davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

Ten arrests were made at Hunters Point,
L. l., Of strikers at the sugar refineries en-
gagged in the recent disorders. Three Of
the accused had been badly dubbed by the
police.
TIE union molders of three Of the largest
foundries In st. Louis to the number OF
about 800 have presented q demand upon
their employers for Is per cent. advance
In wages.
THE Matthiessen & Weicher's Sugar Re-
filming Company, Of Jersey City, N. j., has
announced an increase Of 10per cent in the
wages Of tho 1900 men employed by them.
The strike ON the Lake Shore at Chicago
ended ON the sd in the company conceding
to the strikers. The latter were very jubi-
liant, and went back to work with q will.
ANOTHER batch Of employees quit the ser
vice of the Missouri Pacific at Kansas City
on the ed. Other roads at Kansas City
were offering their employees increased
pay to stop disaffection.
The strike inaugurated by the watch
makers of Grammont, in East Flanders
Belgium), was reported spreading and
becoming serious. The strikers barricaded
the bridges over tho Denner river, and
from beyond these distractions made an
attack with stones on the gendarmes. A
fight ensued, resulting in the rout of the
rioters.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

Bessie had been wearing a young
lady visitors locket and chain for sew
eral days, when the guest announced
her intention OF leaving on the NOR
row. Dear me-. I'm so sorry! SAID
Bessie. Are you, my dear?' asked
the young lady, with smile, that
faded somewhat as the small girl
added: "Oh, yes, indeed. ! shall
miss your locket and chain dread
fully" Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

Great rivalry as to speed exists
among the sailing ships that annually
take grain and flour to England from
Oregon and California. The distance is
eighteen thousand miles, and three crack
ships competed this year, the winner.
making the voyage to Southampton in
one hundred days, and the second best
reaching Queenstown in one hundred
and sixteen Days San Francisco Call,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30
Said He was Poisoned.

New YORK, April 24.-Mail advices from
Panama, under date OF the 18th inst, say
General Ricardo Gaitau. who was a promi-
nent leader In the revolution of lss4-5, died
from fever in prison on the night of April
2. As customary his relatives and friends
issued notices that the funeral would take
place at four p. IN. next day, but to the
surprise Of most persons, before the ar
rival Of the hour named the corpse was in
tered privately. The report is in circula-
ton, but it is not credited, that he he was
poisoned. Arrests have been made Of some
OF the persons who have circulated such
reports.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

A Smith County (Kan.) hunter
fell into an old dry well, forty feet
deep. He was not hurt by the fall. and
at once began trying to get out by cut
ting steps in the sides with his pocket
knife. AT the end of twenty-four hours,
when he was discovered and rescued,
he had got about half way out.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

HEAVY floods in the Rio Gillinas, N. n,
which runs through that city, inundated
the lower portion Of the town recently,
sweeping away bridges and many dwelling
houses and completely destroying the post
Office building. The warehouse of the Con.
tinental Oil Company was wrecked and
tanks containing 3O,OO0 barrels destroyed.
A REPORT from Magdalena, Sonora, an
nounces that the Apaches attacked Bado
Secs ranch, twenty-five miles southeast of
Magdalena, killed three men, two women
and destroyed a quantity of property. 1t
was also reported that the Indians, who
are believed to be a portion of Geronimo's
band, attacl I'd ranch near Santa Cruise,
Mexico, and killed number Of ranchers.
A. TORNADO swept past Killeen, Tex, on
the evening Of the 25th. From the ruins of
their house the family of Jacob Eusleton
were rescued, all injured, the baby fatally.
The convicts at the st. Vincent de Paul
penitentiary. Quebec. broke into revolt re-
Gently. One convict was shot dead and
five wounded before the revolt was sup
pressed. One warden was fatally wounded.
THE Senate was not in session on the
4th. The House had q number Of bills Of
minor importance before it.
AT Springfield, No., on the 24th, Judge
Wallace admitted Cora Lee to bail. She
and Mrs. Molloy are charged with being
accessory to the murder of Mrs. Sarah Ora
hum.
AN American vessel was seized by tho
Canadians off Cape Breton for breach Of
the fishery laws recently.
THERE was an authentic report that tho
Emir of Harran, town in Asiatic Turkey,
bad caused the massacre of all the Eu-
ropean residents.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
April "a show an average increase of ISL
compared with the corresponding week Of
last year. In New York the increase was
1851
DURING the first nine months of the pres
ent fiscal year there was an increase OF
over 81, 100000 in the revenues of the Gov
eminent as compared with the correspond
ing period of last year and the expendi.
lures for the first nine months of this year
were over SIG, 0OO, OC0 less than the expendi-
lures for the same period Of last year, max
ing net gain of over S23, OO0,OO
DURING the week ended April "a the Lon
don Stock Exchange was dull; the Berlin
Bsurse was strong; the Vienna Bourse de-
pressed, and the Paris Bourse firm.
AT Dubuque, Iowa, recently, Henry
Meyer accidentally drove red-hot chisel
into his chest, inficting horrible and ia
tai wound.
A FRAME building, erected on posts, at
Altoona, Pa, toppled over early the other
morning. The building, which was crowded
with sleeping Italian laborers, speedily
caught fire, and six Of the inmates persisted
in the flames.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30
"A twelftb.nicht cake should co,

"A twelfth-night cake should con-
tain ring. thimble. a sixpence and
bean. According to the significance
Of these four omens of fortune, the one
who draws the ring is to be married be-
fore the year closes, the thimble in1i-
Gates single blessedness, the owner of
the sixpence has riches in store, and
she who draws the bean is crowned
queen and chooses her own king
Boston Eud0ck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

Western Kansas wants to be q
separate State. Its inhabitants claim
that it is the richest part of the State.
but the capital being hundreds of miles
away and all the State institutions To-
Gated along the Mississippi border,
Western Kansas is deprived of fair
representation both in State and Ma.
ton. Chicago Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30
Tho " heat CFOp.

WASHINGTON, April 22.-In his report
for April, J. R Dodge, the Stasistician Of
the Department Of Agriculture, reports re-
ductiOn of the winter wheat area Of about
$500. 900 acres from the breadth seeded two
years ago. The largest decrease is in Illi-
nOis, Kansas and Missouri. OF the Missouri
crops the report says: winter crops arc
promising; wheat Is healthy. The raw
ages of the Hessian fly have
been less than usual; an unusually
severe winter has had its tendency
to injure wheat neutralized by q constant
coat of snow for almost the entire period
of very low temperature, namely, January
and February"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

Land in Connecticut upon which
pine trees were planted a few
years ago, is now worth one hundred
dollars an acre for its timber.-Hars-
ford Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

Captain Cannon, who sued the
Baltimore american for twenty thou
sand dollars damages for libel. was
awarded one cent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30
LABOR TROUBLES.

LABOR TROUBLES
The coke syndicate has caused to be post
ed throughout the Connellsville (Pa.) re-
gion a notice voluntarily advancing the
wages Of the miners and coke drawers from
5 to 10 per cent. after May l. The increase
affects all the 10000 men who took part in
the recent successful strike.
GLASS manufacturers Of Pittsburgh re-
port q boom in domestic glassware, caused
by the great strikes in Belgium. Prices
have been advanced per cent. in the last
few weeks.
SIX THOUSAND employees of the sugar re-
fineries of the Eastern district of Brooklyn,
N. Y, have struck because of the non
compliance Of the proprietors with a de-
uand for an advance of wages.
The sugar refiners at Hunters Point, L.
l., on strike, on the I'D had fight with the
police, who were overpowered. The strik-
ers then dumped a lot Of sugar into the
street. The police were reinforced later
and drove the mob away. Several of the
police and rioters were moro or less in
jured.
ONE hundred men employed in A. b. An
drews e. Co.'s school furniture factory,
Chicago, struck recently for an increase
Of Is per cent.
Shore strikers in Chicago on the 10th. The
company was unable to move its freight
trains.
CD. L. MEYERS, SoN & Co., sash, door
and blind manufacturers, of Chicago, en-
ploying several hundred men, have agreed
to reduce working time to eight hours with
out reducing the wages.
The executive board of the Ohio Trades
and Labor Assembly has promulgated q
manifesto boycotting the Champion Ma
chine Company, Of Springfield, for alleged
discrimination against the Knights of La
Dor.
The President, on the ed, sent a message
to Congress advocating the establishment
of National Board osettle labor disputes
wherever practicable.
The furniture factory of A. H. Andrews
& Co., Chicago, burned the other morning
and the loss was estimated at $4,000. The
firm had been having a controversy with
its workmen concerning wages.
FIVE hundred employees of the Missouri
Car and Foundry Company, St Louis,
struck on the I'D. The strike was on &C
count Of the boycott on the Gould system.
About seventy-fve furniture manufac-
turers in Chicago, employing 1900 men,
have organized to resist the demands made
by their workmen. The manufacturers
say they will not recognize any union or
be dictated to as to whom they will employ
to do their work.
The strike of the Baltimore street car
drivers was broken on the 22d, and all the
tied-up lines had cars running.
". W. WIIHERs, of st. Louis, Las been
acquitted of the charge of placing dyna-
mite on the track of street railway dur
ing the strike last fall in that city.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

"A darby preacher in Waco, lining
out hymn from memory, said:
Plunged in gulf of dark despair,
We wretched sinners-come out OF dari
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
A Summary Of the Daily News.
CONGRESS,

CONGR8S8s
No business of general importance was
transacted in the Senate on the 10Th, the SEN
ate being most of the time in executive ses.
eion.... In the House several bills were in
PRODUCED and committees reported. After
considerable talk over precedence Of bills.
the bill providing for the sale Of the Cherokee
reservation in Kansas passed under sus-
came involved in . wraneie over snspendine
the rules for favOrite measures and finally
adjourned without accomplishing anything.
In the Senate on the 10th no general
business was transacted. that body being in
executive session most OF the day, during
which the Mexican treaty to reopen the Well
La Abra claim was rejected. In the House.
ported. At the expiration OF the morning
hour the House went into Committee Of the
Whole on the River and Harbor Appropria-
House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 2lst the bill
passed granting the right Of way through
the military reservation at Fort Leaven-
worth to the Leavenworth, Northern &
Southern road. All the private pension bills
on the calendar, except about half dozen,
so passed Sser e1 session ,S the
Senate adjourned. In the House, among
the bills favorably reported was that to pen.
sion ex-prisoners Of war. The River and
OF the Whole, and pending consideration the
committee rose and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the I'D the bill to in
demnify Chinese who suffered in the Rock
Spring riot was reported favorahly. The
Senate then proceeded to the consideration
of the Interstate Commerce bill. which was
laid over and the Senate went into executive
session, and then adjourned until Monday.
In the House, ut the expiration of the
morning hour. the River and HarbOr bill was
taken up and debate continued until adjourn
ment.
THE Senate was not in session on the
ed. -. The House met in continuation of the
session of the day before, and Immediately
went into Committee of the Whole on the
River and Harbor bill. Just before noon the
committee rose. the House adjourned, and
the session OF Friday commenced. After
spirited debate the Presidents message upon
the labor troubles was referred to the Com.
mittee on Labor. Delegate Voorhees, of wash
ington Territory, offered q resolution pro-
viding for a committee to inquire into the
charge that exmembers were using their
privilege of the floor to lobby for railroads.
1t was adopted. At the evening session sixty
pension bills passed. Adjourned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
The French cable was reported broken
800 miles out from Duxbury, Mass
DIR. PETERS, ex-President Arthur's at
tending physician, declares positively that
the reports concerning the ex-P<esident's
illness have been exaggerated.
The jury in the case Of General Shaler,
Of New York, disagreed and were dis
charged. They stood eight to four for &C.
quittal.
The great dam ten miles below Pittsfield,
Mass, burst early on the morning of the
Goth. The village of Lee was destroyed and
many persons were drowned.
SQUIRE WHITE. leader in the Dorr re-
bellion in Rhode Island in 1S4l, died re-
Gently at Quinebaug, Conn, aged eighty
eight.
The men who have been boycotting Mrs.
Gray's bakery. at New York, have been in
dicted by the grand jury.
The City National Bank, of Williams
port. Pa, closed its doors on the Goth. The
cause of the collapse was due to defalca-
ton of over year ago, which the directors
had endeavored to keep secret. but which.
leaking out, affected the banks stability.
The assets were sufficient to pay the depos
itors in full.
The Tammany Sachems elected for 1885
are: John Kelly. John McQuade, George
II. Forster, James j. Slevin, Richard Crok-
er, Hugh ]. Grant, James A. Flach, Charles
Weld, Bernard F. Martin, John Cochrane
and Morgan J. O'Brien.
THE bill repeating the Broadway surface
fron <1,a
Assembly by vote of 100 to 16.
Two Hungarian miners were killed and
two Others seriously injured recently by
the premature explosion of blast in a
mine near Shenandoah. Pa.
The Pennsylvania still works, Harris
burg, Pa, was entirely destroyed by fire
the other day, causing loss of $4,000.
THE New Jersey Senate has found State
Prison Keeper Laverty guilty of criminal
intimacy with a prisoner and sentenced
him to be dismissed from Office.
The New York Legislature has passed
bill providing that the consent of the prop
erty owners along proposed line should
be secured before street railway franchise
could be granted
JACOB MILLER, farmer living at Fon-
taindale, Adams County, Pa, married an
insane woman, and eleven imbecile chill
dren were born to them. Nine are living
one married.
j. j. SALES, Of Rome, n. Y, has been
elected department commander of tho
Grand Army of New York State.
A FIRE at the corner of Broadway and
Crosbie street, New York, recently, burned
q six-story building, occupied by half a
dozen firms. Loss, $4,000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30
WASHINGTON NOTES,

SUPPLEMENTAL estimates of appropria-
lions issued by the various Government
departments to supply deficiencies and
complete the service for the current fiscal
year and prior years amount to Sc, I'll ,S07,
that being additional to the S64, az, 592
heretofore appropriated. Among the list
600. and fees and expenses of examining
surgeons for the fiscal years, 1885 and 1856,
District of Columbia SEQ, 600, and State De-
partment $4,000.
T. v. PowDERLY was before the special
committee of the House of Representatives
investigating the labor troubles on the GOTH.
Mr.. Powderly gave the history and objects
of the Knights of Labor as an organize
ton.
THE Senate in executive session on the
10th rejected the proposal to reopen the
We'll and LaAbra claims against Mexico.
The vote was 80 yeas against g nays, be-
ing less than two-thirds necessary for its
ratification.
AMONG the recent combinations by the
Senate was Mr.. Zach Montgomery, to be
Assistant Attorney General for the United
States Interior Department.
w LILLIAN e. w EST, Oh h0uUuCky, nus Deen
confirmed as Governor Of Utah by the Sem
ate by q vote of As to Is.
The House Committee on the War De-
partment Expenditures has adopted res
olution generating General Hazen from
any suspicion of fraud or corruption.
The bill to pension prisoners Of war re-
ported to the House will, it is estimated,
require the expenditure of 81, OOO, 600 annu-
ally over and above the previous pension
accounts.
GENERAL MILES wrote to Washington re-
Gently, detailing the unprotected condition
of the National boundary from Ell Paso to
the Colorado river and advising an appro-
priation of 100000 by Congress for
Strengthening the present posts and es-
tablishing new ones between the places
named.
SECRETARY LAMAR has demanded the re-
storat:on to the public domain of 1000
acres of land claimed to have been illegally
patented to the st. Joseph & Denver City
railway in 1874.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02
His Veto Lost.

Daniel" said the President stern.
ly, as he looked up from an unofficial
paper lie had found on his desk.
eyes, SIRE" responded the secre.
tary, with some trepidation.
"What is this p
cit is bill, sire, for some articles
Mrs. G. has been purchasing"
"Um-um," hesitated the President
"is it? Well, It's the first thing OF
the kind that has ever come before
my notice."
Eyes, SIRE" said Daniel, because he
had nothing else to say just then.
Then the hard look came into the
Presidents face again, and his voice
was cold.
Daniel" he said, laying the bill
down in front Of him.
eyes, sire"
"Where is my veto? ?"
"Your wife has it, sire"
"Um-um. Daniel will you be kind
enough to fill up a check for the
amount?"
And Daniel took the bill.-Toledc
Blade.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02
Scene In Court.



The late Judge Dos Barres of the
Supreme Court Of Nova Scotia was
not much given TO joking.
lie was a big man, of slow and de-
liberate manner, and always on the
bench wore deep bass voice.
On one occasion, however, in the
ancient town of Sydney, G. b., he
caused a smile. The prothonotary
was swearing in jury in case TO
be tried, and there seemed 10 be a
hitch.
The judge, who was ready to be-
gin, asked what was the matter.
Prothonotary-"lle won't be sworn,
my lord"
Juryman-"I'm no weel, ma lard,
Judge-"Nhat sils your"
Juryman-"Pve got ia cech, ma
lard"
Judge Gin very large tones)-
"Scratch him of. Mr.. Prothonotary.'
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02
Served Him Right.



a Montana editor recently shot a
man for coming in and saying that
his paper was only good to kindle
fires with. We don't blame the edi-
tor. After spending his time and
strength rushing around town look.
ing up the particulars of marriages,
bank defalcations, dog fights and
other society events and living on
long past due promises of subscrip,
tons, then to find that a man had
been in the habit of taking the paper
home, husking off the wrapper and
showing the whole thing into the
stove and then sitting down and en-
joying the heat, the editor was Ger.
tainly justified in resorting to harsh
measures and a gun.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02
The Verdict Unanimous.

w. d. Suit, Druggist, Bippus, Ind,
testifies: IL can recommend Electric
Bitters as the very best remedy. Ev-
cry bottle sold has given relief in ev-
cry case. One man took six bottles
and was cured of rheumatism of lC
years. standing" Abraham Hare,
druggist, Bcllvillc, Ohio, aflirms
"The best selling medicine 1 have
ever handled in my 20 years expert,
ence, Is Electric Bitters." Thousands
Of others have added their testimony
so that the verdict is unanimous that
Electric Bitters do cure all diseases
of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood. Only
half dollar bottle at Armistead'I
Drug Store.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice, hay
ing had placed in his hands by an East India
missionary the formula OF simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent cure OF
Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma
and all throat and Lung Affections, also posi-
i've and radical cure for Nervous Debility and
all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its
wonderful curative powers in thousands OF
cases, has felt it his duty to make 1t known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
ana a desire to relieve human suffering, will
send free of charge to oil who desire it. this re-
cipe' IN German, French or English with full
directions for preparing and using. Sent by
mail by addressing with stamp, naming this
rapcr,w w, A. NoYEs, ll0Power's Block, Roches-
ter, N. Y.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02

This remedy is most wonderful lniment to
be used after the first two or three months.
Send for our treatise on the Health and Hap
piness OF Woman, mailed free, which gives all
particulars.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co,
Box 2S, Atlanta, Ga.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02
Are You Going to Kansas
Missouri, Colorado, Cali
fornia or Any of The
Western States7

you should avail yourself of the
advantages that are now offered by
The Kansas City Route, the only di-
rect route from the South to the
West and Northwest. This line runs
its entire 'trains, with Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cars and free Reclining
Chair Cars, from Memphis to Kan
sas City, saving many hours time
over any other route. If you are 60
ing you win save money by purchas-
ing your ticekts via Memphis and the
Kansas City Route. Send for large
map of this Snort Route mailed free.
Address,
j. E. LOCKWOOD,
Kansas City, Mo.
Or, II. D. ELLIS, Ticket Agent,
81 Madison Street, Memphis, Tenn
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02
Cheap Club Bates.

Subscribers TO The SOUTH KENTUCKIAN will
be given the benefit of the following cheap club
rates with other papers and periodicals:
8. X. and Daily Courier journal ....... Sl2 90
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-02

The only known specific for Epneptic Fits.-H1
Also for spssms and Failing slcknesA Nervous
Weakness 1t instantly relieves and curcs. cleanscs
Eood and qulekens sluggish circulation. Eeuira.
hIes germs Of disease and saves sickness. Cures