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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Humbert and His Cigar.

Here is a good story Of the King OF
Italy. 1t is commended to the thou.
sands of Americans, rich and poor, who
are killing themselves by excessive
smoking. The King of Italy is known
for his temperance in all things, except
smoking. He is an exceedingly small
eater, and, as to drink, his guests may
have it in plenty, but his own favorite
"tipple" is water. His one great
weakness was good cigar. In this
respect he had abused himself until
his nerves had begun to suffer; he had
asthmatic turns. could sleep but little,
and then had to be propped up by
plenty of pillows. Some weeks ago
his physician told him what was the
matter, and King Humbert SAID:
..From this day forth ! will not smoke
another cigar or any thing in the
shape of tobacco" The result has
been a most noticeable Improvement
in his health. King Humbert is a man
of iron will, and no one doubts that he
will keep his pledge to the end OF life.
Paris american Register.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Delicacy of the Mexicans.

They are delicate in Mexico. They
have nice ways of putting things that
would in blunt language hurt the
feelings. You remember the young
lady who went to have look at San
Quentin and got in conversation with
a prisoner, and wished to ask how long
he was in for in delicate way. She
asked:
"How long do you expect to be away
from homer"
There was lady in the country
whose husband had been given four
teen days for a spree and fight. The
day after he was sentenced a city
friend called upon her.
"And where is your husband?"
John? Oh, John went down to the
court house yesterday on some bust
ness, and / don't think that he'll be
back for couple of weeks"
A friend of mine received letter
from lawyer in Mexico on some land
business few days ago. After some
other information he wrote:
II have written to Senor--
about the documents and am awaiting
his reply. He has not answered,
although there has been plenty of
time. / hear that he is in Jail, and
that, of course. handicaps him some
what. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
FREE DELIVERY.

Large Increase in the Number of Free
Delivery Ohices-Growth of the Postal
Service.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Colonel j. F.
Bates, the chief of the free delivery
service, in his annual report to the POST
master General states that the increase in
the number of free-delivery offices during
the past year was i69, making the total
number of offices 3jS. These offices are
only located IN towns having a popu-
lation of 10000 or over. or where the
receipts are over $4,000. The whole
number of carriers employed is 6.3i5.
There were over 80, e00, 600 more letters de-
livered last year than the year before. an
increase of over II per cent, while the
increase in the number of newspapers de-
livered was over s6,O00,OO0 or % per cent.
The increase in the number of letters col
lected was 1900, 900, or about 90 per cent,
while the increase in the number of news
papers collected was 25,0O0,O00, or % per
cent. The excess Of postage on local mat
ter over the total cost of the service is over
% go 600
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Attacked Nv "A Hog.

WABASH, Ind, Oct. 19.-John A. Hoover,
a prominent farmer, who lives three miles
east of Goshen, had terrible experience
with ferocIous boar, which may end his
life. Mr.. Hoover was engaged doing
chores about his premises to-day, when
his hat was blown into the lot where the
boar was kept. As Hoover stopped to
pick up the tile, the animal made rush,
knocking him down and inflicting a num-
Der of terrible wounds with its tusks.
Hoover arose, but was knocked down the
second and third time by the Infatuated
brute. Hoover's body was terribly lacer-
ated, His wife ran to the rescue and she
was chased by the hog, but escaped, Civ
ing her husband time to crawl away to
safety.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
How 1t Was Done.

MINNEAPoLIs, Oct. 19.-One of the direc-
tors of the Union Elevator Company has
explained how Hy Holcomb engineered
the wheat steal of about 10000 bushels.
Halcomb b ad bin of his own in the
elevator. 1t is located below the other
bins and near the railway tracks.
The cars ar. loaded through chutes
connected with the wheat bins. Hol-
comb took off board from one of these
chutes and put on another in its stead
that had an auger hole in it. and during
the loading process wheat continued to
pour down into his bin through this auger
hole. When he had enough so obtained,
he loaded it into car and it was hauled
to market. He had to divide up with con-
federates in the deal, but his individual
rake off amounted to $4,000. D. c. Moak,
implicated in the steal, has written to his
wife from Chicago that he will not return
to Minneapolis. Holcomb, it is supposed,
is with him
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
the SAVAGE WAY.
Hov ths Indian Treats IN Injury - Oss
Tlnno Methods.

1ev The Indian Treats IN Injury - Oh
Tine Methods.
The savage IL emphatically the cniio OF,
nature. He lives close to nature, MS only
education Is gained in natures school.
When the Indian receives an injury. no
does not seek cure in mineral poisons, put
binds on the simple leaf, administers the
herbal tea and, with natures aid, comes
natural recovery.
Our rugged ancestors, who pierced the
wilderness, built their uncouth but COM
Portable Log Cabins and started the clear
ings in the woods, which in time became
the broad, fertile fields Of the modern farm
er, found in roots and herbs that lay
close at hand natures potent remedies Tor
all their common ailments It was only In
very serious cases they sent for old "sad-
dle-bags" with his physic, which quite as
often killed as cured.
Latter day society has wandered too far
away from nature, in every way, for its
own good. Our grandfathers and grand
mothers lived wholesomer, purer, better,
healthier. more natural lives than we do.
Their minds were not filled with noxious
isms, nor their bodies saturated with poi
sonous drugs.
Is it not time to make change to return
grandmothers, which contained the power
and potency Of nature as remedial agents,
and in all the ordinary ailments were
eficacious, at least harmlessl
The proprietors Of Warmers Log Cabin
remedies have thought so, and have put on
the market q number Of these pure vege-
table preparations made from formulas Sc
cured after patient searching into the annals
of the past, 50 that those who want them
need not be without them.
Among these Log Cabin remedies will be
found LOG Cabin sarsparilla," tor the
blood; "Log Cabin hops and buchu RENE
dy," q tonic and stomach remedy; "Log
Cabin cough and consumption remedy"
"Log Cabin hair tonic" for strengthening
and renewing the hair; Log Cabin ex-
tract" for both external and internal appli-
cation; "Log Cabin liver pills." LOG
Cabin rose cream" an OLD but effective
remedy for catarrh, and "Log Cabin plas-
ters." All these remedies are carefully pre-
pared from recipes which were found. after
long investigation, to have been those most
successfully used by our grandmothers OF
rye olden time" They are the simple, veg
etable, efficacious remedies Of Log Cabin
days.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Dashed Out His Brains.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 19.-William
Sherrard, an engineer in the employ OF
Louis Malloy, a contractor on the Govern
ment work in charging the canal, was
killed yesterday in a singular manner.
The Pennsylvania Company's bridge
across the Ohio was undergoing repairs,
and old ties as they were replaced were
pushed OFF the bridge and fell to the rocks,
forty feet below. Malloy thought some OF
these might be useful to him, and sent
Sherrard over to inspect them. While
Sherrard was busy looking them over the
workmen On the bridge showed another tie
overheard, and it fell upon Sherrard's
head, dashing his brains ost-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Hail Storm i'm Chicago,

CHICAGO, Oct. ia severe hail storm,
accompanied by high gale, passed over
this section Of the country last evening,
the hail lasting about fifteen minutes.
The big hail stones shattered street lamps
and electric light globes, crashed through
the sky lights in the office buildings
and broke exposed show cases. The
hot houses in the parks and those of the
many florists throughout the city were
badly damaged. The storm caused no
less than five runaways in five minutes on
one street and there We're a number Of
smashups elsewhere. All the lights at the
crib were smashed except the big one, and
the waves, driven by the wind, sent thei
spray to the top of the high tower.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Ambushed and Robbed.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. 19-To-day
was pay day with the employees Of James
McFadden, who is building branch rail-
road for the Lehigh Valley. He employs
about 400 laborers. This morning Alex
ander Mcclure, his paymaster, ac-
companied by a young lrishman. left
Pittston with $50, 900 in his possession, to
go to the works to pay the men. On their
way to the works they had to pass through
a lonely strip of woods. Without any
warning both men were shot from am
bush and their horses killed. Three ltal-
ians are suspected. The $4,000 is gone.
There is excitement and posse of 800
men and boys are looking for the muir
lererS,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
THE LATEST.

The first session of the Fiftieth Congress
| ended at one p. m. on the Doth.
THE Sioux chiefs rejected the offer made
by the President for their lands and Of
fered a counter proposition to accept S1.25
an acre, the money to be paid at once.
The Rand-Avery printing house, of Bos-
ton, has assigned. Liabilities, $4,000;
| assets ample.
| THE statue of General Grant, presented
by the Grant Monument Association, was
unvailed at st. Louis on the Goth. Gen.
eral Noble was the orator, and the cere-
monies were attended by Grand Army
posts and many thousands of spectators.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
October 90 showed an average decrease of
2.S compared with the corresponding week
| of last year. In New York the decrease
| was l0.1.
AMERICAN railroad securities were weak
| and fluctuating on the London Exchange
| during the week ended October 90. Dis
count was easy. The European bourses
reported financial matters quiet. The ne
| gotiations for the conversion of the Hun
garian loans were reported concluded
with the Rothschilds.
A NUMBER of republican rioters mobbed
Senior Canoves del CASTILLO at Sapagoss,
Spain, the other night and stoned his
| house. The rioting continued for hours.
| The gendarmes were powerless to quell
the disturbance.
By collision between steamships in
| Christiana bay. Norway, the other day,
| eighteen persons were drowned.
RIGHT REV. E. r. WELLEs, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Milwaukee, died the
other night at Waterloo, n. Y, while Wis
iting his brother.
| The case of the Chinese taken from CAL
ifornia to Alaska and returned to Tacoma,
Wash. T., where they were refused land
ing, has been taken before the courts 1t
is claimed that they were never really out
of American jurisdiction.
DR.. MYER and Baumann have arrived
at Zanzibar safely from Pangani, where
| they were chained, stripped and logged
and made to work as slaves till British In
dams ransomed them.
COLONEL r. NJ. PULsIFER, for many
years one of the proprietors of the Boston
| Herald, died at his country home recently.
He was found deed alone in bed. There
were rumors that he had committed sui
eide.
The Graydon Dynamite Protective CON-
pany, Of Washington, operating the in
ventions Of Lieutenant j. W. Graydon, re-
lating to firing dynamite shells from pow
der guns, has sold the right to use the in
ventions to the French Government for
$500, 900.
A DISPATCH from New York Of the 2lst
stated that Robert G. Ingersoll and Roger
| A. Pryor were about to begin suit on be-
| half Of Mrs. James g. Blaine, Jr., against
James G. Blaine, ST., and Mrs. Blaine for
| alternating the affections of her husband.
] Damages were to be laid at 100000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
The Chicago Times has these O

The Chicago Times has these good
words to say for fat men: In office fat
men serve as ballast to the ship of State.
They are always conservative. They be-
lieve in old ways. They are cautious and
iverse to trying dangerous experiments.
They will not adopt any thing that has
not been tested. They never amuse them
selves by scheming. They like to have
things quiet and still. They are not likely
to overdo any thing, except eating and
sleeping. They believe in going to bed
early and in making up for it by getting
up late. They are regular in their habits,
one of which is being ready when there is
call for dinner. They are never in q
hurry. They are not in favor of rushing.
A man weighing but III pounds will
make more disturbance at any sort of
meeting than ten men each weighing $50.
A hotel keeper will extend a more cordial
greeting to a fat than to a very lean man,
though he knows that the former will eat
the parlor floor. Tailors never demand
extra pay for making a suit of clothes for a
fat man, though it calls for an extra
amount of cloth and much more labor and
thread. A thin man gets into a street car
that is tolerably well filled and is obliged
to stand up the entire distance that he
rides. Let fat man enter the car, how
ever, and room to accommodate him is i'm
mediately made. Fat men promote the
happiness Of society, and their comfort
should be carefully studied by those who
derive benefit from them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Wreck on the Northwestern,

CHICAGO, Oct. 2).-The Council Bluffs
express on the Chicago & Northwestern
road last evening near Geneva was rum
ming on parallel track to that on which
long freight train was going in
an opposite direction. The fourth
or fifth car of the freight train
jumped the track. dragging other cars
with it. They smashed against the engine
of the passenger, badly injuring it. They
crashed through the train. A fruit car
and baggage car were almost demolished
before the train was brought to stand
still. Engineer Sanborn, of the passenger
train, Express Messenger Yuwell and
Phillip Reckell, OF Chicago, passenger,
were seriously injured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
THE EAST.

BURGLARS in North Haverhill, Mass,
blew open the safes in the post-office and
in NJ. c. Wright's store the other night,
carried off the contents and set fire to the
block.
THE Anchor line steamer Britannia,
which was detained al quarantine because
of a case of smallpox on board, had
among its GA passengers a Chinaman. He
was refused a landing.
A NUMBER of celebrated oarsmen met
at the office of the Police Gazette at New
York on the 18th for the purpose of ar
ranging a match between Teemer and
O'Connor. but could not come to terms.
A SERIOUS accident was reported at New
York on the morning of the 18th, caused
by a cavern of tunnel on the West Shore
railroad, near Newburg. Several passen-
gers were said to be killed.
THE Cameron colliery at Shamokin, Pa,
owned by the Mineral Mining and Rail-
way Company, of Philadelphia, was de-
stroyed by fire the other morning. Loss
about $1,000; insured. The colliery en-
ployed about 900 men.
AMONG the immigrant arrivals on the
Steamship Spain, of the National line, the
other day, was a party of destitute men
and women who had been sent over
here by the Duke of Buckingham from
England. The whole party were returned
to his Grace.
PHILADELPHIA has purchased Thompson
of the Detroits for 5000, and Boston gets
Brouthers and Richardson of the same
baseball club for $20, 600.
THE grand commandery of the Loyal Lee
gion of the United States held its fourth
annual meeting in Philadelphia on the
18th. The following officers for the ensu-
ing year were elected: Commander-in-
Chief. Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
General Sheridan; Senior Vice Command
fr-in-Caief, Senator Joseph Hawley, of
Connecticut; Junior Vice Commander-in-
chief, Judge Walter Q. Gresham, of In
diana.
THE Inman line steamer City of New
York arrived from Liverpool at New York
on the 18th. after a passage of six days
and twelve hours, the best third trial rec
ord in shipping annals.
ALFRED GILLIAN, a younger brother of
Bernard Gillian. the well known artist of
Judge, and himself an artist known to the
public as "Victor," cut his throat at his
home at Brooklyn, n. Y, the other night.
There were slight hopes of his recovery.
No reason other than i'll health was known
for Gillam's attempt to end his life.
r. w. HUNT, of Erie, has been elected
president and A. j. Borr, of New York,
secretary of the American Institute of
Architects. Consolidation with the West
ern Association was decided upon.
Twopassenger trains on the Cumberland
Valley road collded on a curve the other
morning near Shippensburgh, Pa. One
man was killed and several injured. The
engines were demolished.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Drowned In a Tub.

KANSAS CITY, No., Oct. 19.-About noon
yesterday little Leonard Thomas. baby
one year old, was drowned in a tub of wa
ter in the yard of his parents residence,
SO2S East Twenty-first street. Mrs.
Thomas, the mother, was employed about
the house and the baby walked out on the
rear porch and fell into a small but deep
tub, where he was found dead by his six
year-old sister. The child had struggled
in the tub and his face and head were
badly bruised. Efforts were made to re-
suscitate the child, but without avail. Mr..
c. G. Thomas, the father, and his family
moved here recently from Shelbina, Mo-,
where the child will be taken for burial.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
OVER A TRESTlE.
The Cannon Ball Train on the Baltimore .
Ohio Road Goes Over Trcstle-The En-
gineer Killed and Many Passengers In

The Cannon Ball Train on the Baltimore .
Ohio Road Goes Over . Trestle-The En-
gineer Killed and Many Passengers In
Jured.
PITTSBURGH. Pa, Oct. 19.-The cannon
ball express on the Baltimore & Ohio,
which left Cincinnati last night. ran into
an open switch near the Washington. Pa,
depot about $3.50 o'clock this morning and
was precipitatsd over trestle a distance
of ten feet. 1t was running at high rate
Of speed aud was almost completely
wrecked. The engineer, James Noonan.
was instantly killed and about twenty in
jured, number seriously.
A corrected list Of the killed and injured
is as follows: James Noonan, engineer,
Pittsburgh, killed. The injured were:
William McAuliff, fireman. Glenwood, Pa,
York; A. II. Clark, Rochester, n. Y;
Columbus, o.; Stephen Collins, Pitts
burgh, Pa; Mrs. W. J. McConkey, Mercer,
Pa; A. Ford, Chillicothe, o.; G. w. Math-
ews, Baltimore; A. L. Brown, Chicago: A.
4. Mosler, Chicago: Michael Stanton,
Portsmouth, O.; A. Kaufman, New York
Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Greer, Dodge City,
Kan; Mr.. and Mrs. A. Brockman, New
York; Henry Murray, Burgettstown, Pa.
James W. Batcheler, Pittsburgh; William
Fifer, Allegheny City; Mrs. Hannah Nc
Kinney, New Concord, o.; Baggage Mas
ter Henry, of Pittsburgh; Hays, colored,
Of Columbus, o.
Superintendent Collins, of the Pittsburgh
post -ofiice, who was in the wreck, stated
that three Of the injured-Fireman Brown,
Baggage Master Henry and a colored man
named Hayes, of Columbus, O., would
probably die. Three more were quite Sc
riously injured, while the others sustained
slight bruises and cuts. THE train" said
he, twas about an hour and a half late.
We reached Washington about eight
O'Clock. l was asleep in an upper berth.
The first thing knew the car turned over
and l was thrown across the aisle, re-
ceiving an ugly cut on the head and
some severe body bruises. As soon as
could do so | made my way out of the car.
1t was the worst looking wreck ever saw.
The engine was demolished and the cars a
mass of broken timbers. The engine,
tender, baggage car and sleeper had gone
over the trestle and the day coach was
hanging partly over. The people of the
town broke the windows and extricated
the passengers speedily as possible. Inside
the cars a scene of the widest confusion
prevailed. The injured were conveyed to
the Audit House, where every thing was
done to alleviate their sufferings. Those
who were able to do SO came on to Pitts.
burgh on the special. The train was filed
to its utmost capacity and it is q miracle
that more We're not killed"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
Suicide Mania.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 2o.-Lee Ford,
aged eighteen years, made the third at
tempt ut suicide last night and this time
was successful. About eight O'Clock last
evening ne swallowed dose of NOR
phine in a saloon at Twelfth and
Walnut streets. Half an hour later, when
he fell in front of the saloon, he told
the crowd around him what he had done,
and said he wanted to die because his
parents and brother had treated him bad
ly and abused him. He died at the police
station shortly before eleven O'Clock.
Ford's brother, Tom, now living in Denver,
twice attempted suicide in this city. Each
time he gave as a reason that given by his
brother last night. The family has q
mania for suicide.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF tho Daily News
CONGRESS-


The Senate on the 18th set apart the first
Tuesday in December for discussing the Union
Pacific Funding bill A lively tilt took place
between Senators Blair and Cockrell as to the
character Of Mary Ann Doherty, an applicant
for special pension and the Dill Tor
whose relief the President had vetoed.
Several unimportant bills passed. The
adjournment question was briefly dis
cussed, when debate on the Tariff bill was re-
sumed and continued until adjournment. In
the House. Mr. Wheeler (Als) offered reso-
luton in regard to the tariff, which was re-
ferred. Mr.. Oates offered a resolution for adj
iournment which went over one day. The mo-
ton to table the reconsideration Of the vote on
the Presidential Count bill was adopted, and
the House soon adjourned.
In the Senate on the 10Th discussion of
.he Tariff bill was resumed and continued until
adjournment -. In the House Messrs. Glenn
ents (Ga.), McMillin CTenn and Ryan Qkan)
were appointed on the joint committee to in
vestigate the Washington aqueduct matter.
Mr.. Oates (Ala.) called up his adjournment reso-
luton. but after lengthy talk 1t was laid over
for Q day. Mr. Oates said having failed to get
the House to adjourn he would like to adjourn
himself and asked leave of absence during the
remainder OF the session. which was granted.
The House then adjourned.
THE Senate met on the 18th with only a
few Senators present. Senator Teller occupied
a good portion of the time with q speech on
the Tariff bill. Senator Allison offered a
concurrent resolution for a recess from Satur-
day, October 20, to November 10, but
the resolution went over under an OBJ
lection. Senator Morgan spoke on the
tariff and the Senate adjourned. -. Much Of the
time in the House (only few members pres
ent) was devoted to a personal explanation by
Mr.. s. S. Cox On. W as to documents sent out
49, l.. Il =, Job, AhA Iyanc "a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26
81 NAV look pretty rough n

81 may look pretty rough now,
SIR" remarked the tramp, "but I've
seen the time when i had only to reach
out my arm to pick up a handful Of
diamonds" SWELL, here's q quarter,
but you should have looked out
sharper" II cid. sir; but the fact is
they were watching me too close"-
yescelers' Weekly. y