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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-18
MODERN WTCHCRAFT.
Tales OF Superstitions Now Prevailin
Among West Indian Negroes.

Tales OF SuperstitiOns Now Prevailing
Among West Indian Negroes.
Some West Indian negroes carry q
snakes poison under their finger nails.
A single scratch from poisoned nail
will cause death in few hours.
A colored servant girl who was sick
with malarial fever refused to take
medicine, but sent to negro sorcerer,
who gave her bottle containing live
lizard, with instructions to place it I'M
der her pillow. After she had grown
very i'll her master made her throw
the lizard away and take proper medi-
cine.
West Indian negroes are fond of
stuffed figures, and at most of their
merry-makings they have q John
Canoe" or stuffed figure Of . man,
which they treat with great respect.
Sometimes an 'Aunt Sally" is substi-
tuted. AUNT Sally" is the figure of a
woman, and is tire ated rather flippantly
as compared with John Canoe"
Negroes who believe in witchcraft are
taught to think that if they inform on
any one who practices it their fingers
and toes will drop off and they will pine
away and die. A number of witnesses
who were compelled to testify against
native wizard in Trinidad became
i'll through fright, and several actually
died.
"West Indian dysentery" is due to a
mild dose of powdered glass delivered
to an enemy in his food. II the doses
are continued death is the result. Bot
ties filled with ground glass and water
are used for charms. One of them hung
under tree in an orchard is almost
sure to keep the negroes away from the
fruit, as they believe that the charm
poisons it.
If a servant in the West Indies wants
something to make his master appre-
ciate him he goes to a native sorcerer
and buys some nonsensical thing In
which he has faith. It may be . few
white pebbles wrapped in lock of hui
man hair or it may be harmless pow
der to be scattered in bis master sleep
ing-room. Tia love-siek girl wants .
love powder she buys it in the same
manner.
A bottle of ''obeah water put under
q mans doorstep is supposed to bring
him the worst possible luck. It is worse
than finding . white cocks head lying
in the yard with its beak pointing
toward the door. When . sorcerer
wishes to give mild touch of his super
natural power he gets some one to bury
near his victims door bottle contain
ing a toad, . spider, rusty nails. muddy
water and other articles.
'Obeah'' is . species of witchcraft
practiced by the negroes of the West
Indies and supposed to have been intro
duced from Africa. Every white West
Indian knows that it is practiced by GER
tain .'obeah men," and that in past
time it has cost many a white man his
life, but few can tell how it operates.
Negroes are afraid to talk about it.
The real danger lies undoubtedly in a
subtitle system of poisoning and in the
extravagant fears of superstitiOus poo
pie. There are about five hundred
s'obeah men, in Trinidad. The Gov
eminent has tried to crush out the prac-
tice at various times, but has always
failed.-CRicdg0 Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-18

The Customs Department has de-
cided that regalia for use in Odd Fell
lows lodges can be imported duty free
Washington Post
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-18

"A Vermont editor has been appoint
ed pound-master. He can shut up his
delinquent Observation-Disclosures Bell.
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REDEEMING TRADE DOLLARS.

The Senate passed bin providing that until
July j, 1857, United States trade dollars, if not
oeiaced, mutilated, or stamped, shall be receiy-
&c AZ the Office of the Treasurer or any Assist
ant Treasurer Of the United States, in EXCHANGE
for like amount dollar for dollar, OF standard
silver dollars Of the United States and that the
trade dollars received by the Treasurer or any
assistant treasurer OF the United States shall
not be paid out or in any other manner issued
but nj the expense OF the United States shall
be transmitted 10 the coinage minis. and shall
be regarded and treated as silver bullion. and
nj their bullion value, shall be deducted from
the amount Of bullion required 10 be purchased
and coined by the act Of Feb. %, 1873. and
shall be recoined into standard silver dollars
according 10 the provisions of said act.
PRIVATE PENSION BILLS
i. The House passed the following House bills:
Seseph j. Kirkhart, Co. i, 1l7th Ohio, Second
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Lieutenant 90. d, eth Indt battalion, Ohio
Vols, and First Lieutenant 90. A, 18th Ohio
Oav.; Luke Borobin, 90. ID. 5lst Ind; Chas. T.
Vernon, Co. r, 10th III. Cav; Nancy. widow of
Samuel Gunsales, Co. X, 19Oth Pa; Seth Weldy,
Captain, 23d u. s. Inf; Henry Mericle. Co. ID,
9th N. Y. II. A.; Sarah, widow Of VIM Handles,
Co. I, 93d N. ": Waite IT, H. Paris, nurse, $40 /;
L. A. McFadden, Second Lieutenant, Co. @, ID
Ohio, Mexican war; Caroline c. McNair, Can
isteo, N. ", nurse, Sl2
The following, heretofore passed by the Sen
ate, were also passed by the House: Samuel Z.
Tracy, u. S. "; Mary. widow of Peter McMa-
hon, Co. +, Cd II. L.; Herman Baumhager, Co.
Il, 5th Mimi, increased TO $40; Alexander
Trimble, Co. II, 18th Iowa; William Dickens.
Co. A, oath Mo-; Andrew J. Burrell, Captain,
Co A, 50th Ind; Addison A. Jackson, Co. i,
18th H., $I2; James II. King, Co. ID, 9th Ind.
Legion.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
amalgamated the substitute for the Blair pen
sion BILL prepared at the last session, with Rep
resentative Webers bin relating 20 the pension
of dependent parents and instructed Chairman
hatson TO report the measure 10 the House and
endeavor 10 secure its passage under a suspen-
sion OF the rules. No accurate data as 10 the
expenditures that will be required under the
terms Of the bill was before the committee, but
II is estimated that about $4,000 soldiers and
sailors are at present either in almshouses or
dependent for support upon charity.
TARIFF REFORM AGAIN DEFEATED.
Early last week Mr. Morrison gave notice
that on Saturday he would move to take up his
bill TO reduce the tariff. The motion was made
on that day and was defeated by yeas l49
nays, l54. The result was not entirely unex-
pected. careful canvass made by the Repub-
licans and Randall Democrats showed Mr.. Nor
rsOns defeat 10 be almost certain, and even
Mr.. Morrison himself when questioned as TO
the outcome on Friday night, was doubtful of
success. Still il was not a settled matter, and
this element of uncertainty added 10 the deep
interest felt. There was a very full attend
ance, less than 20 members being absent.
Twenty-six Democrats voted in the mega
tive. OF these New York contributed five
bliss, Merriman, Muller, Spriggs and Stahl-
neckerl, Pennsylvania five Boyle, Curtin, Err
mentrout, Randall and Sowdon) Ohio seven
(Foran, Geddes, LeFevre, Seuey, Warner, Will
Rlns, and Campbell). Louisiana four Gay, lrion,
ST. Martin and Wallace), New Jersey two
Green and McAdoo), Illinois two Iawler and
Ward, and Alabama one (MRrtin.) The only
Republican votes in favor Of considering the
tariff bill came from Massachusetts and Min
nesota. Hayden and Stone, of the former
State, and Nelson, Strait, Wakefield and White,
of the latter. T. J. Campbell, Pindar and
Niele, of New York, Findlay, of Maryland, and
Stone and Hayden, of Massachusetts, who last
year voted against the consideration of the
bill, voted this time in the affirmative. Mr..
James, of New York, who last year voted 70
consider reversed his vote
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dose produced the nausea which saved her life.
The quarrel between Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfield
was caused by jealousy on both sides-At
Hagerstown, Md, Joseph F. Woods, a colored
man. was sentenced to IS months in the peni-
Tertiary for marrying Anna Nicodemus, white
woman. and the same penalty was imposed on
her. This is the first case Of the kind in which
the law has been tested in that State, and the
fight was made rs to the construction to be
placed on the 18th Amendment.-An indict-
ment has been found by the grand jury in the
United States Court, Brooklyn, n. Y, against
Charles Curtis, alias Sir Roger Tichborne. who
was arrested on a charge of defrauding the Gov
eminent by collecting pension under fraudu-
lent epresentations.-The steam whaler
Mary and Helen took fire at her wharf in San
Francisco. The fire communicated with the
magazine and an explosion followed, killing a
son of Capt Miller and a deck hand.-John
Swilling, wife and three children, were muir
dered in their beds, near Atlanta, Ga, by +. B.
Sanders, forger. TO whom they had given a
home.-At Sydney, n. S. W., of the nine
youths sentenced on Nov. 90 for assaulting
l6-year-old servant girl, the Executive has de-
cided TO commute the sentences of three to
imprisonment for life. The six others will be
hanged.-The Federal grand jury in St.
Louis has returned ~ election indictments
against various judges of elections, supervisors,
alleged voters and fine workers"-When
Chicago last Thursday night, he found the bod
les of his wife. Antonio. and his 13-months-old
child dangling from the transOm of the bed
room door. 1t is supposed the woman commit
ted the deed when temporarily insane
Thursday night an engine the Cincinnati
Southern Road, near Sunbright, Tenn, was
thrown down an embankment. Christopher
Toole, Engineer, and John Rhody, Fireman,
were crushed to death.-While drilling for
natural gas at Kokomo, Ind, the gas suddenly
became ignited and p persons were seriously
iniured.-Italian labOrers employed on the
canal near Auburn, n. Y, savagely attacked
four Americans, two of the latter being fatally
stabbed.-At Manistee, Mich, Chas. Brown
and Miss Cora Sibley were married Saturday
evening. About two hours after the ceremony,
as the bridal company were dancing together,
the groom fell dead from heart disease
McQuade, the New York doodle" Alderman,
was convicted of accepting bride in the mat
ter OF the Broadway Railroad. The second
trial closed last week with verdict of guilty,
which greatly surprised him and his friends.
Monday he was sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment in Sing Sing and to pay fine of
$5,000-Moses Ryno, aged so, was instantly
killed at New Brunswick, N. j., by railway
train, while endeavoring to save the life of
boy, who was also killed.
The National tribune., 1886-12-23
OBITUARY.

James ID. Warren, editor Of the Buffalo Com
merctdt Advertiser, died at his home in Buffalo
last week. He was born in Bennington Wyo-
ming Co., N. Y, Jan. 10, 1923. He was an
earnest and active Republican from the forma-
ton Of the party, and stood high in its coun-
ellis in that State. He was a delegate 10 every
State Convention Of his party since 1872 was a
delegate at-large 10 the National Convection at
Chicago in 1880 and an earnest advocate of the
denomination of Gen. Grant, and one of the
famous BOG. He was also a delegate in 1884,
and then strongly urged the nomination Of Mr..
Arthur, fighting bitterly the Blaine men, but
yielding allegiance 10 the majority, and sup
porting Mr.. Blaine's candidacy.
General Garland received a telegram last week
announcing the death Of his brother, Rufus X.
Garland, at his home near Prescott, Ark
Hon. Marshall i. Wilder died at Roxbury,
Mass, Dec l6. He had just passed his seth
birthday. Mr.. Wilder had for many years been
one OF the most prominent pomologists and
hOrticulturists Of the country.-George Wal
kinson, Yale's famous football player died at
| New Haven, Conn. His sickness resulted from
cold which he caught during the Yale Prince
ton Thanksgiving Day game. He was a son of
George Walkinson, manager of the Candee Rub
| Der Company.-Col. q. II. Foreacre, General
| Superintendent of the Trans Ohio Division of
the Baltimore * Ohio Railroad, died at New
ark, O.-Rev. DIR. J. j. Hight, editor of the
Western Christian AdD0cate, died Dec is, ut Gin
cinnati, Col. James Boone, n retired rail-
road contractor, died at Lancaster Pa He was
the Oldest Odd Fellow in Pennsylvania as is
shown by the official record. He was initiated
on Sept. 26, 1896 aud admitted TO the Grand
Lodge on Aug. %, 1928.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

The whaling bark Atlantic was wrecked at
the entrance TO San Francisco harbor, and only
the Captain and eight Of the crew were saved,
while at least 81 were drowned. f.
Jordan, a business man of Corydon, Ind. com
mitted suicide Dec IL. He was a member of
several secret societies and had his life insured
for $sOOO.-Mrs. Adelbert Fairfield, of Put
nam, Conn, after quarrel with her husband
took morphine, and also gave IL TO her child.
The child died, and her own life was saved with
difficulty. Mrs. Fairfield says she called her
little girl TO her side and said take L.; it
will end our trouble" The child answered,
YES mamma" and took about half tea
spoonful Of the poison. Mrs. Fairfield took a
whole teaspoonful Of the morphine and the
The National tribune., 1886-12-23
THE JUDGES CASH PUZZLE
In Behalf of the
GRANT MONUMENT FUND
USE YOUR BRAINS AND MAKE MONEY.
HEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, EVERYBODY.

The Judge proposes to assist the Grant Monument
Fund by organizing grand competition word build
Ing (makng the largest number of words from given
sentence BY Transporting and using letters TO suit the
purpOse in using for the theme the sentence Who will
be next President ?" Offering Cash prizes 10 sue
cessiul competitors each of whom will have pay Fifty
bO cents on presentation Of his competitive paper The
money received will be applied follows:
twenty-five cents Is at once credited to the Grant
Fund.
The remaining twenty-five cents after deducting the
legitimate expenses Of advertising names with their
respective a. swers, etc. etc, will be placed in
mon fund 10 be equally divided among the six successful
competitors the six persons sending In the largest
lists OF words pToper nouns lncluded) made from the
sentence " Who will be our next PRESIDENT"
The magnitude Of the prizes will depend on the
amount of money received, in other words on the
number Of competition Communications open until
February Is 1881 II o'clock Prizes will be awarded the
following week.
This is not new thing. In England large sums Of
money have been raised for Charity by this method and
those who have participated and incidentally helped
worthy object have won a prize high 10000
reward for mental activity.
The names Of competitors, together with their re-
spectiye replies Will be published from week % week in
Judge as they may come in. This Will not only
as acknowledgement of the receipt Of the money,
etc. but Will also to show the weekly progress Of
the fund.
The National tribune., 1886-12-23
A Genuine TImekeeper.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The watch
received with THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is q
genuine timekeeper. have compared it as to
keeping time with some S25, $50 and $50
watches, and it has kept just as correct time as
any of them. l am more than satisfied with
my investment. / advise all my old comrades,
and every one in want of good timekeeper, to
send you $3.50 and receive the watch and The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE.-WM. JACKSON, Baileys
Harbor, Wis
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The News from All Parts of the
World.
ABROAD.

ABROAD.
Friends of DR.. McGlynn, of New York, who
are in Rome, believe that the charges upon
which he has been summoned TO Rome are part
of a plan to force his retirement from the
Church. 1t was alleged that he had decidedly
anti Roman sympathies and in fact was the
head and front OF an Americanizing movement
inside the Church. which was out of harmony
with the true Catholic spiTit.-The Paris
journal des Dobdts publishes a dispatch from
Berlin stating that Germany, France, Russia
and Turkey are ia complete accord on the Bull
garian question. The dispatch adds that Tur-
key is 10 continue 10 have the initiative in
advancing proposals respecting Bulgaria, and
that the three other powers named are to accept
the proposals as made, but does not say whether
or not there is TO be a previous understanding
as TO the nature of what will be proposed
The Russian Government has sent a telegram
TO Prince Lobanof, the Russian Ambassador at
London, refusing TO countenance the candidacy
of Prince Ferdinand, of Saxe-C oburg- Gotha. for
the throne of Bulgaria.-At Brussels il is
semi-Ofiicially stated that nothing has been
definitely settled respecting the proposed expe-
dition of Henry NJ. Stanley TO relieve Emin
Bey. The promoters will await the arrival
from Zanzibar of DIR. Junker, the German ex-
plorer, before determining finally the nature of
the expedition, which IL is expected the Amcr-
can explorer will take charge of.-Princess
i4SAiAAst idhkHASi VI JeTOmc Napoleon,
is betrothed TO Prince Roland Bonaparte, whose
first wife was the daughter of NJ. Blanc of
Monaco. At a meeting of the French Geo
graphical Society in Paris Count Lesseps de-
clared that the Panama Canal would be open
for traffic in lSS9.-The Italian Chamber of
Deputies has approved an extra credit of
50 100000 for the War and Marine Departments.
from Zanzibar say the entire Afri-
can coast between Kipini and Lamoo including
hf1Fa do nax md la Isl # IM.ls
coded 10 Germany.-The Spanish Govern
ment proposes 10 establish commercial bureaus
in London, Paris, New York, Mexico and
Buenos Ayres.
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Comrade j. Nj. Gray, formerly Of Co. +, sth
Mo. Cav, writes from Ava, Douglas Co., 10 say
that there is no eX-Prsoners of war associ-
alton in that county. There Is an effort 70 be
made TO organize one in the State, and the
comrades who are at work at il should address
Gomradn Gray
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EX-PRISONERS OF WAR.
Meeting aud Organizing.

Meeting aud Organizing.
ATTENTION, COMRADES.
HEADQ'Rs NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
EX-UNIoE PRISONERS OF WAR,
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,
WASHINGTON ID. C.
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Trouble Never sinrle.hnndea.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. z, lss5.-I was trou-
bled with a torpid liver indigestion and gas
in stomach, furred tongue, bad breath. Took
two or three dozen bottles Of Warmers safe
cure, which entirely restored me to health
JOHN LEADLEY, ca Atwater street, Z.
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UnlnckK IL.

ISdR Francisco Ezaminer.l
There were Is murderers in the county Jail
! few days ago. 1t was regarded as an unlucky
lumber, so 0'Grady and Dolan Clipped in and
low there are Is. The unlucky number is
passed and the homicides breathe freer.
The National tribune., 1886-12-23
INDUSTRIAL.


ranks Of the knights of Labor at Amsterdam,
NY, by the publication of all the secrets of the
Order aud the mode of initiatiOn.-Fifty-si
weavers in the Wamsutta Wooden Mills at Fall
River Mass struck because one of their num-
Der had been discharged for being late. The
weavers claim that they are being dismissed
one by one because they are Knights of Labor,
and have determined 10 make a stand
Opinions differ as 20 whether there will be a
strike Of the miners of the Connellsville, Pa,
coke region next Saturday. The operators are
II is said, becoming eXasperated at the repeated
demands and petty strikes, and are determined
TO show fight on the issue. On the contrary,
the men are feeling hopeful and confident and
believe that the demands will be granted.-
Another iron manufacturing company, with
capital Of Sl.000,000 is organized at Brming-
ham, Ala The property consists OF 1900 acres,
and two lOO-ton blast furnaces will be started
at once.-Freight conductors on the entire
line Of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
Railroad struck last week on a demand for an
advance in pay from two and half TO three
cents per mile and allowance for lost time,
which the management refused. Freight trains
from one end of the road 10 the other were tied
up.-A firm composed OF we'll known iron
men have accepted an offer of large cash
bonus from the Board Of Trade, and will erect
a large Bessemer steel plant at Sharon. Pa, as
soon as arrangements are made.-The dis
satisfaction among Knights of Labor in Phila-
delphia and elsewhere at the action OF the
General Executive Board of the Order in issu-
ing the circular requiring special assessment
OF % cents from each member continues TO in
crease, and expressions of disapproyal are heard
in many quarters.-Eleven of the Cohoes
(N.Y) knitting mills have resumed operations,
practically ending the lockout which began
nine weeks ago. Sixteen out of &c mills be-
longing TO the association are now running.
Terms have been made with the Knights of
Labor.-A union has been formed at Green
vile, Pa, by the domestic servants for the pur-
pose of advancing their wages so cents a week.
Any girl refusing to join the union is TO be
oycotted.-The Chicago Knights have begun
retaliations on the trades unions by withdraw
ing their delegates from the Trades Assembly,
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ABOUT PEOPLE.

All sources of contributions to the Gen Grant
monument fund at New York seem now 30
have exhausted themselves. Less than S. has
been received during the last two weeks, and
the whole amount is 1923, 729.2l.-Jehu Ba-
ker, the Congressman-elect from the 18th ILL.,
nois (Morrison'sl District, pleaded guilty in st.
Louis to assaultiag J. NJ Beach, a Republican
reporter, a few weeks ago, and was fined S. and
costs. The reporter did not appear against
him, but warrant was issued upon informa-
ton Of the City Marshal and the statesman en-
tered plea of guilty.-Charles Z. Armistead,
acolored practitioner at the Army Police Court
in Chicago, expects TO be appointed Minister to
Liberia.-M'me Rattazzi, "A cousin of Louis
Napoleon, widow of al Italian statesman and
married again at % 10 a young SpaniaTd, an
authoress, and still pretty, is one of the most
desperate gamblers in all EurOpe.-At Ames-
bury, Mass, Dec. IL, John q. Whittier cele-
brated his 18th birthday. The day was OBJ
served by the schools in reading and reciting
selections from bis works, and also in the same
manner by some of the literary societies.
Col. II. q. lngersoll writes TO Washington
friend that his throat will be well in a few
days. "-Two sons of James g. Blaine are en-
ployed in the Chicago Offices of the Northwest
ern Railroad. A son Of Senator Dawes is also
a resident of Chicago and engaged in the prac-
tice of law.-Mrs. Cleveland promises TO favor
the reform movement which asks ladies TO
remove their hats entering a theater-
Mrs. Alice Oates, who was a popular actress in
comic opera years ago, is dying in Philadelphia.
The National tribune., 1886-12-23

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discovered many old and curious artioles Fyi-
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had recovered nom severe attack Of female complaint
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