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Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1886-07-31
The Great Rock Island Rout

Guarantees Speed, Comfort and Safety to those who
of hcnyy steel It's bridges solid structures
of stone and iron. Its rolling stock IL perfect human
skill mako IL. 1t has all the safety appliances that
mechanical genius has invented and experience proved
methodcalits discipline ,trict and exnrtnR. Tho lux
ury Of its passenger accommodations is unequalcd in
the Weat--unaurpassied in tho world
All Expfess Trains between Chicalro and tho Missouri,
River consist Of comfortable Day Coaches, magnificent
Pullman Palace Paiior and Sleeping Cara, elegant
Dining Cars providing exccilc nt meals. and between
Chicago, st. Joseph, AtchsOn and Kansas
Reclining Chair Cars.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
MEAT INSPECTION.

Defunct Porkers to he Officially Certified In
Good Observation-Disclosures to Follow
Determination.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.-Among the bills
introduced and appropriately referred in
the Senate yesterday was one by Mr.. Ed.
munds. providing for the inspection Of
meats for expectation, prohibiting the i'm
pOrtatiOn of adulterated articles of food
and drink and authorizing the President to
make proclamatioDs in certain cases. Mr..
Edmunds said this bill had been reported
last year from the Committee on Foreign
Relations. Besides providing for the in
spectiOn of pork, ETC., for expectation, it
contained, he said, section giving the
President authority, whenever he was con-
WINGED that unjust discrimination was made
against the admission of American pro-
duets into other countries, to suspend the
importation from those countries Of such
articles as be though: tit fOr the protection
of the lust interest of the United States.
In view of what he iMr. Edmunds) saw in
the newspapers about current events in
other countries touching American pro-
ducts on the theory that :hey were sup
posed to be diseased, when the fact was
that the object was to exclude them under
anv circumstances. he iMr. Edmunds)
thought it clear that it was time To intro
duce the Dill again.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
STUCK AND ROASTED.
A Kansas City Hose Reel Gets Stuck and
the Ffremen and Horses Get Terribly
Roasted.

Kansas City Hose Reel Gets Stuck and
the Ffremen and Horses Get Terribly
Roasted.
KANSAS CITY, No., Feb. 27.-At II 80
o'clock last night flames were seen issuing
from the planning mill at the southwest cor
ner of Twentieth and Locust streets. In a.
few minutes the whole building, which was
built of Georgia pine, was in flames. Be-
fore the fire could be put out The mill and
nine adjoining dwellings were burned, rem
dering eight families hOuseless and involv--
ing a loss of about $4,000. When
reel No. 8, Nick Burns. foreman, and
ALI Buell., driver, arrived, the line was.
made from Nineteenth street, and the reel
started to dash down toward Twentieth
street. A sewer was recently laid in Locust
street and in front Of the mill it had caved
in somewhat, and the ground was soft and
miry. The wheels Of the reel stuck here.
and at the same moment the flames burst
from the side Of the planning mill and swept
across the street, eDcircing the horses,
reel and crew in a wall of fire. At
most as quickly as the flames had shOt out.
the traces of the horses were cut and they
and the firemen dashed out of the fianes,
but not uninjured. The hands and face Of
Nick Burns, the foreman, were badly
burned and it is feared he may lose the use
OF his hands. Alf Buell., the driver, was.
also burned, but not badly. The horses
were roasted so terribly that one
of them will have to be shcS and
probably both. The reel was also badly
damaged. The planning mill belonged to-
Mitchell & Wells. The dwelling houses
We're occupied by labOring people, owned
by Messrs. Loire. BuchtOld and Satterlee.-
The fire was thought to be the work of an,
incendiarv
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
OUR NAVY.
The Committee on Naval Affairs Consider
ing the Reconstruction of the Navy--New
Vessels Proposed.

The Committee on Naval Affairs Consider
ing the Reconstruction of the Navy--New
Vessels Proposed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The rough
draft of a bill providing for the recon-
struction of the navy was laid before the
House committee on naval affairs yester.
day afternoon as basis for the commit
tee to work or. 1t proposes the construc-
ton of two vessels of 6.00O tons, with
torpedo outfit, to cost S2,500,000 each:
three protected double-bottom cruisers
of between $500 and 5000 tons displace-
ment, to have great speed and to cost
Sl,500,O00 each; four frst-class torpedo
boats, costing in the aggregate 100000
one torpedo cruiser of 500 tons,
to cost not more than $780,
0OC. Two million dollars is
appropriated toward the completion of
the monitors. One of the cruisers is to
be built and one of the monitors COM
pleted in the navy yards. The rest are to
be given by contract, if suitable con-
tracts can he made. otherwise they too
are to be built by the Government in the
yards. Armor plates and part of the
machinery may be bought abroad. One
million dollars is appropriated for ord
nance to be constructed in the navy
yards, and provisions are made for thu
purchase of necessary plants and tcS~s
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
The Hawaiian Minister at Washington Sat
isfied With 1t.

The Hawaiian Minister at Washington Sat.
isfied With 1t.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.-Mr. Carter, the
Hawaiian Minister, said to-day in regard to
the statement furnished to the Ways and
Means Committee by John E. SearIes about
the Hawaiian treaty, that it is nearly four
years since Mr.. Searles visited Hawaii, and
the report which he then signed with the
other two commissioners was considered
very favorably to the treaty and was so
mentioned by Secretary Folger in his
annual report of 1888. Minister Car
ter said that the statement that the duties
RENTED would pay for the exports
to Hawaii might be made in regard to our
trade i'm regard to almost any country, and
one might as well say that the duties re-
mitted BY the United States on coffee would
pay for all the American exports to Brazil;
one might As well say. that in any bargain
he had made gift by not charging more
than he had charged. He added that
counterstatement would shortly be madc
before the Ways and Means Committee by
his counsel. He regarded the attack upon
the treaty as the Outgrowth of business
jealousy between the refiners of New York
and San Francisco.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
The Grand Lodge Defied.

CHICAGO. Feb. 26.-Reports reach here
that notwithstanding the Introduction Of
the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fell
lows. the Patriarchal circle is growing
steadily in all parts Of the country. Efforts
on the part of the various local lodges to.
carry out the orders of the Grand Lodge by
expelling members Of the circle from men,
bership have in the main proven abortive,
the motions to expel in the majority Of
cases being quickly disposed Of by being
laid upon the table. Eminent lawyers have
rendered an opinion that the action of the
Grand Lodge in changing the qualifications.
to membership by resolution was unconsti-
tutional, as the constitution expressly pro-
vides that any such proposition shall be-
laid over for one year after having been in
troduced by three Jurisdictions. Mean
while the adherents of the circle declare
that they will not permit themselves to be
bulldOzed out of the order. and say that the
end Of the trouble is not yet at hand.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
EAps. SHIP RAILWAY.

Report Of the House Committee on Com
merce ON Captain Eads' Proposition 70
Build . Trance Continental Ship Railway
Across the Isthmus.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The majority
Of the House committee on commerce
submitted long report with substi.
tute for the Reagan bill, reported yester-
day, to incorporate the Atlantic { Pacific
ship-railway, and known as the "Eads
hill" The report goes over what 1t
deems the "necessity for the construction
of q transit way for ships across the
American isthmus," and states that this
necessity arises from the fact that we
have growing possessions which can
only be reached by 5000 miles of ocean
travel, but that two-thirds OF this dis
lance can be saved by the removal of the
isthmus obstruction, which excludes our
commerce from entrance into many valu-
able markets of the Pacific. There are but
two ways to secure transit way; one Is
for the Government itself to construct 1t,
and the other to secure its construction
by private company Mexico Is I'M
willing to give her consent to any govern
ment acquiring such valuable rights, but
is willing that q private company char
tered by the United States Government
shall construct the transit way. Then
the report recites the terms upon which
Captain Eads has secured the right for
his Ship Railway Company, and recon-
mends that the Government grant him
the charter and unite with Mexico in q
pecuniary guaranty in its construction.
Mexico has guaranteed that after the ship
railway is completed, one-third of its an
nual net revenues during a period of
fifteen years will annually amount to
81 $50, 900, and the United States Govern.
ment is now asked to guarantee
that the other twO-thirds of such
revenues shall, during the same
period of time annually amount to
$780, 900. This is equivalent to guar
anty by Mexico of five per cent. per an
mum OH S25 ZOO, 900, and by the United
States of the same per cent. on $50, 900, 900.
The guaranty is merely to make good any
deficiency in the revenue which may exist
at any time during the fifteen years to the
extent of the sum mentioned, and any adj
vances thus made are merely in the form
OF loans. 1t rs not proposed that the
Government advance any money to and in
Vic SOuStluCtiOu Vi tuC IullWuys Uutg vi
the contrary, the report says, it is dis
tinctly provided by the bill that the liabil
ity of the Government under its
guaranty shall not attach until
the ship railway, with its terminal works,
has been completed and equipped, and
until the company has transported from
ocean to ocean in perfect safety vessel
weighing, with her load, not less than
four thousand tons.
The committee discusses the practical
bility of the proposed ship railway, but
concludes that it is not matter for Con-
gress to consider, as the company as
sumes all responsibility of it; but the
committee thinks it not reasonable to ex-
pect private company to complete
work of such enormous magnitude with
out some guaranty from the goxernme mt
to be benefited by it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
pAN.ELEcTR,c.
The Ho.s. Resolution Calling for .. Invss

The House Resolution Calling for N Invso-
tigation-The Telegraph Monopoly.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Mr. Morrison, OF
Illinois, from the Committee on Rules, re-
ported substitute for the Hanback, and
Pulitzer resolutions directing inquiry into
the Pan-Elecrric telephone matter. Tho
substitute is as follows:
ResOfred, That a select committee. consist
Ing OF nine members of the House. be ap-
polnted, and when so appointed the commit
tee is hereby directed at az early q day as
possible to make inquiry into any expendi--
ture ON the part OF the Government incurred
relative to the rights Of the Bell and Pan
Electric Telephone Companies to priority or
patents. said inquiry to include all Organizes
tons and companies that have sprung out Of
the Pan-Electric Company, or for any
other purpose. and also to make full
inquiry into the issuance of the stock
known as the Pan-Electric telephone stock.
or the stock of any other company, cOmpA--
MES or organizations springing out of the
Pan-Electric Company, to any person or per-
sons connected with the legislature. judicial
or executive departments of the Govern.
ment of the United States; and to who-H
when and for what consideration said stock
was delivered; also as to what opinions, deci-
connected with the Government and by
whom: and all the circumstances connected
Herewith or arising therefrom: and said
committee is further authorized and directed
telephone company herein mentioned, or
the officers, agents or employees have
in any wav influenced or attempted to.
influence the officials or official action
by or through the public press; and
II such, when. by whom and in what
manner such influence was exerted or at
tempted to be exerted. and what newspaper
or newspapers so used or attempted to be
used by them. Said committee shall have
the rights to send for persons or papers, to-
administer oath. to sit during the session of
the House. to employ a stenOgrapher and
able expense as may be required for the pur--
pose of conducting the investigation, not to
exceed the sum of $1,000. which shall be paid
out of the contingent fund of the House on
proper voucher certified by the chairman
and one other member of the committee, and
may report at any timed
After brief, but excited debate, referring
to which Gibson. of West Virginia, criti--
cised Pulitzer, whom he accused of shrink
ing behind the columns of his newspaper to,
attack men instead of attacking them on.
the floor of the House, the resolution re-
ported from the Committee on Rules was
adopted.
Mr.. Dockery, Of Missouri, from the Com
mittee on Accounts, reported back the fol-
lowing resolution which was adopted:
Resnlred, That the Committee on Postoffices
and POst-rOads is hereby empowered to as
certain whether additional legislation Is nec-
essary to prevent the monopoly of tele-
graphic facilities, and to secure to the South
of competition between telegraph compa-
mics and to protect the people of the United
States against unreasonable charges for tele--
graphic service.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
THE REVENUE LAWS.
Secretary Manning Offers Suggestions H
lating to Proposed Changes.

Secretary Manning Offers Suggestions Re-
lating to Proposed Changes.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Secretary Man.
ming yesterday sent long letter to Sem
ator Allison, chairman of the Senate SUBJ
committee on undervaluations. The
Secretary condemns increased penalties
for differentiation, where no fraud is al.
legged, rs unfair and inexpedient-av virtual
confiscation of property where no wrong
doing is charged and no trial granted. A
larger, better and more capable apprais-
ing force at New York is urged. An
extension of the present system of con-
sular invoices is opposed, as existing
methods are productive of satisfaction.
A return to a system of rewards for
informers is opposed. The Secretary
again urges the passage of a bill
which he has drafted in reference to
protests and appeals. Legislation dis
eliminating against the Consignment sys.
TEN is deprecated.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
TAKEN FROM THE RANKS.
A Soldier at Fort Leav snworth Arrested fol
Murder.

a Soldier at Fort Leav snwOrth Arrested for
Murder.
FORT LEAyENwORTI, Kan, Feb. Or
Sheriff Churchill some days ago received a
telegram from Sheriff Lilly. Of ST. Clair
County, Mo-, requesting him to be on the
lookout for a man named Henry Hilder,
aged twenty-three, abont six feet in height
and weight about 175 pounds, and to hold
him on the charge of murder. The matter
was made known to Detective Yerkes,
who this morning located his man
i'm the United States army. He was
member of troop 3, Third cav
airy. having enlisted in the army OH
the Sd inst. Sheriff Churchill and Detective
Yerkes went to Fort LeavOnworth this
morning and arrested Hilder and brought
him to the city, where lie is now confined in
the county jail. Hilder. after being arrest.
ed. said he had committed no murder. Some
time last fall he got into fight with man
in Illinois. and both had been pretty badly
used up, and lie lett without learning what
had become of him. He will he taken to
st. Clair County as soon as Sheriff Lilly,
who has been notified, arrives.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
Geronimo Refuses to Surrender.

Ell PAso, Tex, Feb. 25.-Word has just
been received here of the meeting between
General Crook and Geronimo at San Ye
ranch day before yesterday. The chief and
five bucks. in consultation with General
Crook, asked PERMISSION to return to
the reservation Internationally. Gen
eral Crook refused, demanding an
unconditional surrender. Geronimo
declined to give himself up and, after con-
Sultation, left for his camp, keeping the
white flag flying for several miles. Chief
Mana and another are still held as hostages.
Geronimo is reported to have ninety bucks
besides women and children with him. No
ATTEMPT will be made to follow him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
Putting Tn tho Price.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27.-The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, acting for the
shippers of bituminous coal over its lines,
the Beech Creek Railroad Company, in be-
half of its shippers. and the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company, representing the
operators of the Cumberland region, have
issued orders to the different interests rep
resented by them not to make any further
contracts for coal until the LIST Of March,
The reason for this is that the soft COM
bination just formed has agreed to advance
the price of bituminOus coal 80 cents per
ton after the pool has been put into active
0nprafinn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
Railroad Projects.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. a7.-Captain J. ". MI
Ter, president Of the Wichita Il Colorado
road, a project yet in its infancy, is in the
city. Captain Miller is the gentleman I'M
der whose supervision the ST. Louis, Fort
Scott & Wichita road was finished. The
Wichita & Colorado is now completed from
Wichita westward twenty-five miles to Mt
Hope, Sedgwick County, Kan, through .
splended agricultural region. The objec-
tive poin. of Captain Miller's new road has
not vet been decided on. but it is pretty GER
tain it will be operated in connection with
the st, Louis, Fort Scott Il Wichita, which
II controlled By the Missouri Pacific.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05

PARIS. Feb. 26.-The Socialist memi 5
of the Chamber of Deputies to-day joined
in sending telegram to tie British work
men in the House of Commons proposing
joint international movement in the inter-
est of laboring men. The main objects of
the proposition are to secure a reduction of
the hours Of labor, an improvement in the
sanitary cOndit on of workshops proper, the
limit of work obtained OF women. etc. The
telegram suggests that the British wOrkmen
JOIN those OF France and invite the work
men of America and Europe to send dele
gates to a convention next September to be-
held at some place TO be hereafter decided
uDOl.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
Threatened Trouble.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Feb. 25.-At a
meeting of coal miners of the Kanawha and
New River district, held at COalburg, the
association resolved to request the West
Virginia Legislature to enact a law to pay
wages to workers every two weeks in
good and lawful money and make
days work eight hours, and that the
miners convention, which meets at Column
bus. o., instruct all dealers that they
will be boycotted if they handle coal froLl
operators who pay miners 21s cents a
busheI or less for mining. In conversation
with several operators relative to the action
of the miners, they stated they would run
their business regardless of the action Of
the miners at Columbus or elsewhere.
Many fear that great trouble will arise
from tits as soon as trade opens i'm this
valley, There are about 5000 miners in
the district. and should trouble come it will
be worse than four years ago.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
THE LATEST.

THE clearing house returns for week
ended February % showed an average in
crease of 296. In New York the increase
was $40.
GEORGE E. GRAHAM, the bigamist and
horsethef. who was recently accused at
Springfield. Mo-, of the murder Of his first
wife. has confessed and given a detailed
account of the terrible crime. He lays his
misfortunes to the neglect of good training
early in life.
The other evening as Hugh Oliver, aged
twenty-three, an employee of the Evans
vile Qnd) Electric Light Company, was
at work replacing a screw on the 'arc
dynamo with his right hand, the screw
slipped, and endeavoring to catch it he
placed his left hand also on the dynamo,
causing the electric current of 5000 candle
power to pass through and kill him.
The Senate was not in session on the
9th. The House was engaged in a general
debate on the silver question.
A DISPATCH from Oil City, Pa, says: The
Derrick's field report of the February oil
operations shows go completed wells, 3,732
barrels of new production, 80 dry holes,
269 rigs and S37 drilling wells. This is an
increase over January of &c wells SIS bar
rels of new production, Is rigs and II drill
ing wells.
ALL the miners in the Aveyron district,
France, numbering $500, have threatened
to join the strike Of workmen there. The
project of the department has telegraphed
to NJ. Sarrien, Minister of the Interior, for
reinforcements of troops.
GOVERNOR McENERY has decided that the
execution of Pat Ford and John Murphy
shall take place at New Orleans on Friday,
March L.
The pension payments during February
were about s1l ,OOO, Zoo.
The Italian Senate by a vote of 81 to has
adopted q bill to equalize the land tax
The municipal authorities of Paris have
ordered that the name of the Deity be ex-
pugned from children's books issued by
the metropolitan school committee
A SANTA FE IN. NJ special of the 18th
says: Steven Puple, Lee Hamblett, Kid
Wilson and Robert Holt, charged with the
murder Of the three Mexican sheep herders
in the Calico canyon, have been arrested
and are in custody at Bloomfield These
are the men for whose arrest the Govern
ment offered a reward of 1900
A DARING robbery was committed at
Brentwood, Tex. the other night. While
the clerks in William Cameron & Co.'s Of
nee were posting up the books three masked
men entered, and covering the clerks with
revolvers proceeded to rob the store and
clerks Of about $500. As soon as they
left one of the clerks, named Coker. fired !
several shots after the retiring men, one of
whom was struck and instantly killed. |
The dead robber had none of the stolen !
money in his possession.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
BLOWN FROM A TRAIN.
A Lady Blown or Platform-Narrow Es-
cape From Death.

A Lady Blown or a Plstform-Narrow Es-
cape From Death.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Feb. 27.-About ten
O'Clock last night, while the wind was blow
ing strong gale. lady, said to be a sister
of the late Ex-Governor Seymour, was
blown from a Lake Shore train between,
Erie and Dunkirk. She attempted to pass
from the dining car to the sleeper with her
husband. No sooner had she stepped upon
the platform than she was carried swiftly
of the train. The train backed nearly a.
mile before they found the lady, who had
escaped death, but received a severe CASH
over the left temple.
UTICA. n. Y. Feb. 27.-The story that a.
sister Of the late Ex-Governor Seymour was
blown from Lake Shore train yesterday
near Dunkirk was shown to HOratio Sey-
mOur to-day. He said that no sister Of
tie Ex-Governor was on the train.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
The Ford-NIurphy Murder Case.

NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 26.-The eel.
ebrated Ford-Murphy murder case
is to come up before the Board of
ardons for the third time on Saturday.
Since the last reprieve issued by the
Governor, petitions asking for commute
ticn of sentence to life Imprisonment have
been circulated in every community in
the State, and about thirty thousand
names have been secured. The citizens
committee of one hundred, of this city,
publish strong address to the board to-
day requesting them to stand firm and in.
sist on the execution of the sentence