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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
LABOR STATISTICS:

Coloosl Wright ut work On His ForthcoR-
Ing Report.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-C0lonel Wright
Commissioner OF Labor. expects to complete
his second annual report about January. II
b graphing with some important and far
reaching questions First, he agrees to
have . complete Investigation of convict
labor and its effects upon free labor. The
result OF this inquiry will show that taken
rs . whole. the value OF the product OF
manufactured goods produced in prisons,
and OF work done by cOnvicts, bears . small
proportion to the total products Of the
country. Examined. however. in details.
the facts will disclose that certain lines OF
industry have undoubtedly been seriously
injured by the employment of con-
vict labor to the detriment of free.
labor. The total prison population OF
the United States at the present time
10 57,331-Of this number 52,739 are
ut work and 1892 idle. OF the total num-
Der at work 4S,S3S are male and 1901
female. The methods of employment are
interesting. There are under contract A.
939; under lease, 9,2yl; employed at piece,
work, 1850; employed ON public account,
1897, and In prison duties. $3.50. New
York enjoys the gloomy pre-eminence Of
having tnc toIxcSt pIiSOu pOpuIdtiOl, aySre--
eating 9,O33. and Pennsylvania ranks.
second, with 1888: Massachusetts comes
next, with 1919; Illinois, 8, 329; Ohio, !, 224;
Michigan, 2.62S; Texas, 2,539, and so on
down to Mr.. Bayard's pocket borough
Delaware which closes the list with eighty
nine. These cOnvicts are principally en-
gagged In fifteen pursuits. as follows: Agri-
cultural implements, boots and shoes, build
ing. carriages and wagons, clothing, con-.
structiOn, farm, furniture. iron goods,
laborers. leather goods, mining, stone work.,
wooden goods, prison work. The average
contract prices paid for this work is
from 40 to 50 cents per day. The effect Of
this is undoubtedly to depress prices and
labor in the industries in which prison labor
comes in competition with free labor. For
example, prison labor in the manufacture Of
boots and shoes has depressed the prices of
these goods, some say, as much as twenty.
five per cent The States in which the con-
tract system prevails are Connecticut ILL
n0is, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan. Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, New Hampshire, New York. Ohio,
Oregon, Pennsylvania. Rhode Island, Texas,
Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wis
cOnsin. In three Of these States, however,
the contract system has recently been
abolished by law. These are New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio. The contract sys--
tenn has also been entirely abolished recent
~ in California and New Jersey. In these
States the piece plan has been substituted
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
Inccndiary Killed.

TEMPLE Tex, Dec. 3.-This city mar.
rowly escaped destruction by incendiaries
night before last Tuesday afternoon a
man named Barton informed the officials
of the existence Of plot to burn the city.
A special police force was summoned and
the city put under the closest watch. AT
7:S0 the incendiaries appeared and poured
oil on the wall OF Williams saloon in the
rear and applied match. When the fame
leaped up Special Officer Mcmahon de-
manded the surrender of James Nash. the
man who applied the match. Nash fired.
Mcmahon then fred, killing his assailant
instantly. The other cOnspirat0rs escaped.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
He Relieved His Mind.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. N.-Rev. o. G.
McCulloch, pastor of the Plymouth Church,
the congregation of which is the largest in
the city, and is composed largely of Knights
of Labor, as well as leading business men,
is the object of general condemnation on
the streets and in the press, for having
concluded his sermon on Sunday by ex-
pressing the opinion that the trial of the
Chicago Anarchists was conducted un-
fairly and that their conviction was I'M
warranted.
In making the statement, he said that
the matter had been preying on his mind
for some time, and that he determined to
express his views, although they would
probably not be approved by any member
Of his congregation. He believed the an
archists were entitled to new trial, and
hoped it would be accorded them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
Standing Shoulder to Shoulder.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 3O.-The differ,
ences between the Knights of Labor and
the Miners Amalgama>ed Association in
the coke region have been amicably set
tied, and the men are now preparing to
stand together in the event of q strike. A
call for delegate meeting of both organi-
cations has been issued for next Saturday
at Scottdale, at which joint board will be
formed whose duty it will be to move for
another conference with the operators on
the demands already made. Arbitration
of the difference between the operators
and employees will now be insisted upon.
A refusal on the part of the operators will
precipitate another general strike in the
coke regions involving 1900 men.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
Great Britain and Ireland.

NEW YORK, Dec. THE following
special cablegram will be published here to-
morrow: The British Government has de-
cided to prohibit the guardians of the poor
in Ireland from devoting special wards in
the workhouse to the accommodation OF
evicted tenants. The local board has noti.-
fed the New Ross board of guardians that
unless they abandon the use Of special
wards for this purpose which was created
by them in obedience to the command of
the Nationalist leaders, who, says the local
board, seek to convert the w0rkhOuse into.
garrisOns against the landlords, they will
Immediately be suspended.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
Stabbed.

ST. LOUIS Dec. 3.-John Sweeney and
Dick Kenner, two young negro walters,
were eating breakfast together in q cheap
restaurant, 702 North Eleventh street. yes.
terday morning, apparently the best OF
friends. A discussion arose over the pocket
knives each carried, and they called upon
Al. Brown, another waiter, to decide. Then
John Winsl0w came into the party, de-
claring that he had better knife than
either Kenner or Sweeney. Sweeney took
the knife. and looking at Kenner, said: y
could do you up with this" and plunged
the knife into Kenner's heart, who fell and
Immediately expired. Sweeney was ~
rested.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
THE LATEST.

CLEARING house returns for week ended
December 4 showed an average increase of
1872 compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the increase
was 22.1.
HERzoG's Opera House, Washington, was
destroyed by fire recently. Loss, $ll5, 900
insurance, $4,000.
ST. PAuL's Catholic Cathedral, Pitts.
burgh, Pa, was on fire on the 5th, being
damaged about 5000.
THE shoe firm Of A. P. Martin & Co., of
Boston, failed recently for 100000.
De FREYCINET announced his resignation
as Premier in the French Chambers on the
4th, even after q unanimous vote of con.
fidence had been passed.
THE old post-office building in Philadel-
phia has been sold to Ellis d. Williams for
A. j. Drexel for S4l3OOO.
THERE were riots in Cork on the 5th. The
police were stoned, one having his skull
fractured, when they charged the mob
with bayonets, wounding thirty or forty.
The European bourses were firm during
the week ended December 4. American
securities were buoyant on the London Elk.
change.
SECRETARY LAMAR has issued his report
on internal affairs. The document was
very lengthy, treating extensively on Indi-
an and public land matters.
KINNEY & DYER, stock brokers, of San
Francisco, failed on the 5th for s4OO, OOo {;
assets, nominal.
The Portuguese have suppressed the ma
tive instruction on the east coast Of
Africa.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIAh has broken out on the
farm of Jacob Huss, in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
HENRY SCHWARTZ, formerly of Philadel-
phia, but now in the county Jail at Chi
cago, charged with bigamy, is strongly
suspected of being the man guilty of the
daring robbery of the Rock Island express
train last March, when Kellogg Nichols,
the messenger, lost his life and So, 900 was
stolen from the express car.
Four escaping bank robbers seriously
wounded three policemen who attempted
their capture at Chillicothe, O.. recently.
1t was reported that one of the robbers was
killed, the others escaping.o
TURKEY has sent to the powers a note
asking advice on the solution of the Bull.
garian difficulty. The note betrays the ex.
istence Of an entente cordiale between the
Porte and Russia.
The mining stock market of San Fran
cisco recovered its serenity after two OF
three days of decentralization.
TKE French transport reported as lost
with J, 200 troops aboard has arrived safely
at the port of Tourano, AMMAN.
0THERE was report of terrible col
lision on the Pennsylvania railroad near
Bristol, N. j.. on the 5,h, in which several
passengers were killed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10

MAJOR GuILKoTrE, OF New Orleans, has
suspended Chief Of Police Bachemin for
incompetency, charging him also with em-
bexxlement.
HENRY GEORGE has denied that he had
intimated to Colonel Duncan, of Louis
willie, KY, that he would make an avail
able candidate for President in 1883.
EARLY the other morning an armed mob
went to Brenham. Tex, overpowered the
jailer, took out Shea Fielder. Alfred Jones
and Ephraim Jones, three negroes impli.
Gated in the killing Of Devices Bolton at
Llewellyn ON the night of the election, and
lynchsd them.
AN incendiary was recently detected
firing building at Temple, Tex. Being
halted by police officer, he responded by
drawing pistol and shooting. The officer
then fired, shooting his assailant dead. The
officer was uuinjured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
The Legality Of Pooling.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4.-UpOE the peti-
ton of the Attorney General Judge Butler
yesterday in the United States Circuit Court
made an order granting leave for suits to be
brought in the Court of Common Pleas Of
Dauphin County against the receivers of
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Com
pany and the other railroads concerned. for
the purpose Of testing the legality Of the
trunk line pool and to enjoin the defend
ants from acting under such agreement
Another petition asking for leave to bring
suit against the Reading Railroad Il. Coal
& Iron Company, to test the validity Of the
anthracite pool, was also granted
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
Business GAinS.i


New YORK, Dec. Especial kilograms
to Brddstreefs point to moderate gains in
the movement Of general merchandise from
Boston, New York, Baltimore, Detroit,
Milwaukee, St Pau. Minneapolis, New Or
leans and San Francisco. Except in so fal
as this is due to increased breadstuffs and
other exports from the Atlantic seapOrts
named, the gain is due to a stimulated re-
tail demand for dry goods, groceries and
notions, owing to cold weather and to the
approach of the holiday season. There is
no material change at Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh, Cleveland, Louisville, Chicago, ST.
LOns and Kansas City. At most points a,
widespread confidence is reported i'm the fu-
ture of general trade, notwithstanding no.
ticeable check to the movement of goods
from frsthands in textile and other lines.
The.tOtal bank clearings this week at thirty,
two cities show the unprecedented in
crease of S262. OOO, 900 over last week, the.
total being S1,26S, TAG. 1913 against Sl,OO6,-
006, sos week ago, and 81 ,O97, 245, 600 10.
the week ended one year ago. This is an.
increase OF % per cent. over last week and
16 per cent over the like week last year.
The weeks gain at New York alone is
S1S4, 10000 or about 26 per cent, due
very largely to the heavy speculative trans
actions in railway shares and bonds and
petroleum and produce exchange dealings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
MORE WRECKS.


| Tho Atlantic Coast and the Lakes Furnish
Several Casualties.
ST. JOHN. N. b., Dec. 4.-The schooner
J. w. Dean, coal laden. from JOggins to St
John, Is reported to have foundered of
QuacO, with all hands.
HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 4.-In Little
Grace bay an English built boat, name UNI
known, went ashore, and is in a bad posi-
ton and her spars and boats are gone. Four
men were seen aboard her, and if the sea
abates an effort to rescue them will be made
in the morning.
PORTLAND, Me-, Dec. "A slOOp sup
posed to be the Superior of this port was
sunk in Mink Island passage yesterday, and
the crew of two men were drowned.
ROCKPORT, Mass, Dec. 4.-The fishing
schooner Nellie Florence of this port an
chOred in the bay yesterday. being unable
to reach port on account Of the wind. She
was seen to drag or part her cable and drift
to sea in the afternoon and has not since
been seen. Much anxiety is felt for her
safety. She is small vessel and carried
only one days provisions.
CHATHAM. Mass, Dec. Am unknown
brig went ashore at Handkerchief shoal
this morning and with a gale BLOWN.
dragged down toward the east Boats from
the town and from the MOnOmOy Life Sta
ton were unable to reach her, but will make
another atteEpt tomorrow il the gale mod.
crates.
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, Dec. Am.
unknown three masted schooner has been
ashore on L'IiOmmedieu shOal, Vineyard
sound, since yesterday, with signals for as
sistance flying. Owing to the northwest
gale, no assistance can reach her. The sea
is breaking over her and she is covered
with ice. 1t is believe that she is the Will
liam T. DOnneIly, Captain Bassett, from
Baltimore for Boston. with coal.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-The schooner Rays
Farr from Muskegon for Chicago, loaded
with slabs, went ashore Wednesday after
noon on the beach near Michigan City, Ind,
Her crew took to yawl and managed to
save themselves. They were all more or
less badly frozen, and suffered terribly
from exposure. The Farr is on the beach
completely covered with ice.
The schooner Wanderer, loaded with
stoves from Grand Haven for Milwaukee,
was driven ashore near New Buffalo, twelve
miles east OF Michigan City, Yesterday MORN
ing. Tie crew escaped. The particulars
are meager, as none Of the crew have yet
arrived.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
TIE WEST.

TEE Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad
asks the Stock Exchange to list 5000. 600
additional first mortgage bonds, making
the total amount issued $4,000, 600
IT was reported in Denver, Col, on the
3oth that F. L. Carter Cotton, manager of
the North Poudre Land and Canal Com
pany, had embezzled 500. 900 and then
0sd.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-07-10
FOURTH OF EXPERIMENTATION
At ' kNoN.
correspondence shrevepor. Times,

Correspondence Shreveport Timcs,l
Jackson parish, famous in ante.
bellum days for barbecues, the hospi.
tali.y and patriotism Of her citizens,
! and the beauty OF her women, in the
manner of celebrating Independence
Day at Vernon, on Saturday the Sd,
showed that the principles which
actusted them then still lives in the
hearts of her people. An abundance
| of basbeeaed meats, supplemented with
many tempting delicacies prepared by
the ladies, furnished a feast which on
occasious like this is rarely ever
equalied.
The pronounced candidates for Con-
gress from the Fifth district and those
imposed to have congressional aspira-
sions, were invited to attend and to
address the people. Judges Graham.
Gunby aud Young accepted and were
present. Judge Graham was the first
to speak, and found in the large au-
aence, all of whom listened to him
with appreciation, many warm friends
who had ieaSned to esteem him while
ho resided in jackson parish. He was
followed by Judge Gunby, who, on
this occasion, made his first appearance
before the people of jackson. a most
cordial reception was accorded him.
Evincing most profound study OF
the tariff, national aid to education
silver coinage, forfeiture of land grants
etc, he discussed these and other
questions of national Importance In
comprehensive and statesmanlike
manner. His address evoked frequent
rounds OF applause, and was conceded
TO be the feature OF tho occasion, and
there Is to him cause for telicitation in
the decidedly favorable impression
made by him upon the people OF jack
son parish.
He WAS followed In the afternoon by
Gen. Young, who In his inimttable
and usual feltcitous style, sustained
the reputation he has deservediy won
as an after dinner speaker, At the
conclusion Of Gen. Young's address,
the Hon. Il. Il, Kidd ewas loudly
called for and in short speech
showed that yet undiminished are the
powers of oratory aud of eloquence,
with which he has in the past clcctri-
fed his hearers.
The celebration was peaceful, joyous
and most orderly in character, aud
one which reflects great credit upon
the virtue, the intelligence and the
patriotism o' tho people OF Jackson
parish.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-07-10

"rhe swiftly vibrating brain of Guuby
l. tar better than the rapidly moving
lcgs oi King. ."---M,pUr,lO,p YT13c9.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-07-10

In AN interview published Ia the
Philadelphia times few days ago,
Judge a. A. Lpchranc, of Atlanta,
Ga, says:
ono sir MIR, Cleveland has no
admirers in The South except those
whom he has appointed TO Office, and
so lar as strengthening his party he
had better have left the Republicans
In than to nave named most of the
men ho has 80 far selected His whole
policy has been disappointment to
our people My impression il, how
ever, that he viii be renominatcd. l
don't see what else the party can do.
In fact, | exprc, 10 see both Blaine and
Cleveland ronomnatcd. IL such Is tho
case, my faith is that Mr.. Blaine will
be the next pre.ideut."
Judge L)chrane IL Il man Of legal
talent aud prominent "gali," and is at
the hoad of a smati ctiquc Of jobbors
in small town, but hu does not
represent the South or It's sentiment,
and, therefore, his assumption of the
right 10 speak fpr the South should
not DO allowed 10 go uurcbukch. If
Judge LDChrHue represents anything
at all IT IL ihc gang of carpeibngger-
that plundcrcd Georgia during tho
reconstruction era. MIR Cleveland is
admired III the South, and * daily
growing stronger win the people aud
bis parry, despite the wbinrs oi The
Georgia Judge and the grraus of the
4uaii faction III Hi-grnntt, It Democrats
who nni nup"G to ihi:rn nt The Gov.
Crnneni'- corn IL.
Ia the Spu'h Mir. Cicvennd hns
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-07-10
NATClJITOCIIES.

yl a distressing and fatal accident oc-
CURED near Bulah in ward five of this
parish last Saturday week. a buy was
cleaning IL gun when Miss Lucy De-
bose, a young lady about 10 years old,
who was in the house al the time,
passed in front of where the boy was
sitting, when the gun was accidentally
discharged, and the load Of buck shot
passed through her thigh, inilicting Il
wound from which she d!en the fol-
lowing day.-R@rieM
ST. LANDRY.
Acadia bin finally passed The senate.
The people of 1sayne and citizens Of
the proposed new parish may well feel
proud Of their success in obtaining The
enabling act to create the new parish
Of Acadia. The bill was finally passed
on Monday, the 2Sth uli. aud signed
by the governor on the 3Oth. The
governor will now order an election
submitting the qucstiou To the people
of the parish of St. Landry. The die
vision will be to the interest of II great
many, and To the detrimcnt of none.
1t is safe to say that those who have
worked so faithfully at home and ut
Baton Rouge, and sacrificed their iimc,
business, and their money, will CON
tinuc To be as successful in the future
as in the past, aud will accomplish the
object they have so much at heart
Rdu',c .Sjg1"i.
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Senator Eustis is the very type of re
preventative the South needs in Con
gress, gentleman OF high socia
standing, a scholar of profound acquir-
ement, thoroughly equipped for every
emergency and demand Of states
manship, possessing an intense anC
vivid individuality, bold. positive ant
brainy. The South needs such men
but Is not too we'll provided with them
Sit in the galleries Of Congress as
have done during thepast two sessions
and when you perceive how few OF
our representatives command the
toleration, much less the respect, OF
the audiences Of the capitol. you will
share my pride in realizing how
signally Eustis diguifies Louisiana.
do not stand alone In my estimate
Of him. The fact that the president
himself made overtures of recuncilfa-
tion to this most caustic and outspoken
of his critics, while 1t proves that Mr..
Cleveland Is of too heroic u fibre and
too large II patriotism to cherish pers>
onal resentments, proves also that he
recognized Mr.. Eustis' ability and
courage, and suggests that that con>
victfOn was the real motive of his act.
Indeed, was the medium of those
overtures, and I violate no confidence
in saying-for 1t has already been
published with the presidents sanction
that Mr.. Cleveland at the time ex
pressed, in cordiaf terms, the highest
opinion of Senator Eustis' value aud
importance to the party.
One word Of myself, apropos only in
ifa hpQ ri no m TIM rs,act}or IF Gorne,r
Eustts. 1 am no longer connect ed,
Professionally or otherwise, with
Louisiana affairs. The triumph of no
party or faction in the State could by
any possibility either benefit or injure
me personally. Three days hence go
to take place on the staff of the Star,
the administration organ, and, think
the ablest journal in New York. You
see, therefore, that can derive no
selfish advantage from any political
result that may occur in your State.
But have spent the twenty two years
since 1S64-the happiest and most
eventful of my life-in Louisiana.
l love her and her people with u
fervor that no time or change can
diminish. And say to you, with
this feeling and these memories strong
upon me, that Senator Eustis is man
entitled to all of your gratitude and
pride. Ho is rendering a splendid
service to Louisiana and the South
and this would be true if he had done
only the half Of what 1 have pointed
out. Do not chill his enthusiasm by
Injustice; do not paralyze his usefulness
by denying him your recognition.
say this more in your behalf than In
his, for life has already bestowed on
Eustis al! that man not inordinately
could ask.
/ subscribe my own name to this
somewhat lengthy letter. Let those
who fancy am biased by my sincere
attachment to the man take steps to
ascertain whether have over-s,ated
the merits and the works of the sem
ator. ""I suppose that no one will
question my opportunities for observa-
tion or my ability to reach accurate
from what ! see. Yours
very truly, RICHARD WEIGIITMAN.
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. PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
ThOS. U. Benton,
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
"A MONROE. LA.

FeE John McEMery,
ATTORNEY AT LAW & LAND AGENT
No, Carondelet ST., New Orleans.
AND BUSINESS at the Land Offices i'll
Ia New Orleans and Washington City at
tended to. Agency for sale and purchase
of Plantations, Farms and unimproved
ands solicited.
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W. T., MILLSAPS. ID. NJ. SHOLAR
NIillsaps 4 ShOlars.
ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS AT LAW
4 MONROE, LOUISIANA,
,{yin practice in the courts of the Fifth
" District, Supreme Court, and Federal
Courts. Will talio claims for collection in
all the parishes OF North Louisiana, with
privilege OF managing saiiie in connection
with resider attorneys.
Office in sTUBB's BUILDING, on North
street. Oct q. 1888.
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O. J. pOATNER. J. s. BOATNER
C. J. Il J. $. BOATNER,
A TrORNEYs AND COUNSELORs AT
n Law, Monroe, La, will practice in All
Supreme Court at Monroe, the Federal
Courts, and in the Land Office Department
of the General Government.
Office fronting northeast cornor of public
square. -. July Is, 1885.