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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
COMMANDER BOOTH.
The Kansas Encampment to Celebrate at
Home Because of the High Railroad

The Kansas Encampment to Celebrate at
Home Because of the High Railroad
Rates.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 25.-The depart
ment commander of the G. A. R, Henry
Booth, has issued a circular letter to the
comrades of the department of Kansas
recommending that they forego the pleas
ure of attending these annual national re-
unions until such time as a fair and
equitable rate is made by the railroads, as
low as that accorded to any other organ
ization. The department commander re-
views the circumstances at length and
SAYS that he 'Tegrets exceedingly the me-
cessity which impels him to this action,
the more so on account of the great
preparation made by the comrades and
loyal citizens of Milwaukee to entertain
us in n fitting manner" In conclusion
the commando" saws: ''Let the comrades
gather at their local. district and State re-
unions, where, at slight expense. they can
come together ard renew their friendship
welded in the fire of battle. kindle anew
the flames of patriotism and assemble
around the campfire, where song and story
shall bring up the memories OF the days
when we walked shoulder to shoulder,
touching elbows, keeping step to the
music of the Union" Eighteen delegates
and half dozen department officers will
constitute the bulk of the representation
from Kansas at the Milwaukee encamp.
ment.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
THE BROWN MYSTERY.

The Wichita Real Estate Man Gives Some
Disj"inted Accounts of His Abuse.
WICHITA, Kan. July 25.-Edgar T.
Brown. who disappeared so mysteriously
last January and who as mysteriously re-
appeared at his home in this city Tuesday
evening in the guise of a dilapida ed
tramp, is considerably better, though still
very weak.
Yesterday morning. after receiving
ONE nourishment. the poor man aroused
himself few times for minute at time
and recognized his children and some
friends, but it took several efforts before
he knew his wife and when he did he re-
marked "Where have you been so
long?"
Late in the day Brown gave broken bits
of his history for the past six months. l.
seems that on the evening of January ~
as he was nearing his home he was struck
on the back of the head with n coupling
pin and knocked senseless. A large scar
on the head now shows the result of the
blow received While insensibIe he was
robbed of his watch and diamonds, worth
about $500 and 500 in money. He was
then taken away and hsld in confinement
until few days ago.
In many ways Brown shows the effects
of the privations to which he has been
subjected. From a robust man OF 100
pounds weight be has wasted away until
he now weighs only about 50 pounds, and
mentally he is also completely wrecked.
No one can solve the mystery, and with
the greatest anxiety the public await his
recovery. that they may learn the true
and full facts in the case.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
Southern Negroes i'm Factories.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July cI.-The
Tradesman sent inquiries in regard TO the
value of negro labor in Industrial chan
nels in the South to 800 leading Southern
manufacturers, representing blast fur
naces, rolling mills, miscellaneous iron
works, mines, lumber mills, saw
mills, etc. Replies were received
which represent 1900 negro en-
ployes, of which 1000 are skilled. The
average wages paid common negro labor
is S1.10 per day. and skilled labor runs
from II. - to . % per day, though several
correspondents Pay coiOred puddlers.
heaters and rollers as high as 81 and 81
per dav, and many furnaces pay as high
as s. 80. The replies, without sim
gle exception, show that there is no
difference at all between the pay of
whites and blacks for the same class of
work. The manufacturers are practically
unanimous in the opinion that for COM
mon labor in the Southern States the
negro is more efficient and useful than the
white and without an exception they de-
clare themselves well satisfied with the
negro in the factory, .-.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
More About Perry.

ArcHIsoS, Kan, July 24.-There being
such a roar" of protest and disgust in
Kansas about the appointment of Leslie
j. Perry, formerly of Paola, to sinecure
position in Washington, Senator ingalls,
furnishes the Globe of this city for publ
cat on a note as follows: IL j. Perry,
recently appointed TO position in
connection with the publication Of the Of
fetal records Of the rebellion, should not
be described as of Kansas. He left the
State and returned 10 Wisconsin severa:
years ago. where he has been engaged in
mining in the iron region unsuccessfully.
He is citizen of Wisconsin, should be
credited to that State and owes his pace
to Senators SAWYER and SpoOner.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
Returned to England.

WASHINGTON. July 2L-Irvin & Sellers,
merchants of England, who have a branch
house in New York City. recently dis
charged the book-keeper i'll their New
York house, an American named James
I. Watson, and sent over a book-keeper
from the home office to take his place.
Watson complained to the collector
New York and when the foreigner
arrived the collector refused to allow
him to land, Oh the ground that 1t
would be a violation of the Contract Labor
law. An appeal was taken to The Secre-
tary of the Treasury and the question was
referred to the Solicitor of the Treasury.
That officer yesterday gave an opinion
that as the foreigner had clearly come to
to this country under a contract to labor
his landing would be a violation of the
law. The Secretary conceded in this de-
cision and instructed the collector to re-
turn Hennessy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
ASSASSINATED.
4 Citizen of Anthony shot While Reading
i'm His Own Home.

ANTHONY, Kan, July 2I.-This city is
all excitement over the cold-blooded as
sassination which took place on the out
skirts of the town Thursday night. j. W.
Hu Crimson. an employee of the Anthony
Salt Company, was found lying face
downward in his home when called by a
neighbOr to come to breakfast. His posi-
ton showed that he had been reading at
a table when some one,yet unknown. fired
a charge of bucksho. through window
at his hack, the charge entering the back
about the eft shoulder blade. The man
fell from bis chair and landed on his face
and knees. in which position he was found
dead. Hutchinson, the dead man, was a
sober, bard working man, without a
known enemy in the world. HIS wife and
four children went to friends in Iowa last
Wednesday on a visit, and the terrible
news has been wired them. Since their
departure he has been living quietly at
home, eating at a neighbours. Coroner
Lloyd and jury are now on the case and
it is hoped some clew tothe murderer may
be unearthed. Two arrests have been
made on suspicion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
THE KEMMUER CASE.
Edison Testifies That Electricity IL IF


Edison Testfies That Electricity is Fl
fectiye.
NEW YORK July 24.-In the hearing be-
fore the referee OF the Kemmler electrical
execution case Thomas a. Edison testi-
fled that he had no doubt whatever
of the power of an alternating current to
kill man instantaueously and painlessly.
He was sure it could be done without
burning. The case OF Mr.. Smith was
shock of 1870 volts without
serious injury. Mr.. Edison said he
would pay Mr.. Smith 800 if he woull go
over to his laboratory and successfully
withstand a shock of 100 volts. On cross
examination rhe witness said that the re-
sstance of all men was very close-be-
tween 600 and 1880 obms The obtaining
of the resistance of the human body by
the Wheatstone bridge was not simply
a matter of late experiment. The
witness measured human resist
ance by it before the question of
electrical execution was brought up. He
considered the bridge an accurate means
of measurement. A man could be COM
pletely carboniz ed by an electric current,
but it would take 1,5o0 horsepower to do
it. If you took the Westinghouse current
of 1870 volts and kert it applied to hu.
man body five or sig minutes it would not
be carbonzed but mummified This was
because the water in the system would be
gradually absorbed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
THE WICHITA MYSTERY.
Another Theory Regarding the Edgar I
Brown Case.

IneOTy Regarding
Brown Case.
WICHITA, Kan, July 2L-Edgar T.
Brown, the prominent citizen of this p ace
who so mysteriously disappeared January
10 and as mysteriously reappeared last
Tuesday in rags, seemingly starving and
out of his mind, is perfectly rational, but
refuses to answer any questions concern
ing his absence.
1t was learned that he spent last Sum
day in Arkansas City, and although quite
SICK, started to walk to Wichita. but
whether he did walk the entire distance
is not known. H. was also seen about a
month ago in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and
detective named Bridges was about to
arrest him to secure the reward offered
for him when he disappeared entirely
from sight.
1t is now surmised that Brown left this
city TO escape the consequences Of an in
discretion committed in Kentucky some
years ago and that. as he took with him
to The Territory considerable money and
jewelry, ne was held up while there and
received blow which partially dethroned
his reason and threw him into the brain
fever from which he is now recovering
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
A Veteran Naltreafed.

EAsTLASD, Tex, July "Wednesday
night Joseph Withers: living ten miles
east OF here. was taken from his bed by a
gang of armed men and carried 200 yards
His hands and feet We're tied and he was
thrown on his face and severely beaten
with hard twisted wet ropes by the ma
RAIDERS. Withers is an ex-Coufederate
soldier and was badly crippled during the
war. During the beating the mob
wrenched his left arm out of joint at the
shoulder. The mob then turned the poor
fellow loose with orders to leave the
country by the next evening or he should
be killed. The only cause Withers as
signs is that he was trying TO prosecute
some men for larceny.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
GENERAL.

Two vessels have been wrecked off Bor-
ueo recently, but in each case the crew
escaped.
NUMEROUS lynchingS were reported in
the papers of the 23d. Among them were
the lynching of the celebrated Kate Max
well and her paramour for cattle thieving
by ranchmen in Wyoming. Two Mexican
horse thieves were lynched in Socorro
County, " III. Two negroes were lynched
for murder near Greenville, Miss. A
negro was lynched at Covington, Ga, also
for murder, and another for the same crime
near Lewsburg, W. Va. An attempt to
lynch two other negroes at Clinton, La.
failed, because of the prisoners being
taken to New Orleans for safe keeping.
BANDS of Cretan insurgents have seized
the towns of NamoS and Siionia. expelled
the authorities and burned the archives.
VIGSAUx the French billiard champion,
and Eugene Carter. of the United States,
played match game of cushion caroms at
Paris recently. The game was won by
Carter, who scored loo points against
Vionaux'S 20.
1T is stated that Germany and Austria
have instructed ex-king Milan TO restore
the supreme power in Servia in order to
check Russian intrigues.
The Gillian Government has secured
8. 0O1 of the men thrown out Of work on the
Panama canal.
INVENTOR EDISON is contesting the de-
cision of the chief of the Canadian patent
office in cancelling Edison's patents for
incandescent electric lighting on the
ground of want of jurisdiction.
The English judges have refused to Or
der the issuance of a summons against the
Duke of Cambridge for assault:ng Mr..
Simms, journalist, during a recent re-
view of the fire brigade.
THE German Southwest African Com.
peny is said 10 be negotiating for the sale
of all its African possessions to an English
syndicata.
The London Standard announ ces that
France has offered the Pope an asylum
and 10 restore his temporal power. The
pope, however. declined the offer, fearing
to foment war.
THE production Of pig iron the past six
months is stated to be the largest on
record.
MINISTER TERRELL, now at Brussels, has
recovered from the recent injury TO his
knee.
LLGITIME has appealed 10 Mr.. Thomp-
son, the American Minister in Hayti, to
arbitrate his differences with Hippolyte.
AN order has been issued by the French
High Court of Justice depriving General
Boulanger and Count Dillon Of their civil
and political rights and declaring them
ineligible for election TO any Office.
A RECENT fire a. Soochow. China,
burned tweuty-three hours, destroy ing
5000 dwellings. Over L,290 persons per-
ished in the flames and 400 Others were
killed. Nearly 10, 600 people We're obliged
to camp out without shelter and were
dying at the rate Of 100 day from want
and exposu
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
THE LATEST

FIVE men lost their lives by an ex-
plosion of dynamite recently on the
Wabash railroad, twelve miles West of
Wabash, Ind.
A TERRIFIC storm was reported at Chi
cago on the 9th. Grave fears existed re-
gsrding lake vessels.
DR.. SCHMELZKoPF, Surgeon-i in. Chief of
Captain Wi~sman's expedition, has been
drowned in snzibar.
THE steamer Whildin OF Baltimore ran
into and sunk the schooner Riilie S. Derby
of Philadelphia, Captain Thomas Naylor,
in the Delaware bay on the 2Sth. The
Whildin was on her way to Cape May
with pleasure excursiGnists. No one was
hurt.
ALARMING rumors were prevalent at
Rome of plots TO blow up with dynamite
both the Vatican and the Quirinal.
PRINCESS LOUISE, eldest daughter of
the Price of Wales, was married on the
9th 20 the Duke of Fife.
DR.. a. E. JONES. Surgeon General of
Ohio, was recently murdered at Cincin-
matt and his body thrust into a catch
basin. The crime was the work of Charles
Bligh, the Doctors hostler. who was ar
rested and who confessed, stating that he
had given the doctor a knock on the head
for scolding him.
TIMBER fires were reported creating a
reign of terror all over Montana, causing
the abandonment of mining camps.
The new Clyde built steamer, Thetis,
which left the Philippine Islands April %
with $3.50, 900 worth of sugar, and which
had been given up almost as lost, arrived
at New York on the 2sth. She was forced
to put into Rio Janeiro for repairs to her
main shaft.
The French elections TOOK place on the
es;h, resulting disastrously for the Bou-
langists. The General contested 451 cam
tons and carried only II
The London Daily Telegraph. comment.
ing on the vote in the royal grants, said
that the action of the Parnellites in sup.
porting the monarchy was one of the
most notable signs of the times and that
it signified most complete division be.
tween the domestic and American wings
of the Irish party.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July - showed an average increase
of 12.4 compared with the corresponding
week OF last year. In New York the in.
crease was 122
NoRwIN GREEN, president of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company. is very
angry with Wanamaker for reducing the
Government rates to one cent for ten
words. In recent letter to the POST
master-General, Mr.. Green draws atten-
ton to the many services rendered by the
company gratuitously to the public.
BUSINESS was active on the London
Stock Exchange during the week ended
July 81, American securities sharing in
the general rise. until advices from New
York checked the advance The Con-
rinental bourses were quiet Paris
especially.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
THE SOUTH.

By the explosion of the boiler of Rhodes
saw mill in Boone County, Ark, one man
was killed and a woman, a girl and a boy
badly injured.
In the case of Frank CapeL of Arkansas.
who was convicted of murder and sem
fenced to be hanged July Is. 1889. and who
was respited until August g. the President
has ordered Communication to life impris-
onment
JAY GOULD has brought suit in the
United States Court at Little Rock. Ark.
to recover $4,000 from the Little Rock.
Mi ssissippi River & Texas railroad. The
money is secured by the mortgage of land
belonging to the road named, which mort
gage Gould wants foreclosed.
The Western Cut Nail Association held
a meeting at Wheeling, w. Va, the other
day and resolved to form National trust,
controlling the entire nail market of the
country.
Rev. FATHER JAMES CURLY. the vener-
able director of the Georgetown Cd. c.
College Observatory, died on the o3d. He
was born in Roscommon County, Ireland.
October %, 1856 and was at the time of his
death the oldest priest in America. per-
haps in the world. He was connected
with the Georgetown College for sixty
two years.
Two false Christs it is reported. have
appeared in Liberty County, Ga a child
has been sacrificed and three persons ia
| tally hurt A negro revolution was feared
The sheriff went to the scene with an
armed posse.
DENGUE fever is reported at Gainesville,
Fla.
1HE impression prevailed at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. Nd, that the
court martial which tried Commander
Harrington for grounding the Constella-
ton had found him guilty. 1t was ru-
mored that the punishment was some
thing like years suspension.
LIGHTNING struck the house of W. b.
Cunningham at Ben Brook. near Fort
| Worth. Tex, the other morning instantly
| killing Mrs Cunningham. At the time the
| house was struck Mr.. Cunningham, his
wife and one child We're on the same bed.
| The father and child were not hurt.
kILRAIN, the pugilist, went on a tear at
| Baltimore, Nd, the other night. amusing
him self in smashing windows, etc, acting
| as though he had won the fight with
Sullivan.
COLONEL KINGS answer to Mrs. General
Pillows cross bill has been flied in the
chancery court at Memphis, Tenn. Col
onel King recounts many things COM
prised in his original bill and gives copies
of several letters said to have been re-
| ceived bv him from Mrs. Pillow, which
place the lady in rather a compromising
position.
CHARLES SELLERS was executed at Ray
vile, La, on the 20th for the murder of
Bunyan Adams in Richard Parish. Also
Tom Bowling, colored, at Baton Rouge
for the murder of Philip Walso white.
A MOB of Paris, Ky, lynched James
Kelly, colored, for outrage on Mrs. Crow
recently.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
A LOVERS REVENGE.

An Amanced Young Man shoots His
Treacherous Friend, His Unfaithful AM
anced and Himself.
CHICO. Cal, July "a wedding was to
have taken place last month between q
young man named Berce, son of a-San
francisco journalist, and Miss Eva Atkins,
a beautiful young lady Of sevente cen.
Bierce's best friend was a man named
Hubbs. The day before the marriage day
the young lady went to a friends house
and was married to Hubs. -.-sE
Bierce heard of the couples where
abouts yesterday and went Immediately
IN search He found them at a friends
residence and Bierce Immediately opened
fire on Hubs, firing four shots and appa-
rently shooting Hubbs dead. Berce then
laced the revolver to Mrs. Hubs breast
and shot her, she falling fatally wounded.
Hubbs regained himself and made hasty
retreat out the back way, but returned
just as Bierce shot his wife. He beat
Blerce down but received q serious wound
from Bierce's revolver which made him
helpless. Bierce then placed the revolver
to his own head and blew his brains out,
dying in a short time. Hubbs is still alive,
as il his wife.
Investigation shows that when young
Bierce heard of the couples intended visit
to Mrs. Barney, where the tragedy &C.
CURED, he went quickly to her house,
stated that he was i'll and asked to lie
down on the bed just of from the parlor.
He had evidently been running and as he
appeared quite exhausted he was at once
shown to the bed room. In this he re-
manned until Hubs and his wife had taken
seats in the parlor.
Mrs. Barney had set her heart on the
marriage Of her daughter to Bierce. and
when the elopement and marriage to
Hubs took place she expressed the wish
never to see her daughter in her house
again. In day or two, however, she re-
Tented and invited the couple home. 1t
was in response to her invitation that the
couple called yesterday. this being their
first visit ~
After few words had been spoken
Bierce stepped into the parlor. spoke a
formal word or two, and then said: you
are happy looking welded couple"
and then retired again into the bedroom.
Hubbs suspected trouble and drew his pis-
tol, holding it at his side. Bierce- then
opened the door again and the shooting
occurred. TE
The room where the fighting took place
presented a horrible spectacle. The walls
were splattered with blood. the furniture
turned over and broken and large pools of
blood covered the floor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
Tnprecedcnted Corn CrOp.

various parts OF the State received by
Secretary Mohler. of the State Board of
Agriculture, show that The corn crop is
assured and will De unprecedented in ex-
tent. Slow, soaking rains. such rains as
Kansans >love, have visited McPher-
son, Marion. Rice, Chase, Lyon and all
the counties in the central portion OF the
State along the line of the Santa Fe. The
rain started on Monday and is still fall
ing in various portions Of the State. The
corn crop will be immense, many farmers
claiming a yield of seventy-tive bushels
RI the acre
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
Another Dog Sacrifice.

CARTHAGE. Mo, July PA year ago
last May Volney Fullerton, young farm
er. was bitten b. mad dog. A few days
later he was taken to Kansas City to have
a maidstone applied. II was sup
posed that all the poison was with
drawn. and being so assured by the
doctors no further fears were enter
tanned, although Prof. j. N. Stevenson, a
cousin of the afi cted man. was very
desirious Of having him go 10 Paris to be
treated by Past, IT. Last Friday week
after working in field, he became over
heated and feverish. Later he suffered In
his arms and throat, and when water was
offered him he showed strong aversion to
it. He died Thursday in great agony.