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The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Grand Army State Encampment.

The tenth annual encampment OF the
G. A. R. of Kansas met at Hutchinson
on the %. The city was handsomely
decorated and provided for every COM
fort of the guests. The attendance was
large. Several of the state officers ar
rived on the first day, among them Gov.
Humphrey and staff.
Department Commander Ira F. Col
| lins delivered his annual address In
which he severely criticised posts and
members of the order for taking action
in favor of aspirants for political hon.
ors and also criticised congress for its
action on the service pension bill. An
attack was made on these sections OF
the address and they were expunged
from the records.
for the ensuing year:
Department Commander, Timothy
Mccarthy.
Senior Vice Commander, Albert r.
Greene
Junior Vice Commander, George X.
Spencer.
Medical Director, D. Sedlinger.
The following delegates were chosen to
attend the national encampment in De-
trOiL:
At Large-W. B. Shockley.
First District-A. M. Russell OF VAL
ley Falls, J. A. Campbell.
Second District-Geo. p. Washburn
of Ottawa, ]. p. Hiner of Paola, w. A.
Johnson of Garnett.
Third District-Geo. w. Mckee of
Howard, C. C. Kincaid of Cherryvale.
Fourth District-J. B. johnson OF To-
peka, w. A. Morgan of Cottonwood Falls.
Fifth District-D.C.M Miller OF Manhat-
tan, d. C. Chapman of Minneapolis.
Sixth District-W. S. Tilton OF Os-
borne, E. d. York of Atwood.
Seventh District-Major J. r. Swig-
art of Hutchinson, w. A. Ogden of
Ness City, B. B. Eggleston of Wichita.
The following are the officers elected
by the w. r. c:
President--Mrs. Junlederman of
Wichita.
Senior Vice President-Mrs. o. L.
Moore.
Junior Vice President-Mrs. Straight
Treasurer-Mrs. Lund.
Chaplain-Mrs. Julia Chase.
Secretary-Lamor E. Myers of Wich-
ita.
Counsellor-Elizabeth Wharry OF To-
peka.
Inspector-Mrs. B. E. Pond of Fort
Scott.
A public installation was held at 3
o'clock in the afternoon. The dele
gates nearly all left for home this even
ing.
The encampment was the most sue
cessful ever held in the state dispite the
farmers are in the midst of the plant
ing season.
The encampment wound up with a
big campfire and able and patriotic ad
dresses by A. B. Campbell, Ben Simpson
and others.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
A Sketch of the Howell Case.

TRENTON, Mo-, Nav 4.-The How.
ell murder case, on a change of venue
from Linn county, opened yesterday.
Howell killed Minnie Hall and her four
children on January 49, 1889. at their
home, five miles southwest of Brock
field, and then set fire to the house.
When the neighbors arrived the entire
house was enveloped in flames, but the
bodies had not been so far consumed as
to conceal the fact that their heads had
been split open. Snow mad fallen and
the tracks were followed into Brockfield
hotel. Howell had entered the hotel
only few moments before the pursuing
party arrived and was arrested in his
room. He was tried in December of
the same year and sentenced to be
hanged. The supreme court remanded
the case on technicality in the in
StructiOnS
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A pea green elephant has been cap
tured in Africa.
King Humbert has caused a gift oil
800 to be sent to each child left an
orphan by the disaster at Gibraltar.
Alaska has reported progress again.
What is said to be the largest quartz
mill in the world is in that distant
country.
Strikes are expensive. The Hamburg
Cigarmakers' strike, which ended
recently, cost the social democrats OF
Germany, England, Switzerland, France
and Denmark, 100000.
Il good deal of attention has been
called to Pittsburg and Birmingham as
iron districts, but they are not the chief
center OF the iron supply. Escanaba,
Michigan, is the greatest iron port in
the world.
Certain cast-iron manufacturers OF
New York, headed bv the firm OF J. B
& ]. NJ. Cornell, have organized a boy
colt against Andrew Carnegie on &C
count of preferences shown by his agent
in the awarding of contracts.
In southern Oregon there is a forest
$1,000 miles in extent. with an estima-
ted amount OF mercantile timber of 400
600, 100000 feet. At ten dollars per l.
900 feet, the proceeds would pay our
national debt twice over.
King Carlos OF Portugal is twenty.
eight years old. He is blond, unlike
the majority of his countrymen. and is
a man OF ofeducation and of graceful bear
ing. He talks we'll, speaks French,
and is clever artist in water colOrs.
The shaw of Persia recently visited
the residence of the American mission
aries in Teheran, the first time he has
ever honOred any foreigners there, and
was delighted with the housekeeping,
and especially with the artesian well
which they had sunk.
One hundred and fifteen servants is
great number to do the work of one
house, but this is the size of the staff of
the Manhattan club, New York, since
it went into the Stewart mansion.
Walters there are paid forty-fve dol
lars a month and board.
At the coming Frankfort electrical
exhibition a large balloon will be sent
up. The power sending up and main
tanning it will be electricity, which will
LO OOtoLnCu a tIIt
ground. A telephone will connect the
passengers with those on terra firma.
Jesse Rudy, Frank Tobin and Elmer
Nelson, young farmers OF Cass county.
Neb., are under arrest at Valparaiso,
Neb., charged with attempting to rob
the bank at that point and shooting
Banker Johnson. JohnsOn's wound is
serious, and should he die, an attempt
will very likely be make to lynch the
prisoners.
The author, Dr. Beider of Mt. Pulaski
H., has sent to ex-President Cleveland
4 copy of THE Senator's Wooing," a
poem describing, for the first time in
print, the courtship and marriage of
stephen A. Douglass. Bound in the
Iolume was an autograph letter from
he United States senator-elect, John
u. Palmer.
At the Memorial day celebration at
Ala, E. S. Starr. ex-
mayor of Selma, the orator of the day.
aid that If the Italian government
Tanted TO get up fight with the United
'tates. he was in favor of organizing an
rmy OF negroes to fight the Italians.
hen, he-said, it wouldn't make much
Inference whether the negroes whipped
ne Italians or the Italians whipped the
egroeS.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

A VERY pretty idea is carried out in
London, which aims to bring about g
love of plants and flowers among the
poorer classes. A fund is raised out ol
which prizes are paid for the best dis.
play of window gardening or of potted
plants, and the scheme has become SO
very popular that the thousands of cot
tage homes are now beautifed by floral
effects, and it is no uncommon thing to
see a window set out with plants grow
ing in old teapots, cans or cigar boxes
marked as a prize winner.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

A KNOWLEDGE of agricultural science
acquaints farmers with all question 5
pertaining to their interests, and thus
equipped they are prepared to protect
and defend their interests anywhere.
But as long as farmers content them
selves to remain ignorant of questions
about which they should be the best in
formed, or neglect to put forth efforts
that alone can bring success and COM
mand the admiration of men, just so
long will they be the slaves of the
balance of mankind. Farmer.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
KansaA NaMA.

There are ten women in the city jai
at Topeka.
Prairie hay sold il Concordia las
week for S12 ton.
There are / million acres open for
homestead in the Dodge City land dis
trict.
The Republican river Is higher now
than it has been before in twelve
months.
Baker university has just received a
collection of 1000 choice marine speci
mems from generous friend at Denver.
Shawnee county apple orchards net
ted $50 an acre last year, and are ex-
pected to do even better than that this
season.
George c. Wynkoop of Lacygne, died
OF erysipelas the other day. He was g.
years old, merchant, Mason, Odd Eel
low and Knights of Pythias.
Miss Hattie Horner, a Kansas girl
has accepted the editorial management
of the New York Quarterly. She is a
graduate of the Kansas state normal.
Pliny L. Soper, assistant United
States district attorney for Kansas, will
deliver the masters Grafton at the COM
ing commencement of the state uniyer-
sity.
W. L. Gardner has sued Arkansas
City for giving him the smallpox
That is a hint to other Kansas towns to
clean up and provide proper sanitary
regulations.
Anderson Gray Of Conway Springs,
has 1000 acres Of wheat In Sumner
county, and has leased 5000 acres in
the Cherokee nation which he will put
in wheat this fall.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

revived and extended. [Applausel.
believe there are methods by which we
shall put the American flag upon the
sea again. [Applausel.
"The great commercial governments
of the world have stimulated their ship
ping interests by direct or indirect sub
sides, while we have been saying, No,
we prefer the old way We must ad-
vance, or, will not say. go out OF busi-
ness, for we have already gone out.
Applausel. thank you most cordially
for your greeting and bid you good
bye" [Applause1.
Postmaster General Wanamaker and
Secretary Rusk also made speeches.
After lunch the party proceeded to
Mechanics Pavilion, where the May day
festival OF the G. A. r. post of the city
was in progress.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
FOREIGN.

The people of the Hawaiian Islands
are said to be clamoring for Republic,
and the Queens life is in danger.
The Prince of Waldeck, Germany,
aged 81, and the Princess Louise oi
Schleswip-Holsteig-Sander6u -Glucks-
burg, aged 81, were married
Sig Imbriani created scene in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies by making
charges of scandalous nature in con-
nection with the governments policy on
the African slave trade question.
The blowing up of Cuban insurgents
gunboat by government torpedo boat
killed 200 insurgents.
French newspapers are extremely
caustic in their notices of the death of
General Moltke
The German Emperor commanded
newspapers to stop publishing an ad-
vertisement for fugitive from Justice
because he was described as being an
exact double of the ex-king Milan of
ServIa.
Baron Hirsch is trying to find suit
able place in which to colonize Jews of
Europe.
Manipuris have destroyed and desert
ed their capital, upon which the Brit
ish troops are marching.
Two war vessels of the Chilian rebels
have been destroyed by the government.
This seriously cripples the insurgents.
1t is given out from the Vatican that
moderation is the policy favored by the
Roman Catholic church in connection
with the school question in the United
States.
Germany will not hurry to admit
American pork until the American
meat inspection laws have been
thoroughly tested.
Hunter McKinnon of Winnipeg froze
his feet and was unable to travel Nor
tifcation set it and he cut off his feet
with butcher knife. When found he
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

THE supreme court of Indiana has
Tust decided a novel case and estab-
hshed precedent. 4 farmer in De-
Kalb county sued the Lake Shore rail-
road for killing a COW. The COW
caused trifing railroad wreck, and
the court decided that the owner of the
cow should pay the railroad damages.
An appeal was taken, but the decision
vas affirmed. Instead of getting the
damages the farmer bears the loss of
his COW, has to pay for the injury of
rolling stock, and settle the costs,
amounting to $1,000. The railroad
company claimed and maintained that
the running Of the COW on the track
was the result of criminal carelessness
on the part of the farmer.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

Advices from Honolulu state that in
consequence Of the removal of thea mer
lean duty from sugar. the sugar plan
ters of Hawaii will sustain loss and per
haps ruin. The queen does not seem
to grasp the seriousness of the situation
and her subjects are dissatisfied with
her and her incompetent advisers and
are holding secret meetings and the
formation of a republic is talked of.
Now that King Kalkus is gone the
Hawaiians are realizing his true worth.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

The tribute of respect rendered by
she people Of Indiana to Professor John
Clarke Ridpath on the occasion of his
s0th birthday was merited. As a col
ege tutor and as a historian Mr.. Rid
path has served his state we'll To him
As much as to any man now living, the
high standing of De Pauw university is
due, and to him, as much as to any man
living, the youth of his state and of the
nation are indebted for sound education
IN the history of the republic,
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

IT Is announced that Mrs. Grant will
not allow the "reminiscences she has
written of her late husband, General o.
S. Grant, to be published. She has
been at work on them for some time
and intended at first that they should
appear in one of the magazines. Her
materials included all General { is
private letters to her, many of them
having valuable comments on his part
in the war. She has changed her
mind now about publishing the remi-
niscences and will leave them as q
necord for her children.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Milling News.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May 4.-Tht
Northwestern Miller says:
The mills again got out big output
last week. The aggregate production
was 16l, 40 barrels, against 161, 400 bar
rels the week before, and 139, 800 bar.
rels for the corresponding time in 1890
The dullness of the -four markets has
caused less activity among the mills,
two having been shut down. There has
been quite let down in the demand
for flour, the weakness in wheat having
had bad effect upon the market.
Prices have been reduced p to 4O
cents. Bids on the patent for export
are lower than millers can accent and
practically no business is being done in
that grade. Bakers is in its usual
brisk demand and low grades are
scarcely less SO. The domestic trade is
very dull.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Stanley's Bo!n:s Exaggerated.

KANSAS CITY, May A special
to the Star from Leavenworth, Kansas,
says:
Thomas Maddern. aged 10, and a
young Englishman, just from Port Ma
tai, south Africa, were here yesterday
He says that Stanley has exaggerated
many things in his BOOK. and that the
missionaries do more harm than good
among the Kaffirs. His observation
leads him to assert that the natives are
converted from happy, frugal andabstem-
ious heathendom into disco2tcatcd bum
mers and lazy, drunken vagabonds.
When they get religion they brood over
1T and consider only its spiritual side.
They then become an easy prey to
L
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Beef Going Up.

CHICAGO, May 4-The wholesale
price of beef in this city has advanced
33t per cent within the past month.
Talks with several local meat dealers
indicate that there will be no decrease
in price prior to July /, and before that
time the tendency may possibly be to-
wards still higher increase. The
cause of the advance is said to be the
scarcity not only of good fat cattle but a
general scarcity of cattle of all grades
and the advance in the price of corn.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

IT will be good news to ali honest
people, whether living in Chicago OF
elsewhere, that the new mayor of that
city has closed up all the public gamb,
ling places and announces his intention
to keep them closed. Chicago has, in
the past, been the paradise of gamblers
and thieves, and their expulsion there
from will be proper subject for re-
ioiainr
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

an official report of the result of his in
vestigation. Careful observation of the
growing fields along the line ofrailroad
between Topeka and Russell disclosed
the fact that with very few exceptions
the wheat is in a thriving condition and
promises bountiful harvest.
Secretary Mohler says that many far
mers make practice of putting in
wheat on unplowed ground, and the
trouble being experienced now in Rus
sell county invariably occurs where an
unusually wet spring is experienced.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
per cent.

1T is announced that DR.. Hammond
recently received fee of 5000 for re-
moving wen from the head of Mrs.
Senator Sanford. Had the senator
been Missouri or Kansas farmer or
storekeeper worth hundreds. instead OF
United States senator worth millions,
he could have had the operation as well
performed for ten dollar bill.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

THE Worlds fair directors have
made the rule that there can be nc
seperate exhibition by states, for the
reason that should state exhibitions be
given the general display would be i'm
pared. Each state, however, may
erect its own headquarters building
and place samples of its production
therein, but its general display must
he made in the large exposition build
ing with the general display.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

By recent enactment of the New
York Legislature the collateral inheri-
tance law has been so amended as to ef-
feet not only the indirect heirs. That
is the inheritance of collateral heirs
will be taxed in both personal and real
property per cent, and the inheritance
Of direct heirs in personal property
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
was nearly dead and his recovery

was nearly dead and his recovery is
doubtful.
The reason why President Hippolyte
does not wish to grant Mole st. Nicho-
las, Hayti as coaling station for the
United States vessels is the fear that
the transfer might. Legitime and his fol-
lowers to rise up and capture the gov
ernment.
Bismarck was elected to the Reich
stag from the Geestermunde District.
At the conclusion of the preliminary
examination of Captain Verney, NJ. P,
on charge of procuring for immoral
purposes, he was held in SIS, 900 bail.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

MORE than 100000 immigrants have
landed in New York since January
Whavever the governments of Europe
may think of the United States the
people still regard it haven of refuge
from onnression.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
The Croaker Mistaken.

ABILENE, Ks, May 4.-The report
of serious damage to Dickinson county
wheat is unfounded. The fields that
were well put in are absolutely unhurt.
Those sown very early, those which
were badly put in, and those which were
pastured close show some bad spots.
The farmers show no anxiety regarding
an immense crop, and report no damage
from fly or ehinch bugs yet The growth
is very rank and tall, and harvest will
come early.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
THE lower Mississippi is very high.
JOHN P. STETsoN soldier of the
fifth infantry, stationed at Presidio,
Cal, has fallen heir to $4,000.

THE London county council reports
that the value of rental in London is
424 million pounds. Capitalizing this
on the principal of twenty years pur-
chase, London is worth 4i billion
Mounds
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-18
The Virginia Debt.



II seems that no conclusion has been
reached. and that the negotiation sstill pend
ing As We look upon this movement It is a
great opportunity for the State and her eredi-
tors.
The agreement of May r. 1890. between
the bondholders and the bondholders' COM
mittee, under which the securities are deposit
ted. recognizes the proposition of the state,
and the plan and proposition Of the committee
under date of November IS 1880. cOntem-
plates settlement Hereunder. We under
stand that, including interest the defaulted
obligations Of the State amount 10 s2S .o0O, 900,
and that about $4,000, 900 have actually been
deposited with the OloOtt committee.
Ii appears u Us that eliminating politics.
the settlement OF the Virginia debt ought to
be very simple business proposition. con-
trolled by the principles set out in the act of
February Ia, 1892. Considering the action the
State has taken and the present position Of
the bondhoder committee. we do not I'M
derstand how settlement can be avoided,
and consequently We assume that the adjourn
ment Of the session of June I'd and 3d---of the
bondholders committee and the Virginia
commission-wlthout reaching a conclusion,
must have been had purely on political
grounds or for consideration Of details.
Ii would be misfortune to the State to
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-18
Wheat Quotations.



Your enterprise commends itsefsO strongly
10 my section and the more enterprislns ana
advancing spirit Of the day that | venture as
representatives of this district IN the state
Board OF Agriculture 10 urge upon you the
wishes Of our farmers "a 70 the manner OF con-
ducting your department of market quota
tons.
Your columns are being eagerly scanned by
farmers tor information concerning the SAFE
Of wheat oats. corn, rye, and, IN fact, all la m
products. Now your quotation comes 10 ne
this morning. Wheat nominal Why
should this blindfold style be continued, II
is very serious obstacle TO the grower. and
equally serious an obstruction 10 the advance
which should characterize your progressive
an liberal minded city.
Cannot the old rule of the Exchange be
made a thing Of the past, and instead OF the
T. f. and nominal terms being continued a
new rule of quoting just exactly the Facts De
inaugurated
Your city Is the only one to which our peo-
pie ship where this style Of quoting IS resort
ed 20. and earnestly urge upon YOU sucn IN
terest in the premises a. shall result m action
on the part IF your Chamber of Commerce
which will forever place this practice IN tho
rear.
Let the farmer have all the facts, together
with such advice from time 10 time a. shall
aid him as much as lies IN your power and
then you will have served a most cOmmenda-
bic and deserving class HENRY l.. LYMAN.
Charlottesville, Va. June II. 1891.
1.-THE above criticism is not directed at The
TINES. but only at the manner in which our
market quotations are sent.-ED.l
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-18
The HaYtien Revolt.

New YORK. June 17.-First Mate Bishop Of
the steamship Alyo, which arrived from Hay
tien ports to-day. states that June 9Th yes
sci which had been at Port-au-Prince during
the insurrection reached Navassa hnd re-
ported that President Hippolyte had been
shot and killed by one Of the insurgents. The
when the Alyo sailed. The story of the revolt
and subsequent murder Of Rignaud which
this vessel brought agree entirely with the
reports, which have been already pub
lished. Mate Bishop says that while the Alyo
was at Jamaica on June 9Th. SIX political pris-
Oners were taken out of prison 10 the open
square in the centre Of the city and shot IN
the presence of their friends and relatives.
The greatest excitement prevails IN town. and
all sorts of stories of outrage and murder were
current