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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
A ST. LOUIS HOTEL FIRE.

The Lindell Damaged 100000 by Fire and
Serious Casualties.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, April 29.-Just cigh-
teen years ago the original Lindell Hotel,
a massive structure that was the pride
and triumph OF the city, went down in
fiery grandeur. Late yesterday afternoon
its successor, the present Linde!l,
which par;akes of the triumpbs of
its predecessor, fell victim to
fame and water, and was only
saved from destruction BY the energy of
the fire department, led by the "old
chief" 1t was few minutes before five
O'Clock when smoke was observed issu-
ing in thick, gray clouds from the base
ment OF the hotel.
The fire originated in the base ment.
aud soon smoke was seen issuing from
all The windows on the Sixth street and
Washington avenue sides
The principal damage was done by
smoke and water, and is estimated at
$4,000.
The Offices in the rorun1a were q total
wreck, AMI the rich furniture throughout
the building was ruined.
The guests of the hotel were panic
stricken, and several narrow escapes but
no serious casualties occurred. The loss
is fully covered by insurance.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
40 Fault to Find with Jouett.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 29.-SecFe-
tary Whitney returned from New YORK
to-day. He spent several hours in con-
sultation with the President and Secre-
tary OF State. He said he had no further
information concerning the situation a.
Panama than has been published. lie
saw no reason to criticiSs the manner IN
which Admiral Jouctt exercised his dis
CT, zion. A telegram received from Ad'
miral Jouctt to-day announces his re
turn to Panama from Colon. and says he
hopes to brin: about a peaceful settle
meEt of the troubles
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY.

Celebrated at Augusrs, Ca. by a Resolution
sympathy With Gcn~raI Grant.
AUGUSTA, GA, April 2s.-Memorial day
was observed here by parade of the diff.
ferent military organizations. All business
was suspended, and the ladies decorated
the soldiers graves. The Confederate Sur
viyors' Association unanimously adopted
the language of Colonel c. c. Jones
i'm reference to General Grant, which
concludes as follows: - Remember
ing him now as the generous victor
who at the ever memorable meeting at APP
pOmattox to our immortal Lee. and 10 the
heroes of the Army of Northern Virginia Oh
the 9th of April. 1885, conceded liberal and
magnaninOus terms of surrender, do we,
standing by the graves of our Confederate
dead and mindful of the memories which
the observance of this occasion is designed
to perpetrate. respectfully tender to General
Grant assurances of our sincere and pro-
found sympathy in this, the season of his
direful extremity"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
PENSIONERS sewARgl

The New Commissioner Hunting Out n1e-
raj Recipients of Uncle Sans Bounty
Payments Made to Dead Men and Re
married widows to be Stopped-A Num-
Der of Incomes That viii Suddenly Cease.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 29.-In reply
to an inquiry from Senator Cockrell,
Commissioner of Pensions Black yester-
day addressed that gentleman letter on
the subject of the appointments of exam
lining surgeons for the various pension
boards, in which he points out the re-
quirements deemed essential in the se-
lection Of examining surgeons. He says:
"Appointees must be men of personal
honor and integrity. They must be men
of tried professional ability and expert
ence, at least five years of active profess
sional practice being considered essential;
and they must be men of diligence, mel
who would be unwilling to make slip
shod examination in any case, or SUBJ
scribe to the work of Others"
Where the above requisites are COM
bined, the Commissioner prefers the ap-
pointment of men who have been in the
military service of the United Suites.
"Boards to be organized and reorgan-
ized," he said, "will consist, in every
case where the above requisites can be
combined, of two Democrats and one Re-
publican, 1t being one of the aims of the
Commissioner to strip this branch OF the
public service of all partisan bias, and to
render these boards what they should be,
safeguards to the public Treasury, as
well as just witnesses 10 the rights of
lawful claimants against the Govern
ment''
In conversation with Commissioner
Black Yesterday afternoon, a representa-
tive of the United Press was informed
that he has issued orders directing the
suspension of payment from the Phila-
delphia Pension Agency of 102 pensions,
the original recipients of which have been
dead, in some instances since 1871, but
the names have been carried on the rolls
and pensions regularly drawn by other
persons since the death of the original
recipients. The Commissioner has also
directed the suspension OF pay
ment from the Philadelphia
Agency of seven pensions which
were granted to widows. These
pensioners 1t has been learned, notwith-
standing their remarriage have continued
to draw pensions for several years past.
Commissioner Black has laid these mat
ters before the Attorney General, aud re-
quested him to take steps to recover from
the pension agent and his bondsmen, the
sums so uniawfuly disbursed.
Figures to be issued at the pension Of
flee on May LIST, it is said, will show that
the work. of the bureau during the past
month will he considerably greater than
tbst of any previous month in its history.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
living BANouETED.

The Celebrated English Actor Says Some
Very Kindly Things In Regard to the
People on This Side Of the water-ssEasy
to Admire and Love America
LONDON, April 3o.-At the banquet
rendered to Henry Irving last night at
the Criterion, the Earl of Warncliffe pre-
sided. Among the scores of notable
guests present were the Duke of Beau
fort, Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, X. C. b.,
and Mr. John Lawrence Dale, the come
dian. Mr.. living was greeted with en-
thusiasm In responding to the toast OF
his health, the distinguished actor re.
marked that 1t was easy to admire and
love America while remaining thor
ough Briton. 1t was upon this essential
kinship of the two great people
that he delighted to dwell when,
as upon this occasion, their flags
were displayed side by side. No English
man who had learned to know the Ameri-
cans as he had could ever view that en-
blematic kindred without thrill of
pleasure at the token of union In sem
timent which, he trusted, would never
be broken by any of the shocks of des
tiny. He did not feel that he had been
abroad. He had crossed the sea, 1t Is true,
but only to find another England on
the other side; he had been upon visit
to our cousins, who have share in the
historical glories of our past, and SYM
pathetic hearts tor US i'm our troubles. II
ever that dear honest old gentleman, John
Bull, should find himself in tight place,
he believed Uncle Sam would be found
very close to the side of his grand old re-
lative
Mr.. Irving went on to express his
thanks for this evenings welcome. He
saw around him evidences that the stage
has strong hold upon the culture and
Intelligence of our time, and that it was
needless for the members of his profess
sion to add sackcloth and ashes to their
theatrical wardrobe. In conclusion, he
also returned acknowledgements on behalf
of his associates for the welcome home
which they had received, and especially
in respect to his brilliant coadjutor, Miss
Ellen Terry, who returned crowned with
laurels. Had she been less true to her
compatriots, he said, she might have
been tempted to cast her future among
the admiring relatives whom she found
in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylva-
mia and Illinois.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
Arbitration out of the Question.

LONDON, April 2S.-In the House Of
GOmmons, yesterday. Mr.. Edward Tenn
perry Gourley, the Radical member for Sun
derland, asked whether the Government
would endeavor to have the dispute with
Russia referred for arbitrament to the United
States. Mr.. Gladstone answered: The
Government is quite sensible of its heavy
responsibility to maintain the honor and
good faith of the country on the one hand,
and on the other, to use every means con-
sstent with that honor 10 avoid war. i can
give no more particular reply than this"
The utterance was accepted as significant
and was received with cries of hear, hear
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
THE LATEST.

{ THE Comptroller of the Currency has ap-
pointed Kent Hayden, Omaha, to be Ma.
tional Bank Examiner. He will be assigned
to the district Of Kansas and Nebraska.
THE President has appointed j. Ernest
Meiere, of Colorado, to be Consul of the
United States at Nagasaki, Japan.
AFFAIRS were very threatening at Joliet,
ILL.,, on the I'd. Thirteen hundred of the
State militia were on hand to suppress dis
orders. The striking quarrymen, to the
number $500, were arming to attack the
militia and trouble was feared.
Francisco CARUso identified the body
found recently in Pittsburgh, Pa, as that
of his brother Philip, who was peddler of
lemons, and on the morning of his disap-
pearance started out with $3.50 in his pos
session. 1t was thought robbery was the
cause of his murder.
FAMINE prevailed in Kordufan. The re-
volt against FL Mahdi was spreading.
The report of the routing of Ell Mahdi, with
loss of fifty men, at Messalamia was con-
firmed.
WAINRIGHT's brewery, Pittsburgh, Pa,
recently caved in with heavy crash. Ten
thousand barrels of beer were stored in the
building and a lot of new and valuable
machinery. Torrents of the malt fluid ran
down the street and completely flooded
the cellar. The loss was estimated at over
800, G00s
THREE grown persons and several chill
drcn were killed by boiler bursting at the
fremont Hotel, Galveston, Tex, recently.
Five or six others were injured. The
boiler house was shattered and the north :
west wing of the hotel wrecked. The
body of Carr, the fireman, was blown COM
pletely over one of the wings of the hotel.
ATKINS, of Galveston, Tex, who was re-
Gently counted out. refused to give up the
mayoralty. His followers were armed and
had possession of the city hall, and rio-
lence was threatened to any one attempt
ing the removal of Atkins.
A GREAT hailstorm destroyed much
property in the country adjacent to Peters,
burg, Va, recently, falling to the depth of
over a fo0t.
EIGHT or nine persons were killed by the
burning of double brick tenement house,
612 First avenue, New York, early on the
morning of the Sd. Fourteen others were
injured. The fire broke out in Humphreys
restaurant, and the police thought it was
due to the carelessness of Humphrey, who
went home, leaving a very hot fire in his
range.
In an attempt to arrest cattle thieves at
Delaware Bend, near Gainesville, Tex,
recently, four of the posse were shot dead
by the thieves concealed in q house. The
rest of the posse returned without effecting
any arrest. None of the thieves were hurt.
THE striking miners at Collinsville, Ill,
were dispersed by the Sheriff on the ID.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08

tions were passed. First-The card price
of $2.30 per key was unanimously affirmed.
Second-Owin to the backwarduess of the
spring, and to prevent q surplus Of nails,
the mills all agree to stop operations at
least two weeks before July 1.
TIE royal mail steamship "Humbert."
which left New York April 10, has not been
heard from and is believed to be lost.
GENERAL GRANT has recommended writ
ing his "History of the War of the Rebel
lion."
AN Irwin. Pa, special says the Pennsyl-
vania Gas Coal Company's miners resumed
work in No. mine at the reduction, after
strike of nine weeks. Fifteen hundred
miners also resumed work at the Scott
Haven mines.
THE large Jeans mill of Broughan &
Lamb, in Chester, Pa, was destroyed by
fir ethe other morning. Loss $4,000, COW
cred by insurance.
ABoARDING house of Hungarians at
Pottsville, Pa, was blown up by dynamite
the other evening. The house was wrecked,
but strange to say no one was seriously
injured.
The entire force in the construction de-
partment of the Brooklyn Navy Yard was
discharged recently Lecause of the lack of
money.
A LARGE number of moulders stopped
work at Rochester, N. Y, on account of a
12k per cent. reduction. Four foundries
were idle.
A PASSENGER train on the Reading q
Columbia Railway was thrown from the
track recently near Columbia, Pa, by de-
fective frog, and John Houck, fireman, was
crushed to death. Another employee was
fatally injured.
COMMODORE C. K. GARRISON, once owner
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, died at
New York on the LIST from paralysis.
THE body of a man was found in trunk
at the depot in Pittsburgh, Pa, recently,
with a hempen cord around the neck. On
the body was an international money order
payable to Felippo Caruse, at Chicago.
Nothing further was known regarding the
matter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
iIni--.... -~. s--er.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 29.-The city
recently adopted i charter for cities of
the second class, and the Mayor and Chief
OF Police are preparing to make things
interesting for several classes of people.
Au order has already been issued to clear
the town OF suspicious characters, and is
beinS rigidly enforced. Anotaer will
come In day or two to have all saloons
close promptly at midnight, under heavy
penalty for disobeying. A general raid
on gambling dens will be made about to
night, and gamblers are leaving the city
on every train, having scented danger.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
RAILROAD prsAsTEK.

Accident to . Special Train Carrying Haff-
road Omcials--several Killed, Number
Wounded.
ST. LOUIS, April ga special train
consisting of q baggage car, Pullman
sleeper and two Directors ears, bearing a
party of Texas Pacific and Missouri Pacific
railroad officials on a trip of inspection,
over the former road, collided with the Mon
tesana Springs accommodation about twen-
tymiles below here yesterday afternoon.
Both trains were running pretty fast and
came together on sharp curve under a
high cliff on the river bank. The crash was
terrific and completely wrecked both loco
motives, but neither train was injured
much. Both engineers reversed and ap-
piled the air brakes, but there was no time
to save themselves and they and their fire.
men went into the wreck with their en-
gines. William Stevenson, engineer Of
the special, received conclusion of the
spine and was internally injured. His
fireman. Louis Christ, had both legs torn
off, his chest crushed i'm and he was killed.
John McGovern, engineer of the MontesanO
train, was unhurt and his fireman received
slight injury. Philip Toland, nephew Of
General Wister of the Texas Pacific road,
and connected with the locomotive depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
riding on the engine of the special and was
frightfully mangled, one leg being torn off,
and his chest crushed in. He died in
stantly. The other members of the party
were in the rear end of the car, but the
most serious injuries were to Ex-Governor
Brown, General Solicitor of the Missouri
Pacific, who had one shoulder dislocated
and was badly bruised, and General Wister
who was slightly injured about the head.
Medical aid was summoned speedily as pessi-
BILE and all brought to this city. Engineer
Stevens was taken to the railroad hospital,
and Governor Brown and General Wistar
are at the Southern Hotel. The body of
Mr.. Toland was placed in charge of an I'M
dertaker, and that of Christ, the fireman,
was left at CarOndelet The special had
the right of way, but owing to a misunder-
standing of the train dispatcher, the Monte
sanO train was not ordered to wait until the
special had passed. An inquest on the
body of Toland was held last evening and
Burns. dispatcher, vas declared responsible
Tor his death.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
OLD Figures Upset.

PIrTsBUHGm, Pa, April S0.-A Ion.
statement was issued by the officers OF
the Amalgamated Association yesterday
in answer to the arguments of the manu-
facturers for reduction Of wages, the
principal OF which is that eastern manu-
factur.rs have great advantage over
those of the West in the matter of cost
of production. This is disposed OF by
figures which show that as a matter OF
fact, the cost of producing iron here Is
$50 per ton less than in the East. The
figures upset all previously accepted the
cries of the cost OF production. The
workmen will rest their fight upon these
figures.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
Privatiuns at Sea.

ST. JOHN, n. F., April 2s.-The brig Ser
atha, which arrived here last night, brought
in Captain Brown and two of the crew
of the brig Marance discovered perishing
amid ar ice-foe. They had been eighteen
days exposed 10 the rain, sleet and SNOW,
without cover and with scanty provisions.
When picked up all they had left was a
little bread, which was floating about in the
bottom of the boat. Their vessel sank Apri:
5. having been crushed in the ice. the
first officer and the balance of the crew are
supposed to have been lost in the long boat
shortly after leaving the vessel. as loud
cries were heard by the survivors shortly
after the ships company parted.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
On Trial for wife Murder.

NATION, ILL, April 29.-At Charles
ton yesterday the Winkleback murder
case was called at noon before Judge
Smith. Owing 10 the sickness OF an i'm
portant witness, aud the absence of serv-
ice on some others. The case was posi-.
poned until next Monday. The Cook
n:urder case was then called, and the
work of the afternoon consisted in Sc,
curing four jurymen. Daniel Cook Is a
colored man, charged with having mar
dered his wife in this city, June 18th,
1884. The body had been thrown INTO
an eighty foot well, and reco9pf-1 s3ter
three days. constant pumpinG Win Usani
pumps.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08

WINNIPEG, MAN, April 29.-TEe thirty
transport wagons winch took the wrong
trail from Humboldt to Batouche have
been lescued by Boulton's scouts. There
is rUmor that The steamer Sorthcote,
with supplies for Middleton, is aground.
The total force now in the Northwest
Territory is over 25,G0o, and about 1000
horse. Scouts report l20 rebels en-
camped three miles north in rayine
similar to that at Fish Greek. Inc
wounded are doing we'll, except Lieuten-
ant Swirford, who must die. The rebels
are fortified at Ba:Ouche.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
An Important Decision.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 29.--The
Comptroller of the Treasury has rendered
an important decision restricting the dis
erection Of chief supervisors Of elections
in building up the fees. 1t has been held
heretofore that the accounting officers OF
the Treasury had no right to revise the
accounts of chief supervisors as to the
amount and character of work to be
done. The question came before Comp
troller Durham In the case of William
Muirheid, Chief Supervisor of New Jer-
sey, and the decision was that the ac-
counts could be revised, and all illegal
or unnecessary items disallowed. Over
5000 was disallowed in MIirheid case.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
Eng glands Loyal Democracy.

LONDON, April 29.-At q dinner of the
Eighty Club last night, Mr.. Chamberlain,
President of the Board of Trade, said in
a speech: ave have met at time over.
Swallowed with apprehensions of grave
conflict, VIII Oh E.eland has neither
sought nor desired, and which, If it should
occur, would be a misfortune to civiliZa-
ton. Therefore, it is the highest obliga-
tion of a patriotic government 10 exhaust
every means to preserve peace. 1t is I'M
possible to speak upon the subject
when the issues of peace and war are
trembling IN the balance. An ungnarded
word might be productive OF
much mischief. If, however,
the Government found themselves
confronted with q determined policy of
aggression, their summons would be an
swered as in past times, and the English
Democracy would show itself patient,
resolute and enduring, exhibiting the
courage and tenaci;y that formerly dis
tinouished the Anglo-SaXOn race. 1t IL
4 matter of regret that such questions
should he delayed. We need political re-
forms, but ale fortunate that we have not
ye: arrived at u Stage requiring US to
abandon all hopes OF peaceful settle
mcnt.'
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
THE EAST.


An epidemic Of measles was prevailing
in New York, causing many deaths.
A LAEGE three story wooden building al
Woburn, Mass, in the occupation of j. G
Brane & Co., leather manufacturers, was
burned the other night. Loss, $4,000; in.
.surance, S4,S50.
SEvENTY-FTvE employees of the Westing-
house Machine. Company at Pittsburgh
Pa, have been suspended on account OF
lack of orders. The men who had beer
working half time most of the winter were
very Respondent over the suspension.
A THREE-MILE boat race at San Fran
cisco, between n. l. Lahyberger, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and Austin Stevenson, of Val.
lejo, CAL, was won by Stevenson by thir-
teen lengths.
THE typhoid pestilence at Plymouth, Pa,
was raging more extensively in the lower
part of town, where nearly all the houses
were occupied by Hungarians and Poles.
FoR some time past there has been trou-
BILE on the line of the extension of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, between Balti-
more and Philadelphia. Several contrac-
tors, it was charged, had swindled the
operatives. At Chase's Station three hun
dred miners threatened riot.
THE committee of architects that exam
ined the buildings erected in different parts
of New York by Builder Buddensick re-
ported that nearly all would have to be
taken down and rebuilt; that walls bulged
and were out of plumb; that the foupda-
tions were defective, and that the build
ings were constructed of inferior material.
A FIRE broke out early the other morn
ing in Freeman's carriage factory at Rah-
way, \. j., and got beyond control of the
hremen and soon spread to Gordon's Opera
House, and before assistance arrived both
were in ruins.
CHICAGO bunko men recently swindled
Joseph Beardsley, prominent real estate
dealer, out of S23,o 900 at Buffalo, N. Y.
MURPHY & DEBoLD's planning mill at
Temperanceville, in the west end of Pitts
burgh, was destroyed by fire recently.
Loss about $50 900; insured for $4,000.
A READING (Pa.) dispatch of the 29th
says: A fire which started to-day on the
Blue Mountains between Burks and Schuyl-
kill Counties is tonight raging furiozsly.
Several thousand acres of timber have
been devastated. The farmers find it use.
less to Eight the fire, as the wind scatters
the sparks in all directions.
AT meeting of the Eastern Nail Asso-
ciation, held at Philadelphia, two resolu-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-08
rnE s.,r,Ta.

Ex-Governor McLANE, of Maryland,
the newly-appointed Minister to France,
sailed from New York on the 10Th for Havre.
A LARGE body of mineral which was pro-
nounced by old miners to be silver bearing
quartz, was discovered recently mile east
of Abilene, Tex, by parties digging well.
The vein was struck at depth of forty
five feet.
s. A. DUNHAM & Co., cotton factors OF
Charleston, s. c., made an assignment re-
Gently. The estimated liabilities were
$125, 600.
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