explosion Of Fire Damp
No Possibility Of Escape from Death
Full List Of the Victims.
GUNNIsoN, COL, Jan. "a.
A fearful explosion occurred at eight
O'Clock this morning in the Colorado Coal
and Iron Company's mine at Crested
Buttes. It was one Of the most appalling
that ever occurred in coal mine in this
country. Crested Buttes, near which the
mine is located, is q coal mining town thir.
ty miles north Of Gunnison City, on the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The
cause of the explosion Is not definitely
known, but it is supposed to be from fire.
damp. The explosion occurred either in
chamber one or two, just half an hour at.
ter the day force of sixty-seven men had
gone to work.
four. These escaped unhurt except one
man, John Angus, who was in the passage.
way just outside the chamber. He is badly
burned but will recover.
Fifty-seven men were at work i'm cham.
bsrs one and two. These are thought to
have persisted. The explosion was of such
force as to completely barricade the main
entrance, and the appliances for supplying
air located near were badly wreckG, and
the roof of the tramway blown off. The
men at work on the anthracite mesa are the
night force of the c. c. & l. company's
mines. Citizens were generally working
hard all day to rescue the men. although
it is thought none can possibly escape alive.
The Town Hall has been prepared for the
reception of the dead.
As soon as possible the fan was repaired,
put to work pumping air into the mine, and
men set to work to remove the Instructions
so as to reach the chambers and get the
bodies out tonight if possible.
Following are the names OF fifty-five of
the unfortunates; the other two are not OBJ
tainable:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01
A wild duck bannened 10 oot s,.,

"A wild duck happened to get start
ed with the lightning express for New
York at larry town, and for miles il
was nip and tuck, until finally the bird
with defiant ''quark!' forged ahead
and left the locomotive putting and
wheeling far behind. Troy Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01

The Argentine Government donates
100000 National dollars to further
public instruction in the provinces and
for the erection of three hundred
schools.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01
PITH AND POINT.

There are 25,O0O,C to $4,000, 900
hats made in this country annually.
This is one of the necessities of the
country where elections are held every
Chicago Journal.
Count Moltke is described as civ
ing inclosed in his e2otism." That is
the garment good many less noted
people wrap closely about them, and
who are not fbur-score years old either.
ChicdgO Inter Ocean.
al can marry any girl that I
please" he said, with self-satisfied
expression of countenance. mo doubt"
she responded sarcastically. ..But
wat girl do you please?" They no
longer speak as they pass by.-Ctica
Herald.
BY six qualities may fool be
known anger without cause, speech
without profit, change without motive,
inquiry without an object. putting trust
in a stranger, and wanting capacity to
discriminate between friend and q
foe.-Boston Globe.
"A gentleman who takes business
view of things, when recently asked re-
speeding person of quite poetic tenn
permanent, replied: 20, he's one of
those men who have soarings after the
infinite, and divings after the unfathom-
able, but who never pays cash. "-L9y-
fato Express.
The New York Commercial Adrer-
Hser warns people not to tempt pick
pockets by carrying around with them
large sums of money, and says: "Gen-
tlemen of wealth-clergymen editors,
and persons of their standing could
not find a better way to cheat the
thieves than by observing the severest
simplicity in their personal decoration
and outward belongings.
Can You tell me what kind of
weather we may expect next month";
wrote farmer to the editor of his coun-
try paper, and the editor replied as fol-
lows: 1T is my belief that the weather
next month will be very like your sub
scription bill" The farmer wondered
for an hour what the editor was driving
at, when he happened to think of the
word unsettled He sent a postal
note.-Pilaieiphid Chronicle.
The man who gives a barrel of flour
W a Surviving isiIhIiI never puts MS name
down for thousand dollars for the rem
ovation of popular church in order
that it may appeal in the public prints.
And it may also be said that the man
who makes it his business to donate
sums Of money to churches and cgclone
su erers, and puts his name down for
publication and no. merely as guar
antee of good faith, never sends bar
rel of flour to a starving family, And
the moral of this little fact should teach
us that there is great deal of differ
ence between genuine and autograph
charity. Chicago Tribune.
"A powder-horn upon which is en-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01

"A powder-horn upon which is en-
graved the date, Nov. Is, 17oO the
name of Enoch Leonard, Commission
er of Issues and the plan of Fort
Schuyler and the Mohawk River, is now
in possession of Z. j. Leonard, of West
Martinsburg, Lewis County, n. Y,
having been handed down from genera
ton to generation. The engraving was
done by the gentleman whose name 1t
bears, and it IS relic Of rare curiosity.
Buffalo Express.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03

and bed for some, bed without coffee
for others. But do they not drink, you
ask. Yes, indeed. They are addicted
to soda water, lemonade, cocoanut
water, lime. onade, tamarind water,
mineral waters and all other beverages
that cool the body by cooling the blood,
and that are slightly laxative. Among
strong drinks, Yarmouth is popular,
Spanish wines and French clarets are
in demand, and the laboring people
drink gin. Note the nature OF these
drinks, you who understand the sub
ject. There is reason in all of them.
All except brandy. forgot that. At
night, in the cafes, saw several per-
sons drink brandy. This is contrary to
anything else they do. 1t is most I'M
wise.
There are many hints in the above
general observations of life under a
burning sun. Dress for the season. 1t
can be done here as well as there and
as safely, for the nights are cooler there.
Besides, one can put on a heavier coat
at night, if need be. Keep out of the
sun. Garry sun umbrella. Don't
hurry. Nothing is gained by it.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
The Ruined City in Arizona.
Boston Journal.

The ruined cliff-city discovered in
Arizona last summer occupied the sides
of a canyon which has been christened
Walnut Canyon. It is an immense fis-
sure in the earth, with nothing above
the general level of the country to in
dictate its existence to the traveller until
he stands upon the sides of its almost
precipitous brink. The sides have been
drilled by storms and torrents, leaving
shallow, cave-like places of great length
at different heights, along the bottom
of which, where the ledge furnishes
sufficient area, dwellings in groups or
singly built. The village was about
three quarters of a mile in length, and
consisted of single row of houses, the
common rear wall being the living rock,
while the sides and front were of large
square stones laid in clay. A narrow
front. Similar villages extended along
the canyon for distance of five miles.
Although many domestic implements
were found, nothing was discovered
which indicated the character of the
people which once inhabited them.
There were no weapons of war, tenn
Piles or idols, hieroglyphies or pictures.
There was nothing to identify them
with the uncivilized races of the pres
ent day, and though the wide extent of
the ruins indicate the existence once of
allied races covering large portions of
the present territories of Arizona, New
Mexico and Utah, as we'll as Northern
Mexico, their origin and theory con-
stitute an unsolved problem. Four
hundred years ago, when first discov-
cred, they were, as now, vacant and
ruined.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
English Song Writing.

Without going so far as to say that
no man is poet who cannot write a
good song, it may certainly be said that
no man can write good song who is
not a good poet. Heartiness and
melody-the two. requisites of song
which can never be dispensed with
can rarely be compassed, it seems, by
one and the same individual. In both
these qualities the Elizabethian poets
stand pre- eminent, though even with
them the melody is not so singable as
might be made. Among the more
prominent poets of our time, Mr..
Browning, though he has heartiness in
plenty, betrays love of rugged con-
sonantal effects such as would always
prevent him from writing frst-rate
songs. Here, indeed, is the browning
difficulty of song writers. An extreme
simplicity of structure and of diction
must be accompanied by an instructive
apprehension of the melodic capabili-
ties of verbal songs and Of what Samuel
Lover, the Irish song-writer, called
singing" words, which is rare in this
country, and which seems to belong to
the Celtic rather than to the Saxon
ear. "The song-writer," says Lover,
"must frame his song of open vowels,
with as few gutteral or kissing sounds
as possible, and he must be content
sometimes to sacrifice grandeur and
vigor to the necessity of selecting sing
ing words and not reading words"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
You Or I.
II we could know

~ VIC cOulQ KNOW
Which Of us, darling, would be first to 60,
Who would be first to breast the swelling
tide,
And step alone upon the other side
II we could knowI
II It were you,
Should walk softly, keeping death In view?
Should / my love to you more oft express?
Or should grieve you, darling, any less
II 1t were II
II 1t were I,
Should I improve the moments slipped byi
Should more closely follow Gods great
plan,
Be filed with sweeter charity to man
II 1t were I?
II we could knowl
We cannot, darling, and tits better so.
I should forget, just as do to-day,
p, And walk along the same old stumbling
II could know.
/ would not know
Which of us, darling, viii be first to 60.
i only wish the space may not be long
Between the parting and the greeting song;
But when, or where, or how we're called
to 60
would not know.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
The Graces of Mental Culture.

Graces that are the most permanent
and attractive are those of the mind.
Delicacy, sweetness, good sense and
sensibility, beaming from the eyes, Civ
ing kind and genial expression to the
for any irregularity or plainness of
features, and sooner excite admiration
and love in really sensitive heart than
the best formed face and finest COM
plexional hue, wanting intellectual ex-
preston, and giving no indications of
kind and benevolent emotions.
Nature must, of course, give the
germ of these enobling qualities, but
by no other means are they so effectu-
ally called forth and improved as by
the cultivation of the mind and the ac-
uisition of purely literary taste by
he judicious reading of properly Sc
lected books. Even as sculptor give
expression and beauty to the rude I'M
shapen block of marble, so mental cul-
ture, readily acquired by reading and
studying methodical books wisely Sc
lected, gives pleasing expression and
attractiveness to the countenance, and
grace and loneliness to the demeanor.
In ones intercourse with the world,
he cannot fail to feel that the absence
of an intellectual expression often mars
the beauty and renders unattractive
those who have naturally well-formed
faces and symmetrical figures. The
natural passions of such are usually I'M
der no control, and consequently often
give to the eyes an envious or disdain-
full, if not an artful look, repugnant to
friendly feelings and repellant to social
intercourse. Whenever the face gives
no indication of intelligence, whatever
external beauty it may possess and
however symmetrical may be its form
and features, though it makes a good
model for an artist, perfect to the eye,
yet it will not excite the higher emo
tions of the mind, nor make deep or
favorable impression on the beholder.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
SUMMER DAYS.


The summer days have come, dear,
TN tell you how know,
Amidst the dsndelioned grass
White heads begin to show.
And as sat with book intent
Last night 1t came to pass
A big June beetle came to warm
His feet beside my gas.
He dropped down In shrivelled heap,
I stabbed him with my pen,
And laid book upon his corpse
To hold him down, and then
I turned to write letter
To friend "about my age,'
And ere my first apology
Was half way down the page
Fall twenty bugs came down to see
What kept their comrade SO;
They lifted up "Poetic Gems''
And brought him forth, aud 10!
He Strengthened out his broken legs,
Unfurled his singed wings,
bumped up his flattened back and strucl
The strain the June bug sings.
Then sang they all about my ears,
And drove me from my room,
And by these presents do know
The summer days have come.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
Setting a Broken Neck.
ortland Transcript.

Portland transcript
The latest triumph of modern sur
gerry is the repair of a Boston woman
who had fallen seventy feet and broken
her neck. The neck was broken just
as the neck of culprits who are hanged
on the gallows-namely, by dislocation
of the vertebra. Fortunately the spi-
nal marrow was not injured, or the re-
pairs could not have been made. Hav-
ing chloroformed the poor woman, the
surgeons had the pleasure of hearing
the bones and ligaments snap as they
forced the displaced vertebra into
proper position. The woman, ON
awaking, seemed to think that her head
had come off and that it had been put
on crooked. The operation suggests
new field of experiment on bodies of
executed criminals.