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The Iola register., 1891-04-17
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WASHINGTON. April lis cretary
Blaine was indispOsed TODAY and was
confined to his room by an attack Of his
old malady, the gOut. In the course of
the afternoon the president walked
over from the White House and con-
suited with the secretary. 1t is now a
matter of positive knowledge that the
Italian government has not sent to the
government or any Of its representatives
notification that reply is expected to
Marquis Rudinis note by any specified
time. 1t is not customary in diplomacy
for any nation to undertake such a
course and had Italy adopted this course
it would certainly been regarded with
umbrage by our own government. As
stated in diplomatic and courteous
phraseOlOgy Secretary Blaine's letter
to the Marquis lmperiali the govern
ment of the United States proposed to
deal with the question at issue with eau
tion and deliberatiOn. A necessary
preliminary to the New Orleans matter
is the reliable official statement of the
nationality OF the victims and their
records in this country and in Italy.
This evidence has not yet been col
lected.
The department OF the state is not
contented itself with specific
inquiry into the history Of the antece-
dents of the New Orleans victims. 1t
proposes to show the Italian govern
ment the extent OF the evil OF unre-
stricted immigration from which the
United States is now suffering, and for
this purpose necessary plain dealings
with the character OF considerable ele-
ment OF our population, which has
largely been received from Italy. So
some interesting statistics are in course
of preparation that will touch with
blunt directness upon the number OF
murders and Outrages committed in re-
cent years in the United States by MEM
bers of the Malta and other secret ItaI-
ian organizations. and upon the vendet-
taS that are imported in the United
States to the disturbance OF the peace
and involving expenses to our tax
payers in the prosecution Of malefact-
Ors. Time is required to compile these
facts and the department of state will
take the necessary time while taking
care to clear its skirts Of suspicion OF
undue delay. In high official circles
here there has been no change in the
opinion that the New Orleans matter is
being manipulated in Italy to influence
Italian politics. 1t is surnised that a
brave show OF indignant rational feel
ing is being made while there is in
Rome a knowledge that Secretary
Blaine's reply is near at hand. so that
when it is made public the impression
would be conveyed to the italian pOpu-
lar ming that the United states had
been OyeraWed.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17
Don't ThinkIt Will spread.

CHICAGO, April 14.-Officials of the
Burlington road say there is no occa-
sion for apprehension that the strike
of the western lines of their system will
extend to Chicago. Thus far the
trouble has been confined to the divis-
ions west of the Missouri river, and it
is hoped that the disturbance will not
however, that the managers Of the road
are anxious 10 conceal any apprehension
that they may feel. The supreme
council OF the order of railway.employes
will meet here Monday and it is under
stood that the advisability of ordering
general strike on the Burlington sys-
tenn will be considered.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17

The house by cutting the schedule of
salaries and wages Of officers, teachers
and employees as shown by the above,
reduced this appropriation the paltry
sum of SG,153
/ decline TO enter into an extended
discussion with gentlemen who advocate
reform in public affairs, by reducing the
pay OF officers and teachers in our pub
lie institutions from thirty to twenty
four dollars per month, and
cut the pay Of the employees
from three hundred to two nun
drcd and forty dollars per year.
The total appropriations for 1890 and
1891, made two years ago, we're for 1880.
81 ,4O6.012.99, for 1891, 81, ,251 ,49i 81, and
the total appropriations made this year
were, for 1892, 81 ,2G4, 1921, and for 1853,
were s1,12J, ,49953. Now deduct from
the sum appropriated for 1880 the df-
ference in state house appropriation,
S1I4, ,95l.9S, and it leaves the appropria-
tiOn for that year l,231 ,Ce1.0I; and de-
duct from the appropriation for 1881 the
appropriation for state house, S139.3S4.-
OO, and it leaves the appropriation for
that year 81 112.1l0.57, showing the ap-
preparations made by the last Legislature
to be in exces Of those two years ago the
sum of S33,071.30 for 1892, and s13, 1886
for 1888.
Whether this refusal OF the house of
representatives TO make adequate appro-
priations to continue the construction Of
the state house was wise and economic
saving l leave The hundreds of csrpen-
ters, joiners, masons, stone cutters,
bricklayers, painters, tinsmiths and the
vast number OF wage-wCrkers employed
in the stone quarries and about the con-
struction Of this great work who for
years have earned a living for them
selves and families asjits massive COL
umns have gone upwe!ds from its foun-
dations, and who now will be compelled
to go elsewhere, and perhaps leave the
state to find employment and living for
their families, to determine. Their
wives and children as they daily
pass the state house grounds will look
upon its deserted walls and unfinished
structure only to be reminded Of the
absent father or brother who was driven
away from home 10 earn their daily
bread by the parsimony and false econ-
ony of an alliance house Of representa-
tives.
The senate also made a number OF
small appropriations for 1885 amounting
in the aggregate to S56, 800, for additions
to several Of the incomplete public instl-
tutions which seemed necessary to meet
the increased attendance at these iDsti-
tutions and the growth Of the state, in
which the house refused to concur; and
for two years more the unfortunates OF
the state are left to continue in their
unhappy condition in crowded, and for
that reason, poorly ventilated and I'M
comfortable quarters. / will refer Dir.
Elder and his economical house 10 the
old soldiers OF the state as to whether
the appropriation made by the senatef for
more room and additional comfort were
not needed at the soldiers orphans
home at Atchison. / will refer them to
the liberal judgment of the people Of
Kansas whether or not workshop and
come method of employment ought not
to have been provided at the reform
school for the active, bright, though
wayward boys, who are placed there for
reformation by the laws Of the state
The Iola register., 1891-04-17
whisky Trust Gibson Indicted.

CHICAGO, April l3--The federal
grand jury this morning began an in
vestigation into the charge against
George J. Gibson of Peoria, the secre-
tary of the whisky trust conspiracy to
destroy with dynamite the distillery OF
II. Fl. Shufeldt of this city, which firm
had declined to enter the trust. Glib
son was arrested in this city on the
above charges IN February last and the
government officials claim to have COM
plete evidence to subStantiate it, in
Guiding the Internal machine which was
to be used, and the terms on which he
sought to bribe Government Guager
Thomas Dewar, who was stationed in
Shufeld's to do the job. The latter,
while protesting TO listen to Gibson's
proposition, kept the government in
formed of the progress Of the plot. A
bottle of dangerous explosive liquid for
use in the Internal machine, was, it is
alleged, found in hand bag carried by
Gibson at the time Of his arrest. He
has already been indicted by the Cook
county grand jury.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17

THE widow of General Logan indig-
nantly denies rumor that she is soon
to doff her widows weeds for the or
Rnge blossoms of a bride. She says:
Thanks to congress and the generals
l am we'll provided for, and |
how enjoy the friendship of many good
men who were his friends and whose
wives are my friends. Why should l
want to sacrifice all these present bless
ings and the associations of thirty years
of happy welded life for the uncertain
ty OF other ties?"
The Iola register., 1891-04-17
Dun,s Rsxisx of Trade.


NEW YORK, April 13.-R. @. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review OF Trade says:
1t cannot be said that the business OF
the country is expanding when there is
decrease of nearly one-sixth within a
single month in the output OF pig iron.
In nearly all quarters the admitted
slackening of trade Is attributed TO
many temporary causes, but the state oI
the iron trade cannot be thus explained
and while it may at any time change
for the better, it is at present an unfav-
orable symptom. The trade is very dull
and some southern furnaces weakening,
as to prices and the market for manu-
featured forms of iron and steel show nc
improvement. 1t is said that the orders
for rails placed this year do not reach
400, 900 tons.
Another element which may prove oi
great though temporary Importance is
the decision OF great body of miners
to strike on May Isl for eight hours a
day.
The other industries show no mater
ial change. Reports from the various
centers of trade are about the same as
last week, but recognize temporary
slackening even more generally, while
it is attributed mainly to bad weather
and the state OF country roads.
Speculation in breadstuffs halts,
though wheat is fraction higher.
Corn is &c lower, but oats &c higher.
Pork is 25c higher, but lard and hogs a
shade lower
Coffee is three-quarters OF cent low-
er and cotton has declined a sixteenth.
Raw sugar has advanced a sixteenth
under the very heavy demand since the
duty was removed, but refined grades
are unchanged as yet.
In general the speculative markets
are rather inert and the general aver
age price is now 2 per cent lower than
it was two weeks ago.
Exports are fairly maintained in the
aggregate, but the movement of wheat,
-four and corn falls far below last year.
The money market here is quite un-
disturbed, though at all eastern mar
kets there is more than usual DISPOSE
tion to loan on call rather than on time,
and at Boston there is considerable
stringency. philadelphia and Pitts
burg are easy, but at Cleveland there is
some pressure. Cincinnati is little
close, and at Chicago there is good de-
mand at per cent. At all other west
ern points generally the money markets
are comparatively easy, and at the south
not materially changed.
Collections are not as a rule quite
satisfactory owing to bad weather and
bad country roads, but the treasury has
again put out about $3.000 600 in a
week, more than it has taken in. and
no signs appear of heavy gold ex-
ports.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days number 2I3. as compared
with total of 243 last week. For the
corresponding week of last year the fig
ureS wore 2O9.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17
Barnum's Funeral.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, April 10.-TTni-
versal sorrow prevails throughout the
city to-day and everybody seems to be in
mourning over the departed Z. 7. Bar
mum. Business is generally suspended.
The South Congregational church,
where the funeral exercises were held
was crowded to suffocatiOn and thou
sands were turned away. The remains
OF the great Snowman rested in hand
some red cedar casket of Corinthian
style covered with black English broad
cloth. The trimming were oxidized
silver. Upon an oxidized sill
yer plate was the inscrip-
ton: "Phineas 7. Barnum, born
July 5, 1910. died April !, 1891" The
funeral exercises were simple and in ac-
cordance with the wishes OF the de-
ceased. The services at the church
were conducted by Rev. L. B. Fisher.
Rev. DR.. .Collyer of New York, deliv-
cred a touching address. The display
of floral pieces was simply beautiful.
At the grave thousands OF friends had
gathered to witness the last rites. The
exercises at the grave were conducted
by the Rev. L. B. Fisher.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17
Harrison and Blaine CompIimepted.

NEW YORK, April 13.-An Ottawa,
Ont. special says: Early this morning
Sir John Thompson and the Hon. Geo.
E. Foster reached here from Washing
ton. Their first utterances were COM
plimentary of both President Harrison
and Secretary Blaine. Both are conf
dent that the republican administra-
ton will meet the Canadian govern
ment half way in the prospective nego-
tiations for the settlement of the trade
and Atlanta fishery question.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17
An Important Mission.

New YORK, April 13.-The steam
ship Newport, of the Pacific mail line
which sailed to-day at p. m. for Cen
tral America, had among other passen-
gers, the surveying party of American
engineers, who go to demonstrate the
feasibility of the railway that is pro-
posed to connect the United States with
South and Central American republics.
The party will be gone two years.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17
Foreign.

4 man named SIleamoikin was ar
rested in ST Petersburg while lying in
wait at q doorway the Car was to pass.
BE had q loaded revolver and q bottle
supposed TO contain an explosive, and it
is thought he intended to kill the car.
Passengers from Valparaiso, who
nave arrived in Panama, report that
The Chilian rebels are making progress
ard that President SalInGceda is recruit
ing his ranks from prisons d. . .Runors
are aflOat in London that Parnell has
married the oldest daughter OF Mrs.
OShes. This story fiCds few believers.
JapanS yearly trade returns show a
falling of OF exports and IN increase OF
imports. Russia continues to mass
troops on the frontier. -. Empress
Frederick has returned 10 Berlin after a
long visit in England -. Prince NapO-
leon in his will upbraidS his son Prince
Victor and disinheritS him. The car
is greatly displeaSed ct the secret mar
riage OF his cousin. the Grand Duke
Michael Michailovitch. Germany is
contemplating restrictive emigration
legislation. .. . French artists say that
Chicago must give better guarantees or
they will not send their works to the
fair. . d.. .Parnell addressed a Dublin
meeting in favor of granting amnesty
to all prisoners serving terms for politi-
cal crimes. .. Tenants on the Smith
Barry estate have surrendered. and the
town of New Tipperary, established by
the league at great cost has collapsed.
-. Germany will soon remove the en-
barge on American pork. . Prince
Albert Victor, oldest son of the Prince
of Wales, has been sent to ireland for
the benifit Of his health. -. The COM
ment on Cardinal Savigerie's Algiers
toast is taken as an emphasis Of what
has long been believed-that he believes
in democracy and has great admiration
for the democratic institutios ST Ameri-
ca English crop prospects are bright.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17

oouNTERFErT 50 silver certificates
ste causing much trouble at the treas
nfy department. They resemble the
genuine so closely that only experts can
hetect them. The issue of the regular
sefies has been suspended and arrange
ments are being made for substitute.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17

A LONDON paper says that, owing to
the failure of the crop in India and
sofne European countries, wheat will
probably reach the highest price IN
many years" Domestic and foreign
wheat is higher in the London market,
and farmers are not eager to sell.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17
A Damaging Storm.

CENTRALIA, H., April l4.-This city
and vicinity was last night visited by a
heavy wind and rain storm which did
much damage. 8,
The Iola register., 1891-04-17

Institution education
girls s.................... 17,6OO.Oo 17,5Uo.O0
charities. ............... s,5OO.oO 6,5OO.N
Insane asylum, Topeka 100. 10000 12o,0D.@
Insane asylum, Osawa-
state penitentlary 16s. .sfs.7s lsS, ,4z5.N
Regents Normal school,
agricultural college
and penitentiary di-
TecIOIS 4,5JO.W f'SVy-W
Destitute insane....... $4,000. 90 30, ,OJo.W
ary y.............:...... 2s4, 5000 2sl. .slO.5I
Total. .;9l1, ,Ols.7s 1854. 46s st
By the time these same bills had gone
through the economizing process OF this
reform house and finally became laws
they amounted in sum total to 1924,
1921 for 1892 and S907,949.53 for the
fiscal year 1893, an increase Of Sl3, ,43S -
for 1892 and s43, ,484.03 for 1893. The
figures here given are as shown from the
records Of the bills, and are not quoted
TO show that the increase was wrong.
fully made, but to refute the claim Of
Speaker Elder that the senate was
guilty Of wi.lful extravaganza in appro-
priating the public money and
that the house was the guardian
of the treasury. Some OF this
increase was properly made; some
new offices were created by the legisIa-
ture after the bills passed the senate,
and their salaries were to be provided
for. 1t was ascertained after the Osa-
watomie insane asylum bill had passed
the senate that an additional appropria-
tion of 10000 for that institution would
care for about 300 more of those uDfor-
tunate patients, and that was added.
BY questionable change in the man.
agement OF the penitentiary insisted on
by the house, that appropriat on was
increased about $4,000 each year.
But many of the reductions made By
the house L maintain were unjudictions,
without reason, and were un-
wisely made, and in every in
stance almost where reductions
were made, it seemed to be the
studied effort of the house to strike at
the wages and salaries of mechanics,
clerks, teachers and laborers, as the fol-
lowing example of reductions will show
The manner in which the house amend
ed the schedule of salaries and wages in
the senate bill making appropriation for
the current expenses of the Topeka In
sane asylum is o fair example OF the
methods OF econOmizing employed %y
thut body. The first column shows the
amounts appropriated by the senate in
detail, the second column shows the
schedule as amended by the house and
third column elbows the amounts agreed
upon by the conference committee and
As finally passed.
The Iola register., 1891-04-17

whom it is the policy of the state to send
out into the world with methods of in.
dustry and the information and ability to
earn an honest living and become use
full and law abiding citizens, or whether
it is not false economy to keep these
restless, active spirits confined in idle
ness during their period of incarcera.
ton, and then turn them out to resort
to their old habits of vice, and prey
upon society until some act, the direct
result of their lack of proper and ju-
dicious training for an Industrious and
useful life, shall land them in the peni.
tentiary.
CoNCERNING DEFICIENCIES.
Speaker Elder in this remarkable
statement claims that the legislature
just closed was compelled to appropri-
ate S350,OO0 for deficiencies caused
either by the extravaganza or want OF
extravaganza of the last republican leg
islature. 1t is hard to tell which he
means, for in the allegation he is about
as accurate as in his other figures. The
only appropriations made that could in
any way be classed as Deficiencies are
the following sums:
The Iola register., 1891-04-17

10, 10000 10, 200. o.
$4,000 Il, $40. 90
6,500.00 G, 500. .W
l29, 10000 120,OD.Ot
81, $780, $3.50 OF
63. s7s. 7S las, As. CT
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Fine Points i'm Cannibalism.

New York Ledger.
1t was formerly supposed that the
relish with which certain savage
tribes ate their enemies arose from
the qualification of the passion of
revenge. Within the last few years,
however, it has been clearly shown
eaters are really fond of human flesh
for its own sake-that they enjoy it q
q civilized epicure enjoys turtle soup
or roasted ortolaps. Your Fiji Island
or thinks the greatest praise he can
bestow upon All edible is to say
that it is las tender as a dead man."
The Fijians have plenty of provisions,
but they consider "long pig"-their
pleasant name for human fiesh-much
finer than pork, beef or mutton.
The New Zealanders, on the other
hand, do not consider mans flesh as
q delicacy, but eat dead heroes and
"wise men," whether they have been
friends or enemies makes no differ
ence), with the idea that they imbibe
the valor and intellectual qualities o.
the deceased during the process.
The "noble savage" of Terra del
Fuego never eats any of his own peO-
pie, except when other meat is re-
MARKEDLY scarce, although always
ready to "tske in" the shipwrecked
stranger. In severe winters, If we are
to believe the story of q British ad-
miral (Fitzroy), the Terra del Fue-
gons, "when they can obtain no
other food, take the oldest woman of
their party, hold her heat over a
thick smoke; made by burning green
wood, and, pinching her throat, choke
her, . after which she is served up to
her friends. The barbarians, on be-
ing asked why they did not eat their
dogs instead of their old ladies, naive
ly answered that their dogs caught
offers, but that their venerable
grandmothers and aunts did not.
Probably the majority Of even the
lowest order of savages prefer fish
and yams to human flesh, but it is
neverless true that there are several
tribes in Australia, Africa and the
South Sea islands that actually hank
er after it. There Is some con sola-
ton, however, in the assurance given
us by travellers that most of these
anthropophagi prefer colored persons
to Caucasans as table luxuries. This
fact Is certainly encouraging to the
missionary interest.
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Negro Enterprise.

Globe Democrat.
WASHINGTON, d. G. May 1.-THE
advancement of colored people of this
country is SO continuous and I'M
obtrusive that their progress Is sell
dom noted except when they do
something which has always been
considered entirely out of their line
of industry. The latest effort OF
which the race can boast is the start
ing of q new bureau in this city by
three neutrality-suspicious. who have
organized for this purpose the Ma
tional Capital News Syndicate. with
a well.appointed office. The man.
agement of the affair will be in the
hands OF Alex. @. Davis, who, for the
past seven years, has been connected
with some of the leading daily
papers of Philadelphia aud New
York, first as q reporter and then as
a correspondent. His associates are
J. f. Bruce and e. A. johnson, who
have been correspondents to the
journals of their race from the ma
tional capital. The bureau has started
out to furnish news of special interest
to the readers of race journals, of
which papers it Is said there are now
nearly 200. Beside this the young
mon will conduct q bureau of in forms-
ton as 1t were, of everything per.
tanning to their race, and in this way
they hope to be of service to the corps
of white correspondents here, to
whom they propose to sell news and
interviews. The enterprise is inter
esting, as showing the ambition of the
Afro Americans, as they call them.
selves, to get on in the newspaper
business.
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