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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
GENERAL.

THREE of the Spanish commissioners,
appointed to investigate the subject, re-
port that incubation with cholera virus is
so harmless that they advise it be per-
mitted, on the ground that it will tend to
prevent panic.
AN ice generator in brewery in the Rue
wrecking two buildings, killing fivepersons
and injuring many others.
AT Fuafkirchen, Hungary, recently,
Herr Lisch, the inventor of new dynamite
patents, was killed by fearful explosion
which occurred in his house while he was
packing boxes. His mother was also
killed. The roof of the house was blown
off.
OFFICIAL reports from the cholera dis
tricts in Spain show $50 new cases and 364
deaths on the 22d.
LORD GARMoYLE has settled down at his
late fathers residence and has resumed
correspondence with Miss Fortescue, the
actress. 1t is expected that they will be
married within a year.
ADvIcEs from Port Stanley, Falkland
Island, of May :, say that the Captain of
the bark Hermine has been acquitted of
the charge of homicide in killing seaman
during mutiny.
PRIVATE advices from Berlin of the 24th
state that the Emperor William is worse.
He can not talk nor listen to the reading of
reports nor do the least work without a fit
of somnolency, which are most frequent
during the day, while at night he is rest
less.
A DISPATCH recently received in London
says that an American who recently
passed through Batoum, a town in Asiatic
Russia, on the Black Sea coast, states that
there are many gun factories in full opera
ton there, and that they are being worked
secretly and under such Disgusting names
as hospitals and asylums.
THE diaries of General Gordon have been
published. They are a strange mix-up of
complaints, denunciations and expecta-
tions, characteristic of his peculiar life and
position at Khartoun.
A RECENT dispatch from Lucca, Italy,
says that powder mill at that place ex-
ploded, badly shaking up the buildings for
miles around. Twelve powder hands were
instantly killed.
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A Gallant CoIonel'a Daughter.

N,RI,GANsErr. Il. l., June 26.-Lieu.
tenant Edwin st. JOIN Greble, Second
Artillery, of Little Rock, Ark, was mar.
ried to Miss Gertrude Poland, daughter
of Colonel J. S. Poland, U. S. A., here
Wednesday, BY Rev. DIR. w. Babcock, Of
ST. Peters Church. The marriage cere-
mony was conducted in a marquee erect
ed on the lawn at the Flat Rock Cottage.
After the ceremony reception was held
at the cottage. The newly married couple
left on a special train for Boston, and
will sail from there on July I'd for s
months tour.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
HANGED BY SOMEBODY.
A Nebraska Boy Found Hanging to n Tree
Near Nicola.

A Nebraska Boy Found Hanging to Tree
Near Nicola.
OMAHA, NEB., June 27.-Yesterday
morning William Hayes, sixteen-year-old
soy of a widow living near Nicola, left his
home riding horseback to attend the con-
firmation exercises of the Catholic Church
and was gone much beyond his
time. Finally his horse Ie
turned home rider,ess and with the
bride badly broken. Neighbors started
out to hunt the had and searched till long
after dark without finding him. To-day
the search was renewed by large parties of
men. The body of the missing boy was
found about noon by his brother, hanging to
the limb of tree, nine miles north of Ne
ola, and long distance from his home. 1t
swung ten or twelve feet above ground.
His hands were tied behind his back
and his legs tied together, showing that he
had been hanged by somebody. 1t is sup
posed that gang of prisoners who escaped
from Jail at Nicola the night before commit
ted the crime, as young Hayes resembled a
son of the Sheriff at Nicola. The escaped
prisoners have all been recaptured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03

CLEVELAND, o., June 22.-On Saturday
night last, William Rose. tramp was ar
rested at Chenille, adjacent to this city, for
distributing among respectable ladies Letters
containing indecent proposals. He was
tried and sentenced to a term
in the work house. Saturday night NUM-
Der of CITIZENS forced their way into the
Lookup where Rose was. and had nearly
succeeded in getting him outside, when the
Marshal with posse Of deputies and police
arrived upon the scene and rescued the
tramp. Rose says the men had rope and
were going to hang him. Another attempt
it Is claimed, will be made tonight
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
DEATH INTERPOSES.
A Washington Wedding Prevented BY the
Death of the Bride-to-Be.

A Washington Wedding Prevented BY the
Death of the Bride-to-Be.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June o.
DIR. Emil Bessels, the well-known Arctic
traveller, aud Madame Ravenna, the
singer, were engaged to be married. Last
Saturday was the date fixed for the wed.
ding. But the doctor was suddenly takeE
i'll on Saturday, so the wedding was
postponed until last Monday. On Mon
day, wh.n the bridal party reached the
residence of the minister they met with
another disappointment the minister,
the Rev. Mr.. Schneider, having uuex-
pec,edly gone to Baltimore. Suisse.
qucntly all arrangements were made
for the wedding to take place or
Wednesday. Yesterday the cxpectant
bridegroom drove to the house of his
bride to take her to the minister's, but
was shocked to learn that she had been
taken suddenly and seriously i'll. The
progress of the disease was so rapid that
by night Madame Ravenna was dead.
She was to have been married at twelve
O'Clock, aud this termination of what
WIS looked upon as happy affair Is in
expressively sad. Madame Ravenna has
had quite a varied career. Since her
arrival in this country she has been
concert singer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
THE LATENT.

1HE President recently made the follow
ing appointments: Edward l.. Hedden,
Collector of Customs for the district Of
New York; H. S. Beattie. Surveyor of Gus
toms for the District of New York; S. W.
Burt. Naval Officer of Customs for the Dis
trict of New York.
JAMES d. FISH, late President Of the
Marine National Bank, was sentenced to
ten years. imprisonment in Auburn prison
by Judge Benedict in the United States
Court at New York on the 9th.
AT Toledo, O., riots again broke out in
the Polish Catholic Church on Sunday, the
18th, consequent upon trouble with the
priest, who was considered obnoxious. A
few days before an attempt was made to
blow up the church with dynamite, and on
Sunday the congregation let themselves
loose, billing two of their members and
woundipg several others. Two or three
dwelling houses We're demolished. Twelve
or fifteen rioters were arrested. A year
ago a man was killed in the same church.
THE clearing house returns for week
ended June % showed an average decrease
of los compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the de-
crease was 26.2. In Kansas CT v the in
crease was 6S.3 and in Memphis COG.
GOVERNOR HoADLY said recently that
he would not be the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio at the coming cleo
ton. He predicted Democratic success in
that State, and said the Democratic party
there was perfectly solid.
THEoDoRE PAULsEN and Lizzie Null
roady, both employed at Cranes Renovat-
ing Works, Pueblo, Col. We're drowned re-
Gently while boat riding Oh small lake
near that city.
CAPTAIN CRAWFORD struck the hostiies
in the mountains southeast of Opulo, Mex
leo, killing one buc. and capturing fifteen
women and children.
GENERAL AUGUR recently telegraphed
aIajor L. V. Sumner, Fifth cavalry, COM
manding troops at and near Fort Reno,
Indian Territory, to send the Cheyenne In
dian Roman Nose with suitable guard to
Fort Leavenworth and make a report of
his case. Roman Nose has given 4 great
deal of trouble, and it was likely that he
would be severely dealt with.
The Rev. C. E. Laughlin, pastor of the
,, PRESBYTERIAN Church of Lenox, Iowa, and
his sister, Regina Laughlin, were both
drowned in the Platte River on the 18th
while on their way to Platte Church.
JOHN McCULLoUGH, the demented actor,
has been taken to the Bloomingdale Asy-
lum, New York.
ALL the clerks in the employ of the Vicks-
burg & Meridian and Vicksburg, Shreve-
port G. Pacific Railroads have been asked
to resign. 1t was also stated that the Office
of the Queen & Crescent Road, in New
Orleans, would be removed to Cincinnati.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph end Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTBss
THE War Department received reports
from Fort Reno, Indian Territory, June
20, to the effect that great excitement pre-
vailed in that place over a threatened out
break by the Cheyennes. The Indians,
known as the Southern Cheyennes, were
making preparations to go on the warpath.
The President has appointed Edward H.
Strobe, of New York, Secretary of Lega-
ton to Spain.
HoN. RICHARD T. MERRIcK, who has
been lying dangerously i'll for some days,
died in Washington on the 23d.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
has disallowed items amounting to 5000
in the accounts of Mr.. Hallett, Supervisor
of Elections in Boston. The accounts as
rendered amounted to about So 900.
SITTING BULL and fifteen braves in war
costume called ct the War and other De-
partments and finally on the President, at
Washington, recently. There was a gem
eral hand shaking, but no speeches, and
the Bull said he wished he could have seen
oil he was now seeing when a boy.
THE order for the removal of the tele-
graph wires from the roof of the Treasury
Department building at Washington not
having been complied with, the telegraph
company has been notified that they will
be cut down. The wires on the roof of the
White House will also be summarily re-
moved.
Mr.. BURcHARD, Director of the Mint, was
reported to have decided to test the power
of the President to remove him from his
office.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has been
informed that the recent investigation of
the condition of the sub-treasury at New
Orleans shows that the total defalcation Of
the runaway clerk, Auf de Morte, amounts
TO little over 81, 600.
JAMES L. STANTON, GeneralAgent of the
Department of Justice, Washington, has
rendered his resignation.
1t was reported in Washington that fur
ther interference would be necessary in
Panama to prevent impending anarchy.
GENERAL HAzEN, Chief Signal Officer,
has issued an order extending to day and
half in advance the weather predictions
which now only cover a day.
GENERAL FRANK ARMSTRONG, of New
Orleans, has been appointed by the Secre-
tary of the Interior as Indian Inspector, to
succeed Inspector Newall, suspended.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
THE SOUTH.

THE Prohibition State Convention held at
Grafton, ". Va, split on the third party
question, and about third of the delegates
favoring non-partisan action withdrew.
The remainder resolved that a third party
was expedient in West Virginia.
Ina fight between Drs. Roberts and May
field, at Middlebourne, W. Va, recently,
DIR. Mayfield's skull was cracked and DIR.
Roberts had three ribs detached from his
backbone. Both men were prominent citi-
zens, Mayfield being President of the
County Court.
A TUBULAR boiler of Mountain & Sons
grist mill at Mobile, Ala, exploded re-
Gently, demolishing the boiler house and
parts of adjacent buildings. Henry Scott,
Joe Richardson and l.. Matthews, colored
employees, were killed, and Sally Matthews
fatally injured.
WILLIAM ADAMS was killed and several
other persons were Frustrated by lightning
which struck the Cohen residence at
Weatherford, Tex, recently.
THE citizens posse from Texas and In
dian Territory, on the Texas side of the
Red River, in the neighborhood of Della
ware Bend. captured eight horse thieves
near Washita recently and hanged them to
one tree. They then went few miles fur
Their and captured four others, whom they
also lynched.
The Benton House and dozen store
rooms at Richmond, Tex, were recently
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
THE boiler at the distillery of Mattingly
& Moore at Bardstown, KY, exploded the
other morning. Three of the work hands
were killed instantly and another so badly
burned and bruised that it was thought he
would die.
CAPTAIN Z. L. JOHNSON, formerly of In
diana, arraigned for killing Major Edwin
Henry, in Green County, Tenn, September
%, 1884, was acquitted on the Goth. Henry
led Johnson's wife astray year before.
Mrs. johnson committed suicide in Indian
apolis.
JACOB ARCHIE and William Parchmeal,
full blood Cherokee Indians, were hanged at
Fort Smith, Ark, for the murder of Henry
Feigel, an old Swede, thirteen years ago,
in the Indian Territory. Parchmeal ad-
mitted his guilt.
OLAF OLSEN, of ARENA, Norway, a cabin
boy from the bark Nat, from Cienfuges for
Philadelphia, died at the hospital at
Lewes, Del, recently from well defined
yellow fever.
A GENTLEMAN recently returned from,
the mountains of Eastern Kentucky says a
most alarming condition of affairs existed
| in that section. No less than four armed
bands were hunting each other like wild
beasts over the mountains.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
ARGENTiFEROUS.
Discovery of Silver ut Minersville, Pa
Great Excitement.

Discovery of silver at Minersviile, Pa
Great Excitement.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 25.-Much ex-
citemeut prevails over what is claimed tc
be the discovery of rich mine of silver
ore at Mnersvillc. John Hackett, min.
Ing engineer, who came here from Cali.
fornia, while examining the ground found
surface indications of silver. He worked
quietly at the place for several days and
convinced himself that there was for.
tuue there t ,r him. He leased the
ground, and has made satisfactory ar.
rangements with the owners to begiL
digging. Experts examined specimens
OF the rock, and say it is quite rich in
what is known in Colorado, as white
iron, which is found where gold and sill
yer abound. Prospectors are already ar.
irving. People are more enthusiastic
than when the great oil wells were
struck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
Not n Very Good Dav. Either.

DALLAS, TEX, Tune 25.-The citizens
posse from the Texas and Indian Terri
tory side of the Red River, in the neigh
borhood of Delaware Bend, who have for
several weeks past been chasing the gang
of outlaws who have been stealing horses
and stock, yesterday overlook the gang
and captured eight of them near Washita
and hanged them to one tree. They then
went few miles further and captured
four Others, whom they also lynched.
About two weeks ago three others were
lyuched, making a tota; of fifteen. Fully
twenty members of the gang have been
sliin the past spring, and half a dozen
farmers aud citizsus have lost their lives
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
HaIderman.s Reclamation.

WASHINGTON, June 25.-When the Hon.
John A. Haldcrman, Minister to Siam, re-
turned to this country it was announced
that lie had simply returned for vacation,
and it was generally understood that he
would return. To-day it became known
that Mr.. Halderman had rendered his resis-
nation to the President. II WIS also said on
excellent authority that Mr.. Cleveland had
requested Mr.. Haiderlnan to withdraw
his resignation and to resume his position as
Minister. To this Mr.. Haderman posi-
lively replied that the climate in Siam was
such that his health was becoming affected,
and he did not wish to return to that coup
try. The resignation was then accepted.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
The Gamblers Mast Go.

CHICAGO, June est was rumored here
yesterday that the gamblers had obtsined
Mayor Harrison's promise to rescind his
recent order closing all gambling places,
and OIL the strength OF this rumor reports
to that effect have been circulated. Last
night the Mayor said that the rumor
originated in the minds of persons intent
upon injuring him and were without other
foundation. The secretary of the police
assured a reporter that the gambling houses
Of the city were closed permanently and
that whatever statement the gamblers them
selves make to the contrary, they fully I'M
derstand that their cause, for the present at
least is hopeless
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03

OTTAWA, CAN, June 27.-In the House
Of Commons several members spoke in re-
gard to the fisheries agreement entered into
between the United States and Great
Britain in which they took the ground that
the United States had much the best
of it because while the fishing was
free, Canadian fishermen would
be obliged to pay duty on fish sold in
United States ports, thereby practically ex-
Guiding them aid bringing ruin upon them.
Sir John Macdonald said he believed the
present United States Government was favor
able to extended trade relations with Cana
da, but the Republican party were still in
the majority in the Senate
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03

LINCOLN, NEB., June T.-The sanger
fest societies made a grand street demon
stration yesterday. The procession was
made up of the singing societies, brass
bands, officers and citizens in carriages and
q representation of trades and business.
The Irish societies Joined heartily and
Patrick EgaH. of the National League,
marched at the head with girls and young
ladies sitting at the feet Of the goddess of
liberty representing the various States OF
the Unien. The procession was more than
q mile in length and the finest witnessed in
Lincoln in many years. There was grand
ball in the evening.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
The New Method Of Issuing Securities.

WASHINGTON, June 25.-The work Of
transferring the machinery for final au-
thentication of the United States securities
from the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing to the Treasurer's Office is now in pro-
gress and will probably be completed by
July l. The transfer Of the duty of plac-
ing the seal on the United States notes and
bonds from the Chief of the Bureau where
they are printed to the Treasurer by whom
hey are issued, Is in accordance with the
recommendation of the commissioner ap-
pointed to consider the question. The OBJ
iect is to secure greater security in the
completion and issue of the poteS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03

A COLLISION occurred between q freight
and accommodation train on the Wabash
Railroad at Woodstock, eight or ten miles
from st. Louis, recently. Engineer Stew
art, of the freight, and Conductor Mann, OF
the accommodation were killed. Three
passengers were wounded, but not seri-
ously.
DURING the performance of a circus at
Lapeer, Mich, the other day, Sampson,
large elephant, became infuriated and
turned upon the eight thousand persons
assembled under the canvas. The enrased
elephant, after clearing out the canvas,
made a break for the woods near by and
mired himself in an adjacent swamp.
Amid the panic a number of limbs were
broken and property lost and damaged.
No fatalities occurred.
SOME twenty or thirty cases of diph-
liberia have resulted at Laporte, Ind, from
allowing quantity of refuse matter, re-
moved from q sewer to remain for several
davs in the street exposed to the sun.
Two hundred Yaquis and six Mexicans
were killed in a recent engagement in Mex
leo. Three Americans were reported killed
near Salmaripa by Apaches, part of Gero-
nimo's band. No names were given.
The National Plumbers convention in
session at st. Louis, were given banquet
at the Southern Hotel on the 25th.
The Mexican editors were in Kansas
City on the 25th, and put in the day visit
ing the various points of interest. They
were given banquet in the evening.
The Plumbers Convention at st. Louis
ended its session on the Goth, after adopt
ing q resolution requesting manufacturers
not to sell material to strikers who might
start cooperative establishments and re-
duce prices.
A WHOLESALE prison delivery was ex-
pected in Michigan, consequent upon pris-
oners being convicted and sentenced with
out indictment by the Grand Jury.
j. W. JONES & Co., one of the heaviest
lumber firms in Racine, Wis, made an as
signment to r. II. Howell for the benefit of
their creditors. Their liabilities were esti-
mated at 1000, their assets at from $751;
600 to $4,000.
LUTHER K. BRUCE, a leading druggist,
shot and killed j. C. Lentz, a prominent
merchant and Justice of the Peace at
Douglass, ILL.,, recently. The affair grew
out of an attempt to suppress the liquor
traffic, Lentz being a strong temperance
man and Bruce an active supporter of the
whisky cause.
The Illinois Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 26th.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-03
THE W EST.

THE Western Base Ball League having
gone to wreck, the Milwaukee Club thought
it best to disband.
ONE hundred and seventy-ive employees
Of the Gainsford Carriage Company, Gin
sinnati, quit work recently, refusing to
submit to a reduction of ten per cent. This
was the second ten per cent. cut in two
months.
Hoe cholera was reported causing great
loss to the farmers in the neighborhood
Of Shelbyville, Ill. One farmer lost forty
aead of fat hogs in one week and many
others had disease among the droves.
CHARLES KRUG, of st. Helena, one of
the most prominent whey ardists in Cali
90; assets, SIS1, 900.
GEORGE w. DENT, brother-in-law of
General Grant, received letter from
President Cleveland notifying him of his
suspension from the Office of Appraiser of
the Custom House in San Francisco.
Thomas Beck, recently appointed, becomes
ais successor.
THE jury in the Hillman insurance case
ut Leavenworth, Kan, failed to agree and
~ere discharged. Six were for the plain
iii holding that the body was that of Hill
man, and six for the defense that it was
rot Hillman. This was the third trial of
she case.
REPORTS from all the wheat growing
counties in Colorado place the crop at
s,649, 900 bushels, which. estimating the
nome consumption and seeding for next
rear at j ,219, 900, leaves surplus of 49,
800, a gain of 20 per cent over last year.
THE National Bank of Mexico is slightly
embarrassed by the recent executive order,
and donhts are expressed as to whether it
san survive the shock,