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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
GARLAND'S REPORT.

Annual Report of the AttOrney-Gen
He Advocates Government Peniten-
tiarles.
WASHINGTON, Dec 5.-Attorney- General
Garland has made mis- annual report to
Congress of the business of the Depart
ment of Justice during the last fiscal year,
together with statistics Of crime against
the United States and a statement of the
business Of the Supreme Court and Court
of Claims. The petitions filed in the latter
court on French spoliation cases number
1869, representing 1856 vessels and about
S3D,000,000. The majority of these cases
have been disposed of SO far as the court
is concerned and have been certified to
Congress. The remainder will be reported
during the present session.
After making detailed statement in re-
gard to the character and result of litiga-
ton i'm which the United States was q
party during the year, the Attorney-Gen-
eral says that the usual examination OF
penitentiaries in which the United States
prisoners are confined, was made during
the year and showed the institutions to be
i'm good condition and that the prisoners
were well cared for and humanely treated.
He advocates the passage of the bill now
pending in Congress for the appointment
of Commission to inquire into the adj
visibility of building Government peni-
tentiaries and reformatories.
There were 1.SI5 Government prisoners
in custody during the year. The Attor-
General suggests that the Department
of Justice be given entire control over the
Jail in the District of Columbia and that a
separate building for the confinement
solely of female prisoners he added to that
building. He also recommends that the
salary of the warden be increased to 1880
per annum
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
HOGGlSH COMBINE.
A Hog Trust Reported to be the --latest
Scheme nf the Packers.

A Hog Trust Reported to be the Latest
Scheme of the Packers.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 6.-Rumor gained ground
yesterday in this city that gigantic COM
bineof all the hog packers of the West was
in course of formation; that the packers OF
Chicago were engineering the deal, aud
were arranging to take in all packing
houses at st. Paul, Des Moines, Sioux
City, Omaha, Kansas City, st. Louis and
Cincinnati The Des Moines, Omaha and
Kansas City houses are largely owned by
the Chicago syndicate said to be conduct
ing thenegotiations. The story has its origin
in the sale by the East St Louis Packing
Company, a branch Of the Chicago Pack
ing Company, of the entire plant at East
st. Louis, with a capacity of 2, 500 head Q
day to Crossman & Savage, said to rep
resent the, trust 1t is alleged that Fran
els Whitaker & Sons, the only other
packing establishment here, was invited
to Join the combine, but declined on the
ground that they had brands which were
known and that they had nothing to gain
by the change. 1t is rumored further that
the same men who are in the dressed beef
pool are in this and that the combine will
have an oleomargarine mandatory as
Side issua
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
A CRIMINAL LYNCHED.
A Colorado Murderer and Thief Lynche
by Indignant Citizens.

by Indignant Citizens.
CANON CITY, Col, Dec. Sat four
O'Clock yesterday morning twenty armed
men succeeded in effecting an entrance to
the Jail here, overpowered the sheriff and
tore down the steel cage in which With
Grill, the murderer, was confined. The
prisoner broke up his bed and with a por-
ton of the frame knocked several of the
mob down. Three shots were then fired
by members of the party and Witherill
fell to the floor with his shoulder shat
tered. He was Immediately carried a
short distance from the Jail and strung up
to a telegraph pole, without resistance,
and left hanging until daylight. Witherill
never said word after being wounded
and appeared most Indifferent as to his
fate. Harry Perdue another murderer
confined in the Jail, was not molested.
In 1872 Witherill murdered his employer,
County. He was arrested and sentenced
for life, but was pardoned year ago. In
September he started from Ironton, q
small town in the southern part of the
State, for Silverton, with two acquaint-
ances. He arrived at Silverton with the
teams belonging to these men, but the men
were never seen or heard of. There was
no evidence to convict him Of killing the
men and he was never arrested. From
there he went to Pueblo, sold the horses
and became acquainted with Charles Nc
Cain, and the two started from Pueblo for
this place in October last with two teams
belonging to Mccain for the purpose of
hauling ore. Witherill appeared in Dem
yer where he attempted to sell the teams
that belonged to Mccain and was arrested.
McCan's body was found week later be-
tween here and Pueblo buried in the sand.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
AN ALABAMA CRIME.
A Man Charged With Numbering His wife
and Daughter That He May Again Marry

A Man Charged With Numbering His wife
and Daughter That He May Again Marry
ARRESTED q Few Hours After Marriage.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 6.-The mystery
surrounding the death of the young girl
found in the lake at Eastlake Tuesday was
settled last night by the discovery of her
identity. All day the body lay in an un-
dertaking establishment in this city and
more than 5000 people looked on the face.
An autopsy was held and it was found
that the body had been in the water only
about twelve hours when found. There
were no marks of violence and it was de-
cided that the girl had been chlorofOrmed
and placed in the lake.
Last evening several parties identified
the body as that of a daughter Of Dick
House, a railroad engineer who had lived
in the suburbs Of the city with a wife and
several children. Monday night he regis
tered at the Florence Hotel after midnight
and left on an early morning train for
Mississippi. Officers went to the house
yesterday, but found it closed. and have
SO far been unable to find any trace of the
mother of the dead girl or any of the FAM
lily. A negro woman informed the coroner
that last Saturday House left this girl in
her charge for few days, and Monday
night about eight O'Clock he called and
took her away, saying he was going to
place her in a convent in Montgomery.
The negro woman evidently knew more
than she would tell aud she was arrested
and placed in Jail pending further investi-
CATION.
The girls mother il is now believed has
been murdered and her body concealed.
She was last seen Saturday afternoon in
company with her husband, House, when
they were at home packing their house,
hold effects. Sunday House placed the girl
in the care of the negro woman, Fannie
Bryant and took her away Monday night.
The girl was murdered Monday night So
far the officers have been unable to find
any trace Of the mother.
Later-R. r. House, father of the MUIR
dered girl, arrived here with his bride from
Columbus, Miss, at ten o'clock last night
and was arrested by deputy sheriff the
moment he stepped from the train and i'm
mediately taken to the county Jail.
He was told that he was sus-
pected of having murdered his child,
and his only statement was a
denial Of the charge. His bride was
taken to one of the hotels by a friend.
The woman House married yesterday
is the daughter of a prominent citizen Of
Columbus, Miss. When her husband Of
a few hours was arrested and she was told
of the charge against him she was terribly
affected, and tainted several times. The
couple had tickets to Augusta, Ga. House
formerly lived In Atlanta, Ga, and says
he was there divorced from the woman
now supposed to be murdered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
KANSAS RAILROADS.
Annual Report OF tho state Railroad Com
missiOners.

Annual Report OF the state Railroad Com.
missioners.
ToPEKA, Kan, Dec. 4-The sixth annual
report of the State Board of Railroad
Commissioners, which will soon leave the
printers hands, shows In detail the pro-
gress and further extension of the States
railroad systems, the dongs of the past
year In transportation, and the financial
strength and condition of the various
roads. The construction of the year,
counting 22l miles under contract to be
built by December l, is 545 10. This makes
the total mileage s,799. Three years ago
Kansas had only 4.l6s miles of railroad.
The report says that compared with the
population Kansas is the best equipped
with railroads Of any State in the Union.
or any country in the world. For every
ono thousand of her population she has
five and one-half miles of railroad. This,
while it furnishes great advantages, has
its corresponding drawbacks. The multi
plication Of railroads beyond the point
where the volume of business is sufficient
to yield remunerative revenues to COM
panies charged with their operation and
maintenance must necessarily become, to
some extent, q mortgage on the future.
Since 1885 the conditions for the rapid
development of business in Kansas have
not been favorable.
The reports for the year to the Commits
sioners show that Of the mileage in the
Kansas systems, 2,512 were operated at a
net loss of 1878, 629.40. In addition to this,
1901 miles, while earning sufficient to
meet operating expenses and taxes, fa lied
to earn their interest charges.
The aggregate amount of deficit in in
terest earnings was ~, 129. 56S07 for the
year ended June 30. 1888. The total gross
earnings were SI4, O22, Oi5. 03-less by ST.
695. G04 Al than the like earnings of the
previous year. The total expenses, taxes,
interest and dividends, were So, S9S, 2271
making the payments in excess of receipts
1854, 553.51. The total amount of divi-
dends paid by all companies was $685.
S9163. The Santa Fe paid in dividends
SAT- 1888. 10, the Missouri Pacific $2,lS9,.
73l.SS, and the Fort Scott S561 ,924
The operations Of the Santa Fe are
shown to have reached q colossal scale.
The report covers 3,022. 70 miles of main
and leased lines. The total amount of its
common stock issued to June 80 was Si5,-
100000, an increase Of Si0,996, $50. The
bonded debt amounted to $69, 995, 900 at
that date. The total cost of construction
and equipment reported juno 80, applying
to 4,76s miles, was SIG, 555. 596.6s, the aver
age cost per mile being $37,02s.s9. The
freight tonnage increased during the past
year but the earnings from this source di-
minished more than half a million dollars.
Passenger traffic receipts increased as
compared with 1887. The excess Of ex-
penses, taxes and payments over earnings
for the year was $3,5l7, 291.11. The total
amount of lands received by the company
from its Congressional land grant was
1928, S65 40 acres. or these all have been
sold or contracted for except 8, 7S5 acres.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
Four Chinese Highbinders Dead.

between the Chinese highbinders last
Monday four have died and one other is
expected to die. None of those accused of
murder by the coroner's jury have been
arrested and it is doubtful if those now in
custody can be convicted. A meeting has
been held by large number of Chinese
merchants in this city, the mayor and
chief of police being present, and it was
unanimously agreed to break up all high
binders societies in this region. Notices
have been posted through Chinatown or
dering all the highbinders to disband
within five days or abide the consequences.
The Chinese also are forbidden to carry
firearms.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
F.. THE LATEST.

SOCIALISTS raided a meeting of Catholics
at Amsterdam, Holland, recently, called
for the purpose of erecting q statue to the
Pope. A pitched battle followed and many
arrests were made.
THE Congressional Directory for the
present Congress contains an unofficial
list of the members of the next Congress,
showing the Republicans in q majority Of
five.
THE Ford Immigration Committee Is
hampered for want of funds to push its in
designations.
DISCOUNT was firm with prospect of
money stringency on the London Ex-
change during the week ended December
Americans were unsteady; Canadians
firm. The German bourses were reported
quiet It was said the German East
African Company had been practically
ruined by hostilities with the natives.
ALLEGATIONS are made that crooked
work was the cause of the bursting of the
big gun at Annapolis, Nd, recently. 1t
was said the charge was prepared by
parties interested in making the gun q
failure.
CONGRESSMAN N. W. NUrrING is re-
ported suffering at Oswego, N. Y, from
cancer of the tongue.
Ar Patterson, n. j., the other morning
an Erie railroad train struck milk wagon
at street crossing and killed two of the
three occupants, John C. Ruff and his
brother, B. j. Ruff.
THREE-oUARTERS of the large iron ship
building plant of the Globe iron works in
Cleveland, o., was destroyed by fire re-
comfy. The burned portion was 100 feet
in length and fifty feet in width, and the
damage amounted to 500, 900; insured.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
December showed an average increase
of ISL compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the in
crease was 16.S.
JOHN s. LEWIS, receiver of the defunct
insurance company of Sioux Falls, Oak,
reports it rotten all through. There were
no assets except worthless notes and the
Office furniture.
The smelter Of the copper mining COM
pany at Anaconda, Mont, has been shut
down for an indefinite time, throwing
l,boo men out of work. Twenty-Five hum
dred miners are also affected.
BY an explosion of wood dust in the
Northwestern furniture factory, Chicago,
the other morning, five firemen were in
jured.
IHE court of inquiry investigating the
aqueduct tunnel work in Washington has
adjourned to January s, having completed
the examination of witnesses.
ALARMING reports were current on the
night of the Sth that the strikers at Bevier,
No., had burned the LOOMS & Sniyely
block and were rioting. Militia was called
out, but it was found that although affairs
were critical. no rioting had occurred, nor
had the LOOMS & Snively block been
burned. The buildings destroyed were
frame, which had caught fire accidentally.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
WASHINGTON NOTES.

AN assessment of $500 q share has been
declared on the stock of the Washington
Baseball Club. There are about fifteen
shares. 1t is said the club has lost S23, 900
In three seasons.
SENATOR INGALLS, was recently inter-
viewed at Washington on the race aues-
ton in the South. He thought it one sur
rounded with grave peril.
The National Court of Claims has given
Judgment for SO, S39 in favor of General
John s. Mostly, late United States Consul
General in China, for fees for certificates
for Chinese emigrants to the United
States.
JUDGE ROBERT G. WARDEN, once a
prominent lawyer and jurist of Cincinnati
and the author of life of Salmon p.
Chase, died in Washington the other
light.
SENATOR GIBSON has introduced a bill
for the establishment of bureau of health
with commissioner in charge and a
health commission of twenty persons to
Investigate diseases and their prevention
and to act on quarantine questions
The Postmaster-Generalh has concluded
and signed a parcel post convention with
the republic of Guatemala.
The Secretary of the Navy has appointed
a board to select a site for a navy yard
on the northwest coast.
THE President resumed his receptions to
the public on the 9Th, but, as it was not
generally known, only a small number
were present.
SENATOR CoLoUTTT and Representative
Barnes, of Georgia, called on the President
recently and invited him to attend the
Augusta Exposition. The President had
the matter under consideration, but it was
thought he would not be able to accept the
invitation.
ANOTHER irregularity has been discov-
cred in the Treasury Department, arising
from the mysterious disappearance of ten
uncut sheets of legal tenders, each con-
tanning four notes of the denomination OF
S. and representing 500 in all.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Senator Stock
bridge last night gave dinner to the
members-elect of the Michigan delegation
in the Fifty-frs Congress now present in
Washington. At the dinner the presensa-
ton of the name of Representative j. c.
Burrows, Of the Kalamazoo district, as a
candidate for Speaker Of the House, was
formally determined upon and the delega-
ton will press his canvass unitedly. They
claim that Michigan's showing in the cleo
ton last monh of gains, both in the pop
ular vote and Congressman, fairly entities
her to the recognition she asks.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14

SAN Francisco, Dec. S.-Coliector J. 8.
Hager yesterday seized the steamer Vest
meath and her cargo Of sugar which ar
rived here from Java last Monday con.
signed to the American sugar refinery Of
this city, though a duty of $4,000 had
been paid on the cargo, which is valued at
S4OO, 900. The reason for the seizure was
stated to be that the quality Of the sugar
had been under-estimated and that tho
Government had been defrauded of about
100000. A warehouse of the company
where some of the sugar was stored was
also seized and with steamer and cargo
placed in charge Of the customs officers
under seal -=--------
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14

CHICAGO, Dec. "a special to the Her
aid from Des Mones says that good reasons
exist for the belief that j. s. Clarkson, a
member of the National Republican Com
mittee and managing editor of the Des
Moines Register, has been rendered
and has accepted the portfolio Of the In
terror by President-elect Harrison. A per-
Ional friend of Clarksou's has recently
stated that such was the case, and as fur
Their evidence of a conirmatory character
it is cited that a reorganization of the
editorial staff of Clarkson's paper is under
way, the position of managing editor hav-
ing bsen rendered a prominent Iowa news.
paper man within the last ten days
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
Murdered by q Tramp.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. T, Dec. Nv. j. van.
nice, a prominent and highly respected
resident of this city, was murdered early
Yesterday morning. While all of the
family except the children were absenhk
tramp entered Mr.. Vannice's house and
stole some articles of jewelry and a
purse, Immediately afterwards start
ing toward Fort Laramie. Mr..
Vaunice started in pursuit and captured
the man at a ranch five miles from town.
He started to town with the tramp in a
buggy. Late last evening the team was
found on the prairie by cowboys with the
dead body of Mr.. Vannice in the bottom OF
the buggy. The body indicated that
terrible struggle had taken place.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
Daring Burglary.

Sioux CITY, Iowa, Dec. About one
men rushed upon Thomas Coleman, the
Waterman in the Rooge packing house,
overpowered him. tied gunny sack over
his head, secured his hands and legs and
placed him in a corner of the office. As he
did not report the engineer, the assistant
engineer and the tankman went sue
cessively to see what was wrong, and in
turn each was seized and bound. The bur-
glars worked hard to open the safe, but at
four O'Clock they broke drill and gave up
the job, after going through the pockets
of the captured men and securing S65.
Had they succeeded in opening the safe
they would have secured nothing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
THE EAST.

IT was reported in Pittsburgh that An.
drew Carnegie had purchased the Wander
bilt interests in the South Pennsylvania
railway-for what purpose was not
known.
ALICE HASTINGS, the wife Of Roland
Reed, the comedian, died at New York the
other morning. Reed announced that he
had decided to kill his wife's pet black
and-tan dog Chic, in order that he might
be buried with her.
Two employees of the Old Colony rail-
road in Rhode Island were killed by trains
the other morning while travelling on rail-
road velocipedss.
By collision between freight trains on
the Jersey Central road near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the Sd, one engine and several cars
were wrecked and two men were killed.
DAVID ADAMS, of South Orange, n. j.,
one of the best known men in the leather
business, has been committed to the Nor
fis Plains asylum, hopelessly insane. 1t
Is thought that his insanity grew out of
the recent campaign.
COMMISSIONER FINK said at New York
on the Sd that, with the exception of few
details that remain yet to be arranged, all
matters connected with fixing the freight
A PHILADELPHIA syndicate has laid
claim under an old Spanish grant to 20, 900
hcres of land near Berryville, Ark, occu-
pied by over 100 farmers
MARY PURNELL, colored, was charged
recently at Long Island City, n. Y, with
running baby farm. The desertion of
twenty infants in the past six months was
credited to her.
PYF-Pn-pyrrxoyrA is ronortad 81 H.,
roe N. Y.
PHILADELPHIA & READING EMPLOYEES
have had their hours and pay cut down.
THE explosion of ladle of molten
Iron in Shoenberger's iron mill, Pitts
burgh, Pa, the other night, caused the
horrible burning Of five persons, one of
whom died.
HE suit against the sugar trust was
opened before Judge Barrett in the special
term of the Supreme Court at New York
on the 4th,
IT is said that Boyle & Co., iron brokers
of Pittsburgh, Pa, have cornered the nail
market.
COFFEE was excited at New York on the
4th, prices going up about 10 cents pound.
A short crop in Brazil and diminished
holdings caused the advance.
TIE blacksmithing department and wood
working and finishing rooms of the extern
sive Cortland wagon works at Cortland,
n. Y, were destroyed by fire recently.
The company has an insurance of S2l1, 900,
which it lie thought will cover the loss.
CAsoscHET, Ex-Governor Sprague's CO.
1oesal and famous residence at Narragan-
set Pier, L l., has been sold for $500, 900.
Il Eiu be used as high.toned hotel.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
The Haytien Republic Released.

NEW YORK, Dec. Sat last the uncer.
tainty regarding the steamer Haytien Re-
public, seized by the Haytien gunboat
Dessalines of the harbor Of st. Marie,
seems about to be cleared up. Captain
Compton's pluck in sticking by his vessel
and refusing to haul down the American
colors in defiance of the demands Of the
colored guards in possession Of the steam
er, will be rewarded and the vessel re.
leased. This was the news received at
Lord & Austin's, agents Of the seized ves-
sell, in this city yesterday.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
KANSAS INSTRUCTION.
Number of Young Persons Receiving EdI
cation and the Cost.

Number OF Young Persons Receiving Eau.
cation and the Cost.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 4.-State Superin.
tendent of Public Instruction Lawhead
has completed the work of compiling from
the reports of county school superintend-
ents a statistical and financial summary
for his forthcoming biennial report, from
which it appears that 403.351 pupils
are enrolled in the different schools
of the State The average daily at
tendance is 245, SSl. The number
of teachers employed is 11,310, at
an average salary of $41.01 for male and
$33.85 for female. The value of school
property is put at SS,60S; number Of new
schools built during the year, ia. The
bonded indebtedness amounts to - ,451 ,574.
The total revenue for the school year just
passed was s., 265, 613.18; the year previous
it was s., 595, s3S.05. The expenditures were
s., 7O3, 64Ls4; the year previous, $4,064,-
945 40. There is balance in hand of dis
trict treasurers amounting to 1851, 966. OF.
Last year there was a balance of $3.50,
1872 So. The report is for the biennial
period ended July 81, 1888.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
A Curious Error.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Dec. 5.-Goyernor
Jackson last night made a curious mis-
take. In fixing tn date Tor the hanging
of Isaac Keenan, he had a calendar of 1888
before him, and running his finger down
the column fixed upon the 29th. Not being
leap year. there is no February % in 1889,
and some legal complications may ensue.