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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-07
Clippings.

The value of ton of silver, as we are
informed by several esteemed ex-
changes, is So, roe. "a. This will be Of
much practical interest to all persons
having few tons of silver about their
premises, and might be followed up
with good effect by statement giving
the exact value of a ton of greenbacks.
Chicago Tribune. .... d.
Congressman lat home, among his con-
Observation-Disclosures and fellow citi-
Gems: want you to tell me what, in
your opinion, this country most needs"
The Crowd with astonishing unanimity)
-"Shorter sessions Of Congress!"
Edison is busily engaged in pushing
forward to completion an electric motor
for street railway cars His idea dis
penses with the overhead high tension
wires and also with the storage battery.
i Lydia and Lena CasselL aged sisters
of Lancaster, Pa, died within an hour
Of each other recently. H#
The wind often turns an umbrella,
but borrower rarely returns it.
If man is to believe all he reads In
the newspapers, all the women in the
East are old maids, and very p0or, and
the men of the West are all old bach
elors, and very wealthy.--Atchison
Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-07
A NAVAL TYRANT.


The Experience Of Omcsrs and Grow q the
War Ship Entsrprise With . TysAnleaD
Captain.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2a-The Tribune
says: 'Not since the days when the
brig Sommers came into the port OF
New York after Captain McKinzie had
hanged Spencer, the son Of the Secre-
tary Of the Navy, has ship Of war in
time Of peace arrived here that has been
the object Of so much general interest
as the Enterprise, which came in yes
terdsy after cruise Of two years and
seven months on the European station.
Commander Bowman H. McCalla is
her commanding officer and this y his
first command afioak twill. be Q mem
orable one in naval history. The vessel
left the navy yard in Brooklyn with a
well selected crew and officers picked.
out by Captain McCalla himself. She
returned yesterday, the most I'M
happy ship probably that ever
came into port. During the cruise
assertions had been frequent and
nearly every officer in the ward room.
had been under suspension one or many
times. Life aboard the Enterprise for
officers and men was described by one OF
her ships company yesterday as having
been one continual round of from hell
to breakfast and back again
among the incidents of the cruise,
which will illustrate the state of affairs
on board. is as follows: ilNi f'bjls
"When the ship was at Christina a
fireman named Walker got drunk, came
on board and was put in irons Captain
McCslla had him brought to the mast.
When the officer Of the deck questioned
the man, Walker replied that he was
drunk and glad of it. Thereupon Cap
tain McCalla ordered the officer of the
deck to cut the man down with his.
sword. The officer refused. , Captain
McCalla going into the cabin buckled on
his sword and had the man brought.
on deck again. The man was brought.
up in irons and the Captain, drawing
his sword, cut him down, deluging
the deck with blood and so severely in
juring the man that the surgeon had to
be Immediately summoned to attend to
his wounds. A hasty bed of tarpaulins.
was rugged upon the deck and on this
the man lay for some time. The mem
bers of the crew declare that he was,
there for day or two, but it is hardly
probable unless there was some good
reason for it, which has not yet been.
made public. When Captain McCalla.
makes his report to the authorities at.
Washington this will doubtless all be.
explained.
"The whole history of the complaints.
of officers and men on board the Enter
prise and the various unusual Incidents
of the cruise would fill a volume. Many
may be without foundation and others
rest deep on the truth When an inyes-
tigation takes place the whole truth
will probably come OUT t'-Trr
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TIE EAST.

THE school committee has sustained
the action of Principal Welsh of the
high school at Pittsfeld, Mass, in dis
missing six pupils who declined to study
in the history class because of the way
the reformation period was treated in
the text book. The book committee
was, however, instructed TO investigate
the alleged chapters objected to.
By the terms of the will of John Jacob
Astor ST. Luke's Hospital receives $780,
600, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
$4,000, the New York Cancer Hospital
100000, the Aston Library $3.50, 600.
Alexander Hamilton $50, 200. All the
residue and remainder of the estate goes
to his son. William Waldorf Astor. The
executors are William Waldorf Astor
and Charles Z. Southmayd
THE works of the Merrimac glove
factory at Warren, n. H., were de-
stroyed by fire recently. Loss, $40, 900.
THE contract for the construction of
the new iron gunboats, known as num-
bers and has been awarded to the
Bath Iron Company, of Bath, Me-, at a
coGt of s31s,5OO each. ' '''"-
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GRAVE ROBBERS.

Two Kentucky College Professors Caught
Robbing Graves in lndiana-The Colored
Driver Killed an
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 26.-Three
prominent local physicians planned to
rob the graves of Tom johnson and Ed
Pearce, who were buried at the New
Albany Qnd.) cemetery last Saturday,
early yesterday morning, and the storm
seemed friendly to their plan, but the
officers got wind of it and were in watt
ing, and Drs j. T. Blackburn and w. E.
Grant were arrested and placed in Jail.
The third fed and his identity is not
known. Anegro accompanying the two
who drove the wagon was shot dead as
he started to run. A second colored
man who went along to help the
ghouls was arrested Medical stu.
dents from this city are said to have
robbed the same cemetery repeatedly.
The offense Is felony in Indiana. Drs.
Grant and Blackburn were indicted by
the grand jury at New Albany yesterday
afternoon on two counts, robbing a
grave and conspiring to commit a felony.
The punishment in the first case is from
three to ten years in the penitentiary;
in the second two to four years and from
5000 to SIS, 900 fine. DR.. Grant is demon.
strator of anatomy in the Kentucky
School of Medical Science and DR. Black
burn is assistant in surgery in the same
school. The college will back them
with all the money necessary. Hon.
Charles Jewett and other eminent coun-
sci have already been employed. On
the other side Prosecuting Attorney An
thony has engaged Hon. Alexander
Bowling, leading attorney, to help him.
Owing to the high standing of the
men whose graves were to be robbed.
there is great indignation at New AL
bany. The two physicians were last
night taken to the prison at Jefferson
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DICK HAYES HANGED.

The Alsbens Murderer Psys the Penalty
For HIS Hiendish Crims-A Full Confes-
sion.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 1.-Dick
Hawes was hanged for the murder of his
wife and two children at three minutes
to one o'clock yesterday. His neck was
broken and death was easy. The little
Jail was packed to suffocation. In the
streets outside thousands of people
stood in the rain waiting, though they
could see nothing. az.--s assaa az,sss
Before the black cap was adjusted
Halves spoke briefly. He called news
paper man, shook hands with him. and for
gave him for all false statements against
him. He then handed an AgeHerald
man q written confession and asked
that it be published. He stated that he
was guilty and suffered justly; that
whisky and bad woman had brought
him TO his end. He warned young men
against following in his footsteps. His
written confession would tell the rest
DR.. Purser offered prayer. The drop
fell and all was over. --t
The crime for which Richard II. Halves
paid the penalty of his life was the muir
der of his wife and two children, May
and Irene, Tuesday morning, December
4, 1883 The body Of May Haws was
found floating in an artificial lake at
Eastlake, pleasure resort six miles
from this city, but it was not identified
until the next day. The discovery led
to still further investigation and the
residence of Halves was visited by sew
eral persons, who found the place de-
serted and evidence that horrible crime
had been committed. There were blood
stains on the floor, and in a corner Of
one of the rooms bloody club was found.
On the same day it was learned that
Halves had been married to Miss May
Storey, at Columbia, Miss. He was ar
rested the same night while passing
through Birmingham on his way to
Georgia to spend his honeymoon. He
identified the body of his child, but
stated that he had been divorced from
his wife and she had gone away. The
children, he said, had been placed in
convent at Mobile and he was at loss
to understand how Nays body came to
be found where it was.
d, The palpable improbability of such
story convinced those who heard Hawes'
statement that he had murdered the
rest of the family, and by the direction
Of the coroner the lake was drained and
the bodies of Mrs. Halves and little
Irene, heavily weighted with railroad
iron, were found on the bottom.
The finding of Mrs. Hawes' corpse
inflamed the public mind to a state of
frenzy. All the efforts of the press Of
the city and the county authorities to
allay the excitement were futile. The
Jail was stormed by 10000 persons de-
termined to lynch the murderer. The
sheriff ordered halt, but the mob re-
piled with cries Of derision and pressed
forward. The order was given to the
guard to fire and volley resulted in
the killing of ten persons and the
wounding Of many more. The spirit of
the mob was broken and it never re-
turned to the attack, contrary to the ex-
pectation Of the authorities, who had in
the meantime telegraphed to the Gov
ernor for militia. ~
8 The trial of Halves began April &c
and lasted eleven days
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-07
The Prospects for wheat.

CHICAGO, Feb. 28.-The Farmers Re-
view states: THUS far the reports of
GU; correspondents indicate, with the
exception of a few counties, that the
condition of winter wheat averages
high in all the States covered
by our reports. The only discourag-
ing report comes from Michigan and
Wisconsin, where general complaint is
made OF damage to wheat by the
changeaole weather during the past
month. A few counties in Kansas re-
port some damage from the Hessian fly,
but the majority of the reports predict
. heavy crop for 1850.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE Secretary of Agriculture has is
sued the usual quarantine order to the
managers and agents of railroad and
transportation companies in regard to
the transportation and handling of
Texas cattle, directing that no cattle are
to be transported from the infected area
to any portion of the United States ex-
cept in accordance with the usual regu-
lations, which are to remain in force
from March Is to December l.
ANDREW CARNEGIE gave a dinner to
the members of the International Amer
lean Congress at the Arlington Hotel,
Washington, on the 18th.
The Pan-American Congress has
adopted report favoring the construc-
ton of a railroad connecting all the Ma
tons represented in the conference;
that an international committee of en-
gineers should be appointed to study
routes, etc; that all necessary materials
for it be exempted from duty, and that
the execution of the project should be
encouraged by liberal subsidies and con-
cessions of land.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's residence at Oak.
view, near Washington, was sold re.
Gently for $40, 1000, netting him hand.
some profit on his purchase.
THE President has nominated Henry
C. Caldwell, of Arkansas, to be Circuit,
Judge of the Eighth district, vice David
j. Brewer.
GEORGE B. WHITE, chief of the bureau
of yards and docks, Navy Department,
died suddenly at Washington recently.
He was Commodore in the navy.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN TAULBEE, of Ken.
lucky, was shot in the head in the Cap
itol building at Washington on the 2sth
by Charles Kincaid, correspondent of
the Louisville Times He was seriously
wounded. The cause grew out of scan.
dial published while Taulbee was in
Congress, the latter (who was a large
mani taking every opportunity to pull
Kincaid's nose and otherwise insult him
for the exposure.
THE Alaska seal fishery lease has
been awarded to the North American
Commercial Company, of New York and
San Francisco. The Government will
obtain about 81, 600, 600 year under the
new conditions, the old lease giving
$500, 600.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has referred the
cases of the three condemned Navassa
island murderers to the Attorney-Gen.
eraL
THE hearing in the lard investigation
ended at Washington on the 2Sth.
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Pauncefots and Salisbury.

LONDON, March Mr.. Pauncefote,
the British Minister at Washington, who
may not be quite in sympathy with Lord
Salisbury on important questions OF
policy, will in future be assisted by
high official, probably Sir Charles Tup-
per, whose mission, however, will be
very temporary. He will probably sail
this week. The difficulty arises from
Lord Stanley, the Marquis of Salisbury
and Minister Pauncefote holding diverg-
ent opinions on the fisheries question
and the situation in Canada. This has
caussd 9he dispatches between the three
70 besslightly incoherent
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-07
GOVERNOR BO.ES.
Inauguration Of the First Democratic Gov
ernor Of Iowa IN Thirty-Sour Years.

Inauguration of the First Democratic Gov
z ernor Of lows IN Thlrty-Sour Years.
Dies MONIES. Iowa, Feb. 2S-Gov-
ernor Boies was yesterday afternoon in
augurated in the hall Of the House of
Representatives, As the first Democratic
chief executive Of the State elected in
thirty-four years. As became the occa-
sion the Capitol was gaily decorated
with flags and patriotic emblems.
There was an attendance of a vast
concourse of visitors. The military
parade, conducted by Adjutant-G General
Beeson as marshal, comprised the Ma
tional Guards of Burlington, Sioux City,
Ottumwa, Dubuque, Des Moines, and
was one of the most imposing pagents-
ever witnessed in Iowa. In his inaug-
ural address Governor Boies compre-
hensively reviewed those questions
which at present attract the attention
of the people of the State. - ~ -
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NJ. B. WRIGHT has been renominated
for Congress in the fifteenth Pennsyl.
vania district. "a
REPRESENTATIVES Of all the manu-
facturers of rubber goods in the United
States met at New York recently. The
formation of trust was discussed, and
it was stated that the details Of the
agreement would soon be completed. 1t
was said that no raw rubber was being
gathered in Para, and that the price OF
rubber must shortly advance very
sharply.
A LATE dispatch from New York
stated that an English syndicate, repre-
senting SIS, 600, 600 was making an effort
to form a school book trust in this coun-
try, and had thus far been given an OPP
ton on six of the largest school book
publishing houses in America.
A BENEFIT in New York City for
George S. Knight, the demented actor,
realized about 1900.
CHARGES have besn preferred against
Bishop ]. ]. Esher, of Chicago, before
the Evangelical conference at Shame
kin, Pa. He was accused of evil speak
ing, lying, etc. He had previously been
acquitted of similar charges and their
resurrection threatened to break up the
conference.
The death of John Jacob Aston, caus-
ing the consolidation of two estates in
his heir, makes William Waldorf Astor
worth 5000, OOO, 600, probably the largest
amount within the control of any one
man.
THE Enterprise with the remains Of
ex-Minister Pendleton on board, arrived
at New York on the afternoon Of the
27th.
The freestone cutters of Boston have
been locked out with the exception of
those employed by Knox & Dodge and
Holmes Bros.
A MASS meeting was held at Cooper
Union, New York, on the 2sth, denoun-
cling the Gar for the prison abuses in
Siberia.
IT has transpired that Mrs. William
Astor sailed for Europe few hours
after the death of her brother-in-law,
John Jacob Astor, not knowing that he
was dead. This tends to confirm hints
of an Astor family feud.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-07
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL sH7--zs4
WHEN the Senate met on the zatn senator
Chandler rose to question OF privilege and
offered resolution censuring Senator Catl,
OF Florida, Sor oo1ectionaple language used
IN oeDate on the question Oh tne assassfna-
ton OF deputy United States marshal In
Florida After both senators had spoken
the resolution went over. The Blair Educa-
tional Dill was then taken up and further
debated, and after passing several bridge
bills and an executive session the Sen.
ate adjourned The House devoted
the entire session 20 voting on
the cnoice OF location for the Morids Fair
the galleries being crowded with interested
spectators. Inc nrst ballot resuited: chi
cago, llS; New YORK, ~; ST. LOUIS. 81; wash
ington, %; cumberland Gap l. seven oai.
iots were taken resulting IN no cnolce Dus
on the eignth ballot chicago was CHOSEN the
vote oelng, chicago, lSd; New fork, l01; 81
Louis, 70; washington, IL Inc result was
greeted with thunder OF applause, ano
amid the uproar the House adjourned
IN the senate on the zsth among the piiis
placed on the caienoar was one 10 authorize
the purchase OF gold and silver bullion ano
she issue OF treasury notes In payment there
OIL IL directs the purchase OF silver Duilioh
to the amount OF A,5ooooo a month and as
much gold bullion as may ne onered ana the
issue therefor OF treasury notes, ana re-
peals the law directing the coinage OF Z,eOo,'
90 silver dollars per month. The Chandier
resolution IN regard to senator Caii was tnen
taken up ana senators Caii ana Cnanoier IN :
1uiged IN bitter personal TIE Depate en-
the Blair educational Dill occupied the re.
mainder OF the session. In the House Dill
passed authorizing the substitution OF a
draw Tor the pontoon bridge at LeaVen-
worth, han. Ihe oklahoma Dill was con i
eidered IN committee OF the Whoie until ao-
sournmenI
AFTER the presentation OF petitions IN the
senate on the zoth. q large numoer OF pension
ana prisate bnis passed also OIL appro-
priating sloo,ooo Tor puoiic building at 10
peka, han, ana OIL TO PROVIDE Tor judi
cial determination OF the controversy De-
tween the united states ana IeAas as 10
Greer county, Tex The Educationai Dill
was furthtr discussed and after an e4ecu-
i've session the senate ADJOURNED Inc
House TOOK up the contested election case
OF Atkinson VS. Pendleton, from the FIRST
oistrict oil west virginia ana DEBATE con-
Until aUlOuEnnenI
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Methodism.s Growth remarkable.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb, 26.-Bishop
Randolph S. Foster, who is on his way
to the conference at Cumberland on
March 5, in an address to the Meth
odist Episcopal ministers on the
work of the Church, said that
forty years ago-th Methodist Episco-
palians numbered TOO 900 and now they
numbered 100000 Then there were
only three important educational insti-
buttons, while now there were a large
number connected with the denomina-
ton and the educational work among
the colored population alone was greater
than all the educational work of forty
wears ago.
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THE WEST.


Tahoe, New, on the 25th. Small craft
were broken to pieces and the wharves
severely shaken and made almost un-
safe. The force of the wind was such
that trees, houses and wood-piles were
blown to pieces. The snow drifted along
the road, covering station houses and
burying logging camps.
THE county court house and Jail at
Vancouver, Wash, were destroyed by
records. Loss, S55,000
A SHORTAGE of ST., 900 has been found
in the accounts of Treasurer Flynn, of
Custer County, South Dakota.
THE first meeting in the State of the
Patrons of Industry began on the Goth at
Flint Mich. Two hundred delegates
represent the total Michigan member
ship of ITO, 900 farmers. 1t was said that
the order was growing rapidly in other
States and the next President of the
United States would be pledged to the
Patrons of Industry.
IT has been decided by the Servite
fathers to make Chicago the center of
their order and erect church to cost
100000, with seating capacity Of s, 900,
to contain seventeen affairs
Mrs. ANNA OWEN, one of the most
| celebrated women of Belleville, ILL.,,
died on the Goth. She was eighty-three
years of age and left nearly 100 direct
descendants within four generations.
THE Mariposa stage was stopped the
other evening by two highwaymen about
mile from MERGED, Cal The mail
from Mariposa, Coulterville and inter
mediate points was taken, as was also
the Wells-Fargo express box. The loss
was not learned.
The Ohio House of Representatives
has passed the redistricting bill, giving
the Democrats fifteen out of the twenty
one Congressional districts .-..
EDWARD LANGEvIN, a threefold mil
lionaire of st. Paul, Mimi, has been de-
clared insane.
A THROUGH mail car was burned re-
Gently at Blue creek, Utah. 1t had no
registered letters, fortunately.
A MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL train col
lided with stock train at Salt Lake,
near Elgin, Ill Twelve cars of the
stock train were demolished, much stock
killed, two persons fatally injured and
two boys badly hurt.
An attempt was made the other night
to wreck the limited express on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad near indie
pendence, o. Three ties were found
wedged into cattle guard and removed
a few minutes before the arrival Of the
train.
GOVERNOR BoIEs was inaugurated at
Des Moines, Iowa, on the eth, the first
| Democratic Governor in thirty-four
years
THE starving" Chippewa Indians OF
the La Pointe wis., reservation have
refused the supplies voted by Congress
unless given as a gratuity.
RATES from Chicago to Kansas City
were cut to $500 second class on the
2sth. Rates from Kansas City to Chicago
SIS. 90, and other points in proportion.
First-class passenger rates averaged
$500 more.
THERE was a report at Portland, Ore,
on the 2sth that Silcott, the defaulting
cashier of the House of Representatives,
had been caught at Toledo, town on
the Northern Pacific.
A BIG Four passenger train crashed
into freight train near Indianapolis in
fog the other night. Only one person
was hurt and he not seriously.
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The Worlds Fair.

New York, March 1.-While admitting
that the outlook for Worlds Fair in
New York in 1892 was not at all encour-
aging. Mayor Grant said that he was
not prepared to say that he had given
up all hope Of Congress regaining it's
senses and placing the proposed EXPOSE
ton where it properly belonged. There
are possibilities, he said, (which do
not reach quite up to probabilities that,
should Chicago. find itself unable to sat-
isfy Congress that there is within reach
a sufficient sum Of money with which to
carry on an exh bition suitable to the
dignity OF the, United States, Congress
may reconsider its action"
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Murdered HIS Son.

BERLIN, Feb %. Emil Neuman,-
known to musicians all over the world.
by his History of Music, was arrested
yesterday on charge of numbering his
son, aged twenty-one, who was found
hanging to a bed-post with all the ap--
pearance of suicide. The motive for the
crime is supposed to be the sons DIS
covery of his fathers systematic crimi--
nal conduct with many of his pupils, who
belong to the best families.
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FRosr in Mississippi has played havoc
With early vegetation. -
Ex.TREAsUR4R constants, Of Newport,
Ky, has offered to compromise his Ss5,-
600 defalcation for q, 900.
RICHARD H. HAYES, the murderer Of
his wife and two children, was hanged
1t Birmingham, Ala, on the 2Sth. He
made confession. 1t was at an attempted
lynching of Halves in December, 1855,
that ten persons were killed and many
wounded, the sheriff ordering his depu-
ties to fire on the mob. R t.'