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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
National Crop Report.

WASHINGTON, May 9.-The May report
of the Department of Agriculture relates to
the progress of Spring blowing and of cot
ton planting and to the condition of winter
grain, meadows and pastures 1t also .e-
ports the prevailing rates of wages of farm
labor. Spring blowing in preparation for
planting is everywhere late. Last year al
this date it YVES estimated to be twO-thirds
done. This year it is scarcely six-tenths.
The estimated average of series of years
exceeds seven-tenths. Less than half of
this work is done in the Eastern States, in
New York, Ohio and Michigan. The roofs
were killed in the central belt even worse
than was supposed. In New York the snow
protection was ample except in spots, and
in Michigan no material injury oc-
Cured. But in the Ohio valley and in
Missouri reports of condition are much lie
duced. In the South slight improvement
in the prospect has occurred. The average
of the condition in the principal wheat
growing States IS as follows: New York
IS, Michigan 100, Ohio 50, Kentucky 45,
Indiana 20, Illinois y. Missouri 60. The
average is 20 instead of a in April, re-
duct;On of about per cent, reducing the
indicated production of winter wheat to
about 24O. 600, 900 bushels. The condition
of rye is also lower than reported in April,
vet much better than wheat. The average
is S6. The average condition ,Of winter
barley is S. The moving lands promise a
nearly average crop of hay, the average
condition being 81. Pastures look nearly
as well, with a condition of 30.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
A CHICAGO akE.
Forty i've Million Feet of Lumber Burned
-Loss and Insurance.


Forty i've Million Feet OF Lumber Burned
Loss and Insurance..
CHICAGO, ILL, May 9.-Shortly after
noon yseterdaya spark from passing loco
motive set fire to the heart of the great
pine lumber district which lies along both
sides of the south branch of the Chicago
River, and near the southwestern city limits.
Bordering upon this is wooden built por-
ton of the city known as Bridgeport and
the Union Stock Yards. with its acres Of
wooden sheds and pens filled with cattle,
hogs and sheep. A fierce wind was blow
ing from the west, and the flames spread
with great rapidity. The entire fire depart
meut was called out and began fighting
the flames, but the twenty or thirty streams
of water which could be thrown upon them
had little or no effect as far as staying
their progress was concerned. The dry
pine boards and shingles were piled to great
heights, only narrow lanes being lett be
tween them for wagons to pass thrOughs
These narrow lanes furnished unusual facil-
tiles for the progress of the flames, while
they broke the force of the streams of water
and prevented them from
PENETRATING TO THE BLAZING PINE
fire spread rapidly to the business center Of
the city and created much alarm lest the
fire should assume proportions approaching
those of the great conflagation of 1871,
which came from the same direction. Great
brands were carried forward by the wind
setting fire to new piles and several fire
steamers and the men manning them had
narrow escapes from destruction. Starting
upon the west of the river the flames ate
up all the lumber between Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-eighth streets, an area of about 400
by 1000 feet. 1t set fire to a canal boat
moOred at the dock, and it flOated
across the river, which is $50 feet
wide at this point, and set fire to
the lumber on the east bank, which
covered about an equal area, and this, with
one or two planning mills. was CONSUMED.
Brands were carried eastward and set fire to
several small frame houses occupied by en-
ployes i'm the lumber district The fire de-
partment, however, made stand at this
point and succeeded in preventing the
spread of the flames into the residence dis
trict The fight continued throughout the
afternoon and it was nearly seven O'Clock
before the contlagration was
BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL,
having practically burned itself out to the
limits of the immediate district i'm which it
began. A heavy rain during most of the
afternoon was of material assistance. The
entire area burned is $40 by $500 feet.
The aggregate of the lumber destroyed
was As, o00, 600 feet, valued at sT00,000. The
individual losses and insunnces as far as
can be learned are as follows: Chicago
Lumber Company, $4,000, 900 feet of lumber
valued at 100000; insurance, $500, 900 /;
Biglow Bros, 100000 feet of lumber
valued at S175,000; insurance, S125,0O0 /;
Adams, Hastings & Co., 100000 feet Of
lumber valued at $4,000; insurance, $780,
600; j. w. Henckley, planning mill; loss,
$4,000; insurance $4,000; five cottages,
aggregate loss about $4,000; insurance
about So, 900,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
Suicide from shame.

NEW York, May 9.-The Rev. j. II
Daily, formerly pastor Of the Trinity Meth.
odist Episcopal Church in York street, Jer
sey City, who left the ministry, confessing
he had been improperly intimate with Mrs.
Stewart, servant in his house, has com
mtted suicide. After he left Jersey City
he went to New Orleans to study medicine.
He applied himself too closely, and that to-
gesher with his domestic troubles under
mined his health. He decided, however, to
90 to ST. Louis to open an Office. and on
April 81 he boardea Mississippi River
steamer. That evening he rushed to the
eulwsrks and threw himself into the river.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
End of tn. Cattle Deadlock.

SPRISGFIELL. FL, May 7.-Goyernor
Oglesby TODAY sant dispatch to number
of Western shippers OF cattle naming
several veterinarians il Missouri who,
having been recommended by Mr.. Paul
Paquin, Stats Veterinarian Of Missouri,
have been declared qualified TO act as
inspectors Of cattle passing through
or coming from Missouri into Illinois. The
certificate of any other inspector recon-
mended by the Missouri State Veterinarian
will also be recognized, but the certificate
of no other persens will be accepted. This
apparently ends me deadlock between Mis-
souri, and IIliuols authorities.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
The Plague Increaainc.

WuKEsBARRE, Pa, May S.-The sud-
den rise in temperature yesterday had a
bad effect on the people in the fever
stricken town of Plymouth. Ninety new
cases are reported this morning. A raid
was made on the physicians last
night who had retired early to get
little much needed sheep, but toward
midnight they were routed out again
by fresh cases just broken out. DIR. Mckee,
who has attended upwards of twenty-five
hundred cases in the last four weeks, had
given up, as he is completely worn out.
Several other physicians are in the same
state A fifty dollar contribution was re-
ceived from Philadelphia.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
INTO ANOTHER ROW.

Russia Gets Astraddle of the Heather
Chinee on the Frontier Question.
LONDON, May "a dispatch from
Shanghai says that dispute between tine
Chinese and Russian Governments over the
Manchorian frontier question, is assum
ing alarming proportions. The Chin
ese Commissioner appointed to
meet the Russian Commissioner for the
purpose of settling disputes arising out of
the frontier question and fixing on divid.
ing line between the Russian and Chinese
positions i'm Asia has been awaiting the
arrival of the Russian commissioner for
several weeks, but as yet that officer has
not put in appearance. The Chinese Of
flcers are indignant at this. and openly
accuse Russia of acting in bad faith. They
assert that the same tactics are pursued by
Russia in dealing with the English.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
Fined md Sent to jail.

METROPOLIS, ILL, May 81. NJ. Choate:
Cashier of the First National bank and a
wealthy citizen, was sent to Jail yesterday
and fined $1,000 for contempt of court
The contempt consists in persistent refusa!
TO reveal certain testimony AZ a witness in q
murder case wherein relative was on trial
for killing John w. Trumbo last fall. Soon
after the tragedy. Alien Choate, John
Martin and Frank McGrum were arrested.
charged with TrumbO's murder. The
banker, Choate, is in possession Of certain
information which was obtained under a
seal of secresy and which he declined to
yield. 1t is thought Choate will remain
firm and refuse 10 testify.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
The Tri., OF Gluyrrius.

RICHMOND, VA. May 9.-When the trial
of T. J. Clugc-ius, charged with the muir
der of Lillian Madison, was resumed to-
day, Judge Atkins ordered the discharge of
r. W. Lark and A. S. Goode, jurors OBJ
iected to by the prosecution on the ground
that Lark said that he would not convict a
man on circumstantial evidence, and be-
,'ausc Goode, previous to being summoned,
had bet that Cluyerius would be acquitted.
William Reinherner, another juror, was
released upon his settlement that he suffered
from vertigo. Two hundred talesmcn were
then examined and three qualified jurors
were obtained, making the number, twelve.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
GENERAL.

DENMARK was reported willing to act as
arbitrator of the dispute between England
and Russia should her services be requested
by both of those countries.
THE revolutionist, Prestan, who burned
Colon and made his escape, has since then
seized three steamships at Porto Bello,
with the help of which it was feared he
would make trouble unless the United
States naval forces would capture him and
his vessels.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL made a
characteristic attack on the Gladstone
Government in the House of Commons on
the Sd, declaring the policy of the Govern
ment to be "base, cowardly surrender to
Russia"
CHOLERA was reported spreading in the
provinces of Valencia, Spain. Alondia,
Blaners, and other villages were sur
rounded by cordons of gensdarmes.
EARL GRANVILLE, in the House of Lords
on the 4th, announced that Russia had
agreed to reopen all matters in dispute
with regard to the Afghan frontier and
the Penjdeh incident. In the House of
Commons the vote of credit demanded by
the Government was finally passed.
COLONEL OTTER with a body of Cana
dian troops, left Battleford and engaged
Poundmaker's Indians recently. The
Canadians lost seven killed and twelve
wounded. The Indian loss was about
fifty.
ADvIcEs from China report disorders in
Kuansu, where a Mohammedan revolt has
been melted by Russia. 1t is said that the
Chinese General Tsam has been sent with
troops to suppress the revolt.
DISPUTES were reported as existing be-
tween Russia and China over the Man
chorian frontier.
IT was reported at Panama recently that
treaty had been concluded between the
Government of Bogota and the Minister of
the United States with respect to the Sc
curity of transit across the isthmus. This
treaty is said to confer on the United States
Government certain rights of guardianship
of all transit either by mail or canal across
the isthmus of Panama
ST. PETERSBURG newspapers were an
noyed at Russia's accepting an arbitrator
to settle the difficulty with England, and
consider it concession to DeGeris' pacific
policy.
MAXWELL, the alleged murderer OF Prel-
Ter at the Southern Hotel, st. Louis, was
arrested on the arrival of the steamer at
Auckland, New Zealand. He protested
against his arrest.
THE Government of New South Wales
has invited the Governments of the other
British Australian colonies to unite with
| it and indemnify coal dealers in the col
| onies from all losses sustained by them in
refusing coal to cruisers and other vessels
belonging to the hostile powers during the
period of war or warlike difficulty with
England.
THE Gar has issued decree creating
two trans Caspian reserve battaliocs,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
THE LATEST.

THE Catholic prelates recently in session
at Baltimore resolved upon erecting uni
vsrsity at Washington, d. C.
SIGNoR r. r. MANCINI, of Italy, has re-
lsigned his office as Foreign Minister and
his portfolio has been taken ly the Pro-
mier, Signor A. Depretis.
The Crittenden trial at Taylorville, KY,
resulted in hung jury, ten for acquittal
and two for imprisonment
The grand stand, reporters stand and
judges stand of the Prospect Park fair
grounds, New York, were burned recently;
insured.
The Chicago University was sold by the
United States Marshal under a mortgage
held by the Union Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Maine. Tht only bid was
S215, 900, made by the insurance company.
Its total claim was about $4,000.
THE wife of Viscount Parker drowned
herself recently in the Red Sea.
ANOTHER fracas occurred between Or
angemen and Catholics in Conception Bay,
Newfoundland. Some of the combatants
were severely wounded. Knives and other
deadly weapons were freely used.
AT Six Mile Ferry, on the Monongahela
River, skif upset recently, throwing
seven persons into the water. A man, q
woman and boy were drowned. The rest
escaped by clinging to the overturned boat.
WILLIAM WILLIS was drowned recently
by the capsizing of a yacht of Blackwelps
Island.
THE clearing house returns for week
ended May 9 showed O decrease Of 3d.
compared with the corresponding week of
last year. In New York the decrease was
31.6; in Kansas City the increase was 3S.3;
in Pittsburgh the decrease was $50.
A BOY named Hibbard, aged sixteen,
swallowed trade dollar at Milwaukee re-
Gently. His condition was reported un-
easy.
The strike of the Paris tailors failed, the
strikers being in want of funds.
THE laying of the new Havana cable has
been completed.
GENERAL MIDDLETON had an engage
ment with RiePs adherents at Batouche's
Crossing on the 9th. The rebels were
shelled out of the houses and other places
where they sought refuge. Fighting lasted
all day. The Canadians were reported get
ting warmed up to the work. A prisoner
rescued by scouts stated that Riel had 400
men and was short of ammunition.
The Newfoundland sealer Young Prince
came in collision with an iceberg in the
Gulf of st. Lawrence April 10. She sank
almost Immediately. The crew of thirty
two men lived on the ice foe for nineteen
days, when they were rescued by French
brig.
The London Times thinks Canada has q
long and bloody war before her in the
Northwest.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
The True Inwardn~ss.

TOLEDO, May THE Toledo Board Of
Trade have sent two gentlemen as delegates
to New York, complaining that the Wa
bash, st. Louis & Pacific is being operated
i'm manner detrimental to the interests Of
the City of Toledo by the diversion Of
traffic from the main line of the Wabash,
which runs from LoganspOrt to Toledo.
They claim that through freight is diverted
to the leased line of the Wabash, from
Peru, Ind, to Detroit, and that the diver
sion is made by the receivers to make the
leased line earn its interest charges be-
cause the friends of the receivers hold the
securities of the leased line.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
Will Commune TO Play "'49."

PoRrI.ANn> ORE, May Mckee
Rankin, who with his company is
playing here. was interviewed regard
ing a dispatch announcing the decree
of the New York Supreme Court
enjoining him rom playing ''Old 40"
and allowing plaintiff, Joaquin Miller, GER
tain damages. Ar. Rankin claims that Mil
Ter has no interest whatever in the play
He wrote but one part of the play which
subsequently wa. cut out bodily when Mil
Ter became unreasonable in his demands for
more money. Rankin thinks there must be
a mistake about tpe dispatch. When asked
if he would aossinue play 49," Rankin
replied that he would.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
THE WEST,

The seven-year old son of q wealthy
resident of Taratan, Mexico, named Lepez
was kidnapped a few days ago and the
father notified that the child would be
killed if $4,000 ransom was not deposited
IN n certain place within two days. The
money not being forthcoming, the child
was murdered and mutilated and thrown
Into the courtyard OF its fathers residence.
Atwelve year-old sister fell dead on seeing
her brothers. corpse and the father went
insane.
The fire at vincennes, Ind, the other
night destroyed nine buildings, including
the opera house and post-office and caused
a loss of $4,000.
CHARLES A. LIBBY, a partner in the New
York and Chicago house of James A.
Libby & Co., mysteriously disappeared
from Chicago recently.
GENERAL MCDOWELL, the well-known
army officer, died at San Francisco at mid
night on the 4th.
The Indisns on the Winnebago Reserva-
tion were very threatening to the settlers.
Bloodshed was feared.
AT Bontio, fiftern miles from Fort Stan
ton, n. NJ, a robber named Martin
Nelson, shot and killed W. II. Flynn,
a physician. The robber then killed
a family of five persons named May
bury, who were alarmed by the firing. The
assassin also slew a neighbor and a guard
named Herman Beck, and was then him.
self shot dead. Nelson was originally from
Nebraska.
A MAN named Hunter was attacked by
highwaymen at Juneau, Wis, recently and
robbed of s., 200.
GOVERNOR ALGER, of Michigan, vetoed
the bill giving to the minority of share
holders in joint-stock companies represen-
tation on boards of directors, on the
ground of the retroactive nature of the
measure. The Legislature reconsidered
the vote by which the bill passed and the
bill was tabled for future action.
TIE election for Senator in the thirty
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
A cHocTAW BOY EXECUTED.
A Seyenteen-Y "ar-Oid Boy Executed In
Choctaw Fashion for Murder.

A Seyenteen-Y" ar-Oid Boy Executed In
Choctaw Fashion for Murder.
FORT SMITH, ARK, May Mitchell
Anderson, Choctaw Indian, seventeen
years old, was yesterday executed, accord
ing to the custom of that Nation, for the
murder of another boy named Winchester,
last summer. Anderson was convicted in
court of the Marshalatubbel district, and
was sentenced in February. He shot Win
chester while the latter was passing lonely
Toad, then horribly mntiiated the body and
secured Sis. The condemned youth was
seated upon blanket in an open place
with piece of white paper over his heart;
the executiOner knelt before him and with
one shot killed him. Anderson denied the
killing until within the last few days.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
A man in Eastern Arkansas was

"A man in Eastern Arkansas was
arrested on a charge of marrying girl
who was engaged to some one else.
"Your honor, said a lawyer, when the
bridegroom had heen arraigned, this
man has not violated the law, and l
demand his release" Wasn't the
gal engaged to John Jackson?" Yes,
Sir" .'Then Bill Simons must be
held" Under what law your hon.
or?' "Under the law of removing
mortgaged property. Take him to
jail, MIR. Constable. "-ArkanSaU Trar-
eler.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.


THE President has appointed Stuart Tay-
Tor to be Naval Officer of Customs at San
Francisco, and William d. N. Hunter to be
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Sixth District of Indiana.
COMMISSIONER GOTHAM has called a
convention of representatives of the differ
emit agricultural colleges Of the country to
be held in Washington.
THE State Department has not received
any protest from the Austrian Govern
ment concerning the appointment of Min
lister Kelley to Vienna. The cable rumor
that objection will be made against him be-
cause his wife is a Jewess, finds no Gre
dence in administration circles.
IT was stated at the Post Office Depart
ment in Washington that Postmaster Pal
mer, of Chicago, was removed for "onen-
sive partisanship." The Postmaster Cen
eral said Palmer was an active worker in
the recent campaign and one of those Re-
publicans whose continuance was not
deemed advisable by the Administration.
SECRETARY WHITNEY and John Roach
have agreed that the Dolphin shall have
another trial trip before her final accept
take place in the sound and will be six
hours trip.
S. E. HAMBERLIN, one of the Special
Agents of the Treasury Department, re-
Gently relieved by Secretary Manning,
has been appointed Special Inspector of
Customs.
THE President recently made the follow
ing appointments: George Lothrop, Mich
igan, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Min.
lister Plenipotentiary of the United States
to Russia; Boyd Winchester, of Kentucky,
to be Minister Resident and Consul-Gen-
eral of the United States to Switzerland;
j. E. W. Thompson, of New York, to be
Minister Resident and Consul-General Of
the United States to Hayti.
The President declined the invitation OF
a Georgia delegation to visit Atlanta dur
ing the session of the Commercial Conven-
ton, the latter part of May. The Presi-
dents official duties would not permit him
to leave Washington.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
THE EAST,

Ar Waterloo, n. Y, recently, the house
of J. A. Logan was destroyed by fire.
Logan, his wife and child were burned to
death and other members of the family
were seriously injured. ~ sxk2 EsgsA ~
NUMEROUS attachments were being put
upon the Bankers & Merchants Telegraph
Company at New York, and the wires from
that city to Fall River were attached.
RICHARD SHORT, recently on trial in New
York for a murderous assault on Captain
Phelan, was acquitted by the jury. The
Judge expressed his establishment at the
verdict.
henry BRAHAM, at New York, recently,
obtained divorce from his wife, the ac-
tress known as Lillian Russell.
Hon. E. j. PHELPS, United States Min
lister to England, sailed for Europe on the
6th.
A FIRE at Hampton Beach, n. H., re-
Gently burned the Sea View House, the At
lantic House and the Ocean House, and is
reported to have swept the beach, destroy
ing the cottages. Loss, 100000.
JOSEPH W. DRExEL, Oswald Ottendorfer,
Felix Adler and other noted New Workers
have formed tenement house building
company.
IT was rumored that 81 900 had been Of
fered for the capture of Abe B. Buzzard.
A party was being organized to raid the
Welsh Mountain in Pennsylvania, where
Abe was known to be.
THE jury in the case against Prof. H.
Galmas, charged with having slapped
David NJ. Lovey, a pupil at the West Hamp-
ton, Long Island, school in 1888, and there
by caused the boys deafness, brought in a
verdict for 81 900.
A SENSATION was created in Buffalo, n.
Y, recently by an action brought by Peter
Weller and wife against Adam and Louis
Weller, their sons. The parents claimed
that their sons presented documents to
them, which they signed, not knowing
what they were, but which proved to be
papers transferring an estate worth $115,.
COG to the sons.
IT was believed that over twenty -one
persons persisted a.. the buildings that fell
in Brooklyn, N. Y, recently and then tool
fire. Many of the bodies recovered from
the ruins were mere fragments.
ONE of the jurors in the recent trial of
Richard Short in New York has been ar.
rested for corruption and perjury.
THE body of Daniel Kinney, another VIC
tim of the mine disaster at Raven Run, Pa.
has been recovered. This made a total o.
:. six recovered, leaving four in the mine.
THE cause of the fever ravaging Ply
mouth, Pa, was discovered to be due to the
excreta of family suffering from fever
The family lived near the head waters of &
mountain stream supplying Plymouth witt
water, and the heavy rains of last March
carried the cesspool into the river.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-15
On the the beach at Seaside Park q

On the the beach at Seaside Park 3
peculiar oyster shell was picked up the
other day. A portion of the outside of
the she'll is polished, and smooth as a
piece of marble. and that polished part
contains two capital Is in reverse order.
These letters are deeply and smoothly
engraved into the shell. Beneath them
are two initial letters Of Uncle Sam )
name, also in inverted order. 1t is
believed that the oyster, when young,
lay upon o metal plate in the water
having raised letters.--N T. Tribune.