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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
Farm Notes.

Many women do not receive the kind
aess or consideration accorded to the hogs
and mules ON the same farms.
Little wastes Of the farm, when gathered
together-they gather themselves together
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. great leaks, carrying
away the profits.
When farmers complain Of low prices for
their products, their grievances are really
only SO far as agricultural prices are de-
pressed disproportionately to others. Prices
seem low now, but many kinds of manufac-
tured goods are now 50 low that bushel
of wheat will pay for more than it did dur
ing the war.-Exchaags.
It is quite common when farmer keeps
three, four or more COWS, that the best
mixer brings more net profit than all tho
others, and often what is made from her
goes to defray losses ON the others.
Don't mix sweet and sour cream to-
gether Just before churning, or the sweet
cream will pass of in the buttermilk and
be lost. Mix it ahead and stir it we'll.
The farmers in district 20, Of Liberty pre-
cinct, have recently organized Farmersp
Club, which meets every two weeks in tho
for the purpose Of discussing
practical methods of farming, and all other
subjects interesting TO the farmer. Every
district and neighborhood in the country
should have q similar organization.-SGlW
(Nc6.) Zndex.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
a hEARTLESs PARENT.

He Drives His Daughter and Her Babe
From His Door to Perish BY the Road
side.
NEW RINGGoLD, Pa, January H.
Yesterday morning Mrs. lIetty Maurer,
and her two-year-old child were found on
the roadside two miles from Mrs. Mau.
rer's house, and near the house of heI
father, John Klinger, frozen to death.
Mrs. Maurer had been a petted child.
Her mother died five years ago. In 1888
she ran away with Joseph Maurer, farm
hand, and her father forbid her to ever
darken his door again.
A year ago Maurer went to Canada and
for while sent money to her, and With
her own little earnings and aid from an
only sister, she managed to exist. Hel
husband died during the Montreal small.
pox epidemic. She learned his fate only
two weeks ago. Thinking time had
softened her fathers heart, she went
to his house Sunday to ask to
be taken back with her child. The old
man refused, and she left. When found
yesterday the baby was wrapped in heI
shawl. Deputy Coroner Reagan has
taken charge of the remains, and refuses
to let old man Ringer take them for bur
ial
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22

COLOGNE, January l2.-Intelligcnce
has been received here from Aix-La-
Chapelle of fatal fire that occurred on
Friday last at that place. The property
burned was spinning mill, and ut the
time the tire broke out the mill hands
were at work. The flames spread
rapidly, and soon enveloped
the whole structure. Men and women
rushed fraDtica!ly for the exits in their
efforts to escape, while some jumped
from the windows, receiving serious in
juries. Fifteen Of the employees persisted
In the flames.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22

BLOOMINGTON, ND, January l8.-A
midnight ASSASSINATION is reported from
SOisberIy, Greene County. About one
O'Clock in the morning the wife Of James
DObson awoke to find negrosstanding
over her husband with an uplifted
axe. Before sine could stay the as
sassin's hand the blow fell, crushing
the victims skull, and producing instant
death. The wife grappled with the me-
gro, who escaped, but was arrested yes.
terday evening. He claims that he com
mitted the deed in his sleep, but it is egi.
dent that it was cO.d-bloOded assassina.
ton, for which no motive can be as.
signed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
GRAND ARMY oLEAMlNos.

The recent masquerade ball given by tie
Woman's Relief Corps Of Augusts, Kan.s
uetted the sum Of $67.M
Ar the late installation Of officers Of Gen.
eral Rice Post at Topeka Mrs. King made
Relief Corps since its organization, followed
with response by Mrs. Anderson.
Old Abe Camp, Sons of Veterans, Of To-
peka, Kan, recently had public installa-
ton Of officers. J. 8. Warner, was installed
Captain; o. Mcintosh, First Lieutenant;
W. E. Ireland, Second Lieutenant, with .
full set OF subordinate officers.
General Timothy Mccarthy, Of Larned,
who has been considered candidate for
Department Commander of the Grand
Army OF the Republic Of Kansas, writes
that he will not under any circumstances
be q candidate for that position, or accept
it if rendered him.
The Finance Committee of the General
Committee Of Thirty-eight, which had in
charge the grand reunion of 1885 at To-
peka, Kan, have made their rsport, from.
which it is shown that the total receipts
were 81, 40, and total expenses s5,7a.N.
leaving balance of 81 ,G96. ID on hand
Captain IN. Insley, Treasurer of the State
Committee Of theWestern Grant Monument
Association, recently received a commu-
nication from Charles Schneider, President
Of tho Travelling Mems Grant Monument
Committee, and with it the sum Of $751;. no.
collected by them for the Grant monument
at Fort Leavenworth.
It is stated that Union veteran at
Watertown, N. Y, has, through the post
master Of Petersburg, Va, learned tho
name Of . worthy but needy Confederate
soldier who lost a leg in the war, and has
turned over to him the pension that the
Union veteran has been drawing, but
which ''he could live without"
The annual meeting of the Toledo Associ-
alton of Ex-Union Prisoners of War was
held at the Merchants Hotel, Toledo, O., ON
the evening of January. There were up
wards of fifty members Of the association
from Toledo and vicinity. After the BUSH
ness meeting q banquet was spread, at
which speeches were made by a number Of
gentlemen present. The generally expressed
sentiment was that Congress should take
steps to pension Union soldiers who were
disabled in Confederate prisons.
o. NJ. Mitchell Post at Jacksonville, Fla.
had q public installation recently which
was largely attended, and the Florida
Camp, Confederate Veterans, marched in,
headed by fife and drum playing ''Dixie."
An address Of welcome was made by the
retiring Post Commander. Then the drum
beat to ration and the old soldiers who had
fought in many battle-felds on opposite
sides made a vigorous and successful
charge upon the pile of sandwiches, cake,
ETC., that stood upon the table. A pleasant
social time took place, and a great many
of the visitors present were surprised and
pleased to see the good feeling manifested
by the old veterans on either side.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
A Clerical Elopemeut.

DETROIT, MICH, January 14.-Thursday
Of last week little Minnie, the fourteen year
old daughter of John L. Krapser. of this
place, departed from home. Shortly after
it was learned that q preacher named Frazer
was also missing, and 1t was though best to
look the matter up. The couple was traced
by an enraged father and one or two friends
to Buffalo. There the runaways were
found in . room together, but escaped by
the girl putting ON q big dress aud thick
veil. She brushed against her father with
out him recognizing her. The preacher es-
capped by the back way. The pair met out
side and made their way to Wadena, where
they we're finally caught
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22

ARKANSAS CITY, ARK. January "a
Matt Keys. cO.Ored, arrested at Los An
geles, this State. charged with robbing and
killing barkeeper at Johnsonville, Miss. a
few days ago. jumped through TIE window
few hundred yards from Trippe junction.
dashing out his brains and killing himself
instantly. He and his brother struck theil
victim with an AK over the counter in his
saloon, and then robbed the safe OF $1,000.
The dead prisoner had been preaching and
teaching school in the neighbOrh00d where
he was apprehended. aud leaves wife and
three children.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22

JOLIET, H., January ls.-Edward
Hay, a prominent sport Of this city, sui
cided Monday night at his room in the
Riley Block. The deed was committed
about twelve o'clock with o 32-caliber
sclf-cocking revolver. Upon reaching
his rooms he picked up the pistol, shot
once through the window, then shot
himself in the temple. Death was in
Simultaneous. An inquest was held yes
tertlay, with verdict of suicide while
under temporary mental alteration. No
cause is assigned for the act. A woman Is
ct the bottom of the trouble,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22

WASHINGTON, d. c., January 49,
The question as to whether the Senate
should demand from the President the
reasons for the removals of Republican
officials came up in the executive session
of the Senate yesterday, in connection
with the confirmation of an officer ap-
pointed to MI . Post-oflce vacancy
caused by the removal of Republican.
The discussion took Q wide range.
and showed that there were both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans who favored and
opposed demand on the President for
the reasons that prompted the removal Of
the Republican monument. No votes was
reached.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
STOCK ITEMS.

It is stated that there are now 5000
breeders of pedigree Shorthorn cattle in
Illinois.
No matter what kind of stock you keep
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry or dogs
do not breed from inferior specimens of
the masculine gender.
spur and wild parsnip is supposed to be the
source of the fatal poisoning Of cattle on
some Of the Montana ranges.
Fancy prices are subject to fluctuations.
A COW for which an English Breeder paid
1000 recently sold for 81, 80. She had an
excellent pedigree and that was all
It is said that several valuable COWS died
in North Atc1ison, Kan, on account Of eat
ing the refuse-tomato and pumpkin seeds,
sweet potato pairing, etc.,-thrown out from
the vegetable canning establishments
Have you turned over a new leaf and re-
solved your this years crop shall be con-
sumed by stock of q better grade and that
the scrubs must be retireds If not, this is
q good time to resolve and begin to act
Liec-Stosi: Indicator.
Messrs r. G. Head and Lonny Horn have
recently purchased from the FrancklyD
Cattle Company, in the Panhandle, Texas,
1900 head of cattle, the price paid being
ON a basis of s25 for cows and SIS for year
lings.-7rinidad (Col.) Advertiser.
1t is said that there are now more cattle
of the faverite little Jersey in this country
thap in the Isle Of Jersey, where they orig
mated. It is doubtful, too, whether any
better animals remain at home than we
have, for American money has tempted
away the prime animals.
Great care should DO taken in bedding in
winter time, and in cleaning the stables
Unless extra pains are taken foul-smelling
stables will be the result; consequently the
milk will be more or less affected Filthy
stables and filthy habits of milking are the
chief causes of so much poor butter being
made in winter and in spring. You can
save half Of the fodder as between outdoor
exposure in winter and a warm stable.
Never let the cattle get chilled--Exchange.
An old and experienced farmer says he
will never again raise scrub stock. He has
hogs one year old that are not as good as
some of his neighbors' thoroughbreds at
six months. One Of the most successful
breeders Of thoroughbred stock in tho
State Of Kansas says he would now b.
worth $4,000 more than he is il he could
have screwed his courage up to buy thor
oughbreds instead of scrubs when he first
engaged in embarrassing City Lire
Stock Indicator.
The herd Of Western pork-grower who
feeds his pigs upon q variety of food, Civ
ing but little corn until they are four or
five months old, has SO far escaped hog
cholera. His nearest neigbbors, who feed
corn exclusively, have lost heavily from
the disease. Experience and observation
lead him to believe that by feeding oats,
bran, pumpkins in their season, and man
Colds, instead Of corn, and providing dry,
clean, warm nests, changing the latter fire.
quently. this Tread disease can be averted
-Exch9nge
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
THE LATEST.

MILTON WESTON, who stands convicted
IN Allegheny County, Pa, as accessory to
. murder, returned to Chicago recently to
close up some business affairs prior to re-
turning to Pittsburgh to receive his SEN
tence of four years in the Riverside peni-
Tertiary. The crime for which Weston
was convicted was the killing of a man
named Haymaker in the Murraysville riots.
THE clearing house returns for week
ended January 16 showed an average in
crease of 1870 compared with the CORE
spending of last year. In New York the
increase was 24.4.
Miss KATE DAYARD, eldest daughter of
the Secretary of State, died very suddenly
Of heart disease at Washington on the aft
ernoon of the 10th. She was just about to
attend Miss Cleveland's reception at the
White House when her death occurred. In
consequence of the unfortunate circum-
stance, the festivities were abandoned.
A RECENT dispatch from London reported
the probability that the Salisbury cabinet
would decide upon very repressive meas
ures in Ireland. The National League would
be proclaimed and generally coercive meas
ures be adopted.
NOTHING has been heard from the over
due steamship City of Nassau, which passed
out of the Delaware Capes on Christmas
morning for Jacksonville, Fla, and beyond
doubt she is lost, with all hands, seventeen
in number. She was fully insured.
SENIOR Don MANUEL DEL CAMPO, Secretary
of tie Gillian legation, who has figured
rather VIGOROUSLY in Washington for
hS III
conduct. has left Washington for his home
in Valparaiso
THE National Ztiimng of Berlin says that
the expulsion of the Poles from Prussia was
q precautionary measure which was
adopted in view Of possible Polish rising.
THE Secretary of the Navy has directed
that vessel of the Pacific station be sent
to the Samoan Islands.
THE Postmaster General has refused the
request of petitioners in Baltimore for o
Sunday delivery of the mails.
BENJAMIN +. WEEKs, Receiver of the col
lapsed City Bank of Houston, Tex, has
fled schedule showing the total liabilities
of the bank, including the capital stock to
be 81, 23S, 49,. The assets will realize s6OO-
100.
LEADERS of the Salvation Army at Joliet,
H., were recently placed under arrest for
parading the streets.
DURING the first two weeks of January
Commissioner Sparks, of the Land Office,
cancelled for fraud seventy eight home
stead, presumption and timber culture en-
tries and 10l presumption filings, and held
for cancellation upon the same grounds
seventy-nine homestead and other entries.
This action restores to settlement between
5000 and 10000 acres Of land.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
Efficiency o. the I.ife-saving Service.

WARRINGTON, d. c., January l3.-Re-
ports received ut the Office of the General
Superintendent of the Life-Scving Service
show that fifteen vessels were driven
ashore within the scope of the operations
of the service on the Atlantic coast in
the great storm of Friday night. The
crews of fourteen vessels were rescued,
and one, that Of the schooner Mary 6. Farr,
which came ashore in flames in the mid
die of the night near the Spring Lake Sta
ton, New Jersey, was lost. To this ves-
sci no aid could be rendered. The latest
reports indicate that there were but two
living persons aboard her when she
struck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22

Tn schooner Edward Lameyer, from
South Amboy for Portland, Me-, reported
that she passed vessel bottom up in the
Block Island channel on the 18th. Tho ves-
sells stern was stove and she had appar-
entity been ashore
An attempt was reported being made In
the New York courts to have the sale Of the
Bankers' and Nerchants' Telegraph Com
pany set aside.
CAPTAIN CoLvrN and the remainder OF
the crew Of the Hylton Castle, which foun-
dered OF Long Island during the recent
storm, were picked up by the Stephen
Woolsey and brought to New York.
GREAT suffering is reported among min
ers in Pennsylvania. Natural gas having
supplanted coal in so many districts, many
mines are compelled to entirely close OF
work but one or two days q week.
In the ore mines at Rittenhouse Gap,
near Alburtus, Pa, on the 18th, twelve
miners were entomked by caving earth.
Three were recovered dead, and it was
thought the others had persisted.
IT is said that Mr.. Barnum, after negotia-
ting for some time with the directors Of tho
London Royal Geological Gardens for the
purchase Of Alice, the late Jumbo's ascot
ate, OF ''wife, as the English people seemed
to consider her, has finally succeeded. Alice
was the constant companion Of Jumbo for
many years, and showed much distress
when separated from her big spouse. She
is exceptionally large, and is docile, affec-
tionate and playful, and particularly at
tractive toward children. Her arrival is
expected early in March, in time for the
opening of the Barnum and London shows
BROWN & ANDERroN, bankers and brok-
ers, No. Broad street, New York, as
signed on the 18th to Timothy Brown, Civ
ing preferences of $751; to Alexander
Nschol The other liabilities Of the firm
will foot up about $4,000.
COKE workers at Connellsville, Pa, re-
Gently quit work. A general strike was
feared.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
WASHINGTON NOTES.


ton has been informed that Dorman II.
Camp, formerly Assayer in charge of the
assay Office at Boise City, Id. T., who was
removed in April last, has been convicted
at Boise City Of embezzling $l2,5O7 of the
funds Of his Office, and sentenced to five
years imprisonment and to pay a fine of
$1,000.
A FIRE broke out on the 18th in the waste
paper room in the endorsement Of the
Treasury building at Washington. It Gre
ated considerable excitement among the
employees in that part of the building, who
are mostly females, but was extinguished
before any damage was done.
SECRETARY LAMAR, in a letter to Acting
Attorney General Goode, urges action by
the Government against the Bell Telephone
monopoly.
THE number Of employees required in the
customs service the next fiscal year is esti-
mated AZ 4, 026, and the total expense of col
lection at s6,501 $50. The persons en-
ployed dur.ug the year ended June 80,
1885, numbered 4.527. and the expense Of
collection was S6,91s, 221
SOME of the Illinois Congressman have in
contemplation an important project in re-
lation to Indian supplies. It is to secure
the removal if possible of the Indian sup
ply warehouse from New York to Chicago
with view to the purchase of all future
supplies in the Chicago market.
SECRETARY WHITNEY expresses himself
as willing to abide by the decision of a
committee of arbitration with respect to
the Government receiving the dispatch
boat Dolphin.
CONSIDERABLE feeling was manifested in
the meeting of the House Naval Affairs
Committee, on the 18th, when considering
the Boutelle resolution of inquiry into the
alleged DETACHMENT of Union inscriptions
and discharge of Union men in the Norfolk
-(Va) Navy Yard.
ADMIRAL PORTER was reported seriously
sick at Washington on the 18th.
p. THE EAST.
II. r. HUBBARD, the advertising agent of
New Haven, Conn, has asked an extension
of time from his creditors.
AN old man named Ringer, Of New
Ringold, Pa, drove mis- daughter and child
from his door one night recently. In the
morning they were both found frozen to
death.
Ex-PREsDBNr GowEN was reelected
President of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad at the recent meeting Of the stock
holders ct Philadelphia.
The schooner Mabel Dillaway, Of Glouces-
ter, Mass, has been given up for lost. She
had q crew of sixteen men.
REPORTS from the interiog Of New York
State show that the night of the 18th was
the coolest Of the season, the thermometer
indicating from Is to IS degrees below zero.
TIE visible supply estimated by the Sec
rotary Of the New York Produce Exchange
ON the 18th showed decrease of 6S7, 600
bushels Of wheat and 1.067, 900 bushels of
corn.
A BILL incorporating the Grant Monu-
uent Association and empowering it to
Aold s., 600, 900 worth of property passed the
Few York House Of Delegates on the 18th.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22
A Solitary Survivor.

NEW YORK, January l3.-The schooner
Cassie Wright, 365 tons, with guano from
Philadelphia to Savannah, of Fryingpan
Shoals on Friday, the Sth inst, and while
leaking badly, was struck by heavy gale
of wind from the Southwest. Captain
Clark turned his ship and scudded for
Beaufort, but was compelled to beach his
vessel on Friday night, about six miles
west of Cape Lookout light, and three
miles east of Beaufort Bar. The Stew
ard was swept away soon after the vessel
struck. One sailor was drowned in at
tempting to get ashore, and another was
knocked overheard and lost on Sunday
by the breaking of the mizzen mast
The Captain and mate froze to death
on Sunday, and one sailor on Sunday
night at eight O'Clock. Another sailor,
the only one of the crew left, was rescued
yesterday about ten O'Clock by crew of
natives. The natives, to the number of
they carried across the banks, stayed on
the beach from Saturday until yesterday
in the worst spell of weather that We
have had for many years and made every
effort in their power to reach the suffer.
ers, but the wind was blowing gale
right on the beach, making tremendous
sea in which no boat could live.
The rescued man did all in his power
to keep his companions from freezing.
He beat and kicked them constantly, but
to no purpose. They would sleep, and
sleep brought death. The crew of the
schooner were without anything to eat or
drink from Wednesday night, the 7th
instant. 1t is reasonable to suppose that
if there had been life. saving station ut
Cape Lookout the six lives would have
been saved.