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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18

RICHMOND, No, September r. The
strike Of the coal miners in this district
which began the 25th Of June. Is practically
ended. A conference between the Miners
Union and various operators WAS held in this
city Saturday, At which matters in dispute
we're freely ard fully discussed. The men
agreed to 60 to work At the prices paid in tie
Lexington district. which ira one dollar per
ton where the operators remove the c"ai
from the mines, and Sl.l2H where tho
miners remGvs it The end Of the strike is
gladly hailed BY the peOT.s here, as ali
kinds of business has suffered during the
idlenesx OF the miners. Over 500 nen were
engaged in the strike
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18
Sullivan Can't Fight.

NEW YORK, September 10.-Various
reports are in circulation about matches
being arranged between Sullivan. Ryan
and McCa6ery, but the fact Is that the
Boston man is under contract to appear
with Lester & Aliens Minstrel Troupe,
and is under heavy bonds to make NO
engagement until his contract with them
expires. Mr.. Lester left for Boston
Tuesday night, but his representative
said Yesterday afternoon to . reporter
that he would not agree to Sullivan'e
making any match unless 1t was q bona
ode affair for not less than $4,000, and
he did not believe any such fight could b
arranged.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18
Found Dead In His bed.

CHICAGO, H., September g. The
body Of well-dressed man, apparently
thirty years of age, was found lying in
bed in room at the Windsor. Hotel this
morning, with buliet.hOle in his lief!
breast. He came to the hotel sterday,
and registered ~. N. lIarlon, Whining
ton, o." He retired evidently not in
good health. As he did not arise this
morning, nor respond to knocks on the
door, the room was broken open, and he
was found dead. The revolver with
which he shot himself was lying on the
floor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18
Tho Army Of the rennesse..

CHICAGO, ILL.,, September 1.-THE
adjourned business meeting of the So
ciety of the Army OF the Tennessee
was held yesterday mornin: In the Call
Board room In the new Board of Trade
building. The meeting opened BY the
reading Of several kilograms from COM
rades and from societies, containing
friendly greetings. The report favor
ing Rock Island Is the place, and
September 18th and 10th, 1886, as the
time of the next reunion was adopted,
and General Chctlain chosen rs orator.
General Sherman was unanimo usly
elected President Of the society for
the ensuing year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18
Drowned Almost Within Their Fathers
Reach.

Drowned Almost Within Their Fathers
Reach.
ROME, GA, September 8.-Captain
Coulter, for many years pilot ON the
Coosa River, took his four children.
ranging in years from four to fourteen,
In abateau Sunday afternoon, and started
down the Coosa to meet his wife and old.
est daughter, who were coming up on a
steamer. Eight miles below the city the
girl. aged fourteen, and her youngest
sister fell out of the boat. The other
children in their fright c;ung 10 their
father in such way that he. could not
rescue those in the water and they
drowned almost within reach, after hav.
ing risen twice. 1t is feared that the
mother will become insane from grief.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18
Slaxweil's Main dope.

Sr. LOUIS, No., September 8.-John
I. Martin stated to-day that there would
not be any preliminary examination 10
the Maxwell case Wednesday afternoon,
as counsel for the defense had decided to
waive examination and let the case go
before the Criminal Court. By waving
an examination counsel state that II any
OF tine witnesses die before the trial
in the Criminal Court the testimony taken
before the Coroner can not be used as
evidence against MAXWELL; whereas. If
an examination were held In the Court Of
Correction, . transcript Of the evidence
of such witness could be use1 against
the defendant.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18
GENERAL.

PARIS newspapers, of tie Sth, were con-
fident of an approaching revolution in
Spain.
ROBERT BATES. q master plasterer of st.
Thomas, Ont, is missing from his home
and is supposed to have gone to the United
States. Before leaving he succeeded in
passing about $4,000 in forged paper, OF
which nearly every broker in the city
holds portion.
The Paris Figaro announces that Prince
Napoleon in October will start on q tour Of
the world. He will spend three weeks in
America, and then visit China, India, Per-
STA and Russia.
THE Swiss Federal Council has decided
to expel q score of Anarchists who were
concerned in placarding the city of Lau.
same with seditious documents.
THERE was another heavy run on the
branches Of the Bank of Ireland and the
Provincial Bank at Skibberin, O town forty
miles from Cork, on the Sth.
The garrison at Kassala has effected q
favorable truce with the Hadendowas. The
The Abyssinian relief army has started for
Kassala.
A DISPATCH from Madrid of the Sth
stated John w. Foster, American Minis
ter, had been unwell for the past few days
and his sickness had taken q serious turn.
AMERICAN detectives recently kidnapped
anal carried across the line from Manitoba,
Lawre Brainerd, the defaulting Presi-
dent Of the st. Adams (Vt) Bank.
SPAN has offered Germany an apology
for the insult to the embassy at Madrid.
The expulsion of 104 Austrian residents
of Kattowitz, in Prussian SiIesia, has been
ordered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18
THE LATEST.


NINE Apache bucks and eleven squaws
were seen recently near Hillsboro, N. NJ,
evidently stealing their way back to the
San Carlos re servation.
DISPATCHES from Europe of the 18th
noted the steady disappearance of cholera
from France and Spain.
FLOODS have destroyed the crops in
Bengal. The Calcutta district is sub
merged and several land slips have &C.
Cured, causing damage to railroads.
The clearing house returns for week
ended September Il showed an average in
crease over the corresponding week of last
year Of 1872. The increase in New York
was ;4.s.
THE windows of the dry goods store Of
Garry Bros, New York. were shattered by
an explosion Of dynamite February 1, and
the explosion was supposed to have been
instigated by disaffected dry goods clerks.
Detectives have recently arrested Peter A.
Daily, Thomas Fitzpatrick ard David
Naughton, charging them with being con.
cerned In tho explosion.
DIR. w. A. GUY, the eminent English
physician, is dead.
The Free Thinkers Convention met at
the Leland Opera House, Albany, N. Y,
ON the 18th.
TWELVE glass tableware factories Of
Pittsburgh, Pa. which had been closed
since last June for the usual summer vaca-
ton has resumed operations, giving en-
ployment to 1900 men.
The winery and distillery Of the Fresno
Vineyard Company at Fresno, CAL, were
destroyed by fire recently. The loss was
$50 90; partially insured.
A CHINESE loan of $49.OO0. 900 hns been
negotiated at Paris and Berlin for tie con-
struction OF railroad from Taku to Tun-
chow, twelve miles south of Pekin. A
Manchester firm has obtained the contract
for buildirS the rond.
EMERY A. SToRRs, the well known Chi
cago lawyer, died at Ottawa, ILL.,. recently.
A COMMISSION consisting of Captain
James Kincannon of Mississippi and Mr..
Wood of Tennessee has been appointed by
the Secretary of the Interior to 60 out to
the Indian Territory and open negotia
lions with the Choctaw, Greek, Cherokee
and Seminole Indians for the purpose of
having their undivided lands thrown open
for settlement.
A coMNUxIsTIc uprising in the Canton
|of Cordova, in the State Of Vera Cruz, is
giving great annoyance to the planters of
that section. The rebels demand division
of all property.
TIE large sugar works Of the American
Glucose Company, at Peoria, ILL.,, burned
the other morning entailing loss of $780,
Arn sOsn <aA fhoA
kiln, and, driven by a high wind, spread
with great rapidly. The insurance was
not known.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
assaned by Telegraph end Mail
wAsHINGrON NOTES,


A fELEGRAM was received recently at
ne Marine Hospital Bureau at Washing.
Ion from Post Assistant Surgeon Devan at
Port Townsend, w. T., asking authority
10 employ watchmen to protect the prop
erty OF the Marine Hospital Service. He
stated that several attempts had been
made to fire the town and the place was
under patrol by the citizens.
IT is reported in Washington that
the Chinese Government will demand
reparation for the Wyoming riots. 1t was
believed that the Chinese Minister had been
specially instructed to give particular at
tention to the compilation Of q statement
giving complete details of the killing of the
Cinnamon.
A TELEGRAM has been received ut Wash
ington announcing that the application for
\ writ of habeas corpus in the case Of
Hibbs, the defaulting postmaster arrested
In British Columbia, has been denied.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the Land
Office at Washington, modifying the for.
mer circular issued by that bureau pre-
scribing the rights of railroad companies,
In cutting timber from public lands.
UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL VIII.
LIAMs, at Havana, Cuba, has been directed
to see that CGrcilo Puebla, of New York,
who is in prison at Havana, has fair and
speedy trial. Puebla is Cuban but some
years since became q naturalized Ameri-
can. He recently returned to Cuba on, he
says, private business. Immediately on his
arrival he was seized and imprisoned on the
charge of melting . rebellion against
Spain.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
reports that the amount of distilled spirits
gone into consumption in the United States
during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885,
was g., Isl, 902 gallons, and the amount of
malt liquors on which tax was paid during
the same period was 10, Isl, 1853 barrels.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau at WASH
ington has been informed that yellow
fever is epidemic in the State of Sonora,
Mexico, and a request has been made for
the appointment of a medical inspector at
Nogales, Tex.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18

The troubles of the Wabash Railroad
With the Knights Of Labor have been
finally settled.
The cricket match between the English
cricket team and the Peninsulars, of De-
troit, resulted in a victory for the visitors.
The score was lis to sSS, with an inning
% spare.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18

TIE Official report Of the Montreal HealsA
Once Of the 9th stated that forty new cases
OF smallpox were reported. Twenty three
deaths occurred.
TsE strike Of 10000 operatives in the
jute mill at Dundee. Scotland, ended in
favor Of the employees.
The schooner Guardian Angel, while
heating to windward OF Cape Ballard,
Newfoundland, capsixed the other morn
ing, and all hands were lost except ono
seaman, who was picked Oh the wreck by
. passing boat.
CAPE Town advices state that Congo
cannibals have attacked several stations
OF the African Association and roasted and
devoured number of whites.
IT was rumored in London on the 9th
that several cases of cholera had occurred
ut Mono, Belgium.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, the English Radical,
took . very decided stand, in q recent
speech, against Parnell's idea Of q separate
Parliament for Ireland.
THE barque Lochfereus collided with the
steamship Idlewater the other night of
Deal, in the English Channel. Eight per-
sons were believed to be drowned.
The settlement OF the Russo.Afghan
question will be embodied in a protocol.
Russia has abandoned her claim to the
whole of Zulifikar Pass proper. Murechak
is also left to the Afghans.
AT recent meeting Of the National
League in Dublin, Mr.. Redmond counseled
firm resistance to the evictions.
AN alarming increase in the number Of
cholera cases mt the Spanish lines, Gibral-
lar, was reported on tho 9th. In twenty
four hours there were thirty-two new
cases and twelve deaths. No case had
been reported in Gibraltar for ninety six
hours.
CONSIDERABLE surprise and regret was
occasioned in London at the tone of Vice.
President Hendricks speech at Indianap-
oils, siding with Parnell in the latter's is
sue with England. It was urged by Brit
ish politicians that owing to his position
he ought to have taken neutral stand.
The German Government has forbidden
the circulation in Germany Of the Ameri-
can journal Turn Zeitung, an organ of tho
Free Thinkers. The newspaper is published
in milwaukee,.
IT is stated the Sultan hns expressed his
willingness to send few thousand Turk
ish troops to Egypt whenever he is re-
Questei to do SO by England.
NJ. De FREYCINET, the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs, gave a reception OF
the 9th to the foreign diplomatic repre-
sentatives. He congratulated the German
charge d'affaircs and the Spanish EN-
bassador upon the pacific aspect Of the
situation.
RIEL's appeal for new trial was disal-
lowed by the court
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18

A Transaction Showing That Isurcan cratic
Custom Il Opposed to Innovation, Even
to Subscrve EcOnOmv.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-18

posal for an international telephone sys.
tenn.
A RECENT dispatch from Pesth says:
Coun: Paul Festetico has killed NJ. Pechv,
son of the President Of the Hungarian del
egation, in duel. 1t was ut first reported
NJ. Pechy died of illness.
A STATE banquet was given ut the Royal
Palace at Copenhagen on the 18th, at
tended by the Gear and Czar;na, the Prince
and Princess of Wales. King Christian oil
Denmark and King George of Greece.
King Christian proposed the health of the
Car and all stood up and sung the Rus
sian National Anthem.
LIE MArIN, of Paris. stated on the 18th
that military uprising had occurred at
Madrid, which had been quickly sup
pressed.
A RECENr dispatch from Genoa reported
the laundering of the steamer Villa de
Malaga. The crew basely deserted the
vessel, leaving the passengers to their fate.
Out of sixty passengers, sixteen were
drowned.
The Sultan Of Muscat. who has great in
fiuence in the Mohammedan world. re-
Gently offered his army in the service of
Great Britain.
The business failures for week ended
September 10 numbered for the United
States, 1s4; for Canada, 10; total, POS; az
compared with $50 the week previous.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20
Territorial Items.

There is considerable leo in the
Snake river yet.
A railroad depot is being built at
North Yakima, larger than the ono
at Walla Walla
The Walla Walla .SiatcSman calls
Register Adams. of the Yakima Llnl
Office, q " HesSian."
A vein of bituminous coal has been
opened on Livingston ranch, twelve
miles from Walla Walla, on Mil
creek.
The Pioneer Press Of late date,
says: q" Ainsworth, Washington Ter
ritory, q station on the main line OF
| the Northern Pacific, will be closed
on the 14th instant. Ainsworth has
heretofore been the junction poin,
with the Cascade branch aud i,
abolish ed because of the necessity u
a transfer by water. Hereafter Pas
CO will be the junction point, it hay
ing direct rail communication will
the branch"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20
Twcadlcdum and Twced!edec.

The difference " betwixt tweedle-
dunn and tweedledec" is thus pretty
neatly set forth By an cxchanse:
You can tell The people if YOU
want to fill up your paper, that am
going to start a shop here to manu-
facture and repair wagons and car
riaces,' sad Il man IL il newspaper
publisher. Would You like TO
have it Il Standing advertisement? -
said the c,ii.or. Oh, only W NJ
an item," was the response. " Wonld
you like to subscribe for the paper?'
" Well, no; I'M taking all l can
read now-I may take youls when
some of them runs ont The next
day the editor wanted two uew
spokes put i'll his buggy and the
dashboard fixed up, aud he Went to
the shopkeeper aud said " You can
fix this 5us y if you want Job to
keep you busy
Tho shopkeeper looked ii oven au;l
said: The spokes will be 30 cents
each, and the dashboard Sl-maklns
81 for necessary repairs. " But,
SAID the sclibe, D." don't care to pay
anything for it; though you might
want Il job Just 10 fill III your time
JUS, an item, you know Bat tie
sIiopkceper WAS indignant, AMI said
with curve of bis spine: " Do YOU
think l am fool to work for moth
ing? DO you think | can buy iron
and wood and coal, and lent shoI
and keep tools. and do work fol
nothins?" "Oh. excuse me, salt
the publisher, " but l own Il print
ing office, type and furniture, whicl
cost thousands of dollars. hav'
to buy paper, ink, etc, and pay casl
for hired help, fuel and all necessa
ries. | have 4 circulation of owe
two thousand copies, which cost m
many dollars each issue, and yestel
day you had the mule cheek ant
audacity to ask that | tell those tw
thousand families that you were i
business ready to receive their Gus
tom for nothing"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20
The ECLIPSE. In our issue of last
Friday the compositor made us say:


The ECLIPSE. In our issue of last
Friday the compositor made us say:
Next Monday an eclipse of the sun
will occur, but unfortunately, Olympians
Will not see the show. the penumbra pass
ing over a belt of the Earth's surface
which docs not include any part of Puget
Sound"
This item should have been set up
to read "a follows: Next Monday
an eclipse of the sun will occur. but
unfortunately, Olympians will not
see the show, umbrellas will he
raised on that occasion over q belt Of
the Earth's surface, including every
part of Puget Sound" With these
corrections our readers will perceive
that our astronomical editor not only
calculated the occurrence of the
eclipse to the very day, but that he
actually foretold the condition of the
weather better than barometer. 1t
didn't actually rain as it happened,
but then it was SO very cloudy that
only an occasional glimpse of the
show could be had in these ATTITUDES.
Verify the advance of science is won.
| derful.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20

The civil service rules apply to
three classes of positions, as fol-
lows: Those offices classified in the
Departments at Washington and
designated the " Classified Depart
mental Service; those classified un-
der any Collector, Naval Officer, Sur
veyoz or Appraiser, in any customs
district, where the officials are as
mahy as fifty, designated as the
classified Customs Service; aud
those holding position under any
Postmaster, where the officers are as
many as fifty, designated the Class
fled Postal Service" Applicants fol
position in either of these branches
OF the service are required to undergo
a competitive examination. San
Francisco is the only place where
the rules can apply on the Pacific
Coast.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20

1T seems from q letter written by
Capt. McFarlane, of the schooner
Mist, to the Inteliigencer, that Mr..
Baxter, the Trader of the Neah Bay
Reservation. has been having a soft
thing of it in his dealings with the
Indians. 1t is charged that the In
dams were compelled to buy of Bax-
ter at exorbitant prices and sell their
furs to.him at less than their market
value. The Lnteliigencer seems to
think that Baxter comes under the
"offensive partisanship" rule and
should 60.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20

HERMAN j. Engelstadt, who was
lately sent to the Hospital for the
Insane from Tacoma, had about
$4,000 in his possession when com
mitted. MIR. S. c. Woodruff has
been appointed his guardian to hold
and account for the money.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20

CAPT. Thos. Stratton, of Port An.
geles, dropped dead from heart dis
ease, last Sunday. Ho was one of
our Oldest pioneer settlers. Capt.
$. leaves a wife, who has been many
years head keeper of the Port An
gelcs lighthouse, the Captain hold
ing the position Of Assistant Keeper
at the time OF his death.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20

Mr.. H. p. Mcclure, Superintend
ent of the East Portland Water Co.
and Miss Nettie Mulholland, of
Union county. Oregon, grand
daughter of Col. w. w. Chapman,
were united in marriage in Portland
last week. Soon as the ceremony
was completed they left for Eastern
Oregon on bridal tour. They de.
parted amid the congratulations of a
host of friends.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20

The telegraph announces the de-
capitation of Messrs. j. G. Horr, of
Port Townsend, and w. 7. Shackls-
ford, OF Seattle, Special Agents of the
Treasury. This was done last Sat
day and still the world revolves;
but probably the eclipse Monday
was the season of mourning by which
Nature indicated her sorrow for
slaughter of the innocents.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20

IT is reported that the steamer
Gazelle was burned to the waters
edge, while ascending the Stilla-
gramish river. one day last week.
She was q small stern-wheel boat.
built ON the willamette river and
brought to the Sound about four
years ago.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20

MIR. S. w. Hovey, late of Seattle
and for many years accountant of the
Mill Co., at Port Gamble, died a few
days ago. The body was taken to
the latter place for interment, by the
Workmen of Seattle.