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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
REIuRNlNc.

Oklahoms Colonists ON Their Return-De.
feated But Not Dasmayed-Whas the
LEADER Says.
KANSAS CRY, January 30.-A special
correspondent Of the Times telegraphs from
Arkansas City: arrived here at niEe
o'clock and found that Captain Couch and
party had camped within six miles of this
place. There was considerable excitement
over the arrival Of the returning party and
0 great meeting Of the citizens was in pro-
gress. COUGHS party is encamped on the
State line about six miles below, aud will
arrive here in the morning about ten o'clock.
They reached the line with only provisions
enough to do them to-day. The citizens
here are preparing to give the returning
boomers q grand reception. Committees
were appointed to perfect arrangements
and the defeated but not Respondent
pioneers of the sturdy race will be received
like generals of Rome when they
returned to the seat of the en-
pire to be awarded their triumphal arch for
the victories they had won. The people
here as well as all over the country regard
this noble sacrifice of the Couch party in
sustaining hardships and priyations as pro-
life of great good. though they could not
retain hold upon the claims as United
States citizens in forbidden territory. Citi-
zens will form in the morning and with a
brass band will proceed south and escort
the boomers into the city with flags waving
and banners on the outer wall. Mr.. Wor-
raj, of the party who came into the city to-
night, Indignantly denies that Captain
Couch surrendered, as reported by General
Hatch. He says they were ordered
to surrender, when Couch re-
turned peremptory refusal. Then
next morning. The boomers staid in their
Entertainments, and finally Couch told the
forces that he would quietly leave the camp
and go to the Kansas line, more OH account
of want of provisions than from any de-
nand made by the military. Worrall says
that the cavalry had cut off supplies and
they saw that they were being starved out
and it was discretion on their part to re-
turn. In conversation between Worrall
aud your correspondent, learned that the
Couch party went into camp on the Still
water about December Is, laid out the
town plat and commenced the con-
struction of log houses and dug outs.
About January 1 heavy snow fell
and the work was interrupted. Supplies
came in sufficient to meet the demand
until three weeks ago. When they first
heard of the military forces under Hatch,
preparations to protect themselves COM
menced and line of defense constructed.
Deer and turkey were brought into COUGHS
camp in abundance. There was no sur
render and the disposition on the part of
the boomers to evacuate the territory was
not so considered. Monday was spent in
preparing to leave. and Tuesday morning
found them on their way. The
meeting of the citizens tonight
was largely attended and resOlu-
tons were passed indorsing Captain COuch's
course. General Hatch is reported as
moving for Caldwell. Reporters of the me
tropOlitan dailies are down in the woods
somewhere, having'left here for the front
Wednesday and have not been heard from.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
THE MATE MURDERED.
The Disadvantage of Being Old.
NEW YORK. Jan

cEW 1OEh, JGuudry y.
George Gould, son of Jay Gould, bought
q seat in the Stock Exchange. The Com
mittee on Admissions met to-day, and
will probably act favorably in Gould's
case, and adversely TO C. p. Huntington,
who lately purchased seat. His admis-
sion is opposed on account Of his age.
The members of the exchange compose
mutual life insurance society, and they
generally dislike to have old men come
in on this account. Huntington also has
many personal enemies, who will seek to
prevent his admission,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
THE LATEST.

UNITED STATES CONSUL PACKARD has
requested the Mayor of Liverpool to pub
lish the act of Congress, forbidding the
landing of paupers in the United States,
that poor people may not be deluded by
ticket agents in spending their last shilling
to pay their passage to America.
DYNAMITE was used in New York, early
in the morning of the 1st, to blow up
Garry Bros dry goods store. A strike of
the clerks existed at the time, and the
police professed to have information that
this was the cause. Damage, $500.
The Ohio Miners Union issued an adj
dress recently for a reduction of ten per
cent. all over Ohio in coal mining. This
practically ended the Hooking Valley
strike, as it brought the rate to 60 cents
in that district and 80 cents in most dis
tricts of the State.
A DALLAS (Tex.) special says: The
jury in the case of the State against
Joseph Lohenstein, charged with swindling
In cotton, Were discharged, being unable to
agree after being out two days.
The recent terrific northwest storms
drove the steamships Newfoundland and
Miranda over one hundred miles seaward.
They arrived on the 31st at St. Johns, n.
F., two days overdue. coated to their
mastheads with ice. Large bodies of st.
Lawrence Gulf ice were driving out to the
Atlantic north of the 44th parallel.
The Senate was not in session on the
3lst. The House had the River and Harbor
bill again under discussion.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has instructed Brig
adler General Augur to turn over to the
civil authorities for prosecution such lead
ers among the Oklahoma boomers as viola
ted section 24S revised statutes, relating to
the subject in dispute.
NATURAL gas explosions in Pittsburgh,
on the 3lst, caused the injury of twenty
five persons. Seven were supposed fatally
hurt.
ALL the telephone wires ON Staten Island,
n. Y, were cut the other night. A few
days before the salaries of the employees of
the company were reduced, and the Super
intendent and other employees resigned.
WHILE walking along Pennsylvania
bluff, at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently. two boys
named Robert Sproal and John Michigan,
lost their foothold and fell to the bottom, a
UASeonSc VI ~" icot. oPioaA SAui was
fractured and he was injured internally.
Michigan was terribly cut and bruised,
but his injuries We're not fatal.
The First National Bank building at
Marquette, Mich, was on fire on the morn
ing of the I'd. The loss on the bang and
other buildings was reported to be $abO, 900.
FRANCE and England were exchanging
notes upon the terms of the foreign enlist
ment act as it is being enforced by England
at Hong Kong and other free ports of
China.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
The southern Murr.in.

NASHVILLE, TENN, January 2s.-Dr d.
E. Salmon. Chief Of the Bureau of Animal
Industry, has examined the cattle brought
recently to jackson, Tenn, by DIR. Hamil-
ton from the infected herd at Cynthiana,
KY, and finds they have pleuro-pneumonia
in an acute form. Seven have been SICK,
six now present evidence of lung trouble.
The ordinary observer would not suspect
they had been infected. The symptoms
were only brought out by careful examine
ton. The cattle are well isolated. Nh.
Salmon has the fullest confidence that The
owners will use every precautiOn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
Dynamiters at washington.

WASHINGTON, January est is reported
here OF excellent authority that 4 plot to
blow up the Capitol building has been dis
covered and is now being Investigated. The
matter is only known to a few Government
officials, and is being secretly investigated.
The story is, in brief, that woman en-
ployed as translator in the State Depart
ment made this discovery some days before
the London explosion. and communicated it
to Democratic member of Congress. He
talked with a few friends about it, laying
the facts, as she had them, before them,
and they decided to put it in the hands of
the State Department for investigation,
which has been done.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
GENERAL.

The excess of the value of exports over
imports of merchandise for the twelve
months ended December 81, 1884, was $780,
016,072. The total value of imports for the
twelve months ended December 81, 1884,
was $62a, 30, 40. The preceding twelve
months it was $685., O66,2 decrease of
Sol, S3S, 4S6. The value of exports of mer-
chandise for the twelve months ended De-
cember 81, 1884, was S749, 3O3, SO2; the pre-
ceding twelve months, $795, POS, 316, a de-
crease of 45,905 ,514.
MoNsEIGNEUR JULIAN BENoIT, Vicar
General of the Fort Wayne diocese and
member of the Papal Household, died the
other day after a lingering illness of three
months.
FIRE was discovered recently in the Sid
ney On. 81 coal mines in the passage lead
ing to the unused room about mile from
the mouth of the pit. 1t was thought the
mine would have to be closed and flooded.
The Arctic explorer Melville has issued
an appeal for another Arctic expedition by
way of Franz Josef's Land.
AN earthquake shock was felt at Valpa-
raise, Chilli, on the 9th.
THE Due de Broglie, leader of the Or
leanists, was defeated in the recent sena-
torial election in France. The Monarchists
suffered severely.
THE Paris Franchise describes Stewards
march as the most adventurous and heroic
of modern times.
QUEEN VICTORIA has conferred the AL
bert medal upon Constable Cole, so severely
injured in the discharge of his duty at the
time of the explosion at Westminster Hall.
FAILURES for week ended January 80:
In the United States, 81; Canada, 81;
total, S54 Compared with totals of All
and APO the weeks previous, there
was a decrease in every section of the
country, though failures in the West and
South were still very numerous.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON, son OF Prince
Napoleon, arrived in Upper Egypt to take
part in the campaign.
JOHN BRIGHT addressed an immense mass
meeting at Birmingham the other night.
He called upon Parnell to separate himself
from the dynamiters not by silence but by
speech.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
Not Tramps, But Thieves.

DALLAS, TEX, January S0.-It transpires
that the murderers of Conductor Frazie,
and Brakeman Powers, near Overton, on
the International & Great Northern Rail-
way we're not tramps. but thieves. bent on
robbery. Their names are John Price and
John Knight, and both are residents of
Overton. Price is a blacksmith at that
point, and has never borne a very good
reputation, while knight is the son OF
very respectable farmer in the neighbor-
hood. They have been fully identified and
are at present lodging in the Smith County
Jail. The railway company will labor
strenuously to have them properly pun
ished.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
Notes From London.

LONDON, January 29.-It is reported
France has decided officially to declare wal
against China. This decision is said to have
been made in consequence of the action Of
England in enforcing the terms of the For
eign Enlistment act at Hong Kong and else
where. Reinf0rcements are about to be
sent General Warren. who is endeavoring
to settle the trouble in Bechuana land. The
Thorndale public school closed owing to the
prevalence of diptheria. Edward Parks,
of North Dorchester, buried his eldest son,
making the fifth child that has died of the
disease in his family Of seven children.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
Negroes xanssd..-

ABILENE. TEX, January c9.-There has
been movement on foot for some time
among the preachers and the leading coli
ored men to cause an influx of negroes into
the towns of West Texas. Negroes thrive
well out here; servants are paid vastly more
than in other parts Of the South, and work
of all kinds is easily secured by them.
and cheap homes and good land are easily
procured. Large numbers of the race have
lately located la Abilene. and occupy al
most entirely one section Of the city, and it
is proposed to locate colony from the East
In the suburbs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
SILVER MEN.

They Get into shape and Demand Unlin-
tied Ceinags-Also . Suitable Secretary
Of the Treasury.
DENVER, Col, January 31.--Yestesday's
deliberations in the National Silver Conven-
tion were of most harmonious character.
None of the unruly spirit which prcdomi-
mated in the first sessions was observable.
The discussion of reports presented by the
committee on resolutions consumed nearly
the whole day. It was participated In by
large number of delegates, prominent among
whom were Congressman Bedford and Con-
gressman-elect Symes. At five o'clock ma
jority report amended in some unimpOrtant
particulars, passed by unanimous VOTE. It
reads as follows:
The States and Territories. of Kansas, Col
orado, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming
Denver, Col, January g, 1885, adopted the
principles:
First-That we are in favor of the doc
trine Of bfmetalsni as embodied In the laws
of the United States previous to 1874, and
we urge the enactment of those laws at the
earliest practical moment.
Secondhand in the interests of trade
and commerce we demand free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver bullion, at present
the standard of coinage.
Third-we demand that Congress shall pass
an act directing the Secretary of the Treas
2 11,r, S.ii a. "a ~ =, a u ~. ole a 9
wv uonaI oIiis, ~ oiuSr " sisS larger cir
Ea,,uth ~ nnS,, H., S 80
the Treasury for their unlawful evasions Of
the Bland bin and other laws relating to the
annas n,,6 n.a s ~, mouse Dai
maid ritbouf d;scrim;n stS IL ,,l,f "a
Silver or gnid and siI,.e, eartifseat.se Sum a.N
EiftbntFbat IL IL the sensa nS nj o,,va,
t,on that a Law amanastors of tLt. Nat;r.,,aI
thrn,,ront ,ha I;,a s,a Si,a pa1 ..s
~ 49,, :, :, .o 'oe go, s S snan heep nut
IN Natannai stanpJaS s;i, ~. aeEni 49,
that The reiemntion fnnd Of said n.n nt shaSi
ha H., s;i,-or cnir ' i"','' VI '&'iu o""As sn"h
DC m siiv T, com, c 80
s, Sarn :, I'm unan o9ngress snaii restore
$500 o,,t ~ ,;t,. ,,s,d = 49, ~. ,.
Mo aa Hhera az 10 ON
ell an,tion 81 az ,,r;;,s ~ ~, tV PLY
h;II oNo'"on VI 'no Pio'i'ioi' Vi inc niaho
seyenth.Tbat the demands and recon-
ht, ,,1s tto e r""s ~ 49, ", "
unoauer .ha ny VI
1ottan ferns ~ Wis., cnnsti,nt;on na ,aS,is
' h;h ia; 49,, i ,s.;,,.,d Gnu a.. ave-
G th sr,ns ,s ,nt ~ .h Ilt ~ PisSe
Yer needs no such protection ne ;s ertende,,
to the pampered Industries of the East: that
this question touches the dearest interests Of
ever human peing IN tnis broad land: and
debt paving medium Of the nation shall no so
changed as 10 increase the value OF notes,
bonds, mortgages and other fixed incomes,
x and oiei in ,Ie sb VI al o,ner
our constitution and our laws. =.
H. G. SNYDER. of Kansas offered the fol-
lowing resolution which was adontad
wyrnr,S r,o ,na.or;o, "a on,s,s,.,
interests of the Southern and western nor
tions of the Nation are of great Importance
to the prosperity OF the whole Nation; and
swsHs ne snanca nawer " ~ The sne ea,;n;st
ton, and has almost seemed to posses
power to nullify the acts of Coupress ne In
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
THE SOUTH.

BRADLEY F. JOHNSON has been appointed
receiver for Georgia Of the Southern Tele-
graph Company.
Hon. THOMAS OcHrLrRxE, of Texas,
poked his nose into the Senate chamber the
other day, while that body was in secret
session on the Nicaraguan, treaty, and was
unceremoniously elected.
GALVESTON was much excited recently
by the failure of the Island City Savings
bank and the suicide of It's President, c.
g. Wells. The liabilities were put at $543,-
OF; assets, $425,6ss. go
A VICKsBURG special says: AReistaus
United States Engineer II. s. Douglas, who
has charge of all Government levee work
in Major Stickney's district, commencing
at Warrenton and running south, stated
the levees south of vicksburg were in bet
ter condition now than they had been since
the war.
The rate war between the Nashville &
Chattanooga and the Memphis & Charles
ton Railroad was intensified by an enor-
nous cut in freight rates by the Nashville.
They announced all classes from Chatta-
nooga to Memphis reduced to five cents per
one hundred pounds. The haul is $50 miles.
A NEGRO named Peck committed suicide
at Atlanta, Ga, recently, making the third
colored suicide in the history of that city.
Peck blew his brains out with a rifle.
The directors of the Baltimore Corn and
Flour Exchange have elected John Gill, of
Gill & Fisher, President.
A REPORT comes from down Chattahoo-
chez River, Ga, that Hiram Rifles and Bill
Furlow, two fishermen, had been murdered
for their money and their bodies thrown
into the river.
A DISPATCH from Vicksburg, Miss, says:
break is reported in the levee az Desonia,
East Carroll Parish, which viii likely prove
disastrous. Residents were apprehensive.
The levee that gave way was ''run
around" built of frozen earth, which melted
and gave way.
MRS. J.W. REAL, a widow school teacher
ae Louisville, KY, was recently burned to
death on account of her clothing catching
fire.
A BILL of complaint has been filed at
Atlanta, Ga, asking for receiver for the
Port Royal & Augusta Railway Company.
The levees were reported in bad shape
below Helena, Ark, and the river was very
threatening.
The Texas House of Representatives also
denounces dynamiters.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-06
The NEEDLES AZ Dinner.

NEW YORK, January 80.
The annual dinner of the officers and
graduates of the medical department of the
University of the City of New York
took place yesterday evening, at which
were present many prominent members of
The medical profession, also of the law,
the church and the press and of the city
government. Professor +. A. Mcdonald
presided. The annual report was pre-
sented by DIR. C. J. Pardee, the Dean of
the University, and showed the college to
be in most prosperous condition, and
the faculty is constantly applying its
facilities for chemical and didactic teach.
ing.
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of Denmark, . seaman, fell overheard and
was drowned. Captain James II. Stanley
also fell overheard and was lost.
TIE Delaware, Lackawanna q Western
Railroad Company has purchased Stetler
Colliery, Mercer Township, LuEerne
County, Pa, from Samuel N. Stetler,
Scranton, for two hundred thousand dol
lars. This colliery gives employment to
four hundred men and boys and has daily
output of seven hundred tons of coal.
MISS CYNTHIA LEWIS, daughter of the
postmaster of Pendleton, N. Y, was
drowned recently while attempting to get
pail of water from the Tonawanda
River.
THE run on the Savings Bank Of New
Haven, Conn.,, ended after $4,000 had
been paid out.
THE Gantz well at Washington, Pa, ran
fifty barrels of oil on test in twenty min
utes. This is equivalent to 1890 barrels a
day. The greatest excitement prevailed
and speculation ran high.
THE creditors of Oliver Bros. & Phillips
were very generally agreeing to the extern
sion of time asked for by the firm.
OSBORN d. SEAvY, of Boston, has gone
into insolvency. Liabilities unknown.
JOHN DENNIS, reporter for the Daily
Democrat and Chronicle, of Rochester, n.
Y, was recently committed to Jail for con-
tempt in refusing to tell the Grand Jury
certain jurors had been ''fixed" in the trial
of the Aldermen charged with bribery.
Goss, SAWYER & PACKARD, and Goss &
Sawyer, ship builders of Bath, Maine, have
failed.
Ar fire in the village of Angola, N. Y,
recently, William Thompson, aged sixty
six, got excited and dropped dead.
THE entire family of Philip Schrant, a
German baker of Philadelphia was pois-
oned by water impregnated in the pipes
with oxidized lead. a four-year-old child
died.
JOHN FRANCIS QUARELs, a colored law
yer, died at his residence in Flushing, N.
Y, the other afternoon, aged thirty EIGHT.
He was educated at Winchester College.
Pa, appointed United States Consul at
Malone by President Grant, and after
wards transferred to Malaga, Spain.
In the Pennsylvania Senate a motion to
place the Wife-Beaters' bill on the calendar
was carried by 80 yeas to 26 nays. The bill
authorizes the use of the lash as punish
ment for wife-beaters.
HENRY URANN, boots and shoes, Boston,
failed recently.
A WRECK on the Reading Railroad, near
Greenville, N. J., on the 3Oth, caused seri-
Gus injuries to twenty five persons on the
Philadelphia express.
A DISPATCH from New York, dated the
30th, stated that nothing had then been
heard of the whereabouts of S. s. Conant,
the missing assistant editor of Hdrper's
Weekly.
THE insurance journalists of the United
States met in New York on the 29th.
ORR's dry goods store, at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, SO
600.
The Kearsarge Hotel, at Concord, N. H.,
burned the other day. -.
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THE STATE WAR TAX.

A Proposition Favorable to Refunding to
the States the Special War lax.
WASHINGTON, January 31.-The House
Committee on Claims decided by vote 0 to
to report the bill providing for refunding
of the tax imposed by the Government Of
States and Territories as war tax under
the acts of Congress August 5, 1864. and
June Z, 1862, and releasing those States
which owe the tax. The following tabu-
lated statement will show the amount i'm
posed upon several States and Territories
and the amount yet due the Government:
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ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Bloody Mutiny On Board Swedish Brig
antine-The Captains Son and Two of the
Mutineers KilIed-The Captain and Others
Wounded-A NaArow Escape.
NEW YORK, January 80.
Captain Endstorm of the Swedish
brigantine Natal, who arrived Saturday,
had a thrilling experience with mutineers
while on voyage from Boston to Bris.
bane, Australia, involving the death of
three persons, the terrible wounding of
the Captain, and the injury of others on
board. The Captain related the particu-
lars to-day. He says: eve had been
two months out from Boston when one
night was awakened out of nap by a
blow on the head. Above me stood the
ships carpenter, and in a second more
the broad-ax head few off. The carpen-
ter then drew mis- sheath-knife aud thrust
it into my neck. A struggle ensucd,
during which my hands were
CUT TO THE BONE.
The mutlneers then left and the first mate
came to my assistance. We went on deck
together and found the steward armed
with an ak and two seamen each grasp
ing capstau bar. drew my pistol, and
We grappled with the mutineers, who ran
forward and jumped down hatch, and
we put on the scuttle and batteneL it
down. was weak from loss of blood.
Upon returning on deck found Johausen,
one of the men, forward. ordered him
aft under pain of instant death, and he
obeyed. We then took in the small sails,
and Johansen went to the wheel.
THE NATE MURDERED.
"We then made the startling discovery
hat the second mate had been murdered
and thrown overheard. The first mate,
before coming to my aid, had been shot
under the right eye. Four days later we
opened the hatch and ordered the men to
surrender, but they refused. then fired
into the hold, and q struggle ensued,
Turing which six shots were fired, and the
carpenter and steward were killed. The
second mate, who was murdered, was my
son. Upon reaching Brisbane, Taton and
Rufus were placed under arrest, but were
released, as nothing could be proved
against them. We shipped new crew
Upon our arrival at Brisbane"
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There is a law in Bermuda prohibi

There is law in Bermuda prohibit
ing the removal of bodies of foreigners
who have died there till one year after
death. This unwelcome restriction has
lust been made familiar to the friends
Of a New York merchant, Theodore I.
Wilmending. who died on that island
last Friday.
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The esthetes OF New York are be

The esthetes of New York are be-
ginning TO speak of the ''vapor'' of the
chimneys, and locomotives and steam
ers. Let the citizen of Pittsburgh or
Chicago shake the SCOT from his clothes
in silent wrath, but as for the coal
smoke above and around the indignant
victim, let no dude allude to it as
'.vapor." No harm is here meant to
dudes-only friendly warning.-Cur-
rent