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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
RELIGIOUS RUMPUS.
Mohammed Webb Creates a Sensation In
the Parliament of Religions by Advocat.
ing Polygamy.

MOhammed webb Creates a Sensation In
the Parliament of Religions by Advocat-
ing Polygamy.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2L-The harmony
that has characterized the sessions of
the worlds parliament of religions
since the opening day was broken for
the first time yesterday. Scores of pro-
Tossing Christians have listened with
out demur and, as a matter of fact,
with absolute interest to the advocacy
of Buddhism, Confucianism, Zoroa-
strianism and other isms, but they
drew the line at polygamy, and when
from the platform it was declared that
a polygamist could also be Christian
they lifted up their voices in indignant
protest.
The gentleman who thus put his foot
in it was Mohammed Russell AleXan-
der Webb, and his topic was ''The
Spirit of Islam" Amid babel of pro-
tests from feminine and masculine
throats. he went on to say that polyg-
amy was matter of conditions only.
Once he was opposed to it, but now he
knew that it could be beneficial. 1t
was necessary, however, to understand
it. and no one was qualified to judge
who did not know it's theory and prac-
tice. The people in this country were
not qualified to judge of considerations
existing in another. A man could be a
good and pure man and practice polyg-
amy if it was in the proper spirit.
A mighty protest, louder than all the
rest combined. went up at this juncture,
but, nothing daunted, the'speaker went
on to say that if they knew as much of
the subject as he did they would know
that polygamist could be Christian.
provided he did not manifest spirit of
sensuousness. This time the protest
was so vehement that the speaker con-
cluded that he had said enough, and
with final defiance to the effect that
they were condemning something that
they knew nothing of. he switched off
to talk on Mohammedanism This,
also, he claimed. was not understood,
due largely to the fact that there was
no English his tory of Mohammed that
was not full of prejudice and error.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
FOREST FIRES.
Lead City, s. d.. Has Been Almost Wiped
Out, and Deadwood Is In Danger of De-
gtPuctfou.

Lead City, s. D.. Has Been Almost Wiped
Out, and Deadwood Is In Danger of De-
struction.
DEADwooD, S. D., Sept a1.-At $50
o'clock the forest fires reached Lead
City. The Homestake sawmills and
lumber yard were the first to go. This
made a hot fire and the flames, aided
by the prevailing strong wind, are now
making havoc among the frame build
ings of the town. Help has been called
from all neighboring towns. and 1,500
men are now battling with the flames.
At G o'clock the fire on the east had
reached the foothills, five miles from
here, and was threatening ranch prop
erty. The property of Henry Stearns
was burned to the ground and also that
of Charles Traver. The Stearns fam
lily drove two miles through the flames
The condition of old Mrs. Stearns, Mrs.
Henry Stearns, two boys, baby and
Frauk Stearns is critical The smoke
is suffocating. People are getting
ready to move. The Centennial hotel,
barns and outbuildings. valued at s12.-
600; Cliff house, outbuildings and fur
nishings, valued at $1,000; Plumbers
ranch and buildings, valued at So, 900.
and Thompson's valued at $1,000, are
total loss. All are situated three miles
from DeadwoOd
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29

An iron bridge on the Southern Pa
cifc railroad, six miles above New
Orleans, went down with train the
other night.
SIX men were blown to pieces by a
boiler explosion at Conley's Creek,
Swain county, \. c.
THE employees of the Marshaltown
iron works, Wilmington, Del, went
out on a strike ds a result of a notice
that all wages would be reduced.
OwINGsvILLE. KY, has been ravaged
by fire. Loss, $3.50, 900.
The remains of President Polk and
his wife have been removed from the
o.d fa,hiiy residence to the Tennessee
state capitol grounds.
The whitecaps who have been on
trial at Holly Springs, Miss. have been
acquitted and now the federal govern
ment has taken the cases up.
ONE hundred and twenty-five patients
have been admitted to the yellow fever
camp at Brunswick. Ga
ARTHUR HAZEL, of Philadelphia, was
bunkoed out of all his money by man
he met in Galveston, Tex.
EIGHT of the rioters were killed and
twenty-five wounded by the militia al
Roanoke, Va. The negro was finally
secured by the mob, hanged, shot and
burned with the usual horrible Incl
dents.
THE Memphis Appeal-Avalanche is
about to change hands.
THE Hecla Coal Mining Co., of Earl
ington, Hopkins county, Ky, made a
general assignment for the benefit OF
creditors
REV. j. T. CHESowITH, who was on
trial before the West Virginia Meth
ist Episcopal conference, now in session
at Grafton, W. Va, was given permis-
sion to withdraw from the ministry
and membership of the Methodist
church This ended the case.
JOIN FALLS, aged Is years. has been
convicted at Bonhan, Tex, of murder
ing his father and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
Return of the Disappointed.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept 2L.-The
trains on the Santa Fe and Rock Island
railways from the Cherokee strip ar
rived to-day heavily loaded with the
disappointed boomers. The Rock Island
train No. 4, which is due to arrive from
Hennessey, Enid, Pond Creek and
Caldwell at 7;30 o'clock, did not reach
the Union depot until noon and it has
been as late nearly every day this
week. There were crowds of passen-
gers waiting for the train at all sta
tions in the strip yesterday afternoon,
but MANY left the train at Wichita,
Herington. Mcfarland, Topeka and
other points.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
THE LATEST.

MITCHELL has signed articles to fight
Corbett at Coney Island some time in
December.
THE town of Mochowa. Russia, was
destroyed by fire. Eight persons were
burned to death. Hundreds of fam
lilies are homeless.
AN official statement prepared at the
pension bureau shows that the total
number of claims for pensions now
awaiting action at the bureau is 7o0,-
279.
FOURTEEN anarchists were arrested
in Vienna Many bombs were found
hidden at their place of meeting and
in their rooms
Two burglars were run down by the
marshal and students of the normal
school at Valparaiso, Ind. One burglar
was killed and the other badly wound
ed.
FRANK C. IVES, of Chicago. won the
sixth and last game of the billiard
series, winning from the English cham
pion, John Roberts. by total score of
6,O01 against Roberts 5,243.
JOE HARDING, the last of the Centra-
liza train robbers, was captured at Ca
seyville, Ill, after desperate resist
ance.
THE Russian warship Poulaska
founded in the gulf of Finland. The
crew of 100 perished.
RICE planters of Louisiana complain
of the scarcity of laborers in places
where lynchings have occurred
A SAN FRANCISCO was blown up by
dynamite and five men killed. The
house was occupied by non-union sail
ors and the outrage is charged to union
sailors, three of whom are under ar
rest
An anarchist threw bomb at Gen.
Martinez Campos at Barcelona, Spain,
severely wounding him. Several other
persons were injured and one killed
The anarchist was arrested.
Col WILLIAM MALONE, editor of the
Fort Worth, Tex, Gazette, is dead,
aged 53.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has written a
letter to Attorney-GeneralO Olney, stat
ing in effect that the treasury will pay
all expenses incurred for deporting
Chinese under the Geary law as far as
the means will permit
ARCHBISHOP KENRICK. of St. Louis,
has been deposed by Mgr. Satolli
IT is rumored in Berlin that the car
of Russia intends that his youngest
son. Michael, shall succeed him, dis
placing the two older sons.
A BLOODY street riot occurred il
Brooklyn between gangs Of Italians
and Irish street laborers and many
cracked heads was the result
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
BIRMINGHAM REPEATED.
A Mob Attempts to Lynch Negro Villain
at Roanoke, Va, and Is Fired Upon and
Many Killed and Wounded.

A Mob Attempts to Lynch a Negro Villain
ut Roanoke, Va. and Is Fired Upon and
Many Killed and Wounded.
ROANOKE, Va, Sept 21.-One of the
most dastardly crimes in the history of
the city occurred yesterday morning.
Mrs Henry s. Bishop, aged about so
years, from Cloverdale. miles from
this city, was enticed by a colored man
named Thomas Smith from the market
where she had come to sell produce,
into an empty saloon basement, beaten
into insensibility and robbed Of her
pocketbook, containing less than t2.
The fiend was captured and lodged In
Jail.
A crowd gathered around the jail
and kept increasing as night ap-
preached. At o'clock the Roanoke
Light infantry marched to the Jail by
orders of Maj. Trout. Guards were
posted and the streets in the immedi-
ate vicinity cleared About dark the
crowd incre ased by 100 men from the
vicinity of the woman's home, headed
by Mrs. Bishops son, fireman on the
Norfolk & Western railroad.
At o'clock portions of the mob bat
tered at side door of the Jail, where
the militia and Mayor Trout had re-
tired. The shooting was commenced
by the mob and the mayor shot in the
foot. The militia were then ordered
to return the fire, and volley from
about twenty-five rifles was poured
into the mob. Seven men were killed
by this fire and many more wounded
some of them fatally.
During the excitement caused by the
volley the prisoner was taken from the
Jail by an officer and secreted. The dead
and wounded were removed to a drug
store and the offices of nearby physi-
clans The militia then dispersed and
left the scene as quickly as possible.
The following is a list Of the dead
and injured as far as known at present:
Desd-S A. Wick. hotel proprietor: win
Charles Whitmore. conductor on the N & w.
railroad J. b Tyler. Blue Ridge; George
White. shot through the leg and bled to death;
W. Jones. engineer on the N. & W. railroad;
John w. Mills, distiller, Black Creek
Injured-George Settles. of Vinton, mortally
wounded; Otto Falls shot through the body,
will die; VIII Eddie. shot through groin. Tom
Nelson. leg of: Leroy White. shot in back; j.
B. McGhee, shot in the leg; - Shepherd,
shot in the leg; Z. J. Smith. shot in the abdo-
men: George o. Monroe, shot in the head;
Frank Mills shot in leg.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
THE EAST.

REV. DR. TALMAGE, in his sermon at
the Brooklyn tabernacle, offered a re-
ward of 500 to any inidel who had
read the Bible through twice in course
The acting commissioner of internal
revenue at Hartford, Conn. has ruled
that checks issued to workingmen dur
ing the currency stringency are subject
TO the 10 per cent. state bank tax.
A PORTION of a chimney and wall of a
New York synagogue fell through to
the first floor while services were being
held, creating great excitement, but in
juring no one seriously.
THE democratic convention of Penn
sylvania nominated a state ticket and
approved Cleveland's administration.
THE twenty-third anniversary of
Victor Emanuers unifcation of Italy
was celebrated by a parade of the
United Italian societies in New York
on the goth.
An order has been issued by the
Brooklyn & Union Elevated railway to
employees receiving over SLIGO per day
that their pay will be reduced 10 per
cent Six hundred and sixty employees
are affected.
THE bark Alamba, of Glasgow, after
being 161 days at sea. has dropped her
anchor in the upper bay, New York.
She left Columbo, Ceylon, April IL, and
was storm beaten during nearly the
entire voyage.
THE Boston fast express on the Hud-
son River road came into collision with
frainh& 4v-as ol-
]. Freight Conductor Herrick was
killed. Two cars were burned and the
two engines were thrown down an en-
bankment
JUDGE PUTNAM at Boston ordered a
verdict of not guilty in the case of Ex-
President Potts, of the Maverick bank,
on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
FIVE men were killed and six injured
by gas explosion in Lany No. II mine
near Wilkesbarre, Pa. The disaster
was caused by a naked light.
-~s strike of the Wick pottery a.
Kittanlng, Pa, NAs 3esia-& OF, tae
firm agreeing to pay union wages.
UNIoNTowN, Pa, is practically ont OF
water, the result of the long drought
The reservoir in the mountains gave
out and the pipes are empty.
Mrs DAVID DowDEN, living near
West Elizabeth, Pa, attempted to light
the fire with kerosene. An explosion
resulted, and Mrs. Dowden and her
child were burned to death.
THE Valkyrie has arrived safely at
New York. She is to contest with the
Vigilant for the America cup
LIvRIGHT, Mccoy & Co., the most
extensive soft coal operators in Clear
field county, with a main Office in
Philadelphia, lave failed.
WIRE rope workers of Roebling's
mills at Trenton, n. J., have struck
against the recent reduction of wages
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
GENERAL.

CHANCELLOR voN CAPRIvI has a scheme
which Emperor William favors-to
annex Alsace to the Grand Duchy OF
Baden and to annex Lorraine to Prus-
sia.
THE Russian delegates will start for
Berlin on September &c, in order to re-
open the negotiations for n treaty of
commerce between Russia and Ger
many.
The governor of New Zealand, the
earl of Glasgow, has signed the woman's S
suffrage bill.
THERE is danger of much trouble in
the Pas de Calais coal district of France.
The authorities have become alarmed
and have telegraphed for reinforce
ment of troops
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
ClipDinRs.

The servant girls who went to the
worlds fair are reported to be return
ing to their former homes. They thought
they saw excessively large wages in
Chicago while the fair was being held,
but they have not realized this expecta-
tion, and many of them are now out Of
a job.
John d. Rockefeller's losses in his
railroad investments are to be reckoned
well up in the millions, but he has still
several millions to spare. The Standard
oil business is yet good and it is an in
exhaustible mint of money for its pro-
prietors
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
LOSS OF A WARSHIP.
A Russian Vessel Founders With Officers
and Crew.

Russian Vessel Founders With Officers
and Crew.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 25.-Frag-
ments of woodwork, cots and other
wreckage have foated ashore in the
gulf of Finland, showing that the Rus
sian warship Pousalka, with ten Off
GERS and $50 seamen, has foundered
and that all hands are lost.
The Pousalka, as exclusively cabled
to the Associated press, sailed on
Tuesday from Revel, in the gulf of
Finland for Helingsport in the same
gulf and has not been heard from since
The Pousalka had four and a-half
inches of armor. carried four nine-inch
guns, was of 2, 600 tons displacement. had
7s6 indicated horse power, was classed as
having speed of twenty-eight knots.
She was built in 1867. The body of
sailor who is supposed to have be-
longed to the crew has been washed
ashore in the gulf of Finland and it is
known that heavy gales swept over
those waters soon after she left port
There is no doubt, as the admiralty
state, that the Pousallza has foundered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE president has sent in the name
of William P. Hornblower to fill Blatch-
ford's place on the supreme bench.
Van Allen, of New Jersey, has been
nominated ambassador to Italy.
SECRETARY GRESHAM has gone to his
farm, near Corydon, Ind, for short
vacation.
COMMISSIONER LAMoREAUx denies that
there was any laxity in maintaining
the border line prior to the opening OF
the Cherokee strip
The ways and means committee has
been hearing representatives of the
sugar interest.
THE democrats of the house have de
cided that the Tucker bill shall be de-
bated two weeks and then passed
THE senate in executive session con-
frmed the appointment of Joseph w.
Nichol, of Indiana, to be deputy second
comptroller of the treasury.
In order to more effectually break up
the smuggling of opium and celestials
into the United States in the vicinity
of Puget sound, Secretary Carlisle has
decided to send two more revenue cut
fers to that point
WITH the exception of Mr.. Geary,
every member of the house committee
on foreign affairs favors an extension
of time for the Chinese to register.
MGR. SAToLLI has returned to Wash
ington after his long tour through the
west and northwest As to the mes
sages received by him from the pope,
he said they were of a private nature.
An official statement of the pension
bureau shows the total number of pen
sions granted since March 4, 1898, is
55, ,399. OF these 4,12S were issued since
August 90, of which LIE were original
and l, 497 increases.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS LoCHREN
has issued his first annual report, in
which he discusses at length the recent
order which led to the suspension of
many pensioners
CENSUS SUPERINTENDENT PORTER has
submitted his annual report to the Sec
retary of the interior
AN agreement has been reached in
the senate by which in future that
body will be in session seven hours
daily.
CONGRESSMAN BRYAN has formulated
a bill materially increasing the penalty
for embeZzlement of funds from ma
tional banks by officials of such insti-
flItionS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
The Louisville q Nashville Strike.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 2L-The strik-
ing shopmen of the Louisville & Nash
vile Co. are of the belief that the rail-
road management is attempting to Sc
cure mechanics from other cities to
take their places. A report be-
came current that the shopmen
along the line of the company and
possibly the entire Newport News *
Mississippi Valley system, of which
the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern
is branch, were contemplating a
strike. Notice of a 10 per cent reduc-
ton was posted in the shops yesterday.
The reduction will not go into effect,
however, until the first of next month.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
THE DAIRY.

Cows SHOULD be kept off low, weedy
pastures
BUTTER that is long time coming is
said to be of inferior quality.
Cows SHOULD be milked daily at the
same time and by the same person
IT is said that when cows are fed on
bran the cream rises slowly and is hard
TO churn.
THE average yield of milk per cow in
Great Britain is said to be four hun
dred pounds year.
AIRING the milk thoroughly before
setting will help greatly in preventing
lad flavor in milk and butter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
KiIlcd at the Crossing.

. MARION. Ind, Sept. 25.-Two boys,
each about 16 years old. named respect
lively Conn Keller and Henry Frank,
were killed by the Panhandle east
bound express, as they attempted to
cross the track in front of it. Keller
lived about half an hour and Frank
about two hours. The buggy was
smashed, but the horses escaped.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29

OMAHA, Neb. Sept 25.-At Hazard,
Neb.. Ezra and Fred Dudley met death
in peculiar way. The boy, in play
ing, lost his ball in we'll and went
down after it. On his way out his hold
on the rope slipped and he fell His
father went to the rescue. When
raised nearly to the surface the rope
broke, and the father, with his son in
his arms, fell backward. Their skulls
were crushed and both were dead when
taken ont
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
Three In a Precarious Condition.

CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-Three of the six
iremen seriously injured during the
fire at w. III. Purcell & Co. s malthouse
Saturday night are considered in pre-
carious condition at the Alexian
Brothers hospital. They are Henry
Bassett, truckman: Fred Reichentroef,
pipeman. and John Stephens, pipeman.
All the others are recovering rapidly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
Where the Danger Lay.

Cool-headed Citizen-What are you
running for? The dog is going in the
opposite direction.
Fleeing Citizen (bareheaded and
frantic)-A policeman is shooting at
it!-Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29

CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-A drizzling rain.
which fell the greater part of the day,
kept people from. the fair yesterday.
The usual Sunday crowd did not ven
ture out. and the attendance was even
smaller than usual
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29

The United States fishery steamer
Albatross reports having made deep
sea soundings off the coast OF Alaska,
reaching depth of $500 fathoms, the
greatest depth ever reached
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29

Two burglars were run down by the
marshal and students of the normal
school at Valparaiso. Ind. One burglar
was killed and the other badly wound
ed
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-29
Why She Left.

Robbins-Why did your typewriter
leave you?
Ross-I refused to let her add post
scripts to my business letters.-Truth.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1893-09-13

NegocSGntes es GGnGdo Vacuno caballar.
Compra venta de todas classes de Ganado.
Constante existenois de novillos 6nos escogidoa
para bueyes, ganado de matanza de todas clases
novillos propios para embarque.
a- ALfareria.- Fabricaci6n de toda clase de ms
teriales precios muy imitados, CON ID ventaja
de contar esta aociedad con una empresa de cas
rros para fscilitar el trasporte de los materiaaa
donde Sc le pidan. s0-23
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-10-19
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
tex than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence Is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid.
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
90. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-10-19
To Fortell the weather.

A Spanish journal tells Of an In
teresting experiment to be tried with
a cup Of clear coffee and q lump Of
sugar The sugar should be dropped
into the coffee without stirring; in a
moment the air contained In the
sugar will rise to the surface In the
shape Of bubbles, and these bubbles
are excellent weather indications.
II they collect In the middle of the
cup a fair day follows; II, adversely
they adhere to the sides, forming a
ring of bubbles, with a clear space In
the center, take your umbrella, for
rain is at hand; while, II they do
neither one thing or the other, but
scatter irregularlN variable weather
is indicated.
Just what is the scientific explana-
ton of the action Of the atmosphere
on the bubbles Ia not stated, but that
their Indications curiOusly agree with
those Of barometer has been tested.
Golden Days