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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01

York and Brooklyn. 1t was not much,
for when only 16 he was back in the
country teaching others and learning
from them rather than from books.
After a year or so of teaching he be-
came carpenter for time; then he
learned printing, working at the case
in New York and Brooklyn, and editing
papers in New Orleans and Huntington,
l.. /. In 1S4T-4S, with his brother,
jefferson Whitman, he went on a long
pedestrian tour of the country, working
his way along by doing carpen-
ter's jobs - tramping it, one
might almost say. For two years the
brothers wandered about. down the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers, in Louisiana and
Texas during the Mexican war. along
the lakes into Canada, and down the
Hudson back to Long Island. where
Walt Whitman betoolS himself once
more to the printers case. In 1855
appeared his first and most IA
nous book, ''LeGves of Grass. -
a volume OF rhapsodical poems, always
without rhyme, generally without
rhythm, dealing especially with inter
estS involved in American life and pro-
gress of time. The book called forth
great amount of praise and still great
er amount of blame. At the beginning
of the war Whitman was living in New
York, but his brother George was
wounded at fredericksburg in 1862, and
the poet went to the front to nurse
him. He remained with the army I'M
til the close of the war, afterward Civ
in his experience in two volumes
Drum Taps (1s65) and Memo
randa Duringthe War" Qs60. At the
close of the war he obtained a clerk
ship in the interior department. from
which he was dismissed when his su-
perior officer learned that he was the
author of Leaves of Grass" He OBJ
tanned clerkship in the attorney gen.
erals office, however, which he kept
until 1874. In February, 1878. he had
stroke of paralysis, resulting from the
exposure of his army life, and went to
Camden. Nj. He was recovering rapidly
when in May his mother died suddenly,
in his presence. The shock caused a
relapse. and he was incapacitated for
any work for many months.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
DEATH OF A JOURNALIST.
DIR. Morrison MunfOrd. Late Editor of the
Kansas City Times, Passes Away.

DIR. Morrison Munford. Late Editor of the
Kansas City Times. Passes Away.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 2S.-Dr.
Morrison Munford, for nearly twenty
wears the owner and editor of the Kan
sas City Times. died yesterday after
noon at 4:2O at his residence in this city
at the corner of Eighth and Vine streets,
from pneumonia, after an illness of five
weeks. He was conscious to the last
and his death was painless and peace
full.
Dr. Munford had for years been a suf-
ferer from pleurisy. During the past
winter the attacks of this malady had
been acute and frequent. He was sew
eral times confined to the house by
them, and venturing ont again before
quite recovered induced a return of the
ailment. InJanuary last. after particu-
larly severe visitation, he left his home
in storm, bent upon important bust
ness. and upon his return was confined
with violent attack of the grip. 1t
was early in February before he
had even partly recovered strength
from this last assault, but the pro-
jected issue of his newspaper, the
World. stimulated him again to venture
out of doors under unfavorable condi-
tons and about February 90 he was
seized with incipient pneumonia and
his physicians peremptorily ordered
him to keep within.
For three or four days he was able to
leave his sleeping room, but as his symp-
toms developed greater severity he WAS
compelled to take to bed. Gradually he
grew weaker. His condition required
little medicine intended to combat the
disease, but his system refused to assim-
ilate food, even when offered in concen-
trates. At times he exhibited a
high temperature-104 degrees one day.
But it was lack OF vitality which pre-
vented the successful ministratiOnS of
his faithful nurses and family physician.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
KANSAS TEACHERS.
Session of Those in the Southeastern Por
ton of the State Closed.

Session of Those in the Southeastern Por-
tion of the state Closed.
CHANUTE, Kan, March 2s.-Saturday
afternoon closed the third days pro-
ceedings of the district teachers asso-
citation, which is conceded by all to
have been more successful and profit
able than any previous meeting.
1t is conceded by those in position
to know that the exhibit of schools far
exceeded one of like character held at
the state meeting at Topeka recently.
A selection of the same will be sent to
the worlds fair to increase this portion
of the Kansas display.
The officers elected for the ensuing
term are as follows: President. J. II.
Ramsey of Garnett; vice president, ]. c.
Gray of Fredonia; treasurer, c. E. Mer-
win; secretary, Miss Nellie Mckinley of
Chetopa; executive board, II. C. Ford of
Sedan and j. d. Orr of Fort Scott. The
fall meeting will be held at Parsons
during Thanksgiving vacation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
WASHINGTON NOTES.


THE sundry civil appropriation bill
preparation of about SIS. 600, 600, while
the bill this year amounts to little
more than SIS, OOO, 900, being in the
neighborhood of $4,000, 900 less than
the act of the current fiscal year. The
largest cut made is in the items making
appropriation for public building.
THE offer of silver to the treasury de-
partment on the esd aggregated Gs2,00O
ounces. The amount purchased was
10000 ounces at figures ranging from
so. s9Os to so s9l5.
SECRETARY and Mrs. Elkins gave a
dinner the other day in honor of the
President and Mrs Harrison.
Two hundred and three applications
for space at the Columbian exposition
have been made by Philadelphians de-
sirous of making exhibitions.
The Behring sea matter was dis
cussed by the senate committee on for
eign relations on the oath at a special
meeting and it was decided to recon-
mend the ratification of the treaty.
THE president on the oath sent to the
senate the following nominations:
Stanton ]. Peele, of Indiana, judge of
the court of claims, vice Glenn V. SEQ
field, retired; United States district
judges, William X. Townsend, for the
district of Connecticut; John B. Rec
tor, northern district of Texas; John
II. Baker, district of Indiana; Ellery
P. Ingham, United States attorney, and
Alexander p Colesberry, marshal for
the eastern district of Pennsylvania
THE house committee on agriculture
have authorized a favorable report to
be made on the Paddock pure food bill
which passed the senate.
REPRESENTATIVE GEARY, of Cali
fornia, has introduced in the house a
bill to prevent the use of substitutes
for hops or pure extract of hops in the
making of ale or beer.
THE navy department has received
information of the arrival of the United
States Steamship Newark at La
Guayara- She was ordered there to
look after American interests during
the revolution said to be in progress,
but in the dispatch no reference is
made to any trouble.
THE Dockery worlds fair investigat-
ing subcommittee of the house COM
mittee on appropriations will not leave
Washington for Chicago antil after the
silver question is disposed of in the
house.
The offer of silver to the treasury
department on the 25th aggregated
939, 900 ounces The amount purchased
was 10000 ounces, ranging from
50. $3.50 to so. SS34 The director of the
mint announced that the government
having purchased Its quota of silver re-
quired by law for the present month.
no further offers will be considered I'M
til Friday, April 1.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
THE SOETH.


Hon. ]. s GARRISON, ex-postmaster
general, arrived at Hot Springs, Ark,
on the 22d accompanied by his wife and
C. +. Meek and Charles McAtier, of
New York.
HoN. ROGER Q. MILLS was elected a
senator of the United States from Texas,
almost unanimously. on the 22d
HoN. NATHAN GoFF, of West Vir-
ginia, has been qualified in the United
States circuit court at Baltimore before
the Judges Bond and Morrill, as asso-
ciate judge for the Fourth district.
Mrs NANCY CoYLE, aged ST, hanged
herself in her barn in Georgetown,
Ky, the other day. 1t is supposed her
mind was unbalanced by recent sick
ness.
CoI- J. II. EsTELL has resigned his
membership in the national democratic
executive committee in which body he
represented the state of Georgia
SARAH BRICE, a colored woman liv-
ing near Arcauia, La, locked her three
children in her house and left them for
few hours. The house caught fire
and the children were burned to death
A MANIAC terrorized the officials at
Jackson, Miss, recently. He had to be
roughly dealt with before being sub
dued.
ALL of the lower Texas coast conn
try has been stirred up over the finding
of the bodies of three persons horribly
mutilated, and each of them bearing
marks of foul play. The bodies were
discovered in the Bernard river by w.
NJ Wooley. Two of the bodies were
men and one boy aged about 16. On
the body of one was found letter adj
dressed to S. c. Gray.
A MEETING was held on the Esd at
Memphis, Tenn, by about 1000
negroes, who passed resolutions cor
demning the lynching of Moss,
Stewart and Mcdowell on the 9th in
slant as a foul and unjustifatle
murder and outrage Negroes are
leaving that locality in large numbers
for Oklahoma and other points and
general exodus is apprehended.
The chairman of the state executive
committee of the peoples party of Tex
as has issued call for conventions to
be held in every county throughout
the state to elect delegates to the state
convention at Waco, May S.
THE Texas state encampment of the
G. A. r assembled at FL Paso on the
Gath formally. The blue and the gray
were camped together on the court
house lawn.
LAST week the Texas house of repre-
sentatives passed joint resolution de-
manding that Texas representatives in
congress work for the free coinage of
silver. A few days later the senate
adopted substitute designating tariff
reform as the paramount issue of the
democratic policy. On the oath the
house rejected the senate substitute by
a vote of So to s.
ATTORNEYS for Alice Mitchell, of
Memphis, Tenn, Freda Wards slayer,
have forwarded to DR.. Prodest, of
Paris. France, statement of a
hypothetical case, asking if such a per-
son be not insane.
Rev. JOHN JAMES JASPER, OF Rich
mond. Va, author of THE sun do
move" theory, and Widow Carey, of
his flo ok were married recently. She
is his fourth wife. He is so years old
and she is So
FROM the same gallows from which
Turner and Patterson were hanged in
Louisville, KY, Henry Smith was
swung into eternity on the a5th. He
prayed all night He was cool to the
end
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
THE EAST.

THE Edison and Thomson Houston
electric companies have formed a com.
bine.
DR.. AGNEw, who attended President
Garfield at Elberon, n. j., is dead.
THE New York senate has concurred
in the assembly amendments to the
senate bill appropriating $780, 900 for
the worlds fair, including the amend
ments for the closing of the state ex-
hibit on Sunday.
The New York chamber of commerce
on the ed forwarded to congress a
memorial on the silver question.
S. E. BOWER and Patrick Martell,
nurses in the Presbyterian hospital,
New York, have been arrested for rob-
bing dead and living patients.
CHARLES MITCHELL and Frank P
Slavin sailed for England the other
day on the InInan liner City of New
York. The two pugilists entered the
Inman company's Office apparently the
best of friends and bought cabin.
THE will of Rev. f. Perez, of Mon
mouth, y. J., leaves an estate of $780,
900 to Lincoln university, of Oxford,
Chester county, Pa, for the purpose of
educating colored young men for the
ministry.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT signed an order
directing that Edward NJ. Field, in
dicted for forgery, be committed to an
insane asylum where he will be
watched to see if he is shamming.
THE Pennsylvania board of pardons
have recommended a pardon in the
case of John A. Mellon and William H.
Porter, the Beaver Star publishers,
who were convicted of hbelling Sem
ator Quay.
RoLLIN WHITE, who claimed to be
the inventor of the Smith & Wesson re-
volver, died on the ed at Lowell, Mass
He once petitioned congress to give
him possession of the invention, and a
bill to that effect passed congress, but
was vetoed by President Grant
E NJ. WILLARD, the English actor, at
present on a tour in the west has sent
a check for $500 to the New York
actors fund committee
THE Kalmia branch of the Philadel-
phia & Reading road, extendidg to
GAINESVILLE, Pa, which was closed by
last weeks storm Is only now being
opened. The tracks were covered for
the long distance with from three to
six feet of snow and ice.
TwENTY-THREE bodies of the victims
of the Hill Farm, Dunbar, Pa, mine
horror were buried on the 25th-
Ex-SECRETARY OF STATE BAYARD
proposes to visit ex- President Cleveland
in New York in a few days. 1t is I'M
derstood the conference will be of a
political nature.
TWENTY ex-convicts from Italy were
detained at Ellis Island. \. Y, recent
II. They admitted that they were lib
Grated felons and will be promptly re-
turned
THE Chinese in New York City earned
s., 100000 last year, of which 30 per
cent went to China They monopol-
lied the laundry business.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01

THE ten lines of railroad centeying in
London send out 2,210 suburban trains
a day, carrying 400. OOO, 900 passengers a
year.
THE statistics of anthracite produc-
ton show that the three companies now
controlled by the Reading shipped from
mines last year 5s.S per cent. of the to-
tai production of 40, AS. 900 tons. against
$50 per cent. in 1890 and SIX in 1889,
the latter being their largest proportion
since 1888. The Lackawanna last year
made ISL per cent. of the total ship
ments, and 16. Is in 1900
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
German
Syrup

William McKeekan, Druggist at.
Bloomingdale, Mich. "Ihave had
the Asthma badly ever since came
out of the army and though 1 have
been in the drug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief until
few months ago, when 1 used b.
schee's German Syrup. 1 am now
glad. to acknowledge the great good
it has done me. lam greatly reliev--
ed during the day and at nightgo to.
sleep without the least trouble" O.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
CRAVING ASSISTANCE.
The United States to BE Asked to Protect
the Gilbert Islands.

SAN Francisco, March 24-King
Tenbrino of Butarati. who arrived in
this city on the bark Towars, recently,
announces that his mission TO this
country is to secure the protection of
the United States for the Gilbert
islands He says he feels that these
islands would be much more
prosperous under such pro-
tectorate, and if this government
will accept the proposition and
raise the American flag over the
islands, he will agree to transfer to
the United States the harbor of the
island of Butarati, and to keep the
harbor in good condition as 4 coaling
station and for refuge at all times. He
will also assist to the utmost in pro-
noting commercial relations between
the two countries
King Tenbrino will return to the
islands in few days, but states that
he has arranged that his proposition be
laid before the authorities at Wash
ington-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
A BIG milk trust has been formed in

A BIG milk trust has been formed in
Chicago.
AN undervest containing SIS. 600 in
cash and papers valued at twice that
was left in a Turkish bath room, al
the Palmer house, by ex-senator
Thomas NJ. Bowen, CT Denver. recent
". II was found half an hour later by
Colored Attendant Watson, aud re-
turned after Bowen had been very
much excited.
THE Lindell hotel, at St Louis,
known the country over to the travel
ing public which cost when it was
built fourteen years ago 81, 300, 600, was
sold recently by the Marmadulle es-
| tate to the present lessees Messrs
| Howe and Chassaing, for $50, 900. The
building is is1x225 feet and six stories
high.
Mr. AND Mrs NELSON STEWART, of
Millersburg. o.. stopped at the Buch-
ley hotel. Lima, o., on their bridal tour
They blew the gas ous The next
morning the door to their room was
forced open and they were found as
phyxiated
A PASSENGER car on the Utah Central
railroad was wrecked on a curve near
Park City, U. T., the other day, and six
persons were severely injured.
CHARLES QUEsENBEREY, of Carroll
ton. Mo-, has been found guilty of per-
jury in land contest case in Guthrie,
Ok, and sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary.
DIR. EDMUND ]. JAMES, of the Whar-
ton school of finance and economy, has
decided to refuse the offer of DIR. Will
lam Harper to organize in the new
Chicago university a department SIM
liar to the Wharton school.
The other day at a Long Branch
country school house near Coalition, o.,
little Matte Oney, pupil attempted to
climb into a school house through a
window when the window sash fell
like guillotine on her neck and killed
her.
WILLIAM BoYcE, who threw his
three-day-old babe in the river at Gin
cinnati on the night of March ., was in
the police court on the 25th for prelim-
mary examination. He waived exam
ination and was ordered to be COM
mitted to Jail without bail
The president of the St Louis city
council has been charged with running
a pool room in disguise.
MRS FANNIE SCHADE committed
suicide at Cedar Rapids Ia, on the
25th. She shot herself five times with
a single-barreled 22-caliber revolver,
three times in the right breast, once in
the abdomen and the last time in the
right temple.
The Ohio legislature has passed
bill to submit to vote of the people
of Cincinnati a proposition to issue
Sc, 600, 600 in bonds for water works.
On his recent visit to Ann Arbor,
Mich, ex-President Cleveland was
elected to membership and initiated
into the Sigma Chi, college secret
society.
The doctors of Gary, S. D., reported
new cases of diphtheria, and the city
board of health suspended the schools
and placed the city under rigid quar-
antine.
FIRE at Dunlap's Island, Mimi, the
other day destroyed seven buildings,
valued at SIS, 600. One man lost his
life.
REV. JOHN TEMPLE, of Evansville,
Ind, has been sentenced to serve sew
enteen years in the penitentiary for
mauslaughter. He killed Warren
Gray, who was acting as peacemaker
between Temple and his wife.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
WORTH MENTIONING.

JoTN HOGAN. who died in st. Louis
recently, laid out the site of Chicago
in 1886.
IL Ireland Dennis Koorobee died pos
sessed of IS children, 236 grandchildren
and 944 grcat-grandchildren. He had
been married seven times.
FARaEB HARDIN and Lawyer Nc
Kinney, of Moberly, Mo-, went to law
over q ten-cent dog. The farmer lost
the suit and over one hundred dollars
in costs.
Mrs. Louis MARTIN. full-blooded
Chippewa Indian, who died at her home
in Allouez, Brown county, Wis, recent
", made sworn statement to priest
before her death that she was one hun
dred and eight years old. She gave cor
roborative evidence. She was born in
a wigwam near Green Bay. DIR. Jes-
sup, of Macl1inac, certified that eight
years ago Mrs. Martin cut her third set
of teeth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
Clippings.


I The late Mr.. Spurgeon received into
his church over &C, members, first
and last, and founded over fifty chapels
in different paSts of London.
jaw Gould's O,O0o contribution, says
the Chicago Times, was about enc five
thousandth part of his income. If a
man with an income of So, 900 a year
should make a contribution of forty
cents to the church he would be max
ing an equal sacrifice, but would not
get any glory.
Two hundred and twenty-four wine
growers from the Rhine region will ex-
hibit at Chicago.
1t makes no difference how worthless
man is his mother thinks it no sacri-
lege to delude the best girl in the
world into marrying him.
Rev. Charles F. Parkhurst whose
recent attack upon the municipal mis-
government of the city of New York
has caused such sensation, is the sue
cessor to DR.. Crosby as president of the
society for the prevention of crime and
one of the most eloquent and trenchant
pulpit orators in the big city.
Few people are aware that Mr.. Spur
geon was never ordained. He began
and ended his remarkable ministry as
Z lay preacher.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
DIR. scudder again Indicted.

CHICAGO, March 24.-Dr. Scudder was
indicted anew yesterday for the assas-
sination of his wealthy mother-in-law,
this time being charged with poisoning
her as we'll as pounding on her skull
The poison is said to have been admin
istered with hypodermic syringe. He
is also charged in the second indict-
ment with having strangled his victim.
The additional accusations were taken
as indicating that the prosecution had
gained possession of sensational evil
dence regarding which the public knew
nothing. .
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
Foretold the Hour of His Death.

UPsHAw, Ga, March 26.-Two weeks
ago Calvin Edwards, while working on
Friendship Baptist church, mashed his
finger. and thinking to ease the pain
put some paint on the wound 1t
caused what was supposed to be blood
poison. He told his family and friends
at noon that he would die at 4 o'clock.
He counted the hours as they went BY,
telling those around him: 81 will
leave you az L." and sure enough abou,
4 o'clock he breathed his last
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01

In the progress of the Worlds Fairl If so,
and you desire 10 form an idea Of the work.
being performed and the grandeur and
magn.fcence Of its conception when COM
pleted, send two-cent stamp to Mr.. +. II.
Lord, General Passenger and Ticket Agent
of the, Chicago, st. Paul Il Kansas City
Railway, Chicago. ILL.,. and a valuable and
handsome souvenir will be sent TO you by
return mail. giving you q full view Of
the buildings under construction, the di-
mansions of each and total cost and area
OF same. besides other useful information.
HUMANITY appears to be very unequallv
divided between those who can't stand
prosperity and those who can't get any to
stand Binghamton Leader.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
THE WEST.

WARREN WATSON, clerk of the United
States circuit court at Kansas City,
Mo, was run over on the evening of
the ED in that city by a Santa Fe
freight train and fatally injured His
right hand was torn off and his right
leg severed at the knee
A FIERCE storm of snow, rain and
sleet ragged throughout Illinois on the
22d Considerable damage was done.
The officers of the carpenters coun-
ell of Chicago are charged with failing
70 account for several thousand dollars
of union money.
The Wisconsin sapreme court has de-
clared the reapportionment bill uncon-
stitutionaL
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
The Coupling-Pin Broke.

SALIVA, Kan, March 2s.-Conductor
Peck, of the Missouri Pacific mail and
express, was carried through the city
morning on his regular train,
but unconscious and probably dying.
While near Hoisington a coupling pin
broke and struck him on the forehead.
infiicting a deep wound from which
the surgeons state he cannot recover.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
WALT WHITMAN.
End of the Author Of "Leaves of Grass
sketch of His Life.

sketch of His Life.
CAMDEN, n. j., March 2s.-Walt Whit
man, the poet, died at his home here
Saturday.
Walter, or Walt, Whitman was born
at West Hills, Long Island, May 81,
1919. His father, whose name he bore,
was farmer, and the boy, the eldest
of the family, was brought up with
slight knowledge of even the few re-
finements obtainable in the country
sixty years ago. He was strong and
sturdy, a good rider and swimmer,
fond OF outdoor exercise. and impa-
tient of all the amenities of life.
What book education he had he re-
ceived in the public schools of New