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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
THE SOUTH.

ROBERT HODGES, a wealthy retired
merchant of Baltimore, shot himself
dead in his room in the Maryland club.
Cause, grief over the recent deaths of
his mother and his wife.
S. E. DAVIS, prominent attorney of
Bentonville, Ark, brother-in-law of
Congressman Dinsmore, died from TIE
effects of an overdose Of morphine
taken accidentally.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, has a newly or
ganized commercial league.
FIVE men were drowned by their boat
upsetting while crossing the Little Red
river, near Searcy, Ark.
\ GREAT fire broke out in the Bowes
building, Louisville, KY, at midnight
on the 2d, destroying 5000, 900 worth OF
property.
SPREADING rails came near causing 4
disastrous wreck on the Georgia Cen
tral road near Lavender. The engine
tumbled into a ditch, and several pas
sengers were injured.
4 SPECIAL from Rome, Ga. announces
that village farming is about to be
established in that vicinity by northern
and eastern capitalists.
TWENTY Mexicans charged with
violation of the United States neutral
ity laws were arraigned before the
federal court at San Antonio, Tex
Sixteen pleaded guilty and the rest not
guilty. All of the accused We're officers
in the CARA revolutionary army.
THREE indictments have been found
against Cashier Redwine, of the defunct
Gate City National bank of Atlanta. Ga.
A MAN known as ''Old Dickey Ben
nett" died at Bentonville, Ark, the
other evening at the age of 10 years.
JOCKEY HAMLINE fell at the Cumber-
land park races, Nashville, Tenn, and
was badly injured.
MAIL advices to Galveston bring the
news that revolution has broken out
in Nicaragua. The movement is an
outcome of the o d hostility entertained
by the eastern department toward the
western department of the republic.
TROUBLE was looked for between the
editors of the Memphis Appeal-Ava-
lancbe and the Memphis Commercial on
account of an article which appeared in
the former paper.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12

Ex-PREsIDFNT BENJAMIN HARRISON
was elected by the Ohio commandery
of the military order of the Loyal Le-
gion of the United States as its COM
mander for the ensuing year.
Gov. PENNoYER, of Oregon, speaking
to an Associated press representative,
said: "The Gresham telegram is an in
suit to Oregon. l will enforce the law
of the state and the president should
enforce the laws of congress. 1t comes
with poor grace for the president to
ask me to enforce the state laws while
he, without warrant, suspends the ex-
clusion law"
LESS than $1,000 people, it is said,
paid cash for admission the second day
If the worlds fair, although 100000
people were in the park. The paid ad-
missions at Philadelphia the second
day numbered IA, 722.
ONE of the young Egyptians at the
worlds fair attempted suicide in hit
of homesickness.
A WE'LL planned effort to wreck and
rob passenger train on the Lake Erie
e. Western, near Lima, o., was discov-
cred in time to frustrate it.
Mrs. POTTER PALMER created some
excitement by threatening to resign as
president of the board of lady mana
gers of the worlds fair.
COMMENT is made that ex-President
Harrison and ex-Vice President Morton
were not invited to the worlds fair open
ing or the naval review.
RIGHT REV. JOHN j. KAN, bishop of
Wheeling, W. Va, has been formally
announced as coadjutor to Archbishop
Kenricl1, of st. Louis.
A PLAN is on foot to connect Detroit
and Toledo by an electric railway.
THE proposed Sioux City, Chicago &
Baltimore road has already received
proffers from other Iowa roads to be
taken in.
THE gates of the worlds fair will be
open on Sunday, but the public will
have access only to the horticultural
building and the greenhouses.
THE Boston-to-Chicago bicycle race
ended when Bliss and Van Cicl1len
reached Chicago with the message from
Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts,. The
journey was completed in little less
than 122 hours or twenty-five hours
behind schedule time. The delay was
due to bad roads.
An east and west rate of S44.50 has
been put in effect between California
and Missouri river points.
The Chinese Six Companies has is
sued another circular warning all Chi
nese not to register under the Geary
law under heavy penalty.
A LETTER from Chilli received at San
Francisco tells of the killing of Frank
Matthewson, an American railroad sur
veyor, by mob of Gillian half-breeds
near Conception. He was cut to pieces
with knives.
JOHN KUsLER, farmer living near
Guthrie, Ok, has died suddenly under
circumstances which lead the coroner
to believe he was poisoned.
OLA and Mercedes Plows, beautiful
young ladies of Chicago, attempted sui
eide with morphine on account of an
unhappy home life Ola died, but
Mercedes recovered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
floating Accident.


GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May S.-Emma
Bottman and Cornelius f. Smallen-
gange took boat at North park yes
terday afternoon for row on the river
Shortly after leaving the float Miss
Bottnan insisted upon rowing. The
swift current carried the boat against
the crib and Smallengange stuck out
his foot to push the boat off, but cap
sized it instead. He grasped Miss BOtt-
man by the hair, but the struggles of
the woman wore him out and both dis
appeared beneath the water. Other
boaters, seeing the accident, rowed to
the spot and several men dived for
them. Smallengange was brought
ashore just alive, but his recovery is
doubtful. Miss Bottmans body has
not been recovered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
Something Like a Crt.

DENVER, Col. May S.-The railroad war
in Colorado is fiercer than ever The
Midland has just announced rate of 25
cents between Denver and all mount
ain points. This is a reduction from
former rates of about sl7. The new
rate of 25 cents applies between Denver,
Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Canon City
and Leadville, Aspen, Glenwood
Springs, Rifle Creek and all intermedi-
ate points. Children's fare will be Is
cents The Atchison-Midland asserts
that there is no prospect of rates being
restored until their competitors are
prepared to keep their agreements.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
THE WEST

SURVIVORS of the ill-fated Sultana,
blown up in war time, held a reunion
at Toledo, o.
Bob WARNER was swept away and
drowned in Cahol5ia creek at Edwards
vile, Ill
MAsTODoN remains have been dis
covered at Bluff Springs, Ill
SIX men were burned to death in a
terrible fire at boarding house in
Burlington, Ia. the other morning.
A sOUTHBoUSD Missouri. Kansas &
Texas passenger train was held up and
robbed at Pryor Creek. I. T., on the
night of the I'd. The robbery was cred
tied to the Starr gang.
INVESTIGATION of the affairs of the
Union Trust Co., at Sioux City. Ia,
shows liabilities of s6,00O,O0O.
THE Toledo & Ann Arbor has de-
faulted the interest of its C per cent.
bonds. President Sloan denies that
the Lacl1awanna has secured control of
the road.
WORLDS fair guards want SIS month
more wages.
TIE great reservoir at Lewiston, o.,
burst during the heavy rains. Great
damage was done, but without loss of
life 50 far as known. The reservoir
covered Il, 900 acres.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
GENERAL.

IT is not likely that Mrs. J. Ellen
Foster will be cordially welcomed by
temperance women in Great Britain.
who have an antipathy to her and Lady
Somerset for bringing politics into the
question. There may be a split as in
the United States.
A CATTLE plague imported from CEN
tral Russia has caused the death of TO-
600 cattle about Odessa, Russia, in the
past four months.
THE revolution in Cuba is assuming
serious proportions and the government
of Spain is taking active steps to sup
press it.
SIR JULIAN PAUSCEForE, British am
bassador to this country, is suffering
from gout.
THE British official report on emigra-
tion for 1892 shows that $1,000 persons
left Ireland last year. or S,S6s fewer
than in 1891. The total number of
Irish emigrants since 1851 is 3,4Is,3S3.
LADY SOMERSET was, reelected p-esi-
dent of the British Woman's Temper
ance association against bitter protests.
The minority left the convention in in
dignation. Lady Somerset represents
the faction favorable to the introduc-
tion of politics into temperance. similar
to that led by Mrs. Ellen IL. Foster in
this country.
EIGHTEEN stOl1ers of the British war
ship Amphion have been convicted at
Malta of mUtiny. Five have been sent
TO prison for eighteen months each.
HONOLULU advices state that the vol
cano Kilauea is active. The lake of
FIRE that has for twelve years confined
itself to an area of about twelve acres
in the innermost crater has risen fully
ten feet and row the whole center of
about 100 acres is a mass of molten lava.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12

WILLIAM c. RENFRo. of Norman, has
been appointed governor of Oklahoma.
THE German army bill was defeated
by decisive vote, and the reichstag
was at once dissolved.
LATEST reports from the revolution
in Honduras tell of the complete over
throw OF the rebel leader Bonilla.
ONE of the schemes of the opposition
to delay action on the Irish home rule
bill has been knocked out by decision
of the speaker.
AS arranged three Cinnamon were
arrested in New York to make cases to
test the constitutionalty of the Geary
law.
THE wife of Chauncey NJ. Depew, the
well known railroad magnate and
after dinner speaker, is dead.
THERE was a disastrous wreck on the
Big Four at Lafayette, Ind, early on
the morning of. the eth, a passenger
train crashing into the depot, due to
the failure of air brakes to work
TIE gates OF the worlds fair were
not opened to the general public on
Sunday. Holders of passes, however,
were admitted.
The New Orleans Delta newspaper
has suspended publication.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado did much
damage in the vicinity of Gainesville
and Whitesboro, Tex.
II rear end freight collision at Tad
nor, o., five tramps, who were stealing
ride, were killed.
THE British crews won two of the
three international boat races at New
York, Russians winning the third.
A CINCINNATI & MEMPHIS steam
packet blew up on the Mississippi
twenty-four miles below Cairo, III.
Twenty-Five men were scalded, six be-
ing killed.
A SCHOOL boy named Grueber shot
Father Puronka in Olemutz, Austria,
with a revolver and then killed him
self. The priest will recover. Puronka
had interfered in Grueber's love af-
fairs
The customs authorities at New York
are satisfied that the jewelry, worth
nearly 100000, which was captured by
the Williamsburg police, is the property
King Leopold II.
THERE was great excitement in Dub
lin over the dynamite explosion and
was believed that the object of it was
TO embarrass the government.
ANOTHER band of murderous Navajos
attacked two cowboys in Colorado and
killed one of them.
AT Casey, Ind, the roof of a new
brick kiln caved in, crushing and kill
ing three workmen.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
BY THE PRESIDENT.
An Order Eorbidding Any Further Per.
sOnal solicitation.

An order EOrDiudinS Any urtner fer-
sOnal solicitation.
WASHINGTON, May S.-The following
has been issued by the president for
publication:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May SIT has been
apparent after two months experience that
the rules heretofore promulgated regulating in
terviews with Tie president have wholly failed
in operation. The time which under these
rules was SET apart for The receipt on cf Sena-
tors and repress natives has been almost en-
tirelv spent in listening 10 applications Cor Of
flee which have been bewdering in volume.
pcrplexing and exhaust!ng in ;heir iteration
and impossible Of remembrance.
a due regard for pubic duty which must be
neglected ii present conditions continue and an
observance OF the limitations placed upon hu-
man endurance oblice me to decline, from ard
after this date, ali personal interviews with
those seeking appointments TO Office, except as
I. on my own motion. may especially invite
them The same consideration maze il i'm
possible for me TO receive those who merely
desire to pay their respects except on the days
and during the hours especially designated for
that purpose
l earnestly request senators and representa-
;iyes to aid NE in securing for them uninter
rupted interviews by declining 10 introduce
their constituents ana when visiting the Exec
uiive mansion during the hours designated for
their reception. Applicants for Office VIII only
prejudice their prospects by repeated impor-
tunity and by remaining at Washington TO
await results
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
A Calculator.

The young man wanted position in
a concern not known for the large sal
aries it paid, and he was calculating
young person with wife.
I'VE can give you fifty dollars a
month" said the manager.
Fifty month, did you say?" he
questioned, taken abaclk.
Yes"
The young man was silent until the
manager became nervous.
well, he said, what do you say?''
I've got to have time to answer"
"What's that for?n
well, I've got to study up some plan
or other to make enough money to en-
able me to accept that amount of sal
ary," and he went away to think about
it--Detroit Free Press
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
Silver Purchases.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-The treasury
department has commenced to buy an
other monthly quota of 4.500,O0O ounces
of silver bullion. 1t purchased $4,000
ounces, paying about 81 cents an ounce.
The total amount of bullion which has
been purchased under the Sherman act
is now 14S, 2l5, 900 ounces.
Senator Jones. of Nevada, one of the
delegates to the international monetary
conference, was in the Office of the di-
rector of the mint when the purchase
was made. He mentioned that the
treasury since the Sherman act went
upon the books had paid ss high as s1.2s
an ounce for silver.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
TEE EAST.

THE American steamer Paris beat the
new Cunarder Campania on the ocean
race from Queenstown, ireland, to New
York by several hours.
The play ''Antigone" is to be pre-
sented in the original Greek by the
students at Vassar college.
A CUT in the wages of skilled work
men at Homestead, Pa, has excited the
town. Many of the men threw down
their tools.
The Cohn, Ball & Co. clothing COM
pany of New York and Pittsburgh, Pa,
has assigned. The assets are valued at
5000, 900.
SENATOR FRYE eulogized the late
Hon. James G. Blaine at a meeting held
in his memory at Boston on the night
of the I'd.
AT the semi-annual meeting of the
directors of the Pennsylvania road a ~
per cent. dividend was declared.
A SENSATION has been caused by the
Reading defaulting payment of semi
annual interest on and 5 per cent.
bonds of the Philadelphia & Reading
and New England roads.
THE Grand Trunk railway has paid
into the Maine treasury S1S2, ,797, being
the amount of back taxes, payment of
which the railroad had resisted for sew
eral years.
Gov. FLOWER has denied the applica-
ton for clemency for Carlyle w. Harris
and he will die in the electrical chair
at Sing Sing.
THE Episcopal convention chose Dean
Lawrence, of the Episcopal Divinity
school of Harvard university (the broad
churchmen's candidate), as bishop of
the diocese of Massachusetts.
EDWARD ATKINSON, of Boston, who
has been investigating western farm
mortgages, declares that his researches
show that western farmers are not in
numbered so heavily with obligations
as is believed by most people.
THERE was a semi-panic on Wall
street on the 4th, caused by the failure
of three houses owing to the big slump
in National Cordage stock.
FLOODS were prevalent throughout
New York, New England and Pennsyl-
vania, due to heavy rains.
EFFORTS are being made at New York
to fight the white lead trust by an op-
position company.
S. V. WHITE, the stock jobber, failed
again at New York during the excite
ment over the bear raids on Cordage,
Sugar, Whisky and other industrial Sc
curitieS A better feeling afterward
Set in and it was said White would re-
sumo.
THE block on the east side of Broad
way between Forty-fourth and Forty
fifth streets, New York, was complete
ly destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at from S125, 900 to $4,000
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
Lynchers Denounced.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 8. In
charging the grand jury yesterday
Judge Moon spoke in way to alarm
the lynchers of the negro Blount, who
was hanged here by mob a few weeks
ago on u charge of outraging a white
woman. The judge said: The court
is powerless to enforce the criminal law
without the aid of the grand jury. II
you fear not to do your duty, mobs may
herea fter know that the law declares
that they must die that it may live, and
that cowardly congregations of citizens
who take with violent hands the life of
q prisoner of the law are murderers in
the first degree"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
RIVER DISASTER.
A Steamboat Boiler Explodes,
Scalding % Persons
SIX Of THE VICTIMS DEAD.
Four More Bound to Die-Much Live Stock
Killed-Insane With Pain. the Sec
ond Mate browns Him.
self.

CAIRO, H., May S.-One of the worst
catastrophes which has occurred in this
region for years took place on the Mis-
sissippi river at Wolf island. twenty,
four miles below the city, at 7:45 yester'
day morning. A rear end of one of the
boilers of the steamer Ohio, 4 Cincin'
natl and Memphis packet, blew out
filing the deck cabin with steam and
boiling water. Several of the deck
hands and deck passengers, who were
eating breakfast at the time, We're lit
orally cooked alive and large number
received serious burns. Following is a
list of the dead:
William Huerstman, colored, fireman,
st. Louis.
Hampton Collifs, colored. Memphis.
Thomas Woods, colored, residence
unknown.
Cyrus Meyer, white. second mate, of
Cincinnati, jumped into the river and
was drowned.
Two colored men unidentified.
Following is Il list of the injured,
many of whom will die: r. w. Crews,
of Danville. Va; Fred Neal, of Column
bus, Miss; Charles Jackson, fireman, of
Cincinnati: James Howard. Roebloom,
Mo-; Colder Tate, of Memphis; William
jackson, of Washington, Pa; William
Henry, of Memphis: Albert Robinson,
of Cincinnati; George Washington, of
Memphis; John Ralph, of Cincinnati; C..
]. Patterson, white. cook, of Memphis;
William II. Dyke, deck passenger, New
port, Ky.
The widest CONSERVATION reigned on
board the boat and the screams Of the
passengers and the groans and appeals
of the victim made the scene terrible
one. The poat could proceed no
further, and for several hours it lay at
the bank while the unfortunate victims
lay on the deck writhing in agony and
calling aloud for aid. At last the tug
Egeus hove in sight. She was
hailed and the sufferers. twenty
two in number, were transferred
to her deck and then Immediately
steamed to this city. Word had been
telegraphed ahead and every physician
in town was on the wharf to meet her.
The suffering of the victims was ale
waited as much as possible. but before
they could be removed from the boat
four of them were dead. The re-
mainder were transferred to the United
States Marine hospital. Another one
died soon after reaching there, and the
surgeon declares that ten of the sixteen
now in the hospital will die.
Cyrus Meyers, the second mate, was
terribly scalded. He was insane with
pain, and to relieve himself jumped in
to the river. He went to the bottom at
once and was seen no more. c. l. Pat
terson, of Orange, n. j., will recover.
None of the cabin passengers were in
jured. The boat was badly disabled
by the accident. She was towed up
the river and reached here last night.
Her passengers will be forwarded to
their destinations by rail. The cargo
largely consisted of live stock, and
many head were killed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12

Bellingham Bay, Wash, is an i'm
portant lumber shipping point. Con-
tracts have been made for lumber and
shingles requiring 1.5Oo men to fill
The people of the northern part OF
Fremont county. Wyo., are jubilant
over the prospect of the b. & NJ. build
ing through there this year. With a
railroad through the Big Horn basin,
one of the richest sections in the west
in natural resources will be opened up.
The country abonnds in good farming
lands, mines. marble quarries and a
great many ether resources that will be
tempting to capital
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
A WIDESPREAD BELIEF.
The Railway Nightmare Provokes an I'm
easY EeeIing In the EasX Eat.

The Railway Nightmare Provokes an I'M
easy Feeling in the Easy East.
NEW YORK, May 3.-There is wide
spread belief in the east that western
railroad employees will make trouble
soon. The decisions of Judges Taft
and Riclls in the conspiracy and con-
tempt proceedings in the United
States courts against the striking
engineers on the Toledo, Ann Ar
Dor & North Michigan rail-
road, affecting the right of en-
gineers and firemen to quit work, have
stirred the Brotherhood of Engineers
all over the country and it is under
stood that word has been issued to all
the members of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers to get even"
with certain railroads at the time when
they will need all of the men they can
get
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
August
Flower

"What is August Flower for ?"
As easily answered as asked. 1t is
for Dyspepsia. It is special rem
edy for the Stomach and Liver
Nothing more than this. We believe
August Flower cures Dyspepsia.
We know it will. We have reasons
for knowing it. To-day it has an
honored place in every town and
country store, possesses one of the
largest manufacturing plants in the
country, and sells everywhere. The
reason is simple. 1t does one thing,
anddoesitright. Itcures dyspepsia9
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12

BANK EXAMINER MADISON BETTs has
been ordered by the comptroller of the
currency to take charge of the Column
bian bank at Jackson, Tenn.
THE treasury is confronted with the
prospect that expenditures this year
will exceed receipts by s1O,OOO,OOO.
CEIEsTIALs will not be arrested until
the Geary act has been tested.
THE war department has approved
the plan for the construction of a bridge
across the Mississippi above New Or
leans. The general plan of the struc-
ture is in conformity with the provisions
of the bill authorizing the building of
a bridge which was passed at the last
session of congress.
SECRETARY SMITH met the Cherokee
delegates on the Sd about the settling
of the strip matters, but nothing was
accomplished at the meeting.
SECRETARY GRESHAM feared an upris-
ing against the Chinese in the western
states, on account of their failure to
comply with the Geary law, and took
active measures to prevent it.
EDWIN Dun, of Ohio, recently ap-
pointed minister to Japan, called on
Secretary Gresham and took the oath
of Office. He will sail for Japan in
about month.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER BROWNING has
reported to the president that he does
not favor the appointment of army Off
GERS as Indian agents
AT the state department no sig
= ID % al Of
the Russian consul-general to sign a
passport issued to Jewess by Secretary
Gresham, as the law of Russia is recog-
nized to be against the admittance of
Jews to the country.
IT is believed that ex-Congressman
Scott Wike will be appointed second
assistant secretary of the treasury to
succeed Mr.. Spaulding.
The gold reserve is about 81, 900, 900
short, and is likely to be further in
vaded, but Secretary Carlisle regards
the situation as thoroughly satisfactory.
Hon. RICHARD DALTON has been ap-
pointed collector at st. Louis.
ONE hundred and fifty-one new ma
tional banks have been authorized since
the first of the year.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has approved of
a proposed issue of bonds by the Chero-
KEGS on the consummatiOn of the sale
of the strip to the government.
A RULING by Superintendent Stump
regarding the admission to this country
of alleged contract laborers has dis
closed big loophole in the immigra-
ton law.