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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-26
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-26

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-26

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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
ASYLUM BURNED.
The Insane Asylum at williamsburg, Va
Burned.

The Insane Asylum at Williamsburg, Va,
Burned.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA, June "a fire
broke out at twelve o'clock last night in the
right wing Of the center building of the
Eastern Lunatic Asylum here. and before
it could be got under control everything
was destroyed. There were 200 female
patients in the burned building but all were
rescued except one-Miss Smith, of Spott-
sylvania County, who was burned to death.
Another patient, Mrs. Jeffries, after being
brought out of the building, wandered away
and was found this morning drowned
In creek near by All the female patients
were taken to the William and Mary Col
lege, where they were temporarily cared
for. The other wards contained nearly 800
patients. These wards were quickly emp
tied and the unfOrtunates were turned
loose, but did not wander off, being gener-
ally tractable. None of the male wards
were in danger, they being located in build
ings separate and disconnected from those
destroyed, and strong wind was blowing
from them. The loss is estimated at from
100000 to $4,000; insurance about S40,-
600. The fire is believed to have resulted
from trouble with the electric light wires.
as it was first discovered where the wires
entered the right wing of the building.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
FRiChTFUL DISASTER.


Terrible Accident at II Court House In
France-Twenty Persons killed-Many
Injured.
PARIS, June 1.-THE news of terrible
accident which occurred at Theirs, manu-
featuring town in the Department Puy de
Dome, reached here this morning. A large
crowd assembled yesterday in the Court
House at that place to listen to the evil
dence in rather sensational murder trial.
The jam in the room was so great that many
could reach no further than the stairs. The
stair case became packed. While men and
women were jOstling one another in theiI
efforts to get nearer the trial. the stairs,
without warning gave way, carrying down
hundreds of people to the floor below. An
indescribable scene took place. The
men fought and scrambled their way
out over the bodies of those who lay be-
meath. while the agonizing screams of the
wounded rent the air. Men and women
were piled one OH top of another over ten
deep. Many underneath were suffOcated.
The police were summoned and, assisted
By number of volunteers, soon restored
order and began the work of rescue. Some
victims were pinioned by falling timbers.
Considerable difficulty was experienced in
extricating them. Fifty people were killed
outright. Eighty were wounded, many of
them it is feared fatally. The officers are
rOundly denounced for the lack of preca,i
ton in allowing the people to block the
stairs, which they knew could not bear the
strain.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
1T SHOOK THE TOWN.


Terrific Explosion of Dynamite In . eoAs
Mine at Beyier, Missouri-The Act LaiS-
to Striking Miners-The shaft Badly
Damaged, But No Lives Lost.
BEvIER, Mo-, June Sat 1880 o'cloc c
Saturday night terrific explosion oc-~
Cured here, which shook the whole town.
and was heard at Macon, six miles dis
taDt. 1t proved to have taken place in
No. 4 mine, operated by LOOMS & Snive-
ly, where the negroes have been at work
for two weeks. An immediate and hur-
ried investigation seemed to prove that
the widest threats of the striking miners
had at last been put into execution,
and that dynamite had been made use
of. The charge, which consisted of abous
ten pounds of dynamite, had been placed
at the bottom of the shaft and fired by .
fuse fifty feet long. Fortunately there
was no loss of life, as the charge was
placed so close to the mouth of the pit
that its force was expended in tearing
away the frame work and seriously dam
aging the walls of the shaft, heavy tim.
pers being blown into the air. HAD
the charge been confined, the loss of life
and property would have beeD enormous.
Over 200 persons were sleeping within
fifty feet of the shaft.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
Chicago Socialists.

CHICAGO, June s.-The Central Labor
Union, which is composed of several or
CARNATIONS of socialistic proclivties had a
picnic at Oggens' Grove yesterday. A pro-
cession was formed on Market Square in
the morning. and after marching through
the principal streets went to the grove. In
the procession was an unusual large num-
Der of young men, especially among the
Anarchists. On numerous red flags and
banners were inscribed such characteristic
notices as 'Down with the Throne, the
Altar and the Money Bags" twenty-five
red flags and a solitary United States flag
were carried. At the grove Samuel Fielden
and Michael Schwab made speeches
Fielder said that il the people would organ
iZe and resist the capitalists, they might
have a picnic all their lives. In their fights
they must employ little inSidious, missiles
that would destroy the palaces of their
masters. About two Thousand people were
present and Listened to the iniamniat0ry
harangueS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
STUBBORN AND TES1Y.
Ex-Banker Fish Gives His Opinion Of
Wards Smelter and Buck Grants Mine.

Ex-Banker Fish Gives His Opinion Of
Wards Smelter and Buck Grants Mine.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE examination
of James d. Fish, the ex-president Of the
late Marine Bank, was continued yesterday
before the referee at the Ludlow Street
Jail, on behalf of Julien T. Davis, the re.
cever Of Grant u Ward, to discover
whether or not any of the tracts of land
and buildings owned by Mr.. Fish were
purchased with moneys secured from the
defunct firm. Mr.. Fish was stubborn and
testy. The first question WAS as to num-
Der of lots owned by Mr.. Fish i'm Chicago.
Fish said they were purchased by him dur
ing the past three years, and became angry.
When asked il they were purchased with
money got from Grant & Ward, lie blurted
out once or twice, Don't ask such -
foolish questions"
When questioned as to his stock opera
tons with Grant & Ward, Mr.. Fish an
swered: 81 had thousands and thousands of
dollars worth of stock stolen from me-"
He was very vigorous in his denuncation
of Wards mining schemes. II bought
stock i'm mine from Grant & Ward" said
the witness, shut it was a swindle.
bought and paid for many mines which
only existed in the imagination of Ward.
/ WAS induced to take hold of Wards
smelter, but Wards brother told me they
never had q smelter."
"How about the Mono mine%' the wit.
ness was asked.
1.-THE Mono mine was one Of Buck
Grants" was the reply, THAT was a swim
die, too. The individual next door Ward
can give you valuable information on these
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
JUNE CROP REPORTS.


YAs Cotton Crop Favor.bis-rhe whsss
BlIddling.
WAsHrNeTos, juno 1.-The June crop
report Of the Agricultural Department esti-
mates the total wheat crop of the country
at 800, 000, 900 bushels, of which 207. o0o, 900
is winter; 1853, 0o0,O 600 spring. The condi-
ton Of winter wheat 10 lower than ever be-
fore in June. being now So against 70 in
May Ths condition Of spring wheat is en-
couraging. The June report Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture will make an increase
In the cotton area of to per cent Vir-
ginia, l07 per cent; North Carolina. 102 !;
South Carolina, 1903; Georgia, 104; Florida,
102; Alabama, 1903; louisiana, 10T; Missis-
sippi, 106; Texas, ITO; Arkansas, 100; Ten
nessee, 1OI. The total area exceeds 49,
000, 900 acres. The plant is in healthy
growth and nearly the average. The stand
is good. Where recent rains have been ex-
cessive, the crop is in the grass. The gen.
eral average Is 92, which Is higher than in
the preceding years in June. There is an
unusual uniformity in condition, only Ten
nessee showing less than 90. The State
averages are as follows: Virginia, 9S;
North Carolina, %; South Carolina, So;
Georgia, 95; Florida, 93; Alabama, 81;
Mississippi. 92; Louisiana, 95: Texas, go;
Arkansas, 81; Tennessee, IS. The condi-
ton of winter wheat is reported lower than
ever before in June. The general percent
age has declined from 20 in May to 81.
The averages of the principal States are i:
New York, 81; Pennsylvania, 81; Ohio, so;
Michigan, "a; Indiana, So; Illinois, 40; Mis-
souri,, So; Kansas, Sc; California, So. In
some States there has been a greater loss
OF area tnan was anticipated in previous 70
ports. The average yield will evidently be
less than ten bushels per acre. The prob
able product of the winter wheat States,
according to these returns, is reduced to
about 207,000,000 bushels. But none Of
the Territories are included i'm the winter
wheat area and the report of spring wheat
Is more favorable. The disposition last au-
tumn to reduce its breadth on account of the
low price was checked by the loss of the
winter wheat area and later by the
Russian rumors. Substantially the same
area has been seeded as last year, about
II, 900, 900 in Northern Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Iowa, Nebraska and all the Territories.
The percentage Of last years area is 95 in
Wisconsin, 80 in Minnesota, 102 in Iowa, 9S
in Nebraska, and 103 in Dakota. The con-
dition of spring wheat is 81, and indicates .
crop of about $4,000 bushels.
The average for Wisconsin is 49,;
Minnesota, "a; Iowa, 100; Nebraska, 102;
Dakota, 101. The present report therefore,
indicates wheat crop of $4,000, 900
bushels. 23,0OO,OO0 bushels smaller than
that of 1881. The general condition of rye
is SO; the area of barley is nearly the same
as i'm 1854, and the average of condition Is
SO. The acreage of oats has increased
per cent, and the average of condition is "a.
Corn will be reported in July, but voluntary
returns indicate an increase of area.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
That Dishonest Postmaster.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE post
office inspectors who have been pursuing
Hibbs, the defaulting postmaster of Lewis
ton, Idaho, have discovered that he is at Fare.
well, town $50 miles distant from Vic.
toria, b. c. As he is accompanied by his
family the inspectors have little doubt OF
being able 20 arrest him. He could not be
held for ENLIGHTENMENT as that Offense is not
covered by existing trestes with British
Columbia, nor for forgery, as he was act
ing in his capacity of postmaster when he
drew fraudulent money orders. 1t is hoped
that he may be held on the charge of steal
ing letters addressed to another person, but
this again involves nice question. The
letters Hibbs took from the pouch were adj
dressed To one Davis, which was assumed
for the purpose
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
A TUNNEL DISASTER.
A Tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
read Caves in-Six Killed and Twenty

A Tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
read Caves in-Six Killei and Twenty
Wounded.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June 12.-News
reached the city last night of catastrophe
on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, at
Kenesaw River tunnel, one hundred miles
from this city, to a construction train in
charge of ROadmaster SimmOnds, which
was loaded down with construction hands.
While passing through the tunnel the roof
and walls gave way and fell with crash
upon the train. All was confusion, and the
shrieks of the dying and groans of the in
jured issued from the mouths of the
tunnel. Only meager details have reached
this city, but it is known that six men were
killed outright and twenty Others were
badly injured, fully half Of whom fatally.
The wires are down and 10 names can be
procured, but it is thought Roadmaster SIM
mODds is among the killed Eighteen men
had TO be dug out of the debris and were
dead before assistance reached them. The
falling masonry completely blocked the tun-
mel and it will take fully twenty hours to
clear the track.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
The Charges Against Harrison.

INDIANAPOLIS, md, June 11.-Respect-
ing the charges sent out from Helena, NJ.
T., against Assayer Harrison, Senator Har-
rison. his father, says they are old, having
been filed in February last by discharged
employe. They are of trifling nature and
ara based on the administration of tho
affairs of Office. The report that testimony
had been given in the investigation that
public money has been used for speculation
In private enterprises is false. The Senator
received telegram yesterday afternoon
saying: mot one word of such testimony
has been given"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
STARVING
Terrible Reports of Famine in West vir-
ginis-Appeals for Assistance.

Terrible Reports of Famine in West vir-
ginis-Appeals for Assistance.
PARKERsBURG, W. VA, June 9.-The
situation in Jackson County is becoming
quite serious. Hundreds of families are
on the verge of starvation, and unless aid
is speedily extended by the remainder of
the State or the outside world the most dis
astrous results may be expected. Some Of
the more fortunate and influential people Of
the county and others, who believed the
condition of the inhabitants had been ex-
aggerated, have heretofore denied the re-
ports that from time to time have been
made public, hoping things could be tided
over till the new crop could be raised; but
now much alarm prevails, and public meet
ings are being held in all the villages and
the local papers are printing appeals for
aid. Last week meetings were held
at Whitepine and New Kentuck,
at which scores of citizens, rep
resenting their respective neShbor-
hoods testified as to the extent of the
famine. Many pitiful stories are being
told. Hiram Cobb, the owner of mill,
said people would come at the rate of a
dozen day, after walking distances, for a
pint and quart of meal, some bringing
half peck of grain or few ears of corn
to be ground. He knew men who had gone
for five days without food, and he himself
would soon be sufferer. j. II. Garrett said
his neighbours were actually starving. John
Smith, the County Assessor. said that to his
knowledge three hundred families were in
danger of starving at New kentuck. An
appeal for aid was signed by the represent
atives of one hundred families. These are
but specimen stories. One family is said to
have subsisted for five days on lettuce, and
when found were nearly dead.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
oespeaApoEs SHOT.


frOublesense Baad Of Negro Desperndoeo
In the Indian Territory Differentiated.
CoLBEnr, L T., juno s.-Yesterday
morning at Post Oak Grove, thirty miles
west of this place, Captain Sam Sixkillet,
with Policemen Laftore, Murray and Good
ing, and C. N. Mcclellan, a prominent
stockmau of the Cherokee Nation. were in
pursuit If band of negroes, headed by the
notorious desperate, Dick Glass, who had
been to Denison for wagon load of whisky
and were on their way back to the Semi
hole Nation. The officers had with them
colored spy, to locate them. After
this was done, the officers left the main
road and got around ahead Of them and Sc
lected place near the roadside 10 await
their approach. About Z o'clock the ne
groes came along, one driving the wagon
and Glass and two others following close
behind. When within ten feet Captain
Sixkiler stepped out into the road and
commanded them to surrender. Instead
of doing so they started to run. After
Dick ran few steps he succeeded in get
ting his pistol out, and as he turned to
fire the party fred on them. Dick Glass
and Jim Johnson were killed. Some of the
officers shot the driver, slightly wounding
him. The officers thinking him dead, pur-
sued the remaining one and succeeded In
capturing him after race of half a mile.
After returning to the place where the
shooting began, they found the driver and
the horse gone, the wagon having broken
down. Two of the police started in pursuit
of driver and horses, and after a race of six
miles Policeman Laftore overlook him in
the prairie. The negro. seeing that he was
about to be captured, made for tree a
short distance from the road, but the police
man was too quick for him and cut him Of
from the tree, and ordered him to sur
render and throw down his gun. He saw
the game was up and threw up his
hands. After returning with the prisoner
to the scene of the first encounter, the
bodies of Glass and johnson and the two
prisoners were put into a wagon and
brought to Colbert where Glass was fully
identified by a number of parties.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
The washington Monument Damaged.

WASHINGTON, d. c., ,June a-Prof,
Rowland, of John S. Hopkins University,
will, with the aid of powerful telescope,
make careful examination Of the top Of
the Washington Monument to-day
Colonel Casey has put in considerable
time for two days with his glass, but he
Is unable to tell how much damage was
done by the lightning Friday night. 1t Is
certain, however, that the aluminium
point and the conductors failed to do
their work, and that at least one OF the
stones forming the steep roof OF the mon
ument was badly shattered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
eeyoNp HIS MEANS


a Providence fR- III Bank Teller VITA g.
Salary OF %, 400 Living ut the hate oss
$500, with the Insvftable Resuit-A
Thunderboit to the Union Club, of Which
He Was an Honored Member.
Providence, r. L, June S.-Wm. T.
Dorrance, the defaulting teller of the
Providence National Bank spent Satur--
day night in a cell In the county jail.
Yesterday morning he appeared broken
down and penitent. He told o friend
that he wished no one to help him, but.
desired to pay the full penalty for his
crimes. After an examination, the direc--
tors yesterday announced that the exact.
amount of the defalcation is $34, 260.
The first discrepancy found ins
the books dated back twelve years.
The sums ranged from $4,000 to $4,000.
The largest sum taken at one time wass
$4,000, few days. ago. Two theories:
are advanced as to Dorrance's methods
of operating. One is that he credited
large depositors with q smaller amount.
than their deposit and pocketed the dif--
ference, and when they came to draw he
WOulu tdke euou1H lroHu Obuct ucpOSitoFS.
ito make up the difference, keeping up the
operation year after year. The other
theory is that Oh the day of drawing he
would &C out and borrow money on the
banks credit, making it good when the
next big deposit was made. 1t is genef-
ally accepted that his stealings were not
due to vices of any kind, but thar he lived
beyond his means. His income was
81, 400 year, vet he lived in an 81 800
house, and contributed largely to the
support of his father aud two maiden
sisters, besides supporting his wife and
son. It is said that Dorrance confessed
to Colonel Goddard, President OF the
bank, that he had spent $500 n.
year for twelve years, and ne did not.
know where the money had gone to.
Members of the Union Club, of which he
was Treasurer, say that he is the last
person in the world they would suspect
of being defaulter. He was abstinent,
used no tobacco, did not gamble, was
never known to drink a glass Of intoxi--
eating liquor, kept no horses and did not
appear to live extravagantly. His down.
fall comes like q thunderbolt to every
member of the club. Dorrance's pre-
liminary trial will occur Wednesday.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
GENERAL GRANT.
purpr1ss n tAs Pasisesalea Of Hzsrss'
from HIS Book-Gsneral Grants Coad


purprlss u tAs PaslseatleA Of Hxsrssss
from Ms Bosk-Csoeral Grants Coadi-
tisn.
NEW York, June 1o.-The publication
Of extracts from General Grants book on
Menday, surprised all who had anything to
10 with the preparation of the book. Cen
sral Grant was at first worried about It
His sons tsld him he supposed the pub
Usher, Mr.. Webster, had spread extracts in
the papers for an advertisement. Later the
General heard that the publication was
- much . surprise 10 Colonel Webster
a to the family, for 1t proved that man,
who found himself possessed Of canvassers
sample book, had sold the contents without
permission. Anger gave place to satisfaction.
for all agreed that the publication had benc-
fitted the speculation. The book is finished.
1t will consist of two volumes, and each
volume will contain six hundred pages
Originally 1t was supposed that five hun
dred pages would be the limit In each vol
ume, but General Grant has amplified
20 many passages and heightened
40 many chapters that two hundred pages
have been added. General Grants friends
imagine that 1t is this work that has kept
him alive and they fear the consequence Of
reaction that will come when the last
proof has been revised and the Generals
mind Is freed from the stimulus gained by
anxiety to complete this undertaking.
The General is q very sick man. He bears
up heroically, but his appearance shocks
those who see him for the first time
Since taken sick q great swelling
almost twice As big as mans hand has ap-
peared ON his neck under the right ear. His
face has lost little of its natural freshness,
but his body is frightfully emaciated and
his bony wrists and hands betray the fact
to visitors 1t is supposed that the swelling
in his neck Is sympathetic, result of the
trouble in his throat The Doctors still in
sist that the General is slowly dying
In consequence Of cancerous growth.
General Grant spends his pights and near
ly the whole of the day iIfthe second story
front room. He sits by q little table in a
huge, padded leather-cOvered chair. That
chair is also his bed for he can not lie down.
Mr.. ChaA l.. Webster, head of the
charge of General Grants book, says the
first volume will be issued in December,
aud the second in March; also that he in
tends shortly to 60 to Europe to prepare for
publishing the book in England, France,
Germany and Austria. 81 have" he says,
ian appeal for the publication
of Il i'm the Portuguese, but
guess will sell that right to some Porta-
guese publisher. In other countries we will
retain control of the publication. 1t is pcs
sibls that Italy will be added to the list
The arrangement made with General Grant
Is that he is to get percentage of the
profit. and the division will be something
like two-thirds to him and one-third to US"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
Thu Kentucky Gospel.

EAST BERNsrADT. KY, June IA ter
rife shooting afffay occurred late yesterday
afternoon between three brOthers-GeOrge,
William and James Thompson-and
WilkersOn and Rufus Lawson, cOus.
gossip among the families OF the
parties. They all met to settle the affair,
but instead, James Thompson and Wilker-
son Lawson began shooting at each other,
and the Others Joined in with pistols and
guns. and Wilkerson Lawson was instantly
killed by George Thompson, and Rufus
Lawson received several dangerous wounds
Il. L. Poynter, bystander, was also 80
riously wounded.