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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
LABOR MOVEMENTS.

P1ttsburgh M1nerN want IN Advance-xho
knights In Cans da-How Chicago Feels.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. March ia couven-
Of the miners Of the Amaleamated Asso-
citation of the fourth district is now in ses-
sion at Dubois. Pa. considering the propo-
sal to demand an advance In wages OF 121l
cents per ton, and to adopt measures to In
troduce the eight hour system. The dele.
gates generally favor making the demand.
and assert that II It is refused they will
strike. A circular has been sent to the
operators inviting them to meet the execu-
tive committee Of the miners at Dubois
March IS to arrange matters satisfactorily
to all parties. About 1000 miners are en-
ployed in the fourth district. A telegram
from the Meyersdale district reports the
miners still working but likely to strike at
any moment for an advance. Cumberland,
Irwick. Clearfeld and Huntington miners
are nearly all idle, but As the Clearfield
diggers have decided i'm favor OF arbitration,
1t is thought the strike will be settled In
that way.
TORONTO, Ont. March 1.-THE street
railway employees have formed branch OF
the Knights Of Labor, and were yesterday
dismissed by the company, 500 men being
thus thrown out Of employment The
president of the company says that no
union men will be employed. Very few
cars are running. Yesterday afternoon .
ecar was stopped by the strikers, the horses
unhitched and the car turned sideways on
the track. Several coal carriers backed their
carts on the track and aided the strikers in
their work. A tremendous crowd gathered
and the police vainly endeavOred to prevent
the strikers from carrying out their design.
One car on West Market street was sent
dewn grade at a rafting speed and cOllided
with another car. shattering windows and
smashing up platforms. No violence was
offered 10 drivers or conductors except in
one instance, when driver and conductor
were pelted with mud.
CHICAGO, March 11.-Commissioner
Wicke of the Chicago freight bureau, when
asked II the strike on the Gould system had
effected the freight business of Chicago, re-
piled that it had not materially rs yet. He
said that there was q belt Of country in
Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, where, il
the strike should run along until the middle
of next week 1t would make trouble.
Freight shippers could reach points in
Texas by the Illinois Central and by the
Atchison. Topeka Il Santa Fe roads. Il is
not the merchants, but the manufacturers,
who would feel the effect Of the strike.
Manufacturers of pIows and similar imple-
ments were the ones who would feel the
effect most seriously.
WoBURN. Mass. March 11.-James Skin
ner & Co. agreed to submit to arbitration
the demands Of their workmen. The
price list settled upon by the arbitratOrs
will doubtless be accepted by the other shoe
manufacturers here, thereby averting q
strike OF 1900 employees.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
TELEoRApHlc MONOPOLY.

The Ho1so Committee On Rost.O0css anA
Post.Roads Investigating the Subject Of
celegraphic Franchlsss with Reference
TO the Alleged Western Union Monopoly
and Its Result In Maintaining Onerous
Tarlns.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-Mr. Ander-
son, Of Kansas, recently introduced .
resolution empowering the House COM
mittee on post-onices and post-roads 70
ascertain whether additional legislation Is
needed to prevent . monopoly Of tele-
graph facilities, and to secure to Southern
snd Western Pacific States the benefits Of
competition between telegraph companies,
and protect the people against unreason-
able charges for telegraphic service. The
committee met yesterday to consider
the resolution, and hear those who
favored its adoption. Mr.. Anderson ex.
planned that he was opposed to
monOpolies of any sort. His mo-
tive in this instance was to
secure for his section of country, cheap
telegraphy and the advantages Of compe-
titiOn in obtaining news. 1t would be
shown to the committee that the land
grant railroad companies had illegally,
graph franchises to the Western Union
Company; consequently when n rival
telegraph company reached the Eastern
terminus of one of those roads instead
of receiving without discrimina-
ton, its business, the land
grant companies substantially refuse
TO comply with the obligation Of their
charters. In other words, the Western
ry,,so hoo Hscn
opOly of the section mentioned, and it ia
carrying it to such an extent as to show
tendency to claim in addition to the re.
cOgnized right of common carrier,
right also to gather the news, and that
barefaced attempts had been made by the
Western Union Company to cocrce news.
papers into making exclusive contracts to
transact all the business by its wires. It
was because of those matters that he had
introduced the resolution.
ID. H. Bates, President of the Baltimore
& Ohio Telegraph Company, was sworn
and examined. He appeared at the sug-
gestion of Mr.. Anderson to furnish in
formation in connection with the efforts
of the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany to have its telegraph business ac-
cepted by the land-grant railroads in the
same manner and ON the same terms as
telegraph business from other telegraph
companies, and particularly from the
Western Union Company, had been ac-
copied. Mr.. Bates reviewed the situa-
ton, and showed that he had, year and
half ago, endeavored to enter into an
arrangement with the Union Pacific Com
pany to accomplish these results.
Mr.. Warner asked whether the Union
Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company
had refused to extend to the Baltimore &
Ohio Telegraph Company, the same facili-
ties as were granted to the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
Mr.. Bates thought that they might
deny that they so refused, but they had
actually done SO.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
One Rich DeEaulter Punished.

ATLANTA, Ga, March lO.-The Su-
preme Court of Georgia yesterday affirmed
the decision which sends Geo. T. Jackson
to the penitentiary for five years. Jack
son has a large family of grown children
intemarried into the most fashionable
families of augusta. He was president
of one of the cotton mills, largely inter-
ested in banks, and a society and church
leader. A shortage was discovered in his
cotton factory accounts of nearly eight
hundred thousand dollars. and the case
on which he was convicted called for one
hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
STOCK ITEMS.

During one night recently dogs got into.
Q flock of sheep belonging to a farmer near
Cresco, Iowa, and killed fifty-four of the
animals.
Do not depend on tariffs or any thing
outside of your own individual judgment
and energy to increase your income from
the flock. .,f
Maine teamster says he can start the
most obstinate horse by taking him out of
the shafts and leading him around until he
is giddy.
Do not keep different breeds of sheep to-
gether The conditions best suited to some
are not the best for others, and when mixed
the result will be that all will come short
of their highest possible results.
Fifty million horses are now owned in
America and more than one million a year
must be bred to keep up the supply. The
largest portion of these are used for agri-
cultural and heavy draft purposes, and
such horses bring from s115 to 500 each
Journal OF Agriculture.
What grudge have the railroads against
sheep! In the West they refuse to haul
them alive in double decks; in the East
they charge 9Oc per cwt. for hauling
dressed mutton, while dressed hogs go at
3Oc and dressed cattle new rate) at 65c-
What have the sheep ever done to the rail-
roads.-Drorers' Journal.
J. C. Neal says farmers are foolish to.
think of keeping a single head Of stock
through the winter without shelter. ~
have been foolish myself this way. It.
takes twice as much feed to winter out
hnv,nA To txrxN thrAo
head, and they do not gain bit. It is just.
rs necessary to shelter stock in Kansas as
in the ast.'-4Kanhattan (KaN.) Republic.
The dairyman should have his scales and
record book, and should weigh and record
what he gives his cows, and also what they
give him in return, until he knows exactly
what each COW is doing. Then his oppor-
tunities for wedding out the Improbable
animals will be increased. Cows vary
greatly in the amount of food consumed
by each, and also in the yields of milk. and
the dairyman should familiarize himself
with their characteristics during all sea-
sons.-Exehcnge.
Ordinarily when the first improved stock
is brought into a neighborhood its owner is
considered fool by the wise men, the OWL
wise, we mean. Next, the improvement.
noted is said to be in the corn crops. Next,
the better class Of the neighbors bay in .
small way and try it, and then buy more
The worse class talk about tony farmers
and aristocratic stock. Lastly, abont half
the neighbors admit they were fools, and 60
in for improved stock. The other half sell
out and 60 where they can grow scrubs
without the rebuke Of good example,
Iorda Homestead.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19

ST. Louis, March l0.-A one o'clock this
afternoon . Kirkw0od accommodation
train was started from the Union Depot,
q number of officials going out on it.
Just as they were about to pull out,
the fireman left the engine and refused
to work. General Superintendent Kerrigan
of the Gould Southwestern system jumped
into the cab and did the firing himself,
the train making the trip, or at least
starting all right. Many think this is the
first step Of the fremen helping the
switchmen in the strike and that all the
fremen will quit work in day or two.
The fremen's and brakemen's associa-
tons are very closely allied
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19

AUSTIN, Tex, March lO.-The Capitol
board to-day instructed the Attorney Gen
ersl to institute suit against E. E Myers Of
Detroit Mich. the Capitol architect for al
legged persistent declining to perform his
duties as required by contract The board
also alleges that the plans and specifications
have proved defective in many particulars.
Colonel Taylor. of the Capitol syndicate. Is
here and says he will have the entire 3.OCo,-
600 acres Of Capitol lands inclosed by JAN
nary. 1887. He now has 100000 acres in
closed and is digging wells every six miles,
which thus far have proven eininently sue
cessful, water flowing from the top Of
each
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
THE LATEST.

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific was
robbed by masked men at two o'clock on
the morning of the 18th. The express mes
senger made q desperate resistance, but
was brutality beaten to death. The robbers
escaped with money and valuables esti-
mated at $4,000. The robbery took place
between Morris and Joliet, Ill.
A MASS convention at Webster, d. T., has
unanimously adopted a memorial to the
President and Congress asking that the
Sisseton Indian reservation be opened for
settlement.
A CASE of trichina was recently reported
from Lyons, Green County, Ind. Nine Of
the family were dangerously ill.
The singular discovery was made recent
ly that there was not on file in the Patent
Office at Washington a single model of an
original telephone. Moreover it was de-
veloped that the patent which was issued
to Prof. Bell in March, 1876, and which is
now contested by the Government, was
granted without a model being fled.
The London money market was reported
steady for the week ended March 10. Eng
lish and American railway securities
| i
were fat at S1.62.
JAKE SCHAEFER defeated Maurice vignaux
in the recent billiard tournament at New
York. Schaefer's grand total was 1900;
Vignaux, 1,S55.
THERE was no change in the aspect Of the
strike on the Missouri Pacific on the 18th
Both sides, however, were expecting q sat-
iSfncfNrv To N tiou in, q dux, <,x,o
THE clearing house returns for week
ended March Is showed an average in
crease Of 1913 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. The increase
in New York was 1913, exactly the average
for the country.
The funeral services Of Senator Miller
were held in the Senate chamber at Wash
ington on the 18th. At the conclusion Of
the eervices the remains were taken to the
depot for shipment to California.
THE Cunard steamer Oregon was run into
by an unknown schooner near Fire Island
on the morning of the 18th. The passengers
and crew were safely transferred to the
German steamer Fulda, the steamer with
the mails and cargo soon afterward rink
ing. The Oregon was an immense vessel
and one Of the fastest in crossing the Attain
tic. The Oregon formerly belonged to the
Guion line.
TIE strike of street-car drivers at Cincin-
natl was successful.
TIE Canadian Government has decided
not to send flying column through the
Northwest Territory for the present.
FIRE in Dreman's rag warehouse, Gin
cinnati, the other night caused loss Of
$4,000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
Taking Their Cue From the West.

AUGUSTA, Ca, March g. The arrival
of two Cinnamon here yesterday and the
"promised arrival of twenty more to-
day." has caused some excitement, and
the threat is made that force will be re-
sorted to to drive them out of the city.
The Chinese here number several hun
drcd, all shop keepers, and they have
almost ruined the green grocers business.
The Chinese have married white wives.
The City Council will be asked to revoke
the Chinese license, and if the request is
refused, the celestials will be waited upon
at midnight and marched out of town.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
West ward, HO!

NEW YORK, March 9.-The low rate
of the "Sunset route" tc San Francisco
has had one unexpected result. A dele.
CATION of colOred men from New Orleans
was in New York yesterday seeing what
rates could be obtained from C.. p.
Huntington over Southern California
One OF the Sunset route agents enter.
tanned the committee. and it was stated
that as the cut rates we've likely to con-
tinue indefinitely, fair sized army OF
colored citizens would be soon trans
ferred from Louisiana and adjacent
Southern States to South California
1t is promised them that work will bs
found.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
Jupoe LYNCH.

throo Members Of the Eaw0as APehoe
Gang q Outlaws Taken From JAN 1t
Shoals, Indians, end Hanged 70 Trees In
the Court-Houss Yard.-A Reign Of Terror
ENDED.
SHOALS, Ind, March 10.-Three Of the
famous outlaw gang Of Archers, namely
Thomas and Martin, brothers, and John,
. son Of Thomas, suffered the extreme
penalty Of their crimes just after mid.
night this morning at the hands of Judge
Lynch. Precisely at IL 80 p. m. q vigi.
lance committee of about one hundred,
composed of men from Larkin and Orange
counties, entered the town. The lynchers
were very quiet and orderly, and the
sheriff was first aroused by the barking
Of his dog. followed by q knock on
the door. He asked who was there,
and the answer was q crashing In Of the
front door, followed by heavy blows
which completely demolished it. The
crowd then went to the Jail door and
knocked off the lock, and were dismayed
to find another door which would not
Weld to blows. After about twenty min.
utes man In the crowd was found who
understood the opening of the cell door.
The lynchers rushed in and grabbed all
three Of the prisoners.
when the Archcrs saw the lynchers
come I'm they made no resistance, and
when asked If they had anything to say
they refused to speak. Their hands were
tied behind their backs and they were
taken to the courthouse yard and hanged
to young maple trees.
Tom Archer, the oldest one Of the
gang, who was about sixty years old,
was hanged first. His feet were touching
the ground when viewed by your CORE
spondent this morning. Martin Archer,
brother to Tom, aged about fOrty-five
years, is hung up high and dry, and both
Of his eyes are staring wide open, making
= CHASTITY sight. John Archer, son Of
Tom Archer, who was about thirty years
old is hanging to tree with his hands
father.
The crimes for which they were hanged
consist of almost every thing on the
criminal calendar, from murder down to
petty thieving. For twenty-five years
they have been reigning terror both in
Martin and Orange counties, and have
terrOrized the community in which they
lived. They never failed to visit venge-
ance for fancied slight, and many a
farmer in Orange and Martin Counties
has lost considerable sums of money by
being robbed, cattle stolen or their barns
or houses burned down.
Mart Archer has family living in
Southwest township, Orange County,
and they are respected. Two of his chill
dren are young ladies, teaching school in
that section of the country.
Old Tom Archer lived in Martin Ccun-
ty, in Columbia township, and had a
large family, every one of whom are under
indictment for larceny, arson and murder,
and bear bad name generally.
John Archer formerly lived I'm Columbia
township, and was as bad as the rest.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
Attempted Assassination Of . Brother.


NEW YORK, March 9.-JOhn Devlin, Q
we'll known contractor, formerly United
States Assessor and General Inspector Of
the City Works Department of New York,
and who was involved several years ago
in serious trouble with the Government in
connection with the illicit whisky business,
was shot five times last night ut his resi-.
dence in Brooklyn, but none of the wounds
are considered serious. Daniel Devlin.
his brother, fired the shots with revolv-
er. John alleges that the shooting is the
result Of conspiracy on the part of his
brothers to take his life and get possess
sion of his property, the value of which
is from 4 quarter to half a million dollars.
There has been trouble between the
brothers for years. 1t began after their
fathers death, over dispute about the
will.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
Burglars Open Fire.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Marcn 1O.-A
gang of robbers which congregated a,
Dayton, Tenn. on the line of the Cincin.
natl Southern railway two weeks ago,
attempted to burglarize the large jewelry
store of Obil 4 Co. and the Cincin-
natl Southern depot Their plot had
been revealed to the sheriff, and dozen
officers were in each building. When the
thieves broke in and commenced to drill
holes in the safe, officers demanded their
surrender. The burglars opened fire on the
shefiTs posse, and by means Of the dark
ness. escaped without securing any booty.
Fifty shots were fired. but no one was
wounded. A posse is in pursuit
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
Serious Charge.

KANSAS CITY, No.. March 1O.-Samuel
C. Shaeffer, who is now under sentence Of
eight years to the penitentiary for obtain.
ing money by fraud, and is under bonds,
having obtained right to new trial, was
arrested again last night at the Centropolis
hotel ON an indictment charging hun with
c0nspiring to murder John 1. Blair, the
New Jersey millionaire. The indictment
was found by the grand jury at Independ.
ence, and was returned yesterday noon.
During the afternoon capias was sent to the
city and served on Schaeffer at the CentrOp.
oils Hotel at $3.50 O'Clock last evening by
Deputies T uggles and Moore. Schaeffer
was not locked up last night, but was per.
mitted to remain at the hotel under guard.
This morning he was taken to lndepend-
ence by Deputy Ike Jackson. He pleaded
mot guilty" to the indictment and was
placed under bonds for his appearance at q
future day during the present term Of court
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
THE EAST.

THE report of the committee investigat-
ing the Broadway surface railroad matter
in New York declared the franchise was oh.
tanned by fraud.
The widow of the late Horatio Seymour,
ling at Utica, n. Y, on the Sth.
The carpenters on strike at New York
for $3.50 per day gained their point.
Ex-senator JEROME B. CHAFFEE, Of Col
orado, died of laryngitis at the residence OF
his daughter, Mrs. Ulysses s. Grant, at
New York, on the 9th. He was sixty-one
years of age.
JAMES SKINNER & Co., of Woburn, Mass,
have agreed to submit to arbitration the
demands of their workmen. The price list
settled upon by the arbitrator will doubt
less be accepted by the other shoe manu-
fac.urers at WOburn, thereby averting a
strike of 1000 employees.
J. BERTHE, known as ''the giant Of East
ern Pennsylvania" was buried at Mt.
Carmel, Pa, recently. He weighed 40
pounds, and as it was impossible to get the
coffin into the hearse, twelve men carried
it. During the services Mrs. Kate Hodge,
q relative Of deceased, was overcome by
heart disease and fell dead on the coffin.
A DISPATCH from Troy, n. Y, says tina.
all the spinners at Cohens have been or
dered out by the Knights Of Labor for in
creased wages. The strike affects 5000
hands
FIVE men were killed by the explosion Of
the boiler of the tug John Market at Bos-
ton the other morning.
Ex-PREsIDENr ARTHuR was renorted in
precarious health at New York on the 9Th.
The Fuller & Ascom Stove Company, of
Troy, n. Y, after an eighteen months boy
colt, has surrendered to the Knights Of La
Dor.
The New York Post, after examination,
declares the financial standing of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company to be un-
satisfactory.
The Reading railroad reorganization
scheme has been matured, all the interests
being harmonized.
FIVE HUNDRED cotton mill hands at Vic
tory, n. Y, struck recently for an advance
in wages of IS per cent. They refused 10
per cent. raise.
THE President has sent to the Senate Q
message, inclosing letter from the Secre-
tary of the Interior, submitting bill to
pay the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska
the 600 due them under the treaty with
the United States in two yearly install
ments of $4,000, instead Of nine INSTALL
ments of $4,000 year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19
A BATTERED Up Tramp Printer Sent to the
County Poor House.

A BATTERED Up Tramp Printer Sent to the
County Poor House.
JACKSON, Mich, March 11.-John Gaunt
the tramp printer and eccentric character,
who was arrested few days ago for mendi.
cancy, las been sent to the county poor
house. Before the war lie with two others
started the Philadelphia Age. He served
through the war. then came to Michigan
fifteen years ago and worked as . printer.
He went to Canada at the time of the
Fenian excitement, and was taken for a
Fenian and sandbagged. He has been half
crazy ever since and tramps exclusively on
foot. At one time he held the position OF
Inspector of Customs In Philadelphia, and
was quite wealthy. His wife and two
gr0wn-up children still reside in that city.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19

THE trustees Of the newly-incorporated
Grant monument fund at New York claim
that the erection Of the monument IL as-
sured. Tho old trustees turned over sl1a.-
S6O.s2
ABour eighty inmates Of the Lebanon
pa poor house were seriously poisoned
recently. Some miscreant put paris green
into the coffee pot. The overdose caused
vomiting, otherwise many Of the paupers
would have died.
The dime savings bank Of New Bruins
wick, N. j., was closed recently by order OF
the Secretary Of State. Arthur G. Oglesby,
secretary and treasurer, it was rumored,
was short in his accounts to the amount OF
$4,000.
IT was reported ct Bridgeport, Conn, on
the 18th, that the Hon. W. H. Barnum,
Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee was in dying condition. His
disease was an affection Of the kidneys.
MRS. RoBEsoN, mother of the ex-Secre-
tary, died recently at the homestead in
New Jersey. She was Of distinguished rev.
olutionary descent.