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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-27
John Smith Killed.

WHEELING, W. VA, June 17.-By the
caving in of a we'll at the water works last
evening, John Smith was buried fully forty
feet. The well was fifty-two feet deep and
twenty -eight feet i'm diameter. The digging
had been completed and the workmen were
about commencing on the brick curbing
when quick sand was noticed coming in at
the bottom. The men were ordered out
hut John Smith and Patrick Scullen stood
too near the edge Suddenly the well caved
carrying them down. Scullen was got out
without injury. Smith has not yet been
found. He was carpenter, about forty
years old, and leaves a wife and four chill.
dren at his home in Wellsville, o.
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New jersey Divorce.

TRENTON, n. j., June 19.-New Jersey is
noted for the strictness of its divorce laws,
and any decision bearing on the divorce laws
is looked for with interest. A case little
out of the ordinary was decided by Vice
Chancellor Bird. The applicant was the
husband. The case is recorded IN the court
as Ham against Ham The couple were
married in 1875, he being widower and
she widow. In 1879 the wife returned to
her own farm in Missouri. After waiting
several years for her return he sued for d.
vorce. In her answer opposing the
application the wife charged that
Ham did not give her sufficient
help to do household work, all of which she
had to do herself, and that he called her the
worst devil he ever knew. Once he burst
her bedroom door open. In summing up the
Vice Chancellor says: in all this l find
nothing to fix the legal responsibility on the
husband for her leaving. The law does not
accept of any of these excuses. Home may
be unpleasant, there may be unexpected
toll, there may be hardships too much for q
weak or sensitive nature to bear, there may
be neglect that wounds deeper than a ser
penis sting, there may he broken promises
that turn all the ardent love of early we'd
lock to unremitting hate, yet none nor all
OF these are sufficient" Verdict for the
husband.
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rilE MEXICAN TREATY. ~

Mr. Hewitt's Report Accompanying the
Bill to Carry into Eject the Mexican
Treaty.
WASHINGTON, June .19.-IL the report
accompanying the bill to carry into effect
the Mexican treaty, prepared by A. s.
Hewitt, and reported from the Ways and
Means Committee, the committee says: 1t
has been feared that the industry of Louisi-
ana might be unfsvorably affected by the
admission Of raw Mexican sugars, and
that the profits of tobacco culture might
ultimately in some way be affected When
it is considefed That Mexico at present does
not raise sufficient sugar for its own use,
and that its own tobacco Is. of quality
Which does not Interfere with; the product
Of the United States. but on the contrary
would advantageously supplement it and
replace tobacco which is now imported
from Cuba, the objection has therefore
arisen rather from apprehension of the de-
velepnent of Mexico In the production of
these two articles than from any considera-
BILE importation at the present time. The
prospect of interference is evidently too re-
mote to weigh against the great advantages
which will accrue to us from the admission
Of our own manufactures free of
duty into Mexico. Mexico is the
gate through which this country will
find its connection with the Central and
South American States. The time has al
ready arrived when we must adopt conti-
mental policy, laying its foundations broad
and deep in the mutual interests of intimate
commercial and political synpathies. The
Monroe doctrine must be asserted and ell
forced. 1t Is essential for our safety as
well as our growth that we shall exercise a
controlling influence in the affairs of the
Western world. 1t may not be desirable
that We should extend the limits of our
sovereignty beyond our own borders, but
every means which tends to establish closer
relations with our neighbors. to create mu-
tual interest to the development of common
hopes and sympathies and to tie us more
closely together in the support of the prin-
ciples of free government and the progress
of human liberty should be encouraged. 1t
is for this reason that the treaty with
Mexico marks an era i'm the progress of the
Western world. We have only to cultivate
peace and good will with our neighbors and
accept every opportunity for free intercourse
and free exchange in order to complete the
demonstration that the blessings which
have crowned unrestricted commercial inter
course of our Union with each other may
be extended and enjoyed by all the people
of the Western hemisphere, not only i'm
peace and security, but without peril to
their political existence as free and indie
PENDENT nations
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-27
Railroad Accident,

ATcHIsoN, KAs., June 19.--Reports are
at hand of two accidents to the cannon-ball
train OH the Burlington & Missouri River
Railroad. being through trains to and from
Denver from here. The midnight train GO
ing west met a washed piece of track near
Falls City which caused the rails to spread,
ditching the entire train. The passengers
were badly shaken up, and some bruised
and badly injured, but nothing more serious.
The east-bOund train was not so fortunate
As they approached within three miles of
Hubbell, Neb., it appears that some mis-
creants had removed the spikes from the
rails and taken out the fshplates which hold
the rails horizontally in their holes. They
had fastened barbed wire and carrying it
beneath the track made it fast to
telegraph pole and as the train approached
pulled the rails apart. This was done
about sixty feet from the approach to a bridge
$50 feet long. The engine left the track,
but crossed the bridge on the ties, the jolt
ing causing the bridge to weaken. The cars
followed at once, their combined weight
causing it to fall in. the entire train of en-
CINE, tender, baggage, smoking car, day
coach and Pullman car going to the bottom
total wreck. There were upwards of
thirty persons injured. A special train
brought nine Of these here who are in the
hospital and at the hotels. The injured
are: w. ii. McNaughtOri, express messen-
ger, now at Red Cloud, badly injured; COLI
fusion in the base of the brain; if not dead
now he will die. Florilla SOper, Gardner,
kas., now at Duymore. severe sprains and
Commissions; may die. w. H. Bailey, White
field, n. H., left ear cut off; head much
cut. w. Jacobs, Virginia City, ILL.,,
knees badly injured. p. II. Ly-
man, conductor of the train, Atchi-
son, Kas.. now at home. both legs broken
below the knees and other. severe bodily
injuries; Alexander Stuart, engineer of
the train at Wyinore. leg broken; NJ. A.
Wadleigh, Stevens Point. Wis. head. eyes
and arms injured; +. i. Ward, Corners
vile, Ind. back injured; badly hurt. His
wife same: f. L. Story. Chicago, conductor
Pullman car. hip. thigh and back injured;
William c. Cook, aged eighty-nine, Bloom
ington, ILL.,, hurt IN breast, head and body,
in hospital and will die. Others injured
not so severely are: j. Davis. Pawnee
City, Neb.; Thomas Morris. Scandal, Kas.
Catherine, Jane and Matthew Spears. Bra
I'll. Ind; James O'Brien. Kansas City: II.
Harris. st. joseph; .. 5. Harris, Lincoln:
e.. Z. Brown, Boston, Mass. Louisa Penn
berton, Hamilton. Neb.; Lizzie Hartley,
st. Louis, Mo-; Jane Foster, Chicago, LII.
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Divorced From Her Step-Father.

MILWAUKEE, June IA divorce In q
strange case was granted by Judge Mann in
the County court to-day. The case was
that of Louisa Buselman against Martin
Buselman. The plaintiff alleged that
she was married to the defendant
June IL. 1850, by Justice Liver. One
child. a girl about three years old, has been
born to them. The plaintiff is twenty-one
years old and the defendant fifty-fve years
of age. The sensational feature of the case
was not contained in the pleadings, how
ever, and quite a commotion was caused in
the court room when the plaintiff, herself
comely young WOMAN with handsome brown
eyes and a face that wore traces of care
and i'll usage. took the stand, and testified
that the defendant, her husband, was also
her step-father. Her story was that her
mother had married the defendant and after
ward obtained divorce from him: but adj.
vised and compelled the plaintiff, who Is
her own daughter, and the defendants step
daughter, to marry the latter.
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NERVOUS FEELING In NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, June 1.-THE failure of
Gidiere, Day & Co.. cotton factors. was
more than anything else caused by the nerv.
Gus feeling existing in financial circles here.
There are the gravest apprehensions for the
future. The Lane cotton-mill of Lehman,
Abrams g. Co., and the Louisiana cotton
mill near the barracks have stopped work.
and next week the Maginnis mill will quit,
thus throwing some fifteen hundred opera
tiyes out of employment. The new sugar
refinery of the Wallace Company put out
their fires to-day with 200 barrels of sugar
on hand. 1t is carefully estimated that
100000 barrels of sugar are held in Louisi-
ana for which there is no market The to-
bacco trade was badly hurt by the Carriere
failure also. and it is probable that a num-
Der of cigar factories will quit work during
the coming week.
CNEAsISESs IN CANADA.
MONTREAL, QUE, June 1.-THE Gov
eminent legal-tender business is still agi-
tating banking and commercial circles here
aud creating feeling of uneasiness, and as
The situation is being cabled to London it is
feared that it may have an unfavorable in
tluence there upon the success of the Gov
eminent loan. 1t is reported that the Gov
eminent had given the banks notice that
they require Government deposits now in
their hands for purchasing gold. These de-
posits, payable OH demand. at the end Of
April amounted to 81. T22, 172. ....-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-27
: Rxgfs AND rfeOssss

London is the only large city In
the Old World that doesn't possess .
university.
The New York City has 1926
butchers, bakers. and grocers; there are
lO.OOO1iquor dealers, IN. y. Neus.
The taxable valuation of Con-
necticut is $34S, ia, S7s, an increase of
Ss,5S2.3l3 over last year. - Hartford
Post. 81. "a.
The reduction 81 siissr SsoAand
other metallurgic operations on the Pa
cific Coast require the use of 1900 to-
5000 tons of salt per year.
The average ocean steamer burns
about LOO tons of coal a day.--The
lsrgest steamers - the Gre, hounds-
burn nearly 800 tons. y. Sud
In Dakota the farmers are blowing
by steam at costscf less than one dol
lar an acre. The motor lis a very
broad-wheel traction engine. Chicago
Herald. - nv -.
Last year about 1so, 600 head of
cattle were shipped east over the Union
Pacific and Northern Pacific railroads
During the present summer the number
that win be sent forward issstimaisd at
100000 s Af n kNivl WT
THE recent report of The National
Board of Fire Underwriters shows that,
no fewer than 1872 hotels in the United
States have been destroyed BY fire dur
ing the past eight years, an average of
$50 yearly. ~ f0r'i
The phosphate beds in the Bear
Creek hills of Autauga County, Ala,
are of great value in the manufacture
of sulphuric acid. These beds yield 500
or 600 tons of phosphates to the acre
Chicago Journai. ....-,,
The recent Papal eneyclieal againss
the Freemasons is aimed at no less than
l3o. O65 lodges throughout the world,
with IA. 100, 534 members. whose annual
receipts are estimated to amount to-
about 1896, 200. 900, of which sum fully
two-thirds are expended in charities
N. Y. Tribune. l'.a- ga
The Kamschatkans are in danges
of becoming extinct Kamschatka.
proper is district larger than the whole
of France. 1t once had population Of
about 80. 900, but in $50 the total had
fallen to $500. Shooting and fishing
ere the chief occupations, and fish the
chief, if not the only, food. The aver
age annual income rarely exceeds 50.
for which forty pounds of flour could
not be bought. The mortality of the
country is great
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CAPITAL NOTES.


That Mysterious Appropriation-Fraud
ulsnt Land Ciaims-A New. Pacific Rail-
road.
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Secretary Ere
linghuysen has communicated with Governor
Curtin, Chairman of the House Foreign At
fairs Committee, concerning the mysterious
Senate amendment to the Consular and Dip
lomatic Appropriation bill, appropriatiag
$3.50, 900 to carry out the provisions OF the
Neutrality act and an arrangement has
been made by Curtin and Randall for a
Joint session of the House Foreign Affairs
and Appropriation Committees to be held
"Wednesday morning, to consider what
action should be taken i'm the matter by the
House. The question to be discussed is
whether the finding of the appropriation
was a proper one; whether they should
simply recommend concurrence in the House
calling upon the Secretary of State for all
correspondence relating to the matter and
give it to the public that they may under
stand the transaction. 1t is thought the
latter course will be followed.
FRAUDULENT CLAIMS ON FOREIGN GOV.
.u.. .i.f.I., ERNMENTs. .-.f.t.N
The bill introduced by Mr.. Deuster to pro
vent and punish the prosecution under the
protection of the United States of fraudu-
lent claims against foreign governments,
provides a penalty Of fine and mprison-
ment similar to that prescribed by the re-
vised statutes for making and presenting
fraudulent claims against the United States.
II also authorizes the President in case it
shall appear to him claim which has been
allowed is based upon fraud to withhold the
payment of the proceeds and return the
same to the Government from which it has
been collected, unless the claimant shall
either remove the suspicion of fraud or
consent to recall the claim. The bill is in.
tended to avoid difficulties such as have
arisen through claims against Venezuela and
Mexico and to prevent future speculation in
international claims.
A NEW Pacific RAILROAD. q.
A good deal of interest is now felt among
Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska
people here regarding the action on the bill
authorizing the construction of road from
vest of the one hundredth meridian which
BIZ was pending when the House adj
jorrlied Saturday. 1t is understood that
the opponents of the bill will fight on the
yali.us special orders now pending, and
may defeat it. Should the bill become a
law 1t is Understood that the company stands
ready at once to begin the construction of the
road, which will place Sioux City, ST Paul
and Minneapolis some two hundred miles
nearer the Pacific Coast than now.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-27
WIT AND w1sDon:

III woman loses her voice driving
out chickens could she be called black
smith, She certainly would be hoarse-
shooer.
By struggling with misfori unes we
are sure to receive some wounds iRlthe
conflict but sure method to come off
victorious is by running away Gold
snlith.
MIR. William Doodle-"Yes, Miss
Frost, | always wear gloves at night
they make one's hands so nice and soft"
Miss Frost-"Ah and do You sleep with.
your hat n9'-Chicago Tribune
There are two things. each of which
he will seldom fail to discover who seeks
for it in earnest; the knowledge of what
he ought to do, and a plausible pretext
to do what he likes -Baptist Weekly
They chopped down one of the
big trees of Mariposa, Cal, a few days
ago, the rings of which betokened
its age to be 4, 800 years, and imbedded
in the heart of the monarch of the for
est was found . joke about house-clean-
ing and man falling down stairs on q.
piece of soap.-Chicaqo Times.
The Boston girl is compelled to suf-
fer many criticisms from the illitera.e
Western journalist on account of her
superior culture. One of them recent
ly wrote that the young lady is 80
awfully cultured that she won't call it
the sweet bv-and-by.' She calls It the
'sugared subsequently. '"-Boston Tran
script.
Wisdom dwells in blue skies and
broad sunshine. and the wide hills and
the infinite waters; in peace of mind
and freedom. and the worship of earth.
He is pOverty-stricken who is: so alb
sorbed in the one little enclosure of
which he holds the title deeds that he
loses his grasp or the bending universe.
Gail Hamilton. .....
"A correspondent writes: VIII you
please inform me when straw hats can
be worn without exciting comment?
Certainly. Straw hats, can be worn
without exciting comment when worn
on the head. But when they are worn
cavOrting along the street in a gale of
wind you must expect q remark or two
call.
AT Augusta, Ga. the other day
lightning struck q hen that was sitting
on a nest of eggs. When that thunder
bolt got ont of the hen-house it looked
as though it had been drawn through a
sausage machine, and the way it scoot-
ed for cloud was CANTON Bet you
it'll never strike setting hen again
Free Press.
One fellow was from Wilcox and
the other resides in this county. The
Wilcox man said: after our cyclone, a
year or two ago. large number of
birds and chickens were found from
which every feather had been stripped
by the terrible wind; in fact, they were
peeled as slick as an onion. but the
fowls were still alive and kicking"
"Oh, that's nothing" exclaimed the
Pulaski man. lone of my neighbors
had his well blown so crooked by the
same cyclone that he has not been able
to get bucket down into it since, and
he was compelled to dig another well.''
At this point the meeting adjOrned--
HnUkilsutlle (Gd) NetCS .-H..
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THE LATEST

TIE King Of Holland diei on the alst
His death opened up possible complica-
tons Of the European II'wers over the
right Of succession to the Duchy of Luxem-
burg. .... ..r.1 ..a...
SEVERAL foreign anarchists have been
arrested at Vienna. In their possession
was dynamite bomb sufficient to blow up
the largest public building in Vienna.
, The large wholesale bakery establish.
n.ent of A. ID. Hayman, at Williamsburg,
N. ", was destroyed by fire recently. Two
firemen were killed by falling walls. The
loss was estimated at 100000.
THE funeral Of General McCandless took
place with full military honors at Wash
ington on the s2l in charge of the Pennsyl.
vania reserve volunteer corps, and the SER
vices of burial were conducted by the
Freemasons. ..s -.. ....-.... D.
In the Senate on the 21st the bill amend.
ing the Thurman act was referred to the
Judiciary Committee. The bill granting
right of way through the Indian Territory
to the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad
was passed. The Electoral Count bill was
taken up in the House, but no immediate
action was taken. ..
The steamer Montana, on trip from st.
Louis to Kansas City, struck the ST. Charles
bridge on the morning Of the 22d, and sunk.
She had on board five hundred tons of as
sorted freight, the boat being valued at
5000.
The recent foundations in Galicia, Aus.
tria, suspended all railway traffic and in.
terfered with all kinds of business. Itwas
rumored that two hundred and fifty sol.
diers were drowned.
ELDER saoor, Mormon missionary, has
been expelled from Bavaria by order of the
Minister Of State. Smoot had succeeded
in making many converts, whom he was
preparing to send to Utah, but this plan
has been broken up for the present.
A SEVERE bail storm, accompanied by
lightning, visited Central City, COL, re-
Gently. A game of base ball was in pro-
sress at the Academy Hall. The lightning
struck and killed Nicholas Newmayer.
and probably fatally injured James Lick
and Frank Osborn. A miner at Mountain
City was also struck, but will recover. The
engine house of the Prize mine near Cen.
trail City was demolished, and five miners
at work badly stunned. 1t was thought
they would recover.
FROM all parts of the Pennsylvania oil
regions reports favorable to the proposed
shut down movement were being received
and except with wells already under way
work was being suspended in Allegheny
and Bradford in the middle field, and
in the latter district. All the
operators but one had Joined the move.
ment. So complete was the shut down re-
garded to be that some drillers and tool |
dressers were preparing to leave the region. |
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-27
THE EAST.

DEPRESSION in the iron trade has caused
falling off in orders for ore from Pennsyl-
yania mines. In Williams Township,
Northampton County, which supplies the
Glendon furnaces, the mines of Sampson.
Merworth, Bennett and others shut down
and large numbers of men were out of
employment. Hahn's mines and sever al
Others had orders reduced from eighty.five
to ten tons week.
THERE was a frost in Southern New
Jersey on the morning of the 18th.
COMPANY in New York known as
Brown & Brothers, whose sheet-brass fac
tory was at Waterbury, Conn.,, was in an
embarrassed condition, in consequence of
losses Of $4,000 or SO by its late treasurer
BUSINESS was suspended in Boston on
the 18th in honor of the anniversary of the
battle of Bunker Hill.
PREPARATIONS are being made in Pitts
burgh, Pa, for the National Prohibition
convention, which takes place there
July g.
IKE BUzzARD, member of the notorious
pennsylvania mountain outlaw gang,
whom the military CT that State have been
in pursuit of, and for whose apprehension
q reward was offered, was arrested at Chi
cago the other night.
IT was reported recently at Philadel.
phia that ex-Congressman Hester Clymer
took q dose Of morphine on the evening be-
fore his death. 1t was said financial re-
verses while in the iron business led him to
take that step. He drew up his will Two
weeks ago, giving everything to his wife.
His physician walked him up and down
the room ali night, having relay Of men.
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GENERAL.

PATTI has signed an agreement with Col.
onel Mapleson to sing in America next sea-
son. She is to receive s. 900 for each con-
cert and expenses. She receives 5000
iown and $4,000 in October. The agree
ment moreover calls for a security of S5O,-
ZOO before she sings. .t ....
A JUBILEE in honor of the fiftieth birth
lay of Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon was
given in London on the 1871
THROUGH the mediation of Germany,
Austria and Russia the Servo. Bulgarian
difficulty has been settled.
The Winnipeg official crop bulletin of
the Canadian Department of Agriculture
for the province reports the increase of
acreage in the crop at eighty FIVE per cent.
over last year. Condition of wheat good,
others suffering little from drought. The
yield Of wheat will be largely increased
over last year. ... f.
PHILIP EMERY, member of the Saliva.
ton army, became insane from excitement
and drowned himself recently at Guelph,
Ont. -......-. .. '....
AT Montreal, s. H. Nay & Co., whole.
sale oil and paint merchants, were re-
ported in financial difficulties. Liabilities,
So, 200. .. ....
THE death of John Gustavus Droysen,
the eminent professor of history at the
University at Berlin, was announced.
THE failures for the week ending June
II were: United States, 1872; Canada %.
The casualties continue numerous on the
p ,cific coast and in the South and South.
west.
In the English House of Commons, re-
Gently, Fitzmaurice, Under Secretary, in
answer to question by Arthur Arnold
regarding the alleged abduction of an
English citizen named Sheldon, at Kansas
City, stated that the British Minister at
Washington had been instructed to act in
the case. Some time would elapse before
the report would be received.
THE embezzling manager of the Cantonal
Bank at Neufchatel, Switzerland, closed his
career by suicide.
FIVE men were recently arrested at Pola,
Austria, having dynamite in their posses.
sion. The military also announced that
thirty kilogrammes Of dynamite had been
stolen from Fort Valmaggion.
THE French committee appointed TO con-
slider the advisability of widening the Suez
canal or building parallel one decided in
favor of the former plan.
The Canadian Pacific Railway authori.
ties have made arrangements to obtain the
Montana cattle trade for shipment by way
of Montreal.