davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
To be Inv. siis ated.

PHILADELPHIA. March 25.-Secrciary
Turner. of the Knights of Labor. re-
s.ived TELEGRAM to-day from a prominent
official of the order at Washington, stating
that Ex-Governor Curtin. of Pennsylvania,
was about to introduce and urge the passage
OF resolution in the House of Repre-
sentatives providing an investigation into
the cause of the refusal on the part
of certain railroad companies to arbtrate
existing labor difficulties in the West The
Knight states that he had been requested by
the promoters of the resolution to ascertain
the sentiment of the order to the proposed
inquiry. Secretary Turner has replied by
Wire that the order will approve any object
having In view settlement by arbitration.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
GRAND ARMY GOSSIP.

The Mikado Of Japan has donated eou9
60 the Grant monument fund
There are at present ITO G. A. r. posts in
Dakota, and the membership is growing
rapidly.
An effort is being made to secure the en-
campment Of the Dakota soldiers and ssil-
ors at Mitchell next fall.
The Ladies' Relief Corps of Salina, Kan.
recently concluded very successful art.
loan fair, which Melted them nearly SlOQ
Hon. E. s. Slower. formerly Lieutenant
Governor of Kansas, but for the past ten
years or more q resident Of New Mexico.
was recently elected Commander of the g.
A. r., department Of New Mexico.
GeneralJ. r. Turchin, the former Colonel
Of the Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, las.
written history Of that regiment from the
time the three Chicago companies were
ordered out-April 81, 1S61-till the regi-
ment was mustered out in 1864.
J. W. Squires, Of Wyandotte. Kan, has
Just had q bullet taken from his liver which
lodged there November g, 1864, during the
battle Of Springhill, Tenn. He was q menu
Der Of Company f., One Hundred and
General Thomas. His health is now COM
pletely shattered.
Miss Abigail Bates died recently at Scit-
uate, Mass, aged eighty mine years. She was
one of two heroines who during the war OF
1912 drove the British forces from that har-
Dor by concealing themselves in the bushes
and playing vigorously ON fife and drum,
thereby leading the enemy to believe .
large force was ready to receive them. She
was then about sixteen years of age.
There was an interesting relic on exhibi--
ton at the recent G. A. r. fair at Perry,
Iowa, in the shape of a testament and an
other small book, the two being pinned TO-
gether by . Minnie ball. The relic was
sent by John Bish, of Rippsy, who was in
Company H Of the Tenth Iowa volunteers.
The ball was received while on duty in line
of battle at Champion Hill, May Is, 1868.
Correspondents have lately written to
the effect that it might popularize the
Woman's Relief Corps by changing the
name to Ladies' Relief Corps" but such
a proposition will meet with little favor by
the noble mothers, sisters and sweetbearts
who with womanly tears but Spartan hero
tho call of their country. Such were none
tho less ladies for being the highest type,
of American women.
General Hawley, Of Connecticut, has the
heartfelt sympathy of all the soldiers of
the late war in the great affection he suf-
fers from the death of his wife. Mrs. Haw-
ley's war record was as good as that of her
husband, the General and, though she
wore no shOulderstraps, the red cross Of
mercy might well have been woven on her
raiment. Veterans yet live whom she.
nursed at Beaufort, Fernandina, Hilton
Head and Wilmington.
Following are the officers of the Woman's
Relief Corps, Department of Illinois,: Pres
ident, Mrs. Cora HGrral, Aurora; Senior
Vice-President, Mrs. Mary Holtzman, Pom.
tiac; Junior Vice-President, Mrs. Fleta
Stahl, Bloomington; Secretary, Miss Lizzie
Hubbard, Aurora; Treasurer, Mrs. Sue.
Sanders, Delavan: Chaplain, Miss Joseph
inc Cleveland, Springfield; Department
Councillor, Mrs. Julia ID. Sine, Rockford !.
Inspector, Mrs. Margaret Sands, Chicago
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
scrimm zee l., an irish Corr. Room.

LIMERICK, March 27.-Five men who
hat, been convicted of rioting and assault
ing the police were brought up for sen-
tence in one OF the criminal courts to-day,
prisOnment for terms ranging from three to
SIX months. When the sentence had been
pronounced the prisoners in concert, and
while yet in the does, nlade most savage
attack Oh the pOi:ce present on duty. A
terrible struggle ensued causing sach ey-
element that the magistrate was compelled
to quit the bench. The prisoners were
finally overpOwered and again secured, but
not until they had almost wrecked the court
r0oza and themselves been severely beaten.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
A Summary Of the Daily News.
CONGRESS,

OON0RE0Ss
IL the Senate on the I'D after the trans
action of some unimportant routine busi-
ness the monotonous debate on the report
and continued until adjournment. "A senss-
ton was created in the House by the prayer
of the Chaplain. who prayed that the coun.
try might be purged of gamblers, whether at
cards, dice, chips. stocks, wheat, bucket-ehops
or boards Of trade, and that the people might
he led to the knowledge that money making
GIher than by the sweat of the brow was con-
20 be inserted in the Record. The bill grant
ing the widow of General Hancock pension
of S2,O0 was passed. Under the call OF
tates Mr.. Anderson. Of Kansas, introduced
- bill to create commission to arbitrafe in
ase OF labor strikes. At the end of the call
the House adjourned.
The Senate on the 23d passed the House
Till granting pension of $1,000 year to the
widow OF General Hancock. Mr.. Logan's
bin to promote the efficiency OF the army
was then discussed, but the bill was laid
entries OF the public lands in accordance
with the rulings of the land Office Mt the time
they were made was taken up and passed.
At two O'Clock debate again commenced on
the report of the Judiciary Committee on
the Dustin case (the right of the Senate to
call for papers in cases Of removal from
ofiice) and continued until adjournment. -.
AT the expiration of the morning hour the
House went into Committee of the whole on
the Indian Appropriation bill. When the
committee rose the conference report on the
Urgency Deficiency bill was agreed to and
the House adjourned.
The Senate on the oath further con-
sidered the bill increasing the army, and at
two O'Clock the bill went over and the Senate
relapsed into its late monotc:y on the report
of the Judiciary Committee. In the House.
on motion of Mr.. Anderson. the Committee
on Labor was granted leave 70 report at any
time, At the expiration of the morning hour
the House resumed consideration of the
Indian Appropriation bill. which was finally
passed. The Postof1ice Appropriation bill
was then taken up in Committee of the
Whole and discussed until adjournment.
AFTER routine business in the Senate on
the 18th debate was resumed on the report OF
the Judiciary Committee. After executive
session the Senate adjourned. In the
House. after report of committees. consider
alton Of the POst-Office Appropriation bill in
committee was resumed. An evening session
was held for che purpose of delivering eulo-
gies upon the death of Congressman Rankin
of Wisconsin.
DEBATE continued in the Senate on the
18th on the report Of the Judiciary Commit.
tee, Senators ingalls, and Harrison leading in
favor of the report. The majority report was
finally adopted and the Senate adjourned to
Monday. In the House the vote was recon
eidered by which the bill was defeated grant.
ing pension of so a month to the widow OF
General H. w. Benham and the bill passed
The House was in committee the remainder
of the day on the private calendar. At the
evening session forty pension bills passed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
Combinations.

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The following
combinations have been made:
Registers of Land Ofices-Thomas Il.
Davis, at Lincoln, Neb; George W. War
ner, 3, Tracey, MIMI: William Smith. at
Croots,On: Ralph W. Marble, at Duluth,
MINI; John Il. Higgins, at Grand Island,
Ncb.
Reconsideration z. Mann. Pittsburk.
Ean.; Z. Y. Wharton, ates Center. Kan. ;
Jonathan y. Wise, Portsmouth, Neb.
Charles Nj. Wilson. Tecunseh, Neb.
George a. Moss, Pawnee Cit., Neb. ;
Thomas Merton. Nebraska City, Neb.
Samuel L. R;gg, BEATRICE, Neb.; ". I. Nc
Glnnis. Miudrn. Neb.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Two letters from Secretary Manning
were read in Senate executive session on
the I'D, declining to furnish the papers in
the cases of Collector Wells, of Vermont,
and Surveyor Morton, of San Francisco,
both suspended.
No information had been received at the
War Department on the I'D in regard to
the reported surrender of Geronimo and
his followers to Lieutenant Maus, near San
Bernardino.
: The President has nominated Malcomb
lG. Barnes Receiver of Public Moneys,
Spokane Falls, W. 7. j. Richard Winfield,
of Virginia, Consul for the United States
at San Jose, Costa Rica.
THE decision rendered by the United
States Supreme Court in the case of Mac
kin, convicted of election frauds in Chicago
at the last Presidential election, sets aside
the two years sentence imposed by Judge
Blodgett, but does not affect the five years
in the penitentiary which he is now serv-
ing under the State law for perjury.
THE Senate Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds has authorized favor
able report to be made on Senator Nor
rilrs bill appropriating 100000 for the
erection of an extension to the White
House.
The miners of Butte City, NJ. T., have
presented Senator Beck with a paper
weight made of pure silver. 1t is ele-
gantly inscribed and weighs q pound,
avoirdupois.
A RECENT telegram from Washington
says: The rumor that Senator Jones is to
return to the Senate is again revived. The
reason now assigned is that Miss Palm, the
object of the Senator's alteration, has fled
from Detroit and is now in Florida. An
effort is being made to have the Governor
of Florida declare Jones' seat vacant and
appoint successor.
GENERAL HAZEN appeared before the
House Committee on Expenditures of the
War Department recently and defended
himself against Comptroller Maynard's
charges. He denied the charges in detail
and alleged that the whole thing was a
conspiracy.
The Senate Committee on Labor has de.
cided to report favorably bill to increase
the wages of the employees Of the Govern
ment Printing Office, SO that composition
shall receive 90 cents per Thousand ems, and
those who are paid by the day shall get q
per cent. more than they receive now.
The Secretary Of the Interior has rem
dered a decision in the case of the Atlantic
& Pacific Railway Company in which he
holds that it has no legal claim to land
along the line of the road from San Buen
Ventura to San Francisco, 3S4 miles, and
directs the Land Office Commissioner to
restore the same to the public domain. This
decision restores to the public domain
2.35l 200 acres.
HoN. WARD Hunt, ex-Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court. died
at Washington on the 24th in the seventy
sixth year of his age. About six years age
he had paralytic attack, which SO com
pletely disabled him for the time that he
was unable to sign request for his retire
ment
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
THE LATEST.

THE LATEST.
AFTER an interview with Grand Master
Workman Powderly, at New York, on the
18th, Jay Gould consented to arbitrate the
differences between the striking workmen
and the Missouri Pacific Railway Com
pany. Vice-President Hoxie was notified
accordingly and the strike was thought to
be at an end.
The Chicago & Great Southern Railroad
was sold at Indianapolis, Ind, recently I'M
der decree to Henry II. Porter, of Chi
cago, the only bidder, for SOL, 600.
AMERICAN stocks were somewhat lower
in London during the week ended the 18th.
The Paris Bourse was unsteady.
AN employee named John Folman and
more than forty horses were burned to
death in q fire at Neiswanger's livery
stable, Kansas City, No, on the morning
of the 18th.
THE German Reichstag, by vote of ISL
to 3, has rejected Bismark' Spirit MonOpO-
~ bill. The members of the right refrained
from voting.
FURTHER soc;alistic riots broke out at
Charleroi, Belgium, on the 2Sth. Many
persons, including women, were killed and
wounded by the troops sent to repress the
disorders. For a time the town resembled
O pandemonium. Immense damage was
done by the incend;arism of the mob.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
March q showed an average increase of
45.5 compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the increase
was j6.4.
The Senate was not in session on the 9th.
The time of the House was devoted to .
discussion of the silver question.
THE Peoria Qn) County Almshouse was
destroyed by fire the other morning. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
THE principal car shops and locomotive
manufacturing shops of the Northern Pa
cific railway, located at Brainard, Mimi,
were destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
| 100000.
Four wreckers of freight train in Mex
leo were recently captured by the soldiers
and at once shot.
THE estimates for the next fiscal year as
introduced in the Canadian Parliament
show a retrenchment of $9,O00,O00
The damage done to property by the
striking miners at Chartois, Belgium,
amounted to 81, 000, 600. The strikers threat
ened to destroy the gas works which sup
piled the city with light.
A WARRANT has been issued for the ar
! rest of Spears Hollingsworth, county treas
uerer of Knox County, Ind, on the charge
of embezzlement. He was alleged to be
short in his accounts between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Rev. SAM JOKES, the Southern revival
preacher, announced in Chicago recently
that he bad given up the tobacco habit,
to which he bad been VIGOROUSLY addicted.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
THE sOUTH.


The oil house and paint shops of the
Texas & Pacific railway at Blue Springs,
was recently burned down. The fire was
thought to be incendiary.
An active boycott has been inaugurated
by the Knights of Labor against the bust
ness men of Dcnison, Tex, who signed the
petition against the strike and which was
forwarded to Colonel Hoxie.
THREE negroes and the engineer of a lum-
Der train were killed recently by trestle
work giving way near Kildare, Tex.
THREE negroes were lynched recently
near Auburn, Ky. They had attempted to
outrage Miss Cora Day, daughter Of q
prominent citizen.
An attempt was made recently at Ifous-
ton, Tex, to assassinate W. r. Baker, who
was running as an Independent candidate
for mayor. The bullets just grazed BAKERS
head. The would-be assassin escaped.
The Maryland House of Delegates has
unanimously passed a bill to reduces the
hours of labor of the conductors and driv-
ers on Baltimore street cars to twelve
hours.
The cattle business has been terribly in
jured in Texas by the railroad strike.
The lockwood CTenn.) coal mines were
reported on fire.
THE boiler in a saw-mill belongin tn the
Calera tAla.) Land Company exploded re-
Gently, William Fletcher and James Robin
son being instantly killed and Berry Robin
son and J. NJ. Thomas fatally injured. Sew
eral other men were seriously wounded.
JESSE NJ. SHEETS, Fred Chiffon, Frank
Valley and Ed. King were killed and Fsn-
lon Woodruff and Charley Emery were so
badly wounded that they were not expected
to live, during shooting affray at Tascosa,
Tex, recently. Tho ARRAY was all the re-
suit of an old difficulty over stealing steers
and changing their brands.
THREE negroes recently shot and killed q
colore1 boy in Suwenee County. Tia.
Friends of the boy captured the murdsaers
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
GENERAL

AUSTRALIA and New Zealand have each
sent protests to England against the inter
ference of France in the Hebrides islands.
The Mark Lane Express, in its review Of
the British grain trade, says the genial and
timely change in the weather has greatly
benefited the clay lands. The general out
look vas favorable.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-09
Notice of Assignment,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT c. C.
~ Barbour has this day made an assignment
indebted TO said c. c. Barbour. will please set
tie with me. and all arties holding claims
against him will please present the same to
me. R ] GRuOMS
P,tiatka, Fla, Feb. s. 1886.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-09

here, but find have no postage stamps.
If you
He was handed stamp. When he
had licked it on and mailed his letter he
said:
'I'm going up Michigan avenue to
Twelfth street. Do you happen to have
a couple Of street-car tickets:'
''Sir! This 10 too much" exclaimed
the other, Il can stand about SO much,
but after that"
"There! There! Beg your pardon !.
How did know you drew the line on
street-car tickets: No offence-ncne in
the least. I'll take your name and make
a memorandum Of where your generos-
ity ceases and this thing will DOT happen
again. mistook you for gentleman
who draws the line on paying for the
coupon when ask myself up to supper
with you"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-09

about the first Of next July the Anglo
maniacs in this country will affect thu
/ same style.
DIR. Talmage expresses the opinion
that by an inexorable law Of nature mill
ions of women never marry. The Law
OF nature manifests itself in an annual
shortage of men.
Hannibal Hamlin at 10 boasts of his
ability to run faster and jump higher
than any OF the young men in his neigh
borhood. He has married three sisters
aud with the youngest lives in Bangor.
While not rich. he is III possession of
sufficient means TO enable him to spend
the evening of his days in quiet and con-
tent.
An Extinct Species of Congressman.
Reminiscence by Civi! Service Commissioner
Edgerton.
Whom L was in congress in 1852 l rep
resented thirteen of the northwestern
counties of Ohio. l came in at a time
when there was change of party and
my party had the Presidency. Before I
started for Washington l resolved that
no constituent Of mine should have an
Office if could help it, and none of them
got into the government through me.
Positions under the government have a
bad effect upon the men who accept
them, and the government service is not
a sphere which would invite any young
friend of mine to enter. II. he is bright
fellow he can make as much after a
short time anywhere else, and if he is
not bright the government doesn't want
him.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-09
PERSONAL.

Senator Camden. West Virgins. is on
three weeks trip to Florida.
Mrs. James X. Polk has found it ne
cessary to deny the report that she is q
Catholic.
Mr.. Dalrymple, the Dakota farmer,
will put in 80, 900 acres Of wheat next
season.
Ex-Ssnatoe Tabor, of Colorado. is in
New York trying his luck in the stock
market.
The Princess of Colonna, formerly
Miss Mackay, is said to set the fashions
in Rome.
Ex-Congressman Rainey, of South Car
olina, has become a coal dealer in Wash
ington.
Senator Palmer, OF Michigan, ana Eus-
tbs, OF Louisiana, are referred to as the
indolent Senators.
Prof. Huxley has finally decided to ac-
cept the 1900 offered him by the Brit
ish government.
Asher Caruth, attorney for the COM
monwealth of Kentucky. is mentioned
as q better orator than either Clay or
Marshall.
Lieut.. Greedy, Of Arctic fame. owns a
Florida plantation, and the Flogidians
now suspect that the polar wave advanc-
ed thither in his honor.
Edward Atkinson, the economist, has
taken to wearing a suit Of clothes cost
ing $3.50 when he lectures on the art
and methods Of mean living.
The Prince Of Whales now wears a
black silk ribbon as a watch guard. and
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-09
FLORIDA.
State News Boiled Down, Scisssrsd
and Pasted.

4
More vegetables than ever before, 70
the same length of time. were planted
last week in Sumter county.
The Ocala Item says burglars entert
Mrs. j. A. Coachman's room at Mr.
Hoods residence, one night this week
| and made away with all the jewelry tc
be found.
Mr.. Fl. F. Namely, Of Tallahassee, is
planting twenty acre grove of pecan
trees at Newport, in Wakulla county,
and expects to increase it to forty acres.
-Floridian.
Daniels, the negro shot at Silver
Spring last week by Mr.. Peck, is improv-
ing, and it is now thought he will
speedily recover.
DR.. B. C. Maginnis. formerly OF Peter
SOD. n. j. has located in Soville.
The Tallahassee CLUB are sending out
two hundred invitations for their frat
hop at the New Leon, next Tuesday eve
ming, February 9th.
The Courier, of Jasper, Fla, prints in
its last issue three column petition to
the county commissioners Of Hamilton
county, praying for license for firm
in that section to sell whisksy. Great
scot they must be behind on water in
the region of Hamilton.
A number of new postmasters have
been appointed during the past two
weeks in Florida.
Tom Costa, the irrepressible democrat
and ardent lover of Tallahassee, is fat
tening tall gobbler which he proposes
to serve up at free lunch to the railroad
trustees and others on the day that the
First dirt is thrown" on the railroad
track northward. If Toms purse was in
to his public spirit he would
build that road himself-just because of
his love for Tallahassee.-Flor
Ten years ago the entire property of
DeLand could have been bought for five
thousand dollars. 1t can not be bought
now for five hundred thousand In
fact taxes are are now paid on three
hundred and twenty-five thousand, and
the property is assessed at oue-third of
its market vaiue.-Echo.
Owing to the press of other business,
Col. d. III. Elliott will withdraw from
the editorship Of the Florida Dispatch.
How little improvements the farmers
put upon their plantations is especially
by the absence Of real cozy
farm houses and substantial farm build
ings throughout the country. Improve
your places, make them attractive by an
application Of paint or whitewash, plant
the yard in flowers and shrubbery, and
you'll not miss the time nor the expense
but feel well repaid for your time and
trouble. Madison Record.