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The Iola register., 1889-08-16
STRANGELY KILLED.
Compressed Natural Gas Blows Out q
Head Cap with Fatal Results.

Compressed Natural Gas Blows Out the
Head Cap with Fatal Results.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 10-By an ex-
plosion of a natural gas we'll on the South
Side last night two persons were killed,
two fatally injured aud dozen or more
badly wounded. Booth & Flynn, con-
tractors. had just completed laying a
thirty Inch gas main and were testing it
by means of compressed air. When a
pressure Of IT'S pounds had been reached
the head cap on the end of the pipe blew
out. carrying with it a large amount of
timber and debris. A hundred or more
workmen from adjacent iron mills re-
turning home had stopped to watch
the experiment. The debris was
hurled into the crowd as though a bomb
exploded. The killed were John Miller,
twenty three years, single; John O'Con-
nor, twenty-five years, single. Injured.
John Grenin, internally, cut about the
head. will die; Henry Reich. skull frac-
tured, injured internally. can not recover;
William Greene, injurned internally and
cut about the head and body: James Hem
drick, St Louis, both legs fractured. head
cut; John b Raney, millwright, severely
hurt about the head and hurt internally.
Among those sustaining painful cuts and
bruises were James Duffy. Thomas Welch,
Frank Doyle. William Jones. Martin Gar
vey, John Schwalter and Severance Mu-
aich
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
BOSTON EXCITED.

The Disappearance Of . Prominent Bust
ness Man Causes Great Excitement and
Several Heavy Failures.
BOSTON. Aug. 10.-The wife of g. p.
Brown. Of Brown, Steese & Clarke, wool
dealers, lately failed. is in an almost in.
sane condition resulting from suspense
caused by the continued absence of her
husband, who has not been heard Of since
last Tuesday. The brother of the missing
man expresses the opinion that the bust.
ness affairs of the firm have driven him
crazy, while his friends say he has either
committed suicide or has absconded to
Europe or Canada or else is wandering
about the country in a demented condi-
tion. Not line of intelligence has been
received from him by any one.
NJ. F. Dickinson, Jr., counsel for Brown,
Steese & Clarke said that Q petition in
insolvency would be filed to-day volun-
tary as far as Messrs. Steese and Clark
were concerned and involuntary in
Browns case. The affairs of the firm
were in such a condition he considered
that was the only course to take. He had
ascertained that the firms signature was
on the notes of the Riverside Company
for a certainty of $500. 900. He had no
precise knowledge of wrong-doing on
Browns part and was ignorant of his
whereabouts.
Dickinson went to Prov idence yester-
day to recover S125 900 worth Of wool sold
by Brown, Steese & Clarke to the River.
side mill. but the return of tn 9 goods was
refused and he entered suit to recover
them
A dispatch from Providence says: The
Massachusetts, Loan and Trust Company
placed an attachment for 500. 900 on the
Riverside mill yesterday. This makes
S312, 600 of attachments on the property
here. Nothing is known of the where
abouts of Brown. the treasurer.
CAUSED ANOTHER FAILURE.
BosToN. Aug. lO-George W. Hollis, of
the Hollis Dressed Beef 6 Wool,Company,
made an assignment yesterday for the
benefit of his creditors to Judge Asa
French and n. E. Hollis. His embarrass-
ment is caused by the failure of Brown.
Steese s. Clark. 1t is stated at the
Office of the Hollis company that
Mr.. Hollis embarrassment will not
affect the company. The assign
ment causes considerable surprise,
Mr. Hollis being considered quite well TO
do. The assignees state that this action
has been taken because Mr.. Hollis had
consigned a large amount of wool to
Brown, Steese & Clark. on which he hal
received no advances and he did not know
how much stock he would have to realize
on iminediat ely in order to meet notes on
which he is liable.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
ADVISED TO ATTEND.

Commander Booth Issues an Order Con.
cerning the National Encampment.
TOPEKA. Kan, Aug. 9-Tbe following
circular letter. made public last evening,
is to be sent out to the G. A r posts Of
this department from the department
headquarters in this city:
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS, !
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 7
TOPEKA Kan, Aug. 5, 1850 }
Circular letter No. 81
The twenty third National Encampment OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic will assemble in
the city OF Milwaukee, Wis, on Tuesday, Au-
gust %, 1889 The grand parade will he had
on the above date. and the Department
Commander earnestly requests all COM
rades from Kansas attending the twenty-third
National Encampment to participate ia this
parade, and thus show an appreciation of the
Efforts Of our comrades and the patriotic citi
zens OF Milw aukee to Hospitality entertain US.
The headquarters OF this department will be
located I No. Grand avenue. where all Kan
sas comrades are requested to present them
selves Tuesday morning. August e, 1870 al nine
o'clock. Owing to the inability TO make salts
factory rates with the railroad companies as
referred to in circular letter No. the COM
rades desiring to attend the encampment
are left TO select their own route and make
such arrangements as they see tit. The
rate has been fixed at one fare for the round
trip. The fare from Kansas City TO Milwau-
kee and return will be sI39S TO which will
be added one fare from all Kansas points.
Comrades should leave Kansas City or Missouri
river points as early as Sunday evening, Au-
gust -. to enable them to reach Milwaukee in
time to rest and be able TO take part il, the pa
rade on the 21th. Delegates and representa-
tives desiring rooms will communicate at once
witt T. NJ. Lanham. Department Quartermas-
ter. Topeka, Kan. giving the number of rooms
wanted ETC. He will proceed to Milwaukee on
the 21st and make arrangements for accommo-
dations OF such delegates and representatives
rs desire him TO do SO.
Headquarters at Topeka will be closed from
Saturday, August ~ to September .. inclusive,
and no department business will be transacted
between these dates. COmrade A. G. Stacy has
been appointed official press reporter for this
department for the year 1889, and will accom-
pany these headquarters to Milwaukee to at
tend the National Encampment. Delegate and
encampment badges can be procured OF the
Assistant Adjutant General at headquarters in
Milwaukee. The department has on hand a
number Of grasshopper badges which the com
Auiutant- General or calling on him at head
quarters in Milwaukee.
[Signed.1 HENRY BOOTH,
Department Commander.
LAWRENCE WILSON.
Assistant Adiutant- General.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
Indians Threaten q Massacre.

NORA, Minn., Aug. 10.-The massacre Of
the inhabitants of Chief River Falls, .
small village near Red Lake reservation,
is imminent Hundreds of squatters
had invaded the reservation, staked
out claims and prepared to stay. The
Indians. incensed, gathered around
Chief River Falls until now about two
hundred braves with war paint on are
there. They have been drinking and
carousing and threaten to make a raid
upon squatters and slaughter them II they
do not remove at once 1nhabitants OF
the village have petitioned the Governor
to send troops to protect them and 70 re-
move the cause of the trouble. The In.
diaus are in an ugly mood.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
LOOKS HOPEFUL.
The Supposed Tascott Arrest I'm Texas Ma
Turn Out Right.

The Supposed Tascott Arrest in Texas May
Turn Out Right.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-Ir is possible that
the young man under arrest in Laredo,
Tex, may really be Tasco;t He answers
the description to q dot, and tells conflict
ing stories. He says he is A. o. Dell
phine, of Concordia, Kan. W. H. s. Pep
perell, postmaster at Concordia, tele.
graphs, in reply to an inquiry, that
no such person as A. o. Delphine ever
lived there or received mail at the post
office there. A. j. Stone, son-in-law of
Mr.. Smell, the murdered millionaire, fast
,vening said: 'If the picture sent on
rom Texas is Tascott's, it can be identi-
fed in ten minutes. / know Tascott
myself There are scores of peo-
pie in this very neighborhood-
where he lived for years-with.
in a few doors of Mr.. SnelPs home
who knew him WE'LL" "What do you
think Of this Laredo arrest, as far as the
information goes!" was asked. Il think
it looks very hopeful 1t is the best news
paper discovery that We have yet had, but
/ have so often been deceived into hoping
too tar that am inclined to 60 slow. The
description is good and tallies with Tss-
colt in eyery particular
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
CHEROKEE CHECKERS.
Another Election Surprise-Chief Mayes
Accused of DeIayin Matters.


Accused of Delaying Matters.
TABLEQUAH, l. T., Aug. a-Complete
election returns show that in the next
Ma ional Council Chief Mayes' party will
have a clear majority. The result is a
great surprise to every one. as the Ma
tionals had up to yesterday been thought
victorious by an verwhelming majority.
The election of a Downing or Msyes
Counc ! may result in further postpone
ment of action in the negotiations for the
Strip. The present Council being of a
National complexion, Chief Mayes may
desire to wait until November next when
the next Council will lie sworn in.
Mayes has not yet returned from home,
where he went to vote. The Commission
ers are patiently waiting for his return to
hear some answer to their proposition of
l.25 per acre. The Chiefs apparent in
difference to the presence of the Com
missioners is condemned by many of his
friends who argue that his hesit-
ancy will be construed to be dis
courtesy to the United States Govern
ment's representatives. The election was
held Monday and he has had ample time
time 10 get back. the Commissioners,
however, are improving the time by
mingling with the people and showing
them that it would be the wisest policy to
part with the Strip.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES,


THE President has accepted the resigna.
fion of Stephen A. Walker, district attor-
ney for the Southern district of New
York.
THE President and party left Washing
ton on the 9Th for their trip to Bar Har-
Tor, Me.
AT the request of the Pos,master.Gen-
efal the Secretary of War has directed the
General to instruct his sub.
ostiinates 10 pay no more Government
telegraph bills until the rates to be paid
are furnished by the Postmaster General.
MUCH annoyance is experienced in
Washington by swarms of f1eas.
The report of Captain Shepard, COM
manding the revenue steamer Rush. in re.
gard 10 the British sealer Black Diamond,
which was mailed at San Francisco, has
been received at the Treasury Depart
ment Acting Secretary Batcheler re.
fused positively to give 1t to the press,
but admitted that it confirmed substan-
tally the newspaper reports concerning
the seizure.
IMMIGRANT INSPECTOR ALLEN, of Ver-
mont. has entered protest with the Treas
ury Department against the strict enforce
ment of the Alien Contract law along the
Canadian border.
The United States gsodetic party sent
out to establish the boundary of Alaska
have begun work on the British Columbia
boundary.
SECRETARY NOBLE has requested the
War Department to take necessary steps
to keep intruders from the Sioux reserva-
tion. This action was taken in anticipa-
ton Of rush of settlers now that the sue
cess of the Sioux Commission is assured
SPECIAL agents of the Treasury Depart
ment are investigating a number Of COM
plants that the Foreign Contract Labor
law is being violated on the Mexican bor-
der. 1t is alleged that a large number of
Cubans are illegally employed in the to-
bacco factories at Key West and that n
cigar manufacturer in Ell Paso employs
Mexicans, who come over the line in the
morning and return in the evening.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Naval Ad-
visory Board has been called for WASH
ington August g
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
THE LATEST,

CONSIDERABLE ceremony occurred on
| the 10Th over the launching OF the steam
ship Kansas City, to ply between Savan-
| nah and New York in connection with the
Memphis railroad. The vessel was chris
tened by Alice Moore. daughter of L. r.
Moore. of Kansas City, Mo.
KING KALAKAUA. of Hawaii. objects to
Mr.. Severance recently appointed Consul
General by the United States. The reason
assigned was because Mr. Severance had
been dismissed by Hawaii as Consul at
San Francisco for cause.
THIRTY FIVE members of the Salvation
Army We're arrested recently in st. Paul
Minn., for parading the streets.
| A REPORT was current that the Russian
Government was pressing the Regents OF
Servia to expel ex-Eing Milan from that
| country.
| EMPEROR WILLIAM was greatly i'm
pressed with the ten miles of war ships
which passed before him in his recent re-
view of the British feet He said. in q
etter to his mother, that it was surprising
proof of the s,reng b of Great Britain.
conveying new ideas of her preponder-
ance of power throughout the world.
| THE losses by the big blaze at Spokane
Falls. Wash, have finally been estimated
at IS, ,oo0, O00 Preparations for rebuilding
are to be seen on every side, and the town
will soon be better than ever.
| CARDINAL LAvIGIERE has abandoned
his project to bold an European anti
slavery conference at Luzerne, Switzer-
land.
A LARGE number of fine cattle have died
at Clarendon, Tex, of splenetic fever.
| THE President took an ocean boat ride
at Bar Harbor. Me-, on the 10th and had
rather a rough trip.
IT is learned that the Wisconsin Central
train robber has been identified as James
McCune, a notorious woodsman with sew
eral aliases and well known at Chippewa
Fails, Wis
| PRESIDENT HARRISON has made the fol-
lowing appointments: Samuel F. Phillips,
Of North Carolina, Commissioner on the
part of the United States under the Ven-
esuelan and United States treaty oncern-
ing the adjustment of claims; Charles &.
Hope, of Missouri, Consul at Toronto;
Richard G. Lay, of the district Of Colum-
bic, Consul General at Ottawa.
| Two freight trains were wrecked at
Whistletown, Pa, the other morning.
Bert Anderson, brakeman was killed in.
slant y and two engines and twenty-five
cars were wrecked and burned.
The orphan asylum at Augusta, Ga,
was burned recently. All the children
escaped. Two firemen were injured by
falling timbers. Loss, S100 600; insurance,
$50. .000
TIE report extensively circulated that
Congress must ratify the Sioux treaty be-
fore the lands are thrown open is a mis-
take. 1t will only need the Presidents
proclamation after the Commiss on re-
ports to make the lands part of the pub
lie domain.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
THE WEST.

LATER reports showed thirty blocks
burned in the recent fire at Spokane
Falls Wash. The loss was estimated at
$4,000 600.
THE Washington Constitutional conven-
ton by vote of Al to % has decided not
20 incorporate clause establishing rail-
road commission.
The skeletons Of fifteen persons were
unearthed on the highway eight miles
south Of Peoria, Ill, recently. No one
knows how they came there.
JAMES WOOD and George Nature were
instantly killed by the falling of scaf-
fold at Lima, O., the other day.
DURING a quarrel over some trifiing
matter at the Chicago stock yards. John
Richter stabbed and instantly killed
Adolph Whitman. Both men were en-
ployed in packing house and both were
married
The Iola register., 1889-08-16

WICHITA Kan, Aug. 10-Was it at
tempted murder or an accidenti is the
question agitating the parents of the
three-year- daughter of Joseph Hill
ton, who was horribly mangied on q
street car track and who is now dying
in agony. No one noticed the infant
until the shrek was uttered
which told of acute suffering. When
the car was stopped and the little one
was picked up it was found that the
mules hoofs had battered the head, PEN
etrated the tender flesh. laying bare the
stomach, and dislocated one hip joint
Suspicious have been directed against a
fourteen-your-o boy who has been in
the habit of abusing the child.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16

PARIS, Aug. 9-The trial of General
Bouiauger was begun yesterday before
the High Court of the Senate. A body of
military guarded the court The Procu-
ur-General, in a speech, accused Bou-
anger Of attempting while in Tunis to
play the role of Viceroy, of associ iating
with immora! characters, and, while Min.
lister of War, OF having his portrait taken
as Cromwell the protector, and showing it
to secret agents. These agents the Pro-
cureur denounced as swindlers and
bullies. NJ. Rochefort and Count Dillon
We're described by the Procureu- Sen eral
as accompiices OF General Boulanger.
Count Dillon he said had been expelled
from the army and was worthy TO parti-
cipate in disloyal plots.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16

Vera Hawkins q asixtesn-year.o.d girl
was found wandering about the Union
Depot dressed in boys clothes. She was
brought TO the Four Courts, and said that
she had been staying with her sister at
Jackson. Mich, her mother and father
being separated. Her mother being at
Dallas. Tex, and having not seen her for
over nine years, she started away from
her sisters home at jackson dressed like
boy, having put on a suit Of her sisters
sons clothes. When she reached St Louis
her money gave out. She had enough
money to purchase ticket on the Iron
Mountain read to Jefferson Barracks,
which she did, and when she got there she
was going to get work. Itwas while wait.
ing for the evening train that she
was arrested. She gave the following &C.
count of her travels: Her father, she
stated, was in the Soldiers Home at Jack.
son, Mich. Her mother and father sepa.
rated nine years ago and the mother went
to Dallas, Tex, where she has been living
ever since. She concluded to pay her
mother a visit, and not having the money,
went to the house Of her half sister, and
taking her fifteen-year-o sons coat,
vest, pants aud straw hat put them on
and waited until evening. when she
walked ten miles out from jackson, where
she boarded a train, having only S.25 in
her pocket She boarded train after train
and to the conductors she told her story,
saying she was a z RI, and each one passed
her along the line until she reached this
city-St. Louis Globe Democrat
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
GENERAL.

A DISPATCH from Ensley City, Ala, re-
ports that Andy Williams went home and
found William McCutcheon in his room
with his wife. He killed them both with
a revolver and left
GENERAL BoULANGER has issued a dec
lara.ion in which he says that the accuse.
tions against him are slanders and that
he relies upon the French people as his
sole judge.
LORD DUNRAyKN has decided that his
yacht Valkyrie shall not visit America
WILLIAM MCKAMY was horribly ground
to death in his faith sf's quartz crusher re-
Gently in Mexico. He belonged to Bon.
ham, Tex
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
Hard For Pratt.

ST. LOUIS Aug. 10-Darwin w. Pratt,
who was st. Louis agent for the McCor-
mick Harvesting Machine Company OF
Chicago, with Hiram a Post as his book
keeper, went to the State penitsntiary at
Jefferson City and surrendered himself
Post embezzled and on his statement Pratt
was indicted as an accomplice, tried and
sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary. This was several years ago and the
Supreme Court has just affirmed the deci.
sion which sends Pratt to the penitentlary.
1t 10 believed he is innocent and will b
pardoned by Governor Francis. Pratt's
family here is highly respected and the
case is a very sad ona
The Iola register., 1889-08-16

MRS. MAVERICK. combined appeal to
the Home Office for her reprieve.
Their action is based not only on the
confusion in the medical testimony
taken, but also on the peculiar be-
havior of the judge. which has ex-
cited q ferment of indignation through
out the country. The foreman of
the jury has been interviewed concerning
the verdict which he and his fellow jurors
so hastily brought in. and he has shown
himself by his answers to be possessed of
only a confused notion of the evidence
which had been presenie ed in court. He
did not know that Sir Charles Russell had
offered in court to call witnesses who
would substantiate the statement of the
defendant and that the justice refused to
hear this important testimony. He ad-
mitted that he would not be sorry il re-
prieve was granted. notwithstanding his
vote was in favor Of the verdict of MUIR
der. The general impression left bv the
interview is that the jurors allowed them
selves to be swayed and biased by the
grossly one-sided summing up of the
Judge and that they gave a hasty verdict
without giving the case and the evidence
any personal consideration"
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
Terrible Flood i'm .Japan.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9-The Japan
Gazette, received by the steamer Arabic,
says that about 100 persons were drowned,
$4,000 houses washed away and 2,5C0 acres
of cultivated land seriously damaged in
four of the seven cantons which suffered
most from the overfowing of the river
Chikuge in Fukuokoken by the recent
haavy rains
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
Bold Exploit of n Train ltobber on tn
Wisconsin Central

MISNEAPoLIs, Minn., Aug. a-The Wis
consin Central passenger train from Chi.
cago which passed Chippewa Falls Wis,
at four O'Clock yesterday morning, was
robbed by a single man between Chippe-
wa Falls and Abbolsville.
The robbey entered a sleeping car, com.
manded the porter and conductor to throw
up their hands and then scar ched their
pockets. One passenger was also robbed
and shot or two was fired at the porter,
but no one was hurt.
The robber pulled the bell rope and
when the train stepped he jumped off and
escaped. No attempt was made to follow
him.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
Elnx In Inion County. I'LL.

ANNA, ILL.,, Aug. l0.-Flux has for
several weeks been almost epidemic in the
neigbborhood Of Lick creek, this county.
Entire families have been prostratsd at one
time. and many deaths have occurred,
especially among children. Within two
weeks nearly every family in the district
had one or more cases.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
Encampment Prospects.

CHICAGO. Aug. 10-A special from Mill
waukee says: Encampment prospects
were never brighter and all Milwaukee IL
ousy devising plans to entertain the com.
ing crowd. 1t is expected that oo, wv vet
erans will take part in the parade.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
KANSAS PENSIONS.
The Disbursements at Topeka Over Seven
Million Dollars.

Tie DIsDursemeHts at TOPEKA OVer seven
Million Dollars.
TOPEKA. Kan, Aug. 1O.-Hon. G. ".
Click, United States pension agent at To-
peka, who will soon be succeeded by
Bernard Kelly, has just submitted his an
nual report to the Commissioner of PEN
sions at Washin gton. The report is an
extended one and its preparation required
much careful clerical work. The fiscal
year closed June 80 1889 and the report
covers the transactions up to and inciud-
ing that date. The total disbursements
from the Topeka office were SI.e23 SOS 4S
The payments are classified as follows:
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
Not in the Hands OF Brigands.

BAR HARBoR, Me-, Aug. 9-Mr. Edmund
Pendleton, a relative of Mrs. Pendieton
Bowler, reported captured by Italian bril-
gands, states that she has been in con-
stant correspondence with Mrs. Bowler
and has no information Of the capture.
The Iola register., 1889-08-16

Mrs. Maybrick. which
has been signed by
most of the barristers
and solicitors of the
Liverpool circuit and
he petition which
mas been circulated
among the merchants
and brokers, Parlia-
ment itself has taken
Up the cause of the
condemned woman.
\ number of mem.
,oers of the House of
|commons have de-
cided to make q
The Iola register., 1889-08-16
MES. MAVERICK.

Her Condemnation Excites Much Interest
In Eneland-Enorts i'm Her Behalf.
NEW YORK Aug 10-A cable dispatch
from London saws: In addition to the
memorial to the Government in behalf Of