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The Iola register., 1891-07-10
sTANLEY's sopY SERVANT.
ealeh, . Young Zanz.blres, Much Dis
likes America

ssleh, . Young Zanz.blres, Much Dis
likes America.
One of the most interesting characters
attached to the suite of Explorer Henry
NJ. Stanley is the lad Saleh Bin Osman.
Short in stature, he has bright intelligent
eyes, which sparkle as he talks, and a
low and musical voice. Although only
81 years of age, he is well read in
Arabic lore, and has had an opportunity
to visit many of the principal cities of
Europe. Saleh, as he likes to be called,
is devoted to his master, and speaks of
him with evident respect and love. He
says that Stanley is the friend of Africa
and the father of its children. Recently
q reporter had chat with Saleh.
How do you like American" he was
asked.
America; don't like it at all; it is
so different from England. The people
here seem to think too much of them
selves and too little of others; every
American meet wants me to talk only
so much"-here Sale'h held his hands
about an inch apart--and they want to
talk so much, stretching his arms out
at full length.
AS soon as / landed here I felt like
going back to Zanzibar. All Americans
seem to think that because a man is
black he is entitled to no consideration.
/ know that negroes have been slaves in
the United States, but we Zanzibares
are different; we always have been
free, and in England, if say am from
Z,nzibar, they treat me much better
than they would if l should say that
was from America
What kind of a man is Mr. Stanley?"
Saleh was asked
He is strict and stern, but he is just n
replied the lad He expects to be
obeyed, but he never demands impossi-
bilities. His treatment of the natives
has always been punctuated with con-
sideration for their ignorance and super
stition In fact, I've often been sur
prised to see how much patience he is
capable of displaying You must re-
member that l am his servant, and am
brought in more familiar contact with
him than even his closest friend or most
confidential companion. and I know
whereof speak
Have you ever known Mr.. Stanley to
be guilty of an act of cruelty to either a
native or a white MANI"
mo. Cruelty is something which is
not natural to him. have, however,
known him to punish those who de-
served punishment, but never unless it
was case of necessity, as a matter of
example, or something of that kind l
have never known or heard of his ever
having committed a wanton cruelty"
The Iola register., 1891-07-10
King Ennnd Chilly

MEMHIS, Tenn. July 6.-The jury
in the case Of II. Clay King, charged
with the murder If David H. Poston,
returned a verdict Friday OF mur-
der in the first degree.
The announcement of the verdict
caused no emotion apparently on the
part of King. He sat gazing steadfast-
lv at the faces of the jurors. preserving
the same calm Indifference that has
characterized his bearing throughout
the t"ial.
Judge Greer, counsel for the defense,
at once made a motion for new trial,
which will be argued in few days.
Both men were prominnet lawyers.
The tragedy occurred March 10th, on
one of the main streets of Memphis and
was a result Of bitterness engendered in
a lawsuit between H. Clay King and the
widow of General Gideon J. Pillow of
Fort Pillow fame, in which the title to
certain Arkansas lands was disputed.
The suit was pending a number of
years. King had become infatuated
with Mrs. Pillow and deserted his wife
and family. He gave Mrs. Pillow deeds
70 large portion of his property, with
the understanding that they were not
to be recorded except in case'of his
death The papers we're promptly re-
corded. however, and King as promptly
repented of his act.
He began suit to have the title claim
ed by Mrs. Pillow declared void, on the
ground that he had never eXtcuted the
deeds as far as delivery was concerned,
and that she had obtained possession of
them surreptitiously.
The firm of Poston & Poston was the
counsel for Mrs. Pillow and defended
her title vigorously. Evidence damag-
ing to the social reputation of both was
brought out and personal animosity was
aroused. Kings hatred toward Mrs.
Pillow extended to her leading counsel,
David H. Poston.
On March 10 last. Main street was
crowded with many people. Many
ladies were out attending to their
spring shopping. About l1:30 o'clock
Colonel King took q stand. with a
pistol in his hand, in front of a cigar
store opposite ourt square. Poston
came along moment later and with
oct word Of warning King stepped up
to him. placed the revolver against his
abdomen and fired. Friends caught
Poston as he fell and carried him into
a restaurant near Uy. Thence he was
removed to hospital, where he died a
few days later
King remained where he stood until
he was arrested with the weapon in his
hand.
Poston was one of the most promi-
nent lawyers and citizens in Memphis.
His father was distinguished in the
same profession. 81. Clay King was
commander of the Kings Tigers" in
the confederate army during the late
war and is the author of Kings Di.
gest of the Laws of Tennessee" stand
are work. He has held a number oi
public offices.
The Iola register., 1891-07-10
KANSAS NOTES.

Salina will soon have a straw paper
factory.
Fly nets are used for bathing suits a.
Guida Springs.
In Chsutauqua county corn is tas
seled and most of it too big to plow.
The old and we'll known firm of j. S
Crew & Co., book sellers Of Lawrence
has made an assignment.
George Reese, McLouth boy, was
the owner of pet monkey which Bit
him lately. He Is not now expected te
live.
The Rock Island railroad company
have removed the offices OF Assistant
Passenger Agent Boyd from Topeka tc
Chicago.
The biggest thing in Kansas this
June is not the third party prospects,
but the prospects of this years crops
New York Press.
A dispatch from Colby says the coun.
ty commissioners have been requested
to resign by the county alliance, the
board having been discovered to have
drawn more paw than the law allowed.
There are 100000 fruit trees in the
state and every one old enough to bear
is loaded down with fruit. This is the
third successive fruit crop. Kansas is
spreading herself on everything this
year.
The NJ. K. & T. management has no
tilted the employees of that road that
the road is inconveinced by entirely too
many garnishees, and that hereafter gar
~ H. So, Z
ground for discharge.
That fellow from Pennsylvania who
rode from Kansas City to the Colorado
state line and wrote back home that
some Kansas sufferer owned a wheat
field 500 miles long. sizes up the situa-
tion pretty weli.-Topeka Democrat
Wilder knew what he was about
when he revoked the charter of the
Capital Insurance company of Topeka.
Judge Guthrie fined him for contempt
for doing it and now the judge has ap-
pointed receiver for that very COM
pany.
The Kansas City Star makes the pre-
diction that from this time forth Kan
sas will be the leading wheat growing
state in the Union. Among other things
in a lengthy editorial, it says: Kan
sas has hitherto been looked upon as
pre-emineatly corn state. For num-
Der of years-excepting lS90-she has
stood third or fourth In the list OF states
in the production of maize, while as q
wheat growing state she has numbered
from 5th to l4tb. This year she has
an area of wheat surpassed by only one
state-Minnesota-and she is harvesting
a crop greater than any other state will
produce this year. and greater than has
ever before been produced by a single
state"
Grain dealers and elevator men say
the new wheat crop will probably be
the best ever grown in the west. and
they are sending out letters TO the
wheat growers regarding the proper
handling of the grain calculated to Sc
cure the best possible results. One of
the letters sent out is as follows: ''Our
observation has been in years past that
wheat properly stacked after harvest
and allowed to go through the natural
curing process is more merchantable
than when threshed and shipped to
market directly after cutting. We be-
lieve that it viii be to the interest oil
all concerned that wheat be stacked. as
unquestionably, il threshed from the
shock it will sell at q heavy discount
under old wheat, a. it viii not be in ex-
port condition"
The Iola register., 1891-07-10

Senator Jones has built magnificent
villa at Santa Monica. in southern Cali
fornia, and Mrs Jones is so charmed BY
her residence that she will not return to
Washington the coming season. The
villa stands on a bluff abruptly rising
from the ocean and has ranch Of 80, 006
acres adjoining, in addition to beaati-
full garden.
The Iola register., 1891-07-10
NEVER WITHOUT H1s coMpANIoN.
a westerner who Got Cold Chill When
he Dlscovered q Loss.

A westerner who Got Cold Chili When
| He Discovered Loss.
1That reminds me. said the colonel
blandly. BE is always being reminded.
They were talking of mans dependence
upon things which he Is accustomed to
use. THAT reminds me of Jack Smiler.
Jack was as brave as lion. He drove
one of the fast freight specials from
Cheyenne to Deadwood 1t was in the
first DAYS of the Black Hills excitement,
when they ran light express wagons out
to Cheyenne on gallop and never
stopped until they pulled up in Dead
wood or until the road agents stopped
| them.
Jack was born with one emotion
lacking He was not afraid of the widest
Indian land there were enough OF them
in those days, just before the Custer
massacre) or the most daring and reck.
less road agent. They did not call them
highwaymen then. He used to clint
into his seat, crack his long whip. and,
with wonderful oath. jerk the heads oi
those mules in the direction of Dead.
wood, and send them scurrying along
like frightened rabbits He always
wore revolver, of course, the handle
forward in his belt, where his hand
might touch it at a moments notice.
do not believe that the road agent
lived who could have stopped Jack
Smiler.
Il rode up with him on one of his trips
to ranch about 35 miles from Chey-
enne. got tired of the seat and climbed
back into the box to stand there to rest
my legs l conceived the idea of pick
ing Jacks pocket-that is, of getting his
revolver away from him. was pretty
careful to press ons hand heavily on his
shoulder while with the other l slipped
the weapon from his belt Finally !
got it out safely and waited for him to
discover the loss
"We drove along for five or six miles,
when suddenly Jack pulled up his mules
with terrible OATH. ...
a'Whou T he cried
"What's the trouble, JackY 1 asked
He turned to me and looked into my
eyes He was as white as sheet
"'We are going straight back to Chey.
enne,' he said What's the trouble? !?
repeated.
~'Troubler he calculated, and a cloud
of sulphur arose over us, his oratory was
so emphatic. "'Trouble? I've lost my
six shooter, and I wouldn't drive another
foot for $4,000
"Oh, pshaw, jack said; "wht
knows you haven't six shooterr Why
don't you go right on, as if you hat
oneP
Jacks teeth chartered at the yer!
thought 1 never saw a brave man 81
terribly frightened.
""Not if my name is Jack Smiler,' h
said
"Graciousr he added gracious stand
for string of words too long for nos
ice to mention in one EVENING", sup
pose l hadn't discovered this. Wouldn'
1 have been in pretty fix2" He mad
a wry face.
"'Here's your old six shooter, Jack,
I said, handing it to him; Il wouldn'
have it 1t isn't worth keeping
Go lang, thereP shouted Jack, curl
ing his whip lash beautifully and bring
.I.; :.Lo cad OF IL to = sudden stop, wit
loud crack. GO lang, thereP and W
were rolling over the road again.
~ can't go anywhere without that
he said, touching the butt of it lightly
The last saw of him he was snappiD
his long lash and whistling cheerfully
With the revolver he went anywhere
without it nowhere. New York Trib
une.
The Iola register., 1891-07-10

Hannibal Hamlin never wears an over
coat, but there is a southernor who
s'goes him one better" Fields Martin
who leaves near Flowery Branch. Ga.
has worn coat only few times since
the surrender of General Lee. BE saws
he feels more comfortable without one
no matter how cold the weather Ia.
The Iola register., 1891-07-10

Anguish of mind has driven many to
suicide; anguish of body none This
proves that the health Of the mind Is Of
far more consequence to our happiness
than the health Of the body, although
both are deserving Of much more at
tention than either receives
The world is not q race course or q
battlefield or a prize fight 1t is place
IN which each man Is given his own
sphere to occupy, and bis own duty to,
do; and if that sphere be occupied
honotsbly and that duty be done well
every nan is undoubtedly victor. and
. .6f 1lfvivos.s -
The Iola register., 1891-07-10
LaYins the Riama.

Mrs Brown-No wonder you caught
cold, staying out half the night
Brown-That wasn't the reason. ]
got the cold from having to knock at the
door the other half.-(Epoch
The Iola register., 1891-07-10

An exchange says: Texas has Hogg
for governor, Pig for judge, Lamb
for senator. a Durham for representa-
tive and Buffalo for sheriff. Texas is
G grea- - < state.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29
BOROUGH ITEMS
GLEANTNGS BY THE LOCAL
CORPS OF REPORTERS.
WHAT THE SCRIBES SEE AND HEAR
The Water Company's Case
Against the Borough Now Re-
ceiving Attention-O Other
Suits Of Town People

A number Of our townsmen, including
several members and ex-members of the
Borough Council, went to Pottsvile to-
day to testify in the case of the Shenan-
doah Water 81 Gas Company against the
town. Among them were Councilmen
Morris Wurm and A. B. Lamb, ex-Coun-
clmen j. j. Powell, Patrick Ormsuy and
Pierce Walker, D. j. Conners, j. s. Will
isms and NJ. E Doyle. S. D. Hess, the
superintendent Of tho Water Company,
was also subpensed as a witness for the
borough.
The case is one in which about IS 600 is
involved. The company claims ayment
from the town for water supplied for the
fire plugs, at the rate of $40 per plug, an
nually, amounting to over $500 for each
year.
The borough maintains that some years
ago, when it had the power to establish
water works of its own, it withdrew from
the field in favor of the water company,
upon the understanding that the latter
would make no charge for water used at
the fire plugs.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29
WILL THEY UNITE
RUMORS OE A DEAL BETWEEN
GOULD AND HUNTINGDON.
A GIGANTIC RAILWAY COMBINE
IF the Scheme Goes Through All
the Railroads in the Southern
Belt Except One Will be in
the Hands OF the Pair.
GIGANTIC RAILWAY COMBINE

New YoRK, Sep. 20.-The excitement
occasioned the past few days by Missouri
Pacific and Union Pacific affairs has
been augmented by the report that
Nessrs. Gould and Huntington have a
great railway deal in view which is
shortly to be contaminated.
The competitors in grain traffic now
of the Southwestern system, which in
cludes the Missouri Pacific, Union Paoi-
fic, Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific
and branch lines, are the Atchison, Rock
Island, Chicago s. Alton, Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy, Northwestern and st.
Paul and branch lines.
BY the Memphis connection recently re-
ferred to by Mr.. Gould the Missouri Pa
cifc and Central Pacific systems will be
enabled to lay down grain at New Or
leans for the same price that the other
granger roads do in Chicago. By this
the grain traffic Of pretty much the en-
tire Southwest will be diverted to the
Southwestern system, as tidewater is
reached at New Orleans, whereas it is
/ 900 miles from Chicago.
Ocean freights are proverbially lower
from New Orleans than from New York,
and Mr.. Huntington will add to the great
gram carrying traue OF Jhe southwest
the transcontinental traffic from Cali
fornia over the Southern Pacific.
The connection at Memphis will bring
Southwestern system In close relations
with the Richmond Terminal, which
owes S0 600, 900 floating debt, and If Mr.,
Gould sees fit to go Co its assistance the
Southwestern system may extend its
control to this company, thus includin z
all the railroads in the southern belt of
the country, except the Louisville s.
Nashville.
The report seems the more plausi
Bile, because Mr.. Gould, in plan
ming railroad deal, usually
starts by reducing everything tC
| a cheap basis, so that the new connec-
tions can be acquired economically. This,
it is said, is the true explanation Of
his policy in the Missouri Pacific.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29
PERSONAL.

B. F. Laudig left for Philadelphia this
morning,
Michael O'Hara was an attendant at the
Pottsville court to-day.
Mrs. Charles Gibson spent to-day visit
ing friends at Port Carbon.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Luburg visited
friends in Pottsville to-day.
Capt VIM. E. jones' of Mahanoy City,
was visitor to town this morning.
Fred. Heisenberger and Joe Bickert
attended the Pottsville court this morning
as witnesses.
Mrs. Louis Goldin arrived in town last
night from Europe, where she spent several
weeks as the guest of her parents.
Captain Trevitt who was once a resident
OF this town, will lead the meeting of the
Salvation Army tomorrow evening.
Charley Seheuster the courteous and
genial clerk at the Ferguson House, will
resign his position there on October 1st to
accept similar position at the Westminster
Hotel, Scranton.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29
The De Moss Family.

Thursday evening the celebrated De
Moss Family will appear at Robbins opera
house for the benefit of the Ebenezer
Evangelical church and give delightful
entertainment. That it is possible for one
person to play two familiar tunes on an
organ and sing another at the same time, or
to play two parts on two cornets at the same
time, is sttested by the thousands who have
witnessed it. Only talent of high order
can perform such wonders. They use in
their concerts over forty different instru-
ments, including seven distinct bands.
Those who are lovers of good music should
not miss this opportunity to hear the De
Moss Family.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29
"Well, I'm Jiggered r'

They will appear here next Friday even
ing, Oct 2, at Ferguson's theatre, and a
large audience will welcome them, for who
could resist that very original young
comedian, Jas. B. Msckie, especially when
he presents for our amusement his new,
bright bur esque, "Grimes' Cellar Door 4"
This attraction has made tremendous hit
everywhere and fun galore, fast and
furious, is the order of the evening, from
the first overture to the last curtain.
Grimes Cellar Door" requires a whole
car load of special scenery, mechanical eff
fects and trick properties.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29

magnificent palaces, with every evi
dence in part of it of the largest
wealth, the greatest luxury, the most
liberal expenditure, rested upon a
volcano which only needed the force
of civilization to bring upon it a
catastrophe which would shock the
world.
Within 20 minutes from that place
you come to the annual parade in
Hyde Park of all tnat is most splendid
in rank, wealth, beauty and dress in
the British Empire. Miserable as
these people have been always, their
misery is a thousandfold more intensi-
fed by pauper immigration. Great
Britain has established no barrier, as
we have, and imposed no rules what
ever. 1t is the dumping ground for
all Europe for misery which must
starve or go somewhere. 1t goes to
London and competes there with
condition so much better than its own
that in the wages it accepts, in the
work it does, it is reducing the British
workingmen and working women of
the great cities to a dangerous point
for British peace and prosperity. 1t is
a lesson for us to take to ourselves,
whether the barriers which we have
already should not be increased, and
whether notices should not be sent all
over the world that ''we have SYM
pathy, we have humanity, but keep
your paupers at home"
The description is more striking
than that presented in the article
above referred to, and more valuable,
in that it presents the wealth of that
part of London situated northwest of
Westminster in contrast to hepoverty
of the eastern portion. But there is
nothing in his picture of the White
chapel district that will encourage the
free trade propaganda as a method of
reducing immigration to this country.
AS matter of fact we must either
continue to stand The strain of max
ing good and successful citizens out of
the failures of Europe, in the future as
in the past, or else shut such failures
out of the country by legislation.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29
PUT UP THE BARRIERs.

The suggestion of the newspapers of
British tendencies that United States
Ihad better reduce its tariff so as to keep
out undesirable immigrants by in
creasing the wants of its countrymen,
is best answered by what Hon.
Chauncey NJ. Depew recently saw
while in eastern part of London:
1 traversed the Whiteeh hapel dis
trict. 1t was sight impossible to see
anywhere else in the world. The
streets were so crowded that it was al
most impossible to wedge your way
through. Every few feet was some
merchant, male or female, selling the
cast-of clothes or household furniture
which came to them after having
been worn or used through a dozen
different grades before it reached
WhitechapeI. I saw rags held up
there for sale that nowhere in Ameri-
ca would find any place except in the
ash barrel, and the ashman in picking
itover would refuse to carry it home.
Such poverty, such misery, such
wretchedness, such a seething fur
mace of ignorance and all the atten-
dants upon hopelessness, never saw
before and never expect to see again.
= felt that this great city, with its
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29
They Didn't Get the Horses.

Michael o. Hara, another of our towns
men, was interested in law suit at Potts
vile to-day. 1t seems that, some time ago,
the Lebanon Brewing Company placed a
team of horses in Mr.. O'Haras care. A
few days later A. Wolf, the horse jockey
and constable, together with W. A.
Mari, Esq, of Ashland, called at Mr..
o. Hara's stable to take the horses on an
attachment. Mr.. O'Hara refused to allow
them to take the animals and when they
persisted he warned them not to touch
them, and told the constable he was not big
enough to take them. Those who know
the stalwsrt Mike can readily appreciate
the situation. When he says mo" it may
be understood as mo" and those who will
not understand are liable to run up against
a physique which few mortals of ordinary
weight have desire to handle. So, it
seems, the constable concluded, and the
party left the stable without the horses.
They sought relief in a suit against o. Hara
for trespass.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-09-29
A BOARDER's HAUL.
He Skips With Two Hundred and
Sixty Dol ars.


A leet-footed Hungarian, running along
the Lehigh Valleg Railroad towards the
red bridge, and a stout, middle aged Hun
garian woman, plodding after him as fast
as her feet would carry her and gesticulat-
ing in a wild manner, attracted the atten-
ton of the residents at the east end of Coal
street yesterday aftorno n. AS an engine
came estward the woman waved her arms
and motioned for the engineer to run his
engine back, but her actions we're like so
much Greek to the engineer and he con-
tinued on his journey westward Mean
while the running man had turned from
the railroad in the direction of the Indian
Ridge colliery, with the woman after him.
Mich Folmer was on n knoll with gun
under his arm. Seeing the fleeing man APP
proach him and the excited woman in pur-
suit Mich. raised the gun and pointed it at
the fugitive who failed to take the bluff
and continued increasing the distance be-
tween himself and his pursuer. The
woman kept up the chase as far as the In
dian Ridge colliery, when she gave up ex-
hausted The man disappeared in the
direction of Yatesville.
The woman returned to her house in the
Hungarian settlement opposite Robbins
lumber yard When HERALD reporter
called at the house the woman was weeping
bitterly and wringing her hands in distress
She told this story: II haven two hunnen
sixty dollar in nine house. My husband at
work and mine boarder him slealen two
hunnen sixty dollar and go to Fowler's." ."