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The Iola register., 1890-10-31
TIE SOUTH.

The Texas branch of the Commercial
Travellers Protective Association has
instituted rigid boycott against the
San Antonio & Arkansas Pass road be
cause of its refusal to sell 1000 mile
tickets at slight reductions.
THE Alabama State fair began at Bir-
mingham on the 21st with promising
outlook. The machinery was started at
noon by Mrs. Cleveland, who pressed a
button at Lenox, Mass.
GREAT excitement prevails at Flor
encc, Ala, over the discovery of natural
gas seven miles from the city,
A TELEGRAM from McNary County,
Tenn, gives particulars of horrible
accident in which five men were killed.
The boiler of an engine exploded and
John Whites head was blown from his
shoulders and hurled fifty yards away.
The body of the owner of the mill, Ii.
E. Trim bull, was torn into shreds.
THE Mississippi constitutional con-
vention has finally decided to have a
Northumberland as one of the State
officers.
A TERRIBLE collision occurred on the
Memphis road near Birmingham. Ala,
recently Though only two persons
were killed many were injured.
A soUTHBoUND passenger train left
Chattanooga, Tenn, on time and was
running at moderate rate of speed, ap-
preaching Chickamauga AS the train
dashed out of cut a covered wagon was
upon crossing. The engine struck the
wagon and killed ]. W. Jenkins, his
wife and baby and Mrs. James Bowman,
all of Walker County.
AT the annual election of directors OF
the Alabama Great Southern railroad al
Birmingham, majority of the new di.
rectors elected were East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia men.
SENATOR j. S. c. BLACKBURN was Sc.
verely hurt recently by being thrown
out of his buggy in a runaway near
Versailles, Ky.
COLONEL n. n. Cox has been nom.
mated to succeed Hon. w. c. Whit
borne, the present incumbent, by the
Seventh Congressional Democratic con.
vention of Tennessee.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

NO4GSs
DIRECTOR LEEcH of the mint, who has
returned to Washington from the West,
reports great @ctivity in all the mining
camps visited by him.
TREASURER HUSTON expects to be
able to issue silver notes of 81 and s.
denominations after November, in the
purchase of silver bullion. This, 1t is
general all over the country for larger
proportion of small notes as a circulat-
ing medium.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR NOBLE
has signed the certificates for SIS, 900
each for the agricultural colleges of the
country.
SENATOR MCPHERSON has discovered
errors in the Tariff act which he thinks
fatal to its enforcement Government
officials, however, while admitting the
errors, think they can have no effect on
the act as whole.
THE committee having in charge the
erection of statue of President Chester
A. Arthur has given the commission for
the work to the sculptor, Ephraim
Kyser, who is now at work upon the
model
The Census Office announces the total
population of the State of Florida to
be 800, 345: increase 12O, 942, or A IS per
cent. ,t
ROBERT P. PORTER Superintendent of
the Census, has returned from Europe.
The vacancy in the United States Su-
preme Court will, it is now said, not be
filed until after Congress convenes in
nacpna har
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
Goose and Green Goods.

New YORK, Oct 24-John Rothschild
of Washington, Neb., writes Inspector
Byrnes that green goods men in New
York have been swindling him; that he
sent in response to circulars from sew
eral different $40 each, for which they
promised him 800 each in genuine bills
printed from plates stolen from the
Treasury" Now he is waiting for the
green goods" that never came. He
asks Inspector Byrnes to help punish
William Cook, % Beaver street. or East
ern Hotel, opposite Staten Island ferry;
F. P Cook. Sc University Place; C III.
Hunt, 150 Third avenue, and Il. Frank,
Flushing, L. L
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
THE EAST.

DR. JoHS FARNHAM BoYNToy died at
Syracuse, n. Y, recently, aged fifty
two. He invented the Babcock fire ex-
tinguisher. He had been married three
times, the second time in balloon in
New York. He was divorced from the
woman he married in mid air.
ONE man was burned to death and a
policeman severely injured by a fire
which broke out in the brick tenement
house at No. 81 Front street. Brooklyn,
n Y.
BLAKELY CREIGHTON, a banker of
New York City, committed suicide in
his Office by taking poison. He left a
letter giving as the cause business re-
verses. He was son of the late Com
modore Creighton, q. s n.
A TERRIFIC storm ragged along the
Jersey coast all day on the Esd and much
damage was done by the surf. Vessels
were reported ashore at Spring Lake.
Several small boats were capsized OFF
Long Branch.
ONE of the illuminate departments of
the Union Metallic Cartridge Company
at Bridgeport, Conn, was blown up the
other day. One man was torn to atoms
There was panic in the main building.
The woolen importing house of Bern
heimer. Son & Co., of New York, has
suspended, on account, as stated, of the
change caused by the Tariff bill.
ALBERT w. OXNARD, treasurer of the
Johnstown (Pa) Lumber Company. has
disappeared, and shortage of $50, 900
has been found in his accounts.
EAST PEPPERELL, Mass, was badly
damaged by fire on the oath, flames
breaking out in Leighton's shoe factory.
The loss was $500, 600.
The Brooklyn sugar refinery has
closed down and 450 men are thrown
out of employment 1t is rumored that
with the single exception of Havemey-
er's refinery all the Brooklyn reineries
will be closed down. About 1000 men
will be affected.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
THE LATEST.

THE ninetieth birthday of Won Moltke
was celebrated in Berlin and other
places with much cordiality on the 25th.
MR. BLAINE delivered his first speech
of the campaign at Canton, O., on the
25th. He was the guest of Major Nc
Kinley.
Four persons were fatally injured at
Steubenville, o., recently, Panhandle
passenger train running into a party of
FIVE
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended October 25 showed an average in
crease of 70 compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New
York the increase was 0.5.
News received from the Dutch forces
carrying on the war against Acheen is
very unfavorable to the Dutch, the
troops of the Sultan having repulsed
them at every point and regained con-
siderable portion of the country lost in
previous campaigns.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out at Stew
art & Butts shingle mill, Mobile, Ala, !,
on the Goth. Twenty squares were
burned over. The loss was put at 5000, =
600; insurance, S400, 900.
THERE was an unconfrmed report
that Matabeles had attacked the Brit
ish expedition in Mashonaland, South
Africa, and killed 200.
IT is reported that Cardinal Simeoni,
by order of the Pope, has forbidden the
Bishops of the American hierarchy to
give any official or overt approval to the
Irish Nationalist campaign of Messrs.
Dillon and o. Brien in America.
FIFTEEN armed men burned down the
buildings of l. b Varnes in Coffee
County, Ga. because of his supposed
participation in the late riot Governor
Gordon called out the militia.
THE fact that Great Britain will re-
fuse to join in any European compact
against America on account of the Nc
Kinley bill is said to be fatal to the pro-
posed concerted action.
CHICAGO steam filters have resolved to
strike.
Ex-ALDERMAN W. P. WHELAN, of Chi
cago, was recently mortally wounded
by G. P. Hathaway in gambling house.
BUFFALO BILLS" Wild West show
closed its season in Strasburg, Ger
many, on the Goth after twenty months
tour of Europe. The management has
decided to send the Indians home to
answer for themselves the criticisms on
their life, morals and treatment
BUSINESS was considerably depressed
on the London Stock Exchange during
the week ended October 25. The Con-
tinental bourses were also affected SIM
ilarly. There was more frmness ex-
hibited towards the end of the week.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

In Hawaii schools are established all
over the island, the sum allotted to pub
lie instruction in 1ss6-ss being sos, 020
annually. In 1883 there were 1s9 schools,
with s,770 pupils; Of these there were
$500 Hawaiians and 1,227 half castles
A party of boys killed snake at
Dublin, Ga, a few days ago. In few
minutes young snakes were seen to
crawl out of the old snakes side through
hole made by the sticks They con-
tinued to appear until forty-eight,
averaging twelve inches in length,
crawled out and were killed Pretty
good snake story.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
GENERAL.

The Evenment of Paris has advices
from st. Petersburg stating that as the
train on which the Gar was returning
to St Petersburg, from his hun ting trip
in Poland, passed Grodna, shot was
fred at it.
THE United States Express Company
| has issued positive orders to all its
agents to refuse to assist in any way in
the transaction of lottery business.
In accordance with the Cars enforce
ment of the anti-Jewish law all the
Jews in Kisheneff were ordered to leave
| that city. The Jews in Akerman, twen-
ty-eight miles from Odessa, have also
been ordered to leave the town.
THE Canadian shipping trade is re-
ported virtually dead A vessel sailed
from Montreal recently for England in
ballast
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in the
Government powder mills at Waltham,
England, recently. No one was killed,
but a number of persons were more or
less injured and the damage to property
was considerable.
| DURING a recent journey from Paris
robbed of jewelry valued at 10000
| francs. -...
THE striking dockmen at Melbourne,
Australia, deny that the strike has
ceased.
A sPAsM of retrenchment has struck
all the Western roads. The opinion is
universal that there is less manipula-
/ tion of rates than at any time since the
| Interstate Commerce act went into
effect
THE Fenian Brotherhood has abol-
ished its oath of secrecy. A committee
was appointed to organize military and
naval companies to assist the United
| States in case of war.
The Parliamentary election in the
Eccles division of Lancashire resulted
in victory for the Gladstonians Mr..
Roby, the Liberal candidate, received
4,e01 votes and Mr. Edgerton. Conserva-
tive, 1896. In the preceding election
the Liberal candidate received s, 9S5 and
the Conservative 4. 217.
As a result of the recently reported
attempts upon the life of the Gar all
of the palaces and many of the official
buildings, as we'll as the public squares
and parks of St Petersburg, have been
closed to the people.
THREE locomotives made in Philadel-
phia and intended for new railway
from Jerusalem to Jaffa have arrived at
Jaffa They are the first locomotives
ever used in this ancient land
THE Cars advisers are said to be nom
plussed by the wholesale conversion to
Christianity of the Jewish students at
Odessa, who took the step in order to
be permitted to remain in the univer-
sity. No confidence is felt in the sin
cerity of the conversion
Ton MANN, the president of the Dock
ers' Union, declares that the number of
unemployed in England is not less than
700, 900 and that an eight-hour law Is
! The only remedy.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
THE FIRST BLIZZARD.
a Girl Frozen to Death in q Storm In n
Mexico.

a Girl Frozen to Death in q Storm In New
Mexico.
! RATION, Y. NJ, Oct 25.-Monday even
ing William Mich and his sixteen-year-
old daughter were going from Folsom
to the ranch. The girl was driving a
team ahead, while her father came be-
hind with another.
They were overtaken by blizzard
when about half way home. The father
reached home in safety and was horri-
fled to find that his daughter had not
yet arrived. She had lost her way in
the binding storm.
The blizzard continued through the
night so little could be done in search
ing for the lost girl. She was found
yesterday about ten miles from her
home frozen to death. She had man.
aged to unhitch the horses and turn
them loose before she became exhausted
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
Accident at q Bridge.

DUBUQUE, Iowa, Oct 25. Freight
train No. z on the Illinois Central rail-
road, loaded with grain and horses from
the Independence races, last night went
through an iron bridge at Conley
Grove, six miles west a broken
truck on the eleventh car falling and
catching in the stringers of the bridge,
which was pulled of the abutment and
fell precipitating six cars of grain.
The bridge was being reconstructed and
fifty men. were working on and under
it Nearly all Of them got out but
Robert Keatley, fifteen years old, SON
Of the bridge watchman was killed
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
PENSION ORDER.
The Rating For Physical or Mental Disa-
bilIty.

The Rating For Physical or Mental Dtsa-
bIlIty.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The Commis-
sioner of Pensions with the approval of
Assistant Secretary Bussey issued the
following:
Order No. 164, in regard to fixing rates OF
pensions under the act of June 27, 1870: That
alt claimants under ths act of June
~, 1899, showing a mental or physical
disability or disabilities of permanent
character not the result Of their own
vicious habits, and which incapacitates
them from performing of manual labor,
rendering them unable to earn support in
such a degreo as would be rated under
fermer laws as or about s. and less than sl2.
shall be rated the same as like disabil ties
OF ssrvios origin and that all cases showing
pensioaable disability which. IL of service
origin, would be rated at or about sl2 per
month shall be rated at SI2 per month.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
FIRE AT MOBILE.
The Alabama Seaport Revaged
By Flames.
TWENTY SQUARES BURNED OVER
No Loss of Life, Though Many Persons
Narrowly Escape-A Second Fire Alarm
Causes Great Excitement-Loss,
100000.

MOBILE, Ala, Oct 2I.-The most dis
astrous confiagration ever known IN
this city began about 1880 o'clock yes
terday afternoon in the shfngle mill OF
Stewart & Butt and owing to the strong
northwest wind prevailing was not
checked until five o'clock in the after
noon, and only then after favorable
change in the wind. The total damage
was $500, 600.
The scene of the fire was the extreme
northern and of the city, and 5, $50 bales
of cotton, five cotton warehouses, three
cotton congresses, two large cotton seed
oil mills, the big ice factory, the wood
and coal yards, three of the river steam
boats, six wharves, box factory and
Mobile Fertilizer Company's works were
destroyed. A ..
There was no loss of life although
many of the firemen were overcome
with heat and smoke and many narrow
escapes from falling walls occurred.
The paid fire department fought man
fully and were assisted by many old
volunteer flremen in the face Of smoke
and flame. At six o'clock the fire was
we'll under control and no fears were
entertained for its spread any further.
The alarm for the fire at Stewart & Butts
mill had scarcely come in when second
alarm was sounded for the burning of
the residence of Mosely L. Tucker, on
Dauphin near Broad, which was COM
pletely burned, only small quantity of
furniture being saved. The residence
adjoining it, belonging to Mrs. Ed Har-
rington, caught from fuckers anu was
also destroyed
The two alarms being followed by a
general alarm caused the greatest ex-
citement among all classes, and in their
excitement people rushed from one fire
to the other Soon the report was
spread that the entire business portion
of the city was in danger and thousands
of men. women and children rushed to
the scene. No one felt safe even in the
business section of the city, and wagons,
drays and all kinds of vehicles we're
engaged in carrying away valuable
books and papers
More than twenty squares were
burned, bounded by Beauregard, Mag
nolia and St Louis streets and the
river. The loss is now estimated at
5000, 900, with about $500, 600 insurance.
The tracks of all railroads centering
here have been obstructed by the debris
in the burned district.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
The .maple Lears- New Extension

OMAHA, Neb., Oct 25.-John n. Egan,
of St Paul, president and general man.
ager of the Chicago. St Paul & Kan
sas City railroad, arrived in the city and
was in conference during the day with
officials and others interested in the ex-
tension of the line to this place. he
said: Eve are considering several
routes one running south of the Rock
Island road through the southern tier
of Iowa counties and another north OF
the Rock Island route. We have not de.
cided which to select but will use one
Of them, and that very shortly"
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
Italians Welcomed.

New ORLEANS, Oct 2L-The steam
ship Elysia, from Palermo with Loss
Italians on board, landed yesterday
morning at the wharf of the Northeast
ern railroad and the immigrants all
came ashore, the inspectors having
found their papers correct. A detach-
ment of police was on the scene to pre-
serve order. General Mcmillan and
Captain Crawford were on hand also
with number of custom inspectors.
There was large crowd of Italians on
the wharf who had assembled to greet
their relatives, friends and countrymen.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
THE WEST.

DIVERS locating caissons in the Ohio
river at Cincinnati found, fourteen feet
down in the mud, what is believed to
sunk forty years ago. A large sum of
money is known to be in the safe and a
number OF dead in the cabin.
IT is believed that Fred Hubert and
Will Palmetire were drowned in Beaver
Dam lake, Wis, in the recent fierce
gale. They were hunting ducks.
EVERY window glass factory in Find
lay, O., has gone into the trust which
has been organized to control the pro-
duction and sale of window glass. This
trust embraces all the window glass
houses in the United States west of
Pittsburgh with the single exception of
that at Salina which is owned by Find
lay parties
TIE population of Wisconsin is l, L,6sS, :
697; increase, $685. 200, or 81. 90 per cent
GENERAL HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY,
the first Governor of Minnesota and the
only Democrat who ever held that Of
fee. suffered a stroke of paralysis at St
Paul on the 21st and was in q critical
condition. .s.. ..-.
The stallion Nelson trotted mile at
Cambridge City, Ind, recently in 2:10%,
lowering the worlds record one-half
second. A large crowd witnessed the
performance. The time by quarters
was: First quarter :S3%, half 1:o53I,
three quarters 1:Ssh and mile 2:1O5l.
1t was fast track and a bright day.
Nelson carried driver 26 pounds in ex-
cess of weight
A CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS pas
senger train was derailed near Watseka,
Ind The conductor was seriously in
;ured-
PETE MCCARTNEY, the most famous
at the penitentiary at Columbus, O., re-
Gently. When he died he was serving a
ten years sentence for passing counter
felt money in New Orleans in 1855
Rev. Mr. BUNDAY, a Methodist
preacher and missionary to the Peoca
Indians. in crossing Cottonwood creek,
five miles south of Guthrie, Ok, with
his wife and son in wagon, was swept
down by the current and upset The
wife falling among the horses was al
most instantly drowned.
The SEVENTEEN grand council of the
Seventh Day Baptists of the United
States began in Chicago on the 2ad.
ISAAC SMITH, convicted of murder in
Pike County, o. has been respited byGoy-
ernor Campbell to November 2s. Smith
was sentenced to hang and had been
granted four previous respites- Addi-
tional evidence establishing his fnno-
cence is claimed to have been discov-
cred.
The Standard Oil Company has again
cut the price of Ohio oil, this time to
thirty cents per barrel The Ohio pro-
ducers are very blue.
A DISASTROUS collision occurred in a
tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern near
Sloan's Valley station. To add to the
horrors the wreck caught fire. The
dead numbered siy and the injured
seven
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
Gale at NorfolL<.

NORFOLK, Va, Oct 25-A terrible
southeast gale ragged on the bay from
three to ten o'clock. The wind blew at
the rate of sixty miles an hour. Pas
sengers on the Bay line steamer Vir-
ginia, which was coming down the bay
when she was struck by the storm, had
terrible experience; waves broke over
the vessels deck, flooded her down
stairs saloon and wrecked the pantry.
Coming across the Horse Shoe and Just
before reaching Old Point tremendous
wave struck the boat crushing her port
wheel house and shattering the joiner
work on the mort side.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
sUTTERWORTA NOT BOUGHT.
The Congressman stirred Up by Slander
started By Somebody.

The Congressman Stirred Up by Slander
started By Somebody.
CHICAGO, Oct. 26.-Secretary Benja-
min Butterworth was very emphatic in
his denial of the story that he had been
s,lenced in his advocacy of reciprocity
by the promise of the position he now
occupies. THE story is absolutely
false" said he. Il absolutely and un-
hesitatingly deny that l ever entered
into any deal whatever to secure this or
any other Office. l have always been,
am now and expect to be, an advocate
of the reciprocity doctrines. One of the
last things did before leaving Congress
was to plead with Mckinley to put my
bill favoring reciprocity with Canada on
his. My position as secretary of this
body came to me unasked. l entered
into no deal of any kind whatever to Sc
cure If -
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

RoNDoUT, n. Y, Oct 27.-The Hud-
son yesterday showed the highest tide
in forty years. The brick yards suffered
seriously, millions of brick being lost
The yards between Roseton and Albany
are submerged and the green brick
awaiting burning were thrown down
by the flood. 1t is estimated that 4. 600,
600 brick have been lost in the Kind.
stone district The fires were put out in
the kilns in process of burning. Green
kflns were thrown down and the brick
under sheds washed away. A much
higher tide prevailed last night
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
Austria Will Wait.

LONDON, Oct 26.-The Times Vienna
correspondent says: 'The Austrian
Cabinet considers it premature to take
a decisive resolution now regarding the
new American tariff and that it is bet
ter to wait and see whether American
consumers themselves ask for its repeal
and also to see the practical effect Of
the act :"
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
NIanyel's Inspection Tour.

DENVER, Col, Oct 27-President
MARVEL, of the Santa Fe system, will
arrive here Tuesday. The object Of his
visit is tour of inspection over the
Midland road recently consolidated with
the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe officials
meet in Topeka October 80, and Mr..
Marvel will preside and make known
the results of his observations
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

WAS in poor health and losing flesh The
food ate did not agree with me. My liver,
kidneys and stomach all seemed derznged
1 began use of DR.. Bulls Sarsaparilla
which has made me feel like a new man and
increased my weights. Il. NeiCton, COluHs-
bus, o.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31
Progress

1t is very Important in this age Of vast
material progress that remedy be pleas
ing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken,
nature and effects Possessing these d1alf-
ties, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect laxa-
tive and most gentle diuretic known.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

QUISrSH viii often stop the chills for q
brief period, but Shallenberger's Antdote
for Malaria removes the malarious poison
from the system and cures pou. A single
dose will sometimes do it. Sold by Drug
gists. s
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

WHY don't you try Carterss Little Liver
Pllsi They are 4 positive cure for sick
headache. and all the IDS produced by dis
ordered liver, Only one pill dose.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

IL you wish to do the easiest and quickest
weeks washing you eser did, try, Dobbinsf
Electric Soap next washday. FoIowsthe di.
the market "a years. Take no other.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

x "Ar least I can take things in philo-
sophical way" snid tho burglar, as he lifted
out pane of glass with a rubber sucker
Elmira (ylzetta
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

THB poet is an idyl fellew, and that's
probably why tho public stanza verso TO be-
ing ode by him--Bin shantou Ledger.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

No, QUERCUs, It does not necessarily re-
quire a tug g-of-var to tow q warship into .
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

THE men who hold up trains for robbery
should themselves bo held up for example.
N. o. Picayune.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

Il you wnnt to be cured of cough uss
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar =
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

FAxGLE-"The brunette over yonder Is q
Boston bred girl" Cumso-'Ohl seei
Brown bred, too."-Yenovine's News.
The Iola register., 1890-10-31

IT does not injure joke to crack 1t, any
more than it spsils horse to break it,