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The Iola register., 1889-05-24
The Causes of Death.

Our readers are doubtless all familiar
with the Robinson poisoning cases, which
! have recently come to light il Somerville,
Mass, a suburb of Boston.
1t seems that eight deaths have occurred
from arsenical poisoning, seven in one
family, and within five years. 1t is doubt
full if the murderers would have been
brought to justice had not an organization
in which the victims were insured began an
investigation as to why SO many persons
had suddenly died in one family.
But the sensation from medical point of
view connected with the case, took place in
Boston at a recent meeting of the Massa
ctusetts Medico-Legal Society, when it was
stated by DIR. Holt that there was general
ignorance of the symptoms of arsenical
poisoning and because of such ignorance
the Robinson poisoning cases had gone on
without arousing the suspicion of medical
men. The Robinson cases were all treated
by regular physicians, with correct di
plomas, men supposed to know what they
were doctoring for, and to know the effect
of drugs on certain diseases. Yet in the
five deaths from arsenical poisoning of
which we speak, certificates Of death were
given for pneumonia, typhoid fever, men,
ingitis, bowel disease, and Bright's Dis
ease.
Such commentary on the general igno-
rance of the medical profession, made by
one of its own number, we believe to be
without q parallel.
Is it any wonder that patients are losing
faith in their doctorsa Here were five able
bodied people slowly poisoned with arsenic
before their very eyes, and yet these very
wise medical men were doctoring them for
pneumonia, typhoid fever, meningitis,
bowel disease, and Bright's disease.
In the very same manner thousands of
patients are being treated this day for
pneumonia, heart trouble, dropsy, incipient
consumption, etc, when these are but
symptoms of advanced kidney disease,
which IS but another name for Bright's dis
ease. The doctors do not strike at the seat
of the discase-the kidneys, and if they
did nine times out of ten they would fail
as they are on record as saying they can
not cure Bright's disease of the kidneys.
Rather than use Warmers Safe Cure,
we'll known specific for this and all other
forms of kidney disease, they would let
their patients die and then give death
certificate that death was caused by peri
carditis, apoplexy, phthisis or cardiac af
fection.
Is this not the honest truth? Do you not
know in your own personal history very
many instances where physicians doctored
the wrong disease, and caused untold suf-
fering, and many times, death. Which
leads us to remark that very much can be
learned by one's-self by careful observa,
ton, and that the doctors are very far from
having monopoly of the knowledge of
medicine or disease.
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
FARM NOTES.

A man in Harper County by the name
of Richardson has planted three miles OF
peach trees along the public highway for
the benefit of travellers. He has erected a
monument to himself that we trust will
endure for many years.-Lawrence (Kan.
Tribune.
A member of the late meeting of the
Western New York Horticultural Society
called attention to the vineyard as one OF
the most promising occupations for women.
This member not only made the sugses-
zion that women can take care of vine
wards, but cited successful examples o.
their manag agement
During heavy rains the soluble matter
of the manure heap will be carried away.
1t is the most valuable portion. Have the
manure heap over pit, or dish the
Ground in the center so that the liquid
will not flow away. The b!acker the
iquid the greater the loss to the manure
when ii is carried off.
As the loss of potash is constant the
farmer will find his crops decreasing un-
less he resorts to ashes or the salts, though
potash exists largely in stable manure
which, however, returns only portion OF
the loss. Sandy soils should have an ap-
ul!cltion of ashes every spring. as they
are, as a rule, naturally deficient in pot
ash.
Horticuliurists generally agree that for
the peach it is hes: to avoid the use OF
stable manure or any commercial ferti
!iZer rich in nitrogen. Such manures stim
ulate too rapid and too soft wool
growth. which is late in forming fruit
Duds. and these are usually immature and
not as hardy as those On more mature
wood.
A letter from Norton County says tina,
five acres of corn will be planted in that
county this year for every two acres last
year, and that the acreage of wheat is ten
times as large as it was last year. They
have plenty of rain thus far. The writer
thinks if there were less growing am
more good farming things in general
would be much impro, ed in that locality.
Kansas Farmer.
1t has frequently been estimated tina,
the ravages of the chinch bug cause loss
10 the country of SD, coo 900 0yearly-main-
Iy in the Northwestern States-of which
$40, 900, GsU may as we'll be saved as not,
suggests a correspondent With every
crop of spring small grain sow four
quarts or clover and three quarts OF fall
rye or fall wheat to the acre; and on win
ter wheat SOW five or six quarts OF clover
in the spring. Then when your grain be-
gins to turn towards ripening the thirsty
chinch bug will leave it and turn to the
sappy clover and fall wheat or rye.
Numbered among novelties in the way
Of tomatoes which leading seedmen COM
mend. AID about which good reports come
from various localities where it has beer
tested, is the Dwarf Champion" This
new tomato, it is claimed. is entirely dis
tinct in habit of growth and foliage. 1t is
described as being dwarf and compact in
habit. the plant growing stiff and upright,
with very thick and short stems. This
habit it retains throughout the season. In
form aud color the fruit resembles some-
what that of the Acme; it is smooth. SYM
metriaal and attractive in appearance
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
FINALLY DECIDED.

The supreme Court Finally Decides the
Celebrated Gaines Suit which Has Been
Before the Courts For Fifty-five Years.
WASHINGTON, May 15-The United
States Supreme Court in an opinion by
Justice Bradley awarded the executors of
the will of Mvra Clark Gaines the sum of
S516, 600 against the city of New Orleans
for the use of property sold by the city
and recovered by Mrs. Gaines after long
litigation. The judgment of the lower
court awarding the executor $4,000 for
the use of the unimproved property sold
by the city was not concurred in.
The case probably has been the most in
teresting, The hardest contested and the
most prolonged known to the judicial his
tory of this country. Over thirty years
ago Justice Wayne, of the United States
Supreme Court said that when the histo-
rian of the American bar should come to
write up the case it would be registered
as the most remarkable in the history of
the courts 1t had been before the Su-
preme Court five times in one form or an
other and has now been decided as many
times again. The first suit in the case
was brought by Mrs. Gaines (then the
wife of General Whitney, in 1884. and
since that time decision has followed de-
cIsion in regard to it until it has become
byword that there was always a Gaines
case pending.
The first suit sought to recover what
was known as the Evariste Blanc tract
in New Orleans. Blanc bought the tract
for about $500 from the executors of
General Daniel Clark, prominent citizen
of New Orleans. He sold it aud some
other land to the city of New Orleans for
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and sold it to number of persons for
between $4,000 and 5000 agreeing to
defend all questions of title, Mrs. Gaines
having a few months before claimed it.
The grounds on which Mrs. Gaines set up
her claim were that she was the child of
General Clark by a secret marriage be-
tween him and ZIlieme Carriere, a woman
well known in the city, and that General
Clark had left later will than the one
under which the property was sold. This
secret marriage formed the axis on which
the litigation revolvei, and the case was
fought with bitterness by both sides. 1t
was not until a few years before the
war that Mrs Gaines was finally declared
to be the illegitimate child as well rs the
lawful heir of General Clark. Even then
the city of New Orleans did not surrender
PEELED 20 bring c suit for dam lees. Ia
1881 the Circuit Court of the United States
for the Louisiana district gave judgment
in her favor for Il 925 Co. aud it Is on APP
peal from this Judgment that the case has
been decided. The present case, it is
generally conceded, cEhausts ali the re-
sources of the law and is regarded as a
final settlement of the litigation. Mrs.
f-hr tn hn las for hIo,.
rights is dead, and so, it is believed, are
ali her immediate relatives except her
daughter n-law, Hattie L. Whitney. in
whose name as Administrative of the
estate of Mrs. Gaines the case stands on
the court docket
Justice Bradley rendered the decision
Of the court which was unanimous. JUS
tice Lamar and Chief Justice Fuller were
not members of the court at the time the
case was argued and took no part in the
decision
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
STOCK ITEMS.

Too much corn to hors, - In warm
weather will cause profuse psrspiration.
Oats should be used in preference.
Bran and cottonseed meal are the chsap-
EFT and best foods that can be bought
they not only increase the flow of milk
and induce rapid growth Of young stock.
but add to the value of the manure.
Old ewes may be sold if the lambs are
weaned. Only strong, vigorous ewes
should be retained. Select those that
yielded plenty of milk for the lambs for
breeding purposes, and sell of the rams
in order to infuse new blood in the flock.
If you have any corn fodder the sheep
will pick it over and clean the stalks. II
the fodder is bright and clean all classes
of stock will relish it Ii the fodder is run
through a cutter and the stalks crushed as
well as chopped by the cutter there will
be but little waste.
Very often the opinion prevails that
most any kind Of quarters are good enough
for the pigs. Oiner animals are given
plenty of room and plenty Of fresh air,
while the pigs are huddlei in close
and crowded pens. Make the hog hou g
roomy and construct it in such a way as
to admit the light.
In tusking a boar. do not use pincers,
file, saw or hammer but take him down
and tie his feet together; then have a
good-sized man get his knee OIL his head
and hold him still, at the same time hold
ing an inch or two.inch stick crosswise
through his mouth, while you take u fat
wood-rasp and saw the tusks Off in no
time.
A pig farrowed in March or April il
kept growing from the start, can be made
TO dress 80 pounds at Christmas. But
little grain will be necessary, as fat will
be of no advantage. The first thing to do
with pig is to make it grow, so as to Sc
cure the siz, and frame upon which to
place the fat later in the season. Glover
is an excellent food for pigs after they
are three months old.
You have a right to know the breeding
Of the colts which you propose to raise
Ii stallion owner has not enterprise
enough about him to have the pedigree OF
his stallion printed and in a convenient
form for preserving, he is hardly deserv-
ing of your patronage Ii a horse is well
bred you should have his breeding so that
it can be referred to when wanted; if he
is not you should not breed to him.-Na-
tional Stockman.
Here in Nebraska, we hare the testi-
mony of farmers for about 400 hogs which
have withstood various kinds Of tests, all
by exposure, with loss of but five ami
mails, and these experiments have ex-
tended from June, 1883, to date, aside
from my own since 1856 with univers al
success. but what speaks stronger than
any thing else possibly can be to the Amer
lean mind, is that myself and friends are
willing to back incubation to the sum Of
anywhere from half million to million
dollars by insuriug hogs against the
cholera, and the gentlemen who are with
me in this venture are not men to fool
money away.-Dr. Billings.
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
BROKE IN TWO.

Accident to a Mixed Train on the Union
Pacific Near Reatrice, Neb.
BEATRICE. Neh, May ia terrible
accident occurred one mile south CT here
about seven O'Clock last night. A mixed
train on the Union Pacific broke IN two,
aud the rear half a few minutes later
crashed into the forward half with terrific
force, causing bad wreck. In tn. coach
attached to the train Sam Roberts, a line
man on the Union Pacific and lady,
whose name could not be harmed.
were riding. The latter was badly
injured but bow seriously is not known.
Roberts, whose home is in Lincoln, was
30 badly injured that he is not ex.
pected to live. He was brought to this
city as soon as possible and taken to the
Iotel and medical aid summoned. The
doctors saw his lungs were badly crushed
and his spine fractured. If he survives
the shock there is faint hope that he
may recover; but the probabi are all
against it He is now living in an un-
conscious condition, but every thing pos
sible is being done for him. TIE track
was blockaded for several hours.
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
THE OCEANS BED.
In Its Deepest Parts It's Desolation Must
He Extreme.

In Its Deepest Parts It's Desolation Must
he Extreme.
As plants do not live in the deep sea,
the deep-sea animal either prey on one
another or get their food from dead
organisms and plants which sink down
to them Thus Maury says: 1.-The
sea, like the snow-cloud with its flakes
in calm, is always letting fall upon
its bed showers of microscopic shells"
And experiment proves that tiny
shell would take about a week to fall
from the surface to the deepest depths.
Since sunlight does not penetrate
much farther than the littoral zone,
there would be beyond this perpetual
darkness. except for phosphorescence.
Many of the animals inhabiting the
continental and abyssal zones have
merely rudimentary eyes. But these
blind creatures have very long feelers.
which help them to grope their way
along the bottom. Other deep-sea
animals on the contrary, have enor-
nous eyes. and these very likely
SuCu VI JutlT
ber as are phosphorescent. and many
perhaps follow the moving lamps about
wherever they go. And so bright is
this light on many of the fish brought
up by the dredge that during the
brief space the animals survive it is
not difficult to read by it
The reason why fishes and mollusks
living more than three miles under
water are able to bear a pressure of
several tons is that they have exceed
ingly loose tissues. which allow the
water to flow equally through every
interstice, end thus to equalize the
weight When the pressure is re-
moved they perish. In the Challenger
expedition sent out by the British
Government, all the sharks brought
up from depth of little less than
three-quarters of mile were dead
when they reached the surface
Household Words.
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
MURDER AND ROBBERY.
George w. Richards Murdered and Robbed
in New Mexico.

George W. Richards Murdered and Robbed
in New Mexico.
TOPEKA, Kan. Nav iG-A brie: dispatch
received last evening at the Santa Fe
headquarters from Carthage, y. NJ, stated
that George W. Richards. superintendent
of the Cartha ge mine was killed yesterday
afternoon by two Mexicans. who stole
5000 The Carthage mine, which is ten
miles from Socorro, is operated by the San
Pedro Coal & Coke Company, an offShoot
of the Santa Fe. Yesterday Superin-
tendent Richards was making the April
payment to the miners and had dis
cursed all but $500 when two Mex
leans gained entrance to the office
where Richards and his clerk, j.
Arnot, were alone shot and killed the
superintendent, secured the money and
both ID one horse and rode away.
4 pursuing party was soon organized.
Vice President Robinson, of the Santa
Fe has offered reward of 81 900 for the
capture of the robbers and 500 additional
for the return cf the money. Richards
had been in the employ of the Santa Fe
as mining engineer and superinte ldent of
mines several wears.
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
THE ARIZONA BATTLE.
Particulars of Paymaster Wham's En-.
counter With Robbers.

Particulars of Paymaster wham's En-
counter With Robbers.
TCrsoS. A. L, May l5.-A Fort Thomas
special gives the particulars of the recent
fight between a baild of robbers and
United States Paymaster Wham's party
near Cedar Springs, in which the robbers
obtained $40 900. At the point at which
the attack was made the road winds down
a long hill. Near the top it runs between
q high wall on the east and a low wedge
Of rock on the west. A large rock was
discovered in the road and tie party
stopped TO removeit. a volley OF shots was
thereupon fred from the brow of the hill,
which rose to a height OF fiftv feet
almost perpendiculariy. None of the rob-
bers could be seen from below. The pay
masters party. which consisted of Major
J. W. Wham, Clerk ". J. Gibbon, two
commissioned officers. nine privates
and two drivers, Immediately returned
the fire, which became general. The rob-
bers had placed men further up tie hill TO
the right of the party and also sent men
along the hill TO get in a cross fire from
the left 1t is known that at least one
man in each of the flauking parties was
either killed or wounded. The pavmas-
ter's party made a break for the ravine
below the ledge, which for so yards
is without shelter and FIVE men were
wounded in crossing it. The others of the
party retreated further around the point
of the hill Paymester Wham from be-
hind the ledge, thinking the cross fire had
been silenced, made heroic effort 10 raIiv
his men. but they were compelled II sack
other shelter, beng exposed TO a terrible
fire The paymIster, MS clerk and the
corporal were th on V mep who reached
the last shelter uRwound d While some
of the robbers kept up the fire from
the hill it was very easy matter for
the Others to go down and secure the
booty, which was in a strong iron-bounG
box on the boot OF the anl5u lance l. was
opened with an axe, ami :he S29,0JU car
ried away, together with q valIse. winch
they soon cut open and abandoned. One
robbeT was seen TO be taken away on a
pack mule and tracks OF blood showed
them to have suffered badly. at no
time were al of the band seen.
Six of the wounded in The paw
masters party We're conveyed N the am
uanca to hospital here and surgeon
and wagons were sent for the Others.
Eight men ont OF eleven were wounded
0ie of the wounded soldiers has died and
three Others are in IA critical condition.
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
ALLEN THoRNolke RICE DEAD.
The Newly Appointed Minister to Russia
Dies SuddenIY.

The Newly Appointed Minister to Russia
Dies Suddenly.
NEW York May 1L-Allen Thorndike
Rice, the newly appointed Minister to
Russia, died suddenly yesterday morning
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel where he was
stopping. Mr.. Rice had been suffering
from throat affection for a few days but
was not supposed to be in any danger.
He intended to sail for Europe Wednes-
day in the Inman steamer City of Paris,
dut was compelled to delay his departure
owing to his sickness.
Mr.. Rice died at half-past three O'Clock
There were with him at the time James
Sargent his valet of twenty years stand.
ing; Henry Crisp, an experienced nurse,
DIR. Goldthwaite and DR.. Fuller, who had
been in attendance upon him for some
time. DIR. Fuller gives the following his.
tory of the case:
''Mr. Rice had been ill during the entire
spring, having been generally run down
from overwork in preparing to go abroad
He took to his bed three or four days ago.
suffering from tonsilitis. His tonsils had
formerly given him considerable trouble
and had been clipped. There was a cer-
tain amount of liberation apparent, with
symptoms of quincy. The case had not been
considered dan gerous, however, even up
to eleven O'Clock last night Monday was
his worst day. On Tuesday night the
abscess began to discharge and he felt a
great deal of relief. The patients tenn
perature fell and his condition appeared
to be favorable. He also had a good
appetite. DR.. Fuller adds that Mr.. Rice's
nurse was an excellent one and that all
was done for the sick man that was pos
sible
The nurse says that at one o'clock yes
terday morning, when only he and the
valet were with the patient, Mr.. Rice ex-
perforated some phlegm or pus, felt
greatly relieved and went to Sleep At
about two O'Clock the nurse endeavored to
awake him to allow more phlegm to be
discharged, but was unable to wake him.
Sargent the valet, made haste to sum-
mon DR.. Fuller and DR.. Goldthwaite. The
latter reached the sick room first and tried
in vain to awaken the patient. When DIR.
Fuller arrived they united their efforts
with the same result Mr. Rice died with.
in ten minutes.
DR.. Fuller says the glottis swelled sud-
denly and shut off the breath. Such a
case is of rare occurrence and in this in
stance was unlocked FOR, though every
precaution had been taken.
The Iola register., 1889-05-24
NATIONAL EXPENDITURES.
What II Costs to Run the Governments
The Appropriations.

What It Costs to Run the Government
The Appropriations.
WASHINGTON May 16-Statements
showing the results of the acts of the sec.
ond session OF the Fiftieth Congress upon
the finances of government have been
prepared by Thomas P. Cleaves and James
L. Courts, clerks respectively of the Sen.
ate and House Committees on Appropria-
tions. They show that the total amount
appropriated by Congress was S2S6. .646, .
460. while the permanent specific and in
definite appropriations were estimated by
the Secretary of the Treasury at SlOS, 69l, =
056, making the total estimated expendi-
lures of the Government for 1SS9-9o. SS95. =
3SI, ,516 The estimated revenues for the
same time are s459 500 65S.
The act provides for $50 new offices, the
salaries of which aggrega ate s4i3 500
while the increase of sa laries of old offices
amount to 81. OBS $50. Sixty-nine offices are
abolished, the salaries of which are 1927, =
0I2, and the salaries of other Offices are
reduced $3.50. Among the new offices
created are five Senate committee clerks
and messengers. one House committee
clerk, three clerks of the signal office, ten
clerks in the Navy Department, one in the
Interior Department, two laborers in the
Post-office Department, judge attorney
and marshal of the Indian Territory
court secretary, assistant secretary, as
sistant librarian and assistant statistician
of the Department of Agriculture, 13l
teachers, clerks, ETC., in the District
of Columbia, six keepers of life
saving stations, fifty keepers of light
houses, eight registers and receivers Of
public land-ofiices, superintendents and
seventy-seven assistants and clerks of the
eleventh census; six officers of North Da-
kato, seven of South Dakota, six OF Mon
tana and six of Washington, an additional
Brigadier- General. Colonel and Major on
the retired list of the army; six assistant
engineers of the navy, 100 mariners, a
superintendent of the Indian school at
Pierre, OAK, and the Sioux, Chippewa and
Cherokee commissioners.
The Post-oftice Appropriation bill in.
creases the allowance for compensation
for clerks in post-oaices from s5 975, 900 to
Sc, $50 009 and that for railway post-oflice
clerks from s.. 246,7D to -, Coz. 900 with q
$50, 900 deficiency item.