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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
"FORMERLY OF KANSAS"
Death of Robert S. Kelley, Former Well
Known Character in kansas.

Death of Robert S. Kelley, n Former Well
known Character in Kansas.
ATCHIsoN, Kan, Sept 24.-Informa-
ton has been received here of the death
of Robert S. Kelley, of Helena, Mont
Kelley, during the Kansas troubles be-
fore the war, was citizen of Atchison,
and one of the most noted border ruffians
and pro-slavery men of the times. He
was the head and front of the Southern
element in this locality, and inspired
the idea of sending Pardee But
Ter, a Free State man, down the
Missouri river on frail raft an moi.
dent Of the border troubles that was Of
worldwide fame. Kelley was postmas-
ter Of Atchison under Pierce. He
founded the Squatter's Sovereign news
paper, which became the organ of the
pro-slavery party in the Territory.
When the war broke out he sold the
paper to John A. Martin, who changed
its name to Freedoms Champion. and it
is now the Champion, a Republican
paper. Kelley in private life was a
man of unquestioned integrity. He left
here about the time of the war, settling
in Montana
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
FARMERS. REVIEW.
Frost Damage Not esrious--Potatoes Onl
For Miltiouairss.


Frost Damage Not ssrious--Potatoes Only
For Miliionaires.
CHICAGO. Sept 24-The folio wing APP
pears in the Farmers Review: There
has evidently been less damage to
corn by frost than alarmists have given
the public to understand. Only late
planted corn has suffered and this por-
ton OF the crop forms but very small
percentage Of the whole. In Missouri,
Ohio and Kentucky, where the crop is
quite backward on account of too abun-
dant rains, frost has done practically no
damage as yet but would be most injur-
ious were 1t to fall heavily before Oc-
tober Is.
Illinois-Late corn has been damaged
by frost to the extent Of 1916 per cent
in ten counties Frost has done no
harm in sixty-three counties
Wisconsin-Very little damage has
been done.
Indiana-Only two counties reported
damage and these put the injuries at s
per cent
Michigan-On light soils in Muskegon
County frost has damaged corn 20 per
cent Other counties report crop safe
and uninjured.
Ohio-Corn is backward in this State
and while yet damaged by frost will not
be safe until the first week of October.
Missouri-Corn has not been damaged
in this State to amount to any thing.
Kentucky-Corn is very late on 40.
count of too abundant rains and will
not be safe until the middle of October.
Iowa-Twenty-six counties report an
average damage of IL per cent to late
corn. The damage is estimated at from
Is to 90 per cent. in Audubon, Keokuk,
ard, Mahaska and Cerro Gordo Counties
The frost has ripened corn in many
other counties ..a. ....--
Minnesota-Fifteen counties report
10 per cent. damage to late corn. Crop
mostly out of the way of frosts
Enthusiastically 90 per cent of the
late corn in fifteen counties has been
damaged. -..-,
Kansas-Corn does not seem to have
suffered generally. Four counties re-
port 90 per cent injury to late corn.
Potatoes are very short crop. From
the estimates of yield as shown by dig
ging we get the following averages of
yield per acre in the different States:
Illinois, 80 bushels in fifty-two counties;
Wisconsin fifty.one bushels in twenty
five counties; Indiana, SIS bushels in
twenty-five counties; Michigan, IS BUSH
els in fourteen counties; Ohio, IS BUSH
els in twenty-seven counties; Missouri,
IS bushels in twenty-nine counties; Ken
lucky, 50 bushels in eleven counties;
Iowa, IS bushels in thirty-eight counties;
Minnesota, 20 bushels in twenty-nine
counties; Nebraska, 81 bushels in four
teen counties; Kansas, 90 bushels in
twenty-three counties; Dakotas, "a
bushels in twenty counties.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
THE EAST.

The Jefferson Democratic club house
in Brooklyn, which cost $3.50, OOO was
opened on the Esd Governor Hill spoke.
Governor Albeit Of New Jersey, was
also present The corner stone of the
club house was laid by ex-President
Cleveland.
The footings of the Potter-Loven liza
bilities at Boston have been reached
and the Indebtedness of all kinds is
found to have been about SIS, 600, 600
The Iron City bridge works of Pitts.
+ burgh, Pa, is EN- barrassed.
: Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND made a
vigorous denial of the report in New
York paper to the effect that he was in
failing health. His face was brown and
ruddy and he laughed at the report that
he was in bad health.
PRoHIBTTIoSIsrs of Pennsylvania have
nominated John D. Gill, of Westmore-
land, for Governor
The freshman class that entered Yale
on the 18th was the largest that ever
entered the academic freshman class
1t has 240 members and the scientific
freshman class will number 100, making
q total of 400 freshmen
HARVARD COLLEGE opened on the 25th
with freshman class mum bering 400,
the largest in its history. The large
number of new students entering the
advanced classes this term is particular
noticeable.
The Barrowsyille cotton mill at New
port Mass. has been destroyed by fire,
causing SIS, 600 loss
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
FATAL DISASTER.
A Boy Operators Terrible Mistake
In Ohio.
FRICHrFUL FREIGHT TRAIN WRECK
Eight Men Killed and the Cars Piled Thirty
Feet High-The Financial Loss $780,
OOO-Another Accident On the
ID. = 20.

EVANSVILLE, O., Sept 29-One Of the
worst freight wrecks in the history Of
Baltimore & Ohio railroad occurred ten
miles west Of here at midnight Satur-
day night Eight men were killed and
one terribly injured, and property to
the amount of $3.50, 600 destroyed.
The wreck was caused by the failure
of Francis Keelty, operator at Black
Hand, to deliver orders to an east bound
freight to sidetrack at that station until
a west bound freight passed.
The two trains collided on a sharp
curve just outside of dense wood, and
neither engineer saw the other train
until within Few yards Of it
The engineer and fireman on tho east
bound train jumped, the latter escaping
uninjured, but the former, John Kemp,
of Newark, had leg cut off near his
body, and is not expected to live.
The engineer and fireman of the west
bound train were Instantly killed, the
former being terribly mangled by the
splintered cars which were rained into
the tender. His blood and brains were
scattered over the ground for several
feet around. The fireman was caught
between the engine and tender and
crushed to a pulp. When taken out it
was roasted by the fire from the en-
gines.
The engines crashed together with
| awful force and the freight cars to the
number of twenty-five were piled up to
the height of twenty-five or thirty feet.
Eight men were killed as follows:
John Buckingham, engineer; William
Firestone, fireman; Freeman Keller,
brakeman; John Cochran, residence un-
known; Ben Smart brakeman, Gratiot;
Glen Bash, GAINESVILLE; George w. Stone
burger, GAINESVILLE; Tom McCrary; one
unknown.
John Kemp had his leg cut off and
Fireman Wilson hand mashed. Trains
are run by way of the Panhandle be-
tween GAINESVILLE and Newark.
Those not employed on the train were
were beating their way from Columbus
The dead were removed to an empty
car as fast as recovered and taken to
Newark for preparation for burial A
large force of men were at work all day
clearing the track of debris. ,a
Operator Keelty saw his mistake too
late and telegraphed to the operator
here that there would be wreck pretty
soon and left his post He is mere
boy. He has not yet been found.
The colliding engines are so firmly
locked and intertwined together that it
seems impossible to separate them.
Twenty-Five car loads of wire nails,
oats, corn. flour, lumber and many other
articles lie in confused ruin. The i'm
mediate financial loss to the company
will be not less than $3.50, 000 1t is the
most destructive wreck that ever oc-
Cured on this division of the road.
There was also collision of two pas
senger trains on the Baltimore & Ohio,
east of GAINESVILLE, in which two ex-
press cars were demolished, and Engin-
eer John Wheeler and Baggagemaster
Ed Murdoch had both legs broken.
This collision was due to disobedience
of orders by one of the train crews.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The House Judiciary Committee has
ordered favorable report on the SEN
ate bill for the disposition of the per-
sonal property of the Mormon Church
in Utah.
THE House Committee on Commerce
has ordered favorable report on the
bill to permit the building of bridge
from New York City to Jersey City.
PRESIDENT and Mrs Harrison and fam.
lily returned on the oath to Washington
from Cresson, Pa
The House Committee on Post-ofices
and Post-roads has authorized a favor.
able report on the bill introduced by
Mr.. Bingham appropriating $40, 900 tc
allow the Postmaster General to test
the free delivery system at small towns
and villages.
THE Treasury Department has decided
to make no more purchases of silver I'M
til October 1.
SECRETARY NOBLE has christened the
park containing the giant trees of Cali
fornia the Sequoia National Park, and
promulgated rules for its government
The President has nominated E Burd
Grubb, of New Jersey, to be Minister tc
Spain; Edwin q. Conger, of Iowa, Min
lister to Brazil
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
THE --LATEST.

ANOTHER attempt to kill the Gar is
reported from St Petersburg. The train
in which he was expected to travel was
wrecked at barricade.
A CARTRIDGE was exploded on the
2sth at Belgrade under the carriage of
the young King Of Servia. No one was
INJURED.
THERE was a terrible freight wreck
on the B. s. o. ten miles west of Zanes-
vile, O., at midnight on the 27th.
Eight men were killed. The disaster
was caused by telegraph operators
mistake.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended September % showed an average
increase of 16 compared with the cor
week of last year. In New
York the increase was las
LONDON newspapers, without excep-
ton, predict that the Mckinley Tariff
bill will react disastrously upon Ameri-
Ica-that it was a mistake to suppose
Europe was dependent to any great ex-
ltent upon the United States
THE Chicago packing house of Fowler
Bros was burned on the morning of the
18th. The loss was heavy, reaching
towards 81, 600, 900.
A SOUTH bound freight train on the
Pittsburgh s. Western railroad jumped
the trestle at Shepperville near Clarion,
Pa, killing Fireman Silas Elder and
Brakeman Shreckengost and presum-
ably fatally iniuring Engineer Frank
Wood.
In executive session the Senate con-
firmed the following nominations: E.
Burd Grubb, Minister to Spain; Edwin
81. Conger, of Iowa, Minister to Brazil.
FIRE in GAINESVILLE, Tenn, destroyed
McGhee Bros large grocery and dry
goods stores and did other damage, the
total loss being placed at sos, 900.
THE Mississippi constitutional con-
vention voted to abolish the Office of
Lieutenant-Governor, the President OF
the Senate being placed next to the
Governor.
By the fall of brick wall in Pitts
burgh, Pa, three men were killed and
four badly injured
REPORTS were current in London that
the embargo on American livestock
was about to be removed.
MONEY was reported stringent on the
London Stock Exchange during the
week ended September 81. Securities,
consequently, were depressed Bust
ness was quiet and weak on the Cont
mental bourses.
The Senate on the 27th took up sew
eral measures without final action. The
conference report on the Tariff bill, after
debate in the House, was agreed to-
yeas, 152; nays, 81.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
Concerning Grants Remains.

WASHINGTON. Sept 24-When the
Senate met yesterday Mr. Hale intro
duced joint resolution, which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, for the erection
in District of Columbia of a memorial
building. which should be a suitable
monument to the memory of o. S. Grant
which should contain a military and
naval museum and in the inner court Of
which might be placed to rest the NOR
tai remains Of distinguished Americans.
The title Endorsed on the joint resolu-
ton read: "In the vault of which shall
be placed the mortal remains of Ulysses
s Grant,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
Australians Labor situation.

MELBOURNE, Sept 29.-The strike OF
the shearers is partial failure. The
shearing is nearly finished and many OF
the men fear that they will lose their
wages II they break their contracts.
The employers at Sydney have issued a
manifesto in which they declare that
their refusal to hold a conference with
the strikers is due to the bad faith of
the unionists, who, they allege, never
hesitate to break agreements when con-
venient They complain also that the
mems requests for conference are al
ways accompanied by threats of further
strikes. The principles heretofore enun-
ciated by the employees, the manifesto
says, must be firmly maintained
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
PRISONERS FRIENDS.
Papers Read Before the National Prison

Papers Read Before the National Prison
Congress.
CINCINNATI, Sept 2S-Though the
skies were still Lowering and the rain
falling there was full attendance yes
terday at the National Prison Congress
in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Presi-
dent Hayes was in the chair. The first
thing on the programme was the read
ing of the report of the standing COM
mittee on criminal law reform by Mr..
Charles H. Reeves, of Plymouth, Ind.
Following this was a paper on THE
Lease System of Alabama and Its Prac.
teal Workings" by w. j. Lee of
Greensboro, Ala, member of the board
of inspectors of that State. This was
followed by discussion. .......
At the afternoon session there was a
wardens' meeting presided over by Cap
tain Joseph Nicholson. who made an
address in favor Of the Bertillon system
of Identification.
Major R w. McClaughey, of the Penn
sylvania reformatory, read paper on
the parole system and Prof r. d. FallS-
ner, of the University of Pennsylvania,
read paper on criminal statistics.
The reading of the papers were fol-
lowed by animated and long discussion
showing an amount of zeal in strong
contrast with the indifference manifest
ed by the people of Cincinnati, who do
not attend the meeting.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.

summary Of the Work Accomplished By
the Worlds Fair Commission-Every
Thing Working Smoothly.
CHICAGO, Sept 26-Sincs the close Of
the second session of the National Com
mission of the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position, the question in everybody's
mind is ''What has been accomplished"
A summary Of the work accomplished
by the National Commission and the
local directory combined lie, therefore.
Of interest at this time
The act Of Congress defining the
duties of the National Commission and
the directorate of the corporation
known as the Colum bian Exposition laid
upon the latter dual duty, namely,
the providing of q site and raising .
fund of $40, 600, 600. A supervisory duty
was entrusted to the National Com mis-
sion to see that the site selected was adj
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
A WONDERFUL EFFECT.
The AntI-Lottery Law About Wipes Out the
Postal business ut New Orleans.

The Anti-Lottery Law About Wipes Out the
Postal business ut New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, Sept 24-The Anti
Lottery law passed by Congress last
week has had wonderful effect on the
New Orleans post-office, and its business
has shrunk so that large reduction
in the force has become necessary. AL
though the law has been in operation
only few days, the business of the reg
istry and money order departments has
shrun1 80 to 40 per cent 1t is
estimated by the post-office in
spectors that this business will
shrink altogether two-thirds in conse-
quence of denying the lottery the use
of the mails, and that the general bust
ness of the office will decline over 33
per cent This will, of course, entail a
reduction in the number of clerks.
Postmaster Eaton expresses regret at
this, but says it is unavoidable. He an
ticipates no trouble over the enforce
ment of the law, as the managers of the
lottery company have given them notice
that they have instructed their people
not to violate the law, but to use the ex-
press companies
When the Anti-Lottery law was
signed the Louisiana Lottery Company
discharged all its mailing clerks on the
ground that it no longer had need for
them. 1t has since taken them back,
explaining that it has made other ar
rangements for transacting its business,
which will necessitate their SER
vices. 1t is understood that
this arrangement is with the ex-
press companies, which have contracted
to handle it's money business. The
mails, however, seem to be thoroughly
closed to the lottery
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03

AUGUST the little schooner Eliza,
Captain John Hansen, with crew of
five men left Chicago for Milwaukee.
since which time nothing has been heard
of her. 1t is believed that she has gone
down with all on board.
THE coal miners of Southern Illinois
are prepared to demand increased wages
or strike. The men are prepared for a
long lay of.
REPORTS from the storm in Huron
County, Mich. state that hail fell to the
depth of eight inches and literally
wiped away the crops The damage
was estimated at $500, 900.
The public schools of Paxton, Ill,
have been closed on account Of the large
number of cases of dfphtheris reported
NELSON, the stallion owned by c. 81.
Nelson, of Waterville, Me-, trotted a
mile over the Kankakee (nl) track In
2:12. equaling AxteIl's record. The first
half was made in ian. The last half
was against heavy wind.
THE Republican Congressional con-
vention of the Fourteenth Ohio district
has nominated R F. Swingle.
News has reached San Francisco that
recently, in the Northern seas, a whale
that had just been harpooned wrecked
two boats of the whaling vessel Win
throp by striking them with his tail
The men were thrown into the water
and two were killed, while both legs of
third were broken.
FIGHT over court house site between
Boston and Springfield, in Baca County,
COL, caused the burning of the building
and the killing of two persons.
THE twentieth annual convention of
the National Prison congress COM
menced at Cincinnati on the 25th with
ex-President r. B. Hayes in the chair.
COLORADO Democrats have nominated
Caldwell Yeaman, of Trinidad, for
Governor.
EX-GOVERNOR CHARLES FOSTER has
decided to accept the Republican nomi-
nation for Congress from the Eighth
Ohio district
The body of an unknown man, I'M
doubtedly murdered, was found hidden
under tree roots near Silver City, Chick
asaw Nation.
THE stage between Redding and Cedar
vile, Cal, was held up by two masked
men and the express box and Govern
ment mail pouch robbed of $500.
THE entire edition of the Cincinnati
Weekly Volksfreund was seized by the
post-office authorities and confiscated
on account of containing an advertise
ment of the Louisiana lottery.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
Enforcing the Lottery Law.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept 26.-Under
instructions from ChiefInspector Sharp,
Inspector Booth yesterday seized all the
issues of the birmingham Age-Herald
of this date and the issue of the weekly
Atlanta Constitution of this week and
all other papers coming here which
upon examination were found to
contain lottery advertisements The
officers of the Advertiser company Of
this city were also required to give
bonds for appearance at the November
term of the United States court for pub
fishing last Sunday lottery advertise
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
GENERAL.

THE Hamburg Nachrichten, Bis
marck's organ, and the North German
Gazette, the Government paper. are en-
gagged in a war of words over the Gov
ernment's method of handling the
African slavery rumors
THE furnace men of Scotland have
struck for higher wages and the Glas-
cow iron market is excited in conse-
quence.
Mr. PARNELL desires to wait until
after the trial of Dillon and O'Brien to
see whether it will still be possible for
them to 60 to America. His health will
not permit him to make personal visit
to America
MORE rich petroleum discoveries
have been made in the State of Tobasco
Mexico
The Society of German Wine-Growers
has sent a memorial to Chancellor Ca.
| privi declaring that the Mckinley Tariff
bill will ruin the export trade with
America, and asking whether it is pos
sible to obviate this by diplomatic
means
WORK on the Tehuantepec railroad in
Mexico is progressing favorably.
A COMMERCIAL panic is reported al
Lisbon.
Colon, or Aspinwall, on the Isthmus
of Panama, was devastated by fire re.
Gently. The loss was estimated at 81,
500. 900.
Two thousand miners at Tropitau,
Austrian Silesia, have gone on strike.
Trouble is feared and troops have been
dispatched to the scene.
NEARLY all the shipowners of Great
Britain are members of an employers
federation to prevent strikes when pos
sible and to fight them unitedly, if need
be.
A REPORT was current that the En-
peror OF Germany would visit the World
Fair in Chicago in 1898
THE Berlin fire department is to be
reorganized at once, the whole service
having boon found to be poor and an
tiquated
THE Count de Paris has written to
Senator Bocher regarding the Boulangist
revelation justifying the course he took
in using the weapons with which the
Republic provided him in order to divide
the Republicans and allow the country
to speak for itself
THE Archbishop of York is quite i'll
and the Bishop of Durham has taken
his place in presiding over the Church
congress.
The London papers are jubilant over
the stoppage of the McAuliffe-Slavin
fight.
THERE were IS, 623 German emigrants
from German ports and through Ant
werp and Amsterdam during the past
six months.
The weather bureau reports killing
frost in the Upper Lake region
THREE young men, Arthur Bowery.
Charles NJ. Donald and Hugh Rooney,
went out in a sail boat intending to
cross Strong lake, near Sundridge, Ont
Later their boat was found lying on its
side with Bowery hanging dead in the
rigging. The other two men were sup
posed TO have been drowned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
Great Packing House Deais

CHICAGO, Sept 26.-Final arrange
ments fer the sale of the Anglo-Ameri-
can Packing Company, which have been
pending for some time. have now been
concluded. The Fowler Bros. Company
has been incorporated in England with
a capital of 81, $50. 600. ard will in the
future carry on all the business Of
the packing houses of the Fowler
Bros. in this country and Europe. These
include the Anglo-American Packing
Company, of Chicago; Fowler Bros, IF
the Anderson-Fowler Company, OF New
York; Fowler Bros, of Liverpool; the
Anglo-American Refrigerator Car Com
pany, and a hart interest in the Omaha
Packing Company. of Omaha
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03

Fort Wyne, Ind, Sept 28-The mys.
terious disappearance of Farmer John
Ratliff, OF Cambridge, O., has been an
unsolved problem in local police circles.
He attended the races which closed in
Fort Wayne last Friday and since then
had not been seen To-day it was
learned that he was followed from the
city by confidence men who pushed
him off train near Mansfield. O.,
beat him nearly to death, robbed him
of nearly five hundred dollars and
even took his clothes. He was
found nearly naked in field where he
had lain for two days in an unconscious
condition
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
The Denver ssrik. Unchanged.

DENVER, Col, Sept 26-There was
very little change in the switchmen's
strike in the Union Pacific yards yester-
day. The company worked thirty-five
new men and seven engines and de-
clared that under Burns they had yes
terday moved more freight than they
did with the old force Of 125 men and
thirty engines in the same length Of
time. None Of the strikers have signi-
fed desire to return and it is probable
al their places will be filled By new
men and tits likely also that the switch
mems brotherhood will refuse to take
up the fight.