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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
THE WEST.

DIPHTHERIA is raging in Belleville,
Ill, and amounts almost to an cpl
demic 1t broke out in September, and
since that time its ravages have been
very severe
WILLIAM DEERISG & Co, reapermen,
have caused a warrant to be issued in
Omaha, Neb., for Charles W. Keith,
their manager and general agent for
Iowa and Minnesota, charging him
with embezzlement The amount of
his shortage is not known.
THE Union Pacific has offered re-
ward of 81, 600 for the arrest of the mis-
the wreck of the fast Denver passenger
train at Julesburg, Col.
The oath of Office has been admin
istered to Ira j. Chase, of Danville,
70 succeed the late Gov. Hovey, of
Indiana
C. w. WILLIAMS, the horseman and
traekman of Independence, Ia, pro-
poses to give $500, 900 for trotting and
pacing races next summer.
IN Coldwater, Mercer county, O.,
masked women whipped four disreput-
able females severely and ducked one
in freezing water.
Two school children are dead and the
teacher and fifteen pupils in public
school in Clinton county. Ind, are crit
ically i'll from drinking poisonous well
water.
THE last services over the remains of
the late Gov. Hovey, of Indiana, were
held at Mount Vernon, that state, on
the nth Gov. Ira J. Chase preached
the funeral sermon.
PETITIONS have been fled in the cir
cult court in Chicago to wind up and
dissolve the Chicago Mutual Life Bene-
fit association and the North American
Mutual Benefit association on the
ground that they have been conducting
their business in a fraudulent manner
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

TIE horticulturists of the country
are after fifty acres of space in Jackson
park for the worlds fair exhibit
IL family quarrel in Milwaukee,
August Kaelpin shot dead William
Kaska, his son-in-law.
RoBERr ]. WALKER, son of Mayor
Walker, of Helena, Mont, and said to
be nephew of James G. Blaine, while
delirious walked out of his window on
the second floor of a hospital at Ia
coma, Wash, and was killed.
THE plant established by the owners
of the Michigan mine at Ishpeming for
the separation of iron ore by electricity
has proved a success The works have
SO far turned out 80, 900, 900 tons of high
grade bessemer ore.
THE heirs of w. B. Ogden, first mayor
of Chicago, have broken his will be-
queathing 1921, 900 to charities so far as
New York property is concerned.
An engine on an extra freight blew
up on the Cleveland, Akron & Column
bus road two miles south of Akron, O.
John Byron, engineer, and George
Parker. fireman, were instantly killed.
JOCKEY CASH SLOAN was ruled off at
Garfield park, Chicago, forriding Bank
rupt to lose. The track was covered
with snow and heavy.
DAVID T. BEALs, a child two years
old, stolen by woman known as Liz
zie Smith at Kansas City, Mo-, was re-
stored to its parents on the payment of
$1,000 and no questions asked. The
police, however, arrested the woman
and it was stated her confederates
would also be arrested
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.


CONGRESSMAN BYNUM of Indiana, has
withdrawn from the speakership con-
tesa Mr.. Crisp counts 114votes certain
on the first ballot, but the others are
confident
The national committee has issued
the call for the convention at Mime
apolis June and has put the entire
control of the business in charge of the
executive committee.
The secretary of the interior has re-
ferred to the commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office the request of men,
Der of the Minnesota legislature that
5000, 900 acres at the headquarters of
the Mississippi, Red and Rainy Lake
rivers be set aside for a national park.
HERR KNAPP Won LIvERHoFF, secre-
tary of the Austrian legation at Wash
ington, who had been in Vienna on
leave, attempted suicide by shooting
himself with a revolver.
SECRETARY FOSTER is better. His
appetite is good and he is able to sit up.
A WASHINGTON report is that Assist
ant Secretary of War Grant is likely to
be promoted to Secretary Proctor's
place.
A DELEGATION of Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe Indians was in Washington late
" relative to the payment of S250,O0O
which is about due to these tribes. The
purpose of the delegation is to secure
its payment in money and not in goods
of various kinds, as proposed by Secre-
tary Noble.
SAMOAN Land Commissioner II. C.
Ide, who has just returned from those
islands, reports that hostilities may
break out at any moment Mataafa is
the disturbing element Many chiefs
have been declared rebels.
UNITED STATES consular officers
throughout France, reporting as to the
prospects of the worlds fair in the sew
eral districts, state that the feeling of
the people is one of Indifference and in
one or two districts where the McKin-
ley law presses most severely feeling
akin to hostility is manifested.
SUsPENDING the orders for the gen.
eral court martial convened for the
trial of Maj. C. B. Throckmorton, Sec
ond artillery, indicates that the major
may be given an opportunity to resign
the service.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
Ennaeca,s EareMalI.

VALPARAISO, Chill, Nov % -Advices
from Rio Janeiro, Brazil state that
Fonseca, besides abdicating the dicta-
torship, has renowned his title of COM
mande--in-chief and retired to private
life. The papers are. however, de-
manding the impeachment of Fonseca
and also of his ministers on the ground
that they are responsible for the moneys
spent during the short-lived dictator
ship The governors of all the states
have proclaimed in favor of the new
president, Peixoto. 1t is rumored that
the federal capital will be removed
from Rio de Janeiro to Nictheroy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

THE brig Tahiti has been found float
ing bottom up at sea. She had a crew
of twenty men and 271 Gilbert island
ers under contract to work in Mexico,
all of whom were supposed to have
been drowned.
SEVEN persons were killed by a
wreck on the Lake Shore near Toledo,
O., on the night of the 2Sth. Many
others were injured.
THE jubilee of Archbishop Kenrick
commenced at St Louis on the Goth,
to continue throughout the week. 1t
was a notable event in ecclesiastical
circles and was attended by church
|dignitaries and laymen in large num-
bers from all parts of the country.
A SUPPOSED lunatic fired at Rev. DIR.
John Hall, the Presbyterian divine, as
he passed from his church to the par
Isonage at New York on the Goth. 1t
was narrow escape for the clergyman.
The assassin was arrested and proved
to be John G. Rath, German, aged IS,
in the real estate business.
The 500 elevator at Escanaba, Mich.
has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
S25O,OOO.
TRACY. Mimi, has been seriously
hurt by fire. All the buildings between
Third and Fourth streets, on Front,
except the State bank, were destroyed.
SECRETARY BLAINE's physician says
he is now in good health and will be
yet better six months hence.
TJr animal Of far
Noble of the interior department is
made public. He deals with many mat
tiers of interest to the west
THE annual report of the interstate
commerce commission is almost ready.
1t will give statistics of vast interest to
railroad men and the general public.
THE European stock markets are re-
ported firmer than for some time. In
London the situation is especially
good.
FRIGHTFUL excuses are reported to
have been committed by the Chinese
during the latest outrage Children
were roasted alive; nuns horribly mall
treated, and a priests tongue and heart
torn out
known as Land Bill Allen, the origin
ator of the homestead act died at the
county infirmary near Columbus, o.,
aged IS. He had spent fortune in the
interest of the bill of which he claimed
to be the originator.
RICHARD P. HAMMOND, member of
the board of police commissioners of
San Francisco, died recently after a
long illness He was born in Mary
land, was West Point graduate and
served with distinction in the Mexican
war.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
THE RUSSIAN FAMINE.

The Distress Fatal to Large Numbers
Little Hope for the Future.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 26.-News
from the famine-stricken districts of
Russia does not take from the horrors
of the condition that now confronts
thousands upon thousands of the cars
subjects What the outcome of the sad
state of affairs will be no one can pre-
dict, and it will be bold statistician
who attempts to estimate the number
of deaths that will result from starva-
ton and cold during the coming winter.
The area affected by the famine COM
prises section equaling in size nearly
half the area of the United States, and
a very low estimate places the popula-
ton of this part of the country at four
million souls.
The government provided for the dis
tribution of large quantities of seed
grain in the distressed provinces, but
the distribution Of the grain has been
greatly delayed through various cir
cumstances, not the least of which is
The extreme difficulty of transporting
anything, particularly at this season Of
the wear, 10 SOIuc VI Illc IuOTc uASbdub
provinces In many districts no winter
sowing whatever has been done. and
consequently the inhabitants have
nothing to look forward to, even
should they be so fortunate as to
manage to sustain life throughout
the winter The only hope that
they will be able to exist throughout
the coming winter lies in the fact that
the government is taking the most en-
ergetic measures to help the sufferers,
and it is believed that under the direc-
ton of the new central famine commit
tee, of which the czarewitch is presi-
dent the methods of relief will be more
systematic and effectuaL In some
provinces the grain given by the gov
eminent has reached its destination,
but it has been so long delayed on the
way that its arrival was too late to
benefit any OF those for whom it was
intended.
Enfeebled by their long abstinence
from nourishing food, hundreds Of peo-
pie could not stand the cold, which at
this season of the year is very intense,
and persisted miserabiE.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

Both the method and results whena
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant.
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys.
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys--
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual-
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the,
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its;
effects, prepared only from the most.
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend il
to all and have made it the most.
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 5Ocs
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO. Gil.
LOUISVILLE. kY. EEW YoRk. M
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
Cloud Cracker Melbourne.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 26.-ClOud
Cracker Frank Melbourne. who was
credited by local committee with
making rain by his secret process here
in September last, sends Cheyenne
papers denial He says he is in no
way identified with the Goodland (Kan.
company that announces the purchase
of an interest in his invention Mel
bourne saws he has no fixed plan of
sale yet but will give the government
the first chance. Next summer he will
experiment on Wyoming desert that
has known but six rains in seven years.
The place is near Rock Spring, on the
main line of the Union Pacific.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
Failure at New York.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2S-Edward NJ
Field, Daniel A. Lindley, John Freder
lex Wischers and Herman c. Wilmus
composing the firm of Field, Lindley.
Wischers & Co., bankers and brokers
at No 1 Broadway, assigned to-day te
Charles w. Gould. without preference
The failure was due to the advance il
corn
Numerous reports were afoat placing
the firms indebtedness all the way from
500, 900 to 81, 500, 900, but no correct
statement could be secured through the
office of the firm, which was thronged
during the entire afternoon by people
clamoring for information.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

The Louisville & Nashville inspect
ing party has finished its work and re-
turned to Louisville.
The Chicago & Northwestern shows
no disposition to recede from its posi-
ton in regard to switching charges
The regular annual attempt to make
an iron-clad agreement to limit free
transportation is now being made by
the railroad companies
A conference on import rates and
rates for New Orleans to the northwest
was held at the Southern hotel, St
Louis, by a committee representing the
Western Freight association lines.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

Right Rev. Fenton DIR. j. j. KEANE-
Mendweiler oficiated at St Anthony s
church, Bishop Bonacum at st. Pat
rick's and Bishop Spaulding at the
Immaculate Conception. .....
The celebration which began yester-
day morning will be In keeping with
the noble character of the venerable
and venerated prelate. No event in
the Catholic church in America has
brought together as many distinguished
dignitaries. All the church's eccle-
siastics were present. and his holiness
has sent presentation with gift. In
St Louis the interest has not been con-
fined to Roman Catholics Many promi-
nent citizens of all creeds have given of
their time and means to aid in making
the occasion one of the grandest of its
nature ever witnessed.
The Christian Brothers gave an enter
tainment in honor of the Most Rev.
Archbishop Kenrick at their college.
Various prelates and churchmen were
present The entertainment was of q
musical and literary character. and was
given under the direction of the Ken
rick Literary Society. Music was
rendered by the college orchestra, and
several essays were read After the
recitation of an ode by Mr.. Griswold
Smith entitled, Our Archbishop" the
orchestra concluded the exercises with
the jubilee march.
Archbishop Ireland's lecture at Music
hall last night was prominent feature
of the festivities. The distinguished
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

is known to polltl-
clans by reason of the vast influence he
yields; to the Grand Army through the
ties of loyalty and comradeship; to the
temperance man by his unflinching
stand for the principle of total absti-
nence, but above all he is known to the
workingmen, to whose cause he has
devoted much of the energy of his mind
and the eloquence of his tongue His
subject was, 1.-The Church and the
Workingmen. A feature of additional
interest was the fact that Cardinal Glib
bons attended the lecture. He was in
troduced to the audience and occupied
a seat on the stage. At the close of the
lecture the cardinal and Archbishop
Ireland held an informal reception
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04


enlisted when the war broke out but
owing to i'll health was honorably dis
charged.
Returning to Darlington he started a
hardware store. A year or two later
his wife was Frustrated with the small
pox, and as she was the only victim in
the town their house was Stunned by
their neighbors and Mr.. Chase's
business was ruined. He attended upon
his wife constantly, and after terrible
experience, lasting five months, she
arose from the bed blind and crippled.
After his unfortunate venture in BUSH
ness Mr. Chase became minister of
the Church of Disciples and has been
preaching for twenty-one years In
1856 he was elected commander of the
Indiana department of the G. A. r
aud this brought him into prominence
politically. During his term he was
nominated as the republican candi-
date for congress in the Fifth dis
trict but was defeated by Matson,
whose majority, however, was reduced
from 1862 to 543. His nomination for
lieutenant governor in 1888 was with
out opposition. 1t has been understood
for some time that he would be cam
didate next year for governor and his
succession to the office will now doubt
less strengthen his claims on the nomi-
nation
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
August
Flower

Perhaps you do not believe these
statements concerning Green's Au--
gust Flower. Well, we can't make.
you. We can't force conviction in
to your head or med
Doubling icine into your
throat. We don't
Thomas. want to. The money
is yours, and the
misery is yours; and until you are.
willing to believe, and spend the one.
for the relief of the other, they will
stay so. John H. Foster, II2z
Brown Street, Philadelphia, says:
"My wife is a little Scotch woman,
thirty years ofage and of a naturally
delicate disposition. For five or six
years past she has been suffering
from Dyspepsia She
Vomit became so bad at last
that she could not sit
Every Meal. down to a meal but
she had to vomit it
as soon as she had eaten it. Two
bottles of your August Flower have
cured her, after many doctors failed.
Shecan now eat anything, and enjoy
it; and as for Dyspepsia, she does not
know that she ever had it" g
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

o'clock yesterday
afternoon when a
strange man pre-
sented himself at
the residence of Mr..
Beals and requested
Fan interview with
= h at ge n tie man.
j There was nothing
remarkable in this.
1t was a thing that
had been going on
all day. Notes, mes
sengers, special de-
livery letters and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

conner strobe across DAVID T. BEALS.
the threshold, back through the small
hall, into the main hall and deposited
in the arms of the almost fainting
mother her boy.
Not word was spoken A gasp from
the father, an exclamation of unutter-
able astonishment pleasure, pain and
gratitude from the mother was all that
served to break the stiffness Of the
night
One part of the contract was fulfilled
the child was restored-another part
remained to be carried out The ran
some was to be paid. 1t was quickly
done. AS soon as his arms were re.
lieved of their precious burden they
were extended for the reward.
Then for the first time was the mans
face seen. 1t was the same man who
had consulted with Mr.. Beals during
the afternoon The reward was paid.
Five thousand dollars in notes were
handed the man.
Subsequently Lizzie Smith," the
servant who disappeared at the time of
the abduction, and Albert King, the
man who rented the house near the
Beals residence, were located and ar
rested by the police. They proved to
be crooks passing for man and wife
who had served a term in the Colorado
penitentiary and were only released
last August.
1t fell to the lot of Police Captain
Burns to supplement the return of the
child with the arrest of the woman who
has been the instrument by which I'M
told misery was sent into a happy
household and an entire community
wrought up to the highest pitch of ex-
-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
THE BABY RESTORED.

The Kidnapped Child of Banker Beals Re-
stored to It's Parents Upon the Payment
of a Heavy Ransom-The Supposed Kid
napers Arrested.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Nov. 2S-At 10
o'clock last night, thirty hours after
his abduction, little David T. Beals, Jr.,
was returned to the home of his par
ents and the ransom of S., 900 paid.
The beginning of the end was at 8
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

FROM the AIldnIlc
to the Pacific and
from the lakes to
the gulf, dignitaries
and laymen of the
Catholic church in
America have come
to celebrate the
achievements of a
,great mans life.
! Yesterday began
I the celebration of
I the golden jubilee
of Peter Richard
Kenrick, bishop and
r Al,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

prelate is one OF
the most forcible
speakers in the
Catholic church. All
sorts and conditions
of men were anX-
ious to hear and see
the prince of the
church, whose name
has become a by
word in American
public life, and
therefore the hall
was crowded He
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

49, 49, 80 ~Aa@ - .
and Father Head,
t h c p a S t o r,
preached. Bi S h o p
Ryan, of Buffalo,
n. Y, offciated at
S t. Vim c e n is
church, Arch bishop
Katzer, of Milwau-
kee, at Peter and
Paul's, and Bishop
Fink at st. Mary's
Bishop Bourke, of
G n e y e n n e, and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
KENRICK'S DAY.
Grand Ecclesiastical Event in the
City of ST. Louis.
ARCHBISHOP EENRICK'S JUBILEE.
Church Dignitaries of the Highest in At
tendance The Various Catholic Pull
pits Filled With visiting Blsho ps
and Archbishops.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 3O.-Of all the days
in the calendar year, yesterday was the
day of days for the Roman Catholics of
the United States. From the Atlantic
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

ARCHIE KENRICK arcnDlSnOp OF lhe
archdiocese of ST. Louis for the past
fifty years. Solemn services of thanks
giving were held in all the churches of
the city. In most of them the visiting
prelates pontifcated and sermons
germaue to the occasion were de-
livered by visiting orators At
the cathedral Right Rev. John
Hennessey, of Dubuque, pontifcated.
At St Johns church Archbishop
Ryan celebrated pontifcal mass, and
Bishop Keane, of Washington, preached
the sermon. At St Francis Xavier's
church Archbishop Janssens, of New
Orleans, said mass and Bishop Moore,
of ST Augustine, Fla, preached the
sermon. At St Alphonsus Arch bishop
Gross pontificated. Archbishop Fee
han, of Chicago, celebrated mass at St
Bridgets and Bishop Hogan, of Kansas
City, delivered an GRAFTON on Arch
bishop Kendrick. Bishop Hennessey,
of Wichita. Kan, pontificated at St
Leo's and Father Nugent of Cape
Girardeau, preached. Bishop Rode
macher, of Nashville. pontifcated
at St Joseph's church and the
sermon was delivered by Bishop
Marty, of Sioux Falls. Bishop Scanlon,
of Salt Lake City, celebrated high
mass at the Church of the Annunciation
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

THE STOLEN CHILD private detectives
by the dozen came to the house,
and the one inquiry was concern
ing the reward offered, and
whether or not the conditions of
the reward would be carried out faith
fully. This, inquiry was based upon a
notice published on the windows of the
Union National bank and elsewhere in
conspicuous places to the effect that
S.. 600 reward would be paid for the re-
covery OF the boy and no questions
asked.
1t was in relation to this latter clause
that most of the inquiries were made,
and particularly did the stranger dwell
upon this in his interview with Mr..
Beals yesterday afternoon. The man
was told that the offer was made in
good faith and that its conditions would
be sacredly observed
At 10 o'clock a man was heard to as
cend the stone steps of the residence.
One short. sharp peal from the cleo
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

trio bell and then
was heard the sound
of a child's voice.
Instantly the door
was thrown open.
wide back to give
ingress to so well
como a guest; well
come then. however
black his crime.
and with the step
of a soldier and the
assurance of a ben
efactor, the new
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
lNplANA.s New eovERnoR.

Sketch of Ira j. Chase. Who Succeeds Gov.
~ Hovey. t ~
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 27.-Ira ].
Chase, lieutenant-governor of Indiana,
who has been sworn into office to fill
out the term of the late Gov. Hovev.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

IS 81 years old and
was born in Mon
roe county, N Y.
In 1855 he located
on a small farm
Snear Darlington,
Sthirty miles from
sChicago. Later he
Staught school at
j e If e RS n, n o W
within the limits of
Chicago, and while
there married Miss
Rhoda ]. Castle, al
50 a teacher He