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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
TRAlNMEN MANGLED.
Fatal Railroad Wreck Near Kol1omo, Ind.
-Trainmen Suffer.

-Trainmen Suffer.
KOKOMo, Ind, Jan. lon the Pan
handle railway, one mile north of the
depot here yesterday morning, passen-
ger train n }. Is, northbound, conductor
Thomas Lamb, met train No. IA, south
bound, in care of Conductor V. ID.
holland, and running about fifty miles
an hour. The two trains crashed to-
gether, totally delnolishing the engines
and burning the baggage car and
coaches of the sOuthbOund train, which
tumbled on top OF the engines.
George Cummings, engineer of No.
IA, was buried in the wreck, and died
Immediately after being eXtricated.
Tom MCCULLOUGH, engineer of No. 10,
lies at the Clinton House here with his
head crushed and can not live. Bag
gagemaster ]. Kerlin, injured in the
back and head, was taken to Galveston,
where he died at nine o'clock. Thomas
HARDER also waShurt seriously. Adams
Express Messenger Glaut was seriously
though not fatally hurt about the body.
Two men named Woods and Webb
were badly hurt in the general mixup,
but not fatally. A number of passen-
gers in the coaches were shaken up
badly, but the Pullmans escaped, many
of the passengers not being Weakened.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
GENERAL

AT the initial performance of "Joan
dare" at Paris, the funeral pyre in the
play became ignited and Sarah Bern
hardt tainted, but was not injured.
QUEEN OLGA, of Wurtemburg, was
reported suffering from an attack of
influenza.
BRADsTREET reports 11,719 failures
in the United States for the year 1889,
with liabilities of $40, 359, 400 and as
sets of $40. 500. 769. This is the largest
number of failures and greater Eabili-
ties than for any year in the past three
years. The increase in the number of
failures over 1883 is 1,132; increase in
liabilities, $40, III, OSS; increase in as
sets, sS,599,S5S.
OF ninety-one Socialists on trial for
six weeks at Eberfeld, Germany, forty
seven were acquitted of conspiring to
disturb the public peace and the others
were sentenced to imprisonment for
from fourteen days to eighteen months.
EDWARD HANLAN is out with re-
ply to Jake Gaudaur in which the Cana
dian says he will row Gaudaur single
scull race for from $1,000 to 5000, the
race to be rowed before next July.
LORD SALISBURY was one of the VIC
Tins of la grippe.
Dom PEDRO continues utterly pros
trated. The doctors have advised that
efforts be made to rouse him by con-
versation, but he does not respond to
any ones questions.
A PAPAL Consistory was held on the
S0th. The Pope delivered an allocution
in which he emphasized his censure of
the Governments Ecclesiastical Trusts
bill and condemned the deposition OF
the Bishop of Altamura, Italy.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred in
the industrial schools at West Ham,
near London, recently. Twenty-fOur
lives were lost. The buildings were
/ almost totally destroyed.
REVENUE returns indicate surplus
of e5. 100000 in the years finances of
the United Kingdom.
GOVERNMENT troops claim COM
plete victory over the rebels in Saliva
dor.
HE remains of the poet Browning
have been laid to rest in Westminster
! Abbey.
The Berlin Tageblatt claims to have
positive information that DR.. Peters,
the African explorer, and the members
| of his party are alive.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
TOWN SITES.
A Bill Agreed Upon In Relation to Okla
homa Town Sites.

A Bill Agreed Upon In Relation to Okla
homa Town sites.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-Messrs. Stru-
BILE, of Iowa, Perkins, of Kansas, and
Washington, of Tennessee, CONSTITUTE
ing the subcommittee of the House
Committee on Territories, met yester
day to consider the Oklahoma Town
Site bill introduced by Judge Perkins
December Is. They agreed to report
the bill favorably to the full committee
at its next meeting, and made but few
changes in the original text.
The bill as agreed upon provides that
three commissioners shall he appointed
for each portion of the public lands
settled upon and occupied as town
site under section Is of the act of
March last; that the commissioners,
wherever called upon by any of the Oc-
cupants of Il town site, and the money
Tor the entry of such town site is
furnished shall enter at the proper
land-Oilice ut the minimum price, the
land SO settled and occupied, not ex-
ceeding One-lialf section for each town
site, in trust for the use and benefit of
the several occupants, according TO
their respective interests; that the
commissioners shall be actual residents
OF Oklahoma; that whenever there is
contest between Il homestead claimant
and the occupant of Il town site for
any portion of the tract sought to be
entered, it shall take precedence of the
ordinary business of the Office and he
heard and determined as soon as prac-
ticable by the register and receiver of
the district, and if an appeal is taken
tn the General Land office, it shall he
made special and disposed of by the
Commissioner as soon as the duties of
his office will permit, and so, also, if
an appeal be taken to the Secretary of
the Interior, that I'LL town site applica-
tons heretofore filed in the proper
land Office shall have the same force
and effect as if made under the proviS-
ions Of this act, and upon the applica-
ton of the commissioners such town
site entries shall be allowed in the
name of the commissioners as trustees
upon the applications therefor filed,
but nothing in the act Shall be con-
strued as extending the rights of
the town sites or of impairing
rights heretofore secured under existing
law; that the compensation of the
commissioners shall not exceed Sc per
day; that the commissioners shall have
power to administer OathS and to issue
subp9Iaes; that the Secretary of the
Interior shall Issue the necessary rules
and regulations to the commissioners
to be appointed, that there snail be re-
served to all religious organizations the
lots now occupied Ivy them, and that
there shall be reserved to municipal
corporations for parks and public
buildings all unoccupied lands.
The provisions of the act continue in
force until the Legislative Assembly
that shall meet under the Territorial
Government, which may be established
by Congress over Oklahoma Territory,
shall make provision for the execution
of such trusts and for town site entries,
provided that all cases then pending
shall be disposed of under the prOvi-
siOnS of this act.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
AN ASYLUM HORROR.
Twenty-six Boys Roasted In n London
Pauper school Narrow Escape of


Twenty-six Boys Roasted In n London
Pauper School Narrow Escape of
Others.
LONDON. Jan. 2.-The boys section
of the pauperS' school in the district of
Forest Gate, in connection with the
Whitechapel and Poplar union. was
destroyed by an Overheated stove 10y
fire Tuesday night while the inmates
were asleep. Twenty-six of the boys
who were in the upper stories were suf-
located before they could be rescued.
Fifty-eight other boys were safely taken
from the burning building amid terrible
excitement
Two of the matrOns of the institu-
ton escaped in safety 10y sliding down
the water pipes. Several of the boys
escaped in the same way. The super
intendent of the school repeatedly
rushed through the flames and brought
out a number of inmates.
The bodies of those who were suffO-
Gated were carried to the main hall of
the building, which was still profusely
decorated with Christmas green's.
The female department, in which
were 80 girls, was not touched. The
boys retired in high spirits having been
promised presents and u New Years
fete.
The fire originated in a clothing
room beneath the boys dormitory.
The smoke and flames issuing from the
stove flue alarmed those sleeping on
the top floor and they made heir
escape. The fire engines were prompt
ly on the spot and the employees of an
adjacent railway station rushed to the
scene and rendered valuable assist
ance.
The bodies of the boys were badly
burned but it is believed that they
were suffocated before they were
burned. The ages of the dead range
from seven to twelve years.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
THE LATEST.

A LETTER containing $4,000 has
been stolen in transit between Vienna
and PeSth.
a NEW customs tariff is being pre-
pared by the Russian Finance Minister.
1t will take effect July I.
SECRETARY WINDOW has ordered
the transfer of S20,0O0,OO0 in gold coin
from San Francisco o New York. there
being too much gold at the former
place.
CAPTAIN Couch, of Oklahoma City,
is in Washington.
The railways in Holland have re-
stricted transportation, employees being
sick with influenza.
THE commission of French engineers
to investigate the Panama canal has
arrived on the ground.
w. A. WALKER, United States At
torney for Wisconsin, has resigned.
ALL the Jamaica railways have been
taken by an American syndicate.
THE imperial cables from Bermuda
to Halifax will be completed in June.
Mrs. BRENNAN, of Holyoke. Mass,
under indictment for poisoning mem.
bers of her family in order to obtain in
surance on their lives, is dying in the
Jail at Springfield, Mass, of Bright's
disease.
In an encounter between Yaqui In
dams and Mexican troops at Guchorri,
Sonora, Mexico, several Indians were
killed.
ONE span of a new iron bridge at
Holyoke, Mass, was blown down the
other day and one man was killed and
two others injured. Thirty wOrkmen
managed to escape to other spans in
time.
THE Spanish Ministry has resigned.
THE Colombian gunboat La Popa
has seized another United States vessel.
THE white lead trust has recently
advanced prices three-quarters of cent
per pound. In addition it has made
better terms to jobbers, based on the
quantity of goods handled. The ar
rangement is that the firm which
handles $4,000 pounds of lead is giver
rebate larger in proportion than is re-
ceived by the firm handling 10000
pounds.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report fol-
the seven days ended January mum
bered 80.
A DISASTROUS snow slide occurred
at Sierra City, Cal, recently. Two
houses and a church were torn to
pieces, involving the loss of about eight
lives.
New YORK last year spent 81 ,OOO, OOC
on her public schools.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
Non-Partisan W. c. T. u.

CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 1.-The pro-
visional committee of the non-partisan
w. c. I. u, composed of Mrs. Ellen
J. Phinney, of Cleveland, o.; Mrs.
Ellen NJ. Watson. of Pittsburgh, Pa;
Mrs. Harriet G. Walker, of Minneap-
oils, Mimi; Mrs. Florence G. Porter,
of Old Town, Me-; Mrs. Matte NJ.
Bailey, of Shenandoah, Iowa; Mrs. j.
r. Webster, of Monmouth, H., and
Mrs. Harry White, of Indiana, Pa,
have issued call for a National meet
ing at Music Hall, Cleveland, on Janu-
AIRY %, for the purpose of organizing a
National association.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
Portugal May Apologize.

LONDON, Jan. 5.-Fersons in official
circles profess to see indications that
Portugal has decided TO apologize to
England for the acts of Major Serpa
Pinto, and especially his conduct in
hosting the Portuguese flag on British
protected territory and causing the
British flag to be hauled down. 1t is
conceded that if Portugal shall do this,
England can insist upon nothing fur
Their without mourning the suspicion Of
the powers that the ostenSible object
of her quarrel with Portugal is entirely
foreign to the real one, concerning
which some explanations should be
forthcoming.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
SEEKING OFFICE.
The Clvil-Service Law . Stumbling Block
In the Road of Ambitious Young Amerl-

The Clvil-Service Law . Stumbling Block
In the Road of Ambitious Young Amerl-
cans.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-"There is
little use," said Solicitor Blaine, lin
attempting to conduct civil-service
for one set of officeholders and ignoring
the just claims of others. This has been
brought very prominently before the
State Department recently in cases
where young Americans desire to go
abroad as diplomatic representatives of
the United States. Before there was
such thing known as civil-service
reform, politicians were accustomed to
bring their friends to Washington, and,
after receiving attention from the
head of department, an appoint
ment to lucrative position was
generally the result. But now all
this is changed and the doors of
the departments are practically closed
against applicants for Office, owing to
the requirements of the Ciyil-Service
Commission. Disappointed in their
efforts to get into public position in
other ways, many of the workers of the
two political parties turned their long,
ing e, es in the direction of the State
Department and coveted long and eain-
estly some of the consular offices held
by others. Examinations are not re-
quired for these places, and they are
matters for the exertion of influence,
if the solicitation of candidates for
them can no balieve6 Tn roDSpUupupe
of the demand for consular positions it
is quite likely that they will be recon-
mended to be turned over to the Civil
Service Commission to pass upon the
ability of the applicants, and thus re-
lieve the State Department Of great
%
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.


THE Senate Committee on Canadian
Relations held a session in New York
City on the 30th and listened to state
ments of Gloucester, Mass, fisher
man who advocated retaliation. Eras-
tus Wiman consumed the rest of the
day with plea for reciprocity with
Canada.
REAR ADMIRAL KIMBERLY has been
ordered home from the command of the
Pacific station January 25. Commo-
dOre George Brown will succeed him.
One of the witnesses examined be-
fore the Ways and Means Committee
recently was a glass manufacturer
named Macbeth who wanted free
trade.
A RUMoR was current in Washing
ton on the 3lst that Mr.. Randall's con-
dition was much worse. Inquiry at his
house was answered by an emphatic
denial from his family. Mr.. Randall
was much better and was out of bed
and attending to his correspondence.
ABOUT six thousand of the general
public attended President Harrison's
reception New Years day, in addition
TO the Diplomatic Corps, the judiciary,
Army and Navy, etc.
ROBERT G. BLAINE, brother of the
Secretary of State, and who for the
past eight years has been curator in
the Agricultural Department, has re-
ceived the appointment as deputy first
auditor of the Treasury Department.
THE Pan-American congress resumed
its sessions in Washington on the I'd,
but as none of the committees were
ready to report the body soon adj
iourned.
The public debt decreased during
the month of December So, 12S, 095.39.
1t now stands, less cash in the treas
ury, 81, 052, 952, 911.33.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
NEW YORK SNEEZlNG.
Increased Mortality Due to Infiuenzs
Policemen Suffering.

Increased MOrtaIty Due To IOHuenLa-
Policemen Suffering.
New YORK. Jan. 5.-The deaths Fri
day numb cred 800, against 125 Thurs
day and 165 on Wednesday. This is
something precedented at this time
of the year. Pneumonia, bronchitis
and consumption show an increase over
the standard per day at this season.
The number of policemen reported to be
sick was 357, showing steady increase
The increase in the number of deatha
is attributed to la grippe and the dis
eases which follow that malady.
Louis Natal, the well known author
and dramatist, died at the French
hospital from la grippe.
The bureau of vital statistics has re-
ceived four death certificates on which
the cause of death was given as 'epi
demic influenza" The officials, how
ever, positively refuse to give the
names of the people who have SO died,
for some unexplained reason.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
Crushed Hinder Iron.

NEW YORK, Jan. g. Yesterday
morning as four men were engaged in
weighing iron at the Ontario rolling
mills, gearing of the scales, which
were guaranteed to stand weight Of
fifteen tons, suddenly gave way and
caused seven and a half tons of metal
to fall or the men. Two of them, G.
r. Head and William Mcclure, were
instantly killed, and the others, Will
liam J. Coulter and Richard Heath,
were badly, but not fatally. injured.
The scales were thoroughly overhauled
the previous night, and found to be
apparently all right.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
The Gar Almost . Maniac.

LONDON, Jan. 3.-Reports are accu.
mulating of the elaborate precautions
observed at st. Petersburg against the
approach of any person, other than his
immediate household and attendants,
to the presence of the Car. The
guards in and about the palace have
been increased tenfold. His Majesty
is in a state of alarm bordering on
frenzy and those who have been num-
bered among his most intimate friends
are actually afraid to go near him, lest
his terror assume critical phase.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
Two Murders Reported.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Jan. 1.-Two
murders were reported from Darling
ton County yesterday. On December
%, Aleck Easterling, colored, while
sitting in his dining room with his
family was shot dead through the open
door. The assassin escaped. On De-
cember % George Windham, aged
eighteen years, white, and Robert
Candy, aged seventeen years, colored,
quarreled in a wagon in which they
were returning from a neighboring
town. Windham stabbed Candy to
the heart, drove home, unhitched the
horses and then fed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
Pressed Brick Establishm emit Burned.

TorEKA, Kan, Jan. 3.-The Topeka
pressed brick establishment is again
the victim of fire, and this Zine suffers
a much more serious loss than by the
fire of a few months aso.-Tuesday
evening large part OF the company's
plant at Willard station, on the Rock
Island road a few miles west of the
city, was destroyed by fire. The origin
of the blaze is unknown, but the off.
GERS of the company have suspicious
that it is the work of an incendiary.
The loss is slS, 600, while the insurance
is $1,000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
TIE WEST.

By the falling Of a tree across a
wagon near Muncie, Ind, the other
day Allen Sanderson and one of his
children were killed.
S. E. STEPHENSON, son of Congress
man S. NJ. Stephenson, of Menominee,
Wis, died the other night.
THE Academy of Music, in course of
erection at ST. Louis, fell recently.
Fifty workmen had a narrow escape,
only one being hurt.
A BANQUET was given Associate
Justice Brewer at Leavenworth, Kan,
on the S0th. The Justice spoke glow
ingly of the future of Kansas.
AN official report of the loss by fire
in Cincinnati during the past year
amount to trife over $500, 600.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-20
NEGROES CROWDING INTO OKLAHOMA.
DEPARTING FROM KANSAS TOWNS BY THE HUN.
DREDS ENuGR ATING IN WAGONS
FROM THE SOUTH.

Chicago. Jan. 10 (spcclap.-A dispatch to "The
Tribune" from Topeka. Kan. SAYS: Ii would be
difficult 10 realize IN the East. the extent of the
negro immigration 10 Oklahoma. since that Territory
was opened to settlement in April. over ten years
ago, there an exodu, from Mississippi and other
southern states 10 Kansas which at that time eX-
cited surprise throughout the Union. The negroes
came in by the thousands. At least 1900 made
their permanent home in Topeka. aud l4,OoO were In
Lawrence With the opening Of oklahoma. again
there began an exodus, to the western land district
about Kingfi,hcr. There was organized The Okla
homa Immigration society, having IT. headquarters
in this city. and of the leading railroad lines
was induced to give special low rates To colonsts
Every week until last week special train was run
over this line 10 the Promised Land and every
train crowded with cmeIanta and household
goods. The exodus became craze. From the
First Ward, the heaviest colopd settlement in the
city, the negroes departed in such numbers that
Yesterday the pastor of once houir,hlng congrc9a-
ton, hndlng only slX members lcit turned over, the
church property To- the trustees ana soueht woih 10
earn h, daily bread. What true of Topeka Is true
oi Lewrcncc ana every other cr' in ihr siai"
W. l.. E1LleSOil. business MANAGER OF the OhIdhuha
Emigration society. SAYS that there are NV 2@pOD
negroes IN Oklahoma aud HAT there viii BE- ooVOo
before spring. Letters have been sent 70 BainWcA
and OTHER southern points Whcr "utIaFrS nave been
reported, lnNlilug general immigration 10 phIhNoma
and letters received state that thousands Of coOFcd
people are comn- tmouGh in wagons tiis winter To
take up claims m the Territory. Professor solo
an addrc,- To- the nceroc, of kansas. uic.ng upon
them the Importance oi settling ln the Indian Terri
tory and making DO their own. lie claims that. II
Cougrc~, Ia, th' -t o appropriate money 10 dcport
buy land for oOlorcd people. The latitude Of Okla
hOma is nearly that Of the cotton growing states
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-20
y0T ALARMED F0R THE DISTILLERs.

Chicago, Jan. 10 (~pcciaI.l-Samucl WooLer, the
Peoria millionaire one Of the leaders in the great
lyh,ley Trust ridicuc5 the effort, that just
being put forth by the state Of Nebraska TO prohibit
thc combination Of distillcrs. The movement in
Nebraska 10 annu the charters Of the d-tillcrc9 that
are members Of the Whi-hcy Trust viii amount 10
uttIco said he "Thcy have passed Trust Law
there something on the order Of the Missouri Trust
Iaw and several d,tillcrics have been threatened
with loss Of their charters because Of their connection
with the Odi,tillcro' trust. The authorities, how
ever have begun no serious proceeding, yet, ana J
fancy they Will not. The Whi7key Trust doe not
deserve the condemnation that many OF the ifu,t'
of the country are receiving at the hande "i thc
pap.rs and people. IL not organized l"f spctu
latvc purposcs as was the sugar trust Inc PIi'lHb
Of its ccrfncatcs on the market was Only incidental
and not the main purpose of IT'S oIednIaupn, ~
was not ORGANIZED 10 advance prices. J. H' HdIh'I
is steady the production IS controlled by thc uodu,
and the price Is lower. What is there ior inc P'DH'
10 find fault about In the Whiskey Trust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-20
Sor-TU 1ygRIClNS TO VISIT BALTIMORE.

Baltimore. Jan. -. Ihc Merchants and Manu-
fncturcr, Association viii have a. IT. guests on Janu
AIRY - the delegate to the International American
Conference. The President. members OF the Cabinet
and other distinguished guest, Will accompany them
The party viii leave Washington IN charge OF the
committee on that at 80 a.. reaching Locust
Point at 10 30 O'Clock where they Will bc by the
members Of the association. Tine steamer Columbia
has been chartered, and viii leave Lisht-'t. wharf
with the committee of the association at 10 O'Clock
After an inspection II the elevator the harbor VIII
bee shr;cd and visits made T. >tcrltpn aud Curt,
BAY. Ou the return trip luncheon VIII be served
on the steamer aud q banquet given the same even
Ing at the CarrplltDn Hotel at 80 o'clock The Bal
tlmurc and ohio Railroad viii furnish for their
special train Of three Pullman coaches aud private
coach.