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The Iola register., 1889-01-04
THE LATEST.

AN escaped Soudanese has offered to
bring General GOrdon's clothes, sword and
| papers, which are said to be hidden near
Berber.
JOHN and Wiley Matthews, two of the
condemned Bald Knobbers, escaped from
the Ozark, Mo-, jail, together with five men
charged with train robbery. The Walkers
| refused to go. The escape was effected by
\ friends of the Bald Knobbers working
from the outside.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
December 80 showed an average increase
| of 1876 compared with the corresponding
| week of last year. In New York the in
crease was 254.
IHE London Stock Exchange was active
| and advanced during the week ended De-
| cember 30. American railroads had a
sharp rise, but weakened toward the end
| Of the week. 7 Continental bourses
| were depressed with prices tending down.
| ward.
RICHTER calculates from recent statistics
hat Germany has at her disposal in the
| event Of war an army of 3,513, ,416 COM
pletely drilled men, not counting the re-
| serves and the lardsturm, which are not
| drilled in the time of peace.
The London police have received and
! traced to their origin, letters which lead
| hem to believe that "Jack the Ripper"
vas living in the vicinity of Drury lane.
They did not accept the theory that the
| Whitechapel fiend had any thing to do
| with the murder and mutilation of little
John Gill, at Bradford.
1T has been discovered that the vault Of
the United States sub-treasury in the GUS
tom house of Baltimore, Nd, was robbed
| OF 81 ,243 in standard silver dollars, April
| %, but the robbery was kept secret in the
| hope that the thief might be surprised and
| captured.
| A CAUSELESS run was made on the Ger
man American Savings Bank of Burling-
| ton, Iowa, the other day. but it lasted only
| a short time and had no bad effects.
MoRE battles with oyster pirates have
| been reported off the Maryland coast. In
one of the engagements Captain Shores
| was wounded. In another five dredging
schooners were captured by the State
navy.
AT the request of the Acting Secretary
of War Attorney General Garland has in
| siructed tie United States District At
| torney at Austin, Tex. to take the neces-
| sarv steps for the defense of General
Stanley, U. S. A, recently arrested in that
| city while in the execution Of his official
| duties.
THE President has ordered the remov al
| OF Edward Gushing. collector of Customs
| at Belfast, Me-, because of charges that he
| had accepted money from applicants for
positions.
IT is said that DR.. Alexander E II. Nc
Donald, general superintendent of the in
sane asylum on Wards island, has become
Insane. He was one of the experts whose
testimony convicted Guiteau, the assassin
Of President Garfield.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
a Fighting ParsOn.

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 29.-It became
known last night that at meeting of the
officers of the Christian Church of this
city last Wednesday evening, the troubles
that had arisen because of the bad reports
concerning their new pastor, Rev. Fred
Bell. which came from all places where he
has preached before, eliminated in per-
sonal encounter between the pastor and
Elder Flynn, who urged the dismissal of
the pastor, and said he had letters in his
pocket proving him a fraud. Rev. Mr..
Bell, wild with rage, leaped upon the
elder, and bearing him down between the
pews choked him until he was black in the
face. They were separated and the meet
ing adjourned in confusion.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
BRADsrREET.
The Business Report For the Past Week.
Failures.

Failures.
NEW YORK, Dec 29-Bradstreet's, in its
review of the week, says: Special tele.
grams to Brddstreet's report a universally
quiet movement on the part of staple goods,
not unusual at this season. Christmas OBJ.
servances at home and abroad cut the
week down practically to four days, (which,
with semi-annual stock takings, served to
still further check operations. Funds in
cline to increase firmness at the larger
centers. owing to the customary heavy re-
quirements for January settlements s..
But this has in no way restricted the
volume of the better class of COM
mercial discounts offering. Seasonably
cooler weather has prevailed part of the
week, and merchants at most of the Lead
Ing points of distribution look confidently
for an active revival of business early in
1889.
The improvement in the railroad situa-
ton gives a stronger tone to stock specula-
tion at New York, and an advancing mar
ket Is generally anticipated. A rise in
prices, due to the increased dividends de-
clared by the Vanderbilt roads, was
checked later in the week by the advancing
money market. Bonds are strong, and in
=
The New York money market is strong on
the disturbance of loans caused by the
January disbursements.
The new year will be open with only
moderately favoring conditions in the iron
and steel trades. Pig iron is SOC lower per
ton at st. Louis, and only best grades
East command nominal asking prices. The
usual semi-annual cleaning out sales of
dry goods by jobbers constitute the only
exception to an otherwise quiet and dull
market and price reductions induce a
heavy movement. The opening of the
spring season will find cotton goods
strongly maintained. and in some direc-
tions advanced.
Business failures reported 20 Brddstreet's
number 334 in the United States this week
against 33J last week and 236 this week
last year. Canada had thirty this week
against forty last week. The total of fail
ures i'm the United States January l, to
date is 10, 4l6 against 9 T40 in 1887.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04

NEW York, Dec. 29.-P. .etrio Dinarvo,
an | allan brigand who robbed and muir
dered the Marquis Guilio Sanduzzi at the
latter's villa near Torella, Italy. in 1856,
was arrested yesterday by Inspector
Byrne's men at Stamford, Conn, and will
be taken back to Italy, extrsdtion papers
having already been granted. The Marquis
WAS very wealthy and noted for his benevo-
lence and was killed while heroically resist
ing three burglars led by Dinarvo, who had
entered the villa and were rifiing the
strong box. They secured over 100000
francs and the affair made great sensation
throughout Italy. Two of the robbers
were caught in the mountains and confessed
but Dinarvo escaped.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
TOOK THE TOWN.

The Whipping Of a Wife Beater Results in
the Arrest of a Whole Town.
GREELEY CENTER, Neb., Dec. 29.-Deputy
Sheriff Paxton yesterday returned from
Woldbach, having in custody the entire
male population of the tswn except one.
The arrests grew outof a sort of Whitecap
regulation affair, of which the victim was
+. NJ. Gutter, q resident of the place.
Shortly after the death of his first wife
the servant girl at Cutters house was
found to be in an interesting condition,
and Cutter was compelled to marry her,
but Immediately afterward began a studied
system of abuse to compel her to get a di-
vorce. Thursday he gave her terrible
beating and shortly afterward assaulted
thirteen year-old girl. For these COM
bined offenses Cutters fellow citizens sur
rounded his house with the intention Of
furnishing him. He got away on horse
back but was pursued. captured with n
lasso, tied TO post and very severely
whipped. He was then arrested for beat
ing his wife and in turn swore out war
rants for all the male population of the
town,
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
GENERAL,

THE German East African Company
has protested against certain passages in
the ''white book" giving the speech made
by Count Herbert Bismarck in the Reich
stag. They Indignantly deny that they
are the chief importers of arms and am
munition.
BEFORE withdrawing entirely from
Suakim the British will build strong per-
marent forts on which guns will be
mounted so as to sweep the plains The
black regiments will be left to garrison
the place.
The weather was so mild in Austria that
excursions We're being made to Schnee-
berg and other tourist resorts which usual
ly during the winter season are barred by
ice and snow.
THE detective service of the Missouri
been abolished. The cost of the service
was $780, a year, which General Man.
ager Clark thought was more than it was
worth.
Rev. DR. BoYCE, chairman of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louis
willie and a noted divine and scholar, is dy-
ing at Paris. France, whittier he had gone
for the benefit of his health.
- 6oMb " as CAploico INC OluSi
in front of the Madrid residence of Senior
Silva, a noted Spanish Conservative. No
damage was done.
The Abbey -four mills at Waltham, near
London, England, were burned recently.
Loss 10000.
Two Russian emissaries have been ar
rested at Vastilesti, Roumauia. Efforts to
incite the people against King Charles are
becoming frequent
THE London Times implores the Gov
ernment to endeavor to procure an early
settlement of the Newfoundland fisheries
question and the controversy between
France and England, which are in an
anomalous and unsatisfactory position.
NJ. BETZ, the Paris copper speculator
who failed recently for 1900 900 francs,
committed suicide in Switzerland by
drowning himself.
The Emperor of Germany has sent to
the Duke of Cambridge telegram of con-
gratulations of the Suakim victory.
A CHANGE for the better has again oc-
CURED in the condition of John Bright, the
noted British statesman.
The cotton operatives and factory own
ers of Bolton, England, are engaged in a
dispute, which will probably end in a lock-
out, because the masters think bad work
10 being done.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04

PHILADELPHIA, Dec IA party of boys
while playing in East Fairmount Park yes
terday found two bundles in the small
lake there. In spirit OF curiosity one of the
bows cut a string of one of the bundles and
was Mortified when a human head rolled
out. The police authorities were at once
notified and further investigation de-
veloped the fact that the bundle nrst
opened also contained the dSmemoered
trunk Of human body. Theotner punaIe
on being opened disclosed the nude legs
belonging to the trunk fohnd IN the other
package.
The condition of the rearalns lnolcateo
that a murder had Deen oone "Itnin
twenty -four hours.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
ExpeIling settlers.

PURCELL l. T., Dec. 2S.-The Indian
scouts under Lieutenant McComb have
visited Oklahoma station and arrested all
in that vicinity, compelling them to hitch
up their wagons and take every thing
with them and go to the scouts camp.
The scouts disarmed the settlers and
drove them like SO many hogs. Many of
those who were arrested were men who
had been engaged in teaming for the Gov
ernment; others had been railroad en-
ployes who were temporarily without
work and who had expected work soon.
The people of Purcell are very indignant,
supposing it to be scheme to capture the
town site.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
rh youthfuI Bank Forger.

CINCINNATI Dec. 2i.-Charles INK
ler. the boy of nineteen, who, in Septem-
ber lat, forged three checks for s9,Ooo
each on the banks with which his employ
ers, the Boddman tobacco warehouse, mad
accounts, and who afterwards wentto Lon
don. where he was arrested yesterday made
a confession of his guilt. He accuses W. ID.
Hopkins of instigating him to the crime, and
saws Hopkins met him on the street and
received the money and day or two
afterward gave him the money at tine
Latonia race track, all but 81 800. 1t was
planned that they should both go to
Europe, but Hopkins only went as far az
New York, where he changed his mind.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04

PARIS, Dec. 2s.-Prado. the murderer Of
Marie Aguetant, his mistress, was guillo-
tined this morning in the Place de la Rou-
cite. He preserved a firm demeanor to the
last. He refused to make a confession,
and also declined the services of the chap
lain.
The death was witnessed by 200 artists,
newspaper men, actors, lawyers and poll
ticians who possessed influence sufficient
to obtain admission within the sentry
lines. He died with as much bravado as
Pranzini. his former chum ana counter
part. The scene was much more orderly
and not the slightest mishap occurred in
the work of N. Deibler.
In fifty seconds from his appearance at
the prison gate his bleeding head lay in
the basket
The Iola register., 1889-01-04


There is a railroad station in West
hagmaster. 1t is in charge OF an old one
armed man, who has been in the employ
ment OF the company for more than twen-
y-ive years. but the duties of his position
are discharged by a small, long-haired,
black-and-tan dog, for whose accommo-
dation little platform has been erected,
where he takes his stand with flag In
mouth, when the car approaches, to direct
them when to switch Off He is well known
to all the engineers and conductors and
his signals are always obeyed. This dog
possesses peculiar intelligence. If train
is delayed or an accident has happened
which will prevent its passing the
station, the dog is sent a few hundred
yards up the road to give the proper sig
nal. Immediately outside the station the
road passes through deep cut, with i'm
quently happened that fragments of stone
are detached, aud falling, if not immedi-
ately removed, might throw the cars from
the track. To guard against this the dog
is ever on the watch, especially at night
II he hears an unusual sound he leaves
the little sentry box and walks leisurely
up the road, carefully examining if any
thing is on the track that would endanger
the train, and if any object is discovered
goes to the old fiagman, wakes him up il
asleep and conducts him to the point OF
danger. This is no fiction, and can be
vouched for by many who have witnessed
these performances.-N. q. Picdyune.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
Increased Dividend.

New YORK Dec. 2S.-Ths directors Of
the Vanderbilt roads met at the Grand
Central depot yesterday morning. The
stock in companies represented amounts
to nearly SO, ,O00, ,OO), and on all but S14,-
OOO, 900 of it dividends have been paid al
most continuously for many years. For
some days rumors have been current that
the policy of the company to adhere to a
four per cent. rate would be changed in
Difference to the wishes of W. K. Wander
bilt, and these reports were confirmed by
the action of the Lake Shore directors who
declared an extra dividend of one per
cent. in addition to the regular dividend
of two per cent. for the current six months.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
THE WEST.

The boiler of Hastings sawmill, at Gold
Hill, near Boulder, Col, exploded the other
day. Four men were killed.
In the live bird shooting match at
Cincinnati the other day, between Captain
Bogardus and Al Bandle, the score re.
suited: Bandle, 100; Bogardus, 95.
THE overland eastbound Central Pa
ciic train was held up by robbers near
Clipper Gap, in the Sierras, on the 25th
and robbed of a large amount of money,
said to be $4,000
FIVE men We're killed and two badly
hurt by the falling of earth in an excava
ton at Denver, Col, on the Goth. The ac-
cident was due to carelessness on the part
of the gas company in laying pipe.
A BROKEN switch at Helena. Mont, on
the 26th, caused the death of fireman
named Moore and serious injury of pas
senger. The engine and one coach were
overturned.
WILLIAM WESTERNBERGER died of hy-
drophobia at Logan, O., recently. The
night prior to his death the physicians put
him in a straight jacket which he soon
tore to pieces. 1t took four or FIVE strong
men TO held him when attacked by a con.
vulsion.
Ex-JUDGE ROBERT a. JOHNSON commit
ted suicide at Avondale, near Cincinnati,
recently. About two months ago Mrs.
Johnston died, and the Judge was unable
70 Withstand his grief.
A GROCERY store on South State street.
Chicago, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire early the other morning, and an un-
known man, supposed to have been burg
lar, was burned to death. A barrel of oil
exploded during the fire and Frank Polo,
vino was standing outside the store, was
fatally burned.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBy's daughter, Olive,
was married recently to Chester Allen
Snider, of Kansas City, at st. Paul's Epis.
copal Church, Springfield, Ill.
INcENDIARIEs destroyed the big sawmill
at Norrie, Wis, during the recent storm,
causing Se5,G00 loss.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
HANGING in Louisiana.

BAsTRoP La, Dec. 29.-"Pet" Overton
was hanged in the presence of large
crowd here to-day for the murder of Frank
Hearsy on April II. He confessed his
guilt and acted very coollr ON the scaffold.
While the moose was being adjusted he
said so the deputy: "You are choking me !;
don't choke a man and hang him too. "
The drop fell at 2:12, and life was extinct
in eighteen minutes. The murder of
Hearsy was the result of dispute about a
woman.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04

NEAR Terpp, OAK, the other morning q
number of Russian settlers got into a
quarrel with American settlers over the
possession of a goose. The result was
that several Russians were stabbed, but
not fatally, while one Of the Americans
was fatally injured.
EARLY the other morning the town OF
Auburn, north of Grand Forks, OAK, was
almost wiped out by fire, the business por-
tion of the place being destroyed. A
scarcity of water and fire apparatus made
the buildings an easy prey to the flames.
E. l.. HARPER, the Cincinnati bank
wrecker who became insane recently, has
recovered so far that he has been again
placed at work in the Ohio penitentiary.
THE lamp of sleeping pumpman in the
f.orrie mine near Ironwood, Mich, caused
$1,000 damage the other night.
Two men were overcome by foul gas in
well at Saline. Mich, recently and died
before they could be rescued.
MICHAEL KEELY, the noted Chicago
brewer, died the other morning, aged
fifty-nine.
The contest between Joe McAuliffe, the
champion heavy weight of the Pacific
coast, and jackson. the colored champion
gymnasium of the California Athletic
Club at San Francisco on the night of the
2sth, was won by jackson after twenty
four rounds.
The taxes of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company for the current fiscal year,
amounting to 500, 900, were paid into the
California Treasury on the 2Sth. The
Southern Pacific statement just issued
shows the total earnings for the past year
to be S32, 569, 600; operating expenses S2s, :
900 900.
MRS. HENRY MARTIN and Miss Kate
Powers, two ladies living in one of the
suburbs of Chicago, while driving across
the Rock Island road track at Fortysev
enth street recently, were struck by a
locomotive and instantly killed, their
bodies being terribly mutilated before the
train could be stopped.
AMELIE THURIN, seventeen years OF age,
who was employed as domestic in a
Chicago private family, upon retiring blew
out the gas and was found dead in bed the
next morning.
The final dividend of 90 per cent, max
ing the amount paid 100per cent, has been
paid by the Comptroller of the Treasury
| to the creditors of the Second National
Bank of Xeria, o.
FIRE in Dongola, ILL.,, the other morning
destroyed eight business houses, caVsing
S35, 900 loss.
FORTY settlers crossed the Canadian
river at Purcell, l. T., recently bound for
Oklahoma.
The Iola register., 1889-01-04
THE EAST.

Two brothers named Van Wormer were
maugled to death recently by a train near
Binghamton, n. Y.
JOHN BURKE stabbed and probably
fatally wounded Michael Moore during a
drunken quarrel the other evening. The
men were visiting two servant girls at 40
West Nineteenth street, New York. Burke
escaped
ANNIE JONES, who eloped from Utica, N.
Y, recently with Walter Smith, a dry
goods clerk, was arrested at a hotel at
Montreal where she was stopping and sent
home. Her lover was left behind.
THE trustees of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, have decided to open on
Sundays from noon to six O'Clock and on
two week day evenings for the benefit of
the working classes.
A PANIC occurred at York Pa, due to a
collapsing floor at an entertainment
Christmas night. Three hundred persons
had narrow escapes, and many were
bruised.
Two young ladies named Smith were
drowned near East Brady, Pa, by boat
upsetting Christmas day. The two young
men with them and another girl were res
cued in an exhausted condition.
JAMES G. BLAINE has been appointed
one of the Maine Commissioners to the
centennial celebration of Washington's
Inauguration in New York. April 30.
NINE. GAsToN DE FoULLIAr, a sister of
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and the wife of a
French nobleman, has Joined the Roman
Catholic Church in New York City.
Hon. JAMES I. MoFFErT, Congressman
from the Twenty-fifth district of Penn
sylvania, has been admitted to the asylum
at North Warren as a private patient.
The difficulty seems to be excessive nerv-
business, which was brought on by the
arduous labors of the recent campaign.
THE New York Graphic has changed
hands and also changed politics. Here
after it will be Republican and strongly
in favor of protective tariff.
The mutiIated remains Of human BODY
in two parcels were found IN East Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, on the 26th.
Indications were that terrible crime had
been committed.
EXECUTIONS have been issued against
Robert c. Totten, of the firm of Totten &,
Co, iron founders and machinists of Pitts
burgh, Pa, for Sll4,000 The cause of the
embarrassment was not known.
DOUGLAS HENRY, a New York stock
DiOhclf HdS tuSiucSS. he uetu
no outstanding contracts.
THE late Sylvester Bowman, of Newton,
Mass, provided by will that upon his
grandson's death the Massachusetts, Gen.
eral Hospital and Tufts College shall re-
ceive $4,000 each.
No assignments Of places in the coming
inaugural parade will be made until a
week before March 4. One hundred Colo
rado cowboys are expected to partici-
pate.
By an explosion of naphtha in the cool.
ing room of Apsley & Coffin's rubber
factory, Marlborough, Mass, recently one
man was killed, another badly burned and
5000 damage done.
A NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION
was organized at Ithaca, N. Y. on the 9th
by leading Eastern scientists, with Prof
James Hall, New York State Geologist, as
president
The annual banquet Of the Massachu-
setts Tariff Reform Lsague was held at
the Hotel Vendome. Boston, on the night
Of the 2sth. There was a large attendance.
Letters of regret were read from Presi-
dent Cleveland, Speaker Carlisle and other
prominent politicians.