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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
SAC AND FOX LANDS.
Agreement Eeached and Nearly 400. 00'
Acras of Land Omen For Settlement.

Agreement Eeached and Nearly 400. 600
Acres of Land Open For Settlement.
Sac AND Fox AGENCY, I. r., June g.
The Sacs and Foxes have come to an
agreement with the Indian Commission
and the articles will be put in formal
shape to-day, and as there is no obiec-
ton from any of the tribe or the Com
missioners, there is no doubt but that in
few months the Government will nave
395, 900 acres of fertile soil ready for
white settlers I'd. ..aH N
The agreement was finished late, Sat
urday evening, after whole day OF con-
ference between the Commissioners and
the Council. ... a.-I.-.. ..r 1850.
In the morning Chief Keokuk an
nounced that the Council was willing
that the Government should pay the
Indians S49l,7O0, provided they would
be allowed to select lands where they
should choose. The proposition of the
Commissioners that S4S5, 200 should be
paid if the Indians should take their
allotments south of the Deer Fork and
$500, 600 if they wanted the whole reser-
walton to pick from. 1t can be thus
seen that the only material difference
between the Commission and the Coun-
Gil was regarding the location of the
severalty lands. ''
Chief Keokuk in arguing the point
called attention to the fact that the
Council had made all the concessions
thus far, and in justice the Commits
sioners should make at least one. The
Judgment of the Council, he said, was
that il the Government wanted to civil
ize the Indian as rapidly as possible it
should offer them inducements to scat
ter out rather than so into one commu-
nifty to themselves .i 'H .- .
Here are men," said the chief with
pride pointing to the councillors, "they
are not boys. They make you meet
boys at other places, but these men in
front of you know the Governments
wishes and policy, and they want to
promote the effort of the Government to
teach the Indian to work and do like
white men. They think it would be
best for the Indians to be near neigh
bors to white men," ". ".rE
This speech had the desired effect, and
the Commission agreed to give S4S5, 200
and let the allotments be taken any
where.
The 395, 600 acres of land which the
Government has obtained for settle
ment is already being made the subject
of prospecting tours by large numbers
of eager whites.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
THE LATEST.

The silver market was strong in Lon
don during the week ended June Z.
Mexican dollars were AID. American
securities were irregular. There was
excitement in copper. In Paris the
bourse was firm and active. Prices were
steady at Berlin; at Frankfort quiet
and weak. Sugar was firm at Havana.
DISORDER has broken out among the
Somali tribes and there has been fight.
ing and looting of Meurkaand and Kis-
mayu. The Sultan of Zanzibar has sent
reinforcements. The great tribe OF
Yaos at Kilwa has declared hostilities
to all Europeans
AFTER a stormy meeting of the Cen
trail Labor Union at New York the So.
cialist members withdrew and an.
nounced their intention of forming a
separate organization.
EXTENSIVE smuggling has been going
on for some time by collision with of
ficers of the Inman steamship line and
parties in New York. Several arrests
have been made and startling develop
ments are expected when the receivers
are apprehended.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June showed an average in
crease of 27.C compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the increase was 2s.7.
REvoLTs are reported in the gold
mines of the Russian millionaires
Basilewski and Bartaschoff, Siberia.
caused by starvation wages. A troop OF
Cossacks was beaten off and two super.
intendents were killed.
THE text OF the proposed Louisiana
Lottery bill, as laid before the Legis-
lature of that State, makes provisions
for annual payments of 81, 600, 900 to the
State.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has expressed an opinion that grain
rates from Texas and Kansas points are
unreasonably high.
The deeds of the cottage occupied by
the President at Cape May last summer
have been presented to Mrs Harrison.
The gift Is handsome one. the cottage
containing twenty rooms
EUGENE H. CowI.Es, son of the late
Edwin Cowles, editor of the Cleveland,
o., Leader, was shot and seriously
wounded by E. c. Hale, his brother-in-
law, at Montreal, Can, recently. The
trouble grew out of family matters,
Cowles being accused of misconduct
The Senate on the 9TH transacted a
miscellaneous lot of business. The
House passed the Silver bill as adopted
by the caucus-yeas, 1856; nays, Il9.
Eight Republicans voted with the
Democrats against the bill and one
Democrat voted with the Republicans
for the bill
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
Clippings.

William Berger, a Chicago mechanic,
has just completed romantic love affair
by marrying Katharine Dietrich, the
daughter of an Austrian noble man
They were lovers in the old country,
but Katharine's father opposed the suit.
and William came to this country, raised
$500 and returned. The young couple
gave the obdurate papa the slip and
were welded on their arrival in New
York.
Henry NJ. Stanley is believer in the
policy of colonizing the Upper Congo
valley of Africa with colored immigrants
from the United States
A floating American exposition is the
scheme proposed by George s. Bowen,
of New York, for the edification of
South America. He wants merchants
and manufacturers to fit out ship with
varied collection of American prod
ucts and send an expedition to South
American ports to display and introduce
the goods st-
A Californian has secured a divorce
rom his W life because she batted him
with button hook. a.
The olive tree lives to a great age.
One lately destroyed at Beaulieu had a
record of five centuries and was thirty
six feet in circumference.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
DIcK, HAYES CONFESSION.

The Confession Of the Alabama Brute
Finally Made Public.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 6.-The writ
ten confession of Dick Halves, the no
torious wife and child murderer, will
never be published IN book form, as
was expected. Last night representa-
tive of the Press News Association
learned the contents of the confession
and the following details of the crime
which clear up some of its mysteries
are made public for the first time.
Halves states in confession that he did
not contemplate the murders until the
Friday night before they were COM
mitted. 1t was then his wife re-
fused to leave the city as she had
promised to do, and the plan of
putting her out of the way for
good was quickly decided upon. De-
tectives have been hunting in vain for
the conveyance Halves was supposed to
have used to remove her boty to the
lake and his confession clears up that
part of the mystery. His wife and child
were induced to drink some liquor until
both were intoxicated and then under
SOHlc pEtscAI tucJ Hchc EtdhC1i W 1hO
lake and murdered on the banks and
thrown in. They were not killed
at the house, as has always been
supposed. He says a negro wom-
an, Fannie Bryant, who was con-
victed as an accomplish, assisted bin
from the beginning to the end and when
the bloody work was finished they swore
a terrible oath never to betraya each
other. If arrested they swore to die
without betrayingt each Others secret.
The confession admits that Fanny Bry-
ant told the truth in her testimony that
Halves took little May from her house
Monday night. May would have been
murdered on Saturday night, but they
could not induce her to drink liquor and
another plan had to be adopted TO get
rid of her. In conclu ding the confess
sion Halves wrote that he fully de-
served the fate in store for him and he
wanted no one to die for his crime.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
SEVEN DROWNED.
Boston Young Men Perish by the Capsi;
ing OF Sailboat.

Boston Young Men Perish by the Capsiz-
ing OF a Sailboat.
BosToN, June 9.-About six o'clock
yesterday morning a party of eight
young men started for fishing excur-
sion in sailboat When they were
about one mile from Thompson's island.
in Dorchester bay, the boat was struck
by a squall and capsized. All but one
were swimmers, but instead of trying to
swim ashore they tried to climb into
the boat, which was so heavily ballasted
that their weight would force her be-
meath the surface, leaving them strug-
Cling in the water. In this manner the
strength of the men were exhausted and
they sank one by one until but one was
left. H'
The drowned were: Lawrence Nc
Herman, aged "a years, and John Sulli-
van, aged "a. living in Charlestown;' AL
bert Lombart, 90, of Boston; James
Husband, II, Thomas Troy. is, and Jo-
seph Tufts, Is, of South Boston. and
Edgar Maloney, aged is, of Dorchester.
McTiernan left wife and child; the
others were unmarried.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS.

A Statement of the Indebtedness OF Coun-
ties I'm Kansas, as shown BY the Census
keport-The indebtedness OF 1890 Conn
pared With That of 1880.
WASHINGTON, June THE reports OF
county Indebtedness are being compiled
at the Census Office. Complete returns
have been received from Kansas. They
show that eleven counties have no
county debt Leavenworth leads all.
with bonds outstanding to the amount
of sLo62, 700. Wyandotte, in which is
Kansas City, Kan, has debt of $780,
2S2.s0, Doniphan has S6o9,2S2 and
Douglas has $500, 100. Several counties
have decreased their debts since 1850,
but most of them show an increase.
The tabulated statement presented
below gives the debts of 1880 as well as
those of 1890. The complete returns
are as follows:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
BAD WRECKS.
A Sleeping Car Goes Over an Embankment
Many Persons Seriously Injured-Other
,Ha

A Sleeping Car Goes Over an Embankment
Many Persons Seriously Ipjured-Other
Wrecks.
LOUISVILLE, KY. June THE Louis
vile & Nashville eastbound limited
which left here at 2:15 p. m. for Gin
cinnati was wrecked just east Of En-
gIish, KY, fifty miles from. here. The,
rear sleeper jumped the track and went
over thirty-foot embankment. wreck
ing the ear. None of the other cars
left the track. Following is a list Of
the wounded: Mrs. John Johnson,
Memphis, probably fatal, cuts and
bruises on head and body; Mrs. Fl. C.
Hodge, wife of Colonel Hodge, U. s. A.,
Jacksonville, Ind, seriously injured,
may die; Colonel Ii. c. Hodge, U. S. A.,
quartermaster in charge of the Jeffer-
sonville depot, bruised and leg sprsined;
John Johnson, Memphis, Tenn,
head cut; Major Stickney, United States
engineer corps, slightly cut on che head;
B. c. Epperson, superintendent of the
Louisville & Nashville Short Line di-
vision, slightly cut and sprained arm;
c. Ii. Brent, Cincinnati, contracting
agent of the Louisville &, Nashville
railway, injured internally; Brent Arm
| old, Cincinnati, general agent of the
Louisville & Nashville railway, slight
cuts and bruises; George Biggers, brake
man, slightly bruised; Joseph Black
well, Suffolk, Va, porter of Wagner car,
cheek injured. Isl
leE14 CrCsHED By AN ENGINE. ~
RocKFoRD. H., June 1.-THE North
western passenger train from Freeport
which reaches Chicago at two O'Clock
jumped the track two miles west of here
at eleven o'clock on account of broken
wheel.
A gang of section men were working
about 200 feet from the point where the
engine left the track and before they
could get away the train had topplea on
them. "a. 49, a.
The entire train was wrecked and the
engineer and four section men were
killed outright and the fireman, two
section men and some Of the passengers
were injured.
z.r- OFFICIALS wREczED. ~ - .
BALTIMORE, Nd, June IA telegram
received at the offices of the baltimore
& Ohio railroad states that engine
No. 1T and private car No. 7O3
were wrecked about twenty-five miles
south of Benwood, on the Ohio River
railroad last night. The car rolled over
the trestlework and injured the follow
ing in addition to those already pub
lished: Mr.. Hunter, bruised chest and
head injured; c. L. Williams, superin-
tendent of Ohio River railroad badly
bruised about the body, and two colored
porters, slightly injured. The injured
were taken to the Mcclure House,
Wheeling, on a special train, The car
was badly damaged. -sN hAh as#
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
storm i'm New York.

NEW YORK, June Terrific thunder
storms ragged Thursday night till long
after daybreak and seem to have been
widespread. In and about the city sew
eral buildings were struck and burned,
houses unroofed and fences and trees
laid PROSTATE.
At Elmira the most terrific thunder
storm of the year prevailed. The house
of James A. Ward was struck by light
ming and burned.
At Waverly there was cloudburst
and the streets and many cellars were
flooded, doing much damage. The Erie
tracks were also covered for time.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13

PmLApsLPHIA, June 7AWhile fire.
men were working on q Ore in small
frame building the flames reached q
storage basin in which were twelve bar
rsls of gasoline. An explosion follow
ed and eleven of the fremen were
caught in shower Of burning oil and
were badly burned and some of Their
viii probably die. The names Of the
injured men are: William Mcconnell,
William Helrick, John Hillman, John
Warneck. Thomas Guyna Thomas
Smith, James Russell, Davis Patterson,
Samuel Graham, Robert Burns and
Joseph McQuaid.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
A Desperate Burglar.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 6.-Shortly
after midnight Frank Schaffer, desper-
ate young criminal, had just finished
burglarizing the Dawson block. on St
Peter street and started down the stair
way, when Bob Lyons, the noted gam
bier known as Diamond Bob" APP
peared at the foot and began the ascent.
Schaffer Immediately whipped out a re-
volver and fired three shots The first
entered Lyons left leg, the second
missed its mark and the third crashed
into his left pantaloons pocket and be-
came flattened out against two poker
chips and remained in the pocket.
Schaffer was captured by Officer Hanson.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13

THERE was bad wreck on the Ohio
River road at Darlington, w. Va, on
the 5th. Several Baltimore & Ohio
officials were injured, but no one was
killed.
THE Louisville & Nashville eastbound
limited which left Louisville, KY, on
the 9Th for Cincinnati was wrecked just
east Of English, KY. Quite number
of persons were seriously hurt among
them being Major Stickney and Colonel
Hodge, of the army.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
Brave Young Men Perish

ASHLEY LAKE, Utah, June The
soil of this valley when water-soaked is
very treacherous- Yesterday Mr.. VIM
mer was riding along the bank Of
a swollen stream when the ground,
being soaked underneath, gave way,
and the man and horse were washed
into the ravine. Two young men,
workmen and Bird, tried TO rescue
WINNER and both were drowned. Mr..
WINNER was rescued, but not until he
was so nearly gone that his recovery is
considered doubtful.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
The Duke Released.

BRUSSELS, June The Duke of Or
leans, who was released from the Clair
'vaux prison in.France Tuesday highland
conducted to the swiss frontier, has ar
rived in this city. He was met at the
railway station by one of the royal car
r;ages and conveyed to the palace, where
ne took breakfast with King Leopold
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
Americ.a Live C.ttl. barred. q

LONDON, June ga depatstion from
Scotland visited Mr. Chaplin, Minister
of Agriculture, and asked him to modify
the restriction against the importation
of American cattle. Their chief srgu-
ment was the scarcity of stock
cattle in Great Britain and the
absence Of pleuro-pneumonia in
America. In reply to their request Mr..
Chaplin said that the bulk Of the farm
ers of Great Britain favored restriction.
He was unable, he declared, to hold out
the slightest hope of any modification
of the present regulations governing ths
importation of cattle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
Crawford's Commission.

TOPEKA, Kan, June "a voucher
for sl5, 974. 90 has been issue, by the
State Auditor to ex-Governor Samuel J.
Crawford, State Agent Of Kansas at
Washington, being 10 per cent of per
cent. of the net sales of public lands in
Kansas This was Mr.. CrawfO=d's COM
mission on extra school lands which he
claimed from the Governments TIT
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13
THE SOUTH.

THE union printers of the Chatta-
nooga (Tenn.) Times struck for higher
wages Their places were soon filed.
ALABAMA Republicans have placed 9
full State ticket in the field, headed by
Noble Smithson, of Birmingham, for
Governor.
THE confession of Dick Halves, the
murderer executed at Birmingham, Ala,
some time ago, has been partially mads
public. He and Fannie Bryant the
negro woman convicted as his accom-
plice, drugged his wife and child and
took them to the lake, where they were
cruelty murdered and their bodies sunk
in the water.
THE Southern memorial day was OBJ
served at Baltimore Md. on the 9th,
graves of Confederate soldiers being
decorated.
Two boys were killed and two men
badly injured by lightning at the Pion-
eer coal shaft near Charleston, w. Va,
recently.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-13

Flack's Sentence Confirmed.
New YORK, June THE Supreme
Court, general term, has affirmed the
sentenr ex-Sheriff Flack,
The Portland daily press., 1890-01-02
Tho Planets in J January.

During 1890 there will be unusually few
interesting phenomena. The eclipses will
bcsaot only unimportant. but invisible in
this part of the world. Also the principal
occultations are invisible in New England !;
other countries, however, will see Mars,
Venus, Neptune and Mercury occulted by
the moon. Our only hope, then, is that some
large comet may visit our Skies
Venus rises about quarter of seven in
the morning. On January 10, at 4 a. M,
Jupiter and Venus will be less than the d.
ameter of the moon apart. OF course, they
will not be visible until two hours later, but
they will still be very close to each other.
At the same time the thin crescent of the
moon will be within degree or two of
9th.
Jupiter rises about the same time that
Tenus does.
Saturn cannot readily be seen this month,
or It rises only about fifteen minutes before
unrise.
Mercury can be seen in the west shortly
.fter sunset during the middle Of the month,
The Portland daily press., 1890-01-02
ANCIENT LANDMARK LODGE.
Officers Publicly Installed Night
by Grand Master aIbro c. Chase.

The recently elected officers of Ancient
Landmark Lodge, No. IS, F. & A. NJ, were
last evening publicly installed by Albro E.
Chase, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
Maine.
So much curious wonderment attaches to
the mysteries of Masonry that whenever an
opportunity is afforded the public for any
conception thereof, it is always eagerly
grasped. On this occasion there were as
sembled members Of the Lodge, with ladies
and invited friends, to the number Of fully
three hundred, completely filling beautiful
Corinthian Hall. Particularly noticeable was
the interest manifested in every part of the
ceremody, the ladies, perhaps, having de-
termine6, to obtain as large an insight as
possible into the secrets, and then again,
public installations rarely occur, which
affords ample reason for the close attention.
At little past eight Charles E. Show,
Master, called the gathering TO order, and
stated the purpose of the meeting. Shortly
after the officers of the Grand Lodge were
escorted into the hall by deputation of
Ancient Landmark brethren. These were
the Grand officers present. Albro E. Chase,
Grand Master Geo. r. Shaw, Grand Marshal.
Then according to the established and i'm
pressive rites Grand Master Chase installed
Worshipful Master-Chas E. Snow.
Senior Warden-Alfred Snow.
Junior Warden-Fred E. Bickford.
Treasurer-Leander W. Fobes.
Secretary-John 8. Russell.
Rev. N. T. Whitaker offciated as chaplain.
The Worshipful Master announced these APP.
pointments:
Senior Daac0u-Frank r. RadlOn
Junior Deacon Charles z. Costello.
Senior Steward-Fred w. Thompson.
Junior Steward-Geo. ii. Owen.
Marshal-Sylvan b. Phillips.
ORGANISATIONS. f. Jones.
Tyler-Warren o. Carney.
They were then installed in due form by the
Grand Master. Excellent music was furnish
ed during various parts of the ceremony by
Shaw's Quartette, and the selections render
ed by the organist were very enjoyable.
At O'Clock adjournment was had to the
banqueting hall, where Robinson had pre-
pared tempting spread. Handsome menus,
presented by Owen, Strout & Co., were at
every plate. Shaw's Quartette added to the
aurels al ready won by their fine singing
after the supper.
1t was past eleven o'clock when all was
over, and then many fingered to inspect the
Masonic apartmentS
The Portland daily press., 1890-01-02
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

The Samaritans will meet this afternoon
with Mrs. S. F, Bearce, at No. 50 Alder
street.
New Years day was cloudy and chilly
The public Offices were closed, and some of
the stores also.
The two end stores in Calf block have
equipped with the Rogers auxiliary fire
alarm push boxes, connected to box q.
The annual dinner of the Marine Society
will take place at the Falmouth Hotel this
evening. Meeting at p. M, and supper at
7p.m.
The Long Reach Engine Company, No. 2,
OF Bath. came to Portland yesterday in full
uniform, and duly celebrated the advent Of
the new year.
The twenth seventh annual meeting of the
Maine Press Association will be held in the
city building, Portland, Wednesday and
Thursday, Jan. % and %. beginning at p.
IN. Wednesday. Literary exercises Thursday
afternoon.
Among the handsomest calendars of the
season are those distributed to the friends
and patrons of the Lamson studio. Photo
graphs of two very young misses of Maine,
one of them a little lady of Portland, smile
above the diary of Father Time.
Mr.. Chase, the hackman. is getting along
well, and no bones are broken. The cord of
the right foot is very badly cut, and he will
have to remain tquiet for ten days or a
fortnight. Both legs about the ankle are
badly bruised, and the left foot is badly
swollen.
The Lidback Manufacturing Company is
shipping away number of engines. This
week they have sent 10-horse power engine
= and dynamo attached, to the Chicago and
Grand Trunk Railway. One 25-horse power
engine has been put up in s. w. Thaxter's
store to run his elevators. and one 25-horse
power engine has been put In the Portland
Steam Packets laundry.
Chief Engineer Cloyes said bright thing
yesterday when the occupant of No. 80 Oak
street came to him and said that his cellar
was full of water. ''All right" said the
chief, ''as soon as we put this fire out we'll
take hold and pump you out. ""But, said the
man, ''all of my hens are in the cellar, and
they will drown." 81 don't see what you
can do" said the chief, unless you swap
your hens off for ducks. Then they can
swim around until we scan get at them to
pump the water out"