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The Iola register., 1890-11-07

THE schooner Jane Anderson is sup
posed to have gone down in the storm
of Frankfort Mich.
GOVERNOR COOPER, of Colorado, has
appealed for Government protection
against the Utes
The Santa Fe railroad shops at Fort
Madison, Iowa, were destroyed By fire
Loss, SIS, 600; insurance, $1,000.
The lady managers of the Chicago
Worlds Fair have been called to meet
at Chicago November Is Each viii re-
ceive 81 day and expenses
Four guards in the insane asylum at
Richmond, Ind, have been arrested, &C
cused of beating and kicking T. J.
Blount an insane attorney, to death.
BRIGGS SWIFT, noted pork packer of
Cincinnati, is dead. He was an octo-
genarian
PAscALE and Antler, Flathead In
dians, have been convicted at Missoula,
Mont, of the murder of three prospect
ors and sentenced to be hanged Decem-
ber 19. They broke down completely.
JUST as he was about to be arrested
for embezzlement, julius Voss, of Ester
hazy, Wis, blew out his brains
Ar the meeting of the Cleveland, Gin
cinnati, Chicago & St Louis railway
stockholders in Cincinnati the old d.
rectors were reelected.
THE first snow of the season began
falling in Southern Michigan on the
Goth and continued all day.
. THE Attorney-General of Iowa has
been ordered to begin suit to force the
railroads of that State to put iIto force
the State Commissions joint rate order.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
THE SOUTH.

The wharf front at tApalachicola, Fla, /,
was damaged by fire on the 9th. The
property destroyed was estimated at
S175, 600. ......r.
The threatened strike of yard switch
men on the Atlantic & Pacific at Albu-
querque, n. NJ. has been averted.
BARNUM's circus was in another
wreck at Macon, Ga. Two men and
eight horses were killed.
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark, suffered a
loss of 5000, 900 by fire on the 2sth,
which broke out in the Perry House on
Spring street
FIRE in the George Weidman Brewing
Company's establishment in Newport
KY, the other night destroyed a large
warehouse containing 100, 600 bushels of
barley and malt. The loss was estimated
at S10O, 600, with full insurance
WHILE a hot-air balloon was being
Ga, it was upheld by heavy poles
When the balloon was cut loose the
poles fell One struck ex-State Senator
]. w. Robertson on the head, killing
him instantly.
THE census of South Carolina shows a
far larger increase of the white popula-
ton compared with the increase of the
colored.
MoRRIs WATTS, son of a wealthy En-
glish capitalist, was shot fatally while
hunting near Cumberland Gap Tenn.
THOMAS C VOOLFOLK was hanged at
Macon, Ga, on the Goth. He murdered
his father and eight other persons with
an axe August 6, 1887. His reason for
the crime was a desire to obtain his
fathers estate, which was likely to GO
to the children by second wife.
THE body of an Italian was found on
the river front at Louisville, KY, with
several gashes in his head and knife
through the heart His death was the
work of the Malta. The victim, it is
believed, was followed to Louisville
from New Orleans
Miss BAKER, of Stilesboro, Ga, was
beaten to death with club by an un-
known person while alone in field
THE St Johns Savings Banks st. Au-
gustine, Fla, has suspended.
AT recent civil service examination
in Baltimore all the papers presented
such a striking similarity that an in
vestigation is being made.
JUDGE CALDWELL. of the United States
Circuit Court at Little Rock, Ark, has
rendered an original package decision
in direct antagonism to the decision of
Judges Philips and Foster at Topeka.
Caldwell holds that the Wilson law
gives validity to the old State laws con-
cerning liquor.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
THE WORLD AT LARGE,
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


By direction of the Secretary of the
Interior, Agent Waugh has been direct
ed to take prompt steps to return the
depredating bands of Utes in Colorado
TO their reservations The Secretary of
War has also given the necessary in
structions to the local military author
tiles
The President has received the resig-
nation Of George S Batcheller as AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mr..
Batcheller will take the Office of Minis
ter to Portugal
SENIOR MIGUEL SUAREz CANES, now
Consul-General at New York, has been
appointed Spanish Minister to the
United States, vice Senior Murnaga, re-
signed.
THE remains of the late General Crook
are to be removed from Oakland, Nd, to
the National cemetery at Arlington
Heights, near Washington.
THE Treasury Department announces
that under the new tariff law duty of
III cents per pound must be assessed
on all imported lead, whether in COM
bination with silver or in smaller or
larger proportions
THE census of the country as finally
announced by Superintendent Porter is
trife under sixty-two million and a
half If correct it shows a deplorable
falling off in the birth rate or an enor-
nous increase in the death rate, as the
immigration has been excessive. Sug-
gested causes are that the census figures
of 1870 in the South were greatly de-
ficient and that the present census is
defective. Perhaps little Of every
thing has contributed to make the GEN.
sus of 1890 an epoch in the history Of the
country
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
AT LARGE.
burlington, the Desperate and
Murderer, Walks Out of Jail
A DEPUTY EASILY TAKEN IN.
The Condemned Rufiian Places n Dummy in
Bed and Hides Under the Deputy's Bed
and So Escapes-No Clew TO His
Whereabouts.

BooNvILLE, Mo-, Nov. s-The start
ling announcement that John o. Tur-
lington, the murderer of Sheriff Gram
mer, had escaped Saturday night from
the county Jail was the report spread
abroad in th:s city yesterday morning.
1t was found that burlington had
placed dummy in his bed and had
secreted himself Saturday evening un-
der the bed of Deputy Sheriff Nicold-
son in the lower hall of the Jail and
when, short time after supper, Nicold-
son went into the Jail and upstairs to
see if every thing was all right Tur-
lington deliberately walked out
1t was not known until Q o'clock that
the condemned man was at large.
Three horses were found bearing
evidence of hard usage. They be-
longed to different parties along the
road to Jefferson City. 1t is supposed
burlington pressed these animals into
service to aid him to reach the Missouri
Pacific railroad, on which he went
either east or west
Up to this time burlington has not
been heard from in any way. Messages
have been sent to all parts OF the coun-
try. r...
burlington was arrested at Sedalia
last spring for shooting at two brake
men near Otterville, Mo, and brought
here charged with assault with intent
to kill While at Sedalia he told a
young prisoner whose confidence he Sc
cured that he had concealed the re-
volver with which he did the shooting
near Ottervilie where it could be found.
The young man got the revolver, took it
to Boonville and gave it to Turling-
ton That evening when Sheriff Gram
mer went into the Jail burlington drew
his revolver and demanded his release.
Cranmer drew his revolver and accord
ing to best accounts both fired about
the same time. Cranmer was fatally
wounded. burlington was captured be-
fore he had gone very far, was tried for
murder, convicted and sentenced to be
hanged November 81. Before his trial
he told the story of the Pryor creek
train robbery in the Indian Territory,
and said man named Temple had as
sisted him in the robbery. Temple was
apprehended at Fort Worth, Tex, and
is now in Jail at Fort Smith, Ark.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07

TWENTY bales of cotton on platform
at Colbert L T., awaiting shipment
were destroyed by fire recently,
The st Paul .telegraphers' strike
resulted in an easy victory for the West
ern Union
WILLIAM Fl. CALVERT, of Vane. CAL
vert & Co, St Louis, committed suicide
at Chicago with revolver. Calvert
was said to be quite wealthy. He had
been staying in sanitarium under
treatment it was stated. for insomnia
GEORGE L. SHoUP, the Governor OF
Idaho, in his annual report of the af-
fairs of the Territory for the last fiscal
year estimates the value of the taxable
property of the Territory at S25 5sl, ,3O5
FRANCES c. GUTHRIE prima donna OF
the Hess Opera Company for several
seasons, has been married to Charles ID.
Meyer Minneapolis attorney.
JUDGE TULEY of Chicago, has decided
adversely to Ed Corrigan, the horseman.
Book making at race tracks is illegal in
Illinois
THE census will probably show the
population of Alaska to be 33, 600.
A YOUNG physician of Hyde Park, Chi
cago, died recently after an oyster meal
at restaurant The oysters had been
kept SO long that they had developed a
poison known as ptomaiu.
THE late Franklin b. Jaeger, o. Bur
lington, Iowa, left $50, 900 to missionary
societies and Grinnell College.
THE coal miners of Indiana, in State
convention, decided to stand by the con-
tract signed in the spring with the
operators, and not demand an increase
in wages
CHILLICoTHE, Ill, near Peoria, was
almost wiped out by fire on the night
of the 3lst.
THE Chicago sheriff has taken pos
session of the Arkansaw Traveller, edited
by Opie p Reid, the humorist
TwENTY-sIx confessions of Judgment
aggregating about $780, 900. have been
entered against Leopold Bros. & Co,
wholesale clothiers at. 229 Franklin
street. Chicago
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
COLLISION AT SEA.

Terrible Loss of Life by Collision Between
aSp.nish Steamer and American Schooner
Suffering of the Survivors.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The steamer
Hum boldt, which arrived here from
Brazil, reports that she picked up some
of the crew of the Spanish steamer,
Viszcaya, which left New York Thurs
day and was sunk at night off Rarne-
gat by an unknown vessel with which
she was in collision and which was also
sunk, but nothing is known of her capt
ain and crew. ffg.
The Humboldt received three officers
and eight of the crew of the steamer,
and it is supposed that the rest Of the
crew and the passengers, over seventy
persons, ali told, were lost
The Humboldt sighted the wreck OF
the Viszcaya early next morning. Sew
eral persons were clinging to the rig
ging.
The chief officer, second officer, en-
gineer, surgeon and eight of the crew
were rescued. They say that the col
lision occurred at night and both ves-
sells sank in few moments after strik-
ing.
The captain of the steamer was lost,
as were also the fifteen passengers and
a part of the crew, seventy-one persons
in all. The passengers included Cuban
millionaire, his wife and two children.
Nothing has been heard Of the capt
ain or crew of the schooner and it is
supposed they we're all lost
The rescued people say that the
schooner changed her course when
within cables length Of the steam
ship. The schooner sank and within
five minutes the steamer went down.
The passengers were all below deck on
the steamer and that portion of the
crew on the deck took to the masts.
The Viszcaya had dseventy-seven in all
on board All those saved were mem-
bers of the crew.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
HEADQUARTERS CLOSED.
Roth Political Committees at Washington
HE Them Away.

Roth Political Committees at Washington
HE Them Away.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-Both the Ma
tional Congressional committees closed
their headquarters here yesterday.
Both appear sanguine at the outcome.
The Democrats claim the next House
by majorities ranging from 16 to 40, and
are counting on almost solid delega-
ton from the South. On the other
hand, the Republican committee asserts
that the Republicans will control the
next House, and that their majority
will not be lower thanT. TN t-
Instead of the five seats conceded by
the Democrats to them in the South, the
Republicans are counting on at least
fifteen or twenty. They claim they
will elect three each in Missouri, Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, at least two
in West Virginia and the same number
in Arkansas, one each in Louisiana,
Alabama, South Carolina, Maryland and
Epntucky
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
The Germans in Africa.

BERLIN, Oct 3O.-A new German
African Company has been organized.
Its object is to plant the colonies in
South and Southwest Africa and in Mo-
rocco and Tripoli. The Kreuz Zeitung
states that the German Government has
granted ten years trading monopolies
in the CAMERON country, Africa, as fol-
lows: To the Woermans, at Batangs; to
Swedish merchants in the region above
the Victoria settlement; to Jansen and
Thormaehien, in the region northeast
of the mountain range, and to Zintgraf.
in the section bounded By the left bank
of the Benue ~ .r,...,.sat.r.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
GENERAL.

NJ. ALLARD a journalist fought a
duel near Tours, France. The weapons
used were pistols, and Allard was shot
in the stomach. He has since died from
the effects of his injuries.
LESS than one-half of a potato crop
this year is estimated compared with
last year. .... .... 5.....-
The troubles in the Canton of Ticino,
Switzerland, have broken out afresh.
The Canton of Fribourg was also re-
ported in disorder. Blood had been
shed.
THE insurrection of peasants in
Southern Russia continues The rebels
pillage the residences of landowners
Nine thousand troops are operating
against them.
THE widow of Prof Jamison, the nat
uralist who was with the Barttelot
party on the Congo, writes to the Lon
don Times that the life and diaries of
her husband are being published. 1t is
probable that they will throw light
upon the Barttelot-Stanley dispute.
Mr. GLADSTONE in an address to work.
men extolled free trade. He claimed
that the results of the last fifty years
legislation had been that trade had
multiplied fvefold; that the population
had doubled; and that the material so
cial, moral and political condition of
the country had enormously improved
REPORTS continue to be received of
damage by floods in the State of Jalasco
Mexico At Capotlan number of houses
were carried away by the floods At
Ameca, village in Jalasco, a number
of persons were drowned.
ACCORDING to the National Gazette
Prof. Koch, the specialist has discov-
cred cure for consumption by inocula-
ton, and in consequence has abandoned
lecturing and will devote himself ex-
elusively to experimenting
THE committee of Rock Island en-
ployes that had been in conference
with General Manager St John for some
time succeeded in reaching a salts.
factory agreement with him The COM
pany defines and restricts the power of
foremen and grants employees an in
crease in wages
QUIET has been restored in the Canton
OF Fribourg, Switzerland
Mr. GLADSTONE was presented with
the freedom of the city at Dundee, Scot
land. on the Goth and delivered his
promised speech on the Mckinley Tariff
bill
MINISTER LINCOLN has left London
for a vacation at home.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
THE LATEST.

Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES on the 1st ad-
dressed the Johns-Hopkins University
at Baltimore. Md, on the subject Of
negro education.
THE Union Pacific has issued its SEQ.
ond sensational manifesto. 1t absolute
ly refuses to pro-rate with any other
connecting line than the Northwestern.
SINCE the outbreak of cholera in the
Chinese Empire there have been IS. 425
cases and 25, Oil deaths. The epidemic
has almost subsided.
GRAND MEADOWS, the largest hay
farm in Northern Indiana, containing
70, 600 acres, was set on fire by hunters,
burning up II 900 tons of hay. The to-
tai loss was 500, 600. ... ...
CHICAGO capitalists are about to es-
tablish big tin can factory il Balti-
more.
The municipal elections in Ireland
and Wales showed Liberal gains.
DILLON and O'Brien. the Irish Nation
alists arrived at New York on the I'd,
accompanied by Timothy Harrington
and T. D. Sullivan.
THOMAS RHoADEs, the only Lynn
Mass morocco manufacturer who had
not discharged his old help, turned off
l67 of his employees, in accordance with
the resolution adopted by the National
Morocco Manufacturers Association,
that on November l all Knights of La
Dor should be discharged.
THE corner stone of the Women's
Temple, which is being erected by the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
was laid by Mrs. Matilda B. Carse at
Chicago on the 1st-
CHIEF JUSTICE and Mrs Fuller will
celebrate their silver wedding in Janu-
AIRY at their Washington home. On that
day the wedding Of their daughter. Miss
Mildred Fuller, to Hugo Wallace will
take place.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended Novemb Der showed an average in
crease of "a compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New
York there was decrease of Ia
PRICES continued to shrink on the
London Stock Exchange during the
week ended November 1. There were
better indications toward the close.
Business was dull on the Paris Bourse.
At Berlin prices were firm. At Frank.
fort business was quiet
Two hundred and fifty persons were
arrested at New York for illegal regis
tration.
AMONG the 399 passengers landed from
the City of Chicago on the I'd we 9
sixty-six Turkish carpet weavers They
brought their looms and tools with them
and they are believed to be imported by
several American carpet firms.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
GIadstone,s Narrow E,cape,

LONDON. Oct So-It transpires that
Mr.. Gladstone had an extremely narrow
escape while inspecting the new Firth
of Forth bridge day or two ago. While
he was absorbed in examining the
different parts of the structure, q
train rushed by at high rate Of
speed, Just grazing the ex-Premier in
its fight and causing him to cling to
the girders to prevent his falling into
the water. The gravity of the situation
would have unnerved a younger and
more vigorous man than Mr.. Gladstone.
but he retained his presence of mind
and betrayed much less agitation than
any of those who witnessed his peril.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
Fell Into the NIachInerr.

CHICAGO, Nov. Julius Swenson, a
Swede employed at the Western Paving
& Supply Company's establishment as a
sawyer, met a horrible death yesterday
afternoon. He and several companions
employed about the mill where paving
blocks are sawed were in the engine
room eating dinner When they had
finished Swenson proposed to his fellow
workmen that they should have a
wrestling bout By an unfortunate slip
Swenson fell over backward on the ma
chinery. AS soon as possible the
machinery was stopped and the lifeless
BODY taken out
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
THE EAST.
NATURAL gas appears to be giving out


at Pittsburgh, Pa
THE question of Speaker Reed count
ing quorum has come up in a case at
New York, where an importing house
challenged the legality of an act de-
clared passed by the Speaker.
THE Western Anthracite Coal Associa-
tion met in New York and decided upon
a raise of ten cents ton in the price of
anthracite coal at Chicago and all lake
ports.
The steamb boat Alexander Swift broke
b in two near Glenwood, Pa, having been
overloaded No lives were lost The
damage was estimated at $50, 600.
THE bridge man above Niagara Falls
reported man in a skiff pass under
the other morning. No one knew who
1t was.
Ex-MAYoRs ABRAM S HEWITT and
William r Grace, Hon. John Jay, Jesse
Seligman and James c. Fargo have ac-
cepted positions on the Irish famine
fund committee, of New York. Mr..
Fargo, who is president of the Wells
Fargo Express Company, will transport
all contributions free.
MAYOR FITLER, of Philadelphia, has
decided that an enumeration of the
city's population shall be made by the
municipal authorities. The correctness
of the census taken by the Federal au-
thorities is doubted.
Miss LIZZIE PHELPS, society belle
and heiress of Binghamton, n. Y, was
married to William Slattery, the family
coachman. The bride is about twenty
seven years of age, and is worth $780,
000 The groom is illiterate, but of
good appearance. .-... ..
A HIGH license local option liquor bill,
with provisions similar to the law now
in force in Massachusetts, has been in
troduced in the Vermont Legislature.
The freestone cutters of Boston have
given rp their strike, which began last
February. Cause, lack of action by the
building trades council
The Rhode Island State House Com
mission has decided on 81, 900, 600 Cap
itoL
FOUR men were fatally injured by a
boiler explosion at the Portage rolling
mills at Duncansville, near Altoona, Pa.
The commission appointed by the
Pennsylvania Legislature to survey a
route and report on the practicability of
building a ship canal between Lake
Erie and Pittsburgh has decided to rec
ommend such an enterprise. The State
will probably solicit aid from the Ma.
tional Government
1sIDoRE RosENTHAL, cloak manufact-
urer, Broadway, New York, has failed
for $50, OO0
ISAAC L FALK & Co, clothing manu-.
facturers, New York, have failed fol
$3.50, 900.
A COAL train on the Pennsylvania
railroad ran on misplaced switch and
crashed through the Hotel Brunswick,
at Huntington, Pa, creating a panic
among the guests, and landed in the
yards of the Girard House and Jack
son House. ....
On his recent trip from Montreal tc
New York the Comte de Paris had a
narrow escape from horrible death.
At Plattsburg he attempted to board the
train while in motion, and missing the
guard rail was swung between the cars.
He was saved by trainmen.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
CnppinRs.

In the Solomon Islands the market
quotation on good quality" wife is
10, 900 cocoanuts. The money Of the
Islanders consists of strings OF shell
beads about the size of shirt button,
we'll made, and strung in fathom lengths
of two kinds, red" and white" money.
This is the base Of the currency, above
which comes dogs teeth. which are the
gold of their coinage. Only two teeth
from dogs jaw are legal tender.
There's one thing about self-made
men; If they go to the bad they can't
fall back on the old gag about original
sin.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
The. .Behrlug Sea.

LONDON, Nov. "A report has been
circulating here, based on statements
in dispatches from America, that
the British Foreign Office had made
overtures in regard to the Behring sea,
but the Foreign Office officials deny
the statement. 1t is understood, how
ever, although it is not officially stated,
that England is awaiting the action OF
the American Government on the prop
osition to arbitrate and that in the
meantime England will see that British
vessels are protected from molestation.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
No Place FOR O'MaIley.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Nov. 2.-The
Supreme Court took up and passed
upon the Neil-O'Malley contest in the
Eighth Congressional district, by
sustaining the action of the Sec
retary of State in refusing to place the
name of OMalley upon the tickets
printed for use in the city of st.
Louis, under the Australian system, as
the nominee of the Democratic party
for Congress The court adjourned un-
til November II.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
Knighto OF Labor Discharged.

LYNN, Mass, Nov. 2-Thomas
Rhoades, the only Lynn morocco manu-
facturer who had not discharged his old
help to-day turned off 167 of his en-
ployes, in accordance with the resolu-
ton adopted by the National Morocco
Manufacturers Association that on No
vember all Knights of Labor should be
discharped o. "
The Iola register., 1890-11-07

PUEBLO Col, Nov. 2-The Colorado
Coal & Iron Company, owning large
tracts of land, valuable coal and iron
mines, coke ovens and steel works in
this city, have begun to bore for oil on
their lands in the vicinity of Florence.
This will be the third company to
develop the oil field which already sup
plies the entire State.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
PHI. Won. Cure Dyspepsia.

Dyspeptics are ever hopeless They seek
relief from their distress of stomach and Of
liver, and find 1t not Indigestion. heart
burn, vertigo, extreme lassitude, loss of
energy, peevishness, ETC., is the bane Of
their existence and mars the complacent
feelings of others around the family fireside.
Why won't dyspeptics come and be cured
1t can be done. There is one sure way OF
strengthening the digestive organs and re-
moving every symptom of general debility
caused thereby. But this cannot be done by
the taking of pills and other cathartic mix
lures. Such treatment while seeming to
give temporary relief at frst, in the end
aggravates the disease and increases the
suffering, for it is like whipping a tired
horse, it irritates and urges, but the
strength to move at last gives out entirely.
Thousands OF former dyspeptics are now
happy in health and strength of stomach
brought about by the use of the finest OF
strengthening and healing tonic alternatives
known as DIR. John Bulls Sarsaparilla, the
condensed virtue of many excellent herbs.
1t is the biggest and the best Sarsaparilla
sold.