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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-04-17

lhe familiar and ever pleasant co1nte-
nance Of the venerable Rev. DR.. Tenney Of
Your City. appeared among u ol ) inl4v
last. holding services Al tne Union church.
Iii, words Of wisdom and truth are ever
welcome.
Extensive allit1n, are being made 10
Mr.. H. 4. Grants cottage, by Mr. Lewis
II. Higgins. Mr.. Grant i resident Of
TarrStown y. \.
AZ the Republican Caucus holden On
lle,da, Of last week, ). II. RoJck. T. VI.
Hamor. +. VI. Conners and J. f. Hamor
were elected delegates 10 the convention at
Bangor, April 3D. :. H. Rodick, Howard
Emery. Cha~. Paine and L. 5. Hamor were
chosen for Town Committee
Mr. John Dekoyen Of Chicago. ha, re-
Gently leased the Alcenus Higgins cottage.
On Holland avenue, for the coming season.
The familiar face of Mr.. Matthews. of
the firm of Matthews Bros, of Belfast, manu-
blinds. mouldings. &c, was seen at Bar
Harbor. on Saturday last, looking after the
interests Of his business.
Spring coots are feing in the bay aud
cunning /, in order.
Applications for cottages at Bar lilrbor,
and also for hotel accommodations arr re-
ported to Be good as usual this spring,
notwithstanding the cry Of dull times.
The cottage known at Bar Harbor in
times past as the "Thayer Cottage" and
owned by 4. f. Higgins. was sold recently
to a relative of the Rev. {. S. Lefingwel.
The roofing Of the skating rink is near
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
BREAKING THE ICE BRIDGE.
st. Louis Annual Smash-Up Of Steamboat
and Bridges.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31.-Just before dark
Wednesday afternoon the ice bridge across
the Mississippi River broke, and the great
mass. from point just below the bridge,
commenced moving. The ice was very
thick, and breakup was not looked for, SC
many Of the steamers were unprepared for
what came. Fires were made hurriedly.
A few minutes after the ice commenced
moving the whistling began, and summoned
thousands to the river front The ice moved
rapidly, and, as it iourneysd along. broke
up, and in some places piled very high, and
looked as though it would carry everything
before it. The Anchor wharf boats, which
are mOored to the levee with immense
chains, were the first to feel the shock, and
they were driven high upon the levee. Then
the moving mass struck the wrecking steam
er Salvo No. 2, breaking in her sides and
filling her so full of water that she turned
over i'm such position that the ice was
carried over her, forming regular stairway
Further down the ice hit the St Paul and
St Louis Packet Company's fine steamer
Minneapolis, crushing in her sides and sink
ing her. She now lies upon enc side and in
a critical position. She is valued at $40 600,
and the Salvo, owned by Carroll & Powell,
is worth $40, 600. Both sustain great dam
age to hull and machinery. At the foot of
Lesperance street the ice struck the wharf
boat Robert Mitchell and did considerable
damage to it The ice is still moving. but
gorge is looked for at the Arsenal or Just
below.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
The Rehearins Decision.

The Railroad Commissioners recently
made their decision upon the petition of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad for
: rehearing of the cases of Usage City,
Great Bend and Newton against the Atchi-
son, Topeka G. Santa Fe Company, made
On January l, in which the railroad claimed
that the decision was not legal because
made only by two members; that it sought
TO regulate Interstate commerce, and is,
therefore, excessive of lawful authority !;
that it was in violation of the chartered
rights of the company; that it was based
upon a mistake as to the company's rev.
snue, and several other mistakes, stated,
rs to the company's revenue; that the tariff
rates fixed were unjust to the company and
the people of the State; that the standard
of tariffs in Illinois was not a fair basis for
Kansas, and that the decision seeks to COM
pei the Santa Fe to fix rates over its own
line and the Leavenworth, Topeka e.
Southwestern Railroad, which is not
owned by the respondent COM
pany. As to the plea that
the decision sis in violation Of the
chartered rights and privileges of the COM
pany." the Commissioners say: "Unques-
tionably the power to fix rates for the
transportation of persons and property is
(by law] vested in the company, but the
act does not by its terms, nor yet by any
fair implication, vest that power exclu-
sively in the company. The State may, it
has been decided, stipulate in the act con-
ferring corporate powers and privileges
upon a company, in consideration of pub
lie advantages to be derived from the
operation of the company's works, that
such company shall possess exclusive
power to establish and regulate its own
rates and charges for its services. But the
fact that the Government intended to re-
iinquish to the company all of its power of
regulation and control in respect to such
matters is never presumed; but the rule
clearly established and firmly adhered to,
casts all the Prescriptions the other way.
The power to establish and regulate tolls
for the use of the public highways is a SOW
ereign power, and in this respect at least
railroads are held to be such, and the
State is never held to have abdicated any
portion of this power ip favor of corpora
tions. unless the purpose to do so is clearly
powers of the corporation are vested in a
Board of Directors who are empowered to
exercise the same. In the absence of any
statutory regulation of rates, either d.
rectly or indirectly through some statutory
medium, as Board of Commissioners, the
power to fix rates is exercised by, or de-
rived from, the Board of Directors. In con-
temptation of law, the fixing of rates when
done by the company is a regulation estab-
lished by the Board Of Directors. The
Board of Directors have the power to estab-
lish bylaws, regulations, etc., for the
conduct Of the business of the company
provided they are not inconsistent with
the laws ofthe United States or of this State.
In other words, the company has
the power to fix rates upon its road for
transportation services so long as the State
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
A Movement for the Monopoly Of News
Matter.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-The follow
ing letter, received by an Ohio member
Of Congress, discloses information Of
value to every newspaper publisher in
the land. the writer Is the President Of
one of the most successful of New York
newspapers; II am informed that COM
mittee representing the metropolitan press
is now in Washington endeavoring to Sc
cure the passage Of a law to copyright news
matter for forty eight hours after publica-
lion. 1t is obvious that the intention Of the
law is to legalize gigantic monopoly of tho
current news of the day, during the period
when it is of the greatest value, and to make
1t unlawful for papers outside Of the
organization to reproduce anything that the
monopoly has used until forty-eight hours
later. can hardly conceive that Congress
would entertain such an absurd propositions;
but, nevertheless, an attempt is being seri-
ously and determinedly made to secure the
passage Of such law, and, therefore, de-
sire to call your attention to it. There is q
popular notion that the country is pretty
well supplied with monopolies already, and
hardly know what the dear people would
think of a monopoly empowered with the
privilege Of levying an embargo on the eur.
rent news of the day. Let me entreat you
to give your earnest and careful considers
ton to this important matter"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08

sons, growing out of q wise and just public
policy, for the establishment of distance
tariff rates as low as can reasonably be
afforded. It tends to build up and encour-
age manufacturing and other business en-
terprises within the State. The rail-
roads operating here derive their chief
substance and support from the productive
industries of the people of the State. In
the building Of large number of the rail-
roads Of the State, the people have directly
contributed aid In lavish manner. 1t is,
therefore, in the highest degree unjust to
maintain through and distance rates so dis.
proportional as to repress the industrial
development of State whose people have
made the railroad systems within it strong,
and throw the greatbulk of industrial wealth
into another State" In regard to coal
shipped from the Usage mines, the Com
missioners were not prepared to reach a
satisfactory conclusion. Additional evi.
dence was being examined and decision
would soon be reached. The rates pre-
scribed are not intended to supersede spe-
cial tariffs or rates on live stock, coal,
stone, hay and emigrants' outfit, when
such special tariffs provide rates below
those fixed by the Commissioners. The
Board expressed the opinion that all such
special tariffs, when alike to all, where the
conditions and circumstances are similaA,
are in conflict with no law Of the State,
nor in contravention of just rules of ''usi-
ness which should cover the conduct of
railroad affairs. For the purpose of afford
ing sufficient time to the respondent COM
pany to formulate freight schedules in ac-
cordance with this decision the time is ex-
tended twenty days from January 80 for
the taking effect of the new rates, unless
for good cause shown it shall appear that
this time is insufficient.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
A Roman Circus.

Rome is astir early, citizens and
strangers, slaves and soldiers, all are
hurrying toward the. great pleasure
ground of Rome-the Circus Maximus.
With flutes playing merrily, with sway.
ing standards and cleaning statues,
with proud young cadets, with priests,
and guards with crested helms, skilled
performers, restless horses, glitteripg
chariots, down the Sacred street winds
a long procession, led by the boy
magistrate, Marcus of Rome, the favor
tie of the Emperor. 1t passes into the
great circus, and files into the arena;
two hundred thousand excited people
think, boys, of q circus tent that holds
two hundred thousand people!-rise to
their feet and welcome it with hearty
hand-clapping. The trumpets sound
the prelude, the young magistrate
(standing in his suggestus, or state box)
filings the n,appa, or white flag, into the
course as the signal for the start; and,
as ringing shout goes up, four glitter
ing chariots, rich in their decorations
of gold and polished ivory, and each
drawn by four plunging horses, burst
from their arched stalls and dash around
the track Green, blue. red, white
the colors of the drivers-stream from
their tunics Around and around they
90. Now one and now another is ahead.
The people strain and cheer, and
many a wager is laid as to the victor.
Another shout! The red chariot
turning too sharply, CRATES against the
metG, or short pillar that stands at the
IS ha ~ no
lower central wall; the horses rear and
plunge, the driver struggles manfully to
control them, but all in vain; over goes
the chariot, while the now maddened
horses dash wildly on until checked by
mounted attendants and led off to their
stalls. '.Blue! blueH' Green! greenr'
rise the varying shouts, as the contend
ing chariots still struggle for the lead.
White is far behind. Now comes the
seventh or final round. Blue leads!
No, green is ahead! Neck and neck
down the home streatch they 90 mag
nificently, and then the cheer of victory
is heard, as, with final dash, the green
rider strikes the white cord first and the
race is won!
Now, in the interval between the races.
come the athletic sports; foOt-racing and
wrestling, rope-dancing and high leap
ing, quoit-throwing and jayelin matches.
One man runs race with fleet Cap
padocian horse; another expert rider
drives two bare-backed horses twice
around the track, leaping from back tic
back as the horses dash around. Can you
see any great difference between the
circus performance of A. ID. 1873 and one
of A. d. 1SS4?-E. S. Brooks, tn st.
Nicholas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
TERRORIZING A TOWN.

Uaknown Miscreants Threatening to Fire
an Ohio village and Butcher its Best
Citizens-A Lady the Innocent Cause si
It All.
FOsroRIA, O., Jan.g31.-The town Of Ar
cadia, six miles west of here, is blazing witt
excitement over threatenings made by I'M
known parties to fire the town and murder
the best citizens. The school directors of
the town have just built $500 school
house. Among the teachers en-
pIoyed is Miss Askcome. of Vanlue
who seems to be the innocent cause
of all the difficulty. On the 26tt
inst. a threatening letter was found on the
desk of the Superintendent of Schools. The
letter charged Miss Askcome's father with
several crimes too horrible to mention.
Soon after this villainous communication
was received each Of the school directors
got letter threatening his life and property
if he did not have Miss Askcome discharged.
But little attention, however, was paid te
these threats, as they were supposed to come
from some one who was jealous of the
young lady.
Seven or eight of such letters in all were
received, the handwriting being good, while
not single word was misspelled, showing
that the waiter was person of education.
As measure Of precaation, watchmen
were stationed at the drugstore, school
house, and several other places, all of which
had been threatened, to save them from the
incendiaries' torch
About II 80 Tuesday night the parties
made their appearance at the residence Of
Mr.. Motganthall, where the young lady was
boarding, and sent large hammer whiz-
zing into the room in which she was sup
posed to be asleep. Morganthall at once
jumped up and went to the door, when three
pistOl-shOts were fired at him in rapid sue
eessiOn, one bullet whizzing by his head
The marauders then decamped. Miss Ask
come has rendered her resignation as teach
er, but the directors have refused to accept
it, saying they purpose to ferret out the
whole thing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
A GREAT FOG.

A Heavy Atmosphere Hangs for Hour
Over New York City to the Danger Of
Life and Limb "A Collision Between
Trains on the AZ" Road-How It APP
peared from the Big Bridge.
NEW York, Jan. 3.-A dense fog Gov
cred the city like pail yesterday. Such
fog has not visited Manhattan Island before
In years The elevated cars, the stages and
ferry-boats were crowded, and very natur.
ally all these routes Of travel were subject
to incessant delays. now and then an acct
dent and uninterrupted confusion. At ten
minutes to eight o'clock Engineer Tower, Of
the Sixth Avenue ~" Railroad, brought
his Harlsm-boe train into the Park
Place depot at . rapid pace just as the
preceding train was starting to get out Of
the way. For some reason or other the block
system, under which the trains were sup
posed to be running, failed to work in this
instance, and Towers train went crashing
into the rear of the car in front with great
violence. There were only two or three
people in the car at the time, and no one
was hurt, though the dummy and car were
sOrry-loOking wrecks.
1t required half an hours labor to clear
away the wreck so as to permit trains to re-
sumo their running. 1t was nearly noon
before trains were running on schedule
time. All the car lines were thrown more
or less off their schedule dnring the day.
Even the drivers of street-carS and trucks
were unable to see just what they were
doing when the fog was thickest Bad as
the fog was on the streets, it was naturally
worse on the rivers. 1t lifted but little from
the face of the water from morning till night,
and those by the river side listened to an I'M
musical entertainment of steam whistles
without an intermissiOn. All the boats were
run at half speed, and it was novel sensa-
ton for landSmen to feel themselves slowly
moving through the water, to hear the
steam voices hailiDg them from every
quarter and every distance, and yet to see
only the deck they stood ON and the
white walls Of fog around them.
To cross the Brooklyn bridge between
six and eight O'Clock was like
trip in the clouds. 1t was balooning,
with nothing but fog in sight Walking
near the towers one could not see the big
cables overhead, and thirty yards away he
could not see the towers themselves. Only
the suspension ropes at the sides of the foot.
bridge were in sight. The majority of
the ferry boats stopped running altogether,
and travel everywhere was very much i'm
peded. There were number of minor ac-
cidcnts, but no serious casualties reported
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
-"rd like for Won to return nv saw,

ike Ior you 10 return my saw,
said carpenter to colored man.
HAS l got yer SAW" IL suppose so,
for you borrowed it, "An' amt /
dun fotch it backe" mo, you haven't"
"WalE, l tell yer, / borrid dat saw
for de s'preme cor't knocked de socks
often de cibil rights bill. De law ez it
STAINS now, says dat white man amt
got no noah rights den a nigger, in
fack, dat da's ies' de same, habin'
right fur right" THAT has nothing
to do with my saw" DE mischief it
don't! Yer had right to lem it, didn't
yer?" ''Of course l did," s.Yas, wall,
OATS one right, an has right to keep
it, OATS anuder right. Good day, sab.
Wheneber yer wanster dicuss de con-
sutton o. de country, blow yer hon an
I'll be ArkansdW Trdceler.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
A False M8ye..

He was a porter in wholesale dry
goods house on Jefferson avenue. His
salary was not large enough to warrant
him in buying fast horse and wearing
silk undershirtS. but he was growing fat
and smoking fair to medium cigars. In
an evil moment the tempter came and
whispered in his ear that he could
make $4,000 as easy as rolling off a log.
With thai much money in his hind
pocket he could cheese the racket and
have new tailor every week in the year.
Yesterday morning at nine O'Clock
the porter invited the senior partner to
90 upon the roof with him to see about
repairs. There was a wicked leer on
his face and strange light in his eyes,
but the guileless senior partner noticed
nothing but the fact that the porter was
getting brandy-fush on his nose. No
sooner had they reached the roof than
the villain seized his employer and
held him suspended over the dizzy
hight and cried out:
"Your check for $4,000 or l drop
you into the alley!"
..Say $4,000"
"Neverr'
MAKE it $4,000"
81 will not! Give me what ask or
over you gor'
Every well-I knock under"
The senior partner sat down on the icy
cover of the trap-door and wrote check
for the sum named. The porter seized il
and swiftly descended and closed the trap
to keep the victim on the roof. 1t was
but the work of five minutes to run to
the bank and present the check.
'.Never had cent on deposit with
u.s." said the cashier az he showed it
back.
The porter had made a false move,
and he had lost. He crossed the river
on the ice, and is now a wanderer on
foreign shores. Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
THE LATEST.

Ar Lancaster, Tex, the other day, John
Nash, an old gentleman, was fatally
stabbed by maniac brother. He had been
him in a room at his home for a number of
years in preference to sending him to an
asylum. On the morning of the tragedy
the maniac escaped, got hold of knife
and inflicted several frightful wounds
upon his brother before he could be Sc
cured.
THE Hamburg American Packet Com
pany recently telegraphed the Secretary Of
he Navy, Offering to transport to New
York without charge the bodies of Captain
belong and party, expected to arrive at
Hamburg shortly.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER recently
placed at the disposal of the House Com
mittee on expenditures in the Department
of Justice, the entire force of the Examiners
Department, to be sent alone or with sub
committees, to investigate the alleged ir-
regularities in the offices of United States
officials. 1t was said the committee would
probably go to New York City for a short
time and investigate the Office of John !.
Davenport, Supervisor of Elections.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary re-
Gently ordered the Lowell Bankruptcy bill
to be favorably reported, With amendments
1t preserves State exemptions, and author
lies involuntary proceedings only against
persons whose debts amount to more than
one thousand dollars and only against
traders. It diminishes the number of Com
missioners in Bankruptcy.
SIxTY-Two new pupils recently entered
the Indian Training School at Carlisle, Pa.
MLLERsBURG, O., was recently shaken
up by an earthquake.
THOMAS CoLLYER and his wife, residing
on Long Island, N. Y, were recently
poisoned by pepper used in the household.
John Cowley and his brother-in-law, were
arrested on suspicion of having poisoned
the pepper. Annie Cowley, a sister to
John, was also arrested. The only motive
known for the crime was that they wanted
to get possession of their fathers property,
which amounted to about $500. The
father died mysteriously some time ago.
FOWLER BROTHERS, the pork packers. re.
Gently entered suit at Chicago against the
members of the late firm of McGeoch,
Everington & Co., for half a million dol
lars damages owing to assertions made by
that firm against the purity of lard the
plaintiffs were putting upon the market
just prior to the collapse of McGeoch.
WENDELL PHILLIPS died at Boston,
Mass, the ID, in the seventy-third year of
his age.
ELEVEN men were recently arrested in
Robinson and Brown Counties, Tex, by
the Sheriffs of those counties and lodged
in Jail at Jewett. for whipping a negro
man.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08

January, s11,s5s,Oos; decrease since June
80, 1883, S65, O07, 4S7.
A COMMITTEE, composed Of members OF
different labor organisations with head
quarters at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently went
to Washington to urge the passage Of bill
restricting the importation of foreign labor
under the contract system.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08

"A woman was fined twenty-five
dollars at Huntsville, Tex, for carry
ing concealed weapons.