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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
WORK OF RUFFIANS.
A Story or West Virginia DiabOlism Tina
Sounds Mulhattalaixil.

A Story or West Virginia DiabOlism That
Sounds Mulhnttanisi,.
PARKERsBURG. W. Va. Jan. CALIFORNIA
tion reached here to-day o; another out
break in the Hatfield-McCoy troubles.
Simon Mccoy, a brother OF the one whose
family was murdered u few days ago, lives
in Wyoming County. The Hatfield gang
made raid on his home and oyerpowcred
him and took Mrs. Mccoy and her sou, y
mere boy, out to the woods. The woman
was fastened 10 u tree by member of the
party, the remainder staying at the Mccoy
house to prevent the escape of the
others. After firing at their human target
for a time the leader grew tired Of mere
sport, und gave the order for her to be
killed. All the rifles were raised at once,
and tho poor woman's body was riddled
with bullets. The boy who was taken out
with her was also dispatched in summary
manner. By this time the other party
had surrounded the Mccoy house,
having, in the meantime, placed
various kinds of combusIib.e material
around it. 1t was concluded to fire the
building and give Mccoy a chance for his
life. if he could run the gauntlet OF their
bullets. They expected lie would leave the
house as sOon rs it began to burn. In this
they were disappointed. As soon as the
flames shot up Mccoy poked his head out
of an upstairs window and begged for his
life. He was answered with voley OF
bullets and made no attempt to escape, but
persisted in the flames. The house WIS to-
tally destroyed, and in the ruins was found
his charred body.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
Amending Land Lava

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2l-The subject of
revising and amending the Land laws was
again under discussion before the House
Committee on Pubic Lands yesterday.
Dele gate Smith urged the committee not to
reduce the SIZE of the desert land entry to
less than $40 acres, contcnding that moth
ing less would induce men to bear the
hardships aud expenses of irrigating and
improving arii lands Tie committee has
formally agreed upon the classification Of
the public land, and special committee,
composed OF Chairman Ho. man and Messrs.
Stcne and Payson. has been charged with
the preparation of a bill, which Is expected
TO be ready for the action Of the full CON-
nit;ee next Monday.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27

"A bill was recently introduced into the
Senate 10 amend the record OF an army
officer tina, covers u romance. During the
war young cf1icer was put under arrest
for some trivial offense, tried and acquitted,
but while waiting for verdict WAS in
technical confinement ut the fort at Mobile.
In the meantime he received telegram
that \ young lady, to whom he was en-
gagged, and her father were to arrive, and
he was asked 20 meet them. He stated the cir
cumstances to the commapdant, and asked
permission TO GO 20 the station, which was
refused. as he thought, without good rea-
son, for the cOmmandant knew that he had
been acquitted By the court, and the Official
headquarters. He therefore con-
Guided to take the chances OF leav-
ing without permission, and did
SO. because he realized that his tancee AMI
her father would think It very strange If
he did not meet them. He met the party
at the station. conducted them to the
hotel and returned to tho fort. He found
awaiting him the order Il his release from
confinement upon the first CHARGE but was
at once arrested for disobedience Of orders
in having left the fort without permission.
On this charge he was tried and dismissed
from the service. but the girl and her
father stood by him and the marria &c took
place. On the records ne appears as hav-
ing been dismissed for disobedielce OF or
ders, and he now asks Congress to hay.
the stain wiped out.-Phllade,ph;a North
American
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
FATAL ELoPsMENr.


Tragic TermlnatlOn Of IN Elopement a
Young People.
Month ApAXs, Mass, Jan. 17.-At HAu-
cock, u hill town bordering on New York
State, about fifteen miles from this place
without railroad or telegraphic connection,
Carrie Brockwsy, eighteen years old, o
beautiful daughter Of Farmer Brockway, re-
ceived marked attention from Washington
Sweet, who was strongly objected to by
her father and two brothers, who warned,
HIM 10 cease. The lovers, however, met il.
seQuestered places, the girl showing con-
siderable spirit in the matter. Brockway-
and his sons becoming incensed armed.
themselves with shotguns and revolvera.
and set out for Sweets house, threatening
to kill him. Sweet heard of this, barri-
caded the doors, placed a gun handy, and.
awaited their coming. Tue Brockways de-
manded abundance, but the answer was g.
shot fired from one Of the windows, the.
bullet taking effect IN the hip Of one Of the
sous, SCATTERING the bone. Brockway
and lis other son caught the
wounded man in their arms dragged him
behind woOdpiie, and then began shoot
ing at the window from which the shot was.
fired. Sweet returned the fire for few
minutes and then his shooting ceased. In
she meantime Carrie, hearing Of the actionl
Of her father and brothers. started for
Sweets house, arriving shortly after her
had ceased firing. The Broclsways ap-
preached the house, she calling to her lover
not to shoot, and the door was forced and
Sweet was found on the floor, apparently
dead. with a bullet wound in the right
shoulder. Carrie screamed, upbraided her
father and brothers for causing her lovers.
death, and Selling carving knife from the
table cut her throat, and falling across
Sweets body bled to death before a doctor
could be summoned. The wounded Brock
way was taken into the house, when it was
found that his hip was shattered by the
bullets from Sweets gun. and he is IN q
critical condition. Sweet was hit by bull
let from revolver, which passed upward
and lodged in his neck. He is dangerously
hurt
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
The sick Speaker.

WAsHISeTON, Jan. 1S.-Spealer Carlisle
had another chill yesterday afternoon, 10
which the doctor seemed to attach but lit
tie importance. Tue chills, he said, were.
caused by intestinal d sturoances. which
were primarily the result OF overwori and
disOrdered digestion. Tho question: was
asked: SIS he dangerously, Or even seri-
ously, illr'
Il do not so regard him." was the reply.
"He is quite weak and as l said, from
overwork and anxiety, and it may be some
time before he is able to be about, but he
sits up in bed, has never for moment lost
consciousness and has had several hours OF
refreshing sleep, and / think without re-
peated ami violent recurrence OF the chills,
he will get along without any serious
trouble. On the whole he is certainly i'm
proved"
At q late hour last night Speaker Carlisle
was resting easily.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
DeyOured by Hogs.

WELLsvyLLE, O., Jan. 2l.--Samuel Irlsit,
az old man who lives with his son. iu-law, J.
Brinker, on farm near here, went to the
barn about dark last evening to see that
the stock was properly housed. Not re-
turning Brinker became alarmed and insti-
tuted a search. Lying in a corner OF the
barnyard was the body OF the old man, with
the flesh torn from his face and body ny
hogs, which were still preying upon him.
He was so badly nutilatcd that recognition
was impossible. 1t is supposed that Irxit,
who was very feeble, slipped and fell and
being unable to rise was torn TO pieces by
the savage animals. He way eighty years
Of age.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
Burned Alive.

RALEIGH, n. C., Jan. 1G.-Near Dobson,
Thomas Marion, Il we!l-known farmer, met
death Saturday in a manner both singular
and horrible. He was drying lumber IN a
tobacco barn. The heavy planks were
supported on poles at height OF eight feet
above the floor, above which the fire was
kindled. Marion went into the barn, and
when under the mass OF planks the poles
gave way, and with terrible crash the
timber fell On him, pinning him to the tioor.
In moment the timber and barn sprang
into blaze and Marion was roasted alive.
His wife was at the door aud could see his
head. but could not save him from his
awful fate. In her attempt to do So she
was seriously burned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
{ TIE SOUTH.

THE latest results at the Government diff
fusion experiment station at Ex-Governor
Warmouth's magnolia plantation, Lcuisi-
ana, show that the diffusion process pro-
duces thirty pounds more sugar to the ton
of cape than is produced by the most ad-
vanced milling process.
THE nine prisoners in Jail at Bryan, Tex,
made their escape recently by burrowir e
under the wall One OF them came back
and surrendered after few hours, saying
it was so cold he could not stand it
The Ashland steel works, near Balti-
more, Nd, blew out the other night The
cause OF the stoppage was said to result
from the Reading strike causing scarcity
of coal.
SEVERAL persons were frozen to death
in Texas during the recent blizzard.
The sheriff has finished at Dallas. Tex,
the inventory Of the Reinhart stock Of
clothing, which foots up very closely to
100000 The attachments amount to
$4,000.
FRANK NJ. IRON, clerk and register of the
city court at Birmingham. Ala, is reported
short in his accounts fully $1,000 He
spcculated with the funds in real estate.
THE loss of live stock in Hill County,
Tex, from the recent blizzard is no: less
tudu l-Vu ucdu
SEVEN children and young persons were
drowned recently while skating on Sante
lake. ten miles east of Ennis, Tex, by the
ice giving way.
Two section hands named ConIey and
Spears were shot to death in house of IL
repute at Cunningham, Ala, the other
morning by two young farmers OF the
neighborhood. The murderers escaped.
A STATE Labor convention was held in
Stanton, Va, on the 18th. aud steps taken
10 secure a State Labor Bureau.
An engine, baggage car and passen-
ger coach were thrown from the track near
Jefferson. Tex. recently and wrecked anc
seven persons hurt.
The recent cold wave extended into
Florida. AT Opeiousas the weather was
the coolest for years.
MENINGITIS is epidemic at Asheville, n.
c. A dozen deaths per day are reported,
and every effort 10 arrest the dreaded dis
ease proves futile. People are leaving the
town By the score.
The court house q. Mobile, Ala. was de-
s'royed by fire the other day. Loss, $7J,-
000. All the records were saved.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
Iowa Democrats.

Dies MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 1.-THE Demo
cratic members OF the General Assembly
met in joint caucus last evening and nom
mated Major 7. s. Anderson, late Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. for United
States Senator. There was some informal
talk Of taking an anti-monopoly Republican
as a candidate, in order to give such Re
publicans as were dissatisfied with Wilson
a chance to vote for one Of their own polit-
icsl faith, but as very few Republicans
seemed disposed to oreak away from tho.
action Of their caucus. it was conceded that
such . movement would be injurious.
The question Of the unconstltution1litys
Of the last Legislature wac discussed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
A BULL FIGHTERS DEATH.
Impaled on the Horns of Bull While Ex
ecutinG % PerilOus Feat.

Impaled on the Horns of n Bull While Ex-
ecuting - Perilous Feat.
CITY or Mexico, Jan. 11.-Oa Sunday
Saleri, II member OF Diego Prieto's bull
fighting troupe, was killed in Pueblo
Saleri was quite noted for the grace and
ease with which he gave what is called the
salt garco-that is leap over the back Of
the bull with the assistance OF pole. On
Sunday Saleri had performed this feat SIC
cessfully with three bulls, but the fourth,
time the pole slipped when he was IN the
air above the bull and he fell on the horns
of the Infatuated auimal. which pierced
his body. So firmly were the horns OF the
bull fixed IN Saleri's body that some min
utes elapsed before the other members Of
the troupe could render any assistance and
take their companion OF them. which they
finally did, however, ut considerable risk to
themselves. Saleri was taken from the
arena and several surgeons summoned,
when it was found that one horn had
pie reed the bowels and the other the chest
OF the unfortunate bull fighter. and that
these wounds were necessarily fatal Sa-
leri lived only a half hour.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
THE LATEST.

PRESIDENT CoRBIN, OF the Reading rail-
road, in lengthy written answer, refused
to give way to the demands of the strikers
one particle.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN, OF Philadelphia, pre-
sented the copy of the American Constitu-
tlon from President Cleveland to the Pope
at Rome on the 2lst.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
January II, showed an average decrease OF
Of Sc compared with the corresponding
week Of last year. In New York the de-
crease was las
THE Red Star steamship Switzerland and
the French steamship Gascoigne colided
near the Bartholii statue, New York, OH
the 2lst. Both vessels were injured so as
to necessi,ate their returning to dock.
FORTY persons narrowly escaped burning
to death by fro at an apartment house,
corner OF Cottage Grove avenue and Oak
wood boulevard, Chicago, on the morning
Of the 221. The people had no time for
dressing and many Of them were dragged
out unconscious, one OF the ladies not being
expected to recover.
Crows furniture store at Manistee.
Mich, was burned tine other night and a
fireman was killed and four others serious
ly injured by falling walls.
The boiler Of the tug Zouave exploded in
New York harbor recently. John Con-
molly, the engineer, Patrick Healy and JOHN
Mckenney, fircmen, and Bernard Rooney,
the steward, were all shockingly scalded,
most OF them fatally. probably.
BUSINESS on the London Exchange was
limited with a tendency to rise during the
week ended January 81. The same condi-
ton was reported from Paris. In Berlin
the bourse was quiet; at Frankfort it was
Arm and rising.
WALTER NJ. GIBsoS, ex-Prime Minister
Of the Hawaiian Islands under King Kala-
kaua, diei in San Francisco on the I'D of
Consumption.
The police attempted to arres. two men,
james and Reuben Barrow. at Mcnteom-
cry, Ala. recently. OEe CT them was cap
iured but the other made his escape, after
shooting and fai ally wouading Neil Bray,
one cf the police assistants.
AT Chicago on The night Of the 22d four
young men were on a cake Of ice when it
foated out into the lake.. After consider
able trouble they were rescued, suffering
much from the exposure.
BILLY DEMPSEY, an amateur feather
weight pugil.s,, was killed in Eight with
Tom White. alias "S;wIpes, the Newsboy,''
at New York on the 22j. a blow In the
stomach was thoughttO have caused the
fatal results. White surrendered.
A DISASTROUS boiler explosion occurred
recently at the Consolidated coal nine,
Wor1en, I'll. No one was killed, but
the lives OF seventy miners were in
jeopardy and the damage done will take
weeks to repair.
The Senate was not in session on the
21st. In the House a motion TO dispose Of
the Thoebe-Ca-lisle election case resulted
in "a failure, tie Republicans abstaining
from voting.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
Long Sentence.

PRINCETON. No, Jan. IA special term
Of the circuit court was held here last
week by Judge Burgess for the trial Of
Elisha Wilson, indicted for the murder OF
Frank Graves. The case was given to the
jury about three o'clock Saturday after
noon, and yesterday morning at ten o'clock
they returned q verdict Of guilty OF the
murder in the second degree, sentencing
the prisoner to seventy years in the peni-
tertiary. The judge reduced the sentence
to thirty five years. Wilson and Graves
were near neighbOrs, but for some time
prior to August last, when the deed was
committed, had been at outs. and i, seems
by the evidence Wilson persistently i'm
posed upon Graves. finally assauiting him
without provocation and struck him on the
head With heavy hoe handle, causing
death within few hours.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
Sympathetic Hash Handlers.

San Francisco. Jan. 1L-This was a cold
day for the people who live at restaurants,
as every eating house IN this city was closed
this morning on account OF the strike of6O
cooks and walters. The go have no griev-
ance, but they merely went out as an ac-
conmodation to the German bakers, who
are on q strike to get one holiday in the
week. The strike has not affected the
hotels or small chop houses, but all the
large cheap restaurants that feed thousands
dairy are closed. The strikers declare they
will hold out as long as they have funds in
the treasury department. The restaurant
Den must secure q compromise or import
help, as they can not AFFORD to close up
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
Handle with Care.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. T.-Saturday
Judge Woods OF the United States District
Cour: here, received an anonymous letter,
stating that he was engaged in the prose-
cutiOn Of innocent men IN the tally sheet
forgery cases, and threatening him with
assassination. Late this afternoon he re-
ceived through the mail small box Of the
kind in which slate pencils are packed.
The letter had put the judge on his guard and
he handled the box cautiously, but openeT
it sufficiently to get a glimpse of TWO per-
cussion caps. This satisfied his curiosity
and he turned the box over to the police for
further investigation and it was taken to
the station house and will be opened to
morrow. The Judge believes it is hoax.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
THE EAST.

FIRE in Philadelphia recently destroyed
Henry Warier's boiler and conduit works,
causing 500, 600 loss.
SEVEN frame buildings were burned at
Mt. Carmel, Pa. the other night Three
men were burned to death and a woman
and child were unaccounted for.
SERIOUS fears were expressed for the
steamer Britannia, long overdue at New
York on the 18th. She had $50 Italian im-
migrants on board.
IMMIGRATION COMMISSIONER STEPHENSON,
OF New York, alleges that a recent ruling
OF Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild CIV
ing the Customs Collector of New York
control over returning insane and parpers
to Europe has worked great injury.
THE bark Sarah Doe, Captain Merriman.
for Norfclk, Went ashore on Fishers
Island, Conn, the other night The crew
was saved.
JOIN MADDEN. the fourteenth victim Of
the railroad accident at the tank house.
Hsverhill, Mass, died on the 18th. He
lived in Bradford and had wife and four
children.
IT Is said that Governor Hill. of New
York, offered Colonel Fred Grant the NOM
inaion of Quarantine Commissioner in
place of T. c. Platt, but that Colonel Grant
declined.
The Eagle iron works Of Wiikesbarre,
Pa, has gone into the hands OF a receiver.
The liabilities and assets are unknown but
heavy. The firm had been shaky for q
gear.
TIE Philadelphia Rolling Mill Associa-
ton has decided TO reduce wages 10 per
cent. because of the depression in the iron
trade.
SEVENTY cows owned by Frank J. Cazs-
mas, living near New Rochelle, n. Y, have
been killed 10 prevent tie spread Of pleuro-
pneumonia
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27
HOar's Pension Scheme.

WASHINGTON, Jan. z0.-Among the bills
introduced in the Senate yesterday was
one by Mr. Eoar, to grant a service pension
to all survivors of the late war. 1t pro-
vides that all officers and enlisted men who
served in the army, navy or marine crops,
including regulars and volunteers, sub
sequent TO March 4, 1861, and prior to July
/. 1866, shall be entitled to q pension at the
rate Of one cent for each days service,
this sum to be in addition to any pension
granted ICr disability
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27

ANDREW J. PIERCE, lumber dealer, Of
Buffalo. +. T., has made general assign
ment Assets and liabilities unknown.
THR Northern Pacific railway directors
at . meeting in New York City recently
formally ratified the lease OF the Oregon
Navigation Company's line.
Two men were found suffocated by gas
in New York hotel the other morning.
They had blown it out the previous night
FIVE hundred cigarmakers of New York
City struck recently.
Two men were ground to death recently
in the plate glass works at Butler, Pa, by
accidentally slipping into the grinders.
The tug Bronx was run into and sank By
the steamer Miranda at New York recently.
Fireman McFeely was drowned.
THE Constitutional Prohibition amend
ment passed the Massachusetts, Senate on
the 18th by vote of 25 to 8
THE missing steamer Britannia with 800
immigrants aboard arrived OF Sandy Hook
on the 18th, all safe.
THE Governor Of New York has nomin-
ated John Clinton Gray, Of New York City,
to succeed the late Judge Rapello as Asso-
ciate Judge Of the Court Of Appeals.
TIE depression in the pig iron market
was reported serious at New York on the
Goth. The Carnegies, who employ 10000
men in their various establishments,
thought the men ought to be willing to ac-
cept reduction Of 10 per cent. in wages.
ONE thousand power loom weavers Of
Philadelphia resolved to strike for better
terms on the 2lst.
The day express on the Pennsylvania
railroad struck two men in Carnie's tinnel
near Greensboro, Pa. recently, and killed
them instantly. Their remains were man.
gled beyond recognition. 1t was supposed
they were tramps.
A BoBsLED collided with a vehicle on
Forbes street, Pittsburgh, Pa, recently.
The driver was dangerously injured, the
vehicle being upset. The occupants of the
bobsied were more or less injured, one havi
ing both legs broken and being injured
internally.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-02
Old Women in Canada,

Another point that has often been i'm
pressed upon me is that all the old dow
ayers in Canada look precisely like Queen
Victoria, and this resemblance is aug
mented by the ugly fashion in which
they dress their hair out of compliment
to her majesty. There is much more
Difference in the manner of those in hum
BILE walks of life toward their superiors
than with us. Polite and civil shop girls
are not an effete institution in Canada,
nor are respectful servants unknown.
The street car conductor, who touches
his hat respectfully when you signify
your stop to him, was such surprise to
me that did not recover from the shock
for days.-Edith Sessions Upper.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-02
Money Saved by Sanitation.

Medical men have long been familiar with
the fact that sanitation has been a saving to
the community at large in doctors bills, in
nursing, and even in days Of labor TO the in
dustrial classes. But 1t has been difficult to
put results into figures so as to impress the
public mind. Mr.. Brudenell Carter at
tempted this in his inaugural address to the
College of State Medicine Every case Of
fever, he calculated, cost the community SO
The reduction in tho annual death rate from
fever to ASA per million from tie 1S51-60 rate
of 90S per million represented total saving
Of 81, 800, 900, but of this no one seemed
conscious" while the annual cost of scerle.
fever at the present time vas 50 ,o0o, 900 q
year. II, therefore, we could trace scarlet
fever to definite cause, as a bovine disease
communicable by milk. we could adopt pre-
cautions which would save the country
every year somewhere about half es much
money as the recent conversion of stocks,
besides much misery" Here is n new light
upon disease. 1t is increasingly preventible,
and as we reduce its virulence and range we
save money.-Herald Of Health.