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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON.
The Expelled Boomers Patiently Waiting
For the Uncle Samalekites to Take Their
DeDarture

The Expelled Boomers Patiently Waiting
For the Uncle Samalekites to Take Their
Departure.
GAINESVILLE, Tex, Jan. 26.-Reports
state that the soldiers sent from Fort Sill
for the purpose of clearing Oklahoma of
boomers have about completed the work
and that the expelled boomers are now en-
camped along the southern boundary of
the territory from which they have just
been driven
The numb IT Of boomers that were en-.
camped in the Oklahoma country prior to
the arrival of the soldiers on Wednesday
is stImated variously at from 5000 to
b,C0'. and SON. placs the number as high
as 1000 Tn y came from all parts of the
country End so confident were some of
them that they would not be disturbed in
Their occupancy of the country on account
of the probability that the Springer bill
would soon become law, that they went
to work at once to build for themselves
comfortable homes.
The expelled boomers are many of them
in poor circumstances, but they are re-
ported to be quite cheerful and bear pa
tiently their vexations and disappoint-
ments in the hope that the days are nura-
bered till they will be allowed to enter
again and enjoy in peace the coveted land.
Some of the expelled boomers now en-
camped near Purcell have threatened to
re-enter Oklahoma rs soon as the soldiers
have left, but they will probably not have
the opportunity soon to carry this threat
into execution, for the soldiers are now
guarding the southern boundary of Okla
homa, and will continue to do so for some
ts,,.a =
States soldiers are also guarding the
northern boundary to keep back tho BOOM
ers that would otherwise come on that
side.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
THE SOUTH.

IT is reported that Hopkins and Jenkins
colored labor agents of Vicksburg, Miss,
have been lynched by a mob in North
Louisiana.
SENATOR COKE has been reelected in
Texas.
TRAIN No. on the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad which left Montgomery,
Ala, for New Orleans recently, was
boarded at point between Letchatchee
and Fort Deposit by two white men, who
attempted to enter the postal car by force.
They were unsuccessful, and made their
escape when the train reached Fort De.
post.
The Council Committee on Buildings and
Grounds Of Richmond, Va, has decided to
refuse to employ Republican mechanics
and laborers on the new CITY hall.
The British steamship Erin has been
abandoned of Cape Hatteras with a shaft
broken. The crew was landed at New.
port News, Va
THE Nashville Iron. Steel and Charcoal
Company, located in West Nashville,
Tenn, has made q general assignment.
The assets are claimed by officials of the
company to be about 500, 900 and the liza
bilities $4,000
Two thousand tons Of guano were lost
at Savannah, Ga, the other day by the
collapse of the wharf freight sheds.
SHERIFF j. L. KIBBER, Of Bird County,
KY, has skipped out. He is said TO be
$l4. 600 short in his accounts.
COUNSEL from New York and Phiiadel.
phia, representing unnamed parties, pre-.
sented a petition to the States Attorney
General at Richmond, Va. asking for a
writ of quo warranto against the Rich.
mond d West Point Terminal Company
for the purpose Of FORGETTING its franchises.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
Attempted Train yreckinr.

KANSAS CITY. No.. Jan. 26.-The pas
sengers and crew of the Union Pacific,
Colorad o, Utah & Pacific night express,
which arrived at this city yesterday
morning, reported an attempted train
wrecking near Wilson, Kan, the pre-
vious night. The express was running
at a high rate Of speed at the time,
on a down grade, when it struck an
obstacle on the track with great
force. The engine knocked part Of it aside
and the train passed over the rest A
party of train men and passengers wer
back to the spot, where they found that Il
large amount of lumber, part of it boards
and part heavy lumber, had been piled on
the track as solidly as possible.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
DIPLOMATIC STATE DINNER.
Foreign Representatives Dine With tn
President Of the United States.

Foreign Representatives Dine With the
President of the United States.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ga state dinner
to the diplomatic corps took place Thurs
day evening. President Cleveland
escorted Nine. Romero, wife of the
Mexican Minister, to dinner, and Mrs
Cleveland followed on the arm of the
italian Minister. The other guests were:
Mrs. Carter and the Mexican Minister,
Countess Leopoldin Won Arco-Valley and
Senator Sherman. Baroness Rossn and
the Minister of Austria Hungary, Miss
Bayard and the German Minister,
Mrs. Sherman and the Turkish
Minister, Countess de Sponneck
and the Argentine Minister. Madame
de Hurtado and the Minister Of
France, Mrs. Laughton and the Japanese
Minister, Mrs. Herbert and the Chinese
Minister, Madame De Varres and the
Netherlands Minister, Madame De Guz-
man and the Secretary of State Madame
De Perez Zeldon and the Hawaiian NM
ter, Madame Mutzua and the Spanish
Minister, Countess D'Arschot and the
Minister from Costa Rica, Mrs. McCreary
and the Persian Minister. the Peruvian
Minister. the Danish Minister, the Charge
d'Affaires of Belgium, the Gillian Minis
ter, the Charge d'Affaires of Brazil, Mr..
McCreary, the Minister of Nicaragua, the
Charge d'Affaires of Corea, the Charge
d'Affaires of Sweden and Norway, the
Minister of Switzerland, the Charge
d'Affaires of Great Britain, the Charge
d'Affaires of Russia, the Minister of CO.
lombia
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-Representativs
Morrow, of California. chairman of the
subcommittee of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, intends to call the sub
committee together and get to work at the
earliest opportunity. He says that his
views on Samoan affairs are positive and
luton introduced by him in the House last
session. The staIu quo at the time the
representatives of the United States, Ger
many and England met, he said, would
have to be restored, and this would neces-
state the replacement of King MaIietoa
in the position from which he was so UNI.
justly removed by the German agents and
sent to the Marshall islands.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
DuN'S REPORT.
Tho Usual Weekly Review OF the State q
Trade In the Country.

The Usual Weekly Review OF the State Of
Trade I'm the Country.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26-R G. Dun & Co.'S
weekly review of trade says: 1.-THE state
of trade Is unusually perplexing, for, with
general complaint of the dulness, there
are evidences that the volume of trans
actions is large. The payments through
banks last week were Is per cent larger
than for the corresponding week last year
at New York and 10 per cent. larger at all
other cities. Railroad earnings also show
that traffic is large. The demand for
money is sufficiently active at nearly all
interior points, moreover, to indicate that
large business is in progress. Yet it il
undeniable that the prevailing temper is
one of disappointment at the result of
business since the new year began. and
this is not wholly explained by the steadily
declining prices of products. At Southern
points, after some depression, trade ap-
pears to be improving. In the Northwest,
trade is fully equal 10 that of last
year, and at the same points clearly
larger. The supply of money seems to be
everywhere ample for legitimate demand.
There are no indications of general un.
soundness or over-straining of commercial
credits. In the great iron industry con-
sumption for all other than railroad pur.
poses appears to be larger than ever; but
there is serious disturbance. In conse-
quence the Iron Age reports general
weakening which there is no use in blink.
ing at, and holds that furnaces which can
not face without loss q decline of
fully 81 from present prices may wisely
suspend production. At Western points
Southern iron is offered at prices equiv.
alent to S12 at Birmingham, which Is con-
sidered equal to SIT for Pennsylvania iron;
and large sales are reported at prices be-
low published quotations. A decline in
the price Of coke is considered probable,
and the anthracite coal mar ket continues
weak.
The decline in wheat continues, the price
having fallen 2a cents for the week. As
the prices reached this week were 93H to
93Is cents there has been some buying for
export, though not as yet for Great
Britain. Corn has fallen 1 cent and oats
are lower. Pork products have also de.
clined, mess about 80 cents per barrel;
lard 20 and hogs 10 cents per 100 pounds.
Cotton is a shade lower, with sales of 421,-
600 bales, and coffee y cents higher, with
sales of 233, 900 bags. The market for cop
per has been dull, and tin is lower at 2lk
cents; lead is also weak at 1880, but
spelter is quoted at cents. There is little
activity in groceries, but the sugar market
favors holders. The general average of
prices has fallen s. of 1 per cent. for the
week.
The supply OF money here increases
both by remittances from the interior and
by excess Of treasury disbur sements over
receipts, which reached 81. 700, 900 for the
week. The exports of merchandise from
New York show a gain of II per cent. for
three weeks. The stock market is never
theless so firmly sustained that the aver
age decline in prices has been only 60 cents
per $100 for the week
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Mr.. PERKINS has introduced a bill in
the House OF Representatives granting to
the CHER, kee Central Railroad Company
right away across the Cherokee Indian
reservation.
The National Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation met at Washington on the 2Ist, be-
ing its twenty-first annual convention.
BY the Electors not signing their names
on the envelope containing the Electoral
returns from Texas, the returns were re-
fused by the President of the Senate.
The messenger returned in all haste to
Texas where the Electors would have to
reconvene and go through the formality
again, with a possibility of the returns not
being in time to be counted. Other States
were reported in the same predicament.
The Army Retiring Board, appointed to
examine Judge Acknowledgement Swain
for retirement, has found him not inca
pacitated for active service. The Presi-
dent has approved the findings and the
status of the case remains unchanged.
CONGRESSMAN BURNEs, of the Fourth
district of Missouri, was stricken with
paralysis on the floor of the House at
Washington on the afternoon of the 23d
and died soon after midnight at Wizards
Hotel. His health had been failing for a
year past
JUDGE BREWER, of the United States
Circuit Court has relegated to the State
courts the suits brought by the Rock Is
land and other railroads to test the validity
of the Railroad law passed by the last
General Assembly of Iowa.
A MEETING OF the National Council of
the National Union League has been called
at Washington, March ., for the purpose
of Strengthening the Republican party,
especially in the South.
CONSUL WILLARD, at Guaymas, Mex,
has sent dispatch to the State Depart
ment denying the report that number of
American citizens had been killed by
Yaqui Indians near Ortiz, thirty miles
from Guaymas. He says the Indians
attacked small force of Mexican soldiers
and killed several of them, but no foreign
ers were injured.
THE Washington Sunday Herald, until
recently owned by the late Captain Bur-
rift has been sold for $4,000
The Secretary of War has officially noti-
fed the city of Frankfort, KY, that the
old wooden bridge across the Kentucky
river at that point must be raised as it is
too low for boats to pass under. The
bridge has stood for over sixty years.
RECENT combinations: George W. Hen
sci, of Pennsylvania, collector of internal
revenue, Ninth district of Pennsylvania;
John Tyler Campbell, of California, now
Consul at Auckland, Consul at Foo Chow;
John Marcy Connolly, of California, Con-
sui to Auckland; Robert S. Adkins, post.
master at Kansas City, Mo.
REPRESENTATIVE SPRINGER, chairman
of the Committee on Territories, has re-
ported another omnibus bill providing an
enabling act for the admission into the
Union of the Territories Of Arizona, Wyo-
ming and Idaho.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
Compared With Robespierre,

PARIS. Jan. 26.-In the Chamber Of
Deputies yesterday, N. La MarselIe, a
Conservative, asked whether it was rue
that the mayor of Brie had been suspended
for inviting to a luncheon Monarchisr-
n. Lambert BEST Crox. Premier FIoquet
replied in the affirmative. He said that
the mandate of mayor did not permit
them to join in faction manifestations, the
ultimate object Of which was the over
throw Of the Republic. II. La Marselle
retorted that n. Lambert's predecessors
were Liberals and he created much laugh
ter at N. Floquet's expense by saying "At
your age Robespierre had already been
guillotined"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
Erastus Nussey Dead,

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan. 23-Hcn.
Erastus Hussey died yesterday, aged
eighty-nine years. He was a leader ST
the Liberty movement in Michigan in
1919, and was editor of the Michigan
Liberty Press. He presided over the State
convention in 1854, and was one of the
committee on resolutions which presented
the platform at the inception of the Re-
publican party. He held various county
and State offices. Mr.. Hussey was a
strong Abolitionist and had charge of the
underground railroad" station here. He
sheltered and assisted to escape nearly
1000 negroes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
Widow Murdered.

JACKSON, Mich, Jan. 26-Mrs. Mary 81.
Latimer, a widow, living with her son, R
Irving Latimer, druggist, was shot twice
in the head after retiring last night After
the first shot she evidently crawled out of
bed and staggered to the window, but be-
fore she could raise the window she was
shot again and fell back dead. She was
found lying in a pool of blood.
Irving Latimer went to Detroit previ-
ously, stating to his clerk that he was GO
ing to act as pail bearer for some deceased
friend. No message had reached him up
to noon, and his friends don't know where
he is There is as yet no clsw to the MUIR
derer,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
THE EAST.

THE steel plant of the Glasgow Iron
Company, Of Potrstown, Pa, has been
closed down for good because of lack of
demand for the kind of steel made.
IT is reported in Pittsburgh that the
Vanderbilts have purchased all the in
terests of the late DR.. Hostetter in the
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad and have
thus secured full control of the line.
A NUMBER Of the employees of the Ap.
praiser's Office of the New York custom
house have been removed because of
recommendation made by Acting APP
prai>er Stearns.
WILLIAM McREE. of Lockport, NY, rail.
road and waterworks contractor, who has
large contracts, has failed with $50, 600 La
bilities. He had lost money in the lumber
business
MRS DANIEL DowNEY, Of Vineland, N j.,
has been fatally burned by the explosion
of a lamp, which set her house on fire
FIRE in New York City the other night
destroyed 500, 900 worth of goods belong.
ing to about t.enty concerna
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

The other night an explosion occurred
in slope No. "a at Nanticoke, near Wilkes.
barre, Pa, where q gang OF engineers
were at work making surveys +. 3
Sharsus, one Of the engineers, was blown
to pieces and Chef Owens, another, was
instantly killed, and John Williams, .
third. was fatally burned. Several others
were more or less seriously burned.
WILLIAM RITrER's brewery at Chicopee,
Mass, and 400 barrels of lager beer have
been seized by United States officers be-
cause he had used beer stamps . second
time.
DuDLEY's suit for libel against the New
York Times and other papers for publish
ing the "blocks of five" letters prior to
the late election came up in Supreme
Court chambers before Judge Patterson at
New York on the oath.
COLONEL JACOB GREEN, president Of the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, of Hartford. Conn.,, has issued .
circular informing the policyholders that
Joseph A. Moore, for sixteen years finan-
cial correspondent Of the company at In
dianapois, is q defaulter to the amount
of about s50O, 200.
The mystery surrounding the sudden
disappearance of Thomas Conway, of Suf-
folk, l.. l., January 2. the day he was to
have been married to Miss Mary Sullivan,
was cleared up by Henry Kneeland, .
farmer, finding him in his haymow insane
and nearly dead.
Four thousand coal miners In and about
Shenandoah, Pa, have been thrown out
Of work by the shutting down of collieries
because of overstocked markets.
DURING a gale through which the steam
er Amalfi, which arrived at New York re.
Gently from Hamburg, passed, three per-
sons had limbs broken and other damage
was done.
CHARLES r. SHEPARD. the noted book
publisher of Boston, Mass, died recently
aged sixty years.
THE feather manufacturing firms Of
New York locked out their girls, number.
ing 500 on the 25th.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

"A young Lieutenant in a line reei-
ment recently met with sad rebuff at
Portsmouth. The Lieutenant was parad-
ing in full uniform one day and ap-
preached sentry, who challenged
him with Halt! Who goes there?'
The Lieutenant, with contempt in
every lincament of mis- face. expressed
his feelings with an indignant ASH
The scntry's reply, apt and quick,
came: Advance, ass. and give the
countersign. "-Shefeld Neaos.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
THE NEW NAVY.
Easy Enough to Build Ships But Hard 70
Obtain Heavy Guns.

Easy Enough to Build Ships But Hard -
Obtain Heavy Guns.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-In its report
upon the Naval Appropriation bill the
House Committee on Naval Affairs sum-
marizes the present condition and future
prospects Of the navy of this country,
saying: with regard to . new navy,
Congress seems to have settled upon .
policy OF appropriating toward its con-
struction about s. 600 600 per annum.
Your committee believe that this will
build up navy as fast as prudence die
tates. Our Navy Department and our
ship building are utilizing; as far as may
De, by every means in their power, the
knowledge acquired from the costly eJ-
perience OF other nations. but they must
acquire experience Of their own. Too great
haste on the part Of the Government would
inevitably result in confusion and
waste and most probably in combina-
ton instead of competition among ship
builders. Besides 1t would be an easy
matter in this country to build ships more
rapidly than we could supply them with
armament of domestic manufacture. Even
in England, with all their facilities, there
is loud complaint that the Government
and all their contractors are unable to sup
ply guns as they are wanted. The manu-
facture Of a modern high power gun is not
only an expensive but q slow and tedious
process"
The committee says that the appropria-
ton of 1925. 600 for extending the gun plant
at the Washington navy yard, which has
proved to be insufficient, will, taken in
connection with other aims, be all that Ii
necessary Tn nut threa n Yerent m avn va rda
in condition to build the hulls of the finest
modern vessels, armored and unarmored.
as well as for the complete equipment Of q
great plant for the assembly of heavy ord
nance. Satisfactory progress is being
made by the private contractors for sup
plying heavy gun and armor plate for
guns and for rapid fire machinery guns.
The committee closes: at will be seen
that Congress by the passage of the bill
we report, will have taken the last step
necessary to render the Government abb
solutely independent of the world in the
matter of the building and equipping q
navy. 1t has been the constant aim of the
committee and of the departments to pro-
vide for ships the best Of their classes
guns equal to any in the world. There is
ample competition among bidders for the
construction of engines and machinery,
and in this matter American enterprise
and ingenuity seem likely to lead the
world. To get from a vessel of the type
of the Vesuvius q speed of twenty knots
an hour seemed, when Congress made it an
absolute requirement, difficult task, but
it was undertaken and that vessel on its
recent trip showed the wonderful speed Of
q. GA knots.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
Samuel II. FELTON, Dead.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26.-Samuel L. Fell
ton, president of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company and ex-president of the Phila-
delphia & Baltimore Railroad Company,
died last night at his residence in this city,
aged seventy-nine years. To Mr.. FELTON,
the credit is given of enabling President
Lincoln to pass through Baltimore on his
way to his Inauguration unrecognized. 1t
was due to his foresight and zeal also that
the route to Washington by way of An
napolis was opened when Baltimore was
closed by the riot of April, 1861.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
Another MASSACRE.

ZANZIBAR, Jan. 26.-An English mis-.
sionary named Brooks and sixteen of his
followers were murdered on Saturday
near Saadani by members of the coast
tribes and natives of Zanzibar. These
murders indicate the extent of the hatred
to whites the Germans have aroused.
Saadani for many years has been the
starting point of European missions, the
natives welcoming the missionaries and
assisting them, especially the English.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
Skyes Gets q New Trial,

OTTAWA, ILL.,, Jan. 26.-The case of the
we'll known seed merchant, James w.
Sykes. of Chicago, who was sentenced to
the penitentiary for three years for issu-
ing warehouse receipts when not actually
having the seed in store, was yesterday
reversed by the Supreme Court and the
matter remanded for a new trial Certain
evidence that was enormously excluded,
the court holds, would have tended to
make Sykes sentence lighter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

KANSAS CITY, No., Jan. 26-Anthony
Bowles. a colored man, died at eight
O'Clock yesterday morning at the residence
of his son-in-law, R. D. Drake, 1917
Holmes street, at the remarkable age of
one hundred and six years. The wonder
full old man was born near Hanover Cour
House, Va, in 1888. His parents were
slaves belonging to family named Hick-
man.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

"A problem that at q glance seems
easy, appeared recently in Maine jour.
nal, and is as follows: "Take the number
10. Multiply it by itself and you have 225.
Then multiply 2.5 by itself. Then multi
ply that product by itself and so on until
fifteen products have been multiplied by
themselves in turn" The question aroused
considerable interest among lawyers in
Portland, and their best mathematicians,
after struggling with the problem long
enough to see how much labor was en-
tailed in the solution, made the following
discouraging report upon it: "The final
product called for contains 81, 539 figures,
the first of which are 1,412. Allowing
three figure to an inch, the answer would
be over 1,070 feet long. To perform
the operation would require about 500, 0OO,-
ooo figures. If they can be made at the
rate OF 100 a minute person working ten
hours a day for 800 days in each year
would be twenty eight years about it. II,
IN multiplying. he should make row of
ciphers. as he does in other figures, the
number of figures used would be more
than 1889 22s. That would be the pre- |
else number of figures used if the product |
OF the left hand figure in each multiplicand |
by each figure Of the multiplier was al. |
ways single figure; but, as it is most |
frequently two figures. the method en-
ployed to obtain the foregoing result can |
not be accurately applied. Assuming that |
the cipher is used on an average once in |
ten times, 475, O0O, 900 figures is a close ap-
Proclamation to the actual number"