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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
ABANDONED AT SEA.
The British Bark Kate Sanction Left /
Go to the Bottom.

The British Bark Kate Sanction Left to
Go to the Bottom.
LONDON. Nov. 17.-News was received
here to-day that the British bark Kate
Sanction, Capt. Evans. which sailed from
Shields Nov. for Pensacola, was aban-
doned in sinking condition in the North sea
on Nov. IL. The vessel encountered
terrific gales and finally was strained so
much that the men could not keep her
ahoat, the water ponring in.
The men took to boats and had terrible
experience, nine dying of exposure. The
captain and three men were rescued by
passing vessel in pitiable condition and
brought here.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
AUGUSTUS EXPOSITION.

Ine hIFm mes5 AL N1GhJ Draws Mon
ster Crowd to Music Hall.
AUGUSTA, GA, Nov. 17-There were
1900 people on tho grounds and IN the
buildings OF the Augusta exposition to-day.
The,kirmess was presented tonight for the
first time in Georgia or South Carolina,
and thousands Of people packed into Music
hail. Two hundred prominent young peo-
pie Of the city participated In 1t. It will
be repeated Thursday night of this week,
and Tuesday and Thursday nights Of next
week
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
OFFICERS OF THE w. @. T. o.
Frances e. Willard Reelected Presi
dent of the Organization.

dent OF the OrGanization.
BosToN, MASS. Nov. 17.--At to~day's
session of the worlds national Woman's
Christian temperance Union convention
Frances E. Willard was reelected presi-
dent; Mrs, Mary A. Woodbridge was elected
recording secretary; Mrs. Caroline E. Buell.
Of Chicago corresponding secretary and
head of the department of organization, and
Miss Esther Pugh OF Chiosgo treasurer. A
number OF reports were presented.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
KNIGHTS OF LARoR.
The General Assembly Finishes the
Work Before 1t.

Work Before 1t.
TOLEDO, o.. Nov. 17.-After prolonged
session, extending long into the evening,
the delegats to the Knights Of Labor gen.
eral assembly were able to adjourn sine die.
A resolution was adopted asking that
morocco be placed on the free list, the man
facturers being engaged in fight TO destroy
the workingmen's organization.
Resolutions were adopted against the con-
vict labor system.
The next assembly will probably be held
at Hot Springs, Ark, though the board has
the choice of Rochester and New York.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
TWO FIRMS Burned Out.

MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, Nov. IL. - The
wholesale houses of tie Minneapolis Glass
Company and Lindsay Bros, agricultural
implements, were burned this morning.
The loss Is nearly 100000.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
Austria ana Our Pork.

VIENNA, Nov. 7.-It is expected that
Austria will 10 few days repeal the prohi-
bition on the importation of American
Taork
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
RUssIA's oRY FoR FOOD.
A Central Committee to Control the
Distribution OF Relief

a Central Committee TO Control the
Distribution OF Relief
ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 17.-Reports from
the ADMINISTRATION districts of the empire
continue to show the despair and suffering
entailed upon the poorer classes by the
scarcity Of food. The government is
fully alive to the exigenciee
Of the situation and ia doing
everything in its power to help the suffer
ers. Presents OF money, provisions aud
clothing given to aid the sufferers are un-
der control of different organizations,
which work Independently of each other.
The government believes that tho end
sought will be better and more quickly at
tanned, aud with less waste and friction, IL
all the work of distribution is in the hands
of one committee.
A CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
With this object in view the government
will appoint a central committee, OF which
the czarowitz will DO president. to supervise
the entire machinery for the relief of the
famine sufferers. Separate relief orgaDiza-
tions will not be disbanded or curtailed 10
their operations, but all of them will be
subject to the control OF the central COM
mittee. The soldiers of the Odessa garrison
have voluntarily asked that the daily bread
rations issued to them be reduced one-third
for the benefit Of the starving people in the
famine-stricken districts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
India's New Under Secretary.

LONDON, Nov. 17.--Nathaniel Cursor has
been appointed successor to Sir Edward
Gorst as under secretary for India.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
FLAMES IN A TENEMENT.

Many Lives Endangered, But None
Lost. Owing to Prompt Rescue Work.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-Fire broke out at
O'Clock this morning in row of wooden
tenement houses beginning at No. 12O Nos
trand avenue, Brooklyn. The flames were
discovered by Officer John Stewart, who
first alarmed the inmates and then turned
in an alarm at the nearest box. His prompt
action doubtless saved many lives, as eight
buildings were soon ablaze, all of which
were occupied but one.
A HEROIC RESCUE.
Fireman Owen Smith of truck No Q made
a heroic rescue of Mrs Anne Bowen. 81
years Of age. and John and Edward Ash
worth, sons OF Thomas Ashworth. They
were found In their beds unconscious from
smoke, and were carried by the brave fire.
man from the fourth story of No. 100 to the
ground. They were removed to st. Cath
crimes Hospital, where they recovered CON
sciousness. They will recover, unless pneu-
monia sets in. which is thought likely. Wild
rumors were circulated of whole families
being lost in the fire, but the rumors proved
groundless. The loss on the buildings is esti-
mated at $50, 1000. with insurance sufficient
to cover the loss.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
VIENNA's WAR SCARE.


VIENNA, Nov. H.--At a meeting of the
budget committee yesterday Count Kalnoky
assured the committee that the emperor's
speech, referred to by the 1dQeblatt, ought
30 cause no uneaslness; that although the
emperor drew attention to the contradic-
tion between the preparations for war and
the talk OF peace the government hoped
that the problem presented by
the strained situation would find
q peaceful solution. Count KaInoky
repeated positively that Austria had no de.
signs on the Balkans. In the lower house
OF the Reichsrath several members had
asked what the government proposed to do
about the 1dgebJatt publication. 1t was
dangerous, he said. to interfere with such
mixed and stubborn races. He announced
that the zollverien treaties would be dis
cussed by the Austrian and Hungarian
governments conformity In December.
Count Won Taafe. the Austrian prime
minister, said the matter had been placed in
the hands Of che public prosecutor. aud that
official was taking preliminary steps to
prosecute the authors of the alarming re-
ports which had such bad effect upon the
hourRe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
GERMAN WAR ON RUSSIA.

A Claim That the War Party at Berlin
Has Gained the Upper Rand.
ST.. PETERSBURG. Nov. 1.-THE Nouostt
declares that the financial crisis In Berlin
has developed q political crisis that the war
party has gained the upper hand and that
the prudent Bismarcirian policy has been
forgotten in frantic desire to strike Russia
10 moment of weakness.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
A Frozen Well

Even scientists are not free from per-
plexities, and nature is constantly re-
vealing something to cause them study
and doubt. Perhaps one of the most
marked examples of this is found in the
phenomena presented by a well at
1akutsk, Siberia. As long ago as 1893
q Russian merchant began to sink this
noted well, and, after working on it for
three years, gave it up as a bad job
having at that time sunk it to a depth
OF thirty feet without getting through
the frozen ground. He communicated
these facts to the Russian Academy OF
Science, which sent men to take charge
q the digging operations at the Won
derful well, These scientific gentle
men tUiled away at their work for sew
efal years. but abandoned it when a
depth of $50 feet had been reached.
with the earth still frozen as hard as 3
rock. In 1913 the academy had the
temperature OF the soil at the sides OF
the well taken at various depths. From
the data thus obtained they came to the
startling conclusion that the ground
was frozen to depth exceeding 6.O0C
feet. Although it is known to meteor.
OlOgists that the lowest known temper
ature is in that region of Siberia, it is
conceded that not even that rigorous
climate could force frost to such great
depth below the surface. After fig
uring on the subject for overa quarter
ola century, biologists have at last
come to the conclusion that the great
frozen valley of the Lena river was de-
posted. frozen just as it is found today,
during the great grinding-up era Of the
glacial epoch. Eight hundred and
eighty-two feet of frozen soil might
well stagger the scientific investigator,
for it violates all the preconceived ideas
of the condition and temperature of the
interior of the earth. The conclusion
reached is probably the correct one,
the length of time it required
to reach it leads to the impression that
there may be some uncertainty about
yet.-Mancheste Union.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
Availability.

The final test to which an idea should
be put is its use. BY this is not meant
that of each thing the question must be
asked and answered affimatively, will
it bake bread?" Bread is necessary to
the body. but man does not live by
tant than the body, and the spirit far
GRANGE OF flower gives pleasure to the
senses. 1t has its use. The fine senti-
ments Of poem, the beautiful cOncep-
ton of a picture, the harmony express
ed by music, touch and arouse the loft
lest feelings of the mind and heart.
They are OF use. The use of a religion
is that it can adapt itself to the per-
sonal needs of every human being who
holds it: that 1t can enter every rela-
tion of life. making lives stronger,
purer, easier to live, and more helpful
to themselves and their fellow crea-
lures. The highest imaginings of NOR
alists which fail of this fall llfeless, be-
cause they are useless to mankind. To
the man who is Aopelessly lame, his
feet are foolish appeudages. If he can
never have power in his hands, they
might as well be cut OH. IL he Is dumb,
his tongue is only an ornament. If he
cannot make his brains do the mental
work required, he might as proftably
been born an idiot. And OF what use
is the heart that cannot treasure and
give sympathy and love? There are
very many magnifcently adorned and
practically useless hearts and minds and
bodies in this world Of ours-hsarts
which beat. and are dull and cold:
splendid minds, full of gorgeous chaotic
deas-shapely limbs, heavy and hand
some members inert, because they do
not arise and do the worlds work. To
an unprejudiced view it appears as if
very, very small amount Of body or
mind or heart, made available, is in
fnitely above this languishhg mass
which lies complacently waiting to be
admired by the people, to whom it is
entirely useless.-Harpers Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
The unnatrintfc nnnnsition.

There can be no doubt but that the
unfortunate plight into which this Beh-
ring Sea controversy has fallen is due
largely TO the Score or so of American
journals which have so unscrupulOusly
assaulted tie presidents policy. In are
cent letter our London correspondent
quoted a remark of Lord Sails
bury's. enioining upon the British pub
lie the policy of silence concerning in
ternational affairs I'VE must do our
utmost" he said. that our expression
of opinion on foreign affairs should be
as little tainted as possible with party
prepOsSessions. because words that are
uttered with but slight effect at home
have an intense effect abroad" In no
negotiation has the truth of this been
more sharply demonstrated than in the
Behring Sea discussion. and at no point
more than in its latest phase. For two
months. and in despite or the fact that
the Tribune has repea odl made public
the truth concerning the progress of
the negotiation for a closed season,
these dishonest American papers have
almost daily asserted that the PROPOSAL
for il were first made by Lord Salisbury.
long deferred by Mr. Blaine, and finally
refused in the interest of the lessees-
They have brought Infamous accuses
tions against the secretary, even going
so far as to allege that he was in collu-
sion with the lessees to prevents closed
season at all risks. And Sir Julian
Pauncefote. knowing these statements
to be utter falsehoods, know that all the
proposals came from us and all the de-
laws from Lord Salisbury, gravely
transmitted them to the British For
eign Office as representative expressions
of American opinion, with the assur-
auce that Mr.. Blaine is being ''criti-
cised severely" and violently at
tackled" for not doing precisely what he
had done, and the British government
covered with praises for doing precisely
what it was neglecting to do. Sir Ju-
liam speaks OF these papers as ''Opposi-
ton journals" Certainly they are that,
but we do not charge them to the demo
cratic party The leaders of the DEM
ocracy, almost to a man. and for the
most part its press, have cordially sus-
tanned the government, and If the re-
suit OF the modus vivendi and of the
further negotiation for an arbitration of
the main issue is not in satisfactory
state when congress meets We shall look
for such hearty expression OF Ameri-
can sentiment as will leave no doubt
abroad as to the real sentiments OF the
American people.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
Our IDartistic CoIns.

In declining to cooperate with the
director OF the mint in an effort to i'm.
prove the character of the designs on
the United States coins the artists who
were invited to contribute designs in
competition have disappointed reason
able public expectation. This disagree.
ment between the artists and the gov.
eminent authorities is unfortunate, and
the more so because there does n OF
seem to be any real necessity for ii.
/ The claims Of the artists for more time
, in which to produce the designs and fC r
an award by an expert jury are quite
within reason. Such conditions could
well be granted, not as concessions 10
the artists. but as calculated to ulti-
mately secure better results. which
should be the only end aimed at in the
competition. On the other hand, the
objections to the compensation offered
and the suggested changes are less
likely to secure general approval The
payment of $500 for each Ofthe accepted
designs might be 4 small remuneration,
but it is not so far removed from the
actual value of the work that the pro-
ject should be permitted to lapse by
, reason of differences on that point alone.
The end that has been sought in pro-
jecting this competition appeals strong
ly to all patriotic citizens whose es-
thetic sense daily revolts at the sight OF
the ugly designs that distinguish. even
if they do not beautify, the subsidiary
coins OF this country. In this particu-
lar we are artistically behind all
other civilized nations, and that. too, uD-
necessarily. With the symbolical en-
blems that are available for this purpose
and with the eminent ability of our
artist designers, we ought to have as
handsome coins as exist anywhere in
the world. For half a century or more
this agitation against our absurd coin
designs has been going on. Nearly that
length of time ago a vigorous critic of
that day inveighed against our eagle as
IAN pathological curiosity, a sprawl
ing. stradling. ungainly. graceless thing
which any schoOlbOy who had ever seen
bird of any kind should be ashamed
to draw" and declared of the figure of
Liberty that lit is so badly drawn that
it becomes perfectly ridiculous and be-
meath criticism" Time has sersed to
impress us only more forcibly with the
justice OF such structures. II anything.
the ungainly bird with shield plastered
on his bosom and the badly drawn Lib
erty are more offensive to good taste
now than ever they were, for as a peO-
pie We have progressed in art knOwl-
edge. There is danger that the long
desired change may be further delayed,
or, if brought about, may not be of a
character that will show satisfactory
improvement over what now exits.
When such men as Messrs. Ward.
st. Gaudens, French, Warner. Mich
aus, Adams. MacMonnies, Cox, Low and
Mowbery decline to enter into this
competition 1T leaves the field open for
other designers less able and from
whom less worthy work can be with
certainty expected. Such an outcome
OF the affair is not agreeable TO contem-
plate. There ought to be some way of
averting it.-New York Recorder.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
Origin of the Moon.

When the earth was young, says DR..
Ball, astronomer royal for Ireland, it
went nound so fast that the day was
only three days long. The earth was
LIQUID then, and it spun around and
around at that fearful speed and as the
sun causes ever increasing tides upon
its surface it at last burst in two. The
smaller part became the moon, which
has been going around the earth ever
since at an increasing distance. The
influences of the moon now rises tides
on the earth, and while there was any
LIQUID to operate on in the moon the
earth returned the compliment.-Irish
Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
Tn. world. Fair IN chicago.

Rumors ere again afloat derogatory
to the management of the worlds fair
enterprise in Chicago. 1t is estimated
that the commission has lost much
, time in squables over innumerable
questions, and that it will be impossi-
BILE to have the exhibition ready for
the opening in 1893. We are inclined
10 think that these reports spring main
ly from interested and selfish sources
persons who have been disappointed by
not being accorded what they imagined
to be their due share in managing the
enterprise, or those who have been
denied certain favors by the directory.
There have been delays and long dis
cussions over preliminary steps. but
they have probably facilitated. rather
than hindered, the main object by
familiarizIng the management with the
vastness OF the undertaking and the de-
tails necessary to make it a success.
The project is developing all the time,
and had the management rashly begun
work with an imperfect knowledge of
their responsibilities much of it would
have had to be undone, with a greater
loss OF time and money than delay will
cause. In matters OF this sort COM
prehensiye grasp OF the scheme. COM
bined with an accurate knowledge of
details. is absolutely necessary, and
this can only be gained by patient and
persistent study and labor When this
Is once mastered. the execution of the
plan can 60 on with surprising rapidity.
The managers, FOR instance, had not I'M
til recently an idea of the part to be
played in the exhibition by foreign
countries or the individual states of our
own country, and it would have been
folly to unfold plan in which these
factors were not ascertained with
some approach TO accuracy. They now
know fairly well what foreign countries
will do, and they have q significant in
tlmatlOn of the intentions of the indi-
vidual states of the Union by the ap-
propriatiOn of Sl.70O,000 up to date,
which will probably be increased to
$1,000, 900 by the time all of the state
legislatures have had chance to act.
The managers are now assured of all
the money they need and the vexatiOus
preliminary problems having been
solved. the problem being TO proportion
the number of laborers to the magni-
tude of the undertaking and the time
in which it must be DONE The people
OF Chicago, We are pursuaded, fully
measure up to the requirements of the
occasion, and the public can rest easy
In the calm confidence that the Column
bus exhibition of 1893 will be the most
magnificent the world has ever wit
nessed.-BaltimOre American.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
A War Mystery.

The appearance of William Newbv, as
of one risen from the dead, nearly thir-
ty years after some one supposed to be
he had been buried in the Shiloh
trenches. is one of those sporadic events
that simplify the horrors of war more
wildly than the flames OF burning cities
or the flash of many cannon. Such ma
jestic events have the grandeur of trag-
edy, but the return of this crazed and
hungry wanderer has in il only the ele-
ment of horror.
Who was buried at Shiloh never will
be known. Newly himself was captur-
ed. not killed. at Shiloh: and at the
time of the surrender was 50 demented
by hunger, feebleness, and the irrita-
tion Ola skull wound received at Shiloh.
as to have forgotten his regimental
number, the place of his home, and
even his personal identity. For at least
quarter of century the wretched
hero wandered from pOor-house to poor
house, from village to village, a pauper
lunatic with chains upon no county or
city. BY what miracle of Providence
his steps at last were directed home
ward does not yet appear. but that he
was recognized and welcomed BY his
faithful wife is certain. Then began the
slow process of military Identification
for the purpose of securing his dis
charge as a preliminary to application
for the pension which his sufferings
have earned. A witness has been
found who knew him as an insane guest
OF the prison of Andersonville, and now
the six members OF the old Fortieth
Illinois are to be called upon to identity
the living body of the comrade whom
they believed that they buried on the
sth day OF April, 1862. This true story
Is too improbable for use by the nov
eiist. and the sufferings of its hero have
been too horrible for portrayal on The
stage.-Inter-Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
Above the Average.

CHICAGO, June 15.-The Farmers
Review reports the condition of winter
wheat for the week as an average or
above IN all the winter wheat states
except Wisconsin, where only two
counties report an average.
Corn is doing well and reports an
average crop in all the states except
Kentucky and Michigan, where it is
not doing so well as states north.
Spring wheat is reported as thriving
in all states except Kansas, where I, is
fair.
Fruit in the northern sections of
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Michigan has been damaged by the
frosts. In other states it is in fine con-
iition.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-19
The senator. and Mr.. Cleveland

Democratic senators who do not like
Mr.. Cleveland for personal reasons are
opposing him publicly on account of his
declaration against silver. We give in
a special dispatch from Washington to-
day the views of two senators whose in,
fuence will count. They profess to be.
lieve that to nominate Mr.. Cleveland
for president the great democratic or,
ganization will have to repudiate its
principles.
That may be true, but has that al
ways been stumbling block? Have
not the democrats for thirty years
sought candidates for president who
have represented in their own past
some views wholly outside the party:
Has not this reputation, Of simon
pure democratic candidates and princi-
pies often been deemed necessary to the
party to win strength and votes from
the other side? Think Of Mcclellan,
Greeley, Hancock, and finally Cleye-
land.
Give the democrats a C>-.Ididate with
whom they think they can win and they
are apt to fit the platform to him. II
Mr.. Cleveland is not again nominated
for president it will not be for lack OF
confidence in his ability to carry New
York, and without New York;s electo-
raj votes the Democrats caEnot regain
the presidency. With New York even
they may lose. The prospect for them
Is not particularly bright, and little
grumbling at this time is pardonable.-
N V preSs