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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
The Negroes Surrender.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 22.-The Anaeri-
cans special correspondent, who has been
at Wahalak. Miss, reporting the race
troubles, telegraphed as follows from
Artesia, Miss, last night: Son my way
to Columbus from Wahalak, where l
thought the war was over, was inter-
cepted by message which read as fol-
lows: Il have just received q note from
the hills reporting the negroes surrounded
and showing fight They outnumber the
whites, who will defer an attack until aid
comes.' Similar kilograms have been sent
to all adjoining towns representing the
necessity for more men as urgent. ! will
return there Tomorrow"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL

AFTER the introduction of several bills
IN the Senate on the 18th the resolution Of
Senator Riddleberger for the reorganization Of
the Senate Oh January 1 was laid before the
body and Mr.. Riddleberger in a brief speech
severely criticised President Protein. ingalls,.
Leave was finally granted Mr.. Riddleberger to
withdraw his resolution. The Tariff bill
was discussed at some length and
two conference reports agreed to- Adjourned.
LIN the House a bill was passed incorporat-
ing the American Historical Association. The
Holiday Recess resolution was presented and
agreed to. Under the call of States a number
of bills were introduced. Mr.. Springer offered
. resolution making the Senate bill for the ad
mission OF Dakota q continuous special order,
which was adopted and the House adjourned
WHEN the Senate met on the 18th the
resolution for evening sessions was taken up
and an amendment offered that the regular
hour for the meeting OF the Senate be eleven
O'Clock a. m, which elected spirited discus
sion. The resolution finally went over one day.
The Tariff bill was then considered until ad-
iournment. 80. The House, in Committee OF the
Whole, proceeded to consider the Legislative
APPROPRIATED bill debate on which continued
until adjournment.
THE Senate on the 18th passed the House
bill Incorporating the American Historical So
ciety with amendments. Senator Edmunds in
Government will look with serious concern and
disapproval on the connection OF any European
Government with the construction or control
of any ship canal across the Isthmus Of
Darien or Central America, which was
referred The Tariff bill was then discussed
until adjournment. H.. The House agreed to the
conference report retiring General Andrew J.
Smith with the rank OF Colonel. After the trans
action OF minor business the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the River and Har-
Dor BILL, and pending its consideration ad-
journed-
THE Senate on the Goth nom concurred in
the House amendments to the Direct Tax bill
and ordered a conference. 1t was agreed by
unanimous consent that voting on the Tariff bill
and amendments should begin at one O'Clock
January pc, when debate should close. The
resolution for 9 holiday recess from December
q to January was adopted. After disposing
of several resolutions the Tariff bill was
taken up and debate resumed. 1t was finally
laid aside and all the pension bills, ninety in
number, passed, occupying fifty minutes. Ad-
5ourned. After concurring in several confer
ence reports, the House, in Committee OF the
Whole, took up the River and Harbor bill,
which Yves considered until adjournment
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28

ThRHH workmen were killed by the
blowing out of q furnace at the Edgar
Thompson steel works at Pittsburgh, Pa,
the other night. The molten metal was
thrown over their bodies almost roasting
them alive.
ANN O'DKLLA DIss DEBAR, the spiritu.
alist, was released from Blackwell's island
on the 18th, where she had been confined
six months for defrauding Lawyer Marsh.
1T is reported that a combination of all
the electric light interests is being ar
ranged for VITA a capital Of $12,0O0,0OO.
Edison light stock has been steadily rising
on the Stock Exchange and has reached
10.
QUITE a violent shock Of earthquake was
felt in Washington and Warren Counties,
n Y, on the 18th. No damage was done.
OVER two hundred cases of diphtheria
are reported in the counties of Lancaster,
Berks and Lehigh, Pennsylvania.
JOHN MYERS DoREMUs was hanged re-
Gently at Hackensack, N. j., for the muir.
der of his son, John Bogert Doremus, June
Z. The son was protecting his mother
from his drunken fathers abuse when he
was stabbed to death.
DURING the revision Of the excise laws of
New York State, by a commission, Rev.
DIR. Howard Crosby denounced the foreign
ers who sought to overthrow the Sabbath.
EDWARD MEREDITH, one Of the assailants
Of gambler Daily in New York fiat re-
Gently, has been sentenced to eight years
and ten months in the States prison, and
Herman, his confederate, to six years and
eleven months. The cases Of the woman
have not been heard.
The annual catalogue Of Harvard Col
lege will show the total number of students
to be $50 against 900 last year. This is
a rise of 245 against 22s last year.
THE jury at Boston in the case Of Mrs.
Preble against Bates and Valley, stock
brokers, to recover $4,000 alleged to have
been lost in speculation by her son, have
agreed upon verdict in favor Of the
plaintiff for S34,112 ulxiL
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
GENERAL.

L
the Grand Duke OF Saxe-Coburg, is dead.
A NAIL bag containing $3.50 in cash and
several letters of money was stolen from
the railroad station at Ottawa, Ont, re-
Gently and not clew has been found to it.
The Russian budget shows a surplus Of
1000. 600 roubles.
The British stockholders of the Lake
Superior Copper Company have decided
to voluntarily wind up the affairs of the
concern.
THE steamer Jasper, from Wellington
for Glasgow, has foundered off the Wig
ton coast, Scotland. Her crew, number
ing eleven persons, were drowned.
IT is rumored in Berlin that the Emperor
William is meditating the wholesale re-
tirement of aged Generals, the promotion
of junior officers and a reorganization Of
the military department.
TROUBLES We're expected on the isthmus
of Panama owing to the financial diff
culties of the Canal Company. A French
ship of war has been ordered to Colon.
ALL parts of Australia are enthusiastic
ally in favor of the proposed cable from
Australia to Vancouver, British Column
bia.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has de-
cided to spend 3, 000, 900 lire in military and
railway improvements.
lima DI MURsKA. the once famous prima
donna, is dangerously i'll in body and
mind at Munich, Germany.
GLADSTONE left England on the 18th for
his trip to Italy. He was enthusiastically
cheered by great crowds all along the
road.
BASEBALL was played at Sydney, N. S.
W., on the 10Th. The score was ALI
America, 6; Chicago, 8.
THE new b. & .. directory, it is said,
will again commence the old aggressive
policy Of the road. New extensions have
been mapped out.
SIX farmers started to cross the river to
Montreal on the ice during the recent
storm. They were not heard from and it
was feared they broke through and per-
ished.
THE lower house of the Austrian Reichs-
rath has suspended trials by jury in fif-
teen judicial districts under the Anarchist
law.
The negotiations between the Norfolk s,
Western and Richmond Terminal Compa-
MES have fallen through.
THE Chittagong Hill tribes in India have
raided the low lands and killed several
persons. An expedition consisting of ], 200
men has started to punish them.
SERIOUS storms were reported off the
Pacific coast on the 18th. Fears were ex-
pressed concerning several Golfers from
Puget Sound.
CONSIDERABLE dissatisfaction was ex-
pressed in England at the action of the
Prince of Wales in securing the disband-
ment of the Honorable Artillery Company,
a military company formed $50 years ago.
THE workmen on the Eiffel tower. which
is being constructed as one of the features
of the exhibition next year in Paris, have
gone on a strike.
THE Wiener Tdgblatt says that 1000 Aus
trian and German subjects were expelled
from Warsaw one day recently. No rea-
son was assigned.
The London Standard thinks the recent
change in the Baltimore & Ohio manage
ment not conducive to honest manage
ment. Several American newspapers take
the same view.
THE British forces attacked Osman Dig
mas trenches investing Suakim on the Goth
and drove out the Arabs, killing 400. The
British and Egyptian losses were six killed
and about thirty wounded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
Railroad Accident. in Kansas.

TOPEKA. Kan, Dec. 2O.-Accordingt to the
tables of the State Board Of Railroad Com
missioners during the year ended June 30
last on the Santa Fee Al persons were killed
and 961 injured; on the Missouri Pacific
system, IL killed and % injured; on the
Union Pacific, killed and 246 injured; on
the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska, killed
and 81 injured; on the Kansas City. Fort
Scott & Memphis. 5 killed and 10 injured;
on the Kansas City, Wyandotte & North
western, killed and Is injured. In all So
persons lost their lives and 1,4S4 were
wounded. OF the killed were passengers,
80 employees and the other 50 persons who
carelessly got in the way Of trains or loco
motives
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
THE EAST.

TIE Cesarian operation was success
fully performed in Bellevue Hospital, New
York, the other day by Prof. c. W. Lusk
on Ellen Murphy. Both mother and child
were doing well.
RUSSELL HARRISON and Chris Magee,
the Pittsburgh Republican leader, deny
that $40, 600 sent to Indiana by Pittsburgh
manufacturers was Incorporated by
two young Indiana Republicans.
The applications of Henry C. Perley and
B. F. Peixotic for membership in a Re-
publican Club at New York were rejected
recently on the ground that the applicants
were professional politicians"
GENERAL CHARLES g. DAHLGRKN, q ia
NOUS Southern brigadier during the war,
was reported dying in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He is q brother Of the late Admiral Dahl.
sren, of the Union navy, and his was a
case where two brothers fought on differ
emit sides during the late war.
THE divorce suit Of Pauline Hall, the
actress, against her husband, Mr.. White,
came up in court at New York on the 18th
but had to be postponed on account Of the
non-arrival OF testimony from London.
Infdelity is charged on both sides.
TWO shifting engines on the Concord
IN. H. railroad collided the other day,
and Engineer James Williams was killed,
Engineer Frank Flanders badly injured,
and Fireman Quimby less severely hurt,
TIE Naugutuck river Of Connecticut
was reported swollen by the heavy rain
and mills had to stop at Seymour. Build
tngs in Ansonia were flooded. Considera-
bic damage was feared.
The coal boat Coal Valley, owned in
Pittsburgh, was sunk on the Ohio river
the other day by striking huge log.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania,
has respited James II. Jacobs, sentenced
to be hanged January 8, until March ID to
allow an investigation as to his sanity.
AT New York recently passenger who
landed from the steamer Etruria tried to
smuggle in SIS, 900 worth of diamonds
They were discovered and seized. The
man vas said to be Southern merchant.
Inc ofneials would not give his name
CHIEF," the big elephant, was killed by
srangling at Forepaugh's circus, Phila-
delphia, on the 18th. The animal had
grown exceedingly vicious and had killed
three men in recent years.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet, celebrated
his eighty-second birthday az Oak Knoll.
Mass, on the 18th.
GREAT damage was reported at Scran.
ton, Pa, on the 18th, caused by heavy
rains and rise in the Lackawanna river.
Damage was also reported at Carlisle and
Wilkesbarre. In the more Eastern States
. blizzard was reported on the same date.
MUNICIPAL circles in Philadelphia are
much torn up by q statement made by Mr..
Graham, q member of the Select Council,
that he had been offered Doodle to further
m elevated railroad scheme.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has approved the act
making deficiency appropriation for con-
tingent expenses for the House OF Repre-
sentatives.
The subcommittee of the House Com
hittee On Private Land Claims has agreed
to report favorably to the full committee
The joint resolution looking to the relief of
the settlers on the Maxwell land grant.
THE President has nominated Leon o.
Bailey to be district attorney of Indiana.
Bailey is the man who collected the affida-
Wits that General Harrison said dollar a
day was enough for a work ng man, and
his nomination was somewhat of a sensa.
ton.
SENATOR FARwELL has introduced bill
for the reorganization of the navy, SO as
to do away with present injustices.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
began hearing on the 18th of the tariffs
and classifications of the Southern Rail-
way and Steamship Association.
AMAsA 8. PAUL, administrator of the es-
tate of the late Edward S. Paul, has en-
tered suit in Washington against Senator
Cullom, of Illinois, for $4,000, the suit
growing out of the death of Prof. Paul,
who was ridden down and fatally injured
by Joseph Chase, a negro coachman in the
employ of the Senator.
SEVERAL representatives of Southern
railroad lines testified recently in Wash
ington before the Interstate Commerce
Commission as to their tariff and rate
methods. All acknowledged lack Of con-
formity to the letter of the law.
THE Secretary of the Navy has sent out
circulars inviting proposals for the con-
struction of q 4,000-ton armored coast de-
tense vessel.
The Consular and Diplomatic Appropri-
alton bill, as prepared by the House Com.
mittee on Foreign Affairs, appropriates
g 42f, 525-S1, 40 less than that of this
year.
DIR. NEMoNA AUGUSTA, Ambassador of
the Haytien insurgents to the United
States, and Charles A. jackson, of New
York, his attorney, were in Washington
recently attempting to interest this Gov
eminent in the cause of xhe instruction
lists.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
TIE SOUTH.

+. b. THoMPSo n, q merchant Of Messina,
Ga, has been warned of for organizing q
strike of negro laborers in retaliation for
being boycotted by the Farmers ALI
ance.
The body Of little Irene Halves, the third
victim, has been found in the lake near
Birmingham, Ala. 1t was weighted down
with railroad iron.
A RACE war was reported at Wahalak,
Miss, on the 18th, caused by the killing
and wounding of about ten white men in
an attempt to arrest negro.
The latter and his friends took to the
swamps and armed whites from all quar-.
ters were arriving to exact vengeance.
JAMES c. MoRFoRp, aged ninety three,
the last of the ''Old Defenders" of Balti.
more, Nd, died on the 18th.
REWARDS of 81 800 have been offered for
the capture of the Duck Hill (Miss.) train
robbers.
MINERS of the Texas Pacific Coal Com
pany in Erath County attacked the store
house recently during the strike troubles
and riddled it with bullets. The new men
were badly beaten. The Governor was
appealed to.
RACE troubles are reported in the vicinity
of jackson, Tenn. A white man was
fatally wounded in one of the conflicts and
several negroes were stabbed.
W W. SMITH, one Of the Justices of the
Arkansas Supreme Court, died the other
night at Little Rock from consumption.
AN inventory of the estate of the late A.
s. Abel, founder of the Baltimore Sun,
was probated recently. By his will the
Sun newspaper was bequeathed absolutely
to his three sons. The total appraised and
assessed value of the estate, not including
the good win of the Baltimore Sun, is S.
067, 1913. Various gratuities amounted to
$780, 900.
JUDGE EDMUND WADDELL, JR., Repub.
lican candidate for Congress in the Third
Virginia district, has served contest no.
tice on George D. Wise on the ground of
obstruction of voters.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-11
GEORGIA ON GUARD.
What the Savannah Officials Have
Accomplished at Jesup.

What the Savannah Officials Have
Accomplished at Jesup.
JEsUP, GA, Aug. 10.-Brunswick has @
quarantine officer here. Nobody is per.
mitted to enter Brunswick on connecting
trains except on written permit from her
officer. By request of Mr.. Rebarer, from
Savannah, the mayor and council of Jesup
held conference meeting with the officers
to-day and adopted resolution promising
to assist Savannah in her quaran-
infected districts from stopping here
and buying tickets on local trains
for Savannah. The Jesup authorities de-
clined to permit the officers from Savannah
to detain persons on trains from the in
fected districts Mt Jesup. The officers from
Savannah have inspected all trains to-day,
and have posted the authorities at Savan-
nah by telegraph as soon as each inspection
was made. Mr. Rebarer and Mr.. w ade will
leave for Savannah by the Jesup express in
the morning, Officer Smith having arrived
tonight to relieve them.
BRUNSWICK WIDE AWAKE.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, Agg. 10.-The news
from Jacksonville that the fever had been
declared epidemic Tad the effect of increas-
ing the apprehension here aud the quaran-
tine regulations will be still more rigidly
enforced. An addition to the force OF in
spectors by land was put on duty to-day
and the vigilance will not be re-
laxed. Every endeavor is also
being made to enforce sanitary
measures in order that the city
may be prepared in any emergency. Every
effort on the part of the authorities is sec
onded by the public. and no fears are felt
of any danger so long as vigilance is the
watchword. The steamer City of Bruins
wick has abandoned her trips TO Fernan-
dina and runs only to Cumberland Island.
BARRIERS UP AT BOSTON.
BOSTON, GA, Aug. l0--This place quar-
antined against Jacksonville to-day aud all
infected points. All west-bound trains will
be inspected by the health officer one mile
east OF here. The health and sanitary CO..
dition of the town is good, and no trouble
is expected. No refugees are vanted here,
however.
NO ALARM AT ATLANTA.
ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. 10.--Acting Super
intencent King Of the. railway mail service
has been in correspdhdence all day with
Washington and Jacksonville, with refer
ence TO handling Florida mails Supt.
King says: "An Florida mails viii be sub
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-11
TAMPA'S LITTLE EDEN.
The Bill to Convert It into a Park
Before the Senate.

The Bill to Convert It into a Park
Before the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10--In the senate
to-day the senate bill for the disposal of the
Fort Brooks military reservation u4S acres,
at Tampa for park, eight acres for
United States public buildings and the re-
mander to be sold and the proceeds paid
into the treasury, having been reached,
Mr.. Call offered an amendment to appro-
pirate the proceeds Of tue sale TO the estab-
iishment of free industrial school in
Tampa. The motion was rejected by a
vote of 10 yeas to 20 nays.
LIKE THE TACOMA BILL.
Mr.. Hawley called attention to the fact
that the bill had the same provisions as
those on which the President had vetoed the
bill granting part of the military reserva-
ton to Tacoma, w. T., for park purposes
Mr.. Hawley moved TO substitute the word
'alottod" for the word "granted," so as to
meot the Presidents objection in the
Tacoma case.
Mr.. Dolph criticized the Presidents veto
in tho Tacoma case, and gave notice that
he would discuss it more fully hereafter.
The bill was not disposed Of.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-11
sTRANaLINa THE sPGoTER.
Surgeon General Hamilton Leading
in the Onslaught

Surgeon General Hamilton Leading
in the Onslaught.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-2P. M-Surgeon
General Hamilton has telegraphed to Dr.
John P. Wall, president of the board of
health at Tampa, and Surgeon Gray at
Manatee as follows: "You may destroy
all infected bedding and clothing by fire,
taking an inventory and appraising valua.
tion. Be careful to destroy none unless
there is evidence of its being infected and
on your certificate of such articles place a
statement to the effect that fumigation
could not effectually be performed
Surgeon General Hamilton also sent the
following telegram to the president of the
board Of health at Jacksonville. Fla {:
what steps are being taken to destroy in
fected bedding and clothingl Keep me in
formedf' To this he received the following
reply: Infected bedding and clothing were
burned"
MAILS TO BE FUMIGATED.
The Surgeon General to-day telegraphed
TO the president of the state board of health
at Charleston, 8. g., as follows: "Will try
the mails and baggage at Waycross to-
morrow. Can you provide for fumigation
Of the mails now detained at CharlestonT
Past Assistant Surgeon Urquhart, at
Norfolk. Va, has been ordered to Way
cross to open station for the fumigation
ofsthe mails and baggage. He will remain
in charge of that station throughout the
summer, relieving DIR. Guiteras of that
duty.
Past Assistant Surgeon Devan. at Sa-
vannah, has been ordered to send barrel
Of sulphur to DR.. Urquhart at Waycross.
A STATION AT DUPONT.
Past Assistant Surgeon Cutie ras has
been ordered to establish fumigation sta
tion at Dupont Ga, and one at Chattahoo-
chee, Fla, in charge of competent local
doctors, and to superintend the stations
with them and the railway mail officers
The collector OF customs at Fernandina
Fla, was asked what steps had been taken
to prevent the entrance of baggage from
the south, and an inspection was ordered at
Harris Road junction.
A telegram has been received from DR.
Guiteras at jackson vile as follows: "Since
yesterday Aug. 81 two cases have been
found at tne'city hospital in the outskirts
of the town. May have been isolated there.
One Of them can be connected with the
haYe been discovered to-day, making
total of five new cases.
We are beginning to lose connection with
the original focus. Three cases will prob
ably bo sent to the Sand Hills, but the i'm
portance of isolation is evidently diminish
ing. Infected localities have l.een closed
up and measures for disinfection havs been
taken. The president Of the state board of
health of Jacksonville, Fla, telegraphed
to-day that the disease is assuming an
epidemic form.
The superintendent of the railway mail
service, Mr.. Bancroft, was in consultation
with DR.. Hamilton.this morning, and prom
ised that an employe Of the service shall be-
present ut each fumigation station to Co
operate with the physicians.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-11
SHERIDAN LYING IN STATE.
The Grief-bowed Wife Alone with Her
Dead Only for a Few Moments.

The Grief bowed Wife Alone with Her
Dead Only for a Few Moments.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-At a few min
utes before 8 o'clock this morning Mrs.
Sheridan, accompanied by Gen. and Mrs.
Rucker, her father and mother, Col. Sheri-
dan and other members of the family, ell
tered st. Matthew's church, where the
remains Of the dead general lie in state.
At o'clock special requiem mass was
celebrated by Father Kervick. AT the cou-
cusion of the service the church was
cleared and Mrs. Sheridan remained alone
with her dead. As she left the church the
guard resumed their places, and vi itors
were again admitted. A steady stream of
people poured in and out of the church all
day. They included all classes. Members
of congress and laboring men in their every
day clothes, looked upon the casket contain
ing the remains of the great commander.
AMovING LINE.
Those who wished to stop in the church
to attend their devotions took their seats in
the pews, but the line kept moving on, at
times diminishing in numbers and then
again thronging the broad aisle.
In accordance with the wish of Mrs.
Sheridan, the simple effect of an orderly
with the American flag was not
broken by placing floral tributes upon it.
Such flowers as were received were
placed on the step inside the altar rail. A
wreath of IVY leaves with palm branches
arrived at the church this morning from
some unknown source. 1t was supposed TO
have been sent by the President.
The church will remain open as usual
until O'Clock tomorrow morning. the usual
parochial mass being celebrated at Z o'clock.
AUGUsTA's GRAND ARMY POST.
AUGUSTA, GA, Aug. 10.-Augusta Post
No. A of the G. A r. tonight passed
unanimously resolutions on the death OF
Gen. Sheridan, and expressing sympathy
| with the family of the deceased.