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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23
! TIE soUTH,

A. ]. TRUIrT, well known business man,
was killed by a prostitute in house of i'll
fame at Fort Worth, Tex, Necently The
woman was arrested
THE sensation OF the day at Dallas, Tex,
recently was the seizure of the mules and
cars Of the street railway company BY the
city for taxes. The company had already
been taxed in East Dallas and objected to q
dou BILE assessment
THREE white tramps were recently taken
out Of box car loaded with hay at Biz
mingham, Ala. They were furnishing and
exhausted, having been imprisoned five
days.
THREE couvicts were killed and fourth
fatally injured by the fall Of dirt loosened
by premature blast Of dynamite near
Bremen, Ga, recently.
MksOR ROBERT E. BLANKEXsHIP, presi-
dent Of the Old Dominion iron and nail
works, and for many years president of
the Chamber Of Commerce. was run over
and instantly killed by a freight car in the
yard Of the Richmond & Danville Railroad
Company. at Richmond, Va. on the 18th.
julius HAAK, an enterprising and highly
respectable citizen, was drowned in the
Brazos river at his plantation eight miles
east OF Belleville, Tex. recently.
A MOB at Hopkinsviile, KY, the other
morning took John Skinner, desperate,
eut of Jail and hanged kim to tree.
WHILE party of men were inspecting
the ruins Of burned building at Park
Mills, in Frederick County, Md, the other
day, the wind blew down the walls, killing
William Medary, q farmer, aged thirty-fiye
years, and injuring Charles and Frederick
KohlPause, Frank Buck and Jesse Martin.
Frederick Kohlpause died soon after being
removed to his home, and Bucks injury
was thought fatal.
DURING the recent fearful storm OF the
Atlantic coast several tugs and other boats
were wrecked at Lewes, Del. Twenty-Five
lives were lost There was also a report
that the iron railroad pier at Lewes had
parted in the middle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23
Acciden. on the Mexican national.

SALTILLo, Mex, March 16-News arrived
from the front on the line OF construction Of
the Mexican National railway to the effect
that serious accident had occurred ut q
point about twenty-five miles distant.
through which three persons lost their
lives and number of others were seriously
hurt. A tie train pulled out OF this city be-
fore day5reak, aud on the cars were quite
o number Of people bound for the front
At the point named a car was deraied,
pulling four other cars with it, and the
whole rolled down an embankmeut some
twenty feet. the result being as above
stated. The authorities ara investigating
the matter, but no arrests have oeen made.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23
The Sabine River.

LoNovrEv, lex, March 15.-The Sabine
river IS higher than ever known, with one
exception. So far not great deal Of dam
age has been done. The Sabine Valley
railway track in some places is eight feet
under water. At Grand Bluff ferry, nine
miles from Carthage, an old tree over one
hundred years old, fell and swept down
with it the ferry house and boat. At
G!adewater, twelve miles west Of Long
view, a negro working at sawmill boom,
fell from a canoe into the Sabine river and
was drowned. With these exceptions the
damage is generally only such as is limited
to floods washing low land farms. destru0
hon Of fences, et2
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23
General Boulanger.

PARIS. March 1G.-It was reported yester-
day that General Boulanger came to Paris
February "a, March 2 and March 10 with
out permission from tho War Office The
last two times, it IS said, he was in dis
guise, wearing dark spectacles and affect
ing lameness. It is said that the report OF
placing General Boulanger on the non &C
tive list, by deriving him of his present
command. has been approved by President
Garnet. The Joxrnai ODseiel publishes u de-
cree depriving General BouIanger OF his
command for breach OF discipline in visit
ing Paris three times without permission.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23

CooanAN's furniture store 1t Grand and
Bowery, New York, was burned recently.
Loss, 100000.
IT was thought that twenty lives were
lost in Essex County, N. J., alone during
the recent terrible storm. Eastern news
papers OF the 18th were filed with accounts
Of the terrible experiences Of those who
happened to be caught In the blizzard, the
like OF which. had never before been
known.
TEE long and stubborn strike OF the
Reading employees was oficially declared
of on the 18th ut Philadelphia by conven-
ton Of delegates, and the men were given
the right to apply for their old positions -
individuals.
A sNowPLow pushed by four engines
jumped the track at Sharon, N. Y, on the
18th, killing Thomas Feeny, conductor,
George Fowler. engineer, Charles ORION,
brakesman and Thomas Reilly, fireman.
and injuring Thomas Bower, J. .. Cameron,
Engineer Luther Gates and Fred Strong,
fireman. The four engines and the pillow
were completely demolished.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23

Ar Cops Hill, short distance from
Charlotte, 8. c., VIII NcGinn, while quar-.
reling with Leroy Elliott recently, struck
him with stone in the breast, killing him
instantly. McGinn fed.
ROBERT ELLIOTT, barber, has died ut
Bryant. Tex, OF hydrophobia He was
bitten by . mad dog three weeks ago, but
did not know 1t the time that the dog was
mad
HousroN ROBERTS and Samuel Williams
were killed from ambush near Goidthwaite,
Tex, recently. News has also been re-
horse killed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23
THE LATEST


in France on the 18th. In Paris the streets
were in dangerous condition.
In the suit OF Bennett C. Wilson against
John W. keely to compel the latter to sub.
nit to an inspection of his motor, Judge
F'inletter in the Court of Common Pleas
at Philadelphia has rendered a decision
granting the privilege of inspection.
The Senate was not in session on the
18th. The House held short and uuim-
portant session.
The London money market was reported
fairly active during the week ended March
IL. English and colonial securities ad-
vanced, but Americans were quiet. In
Paris prices were good until the last day
when they broke on news Of the German
Emperor's bad health. In Berlin and
Frankfort the market was quiet and
steady.
A BROKEN truck on the fast mail from
New York to Jacksonville, Fla, caused a
frightful accident on the Savannah, Fiorl-
da q Western railroad, seventy-tive miles
south OF Savannah, Ga, on the 18th.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were killed aad many
injured. Among the latter was E. p. Will
bur, president of the Lehigh Valley rail-
road, who, with George Gould and others,
was going south in a private car.
CLEARING house report for week ended
March Il showed an average decrease of
y compared with the corresponding week
OF last year. In New York the decrease
was 375
GENERAL BADEAu has brought suit
against Mrs General Grant for an account
ing. Badeau was for time editing the
Grant memoirs, but was discharged after
a stormy scene in the bedroom of General
Grant during the latter's fatal sickness.
Badeau now claims $1,000 for his services
AFTER conference with Governor Mar
tin and the Kansas Railroad Commission
ers and officials OF the railroad, Chairman
Conroe, Of the Locomotive Brotherhood, on
the 18th, ordered the striking engineers o.
the AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe to return
to work. Various reports existed as to
what terms were made, and while some of
the engineers regarded 1t as a victory,
others thought that the strike had ended in
a fizzle.
The main buildings Of the Green dyeing
and finishing works at Pawtucxet. r l..
were destroyed by fire recently. Tie loss
was $1Oo0OO.
LATER reports from the scene Of the Vel.
low river (China) foods. seven months ago,
place the number of lives lost BY the inun-
dation at between million and half and
two million.
In the County Court at Chicago recently
Horace P. Rounds, son of the late Public
Printer, s. p. Rounds was adjudged insane
and ordered committed to an asylum, and
V. Xorford, q we'll known railroad man.
was also taken to the detention hospital |
Tor the insane, afflicted with the belief that |
ae was Vice-President Of the United States. |
de was formerly assistant superintendent
'f the Missouri, Kansas q Texas road, and |
or long time lived iu Omaha
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-04
A Sign at Which People Stared.
Chicn0O Trib7I7le

Chicago Tribune
A crowd gathered in front of a base
ment window on Dearborn ST. one day
last week. They were all looking at
one of the queerest signs ever displayed
in this city. 1t read:
LADIES DRESSED
CLEANED AND DYED.
'fI'd like to see myself in that shop"
exclaimed fair typewriter girl from a
near by office, with a toss of her head.
''It's an insult" said an old maid,
"and ought to be taken down by the
police"
GAS if lady what is lady couldn't
clean herself without going to shop"
calculated woman whose husband
had just made lucky deal in wheat.
"And who would want to be dyed 2"
said young man, nodding his head
maliciously at red-haired girl, who
was peering over the shoulders of those
nearest the window.
The crowd grew, and grew, as street
crowds are prone to grow on the
slightest provocation, when the pro-
prietor of the little shop came out.
"What's the matter here 2" he in
quired. ''Is my place on fret Has
anybody been hurt 2 Ali" catching
sight of the sign, and rubbing his chin
refectively for moment, "that boy
has been up to his tricks, see. 1 fired
him today for impudence, and he
swore then he'd get even with me, the
little jackanapes."
And then the proprietor stepped in
to his shop, peeled off letter 3D."
which had been pasted over an "Sn in
the placard, and the crowd laughed
and dispersed as it read
LADIES DRESSES
CLEANED AND DYED.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-04
RepubIicanism and MonopoIies.

Hugh McCtIllogh IN Scri6ner's for October.
The government is stronger than it
was half century ago, but has not this
increase of strength been at the ex-
that the United States is the freest
country in the world-the only country
except Switzerland in which the people
have equal rights. Equal rights be-
fore the law are indeed possessed by
everybody here, but are there not COM
binatiOns of interests which prevent
the full play of natural rights, which
hold in check, if they do not destroy,
individual enterprise In what other
country can be found such companies
as have been organized in the United
States for the purpose of controlling
the manufacture, the transportation,
and the price of goodsq Where can be
found an organization like the STAN
dard Oil Company, which absolutely
controls the market of an article for
which there is an immense and con-
slant demand, and stamps out compe-
tition or even such companies as have
been formed to regulate the production
of iron and steel and coal In what
other country do manufacturers who
are protected by tariffs against foreign
competition, combine by trusts and
other agencies to advance or sustain
prices and prevent domestic competi-
tiOn7 There is no country of which
have any knowledge in which business
of all descriptions is so steadily falling
into fewer and fewer hands, in which
combinations are so powerful and indi-
viduals so pOwerless, as the United
States-nO country in which the solu
ton of the labor question may be more
difficult. We have yet to learn that
there may be as little personal freedom
under republican institutions as under
mOnarchies, and that the best efforts
of all good citizens should be to pre-
vent the great republic from being a
free country in name only. That these
efforts will not be wanting, have an
abiding faith. Congress has the pow
er, by opening the way for free trade
with other nations, to destroy most of
the existing mOnOpOlies, and this pow
er will ere long be exerted.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-04
Presentation of Account.

CTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT IS
- In Pr Obate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. JOhnsbury in said district, the 26th day OF
Sept, a. ID. 1888.
Edward P. Allen administrator upon the
Estate of Narciss Corbeille, late of Lyndon. in
ton account for examination and allowance. and
makes application for decree of distribution and
partition of the estate of said deceased.
Whereupon, it is ordered by said Court that said
account and said application be referred to session
thereof to be held at the Probate Office in said
St. Johnsbury on the Doth day of Oct a ID.
1888, for hearing and decision thereon: and it is
further ordered that notice hereof be given to all
persons interested by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the Caledonian a
newspaper published at St Johnsbqry, previous
appear at said time and place and show cause, Il
any they may have why said account should not
be allowed and such decree made.
By the Court, Attest,
1912 WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-04
MET HIS MATCH.
A clone Highwayman' Killed at Last
by a Woman.


The notorious clone Highwayman,"
who has for the past two years been a
terror to travellers in the vicinity of
San Antonio, and who has, without the
assistance of single confederate, re-
peatedly robbed stage coaches, rifed
mail bags and gone through as many
as six commercial travellers in broad
daylight without the slightest incon-
venience or assistance, has been killed.
He was shot by Mrs. Lizzie Hay, form
erly Miss Gibbons, at her home on the
head prong of Rio Sabinal, BanderO
county, last week.
The news did not reach the town I'M
til the Oath, when Mrs. Hay visited the
city. She said: "Last Monday morn
ing l was sitting in my room when
suddenly a masked man appeared on
the front gallery. l told him to leave
or I'd kill him. He laughed and said !:
" GU are a plucky woman, but I'll have
what l want out of this house or burn
it down over your head By this time
had needle-gun and he had enter
ed. 1 drew it down on him within IL
inches of his heart, but it snapped and
he said: 'I'll kill you,' at the same
time producing a long, keen bladed
knife, and aimed it at my throat. /
warded off the blow, but the next time
he struck the end of the knife stuck in
my forehead. making an ugly cash at
the same time l reversed the ends of
the gun and struck him over the head ,
telling him to the floor, and before he
could rise had reversed the gun and
pulled the trigger. This time it fired,
the bullet taking effect in his left side.
He gave a yell and rolled out on the
porch. looked for another cartridge,
but the blood was streaming down my
face so could not find them. l wiped
it off with my apron and reloaded my
gun as soon as l found the cartridges.
He had by this time almost reached his
horse. took good aim and fired, but
1 don't think l hit him. My husband
was up in the canon, but when he
came home few hours after dark he
Immediately organized party of rang
ers. They traced him distance of
twenty miles by his blood and found
him dead" His name is unknown, but
he is recognized to be the same man
whose bold depredations have for two
years past terroIized the whole of Ban
derO county.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-04
SQUIBS.

The average barber does not hest
tate to scrape an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
nth Photographer.
Miss Susan Winter, of Wheatlands,
Montana, has sued local editor for
gagged to a young man named Spring,
quoted the remark about winter linger-
ing in the lap of spring.
"Why, Flinders, my boy, you look
all played out. What's the matter with
you 2" ooh, the cyclone kept me up
nearly all night, tramping about the
house." "Cyclone 7 Why, there wasn't
a breath of wind last night" "Well, 1
should groan our baby's stomach was
full of it."-[Springfeld Union.
In Dublin "See here, driver, or
dered a smart trap to take drive in
Phoenix Park, and you come around in
rags not fit for beggar Driver Tin
jaunting carr 81 knows it, yer honor,
and | would like to wear fine clothes,
but there's not tailor in all Dublin
can take me measure, Pm that ticklish."
Il America.
"What is it that makes the rich man
richer and the poor man poorer ~
shouted socialist orator the other
evening. The proper answer to the
question would have been monopoly"
and the orator waited for some one to
give it. He was therefore very much
disguised when a newly-fedged mem
Der who had not been properly posted,
got up and yelled, "Beer !"-[New
York Tribune.
Squillsby, who works in a photo
grapic studio, popped the question sue
cessfully the other night, after which
he remarked "And now l suppose
you will allow me to take kiss 2"
"Why, of COURSE" she replied, cit
would be in perfectly good taste now"
every WE'LL" said Squillsby, "turn
your head little more to the right, fix
your eyes on that picture knob-so-
that's it-smile just a little-wink as
often as you ase-there-nOw the
operation commences" y Springfield
Union
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-04
How He Made a Home Run.

No base ball lover can afford to miss
this, from the Rockland (Me.) Courier :
GA peculiar play occurred in recent
base ball game in Portland. Both
mines were tied, and it was in the last
half of the ninth inning. A player
made base hit, and reached first safe
ly. The pitcher threw the ball to first
to catch the runner mapping, but did
not succeed. The first baseman deftly
put the ball in his pocket, and the
pitcher made a bluff to deliver the
ball. The base runner danced off first,
and the first baseman tried to get the
ball out of his pocket to touch the run
ner, but it would not come. The base
runner, seeing the predicament the
first baseman was in, started around
the bases, with the first baseman in
close pursuit, the latter all the time
trying to extract the ball from his
pocket. He didn't, and the runner
scored the winning run amid great ap-
plause.n
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-04
OLE GaIedomia1t,
THE WOMAN's BOARD.

The annual meeting of the Vermont
branch of the Woman's beard of mis-
sions was held at st. Adams last week
Wednesday. From the Messengers
report of the meetings the following
facts are gathered. The meeting was
inaugurated on Tuesday evening by a
most enjoyable reception rendered to
the more than 100 delegates WHO had
then arrived, by Col. and Mrs. F. S.
Stranahan, at their residence. The
regular sessions on Wednesday were
held in Baptist church, over $50 dele
gates present and the president, Mrs.
A. w. Wilde, in the chair.
The report of the secretary was of a
very encouraging nature. 1t stated
that larger giving has prevailed
throughout the auxiliary and mission
airy circles, whereby the treasurer,
without receiving legacies as in some
previous years, was enabled to report
the contributions of the past year as
exceeding those of any other year in
the history of the Board-and an in
crease of nearly $3.50 over last years
receipts. 1t has been good to know
that during the last month the gifts
have come in with every mail, and that
even after the close of the books for
the year they still come. The treasurer
Mrs. Il. Nj. Howard of St. Johnsbury,
made an approved report, showing to-
tai receipts amounting to $5042.50 for
the year, all of which had been paid
over to the treasurer of the w. B. NJ.
at Boston, save necessary expenses of
$50.
The morning meetings were address,
ed by Mrs. Andrews, a returned mis-
siOnary from India, and there was an
interesting discussion on "GOOd meth
dds of conducting meetings." and also
OH "Legitimate way of raising money!"
the latter mainly by Mrs. Morse of St.
JOhnsbury. The afternoon session,
aside from routine business was large
ly taken up by the Misses Leitch, who
gave interesting accounts of their Ia
bOrs in CeylOn. Miss Abbie h. Child
of Boston gave an address concerning
the London conference, and the cor
responding secretary, Miss TOrrey,
made a half hour report reviewing the
letters from foreign fields.
These officers were chosen for the
ensuing year:
President, Mrs. A. w. Wild of Char
lOtte honorary president, Mrs. Horace
Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury.
Recording secretary, Mrs. G. M.
Stone of st. Johnsbury home secreta-
~, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury; corresponding secretary, Mary
e. Torrey of Burlington; assistant,
Mrs. j. E. Peck of Burlington.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. Nj. Howard of st.
I,sI,
Stevens of st. JOhnsbury.
Auditor, Walter p. Smith of St.
Johnsbury. The board of vice presi-
dents remain substantially as before,
one or two ladies from each county.
Wednesday evening the meeting
was addressed by Rev. j. M. Coll. The
meetings throughout were well attend
ed and proved a gratifying success.
A resolution of sympathy was passed
during the meeting for Mrs. Horace
Fairbanks in her recent afflictiOn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-04
Another Opinion on Buffalo Bill.

George William Curtis IN October Harper's.
No one who sees the "Wild West
Show" can wonder that Buffalo Bill
deeply impressed our English cousins.
The old Viking and Berserker survives
in John Bull. A certain savage strain
fingers in his tastes, which Taine SEN
sitively apprehended. His prize-fights
and Mohawk riOting, his tiger and ele-
plant hunting, his excursions to shoot
buffalo and grisly bears, are in one
view manly sports, and in another bru-
tai survivals. Then Mayfair in Lon
don is stated. 1t has exhausted every
resource of costly luxury. 1t is jaded,
and the sudden appearance of living
Indians, and the life of the far West as
it is actually seen, was an agreeable
shock of surprise, and gave it real
emotion.
The only serious objection to the ex-
hibition that the Easy Chair has heard
is that which was urged almost with
fearful earnestness by one of the most
reasonable and excellent of women.
1t is pityful and wicked, she said, that
just as hopeful effort is made to in
terest the intelligent country in the
civilization of the Indian, his squalid
SaVaSory SnOuIU De nlaue a CIRCUS spec
tacle to degrade him in the minds of
the people, and to stimulate all the
worst dime novel tastes and tendencies
among boys. But the good critic did
not SPEAK from observation or knOwl-
edge. Had she seen the spectacle she
would have discovered that the Indian
was not degraded in her mind by show
ing himself as he is. Indeed, the per-
Torrance is merely like one of his own
games upon the plains, and he does not
lose in dignity. On the contrary, the
spectacle leaves probably a more accu-
rate impression of the Indian than can
be gained except by visit to the
plains.
Certainly the effect supposed by the
critic is not produced, and it is not at
all of the kind injurious to the cOlOred
people which is due to the Ethiopian
MINISTRIES. 1t is. indeed, the raw mate
rial of the Indian that is seen, and not
that which has been already influence
ed in a degree by civilization. But no
one seems to hold sounder or humaner
views of the Indian, or of the duties
that we owe him, and the manner in
which they should be discharged, than
Buffalo Bill.