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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
Across the Water.

PARIS, October 9.-An official dispatch
from Hanoi, states that Colonel Denaie,
with two battalons of the foreign legion
two companies of infantry and section OF
mountain artillery have had an engagement
with the Chinese troops in the valley o. the
Loo Chuan river, which lasted six hours
The Chinese made stubborn resistance, but
were finally completely routed. Four gun
boats assisted the French forces. Four of
the French, including a captain, were killed,
and thirty wounded. The forces under
Colonel Dennier are continuing to advance.
CONTINUED COMMANDMENT.
SHANGHAI, October 9.-!The bombardment
Of Tamsui by the French Fleet is still i'm pre-
gress. On the 9th inst the fleet had destroyed
the Chinese forts. The houses of Europeans
in the city were riddled with shells. but the
inhabitants have not suffered any fatal cas-
ualties. The Chinese are strongly en-
trenched.
WANTS TO FIGHT.
PARIS, October 9.-Captain Fourier, who
negotiated the Teen Tsin treaty with China,
scornfully repudiates the copies of the treaty
distributed by the Chinese Government with
important clauses erased. He offers to fight
whoever questions his great faith in the
matter
REINFORCEMENrS TO PEEIN.
TEN SING, October China has scnl
10000 reinfOrcements from KERN, IN tSs
province of Manchoovia to Pekin.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
ChildreIi,s DaY.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. October g.
This was children's day at the St.
Louis Fair, and the extensive grounds and
spacious buildings were thronged with
thousands of little ones, happy in their
holiday from school, and especially SO in
being permitted to spend it so pleasantly
on green grass under sheltering trees with
wonders natural, artificial and mechanical
all around them. The proverbial gen.
crosby of the management in throwing
open the gates to the school children of
The city without money aud without
price is evidently appreciated by them.
Crowds are arriving by every train &c
witness the Yelled Prophets pageant
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
They Failed to Get the Doodle.

KANSAS CIrT, NO.. OctoDefo d
Excitement reisned at Independence,
Mo-, when 1t became known that some
time during Saturday night IN attempt
was made to rob Chesman & Sawyer's
bank, one of the richest institutions in
Missouri. II holds all the county funds,
and Saturday night the vault, contained
over $500, 600 in cash. The robbers
gained entrance into the bank by rear
cellar door, and then proceeded to find
the most availabls place to make the at
tack. From some cause, however, they
were scared off, leaving burned caL.lles
and tools behind. The whole town was
rVuFed, but the robbers escaped.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
WASHINGTON NOTES,
Uncle Sans Purse-More About THE
Heather Chince."

Uncle Sans Purse-More About THE
Heather Chince."
WASHINGTON, October 1O.-The Director
of the Mint estimates the amount of gold
and silver coin in the United States, Octo-
Der 1, at Ssl5,OOO,0OO. Of this, S55S,OOO,-
600 was gold; S1S2,OG0,O9O standard sil
yer dollars, and S75,OOO,OOO subsidiary sill
yer. The gain from the 1st of October,
1883, is s35, 1000, GOO; S13, 900 being gold
coin and S22, OCG,O 900 silver. In addition tc
the coin in circulation the 1st OF October,
the mint and assay offices held bullion fof
coinage amounting to, gold $50, ZOO, 900, sill
yer So, 600, 900, making the totai amount of
United States coin, and bullion available for
coinage. In the country the LIST of October,
SS73,000, 900, of which S6l0.000,000 is gold
and sos. 10000 is silver. The amount of
gold coin outside the Treasury was about
S15.000,000 less than OIL the LIST of October,
1855, while the amount in the
Treasury was S20,000,000 more.
The amount Of silver in banks and general
circulation is about SS,00O.000 less than in
1883, and the amount in the Treasury about
S3l 100000 more. Amount of outstanding
gold and silver certificates is S50,000,0 600
more than on the LIST of October, 1888. The
Treasury Department purchased 3S5,O0Q
ounces of silver for delivery at the New
Orleans, San Francisco and Philadelphia
minis.
TIE CHINESE AGAIN.
WASHINGTON, October 10. Another
phase Of the Chinese question has been
presented to the Treasury Department A
few days ago party of eighty-siX China
men arrived at San Francisco. Some OF
them, who had formerly resided i'm the
United States, were provided with the cert.
ficates prescribed BY the act of 1882, but none
of them had the certificates required by the
supplementary act of 1884. They were not
permitted TO land as the United States
courts in California recently decided that
Chinese can be allowed to land only on the
production of the evidence required by law,
and that secondary evidence cannot be &C
cepted in such cases. The Treasury De
partment was appealed to for relief. The
Secretary has. however decided not to in
terfere in the matter, on the ground that IL
is question to be settled by the courts.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
A Crazy Mans Crime.
VlNcENNEs, Ixp., October Q.

NINCENSES, IND, OctOUCfO,
Monroe City, near here, wa, Ia
h:gh state of excitement last night Joe
Barnett, one of the leading and influential
citizens of that place, in u ft of Insanity,
shot and mortally wound his old, gray
haired father-n-law who bad just come
20 his HON: on visit. ut IS said that the
Did gentleman preferred some advice to
his son-in-law, but the latter regarded
the advice as IN insult rather than as
favor, and he deliberately took out his
gun and shot the old gentlem n in the
back as the latter was leaving.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
THE SOUTH.

ROBERT RUsK, a young man respectfully
connected, was lately arrested at Hackett
City, Ark, charged with horse stealing in
Texas, and taken to that State by the Sher-
if of Grayson County. The young mans
father accompanied them.
The Louisiana State Board of Education
lately decided to locate the State Normal
School at Nachitoches, that town having
given buildings and grounds valued at
100000.
OVER seven hundred men, women and
children were not long ago thrown out of
employment at Petersburgh, Va, on &C.
count of the scarcity of water.
The Centennial Hotel at Beebe, Ark,
was recently burned. Loss, 5000; insur-
ance, $3.50.
The officers of the New Orleans Produce
Exchange lately called Governor Mem
ery's attention to the steady enlargement
Of the Atchafaiaya outlet of the Mississippi
and conveying the belief that there is dam
ger of the water of the Mississippi being
detected into that river, and thus finding
its way to the sea, leaving New Orleans
on the banks of a lagoon as Vicksburg
has been left. They ask that the facts may
be laid before the President and Con-
gress with view to averting what they
look upon as a National calamity. The
best engineers say that if the Atchafalaya
were damned as proposed the water would
inundate all of Southern Louisiana and
place the city Of New Orleans under ten
feet of water.
LINCOLN BANKS, a noted desperate Of
the Kentucky mountain regions, was ar.
rested recently in Louisville on the charge
of murder. Banks was in attendance on
the session Of the United States Court as o
witness in some "moonshine" cases.
AT Sipe Springs, Tex, a mob lately at
tackled the residence Of a farmer named
Hayes. His son-in-law, Dunlap, and q
young son Of Hayes went out TO meet the
mob. The latter was instantly killed and
the former fatally wounded. 1t seems that
another son of Hayes had been concerned
in DEMONSTRATING. A committee notified
the elder Hayes to leave the county and he
refused. A posse of citizens started in
pursuit Of the assassins, several of whom
were recognized by Mrs. Hayes.
A SINGULAR case of spontaneous COM
bustion recently occurred at Canton, Miss.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
THE WEST.

TIE unusually warm weather of the last
of September and the first of October is
something unaccountable even to weather
prophets and meteorologists. Early in
October the Thermometer at jackson,
Tenn, indicated los degrees above zero.
All over the United States there was
warm weather.
At Sioux Falls, Oak, Michael McLaugh.
lin was lately arrested for raising q check
FROM 50 to $500. He stood well before.
a NAN was found on the sidewalk in the
lower part of Cairo, Ill, latey, in a dy-
fng condition, suffering apparently from
syphoid malaria he was sent to the hos.
Risal, dying there at once. An examina-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17

A barrel Of whisky exploded in q saloon
without any apparent cause.
CAPTAIN WADDELL, of the Confederate
cruiser Shenandoah, has been given com
mand Of new steamer in the oyster navy
of Maryland, patterned after the Federal
revenue cutters.
A PARTY Of seventeen persons, most of
whom are missionaries, left Atlanta, Ga,
lately, for China. Some of the ladies will
organize, In Shanghai, a high school for
girls.
A HORRIBLE accident lately occurred at
Nashville, Tenn, by which three men lost
their lives in foundry, by hot iron flying
over them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17

oh. Opponents are very funny
when it's somebody else's daughter
who is concerned. What are parents
going to do for the safety of their sus-
ceptible daughters? Eli tell you. En-
ploy women rs coachmen. That solves
the problem, doesn't it? There would
be a gain in comeliness right away and
an advance in the cause of woman's
rights besides. - Clara Bella
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES

Ma. JOHN r. MCLEAN, Of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, wss lately married to Miss
Emily T. Beale, daughter Of General
Beale, at Washington.
DAVID HEADY, Chief Clerk of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. was lately removed
from Office by Commissioner Peck, who
charged him with fraud and malfeasance
In office.
BY a late report Of the Commissioners of
the General Land Office, the sale of lands
for the fiscal year just ended embraced
nearly twenty-seven L. .llion acres. By the
same report the wheat crop this year will
exceed that of last year by 10O,0o0,0O0
bashels.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
"A curious Indian of Belleyille. {

"A curious Indian of Belleville, On
;ar;o. recently placed two ties and 8
bowlder across the track of the Grand
Trunk Railway SO that he could see
them fly when the express train came
along. The ties failed 10 fly, however.
and the train came near being wrecked.
Subsequently he was arrested and con-
victed for attempting to wreck train,
and re ceived light sentence in the
county Jail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
"A cable to Harya-d COLLEGE, Oh.

"A cable to Harvard College Obser-
vatory announces the discovery Of
another asteroid by the Austrian as
tronomer Palisa. Position, tho 22d OF
September, 53:79 Greenwich mean time;
right ascension, 2 hours 10 minutes 8
seconds; declination north. ii degrees
AZ minutes 80 seconds; daily motion :
III right ascension, minus u seconds;
in decl;natiOn. minus ) minutes. Il is
of the thirteenth magnitude.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
THE LATEST.

THE LATEST
B. OsTERHAUT, a Divinity student Of Vic.
toria College, is under arrest at Toronto
for stealing $1,000 Canadian Pacific bond
from private bank at Winnipeg.
GENERAL WoLsELEY has been instructed
to have the Government Intelligence Blu
reau of Egypt strictly supervise all tele.
grams of newspaper correspondents.
WsEN the Government Paymaster ar.
rived at Saltiilo, Mexico, few days ago,
the ragged and hungry soldiers stormed
his room and were beaten back with diff.
Guilty.
The report of Mr.. Nimmo, of the Bureau
of Statistics, treats chiefly of the magni.
tude of our internal commerce. A large
per cent. Of American products are con.
sumed at home.
The President has recognized Henry
Davidson Walker as British Consul Agent
for Eureka, Arcata and Hooktan, CAL, and
Felipe Labodie as Consul of Mexico ut Al.
buquerque, N. NJ.
BISMARCK has prepared project which
is to be laid before the Reichstag at the
coming session, for the purchase by the
Empire Of all railways now owned by tho
different Federal Governments. Tho Gov.
ernments of Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and
Saxonia oppose the consolidation scheme.
JUDGE FISHER, of the Baltimore City
Circuit Court, recently issued an injunc.
ton against the Philadelphia, Wilmington
& Delaware Road, restraining it from in
terfering with transportation of passen-
gers, baggage etc, over its line in the cars
of the Baltimore & Ohio road, and re-
quiring it to receive all cars and freight as
before. A 100000 bond was given, with
Robert Garrett and John Gregg as securi.
ties.
Ex-Governor ST. JopS, Prohibition
candidate for President, has issued letter
reiterating the reasons why he should not
withdraw from the race. The letter is al
dressed to Prof. Theodore D. Woolsey, Of
New Haven, and dozen other eminent
scholars.
GsoRGE SMITH and James Pension, of
Argyle, Wis, recently arrested for causing
the death of a sister Of the latter, hand
some young lady aged seventeen years,
whom they had criminally assaulted
week ago, were held to the grand jury
without bail at Galena, Ill. The details of
the examination were especially revolving.
The prisoners were hurried to the county
Jail to escape threatened violence at the
hands of the enraged public.
AT a recent socialist riot at Bradens5urg,
Germany. tie pavements were torn up and
the police were attacked by mobs. After
a good deal of trouble the military quelled
the riot, but not until several men were
wounded on both sides. number Of ar
rests were made.
The Temp erance party won complete
victoru lafalu IN, Tornufa
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17
TENANTS IN COMMON


The Supreme Court of Nor.h Caro-
lima no ds that the possession of one
tenant in ommcn is the possession Of
the other and no action can lie main
tanned for the spc lille personal PROPER
ty held by one Of the tenants against
the other. unless the property has been
destroyed or carried out of the state
LANDLORD AND TRANSPORTATION
PRECEDENT.
Where 3 landlord covenanted 10 keep
a tenant in quiet possession during
tern, another thereupon gra-aa,eed
the rent. it is held by the Superior
Court of kentucky that the covenant is
condition precedent and in a suit on
the guaranty lis performance must be
averred.
SALE OF GOODs-EvIDENCE OF FRAUD.
After the sale OF goods and an actual
and notorious chan e of possession the
employment of the vendor as sales
man or clerk is not of itself conclusive
eviden of fraud. So held by the SUI
preme Court of Dakota in the case Of
Grady VS.. Baker.
GUARANTY.
A contract of guaranty can not bs
L..
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17

" hen married woman having sep
arate estate makes note for her own
benefit. the presumption is that she in
tended to hind such estate; and that
presumption is not destroyed BY the fact
that the payee of the note requires her
to keep the property. on which the note
is lien. insured. -heutdeky Court OF
Appeals.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-17

A contract of guaranty can not bs
supported by consideration already )
executed between the principal and :
creditor. So held By the Superior Court
Of entucky.
, 1884-10-21
Last snake story Of the Year.


lColuHlDus V0h-l AiInes-l
A strange story comes to us from one of
the counties below here, and IL it were not
for the fact that fact is more strange than
fiction, we should feel a h~esitancy about re-
lating 1t. The story is this: A gentleman
having been at work in a field some distance
from home had carried his dinner with him.
When noon came he took his basket and went
in a piece of woods near by, and close to a
creek, TO eat his dinner. After finishing the
meal he sat down on u log to rest awhile be-
fore resuming his work. While thus eli
gagged, happening to glance at an old de-
cayed stump just before him, he saw a
snakes mead protruding from a hole. lie
Immediately seized a long pole and went up
by the side OF the stump waiting to sec If the
snake, which had gone back, would reappear.
In a short time the snake not seeing him,
crawled out, and as he did so the gentleman
killed him with a welldirected blow, seeing
then, to his horror, that It was that most
dreaded reptile, the rattlesnake. To bis
astonishment another came out and was also
slain, and another, and another, until thirty
four had been counted. While still watching
the hole he observed that the last snake had
only been wounded and had crawled of, and
was, apparently, writhing in the agonies
of death some distance off ON a
sand bar caused by the overflow OF the creek.
He Immediately left his post and advanced
toward the hideous reptile to dispatch him.
When ho reach the spot tho snake was APP
parently dead Looking down ON tho smooth
sand near by he saw. to his utter amazement,
the words mo more" traced thereon in plain,
distinct characters. He looked at the snake
and he looked at the words. He saw that a
capital N should lave been used in com
mencing a sentence, and he made the correc-
ton, then, seized with a sudden superstitious
fear, he hastened home and told bis strange
story. We give it to the public for what it
is worth, After all the snake may have lied,
perhaps there was more.
, 1884-10-21
Pet. of the Railroad Men.

LAN1W quill
A jolly-faeed man darted out from the
starters box at the city hall elevated station
heaped some sweet bread crumbs on the
top of a coal box at the end of the station.
Then he poured some fresh water into a large
tin cup near the crumbs and hurried back to
his box.
Half a dozen pigeons that had been watch
ing him from the roof of a house opposite the
station flew one after another TO the bread
crumbs, ate what they wanted, took a drink
Of the water, and sailed away again. A
dozen sparrows that had been uneasily hut-
tering about the telegraph wires flew to the
crumb box in a flock the moment the pigeons
departed and quickly devoured what was
left of the bread.
There" said tho starter, @you lave seen
something that goes on here every day as
regular as clockwork. The pigeons some in
the morning and about this time in the after
noon every day and enjoy their meal. The
pigeons alwa Us eat their share one at a time,
as you have seen. They hada regular battle
last month to settle which should be the
leader at the meal, and the biggest and hand
soonest male of the lot won, and has ever
since been first at table. The sparrows feed
last Of all. All the birds are pets OF the train
men. They send down lots of bread and cake
to be fed to the flock, and the birds are seem
ingly getting to know Them
Sparrows build nests in a great many OF
the station roofs on all the elevated lines,
and are fed by the porters. In one down
own station there is a pet mouse that is fed
till It has got so fat it can hardly run. Sew
eral ticket agents have fitted up cages In
their stations, and canaries sing In them.
, 1884-10-21
Young Men,

Who may be suffering from nervous debility,
will do well to avail Themselves of this, the
greatest boon ever laid at the altar Of suffering
humanity.
DIR SPINNEY WILL GUARANTEE TO
FORFEIT FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS Tor
every case Of weakness or disease OF any Kind or
character which he undertakes and fails to cure.
He would, therefore say TO the unfortunate suf-
ferer who may read this notice, that you are
trending on dangerous ground when you longer
delay in seeking the proper remedy for your
complaint. You may be in the nrst stage-re-
member that you are approaching the last II
you are bordering ON the last, and are suffering
some or all fits Ill effects, remember that II
you obstinately persist in procrastinatlOn, the
time must come when the most skillml physi-
clan can render you no assistance when the
door OF hope will be closed against you when
nasa ~ tha dac,,r eati't ~ ssUccass Thar i nv
not despair work Itself upon your imagination,
but avail yourself OF the beneficial results OF his
treatment before your case Is beyond the reach
Of medical skin, or before grim death hurries
you to a premature grave.
plies Cured Using Knife or
, 1884-10-21
VARIETY N llEE-pREsERyERs.
This supervising Inspector elves an
Accoun Of Them.


Washington Cor. New York Postl
Soon after the occurrence of each new
marine disaster said Gen. Dumont, super
vising Inspector general of steam vessels,
1--WE ars sure to DO flooded with numerous APP
planes for saving the lives OF shipwrecked
persons Since the wreck of the Columbus
there have been several life buoys presented
as samples for adoption. Many OF these arti-
Giles are very ingenious, but very few Of
them are OF any practical value. Years ago
the appliance for keeping bodies aioat in
water consisted OF two or more bladder
blown up and tied together with a string.
The first life-preserver adopted by the board
of supervising inspectors, in 1852. consisted
Of cylindrical tin buoys, hermetically sealed
1t was found, however. that the liability %
rust, and the danger OF perforation, was SO
great that they had TO be discarded, and
rubber bags were next chosen as the proper
preservers for steam vessels.
Later, cork came into use, and this article
has been the main component Of preservers
for many years. Latterly, however, 1t was
found that many OF the cork preservers were
losing their b~uoyancy. and at the last meet
ing OF the board Il new device was adopted.
1t was a very simple and inexpensive affair,
yet 1t answers all the purposes for which "A
life-preserver Is needed. The buoy consists
- - RaAeAe' Va - ~ aoac' c@~'
about three inches in diameter, and composed
OF about twenty pieces OF reed or rush. This
rush grows in enormous quantities in Califor-
mia, and is called the tula reed; each stem is
a succession OF cells surrounded by pith, and
the outer surface is glazed somewhat after
the style OF a cornstalk. The inventor
is a Californian, and he says he can
make the preservers at u cost Of about
10 cents each. Their buoyancy is very great,
and as cheapness Is an element to be con-
sidered TO a certain extent, the board con-
cluded TINT this tula preserver Is the best for
the purpose yet offered.
The inventors are always getting up some
thing new. A lady from Mississippi is the
latest contributor to our stock of oddities.
Her contribution consists of u modi1ca-
ton Of the old tin cylinder. She makes hers
out Of birch bark, with a deck OF the same
material. 1t is trimmed up with white Can
ton Hannela and blu ribbons to fasten across
the shoulders, and altogether is a very pretty
article, but as the birch bark is as liable to
perforation as the tin, and as the ends are
simply glued on, 1t would scarcely do to
adopt it for service. Besides, it must be an
extremely expensive affair; only wealthy
owners of fancy yachts could afford to pur-
chase IT. 1t will not be adopted"
, 1884-10-21

DR.. G. ID. WARNER:-Dear Sir re-
ceiyed the complimentary bottle Of White
Wine of Tar Syrup you so kindly sent me.
Our little six year old daughter had a very
sore throat, badly liberated, and coughed
almost necessarily We gave the medi-
cine according to directions, and she be-
gan to improve Immediately and soon got
well. Please accept thanks. Mrs. Groves
aud | have recommended il to Others. |
shall want to get some of it at the begin
ming of Winter. AS | consider it a very
superior medicine. Yours very respect
fully, REv. Ii. d. Groves,
Clarksville, Mo, Pastor NJ. +. Church