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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
THE LATEST.

THERE was general tendency to ad.
vance on the London Stock Exchange
during the week ended February 9. Amer.
lean railroad securities were affected by
the desire to sell in New York whenever
rise was reported in London. The Cont.
mental bourses were quiet with business
limited. Panama canal shares continued
to fall.
a STORM of exceptional severity was re.
ported raging throughout Holland. The
rivers are greatly swollen and Rotterdam,
Dordrecht, Schiedam, Swolle and kampen
are inundated. Many shipwrecks with
great loss of life are reported.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended February 8 showed an average in
crease of 291 compared with the cores
ponding week of last year. In New York
the increase was $3.50
The value of the plunder secured by
the mob in the recent riot at Rome is
estimated ut 5000. The Government
possesses evidence that the Anarchist
leaders fomented the agitation.
The Senate on the 9th passed the Forth
fcation Appropriation bill and resumed
consideration of the Pacific Funding bill.
The Post-office Appropriation bill was be-
fore the House.
The birthday of the late Samuel J.
Tilden was celebrated on the 9th by his
admirers in several of the principal cities.
Ton ALLEN, colored seaman, has been
arrested in Swansea, Wales. for the MUIR
der OF Mr. Kent, the landlord of the
Gloucester Hotel. Allen confessed. He
had broken into the house for purposes of
robbery, the murder following desperate
struggle.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS respited for sixty
days the death sentences Of William
Walker and John Matthews. who were to
have been hanged at Ozark, No., Febru-
airy Is.
An attache Of the British Admiralty
has been dismissed for crookedness in
divulging terms Of contract He was
caught by an electric wire while abstract
ing documents.
The bodies of nine Mexican prospectors,
it is reported, have been found in the
northern part Of Wyoming Territory. 1t
was said they were in search of q famous
lost mine by the aid of chart and were
murdered by other prospectors who OBJ
tanned the secret
In communication to the State Depart.
ment Minister DENLY states that the num-
Der Of American citizens now residing in
the Chinese empire is 1,022. OF this mum.
Der sos are missionaries. seventy.three are
seafarers, twenty-eight are in the Chinese
customs service and twenty.three follow
mercantile pursuits. The occupations of
345 are unclassified.
A MASS meeting was held in Hyde park,
London, on the 10th, denouncing the Gov.
ernment's Irish coercive policy and the
imprisonment and ill-treatment of Editor
O'Brien. In a newspaper liter Mr.. Bal.
four denied that O'Brien had been ILL.,
treated.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
Belle STAIRS Assassin Caught.

FORT SMITH, Ark, Feb. 9.-John Starr,
husband of Belle Starr, the noted female
outlaw who was murdered Sunday even
ing near her home in the Cherokee Nation,
arrived this morning with E. A. Watson,
the alleged assassin, and he was placed in
the United States Jail. Starr said he
would have killed Watson, but the alleged
murderer would show no fight and give
him cause. Watson is a white man thirty
two years old, who came to the Nation a
year ago from Florida. He had quarreled
with Belle Starr and threatened her life,
and she accused him of the crime before
dying.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
Block of Buildings burned.

DECATUR, Tex, Feb. 9.-Fire started
yesterday morning in the Pickerell build
ing, on the east side of the public square,
and destroyed block of stone buildings
with their contents. The total loss is
$4,000. Insurance S4S.OoO in the follow
ing companies: Sun, Mutual. California,
Hartford. London, Liverpool and Globe,
Pennsylvania, North American, Com
mercial, American Fire Association, of
Philadelphia; Union, Of San Francisco;
Phoenix and Planters and Merchants. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Navy Department is informed that
the war steamer Mohican is ready for sea.
SENATOR SHERMAN has reported favora-
bly, the following amendment to the SUM-
dry Civil Appropriation bill from the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations: ITO enable
the President to protect the interests of
the United States and to provide for the
security OF persons and property of citi-
zens of the United States at the isthmus
of Panama in such a manner as he may
deem apprehension, O00."
THE House Committee on Territories has
decided to report against the admission of
Utah at present, but to favor letting in
Idaho, Wyoming and Arizona together.
A report on the Utah case was ordered.
SECRETARY BAYARD has notified the
German Minister that this Government
accepts the proposition for a resumption
at Berlin of the conference begun in Wash
ington in 1887 in regard to Samoa.
IT is stated that Mr.. Blaine has leased
for term of ten years the residence on
the east side of Lafayette square, Wash
ington, known as the Seward house.
THE resignation of Harold NJ. Sewall.
Consul-General of Samoa, has been re-
Quested by the State Department.. Sewall
bitterly criticised the policy of the Admin
istration in the Samoa matter.
The recall of Mr.. Sewall, the American
Consul in Samoa, has produced an exec.
lent impression in Berlin. The Post and
other papers urge the necessity Of the re-
call of the English Consul also. who. it is
alleged, contributed largely to the causing
of the troubles.
The much talked of protocols" on the
Samoan question We're sent to Congress on
the Sth, the Governments of Great Britain
and Germany having consented to their
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
Gould Cutting Down Salaries.

NEW YORK. Feb. 9.-Amos Lawrence
Hopkins has quit the service of Jay Gould.
For years he has been one Of Mr.. Gould's
closest business associates. He has been
entrusted with interests of vast mag
nitude. He has represented Mr.. Gould
in a multitude of big corporations.
He has sat in the office with him. In Wall
street circles he has of late been recog-
nized as practically Mr.. Gould's other self.
The cause Of the rupture was the cutting
down of salaries. 1t is said that MIR. Gould
has been cutting salaries in every direc.
ton throughout all Of his corporations.
He is credited with having brought about
reductions within the last ninety days that
aggregate a monthly saving Of $50 600.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
They we're standing before

They were standing before the
book-shelves wherein stood a set Of
Byron bound in full red morocco, and
the poems of Shelley bound in tree
calf. Which do you prefer. Miss Null
ligatawny, the works of Byron or
Shelley?" ''Oh, Byron by all means!
Red always was my favorlte color. -
Harper's Bazar
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15

well, my boy" he asked cheer
fully at the breakfast table the MORN
ing after Cholly had taken the i'm
portant leap. chow did things go last
evening? Did she smile on your pro-
posal?" .No," said Cholly, family.
pushing away breakfast roll 'She
smiled at it. "-Somerville Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15

-Dilapidated Lawyer-''How much
will you advance on this law book?"
Pawnbroker-"I Won't advance nod
diugs on single pook. Ven you wants
some advances on Il whole library, den
perhaps will talk Freshness NIT you"
We'll. this is my whole library.
Texas Shiftings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15

-Mexicans have a nice, delicate way
Of saying even unpleasant things. A
young Mexican lady, talking with a
prisoner in the penitentiary, politely
asked: "How long do you expect TO be
away from homer"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15

An American, who lately returned
from Spain, says that the infant King
of that country has passion for bo-
logna sausage. 1t is not often that a
love for the mysterious is developed in
a child of such tender years. Norris
totoa Herald. Et
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15

Bishop ION his semi-annual round)
$50 you don't remember me. Bob
by?" Bobby-..N-no, SIR" Bishop
Il remember you very well. in
deed" Bobby-''That SO? Well. why
didn't you bring me something's
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15

The constant jar of walking on
city pavements can be prevented by
initiating nature. The human heel is
covered with an elastic pad. Now.
as to walk barefoot would be out OF
the question, it is suggested that We
replace the hard boot-heel with one
made of elastic rubber. 1t would cost
but few cents month to keep in
repair, and would have the additional
advantage of lessening the noise of
hurrying feet and preventing. to an
extent, broken bones in the winter
Home journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
The CLAYTON Murder.

LITTLE Rock. Ark, Feb. 9.-The bill au.
thorizing the Governor to offer So 900 for
the apprehension of any notorious recent
criminals, and which is designed to cover
the Clayton murder, passed the Legisla.
ture yesterday and has been signed by
Governor Eagle, who will offer that sum
for the arrest Of the assassin Of John II.
CLAYTON
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
TEE EAST.

The French steamer Normandie is de-
tanned at quarantine, New York, because
of smallpox.
The strike on the surface railroads at
New York was formally declared off as
failure on the night of the 9Th.
JAMES MCGOWAN, a striker, was shot
through the brain in New York on the 9Th.
A mob was engaged in bombarding a
street car with rocks at the time, when the
policeman in charge fired into the crowd
with the above result.
THE engineer was killed and the fireman
and a brakeman and freight conductor
badly hurt by the overturning of a wild
engine near Prospect station in Somer-
vile. Mass, the other night
REV. HENRY V. SATTKRLEE, of Calvary
Church, New York City, has been
elected Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Michigan, but it is doubtful whether he
will accept
An explosion of gas in the Perry shaft
at Pittston, Pa, recently killed two min
ers and seriously wounded another.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Cleveland paid a
visit to New York on the 9th, returning by
the midnight train.
IT is denied from Gloversville, n. Y,
that there was any truth in the report of
the drowning of seventeen men and their
teams in Pine lake near there, few DAYS
ago.
THE New York Mail and Express, in a
double.leaded editorial, congratulates
Harrison and Blaine that the latter is soon
TO become Secretary of State.
j. P. CURRY & Co.'s brewery at Niagara
Falls, n. Y, has been destroyed by fire
Loss, $40 900.
The works of the Pacifc Guauo Company
at Woods Holl, Mass, have been attached
by the Lynn Institution for Savings. The
liabilities are about s. 900 600 The COM
pany's headquarters were at Boston and
the5 have mines at Beaufort, S. c., and
works at Charleston, S. c.
A. s GooDKIN is reported to have en-
bezzled $4,000 belonging to the Manhattan
Elevated railway, New York.
By the breaking Of a gas pipe in the cell
lar of a four story tenement in New York
City recently, five persons were made I'M
conscious and two were in a critical con.
dition.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
Educational Institution Damaged.


TERRE HAUrK. Ind, Feb. a-Fire broke
out yesterday morning in the kitchen at
St Mary's of the Woods, one of the Lead
ing Roman Catholic educational institu-
tions for girls in the State. The fire did
SIC, 900 damages before it could be gotten
under control.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15

A DYNAMITE explosion blew q hole
through Stevenson's brewery at New York
recently. There was no clcw to the perpe.
traitors. Several persons were hurt, four
women being brought to premature con.
f1uement
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
Nominations.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-Carroll d.
Wright, of Massachusetts, Commissioner
Of Labor. Thomas NJ. Vance, of North
Carolina, receiver of public moneys,
North Yakima, w. T. ,---,-e- =,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
THE SOUTH.

THE Kentucky tobacco convention at
Lexington has passed resolutions warning
farmers against the manufacturers COM
bination and asking Congress to remove
the tobacco tax.
MAJOR PORTER, who was to have taken
command of Legitime's forces in Hayti,
had a disagreement with his employers
and stopped over at Baltimore, Md.
QUITE a number of persons have been
arrested for outrages on colored persons
in New Iberia, La, as a result of the re-
cent investigation.
A COMBINATION of Boston and Kansas
City capitalists have purchased $1,000
acres of land in the vicinity of Fort Payne,
Ala, and have organized the Fort Payne
Coal and Iron Company.
The new hotel at Sutherland, Fla, was
burned out recently. Among the escaping
inmates was party of Omaha excursion
lists.
JAMES E. WALLER. private secretary Of
Governor Lee, of Virginia, committed sui
eide recently in his office at the State Cap.
itol, Richmond. The cause for the act was
not stated.
E. A. WATSON has been brought in to
Fort Smith, Ark, as the assassin of Belle
Starr.
VIGILANTEs numbering from 600 to l. 900
are reported to be preparing to rid Lafa-
yette Parish, La, of all idle and disreput-
able negroes. The officials are all opposed
to the order and will suppress it if possible.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-15
GENERAL.


The severity Of the winter is increa sin z
the distress caused by the famine in Shan
Tung and Lanchritia, China. 1t is esti-
mated that $500 persons are starving in
Chen kiang.
BY the terms of the will of Mr.. Ed
ward Sartoris, father of Algernon Sar.
toris, the husband of Nellie Grant, his en-.
tire fortune, valued at f45,000, is be-
queathed to his son during his life, and at
his death to his wife absolutely.
The pig iron trust has been perfected
under the name of the American Pig Iron
Storage Warrant Company. Certificates
will be issued on iron in store, and will be
negotiable. like Standard Oil certificates.
IT is semi-officially announced in Paris
that France will follow Great Britain's
lead in recognizing Legitime as President
of Hayti.
ADvIcEs from Shanghai state that riot
has occurred at Ching Kiang Foo, and
that the British Consulate and seven
houses belonging to foreigners have been
wrecked by the rioters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-04
Displacing the Steel Engraving.

1t is fact worthy of passing notice that
the day of the steel engraving is rapidly
drawing to a close, SO far as it is an orna
ment IN parlors and private residences.
The art of photo gravure as it is called.
while not exactly recent one. has grown
into favor SO rapidly of late that the process
is beginning to rank high, both from n
and-point of beauty and economy. l.. III.
Jacobs who is interested in this art, was MT
the Bates recently. and through him 1t was
ascertained that the Indianapolis people
are showing every inclination to take hold
of the new line of Ornamentation for their
houses. The photo gravure.r he said SIS
the result of a, very simple process
For example, take the famous paint
ing of "Angelus." photograph of the
painting is taken. and this in turn, is
photographed ON plate of copper. On this
il is engraved and from il as q plate the
printing is done. The work is of no better
quality than the steel engraving. but it is
equally as good: and costs only about one
third as much
Are these pictures in general demand,,
Yes. The people all through the East are
taking them instead of steel engravings
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-04
Office: 90 South Pennsylvania St.
FTelephone $40.

down in Warsaw. KY" said he, Il worked
on tobacco plantation, and once l was
given a job in a shop that belonged TO Mr..
Peek. He offered me 81 week and went
to work. Well, gentlemen, when the end
of the week came felt as / have never felt
since. 1t was most remarkable sensation.
for was about to be paid the first money l
had ever earned. Your week is up night,
believer said Mr.. Peek. Yes / replied,
as held out my hand.
your father he said, and my heart went
down with thump. However, he said he
would send the dollar to my father through
me, and he handed it over. / was honest
after all. / could have. made twice that
amount in week by playing marbles. but
i knew if did that would double up on
getting whipped as well as on the dollars.
I've thought q thousand times, though. of
how Independent and pleased / felt as
walked away with that dollar"
Sheriff King Jared even worse in his
younger days. IL never have seen the first
money l earned when l was boy" he re-
marked. Il hired out to man who
running a couple of circular saws.
/ worked two weeks, but nv
employer went under and so did l. That
was a damper on my youthful ardor but I
under old Jacob RubuslI. and got one dollar
and twenty-five cents the first day worked.
After that / drove a team for him at five
dollars week"
Judge Rowland made his first money
working in the Decatur county recorders
office. while Recorder Brink, of this county,
first went into an importing establishment.
Il wasn't a partner, though" he said with
smile. but simply an errand boy. TWAS
in Baltimore. and got 500 the first year.
/ was then fifteen years old, and although
/ paid it all ont for board and clothes.
was the happicst boy alive when the end of
that year came around"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-04

Perciyal. American buyer for the society.
and S. Fairweather large manufactures
OF shoes at Arbroath, Scotland.
The strike on the Monongahela river is
about over. The miners of the lower pools
decided TO accept the reduction from 3 TO
gig cents per bushel, and a number of the
large mines have already resumed opera
tons and others will follow next week.
This was caused by the miners IN the upper
pools refusing to stand out Tor the old
price, which was in that poole cents. They
are now working there at cents per
bushel. There is always a difference of Z
cent In the upper pool
Southern manufacturers. Judging by an
swers to questions sent ont by the Chatta-
n0oga Iradesman, certainly do not enter
tam any cheap opinion of the negro's use
filness. They appear to appreciate the
advantages of negro labor ut it's proper
value. and to he by no means willing to in
dorse the declaration of the Bourbon lead
ers that 1t would be a blessing if the col
ored race were banished from the Southern
States. They pay white men and c0lored
men the same wages for the same kind of
labor. and for the rougher and simpler
grades of work they regard the negro rs
more efficient than the white man.
The following is from the Connellsville
COurier's weekly coke-tradc review: The
operation of the seventv-seven coke plants
of the region for the week ending on Sat
idle and $40 in process of construction, as
against IL, 5S3 active, 1,7Si idle and G20
building the previous week. The estimated
production was 49, 73 tons. as against 49,
54S tons during the previous week, and 81
5le tons during the week ending July g.
The active ovens averaged SIS days out of
six last week. The averages for the two
preceding weeks were SIS and 4.75. The
shipments last week aggregated G, AS cars
the largest weeks shipment with one ex-
ceptiOn during the present year. They
We're consigned as follows: To Pittsburg
and rivers, 1925 cars; TO points west of
Pittsburg. $3.50 cars; to points east of Con-
nellsville. 1,6l0 cars. The figures for the
previous week were: Pittsburg. 1,3oO cars;
West, $500 cars; East. 1,45O cars: total,
$3.50 cars. 1t will be noted that there has
been an increase all around, particularly in
Eastern shipments. The latter increase is
largely due to the resumption in full of the
Cambria Iron Company, which is now TAX
ing sixty cars per day regularly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-04
GOOD CHECKER-PLAYERS.
The Best Among the Firemen Surrender to
R,d-llaired but Difident Stranger.

The fact that the State and United States
has set some of the boys of the city fire de-
partment talking about testing their skill
at checkers. There are times in the year
when the game RACES furiously in the de-
partment, especially in the winter. Nearly
all the firemen are adopts in the game. and
though none make any profession, there
are some who may take rank with the best
in the country. At No. 1 there are three
good players, George DAlard, Thomas Quinn
and VIM. Hinesley. Now and then Gideon
b. Thompson of the News, is accommodated
with little game by one of these gentle
men. Samuel Maxwell, of the twos, plays
a good game of chess, as well as checkers.
At the threes, John Robinson is fair
player, and Louis Rafert is considered
champion for that company. At the tours
are William DelbrOok, John Mountain and
Herman Oehier, all of whom are proficient
the best player at the fiyes. with Cicero
Seibert, James Pease and Webb Robinson
crowding him very closely.
Edward KOOtz, of the skies, is ere dited
with being tlrst-class, and at the sevens.
except VIM Long. George y s Bennett Is the
best player at the eight s, though w. X. Me-
Ginnis, VIM Resener and Fred Boomer do
not cOncede that to be the fact. All the
boys at the mines play good game At
the No. / chemical VIM. Jones is player
and ready for the tournament. while Will
Tallentire, Dick Brown Martin McGuff
and w. Partee will uphold the honor of
chemical No. 2. At the first ladder truck
Nat Rogers and James Davis are both of the
impression that there is nothing in the
game that they do not thoroughly
comprehend. a degree of confidence
that is shared by John Loucks.
Tony Waltz and Bud Rice, at No. 2 ladder,
and James Cullen, at No. 3, are all quail
fed players. The best players in the de-
partment are probably George Dellard, of
the ones; Maxwell. of the twos. and
Rafert, OF the threes. William Bedrock
is considered the champion domino player.
Some time ago the best players received
quite a setback. A red-haired stranger
was induced to play game at headquar-
ters. He was a very diffident, unaSsum-
ing person, but it so happened that, as he
played one game after another, each player
about the place attacking him in turn, and
no one ever winning, it dawned upon the
men that they had found checker
ing, but the unknown was taken from one
house to another and quietly put into a
game when any of the smart players be-
gan to crow over their skill. He went
through the entire department., and it was
some time before the really good players
recovered from the gloom OF defeat.