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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
A Horrible Confession.

St. Louis, March ia special from
Tacoma, Wash, says: A prominent
physician of this city has made start
ling and horrible revelation. Two
months ago he was called to the death
bed OF a Swede named Lars Peterson,
who made the following dying confess
sion:
Two years ago while working in the
Silverstone Packing house at Sioux
City, he killed a man named Larson
Harstrum while they were cleaning the
room and threw his body down the
chute among the earcasses killed that
day. Near morning he took the body
to the chopping blocks, cut it in pieces,
covered them with salt and ran them in
the cooling room among piles of pork
left there for months. He burned the
clothes in the furnace. He lived In
Sioux City two months after the murder
and then came TO Tacoma
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
The Peoples Party. Forthcoming War Cry.

Topeka, March 16.-The peoples
party in this state will lose no time in
getting before the voters the work
which they attempted to accomplish at
the session of the legislature which ad-
iourned last night. Thursday next
Speaker Elder will meet with the chair
man of the various house committees
and draft an address 20 the people. This
committee has been quietly at work for
some time and much of the subject mat
ter has been prepared. 1t will claim
than the granger house has saved the
people OF the state in round numbers
81, 10000
Speaker Elder, in a speech TO the
house yesterday afternoon. in substance
gave the main points to be advanced in
this address. 1t was. without doubt, the
best speech OF the session from an ALI
ance standpoint, and unless the repub-
licans can disprove it the grangers,
with Elder as their candidate for gov
ernor in 1892 will sweep the state. In
this speech Mr. Elder said:
Il have facts to show to the people of
the state in relation to the action of
this house which prove that it has
saved the people Of this state $250.OO0
by the stand its committee on ways and
means has taken. The ways and means
committee has stood between the senate
and the treasury OF this state through
out the whole session."
Continuing. Mr. Elder said that the
levy provided by the present ways and
means committee was three and seven
tenths mills against four and One-fOurth
mills for the levy Of the committee
which preceded il. representing saw
ing to the state OF $750.0O0. He said
that the appropriation of the present
legislature amounted to only 2.IOO, 900
against $3.GS3. 81 for the biennial
period provided for by the legislature
of 1883.
Concluding, Mr.. Elder said: Il want
to say OF the ways and means committee
and TO the people of the districts in
which they live that if God should
spare their lives, they ought to b.
10 the house that they may
resume their duties in the next legisla-
Jure."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
NEWS NOTES

Indiana has appropriated $4,000 for
its worlds fair exhibit.
a bill appropriating $4,000 for an
exhibit at the worlds fair was killed by
the South Dakota legislature.
J. Edwards Simmons, president of the
fourth national bank, has been appoint
ed receiver of the American loan and
trust company.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin pre-
diets that the wool clip the coming sea-
son will be 5000, 900 pounds short Of
what it was last year.
William II. Crawford, who is to hang
March IA at Decatur, H., for the MUIR
der of Mrs. Colonel Matthias, will make
a written confession to be published
after his death.
Warrants were issued for all the
officers and directors of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad, who
have been held responsible for the
recent Harlem river tunnel disaster at
New York by the coroner's jury.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
The House Agrees to the Report of the
Conference Committee.

Topeka, March 1.-THE house this
morning agreed to the conference com
mittee's report on the appOrtiOnment
and state printers bill. The appOrtiOn-
ment bill, as passed, was published at
the time OF its introduction, giving the
changes made.
MIR. Elder again explained his posi-
ton on the printing bill and .eclared
that he washed his hands of the re-
sponsibility. He was going to vote for
it because the alliance Legislators had
agreed to it. He said that Cliff Baker
had worked the senate while Snow had
worked the house and that there had
been an organized raid on the treasury.
THE peoples party must shoulder it.
said he, land God help them in the next
campaign"
Wilmington of Lincoln said that il
was the most shameful piece OF legisla-
ton the alliance had been called upon
to father. He was not one of those men
who cried reform in the campaign and
then did nothing to carry out his prom
ise5 because it pinched a man in his
own party. Under the circumstances
he was compelled to support the bill,
but he wished to raise his voice in pro
test
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

NJ. LUDOvIC DURAND, a Partisan
sculptor of note, wants to erect a collos-
sal statue Of Columbus at the Columbia
Fair. The figure to stand astride of
swo light houses surmounted by two
globes. The two light houses to repre-
sent the two ontinents-Europe and
America The cost is estimated at
100000. The idea is not altogether
new, being patterned after the Collossals
at Rhodes. one of the ancient "seven
wonders of the world"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

THE sight OF man forcing a lady
pedestrian into carriage, carrying her
10 his house. barricading the place
ainst her friends who follow to rescue
q: and who are prevented from doing
by the ''chief constable" is some
ng seen few days ago in great Lon
aTown." Thanks to a newer and
-her civilization and more equitable
and less arbitrary laws, it could never
be witnessed IN any city in free Amer
lea. Here, it would be as ridiculous
for man to forceably capture and de-
tain a woman whom he might claim to
he his wife, as for woman to abduct
and fmprison in her boudoir some man
whom she might lay claim to as being
her husband, In this country a woman
rs well as man may choose her COM
Es6uV.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
The Drought in Cuba.

New York, March 1.-THE latest ad-
vices from Cuba. dated March It'll, say
that the drought still prevails. Its eff
fects are most severely felt in the de-
partment of Santiago de Cuba. The
small rivers there are dried up and the
fields are parched and burned: Heavy
losses in cattle have already been sus-
tanned. owing to the extremely dry
weather, it being impossible for the ami
mails to get food and water.
The drought will materially interfere
with the sugar crop. the yield of the
cane being much reduced through lack
of rain. = The loss Of cattle, too, will az
feet the crop, oxen for labor in the
fields being very scarce.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
'OreigI.


A terrible blizzard prevailed through
out all England on the 10th.
Railroads were blOckaded. wires down.
wagon roads impossible and traffic and
general business almost entirely stopped.
Many vessels were lost with their
crews ana passengers.
Buenos Ayres' panic is considered
practically over. .Egypt's khediye
has issued decree of general amnesty
=. Bismarck 5 presence in the Reich
stag is now confidently predicted. 49,.
SPANS papers are declaring opposition
to Cubas annexation to the United
States. Spain will send 1000 troops
to Cuba. being alarmed at evidences of
discomfort there An Englishman, G..
II. Jackson. abducted his wife, who re-
fused to live with him, and still holds
her in his house. which the police have
no right to enter. Parliament Will
probably be invoked.
In the house of commons the seizure
and incarceration in a mad-hOuse of
rich Mrs Catncart. at the instigation
of her husband, has been declared legal.
BY his personal influence the En-
perOr William has succeeded in pre-
venting lllt uClNGlS III lliC LAIAN4 ASAO- VI
the government on the proposed addi-
ton to the navy. but this has only been
done by inducing some OF the members
TO abstain from voting. Professor
Franz Vok MikiOssich, the well-known
author and leader Of the Slavist party.
died in Vienna from brain fever. aged
IS years. The great tariff debate.
opening in the French chamber of
deputies next week, will probably last
until midsummer. VI. Turrel. one of
the ardent protectiOniSt deputies. says:
France is forced TO protect herself
against foreign prohibition. and es-
pecially against the United States. We
do not wish to attack anybody. The
English government is making ar
engagements to prOrogue Parliament
in July, not with a view OF dissolution,
but with the view Of reassembling in
November for final session before go
ing to the country. The French Sene-
gal expedition killed 500 blacks on the
Niger at the expense of eleven killed
In speech Mr.. Parnell threatened
to drive his enemies out of parlia-
ment and out of the country.
The French cabinet is said to be deVid-
ed on the question of forcing a war
with Germany. Dey Freycinet and
Constans favor war, while President
Carnot and Ribat are for peace. Ma
nv Russian and Polish Jews are on the
way to America to escape the prosecu-
tions of the car. They are being as
sisted by Baron Hirsch. They are
mostly in an impoverished state, but
their kinsman in America hope to be
able to get them through despite the
psuper labor law The ex-Empress
Eugene is physically and mentally q
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

4 CANVASS of the legislatures Of
minnesota and North and South Dakota
on presidential preferences shows that
Blaine has total of 164 votes, Cleve-
nd 90, and no one else more than 6 or
D. 3. Hill and President Harrison
wing and respectively. Blaine is
3 only man that cuts any figure
nong the republicans, and Cleveland
only man who can be said to be in it
among the democrats. The indepen-
dents have not agreed upon anyone, and
Eheir preferences cover a wide range.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
New way TO Raise Grain.

KANSAS CITY March f6.-The police
of ArmOurdale, Kansas, have unearthed
one of the biggest r0bberies ever known
in the vicinity of Kansas City. Since 6
o'clock last night about thirty men and
boys OF ArmOurdale have been arrested
in the Rock Island and Union Pacific
yards and stealing grain. The gang
after breaking open the car and taking
the grain would collect it until load
was secured and then hire dray to take
it to mill and sell it. 1t is thought
these operations have been carried on
for at least four months. 1t is impossi-
bic to estimate the amount of grain that
has been taken.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

BY the death of Colonel N. S. GOss.
the state of Kansas has lost one of its
bralniest and most useful citizens. The
last years of his life have been devoted
to the collection and preservation in
imperishable condition the birds of
Kansas and the western states. The
collection at tbs state house. shows the
intelligence and assiduity with which
be pursued his task.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

THE bill prohibiting aliens from own
ing lands tn Kansas is now a law of the
state. It provides that all alien owners
must sell their land within five years or
become citizens Of the United States.
In case they fail to do either their lands
will be sold, and after payment of costs,
the proceeds will be deposited in the
state treasury subject to the order OF
alien owners. The large amount of
land this law will put on the market
will be astonishing to those who have
not given the matter much attention.
One man alone, Lord Scully, owns about
81, 900 acres OF land in Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

A CcRONER'S jury held the directors
Of the New York, New Haven & Hart
0rd,railroad responsible for the Har-
lem river tunnel disaster, where a num-
Der OF persons lost their lives, and war
rants for their arrests were issued.
ehaaRer M. Depew happens to be one
N&tRs'Acscters, and gave So, 900 bonds
IS his appearance for trial. Cornelius
.SInaegbilt went on his bond for that
a7qrollnE,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

IN the Kansas legislature the coun-
try gentlemen from re "way back"
districts flip paper wajs at each other,
but the dignifed colonies who make
laws for Arkansas pass the spittoous
when under excitement. That is pre-
ferable TO the old fashioned and more
Heacious bowie-knife.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

A bill has been introduced in the
ew York legislature compelling all
er3ons legally entitled to vote 10 cast
ballot under penalty of punishment.
The New York Herald fiercely de-
ncunces it as a ridiculous piece of inter-
ference with a citizens right TO speak
out or remain silent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

P. T. SHERMAN, son of the late gen.
sral, wrote letter the other day to the
Sherman statue fund of New York City,
stating that his father had left the
family well provided for, and asked
them to rescind their resolution that
any surplus of the fund should be given
to the Sherman family. The committee
rescinded their action. The son has
the spirit of the father and does not
care to become a mendicant.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

THE Pacific squadron is TO be re-
er7iited with two new vessels, probably
thr Atlanta and Dolphin. At present
or fleet on that station consists of but
ne vessels, the Charleston, Iroquois,
II MOhican.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

AN excellent feature of the army APP
Eopriation bill passed by congress is
ae provision for the enlistment OF lat
asst two thousand Indians. It is the
belief of Secretary Proctor, General
Schofeld and other veteran army Off
GERS that this step will effectually in
sure the country against any more
Indian wars.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
Ahead Woman Found on 9 Train.

Seville, March 1.-THE dead oody OF
q woman was found on train which ar
rived tn this city this morning. Sne
had undoubtedly been murdered. Her
name is supposed TO Be Harrison and
she Il either an American or an English
woman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

IT has cost the people of Illinois $780,
600 to elect its United States senator
this year. This fact is being quoted as
an argument in favor of the election of
United States senators by the people.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20
Any,

Agent of Steamship Line Ito com.
planning passenger): Sir, you are a
regular crank I shall give you Q wide
berth hereafterl Passenger: Well,
that's Just whst I wsnt-Columbis
Spectator.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

wreck and has ceased to cover the rava-
ges OF time with cosmetics. She was
insulted by the crowd in Paris after be-
ing mistaken for the Empress Fred
erick.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-20

HENRY WATTERsoN predicts the fall
Of Gov. Hill.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-09
The Art OF CHRISTMAS Giving.

1t has been nearly tw) thousan d
years ago since the first beautiful
Christmas gift came Oh earth, and it
was received with gladness and joy
by shepherd and king alike. To-day
IL memory of that, give you some
little tritle, because love you, but L
give it so uugraciously you scarcely
like TO take it, writes Ruth Ashmore
in the December Ladies' Home
Journal. a pretty way to send a
gift is to do it up in one of the color
ed tissue papers, tie it with the ex-
tremely narrow ribbon that can
be bought for few pennies, the whole
twelve yards, and so give your friend
the pleasure of untying the myster.
Gus box, of removing the pretty rib
bons and of coming to the surprise at
last, the something for which she has
longed for many a day. I know
women who has wanted a pincushion
for ten years, who in that time has
cotton two diamond bracelets and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-09

mum berable rings, but the long look
ed for pincushion has never come.
She still hopes for it, and believes
that this year will certainly bring it.
You say, "Why not buy it?,' Well
now, who ever bought a pincushion
without the intention of giving it to
somebody else?
Give with loving and full heart
and never, under any circumstances
give that which you begrudge. Such
gift will bear no fruit for you, not
even the honest fruit of thanks. You
can quote as many times as You want
that Unto him that hath shall be
given" and so it shall, because it is
just this way, my friend: You possess
the gifts of gentleness and gracious
ness, of politeness and of goodness,
and these are gifts that call each
others to them. If people are cross
and disagreeable there is very slight
inclination to wish them a Merry
Christmas: If they are irritable and
snappish nobody cares whet her they
are blessed with a Christmas present
or not, but unto her who hath the
graces that have cited, will certain
ly come basket full of gifts, Press
ed down, shaken together and run
ming over
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-09
STARVED HIMSELF TO DEATH

stratton, Who TASTED for a Purse
and to Beat Record, Is Dead.
From Bellevue hospital, New York
comes the news of the death of G..
Henry Stratton, the faster. He was
one of half dozen fasters with re-
cords who set out Oct 5, to fast fifty
days, at Huber's museum. The
others were: Collins, weight l44 IL
pounds; Sadabrams, weight 1873 ga:
Kirby, 1853 IL; Manning, 1852.
and Klenseh, 143 IL. Stratton
weighed go 1-2 pounds.
At the end of twenty days Stratton
was the only one left. He is said to
have taken nothing but water until a
week before he died, when the action
of his heart became so week, and he
vomited so eXhaustingly, that DIR.
Herald prescribed champagne at the
rate of three teaspoonfuls day. This
virtually ended the fast, as the con-
ditions were that only water should
ba taken. In spite OF the champagne
Stratton was in such bad condition
forty one days from the beginning OF
the fast, that the doctors insisted on
his taking nOurishment in the form
of food.
1t is alleged that he stuffed his
handkerchief into his mouth when
they tried to make him eat, saying
that he would not take anything SO.
lid until the fifty days had expired,
as he wanted to beat Succi's record.
They persuaded him to take some
cocoa, however, but in spite of the
nuurishment thus obtained he con.
tinued to fail rapidly until no died.
Straton lost fifty-three pounds in
the course of his fast. An autopsy
showed that the immediate cause OF
his death was alcoholic coma, due to
cerebral congestion, while a secou.
Diary cause was fatty degeneration OF
the heart.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-09
: A Cnse of Contcmnt.

Since the grand jury has been sent
to Jail for contempt of court story
reminds itself to us, told by railroad
lawyer about justice of the peace
who upon a most wrongful or spiteful
ruling was afterwards approached
on the streets by one of the sufferers
under his ruling, when the justice
quietly informed him to cheese it, OF
he would be fined tor contempt oil
court. When told the street was not
a courthouse, the judge, in the full.
ness of his authority exclaimed: 81
want you to know, sir, that am al
all times an object of contempt"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-09
THE SOUTH'S STEADY PRO
GRESS.
THE

The Manufactures Record, of Bal
timore, of December 5, in reviewing
| the industrial progress of the South,
says:
THE general growth of the South
goes on with no material change; bat,
| taking look over the whole field, it
will be seen that the progress which
is being made is OF the most substan-
| tial character, and that it will add
| vastly to the wealth and progress of
! this section. The Industrial growth
Is being supplemented by a most
astonishing rate of increase in foreign
trade from Norfolk, Newport News,
Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans
and Galveston. One after another
of the great manufacturing plants
that have been under construction for
the last IL or Is months are being
completed and going into operation.
The iron pipe works at Radford, Va,
will commence work about December
10 with some 400 hands; a new fur
mace has just blown in at New Birm-
ingham, Texas, making the third one
there; the furnace company at Jeffer-
son, Texas, will built q cotton tie and
rolling mill; work has been com
menced on the construction of ,000,-
600 bushel grain elevator at Calves
ton, Texas, and another of 500,0 900
bushels capacity will probably be
built; company has been organized
in London with a reported capital of
s., 900, 900 to purchase and develop
large mineral and timber properties
in the south; a 81 100000 company
has purchased 5000 acres of coal land
in West Virginia, and will develop
on large scale; a factory to make
fertilizers out of basic steal Stag is
being built in Chattanooga. Among
other enterprises reported for the
week are a $50, 1000 compress COM
pany at ThomasviIle Ga; 100000
compress company at Montgomery,
Ala; a $50, 900 electric light and flour
mill company in Texas; a $780,
phosphate company florida; a $50,
600 ice factory and machine-shop COM
pany at De Land, Fla a $50, 900
mining company at Salisbury, n. G.
water works at Milledgeville, Ga;
a $50, 900 ice and electric light COM
pany at Velasco, Texas; $50, 1000 lime |
works at Chattanooga, Tenn; $780, |
600 engine and machinery company
at New Orleans: q 100000 fertilizer !
company at Baltimore, etc.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-09
Mr.. Will Il SON.

Introducing DIR. Coulter's Vaporizer
and Inhaler, is stopping at the Men.
ger hotel.
He has been very successful in
bringing the instrument before the
medical profession, and as 1t is the
only real Vaporizer ever invented for
the vaporiZation of essencial oils and
drugs it is the greatest invention
known to science.
Testimonials have been pouring in
all over the country from physicians
who have used it in the treatment OF
catarrh, asthma, bronchitis, hay
fever, consumption and other
diseases of the nose throat and
lungs. Mr.. Robinson will take great
pleasure In showing and explaining
the instrument to any per-
son interested between the
hours of II and II, in the morning and
and in the afternoon.
The price of the instrument is ress-
enable, and it is sold only ON the
recommendation of your physician.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-09

F. Without. dwelling, Presa street,
7th ward, 5000.
J. Nehr, shed and chicken house,
West Commerce street, End ward.
H. CARA, dwelling and stable, San
Louis street, End ward.
Anton Hofacker, dwelling, Sherman
street, 9th ward.
G. Speiser, carriage house, Narp
street 7th ward.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-09
HAPPY BOOSTERS.

VIM. Timmons, Postmaster of Idavile,
Ind. writes: Electric bitterS has done
more for me than all other medicines
combined, for that bad feeling arising
from Kidney and Liver trouble" John
Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same
place, says: Find Electric Bitters to be
the best Kidney and Liver medicine.
made me feel like a new man." j. w.
Gardner, hardware merchant, same town,
says: Electric BitterS is just the thing
for a man who is all run down and don't
care whether he lives or dies: he found
new strength, good appetite and felt just
like he mad a new lease on life. Only SOC
a bottle at AdOlph DRESS, and Dreiss,
Thompson Il Co. l1-27