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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
Knox County honda,

ST. LOUIS, June 4.-On last Monday Gen.
eral Henderson, Louis Coquard, Walter P.
johnson and T. X. Skinker, representing
the holders of the Knox County bonds, met
1000 Or more of the taxpayers of Knox
County for the purpose Of effecting settle
ment of these outstanding obligations. The
settlement was not effected, however, on &C
count Of disagreement in regard to terms.
The representatives of. the bOndholders
asked for 65 per cent for bonds and IS pei
cent for Judgment The taxpayers, whe
made no definite proposition, eventually ap
pointed committee on conference, which
probably will at once take action, subject
to the approval of the taxpayers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
THE SOUTH.

| A RAILROAD man named Maloney was
killed by lightning recently at Chattanoo-
go, Tenn.
A CoLoRED man named Townsend Cook
| was lynched at Westminster, Nd, re-
Gently, for an outrage committed on Mrs.
Knott near Mt. Airy.
The Texas State rangers recently had a
i cattle with band of marauding Mexicans
in Dimmitt County. The rangers
| came upon the band and demanded
their surrender when the band suddenly
opened fire, killing Lieutenant Seider and
mortally wounding two privates. The
marauders then fled. The rangers, num-
| bering only few men, pursued but were
| forced to retire, the marauders being large
ly reinforced by their Mexican friends.
A COLLISION occurred near Wilmington,
Del, recently between berry train and a
| freight train. Four cars were wrecked and
six damaged. The engineer of the freight
| was killed.
The strikers on the Kentucky Central
Railroad recently stopped the freight
traffic at Covington, KY, cutting the en-
gines loose.
THE killing of Lieutenant Seider and two
other Texas rangers turned out to be due
to deplorable mistake. The killing was
done by Gonzales and his son, Unknown
trailers and scouts, who mistook the
rangers for marauders.
The trial of Thomas jefferson Cluverius,
at Richmond, Va, for the murder of his
cousin, Varney Lillian Madison, which
lasted an entire month, ended with a YER
dict of guilty of murder in the first degree.
THE Delaware peach growers were re-
ported uneasy at the great fall of young
fruit, resulting from wet weather. They
fear the crop win be greatly curtailed.
An attempt was made the other night to
blow up the private car of Superintendent
Cummings of the Texas Pacific Railroad,
at Marshall, Tex. Three nitro glycerine
cartridg, were placed on top of the springs
near the floor.
JOHN II. AUFDMARLE, for seventeen
years confidential redemption clerk in
the United States Subtreasury at New Or
leans, has absconded with several thousand
dollars of the Governments money.
The strike on the Kentucky Central
Railway ended on the 9Th, the engineers
having agreed to accept ten per cent. re-
duction, being satisfied that the state of
business justified it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
THE LATKST.

MRS. HORACE WHITE died at Elberor,
n. Y, on the 9TH.
FURTHER earthquakes have occurred in
Cashmere. Several villages were reported
engulfed, many lives being lost. Famine
was greatly feared.
The hat factory of Breckerle & Co.,
! Danbury, Conn.,, was burned recently.
Loss, 500, 600; insurance, $4,000.
THREE hundred houses, fifty shops and
three mosques in the best quarter of Con-
stantinople were destroyed by fire the
other day. One person was killed and
many were injured.
THREE American r'iners were reported
murdered by the Apaches in Sonora. Two
other unknown men were also killed by the
savages on the Apoto trail.
The reception to Secretary Bayard at
Kansas City ended with a grand banquet
on the night Of the 9Th.
THREE boys, aged fourteen, seventeen
and twenty-one years, rowing in a small
lake near Washington Park, Chicago, re-
Gently got into a scuff1e, overturned the
boat and two were drowned, the other
swimming ashore.
The French man war Renard, with q
crew of ninety-two souls, was recently be-
lieved to have foundered in the Red Sea.
GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN was present
at the funeral of General Bowman at Kan
sas City on the eth. Sherman and Bow
man had been life long friends. The fune-
raj was largely attended, the services be-
ing conducted by the Farragut Post, G. A.
If xx,hi nh eal
THERE was rumor in st. Petersburg,
on the 10th, that the Ameer of Afghanistan
had been slain while travelling in Persia
The report was contradicted, nothing be-
ing known of it in Persia.
A METEOR as large as -four barrel ex-
ploded near Sherman, Tex, at midnight
on the 9Th.
The postmaster at Paragould, Ark, has
absconded, leaving a shortage in his ac-
counts.
Ex-Governor HALK's liabilities were
reported to amount to a million dollars.
Several New England banks and public
men were involved in the failure.
SIX persons were reported to have died
recently at Branchville by eating wild
honey impregnated with poison gathered
from the yellow jessamine.
Two boys, aged ten and twelve, SONS of
George Howe, painter, were drowned at
Kansas City while bathing in pond.
The other night the wife of j. Wonch
and four children were burned to death
In their house at Barrie, Ont. Wonch es-
capped by jumping out of window after a
vain effort to rescue his wife and children,
his shirt being burned of in the attempt.
II was recently reported in Athens that
grave political d. v-Lances had occurred
in Crete.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12

There is in Schuyler County. N. T..
q young old man who. without apparent
cause, living plainly ON farm, has IN
eighteen years passed through the
physical changes Of four score. At the
age of six he had all the development
of strength and muscle usual in a lad Of
fifteen. At twelve his beard was grown
and gray hairs appeared. Now, at
eighteen. he is as decrcpit a. an old
man of eighty. and seems lettering ON
the verge of the grave.-Troy Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
Relative Of Carl schur. M,..,n<.

JOLIET, Ill, June August Schaffer,
brother-inlaw Of Carl Schurz and Ed
mund Jussen, has been missing from his
home in Moniema, eight miles cas-,
OF here, since last Saturday. He
was prominent grain merchant
and did general private banking business.
His creditors believing that he had de-
fauited and absconded swore out executions.
The Sheriff seized his property on the exc
cutions sworn out yesterday, to cover S15,.
coo. They are in favor of Chicago and
Joliet creditors. ]. V. Farwell Is here try.
ing to repleyin the goods. The debts Of
Schaffer amount to 1900.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
Prssbyteri.n General Assembly Aajourne~.

Prssbyter1sn General Assembly Adjourne~.
CINCINNATI, O., June 2.-The Fresby-
terrain General Assembly yesterday dis
eussed for some time . motion to abolish
the regular committee on temperance and
in its stead have committee appointed at
each assembly. The motion was finally
lost. The remainder Of the time was taken
up in hearing the report of the committee
81 syRodical record. These with two
or three unimpOrtant exceptions were ap-
proved. The standing committees made
their final reports and were discharged A
resolution against restricting Chinese insii-
gratieh was discussed but finally withdrawn
because any action on the subject was con-
sidered imp0llte. Minneapolis, MIMI, was
chsssr Is next place Of meeting and the AS
sembly adjurned until next year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
Gr..,a U,der Menapoly.s Chariot.

ERIE, PA, June 1.-The failure Of Thos.,
Brown fer over $5OO,o Is attributed to
unfair means taken BY the Standard Oil,
Company. Brown formerly worked for the
Standard OH Company but recently started
in business for himself. That monopoly
conbated him In every quarter with cut
rates, and it il alleged joined . movement
in Chicago And finding him short on long
market were aiR,sst successful In running
him, when friends secured an extension
1t is understood he will get another extern
sion from tia Erie creditors and that her
will lead grand movement to inaugurate-
war On the Standard C0mpany'S
mOnODolV
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
GENERAL.

THE Union Bank Of Lower Canada has
issued circular to the shareholders saying
on account of heavy losses at Winnipeg il
would be impossible for them to pay a
dividend. The bank lost S331 900 at VIM
nipeg by the failure of lumber firms
The Mohemmedan mosque in the little
town of Sopen, twenty miles north of
Serinager, was demolished and 200 persons
killed during the recent earthquake in
Cashmere.
The total exports of mineral oils during
the ten months ended April 30, 1885, were
4es,166,l4s gallons, as against u6,s74,4s5
gallons last year. Nv
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12

Read by good light. The light
should come from the side. Do not read
when fatigued or when recovering from
illness, and do not read while lying
down. Rest the eyes occasionally while
using them. Read good print. and do no.
stoop while. reading. Use proper glasses.
avoid alcohol and tobacco and take ex-
ercise in the open air. -Boston budget
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
Precaution Against PIeuro-Pneu'noniA

PrecautIon Against Pleuro-Pneurnonia
NASHVILLE, TENN, June 2.-The Sem
ate yesterday passed the pleuro-pneu.
monia bill on its third reading, the vote
being % toe. The bill appropriates SIS, 200,
instead of double that sum, as originally
proposed, to carry the provisions into
effect. 1t provides that all cat
tie that NAV be killed shall be appraised
at so much per pound, and paid for at the
usual price given for beef. No cattle
known to be diseased when brought into
Tennessee shall be paid for If slaughtered
The Governor is authorized to appoint
two Commissioners, who shall inspect
suspected cattle and determine what
steps shall be taken.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE President has made the following
appointments: Collectors of Internal
Revenues-Rcbert NJ. Henderson for the
Fourth district of Texas, and Robert Bar
nett for the Fourth district of California;
Assistant Attorney General, Robert A.
Howard of Arkansas. Consul of the
United States at Nice, France, Albert N.
Hathaway of Connecticut.
The Chief of the Post-office Inspectors
has been informed that Postmaster j. N.
Hibbs, of Lewistown, Idaho, issued money
orders to the amount of $4,000 or SIC, 200
payable to himself, ordered banks in diff
ferent cities to collect them and forward
the money to him, and then absconded.
He was last heard from at Victoria, B. c.
Ar the request of the Secretary of the
Interior the Commissioner of the Land
Office has caused an investigation to be
made into the merits of the Gervacio
Nolan land grant in New Mexico, and has
reported that in his judgment all OF the
lands claimed (about 600 acres) should
be restored to the public domain, with the
exception of eleven square leagues for
which patent has been issued.
THE members of the Cabinet have de-
cided to follow President Cleveland's ex-
ample hereafter and receive no visitors on
Saturday.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has designated
Admiral j. w. A. Nicholson, relieved as
the naval member of the prize court to be
appointed by the United States District
Judge at New York, to examine the Off
GERS of the Ambrose Light, recently cap
tured by the Alliance, for alleged violation
Of the neutrality laws. Five prisoners, in
Guiding the Captain and mate, were cap
tured by the Alliance.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived from the Board of Managers of the
Worlds Industrial Exhibition at New Or
leans statement of their indebtedness, of
which the folio wing is a recapitulation:
Undisputed indebtedness, S253,345; dis
puted claims, $l50,337; rejected, $72, 152;
admitted, ,5S5; premiums, $3.50, SSS; total,
$685., 1893; appropriations, 1886 600; def
cheney, S62,31S.
THE Department of State is advised that
the Government of Guatemala is now col
lecting an additional ten per cent. on ap-
praisements of imported merchandise, and
has added ten per cent. to the contracts
made with merchants who loaned money
10 the Government.
A. g. THOMPSON, Inspector of Public
Buildings of the Treasury Department, has
resigned by request of Secretary Manning.
GENERAL RosEcRANs has been appointed
Register of the Treasury, vice B. K. Bruce,
resigned.
HERBERT FooTE BEEcHER, son of the
D.
pointed Collector of Customs for the Dis
trict of Puget Sound.
THE injunction suit of r. c. Lewis ct al.
VS.. the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the District Commissioners at
Washington, to restrain the telegraph
company from erecting pole line on Sew
enth street, was decided in the Equity
curt in favor of the plaintiff.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
More Idle Iron Workers.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.,, June 1.-The scale
presented by the workmen of the Bay
View Rolling Mills to Superintendent
Parks, on Saturday, has not been
signed, and the mills are not open this
morning. Consequently l,50e men are
thrown out of work. Superintendent
Parks and the resident officers of the
company in the city will to-day go to
Chicago, where a meeting of the full
directory will be held for the purpose
Of considering the new scale. The mills
will be shut down for a week at least, to
give opportunity for repairs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12

"A lady not a resident of Lisbon, d.
T., had a house and lot there and the
city ordered her to build sidewalk by
it. She neglected or refused to build
it, and the city built the walk and sent
her bill for 800. Her gentle spirit
waxed wrolh and she went there, tore
down the house. and took it away on
the cars, and told them they might have
the old lot. There, now" Chicago
Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11
Our Relations with Austria,

WAslIINGToN, Nov. o3.-The complica-
tons between the United States and Aus
tria, growing out of the refusal of the last
named country to recognize Kelley, are UNI
settled, and the relations of the
TWO countries are cold and strained.
The United States has no Minis
tiers at the Viennese Court and tile Baron
lgnatz Won Schaefer, Envoy Extraor-
binary and Minister Plenipotentiary from
Austria to the United States, has not re-
turned from his last summers trip to Eu-
rope. 1t is now known that what was at the
time supposed to be a vacation was really a
rect;l, and that the Baron will not return,
except in the improbable event of the ap-
pointment of a new Minister from
the United States to Austria. It
is not the intention of this
Government to send another rep-
resentative to Austria. The indiguity nut
upon Minister Kelley, it is felt, can not be
overlooked, and Austria's reasons for re-
tusing to receive an accredited representa-
tive OF the United States are not regarded
as sufficient or satisfactory. The whole
matter will probably be made the subject of
an inquiry by Congress.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11
NEWS.

ADv1cEs of the 22d from London state that
a terrible cyclone had swept oven the Phil
Hpplne Islands. Over eight thousand build
lngs We're destroyed and twenty-five per-
sons killed. III Bengal $500 people We're
drowned and $50 villages swept away by a
cyclone, and l.241 square miles in the moors
Hedabad and Huddea districts We're devas-
tated.
A MOB took Irwin Grubb, an alleged muir
derer, from the Jail at Pineville, No, on
the night of the 2lst and hanged him.
NAVIGATION at Montreal closed on the
2lst. The export of cattle for the season
was 81 500 head.
HE opinion prevailed in Europe on The
2s2d that the Powers We're about to inter-
vene and stop hostilities in the Balkans.
The battlefield at Slivnitza was still
strewn with dead or wounded soldiers. the
medical and ambulance corps of both
armies being insufficient to meet the de
mands upon them.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECnER, i'll a sermon
on the 22d to the memory of II. B. Clatltn.
stated that the dead merchant left s1,00o,-
900 to private charities.
THE middle buildings of Hobart College,
at Geneva, N. Y, were destroyed by fire q
AN' WY . o0o' 1hC llS Olul VI 1O,OUp
volumcS was burned.
X. BARFIELD. postmaster at Boston. Tex,
and his son William, were murdered the
other night while riding along a lonely
road III a wagon, and robbed of nearly
$1,000, the proceeds of a cotton sale.
Tie annual report of the Commissioners
of lnterna! Revenue, issued on the 2lst
shows that the receipts of the bureau for
the last fiscal year were s112,4 21, 121, a de-
crease of 50. jos. 919 from those of last year;
624 violations of the law were reported and
2234 persons were arrested.
lie Forty-ninth Congress, which meets
December 7th next, will stand as follows:
Senate-Republicans, AZ: Democrats. 81
House-Democrats, 1888: Republicans, 40;
Gieenback-Democrat, 1; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lican. 1.
A TREE fell upon a cabin at Franklin, W.
T., on the 2lst, and John Cannon, James j.
Smith and j.. Harry Gaul, coal miners,
were crushed to death.
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires were on the 2s29d
ravaging Clay County, in the Panhandle
of Texas. The fire was sweeping a swarth
of about five miles wide and was likely to
drive about a hundred thousand cattle from
the range.
SMALLPOX caused 1SG deaths in Montreal
and its suburbs during the week ended on
the 21st.
AT twenty-six leading clearinghouse
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 21st aggregated ST.
15c; 9S7, S9s, against 81 ,N4, 761 So the previous
week. AS compared with the correspond
ing period of 1854, the increase amounts to
a, 5 per cent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11
ASSASSlNATED.

Ex-Mayor Bowman. of East st. Louis, Ill.,
Murdered in Cold Blood by an Unknown
Enemy-The Tragedy Thought to BE.
the Result of n Political Feud.
EAST ST. Louis, ILL.,, Nov. GA cow.
ardly and brutal assassination occurred in
this city a few minutes after eight o'clock
last evening. The victim is ex-Mayor John
b. Bowman, who was shot down in cold
blood a few yards from his house. He was
just stepping through the gate when the
assassin placed the muzzle of his pistol
against the back of his victims head and
fired. The bullet passed through Mr.. Bow
mans brain and produced instant death.
The shot was heard by q number of pco-
pie, but as the reports Of pistols are of
common occurrence here no attention was
paid to it. The murdered mans nephew.
stepped out of the house a few minutes
later and found the body lying across the
sidewalk. The news Of the murder nro-
duced great excitement, and a reward of
$4,000 was Immediately offered for the as
sassln, but there is no clew to his identify.
Bowman was a prominent politician. and
the wealthiest man in the city. He was
Mayor for ten years, and was the cause of
the episode known as Bowman's war. ten
years ago. The assassination is supposed
to be the result OF a political feud.
bul,nS "le zen years preceding 1878 he
hau luli controi OF tho municipal govern
ment of East st. Louis, carrying eyerv eIec.
ton as he pleased, though ont without many
bitter fights and much bloodshed. He
built what is called the Bowman Dixie. con-
meeting Bloody Island with the mainland.
and constructed many other public Improve
ments. The city all this time was divided
into two parties more hostile to each
other than two foreign countries in time.
OF WAL. Bowman's party was in the ma
jority, or at least carried all the elections.
and kept in power until he got tired of the
excitement and withdrew from active poli-
tics. lie was shot at many times, and was
in many personal encounters in the Coun-
Gil Chamber. but was never seriously hurt,
Once when the opposite party got possession
of the East st. Louis police headquarters
his force attempted TO take the building by
storm, and two of his men We're shot and
killed. This wasin the summer of 1915.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11

THE woman suffragists of Chicago d
their annual meeting on the 10Th adopted
a resolution in favor of a law that no gill
should become of age until twenty-on.
years old.
JOSEPH C.. MAcKlS, of Chicago, whose
sentence to five years in the penitentiary
for perjury was recently confirmed by the
Supreme Court, was taken to that institu-
ton on the 10Th.
CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS was on the 10Th
inaugurated as President of Cornell Uni
versity, at Ithaca, N. Y.
MILLIONAIRE MoRos1NI, of New York, de-
MED on the 18th that he had promised to
forgive his daughter for marrying auls-
kamp, his coachman, and said tha5 she
need never hope for reconciliation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11
FOREIGN.

TURKEY, after considering the Bulgarian
appeal for assistance, decided on tln 10th
not to interfere in the quarrel with servia.
The Servians, having turned the Drasoman
Pass. were headed for the line of intrench-
ments at Sofia. Five hundred Bulg,rmns
had been taken prisoners, and the Servihns
had two hundred und and fifty killed.
Louis R1EL, the leader of tho revo,t(of
half-breeds in the Northwest Territor,
was hanged at Regina at S :23 on the NOM
ing of the 10th. The execution caused greet
excitement in Quebec and Montreal, whera
men were seen on the streets wearing grape
OH their hats and on their coat-sleeves, aid
~incendiary hand-bills calling for meetings
were distributed.
The Pope on the 10Th recognized Sp,in's
sovereignty over the Caroline Islands The
decision was presented to Germany and
Spain.
TIE Servians gained a decisive victory
over the Bulgarians near Widden on the
18th. The loss was heavy oil 10th sides.
The Servians captured one thousand pris-
oners.
Mr.. PARNELL on the 18th decided to con-
in Parliament.
1-lldISApdulOH Y Ia bSCA 4uUAO-
duced in the Brazilian Parliament favoring
an early liberation of the slaves.
A FIRE in Paris on the 18th caused q loss
Of 1,000,O coo francs at La Fere arsenal, which
contained stores and cavalry harness.
JULIUS LlEsKE, the Socialist who was
supposed to nave murdered Police Commits
sioner Rumpff at Frankfort, Germany, was
beheaded on the 18th. With his dying
breath he declared himself innocent.
TIE Bulgarians defeated a force of 10000
Selvians near Slivnitza on the 18th, the lat
ter losing ten guns 1t was estimated that
1900 Servians were killed or wounded.
TURKEY, in a note on the 18th to the great
Powers. protested against the Servian in
vasion of Bulgaria, and announced that she
held herself privileged to take action to pro
tect her soil.
TUE British on the 18th captured the for
tilted city of Minhla, on the River Irrawad
dy, which opened the way to Mandalay,
the capital of Burmah.
THERE We're thirty-two deaths from small
poN i'll Montreal and its suburbs on the 18th
and thirty-four new cases.
ADvICEs of the 18th state chat in q recent
fight neal Rangoon, i'll which the warvessel
belonging to King Theebaw was captured,
the fire from the British caused two hun
dred of the Burmese crew to jump over
board, and they were drowned.
T~wESTY-sIX new cases of smallpox We're
reported at Montreal on the 10Th.
TIE German Rcichstag was formally
opened on the 18th. The Emperor in his
speech said that the relations with all coun.
tries were friendly.
A DISPATCH on the 10Th from the British
expedition advancing on the capital Of
Burmah says some British shells accident
ally set fire to the town of Minhla, and II
was destroyed.
TuE other night friends of the late Louis
Riel at st. Anne, Can. burned all the mem.
bers of the Federal Cabinet in effigy.
DE LEssEps, the great engineer, celebrated
his eightieth birthday in Paris on the 10Th
All the foreign ambassadors in Paris visited
him and paid their respects. He received
many presents.