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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
BOLD ROBBERY.
A Jewelry Store Robbed and tho Assistant
Seriously Shot.

A Jewelry Store Robbed and tho Assistant
Seriously Shot.
KANSAS CITY, NO., Feb. 4.-One of the
boldest attempts at a robbery ever made in
this city for several years was undertaken
last night in the. jewelry house Of S. S.
Baker, No. 544 Main street. Shortly after
seven o'clock last evening young man
about twenty-five years old, entered the
jewelry house of S. s. Baker, the man
with whom the Mcconnell children
recently had the adventurous ride.
The store was in charge of r. F.
MOhr, with A. NJ. Ochler as assistant The
thief requested to see some diamond rings,
when he suddenly grabbed handful and
drawing revolver backed to the door. He
was seized by MOhr, whom he beat over
the head, and fled into the street.
He was pursued by Oehler, whom he
shot in the neck. In the alarm that
followed the thief escaped. The police
have possession Of his nat and handker.
chief and are making diigent search for
him. Oehler is not seriously wounded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
A GRACELESS SCAMP,

A Young Man RObs His Mother and
Swin,lles Other People to An Immense
Amount.
CLEVELAND. O., Feb. 6.-Littie more
than year ago young man named Ed.
ward Crowl. who engaged In bucket shop
specnlatiOns in Cleveland, failed to meet a
number of notes given by him for various
sums, amounting in all to nearly quarter
of million of dollars. The notes were
endorsed with the name Of his mother,
Harriet Crowl. She denied having indOrsetl
them and accused her son of having forged
her name. Suits were filed against her by
the holders Of the notes. The first of these
came to trial short time ago and the jury
decided that the Endorsement was
forged. Young Crowl had left town
and his whereabouts were unknown, but
rs soon as the decision was rendered a
warrant was sworn out, charging him with
forgery and placed him in the hands of
Detective Reeves, who traced CrOwl to
Newburg, N. v, where he was arretted
Monday. He arrived in Cleveland yester-
day afternoon in charge of an officer and
was placed under SIC, 900 bonds to appear in
the Common Pleas Court. Later in the
afternoon other charges OF forgery were
pTcIeIIeU dEdiHSt HliH anu Ills UOHu WAS
raised to $4,000. He has not yet sue
ceeded in securing bail and was sent to
Jail. The true extent of young Crowds in
fanny is almost beyond belief. His reputa-
ton was Of the highest character in
this city, and his mother as we'll as
his business acquaintances had the utmost
confidence in his integrity. Mrs. CrOwl en-
trusted to his care her bank book and al
lowed him to make deposits for her. Ac-
cOrding to the book which was shown her
by young CrOwi. there was to her credit at
the Citizens Savings and Loan Association
S55, 900, but when she called at the bank
one day found only $3.50 deposited there In
her name. Her graceless son had squan-
dered the money and made false
entries in her book. Mrs. Cr0wl then
discovered also that her son had
forged her name to notes for large amounts,
as above stated. Singular enough the young
man had victimized some of the oldest and
banking concerns In the city. II
being known that he had charge of his
fathers estate his credit stood very high.
Mrs. CrOwl Is left nearly penniless. CrOwl
spent the money in gambling dens and
bucket SkODS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
WIDOWS PENSIONS.

Democrats Congratulating Themselves
Over Their Work In the HOnse.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The Democrats
were INDUCING in good deal of self-con-
graduation last night over the feat Of having
passed the widows pension bill, in
creasing this class of pensions from SO to
Sl2 month. 1t isn't SO much the passage
of the bill that causes the cOngratula-
ton as it is the passage without
amendments by the Republicans hitching
Oh the Arrearages bill. The latter prOpO-
sitiOn now falls back into the hands of the
Pension Committee and there it will stay,
the Democrats think. They claim to have
majority of the committee pledged to the
proposition that the Anearages bill shall
not be reported to the House at this session.
The bill passed to-day adds $4,000, 900
year to the expenditures for pensions.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
Fatal Railroad Accident.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Feb. 6.-At three
o'clock yesterday morning passenger train
No. 6O3, which left St Louis at $50 Thurs
day night, colliled at Williamsville, Mo-,
eighteen miles north Of Poplar Bluff, with
the fast St Louis passenger train from
Memphis. The operator at Mill Creek, a
few miles from Williamsville. failed to
stop the Memphis train, owing to the signal
failing to work, and the train from st. Louis
was going about eighteen miles an
hour when struck by the Memphis
train at full speed. Both en-
gines went down the embankment
about twenty-five feet and were badly
wrecked. No danger was done to the rest
of the train. Engineer Wallace, Of the
Memphis train. and his fireman, name UNI
known, were killed. He lived in Memphis.
Engineer Walker, of the St Louis train,
jumped from the train and was badly in
jured. His fireman, name unknown, was
caught between the engine and tender and
crushed to death. Walker is from Aurora,
Ill. Engines were sent from Poplar Bluff
and both trains went on, the train from St
Louis reaching Little Rock at $50.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
Bribery Charges.

New YORK, Feb. 2.-Judge Cowan, in
charging the new grand jury to-day. said:
THE atmosphere of the community is full
Of rumors and assertions Of bribery in pub
lie Office. 1t Is a wicked and a~ful crime,
and there is no question that those who are
convicted Of it are fa- more despicable.
wicked and infamous than the burglars and
petty thieves that are brought into this
court These are mere rumOrs, it Is true,
founded or unfounded, Just or unjust
Still there is no question that ninety-nine
out of every hundred men in this county
believe them to be true, and 1t is public
scandal that this should be so"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
NEW ApPoRTIoNMeNT.

Main Features OF the New Apportsonment
BIN Introduced In the Legislature.
Tho AppOrtionment Committee Of both
Houses Of the Legislature have agreed upon
and presented bill which provides for 1875
Representatives. The appoitionment is q
follows:
ties.
Second Decentralization County.
Third district-Leavenworth.
Fourth Observation-Disclosures.
Fifth district-Johnson and Miami.
sixth district-Linn and Anderson.
Seventh district-Bourbon.
Eighth district-Cra --fOrd.
Ninth district-CherOkee.
Tenth dist,ict-Labette.
Eleventh distr ct-MOntgOmery.
Twelfth district-NeoshO and Allen.
Thirteenth district-wilsOn. woodson and
Fourteenth districts Corey and Franklin
Fifteenth district-Osage.
Sixteenth district-DOuglas.
Seventeenth Observation-Disclosures.
Eighteenth district-JetfersOn and Jack
son.
Nineteenth district and Potta-
watOmie.
Twentieth district-RIley, wsbaunsee and
Davis.
Twenty first district-Lyon and Chase.
Twenty-second district-Elk and Chautau-
Twenty.third district-Cowley.
Twenty-fOurth district-Sumner.
Twenty-hfth Observation-Disclosures.
Twenty-sixth district--But.er.
Twenty-seventh district-MariOn and Nor.
ris.
Twenty-eighth district-McPhersou and
Harvey.
Twenty-ninth district-Dickinson and Clay.
Thirtieth Observation-Disclosures and Mar.
shall.
Thirty-first district-Ottawa and Saline.
v.eo Ro.
public.
Thirty third district-Jewell and Mitchell
Thirty-fOurth district-Osborn. Russell,
Thirty fifth dlstrict-smith. Phillips ana
Norton.
Thirty sixth district-Rush. Ellis, Rocks,
Srsham' Trego GSye Sheridan, Decatur
man and Cheyenne.
Thirty.seyenty district-Rice. Stafford,
Pratt and Edwards.
Thirty. ninth district-Harper, Bourbon,
Clark, Meade and Comanche.
ptFortieth district-FOrtl. Pawnee. Barton,
Ness, HOdgeman, Lane, Scott. Finney. Ham
ilton, Wichita, Greeley and Seward
REPRESENTATIVES.
LeavenwOrth IL given four representatives.
Shawnee, Sedwick, Labette, Cowley and
are given two representative: Atchison, But
ler Bourbon. Crawford, Cherokee, Cloud
Douglas, Dickinson. Franklin. Jefferson,
Jewell, Lyon, Miami, Montgomery, Marshall,
Marion. Mcpherson. Neosho. Nemaha,
Osage. PottawatOmie, Republic. Reno,
Washington and WyandOtte. The
Morris, Coffey, Woodson, Wilson. Anderson,
Allen. Doniphan, johnson. Linn, jackson,
Brown, Riley. Davis. Wabaunsee, Green
wood. Chautauqua, Chase. Clay, Ottawa.
Pratt. Stafford, Barton. Rice, Ellsworth. Rus.
sell. Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne. Smith, Phil
lips, Rocks, Ellis, Rush. Pawnee. Edwards,
Comanche. Clark. Meade. Ford. Hodgeman.
Ness, TregO. Graham. Norton, Decatur. Sher-
idan, Finney, Thomas, Rawlins and Hamil.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
on,cer and -Four Men Drowned.

NEW YORK, Feb. AT $3.50 o'clock last
evening the tug boat Blanche Kate, while
towing railroad float up the river, ran
into boat attached to the Austrian cor
vette Dovan, lying of the foot of West
Twenty-eighth street. The row boat was
under fhe command of Midshipman Korsch
and contained eleven men. The midship-
man and four of the sailors are missing.
Five were rescued by the tug and two others
taken from the river by the tug boat Gar.
fet The rescued men were placed on
board OF the corvette, and the river police
arrested Captain Hubert, of the Blanche
Kate,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12

BETWEEN 5000 and 1000 empty cars are
side tracked at various points near Pitts
burgh, Pa, Is . result Of the coke strike.
There was coke enough, II was asserted,
but the strikers would not permit it to Be
loaded. =
The striking Williamstown, Pa, miners
concluded to 60 to work on expectations Of
an advance March 1.
Ar meeting at New York recently Of the
grape growers and wine producers OF the
country it was resolved to form National
association and to ask Congress to legislate
against the adulteration of wine.
A REVOLT occurred in Riverside peniten-
tiary near Pittsburgh, Pa, the other morn
ing, in which three deputies were injured.
FIRE in Brooklyn, N. Y, recently de-
pany's barn and sixteen new cars.
The Commercial Bulletin, Of New York,
estimates the January fire loss of the
United States and Canada at $12, 000, 900,
81, OOO, 900 moro than the average January
loss in the past ten years. There were six
teen large fires, on which the loss aggre-
gated 81, COX, 900, or moro than 40 per cent.
of the entire fire waste of the month.
TIE United States Government has
awarded to Captain Miller and Second Of
ficer Roberts of the Lord Cough each gold
watch and chain, and to Seamen John Pur-
cell, Samuel Pry, II. Dix and Thomas e.
Wart each s25 in recognition of the rescue
of the captain and crew Of the American
schooner Cleopatra of the coast Of Massa-
chusetts on December z.
HERBERT, the Captain OF the tug boat
that capsized a boat Of the Austrian cor
vette in North river, New York. drowning
six of the crew, has been held for culpable
negligence.
The street car strike in New York ended
in the companies acceding to the demands
Of the men.
A NUMBER Of the evicted striking coke
workers of Uniontown, Pa, have brought
suit against the company for damages.
AN entire hazing party was recently ex-
PEELED from the State Normal College at
Kutztown, Pa.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
Burglars Exterminated.

LOCKWOOD, Tenn. Feb. 3.-Last Friday
night three men attempted to break into
the store Of J. Handy, at Gienmary, but
were detected by Handy. Twenty shots
were exchanged between the storekeeper
and the burglars, but no one was wounded.
Handy and posse followed the burglars
the next morning to Knoxville Junction, on
the Cincinnati Southern road. They were
commanded to surrender, and when they re-
fused the posse fired. killing two of the
burglars instantly. The third escaped.
Nothing was found on the persons Of the
dead men that would lead to their identih'
cation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
SIuchly Married.

PITTsBURG, Tex, Feb. 3.-H. j. Wal.
tiers, reported to have seven wives living,
was brought here to-day and placed in Jail
BY Sheriff Stafford, having been arrested at
BrO0kston. Lamar County. The prisoner
says he has not been married seven times,
but does not deny having been married
more than once. Several years ago he
married Miss Porter, near Leesburg, this
county. sister to J. c. Porter, one OF Camp
County's best citizens. 1t is ALLEGED that
he has wife in Lamar County and one in
Greenyille and at Sherman. the Camp
County wife making the fourth. The latter
was teaching school near Leesburg and in
that way was making q livirg when he was
first arrested.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12

Questioning Governor FOrakef's Authority.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 5.-The three police
commissioners removed by Governor For
aker yesterday morning addressed letter
to Mayor Smith, stating that having been
advised by their attorney that the Gov
ernOr has no power to remove, and that
his action is Illegal and void, they propose
hereafter, as heretofore, to exercise the
them by the law as police commissioners
of Cincinnati. In order, however, that
no disorder may result, they will willingly
Join the Mayor in any appeal which may
be made to the courts in order that ju-
dicial ascertainment may be had Of their
respective rights in the premises.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
The Ohio Senate Getting Unt.nsled.

COLUMBUS, o., Feb. 5.-The COME r.
eace committee and caucuses of the Sen
ate factions have agreed upon a report,
which was unanimously adopted by the
Senate in the form of a resolution yes
terday afternoon, it provides for sub
committee from the committee on privi-
leges and elections to proceed at once
to Cincinnati, make full investigation,
and report evidence and findings to the
Senate within q reasonable time. All
matters relating to the contested cases in
the Senate are waived until the sub
committee reports on the investigation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12

For ordinary toothache, which is
caused by the nervous system being out
of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot
bath will SO soothe the nerves that sleep
will naturally follow, and, upon getting
up, the patient will feel very much re-
freshed and the toothache will be gone.
For what is known as the jumping"
toothache, hot, dry flannel applied to
the face and neck is very effective.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
Fish Frozen to Death I'm the Gulf Of Mex

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. "a well-known
civil engineer has arrived here from Flor
ida, where he has been engaged in land
surveying. He states that during the re-
cent cold snap, while he was making q
voyage from Tampa to Cedar Keys, the
schooner in which he had embarked was
wrecked of Cedar Keys. All hands es-
capped with their lives, but suffered great
ly from the cold. The salt water froze ON
the reef in the Gulf of Mexico, upon which
the vessel struck, and great numbers of
fish, chiefly shecphead and red fish,
which had been killed by the cold,
fOated on the water, covering the sur
face for miles. Inquiries among fisher
men and other elected the fact that dur
ing the same cold spell fish were killed
on the Louisiana coast and were then
floating by the thousands from the
Rigolets to points far to the eastward.
The fact that fish can be killed by the
degree of cold that can be experienced
In The Gulf of Mexico, has been doubted,
but authentic instances have now been
reported.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
THE London L.nncef exnlains ssoy

The London Lancet explains ''over-
coat colds" 1t says nothing seems
more simple than to meet the rigors of
the weather by adding extra garments,
but these. while keeping the body
warm, also confine the moisture which
escapes from the skin. The general
effect is well enough while the overcoat
is kept on, but the moment it is re-
moved evaporation recommences and
the body is placed in q ''cooler."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12

"A wonderful and little-known
flower has been on exhibition at the
Philadelphia Horticultural Society's
rooms. 1t is called the moon flower
and blooms in the evening. From a
small bud an inch and a quarter in di-
ameter comes beautiful flower four
inches in diameter. The development
requires less than an hour, and the
buds can be seen opening.-FAiladel-
phia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
THE WEST.

OOVERNOh MUhhAIS 6cCOuu VctO "cSr
sage to the Utah Legislature is of q joint
resolution providing for the compilation Of
the laws, at cost of $4,000. His reasons
are that the Territorial Auditor and Treas
urer are not legal officers. and that many OF
the laws of Utah are in direct conflict with
the laws of the United States.
The night of the ID of February was re-
ported extremely cold in the West and
Northwest. At Chicago it was Is below
zero.
THE Minneapolis express train ran into a
train consisting Of three engines and ca
boose on the Central Iowa railway, at Man.
ley Junction, near Waterloo, Iowa, recently.
One engine and the caboose were completely
demolished, and the engineer of the wrecked
engine killed and two other train men seri-
ously and probably fatally injured.
A SUIT for s5OO, 600 for breach Of promise
by Louise Perkins against E. J. Baldwin
Gucky Baldwin, was entered recently at
Los Angeles, Cal.
A TERRIFIC explose1n occurred recently
at the Miami powder works, at Goes sta
powder mills were blown to atoms, and
Gustave Snyder, superintendent Of the
works, was so badly burned and bruised
that he could not recover.
The largest oil we'll in the Ohio field was
developed on Moore & Brotherton's terri
tory near Lima, O. The oil shot into the
air to the height of seventy feet when the
tools were withdrawn. The well will ex-
coed $50 barrels per day.
A DISPATCH from Santa Fe says Judge
Vincent, who was SO suddenly removed
from the bench by President Cleveland,
has been unanimously elected president of
the bar association of New Mexico.
A DELEGATION of five stalwart Usage In
dams, from the Indian Territory, left st.
Louis recently for Washington to see the
President and to protest against the divis-
ion of their lands in severalty.
W. L. DOVE, a farmer seven miles north
of Shelbyville. ILL.,. was reported as having
several horses afflicted with disease which
competent authorities pronounced to be
CHAMBERS.
The Star, of Tucson, A. T., says the kill
ing of Captain Crawford by Mexicans was
premeditated.
]. M. BURFoRp, a merchant Of Saybrook,
luticu buc otueA WIN <sV,VoO houuA-
ties and s14, 200 assets.
A DISPATCH from Chillicothe, O., states
that excitement prevails in the vicinity of
Lattaville, Ross County, over the alleged
discovery Of silver on farm. Specimens
of the ore were sent to q mining expert,
who declared it rich silver quartz.
ALBERT COOLEY, q farmer living three
miles from McGregor, Iowa, with his en-
tire family, consisting of his wife, two
boys and one girl, were all burned to
death in their house the other night.
In q small switch house, near East St.
Louis recently, while six men were crowded
around the stove, malicious scoundrel or
a tomfool poured coal oil down the stove
pipe. The men were terribly burned and it
was thought would lose their eyesight The
perpetrator was unknown.
An aged and eccentric lady living near
Mt. Pleasant, O., was recently robbed,
murdered and burned in her dwelling by
unknown parties.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
THE SOUTH.

THE internal revenue agents have fin
ished an extensive raid on illicit distillers
in Overton County, Tenn, Selling twelve
crooked concerns within a radius of twelve
miles. A party of moonshiners fired upon
the posse, who returned shots and com
PEELED their assailants to retreat.
]. W. WALTER, postmaster at Quincy, q
small town in Newton County, Ark, has
been driven away by his neighbors. It was
understood that grievances, personal in
their nature, growing out of dislike of his
manner Of treating persons having business
at the Office, was the cause.
IT was reported at Ell Paso, Tex, on the
I'd that the Apache hostile chief Geronimo
had surrendered to Lieutenant Maus, who
succeeded Captain Crawford. lately killed
by the mistake of Mexican soldiers.
A DISPATCH from Houston, Tex, Of the
I'd says: George L. Porter, wholesale
grocer, made an assignment this afternoon.
Liabilities placed at s122,0 900 and assets
$114,000. Later in the day the Hous-
ton Flour Mills Company succumbed. Liza
bilities, $4,000. The assets embrace the
mill property only.
A DISASTROUS collision occurred the other
morning on the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
road at Stanton, Va. No. night express
ran into a freight train on q siding and
completely wrecked both engines. Fire
man Gettings, of Richmond, and several
others were seriously injured.
Ar Greenville, Miss, the other night, q
fire destroyed the stores and stocks of L. E.
Rothschild, R. G. Mcpherson, Mulane &
Co. and NJ. e. Rosentnal & Sons. Loss,
SSOO 600: insurance. $4,000
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
GENERAL,

The announced policy Of Prince Bis.
marck to expel the Polish people from
Prussian Poland has created intense ex.
element in Germany. The Germans gen.
orally favor the policy. It was reported
that the Pope was preparing protest.
The court Of appeals at Amiens, France,
has. decided that Catholic priests may
legally marry, and that the children born
Of such unions are legitimate. The court
of cessation in 1919 decided this question In
exactly the opposite way.
TIE Nova Scotia Sugar Refining CON-
pany, of Balifax, n. S., suspended recent
y. Liabilities, 500. 34l; assets, S3ss, S11.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SURVEYOR GENERAL DEMENT,, OF Utah,
was examined tty the Senate Committee
on Public Lands recently with reference to
publications which embodied alleged utter
,. ances of his duplicating Senators, members
Of Congress and high executive officials in
Washington and Utah in conspiracies
to misappropriate public lands and to in
fiuence by bribery legislation Affecting the
attributed to him.
GENERAL DAVID HUNTER, who was presi-
dent Of the court that tried Mrs. Surratt
for completely in the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln, died at Washington on the
I'd.
THE statement of the coinage executed at
the minis Of the United States during the
month Of January, 1886, showed q total
coinage of 799. $50 pieces; value, e, 9O9, 40
GENERAL HAzEN, the chief signal officer,
has made q contract with Prof. King, the
aeronaut, to write out his experiences in
balloon ascensions and to prepare treatise
upon the atmospheric conditions above the
clouds. He is to be paid 800 for the job.
The President has pardoned George r.
Sims, convicted Of conspiracy to defraad
the Government in pension cases and sem
fenced to Eve years Imprisonment.
THE EAST.
TIE other morning the powder house Of
Hanley, Serrell & Co., exploded at shaft
No. 50, Of the new aqueduct, on the Ford
ham Landing road, near New York. c.
NcGinnis, in charge Of the powder house,
was missing after the explosion.
EIGHT emigrant coaches containing i'm
ported laborers, were quietly run into the
Pennsylvania coke regions the other night
As soon n they understood the situation
they "efussd to work. Wholesale evictions
were taking place, and much alarm ex-
listed.
The other evening the tug boat Blanche
Kate, while towing . railroad fat up the
river, ran into boat attached to the Aus
TRAN corvette Dovan, lying of the foot Of
West Twenty-eighth street, New York.
The row boat was under command of Mid
shipman Korsch and contained eleven men.
The Midshipman and four of the sailors
were drowned.
A BOY fourteen years of age, named
George Waterhouse, of Cohoes, N. Y, suf-
fering from hydrophobia, was smothered
to death, it was reported, by advice of the
physician.