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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
THE CRONIN CASE.
Mira. Foy Gives Damaging Testimony
Against COughlin.

Mira. Foy Gives Damaging Testimony
Against Coughiin.
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-Mrs. Andrew Foy,
pale and nervous and guarded by a po-
lice officer, appeared in court ready to
testify in the Coughlin case. Her hus-
band, she said, did not appear at her
home last night, and guarded by de-
tail of policemen she had been undis-
turbed For fear that she would be in
tercepted on her way to the scene of
the trial she appeared in the court
room long before the hour for the con-
vening of court and patiently waited to
be called to the witness stand. The
warning letter received by her is as fol-
lows:
Don't be traitor. Look out for yourself and
little family. and remember the fate OF Judas,
who went out AMI hung himself ard whose
body burst open and let his bowels be scattered
on the ground
When Mrs. Foy was called the spec
tators leaned forward in their seats
and the attorneys crowded toward the
witness stand eager to hear every
word. During the examination the
defense interposed objections to almost
every question put by the state. and
her story proceeded slowly. She stated
that she knew Coughlin, Martin Burke
and Patrick Cooney, all of Them having
been at her homes. Coughlin first ap-
peared there in March or April, 1882
several times. He had visited her
husband and the two talked in whisp-
ers On one visit she surprised her hus-
band and the prisoner, while reading a
etter. Coughlin read it aloud. As she
entered from another room she caught
he words: Remove him at all hazard |
put use your discretion" Coughlin had |
'taid two hours that night and then |
vent away without speaking to her.
Mrs. Foy then told of two visits of
;ooney at which he and her husband
lad held conversations in low tones,
4lways with the door closed.
Mrs. Foy gave in detail full history
Il the meeting of the conspirators and
'oughlin's connection with it. Her
estimony created quite n sensation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
THE SANTA EE
Receivers Appointed for ths Sreat Ran.
road System - The Bonde. Indebted

Receivers Appointed for ths sreat Rail-
road System - The Bondo. Indebted
ness
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Dec 26.-The ex-
pected in the railroad world happened
Saturday. The Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe and St Louis & San Francisco
railroads and branches, comprising the
Santa Fe system proper, have been
placed in the hands of three receivers.
the order being made by United States
Circuit Judge II. c. Caldwell in cham
bers, this city.
The application was made by the
Union Trust Co., of New York. trustees
for the bondholders of the Atchisou.
Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Mercantile
Trust Co.. of New York, trustees for
the bondholders of the st. Louis e. San
Francisco.
The first intimation of decisive action
was received at o'clock SATURDAY.
afternoon when a special arrived over
the Iron Mountain with prominent
railroad attorneys and officials on
board, who fastened to the federal
court house and were soon closeted
with United States Circuit Judge III. C.
Caldwell, who had arrived from st.
Louis the night before.
The distinguished party included
George +. Sharett, clerk of the United
States circuit court of Kansas, of To-
peka; George r. Peck, general solicitor
OF the Atchison. Topeka G. Santa Fe, of
Chicago; Z. ID. Kenna, general solicitor
of the St Louis & San Francisco, of st.
Louis; III. L. Morrill,, general manager
and second vice president of the 'Fris-
co, OF st. Louis; Charles +. Alexander
and w. w. Green, of the firm of Alex
ander & Green, New York, counsel for
the Mercantile Trust Co., of New York.
and A. A. Rossington, of Topeka, coun-
sci for the Union Trust Co., of New
York.
They remained closeted with Judge
Caldwell until $50, when an order
was agreed upon appointing three re-
ceivers for the Santa Fe system, ]. w.
Reinhart, president of the Santa Fe |
system; j. j. McCool1, general counsel |
Of the Santa Fe system, and Joseph C. |
clerk of the United States
district court at Topeka, Kan, the lat
,er being compromise receiver, the
'ailroads having recommended Rein
hart, McCook and George c. Nicker-
'on, the latter a director for the sys-
em, but who was objected to by the
The receivers met with
10 resistance on the part of the rail-
Dad companies, and an agreement was
,asily reached
The bonded Indebtedness aggregates
232, 100000, as follows: $3.50, 900, 900
irst mortgage bonds; ST.. 900. 900 class
"A" second mortgage bonds; s., 900, 600
lass ''B' mortgage bonds. The inter-
st due January will aggregate nearly
5, 600, 900. and the floating debt is about
J, 900, 900, making a total liability of
24O, 600, 600
j. w. Reinhart and j. J. McCook.
'vo of the receivers, are well known in
abroad circles throughout the coun-
~; the other receiver, Joseph C. VIII
On, has been twice mayor of Topeka,
nd is considered very level headed
ian.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
susPEhplha PENSIONS.
First Attempt to Get q Judicial De.
In flnu

1 First Attempt to Get q Judicial De-
termination.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-The first at
tempt to get judicial determination
of the right of the commissioner OF
pensions to suspend a pensioner from
the rolls came up before Justice Brad
ley. of the supreme court of the Dis
trict of Columbia 1t is brought in the
form Of an application by Charles ID.
Long, justice of the supreme court of
Michigan, for a mandamus to compel
Commissioner Lochren to restore him
to his full rating at s72 per month.
Commissioner Lochren and ex-Com-
missioner Tanner were present, and
the legal array included Mr.. E. Il.
Whitney, assistant attorney-general,
representing the government. and Mr..
Thomas S. Hopkins, of Washington,
and Mr.. +. A. Baker, of Detroit repre-
senting Judge Long.
Mr.. Hopkins opened for the petition.
er. He spoke of the legal aspects of
the case, and then vigorously attacked
the pension policy of Commissioner
Lochren and President Cleveland, de-
claring ''the first administration of
President Cleveland was narrow, lib
eral and parsimonious to the soldier"
When Assistant General
Whitney arose. he scored Counsel Hop
kins for his reference to the refusal to
allow him access to papers. He accused
Hopkins of speaking for the newspa-
pers, and said that the former loose ad.
of the pension bureau was
a matter of public scandal. He spoke
OF the pension for permanent helpless
ness granted to Judge Long, and re-
ferred to the compliments occupancy
OF the office of supreme court Judge in
Michigan at $4,000 a year.
Commissioner Lochren, in defending
his action, said he had suspended PEN
sions only in cases where they were
plainly illegal He referred to the Nor !
folk case, where the claims were based |
On fraudulent testimony. AS he had |
the power of suspension his oath of |
office required him to exercise it when
necessary in his judgment. In every
;ase, he concluded, he had given the
benefit of the doubt to the soldier.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

In a CAVERN at Carnegie's new mill at
Homestead fourteen workmen were
killed and four badly hurt
DEsTIrUTIoN at Paterson. n j., is in
creasing rather alarmingly.
The Wakefield Rattan Co.'S premises
and other buildings were destroyed by
fire at Boston. The loss was $500, 900.
FOUR persons were seriously injured
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, by a runaway
trolley car.
In Bennington, Vt, the national
bank, Hamilton's clothing store. Esta-
brooks opera house and the Carpenter
house and block in Manchester have
burned Loss, 100000; partially in
sured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
A GRANGER'S GOOD WORK.
Farmer Pilia Tells How He Killed Tw.
Confidence Men While They Were Rob
bling Him.

Farmer Pilia Tells How He Killed Two
Confidence Men While They Were Rob-
bling Him.
SIOUX CITY. Ia, Dec. est has been
established that G. II. Myer and George
Blum. the crooks who were killed in a
confidence gangs rendezvous in this
city. were shot by A. III. Pilla, a we'll
TODD farmer from Chadsworth, la.
Pilla arrived in the city from Kansas
City last evening and gave himself up
to the police.
He said: II was at the Union depot;
Myer asked me out to have a drink and
coaxed me to the confidence joint They
wanted me to draw in a lottery to get
suit for 81, and demanded that show
them more money.
Il took SIS out of my pocketbook,
which contained $50, and both Myer
and Blum grabbed for it They held
my hands and we fought quite while
before got loose. Then they grabbed
me again and l shot them. would
have given myself up before, but had
business to attend to and did not know
how long / would have to stav. so l
went on and transacted my business
When l got through | came back here
TO stand trial if necessary"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
Will Not Aid the Fighters.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Dec 23-The
Duval Athletic club received a setback
yesterday in its efforts to pull off the
Corbett-Mitchell fight The attorney
for the club app AIRED before Gov.
Mitchell at Tallahassee and made ap-
plication for charter. This the gov
ernor fatty refused, stating that under
cover of the charter the club proposed
to violate the laws of Florida
OF course this proved bomb to the
sports, and their CONSERVATION was
further increased by the knowledge
that strong letter against the fight
had been written by the governor to
Mr. L. r. Tysen, of this city.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
DerNiaheR Rented.

CAIRO, Dec. 23.-Advices from Masso-
wah, Egypt, say that the Italian forces
have been again confronted by a large
force of dervishes. the latter arrived
there at o'clock on the evening of De-
cember ?; there were 1900 of the tribes
men, armed with clubs. and 1000 more
were armed with spears
In order to forestal, night attack
Col. Airimondi, in command of the gal
liant troops, took the offensive After
a pitched battle, which lasted two
hours, the dervishes were routed and
driven across the Barrear river, leav.
Ing hundreds of dead upon the field
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
THE LATEST.

A BAD fire broke out in the stables N
the Homewood driving park. Pitts
Durgh' Pa, on the morning of the Goth.
Every building was burned.
EXTENSIVE fires were raging in Biz
mlngham, Ala. on the night of the
25th.
a PROMINENT German ecclesiastic be-
iieves that the acton of the reichstag
In voting to admit the Jesuits to Ger
many will not be ratified bv the federal
council
Ex-Gov. BIGes. of Delaware, died at
Mlddletown, Del, recently.
The extensive plant of Ell Democratic,
a City of Mexico daily newspaper,
which was confiscated by the govern
ment several months ago, has been do
mated to the orphans asylum of that
city.
CHRISTMAS at Washington passed
very quietly. the principal feature
being the large number of presents re-
ceived by the White house babies
FIRE on the 25th destroyed large
block in San Francisco, including the
offices OF the Call and Bulletin.
CHAUNCEY ii. ANDREWS, a noted man.
ufacturer and millionaire of Youngs-
town, o., died there recently.
IHE Grecian chamber has been dis
solved
SENATOR WHITE, of California. ex-
presses the belief that the Chinese have
FULLY made up their minds to comply
with the requirements of the Geary law.
CHAIRMAN SAVERS, of the house COM
mittee on appropriations, desires to do
away with the present laws relating to
permanent and indefinite appropria-
tons.
Gov. FIsHBACK, of Arkansas, has ad-
dressed an open letter to President
Cleveland, calling his attention to the
tact that the Indian territory is a hot
bed of criminals
THE meeting of the so-called con-
sress OF Dutch socialists at Grogingen |
resulted in violent quarrels and disor-
Ter. Fifty-six sections of the socialist |
party were represented
REFERRING to the action of the board |
If stewards of the Blood-horse associa-
ION In refusing to permit further en- |
rles OF the horses of Frank Van Ness,
he San Francisco Examiner prints a
tatement that the in and out running |
II the Elkton horses was due to the |
act that they had been drugged. hypo-
Iermic injections being used to stimu-
ate the runners to overdo themselves.
HE Nictheroy has gone to sea, seek.
ng the revolutionary vessels. and il is
'elieved that a great naval battle be-
ween the opposing forces of Brazil is
imminent
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

| Train Robbers Go Through Missouri Pa
cifc Train Near the Kansas State Line in
the Indian Territory.
CoFFEYvILLE, Kan, Dec. 25.-South-
bound train No. 80 on the Iron Mount
ain division of the Missouri Pacific,
which left this station at $50 o'clock
last evening, was held up and thor
oughly robbed by five masked men at
Seminole station in the Indian terri
tory, five miles south of Coffeyyille.
The lock was broken, and the train
run on the siding on which box car
was standing, on which was a red Ian
tern. The point of robbery is a small
station on the open prairie.
The engineer, James Harris, was
carefully guarded by one of the men
with Winchester, while the rest pro-
ceeded to rob the mail, express car and
every passenger on the train, from the
smoker to the sleeper.
The leader was tall man. who went
through the cars and relieved the
frightened passengers of their money
and valuables, while the party kept up
a fusilade with their Winchesters and
revolvers- They evidently secured a
large amount of booty.
A party of young people fl ON Coffey-
vile, who were out driving, aat in their
conveyance close to the scene and wit
messed the affair and were the first to
bring the news of the robbery to town.
Several gentlemen of this city, who do
business in the territory, were on the |
train and were victims of the brigands |
Fortunately no one was injured BY the |
shooting, which was all done by the |
One young man who was in the |
smoker got up as the robbers came in |
and walked ahead of them through the
different cars in hope of evading them.
When they got to the rear of the last
,ar they caught him. took his watch
and SIT and made him jump off.
The robbers held the train about an
hour and half and the rear lights on
he car could be seen from the Missouri
Pacific yards here while the train was
oeing robbed.
Conductor Brownell, the engineer,
fireman and porters were relieved of
they E>1. even to their
'ocket knives The train continued on
oward Fort Smith after being relieved,
nd the desperadoes mounted their
lorses and left in a westerly direction
They were dressed in cowboy outfits,
nd were all young men, They are a
emnant of the Starr gang, and from
he description given by Conductor
the leader is Jim Wooten, the
elbow who led the raid on the Mound
ALLEY bank.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
800 Reward. s,oo.

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and assisting naturein doing its work. The,
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tive powers, that they offer One Hundred
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Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F. j. CHENEY q Co. Toledo n
az Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, 25 cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
THE SOCTH.

IN the Virginia legislature on the 10Th
Gen. Epha Hunton was elected United
States senator for the short term and
Thomas S. Martin for the long term.
The body of Express Messenger Rich
ardson was found in his car on the
Southern Pacific road near Houston.
lex He had been brutality murdered
and the safe robbed by unknown men
JAMES w. BOWLING, late cashier of
the New Orleans mint. has been in.
dicted for embezzling $3.50 by the
federal grand jury.
LATE developments in the Kentucky
Mailing Co.'S affairs which recently
failed. show a bad state of affairs 1t
is hardly probable now that the credit
ors will receive more than IS cents on
the dollar.
D. b. BEEMAN, ex-congressman, was
called to the door of his residence near
Ely, Miss, and after being brutally
beaten was robbed of $3.50. He was
seriously injured.
Two prisoners who had been denied
bail escaped from the Camden, Ark,
Jail the other night
GEORGE ID. fRoCHAFKA, proprietor Of
the American rice mills at New Or
leans, whose works were destroyed by
fire, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head. The fire and bust
ness reverses unsettled his mind and
are given as the causes for his rash act.
Mrs. ScAFFIDI was awarded a yer.
dict of only $500 for the lynching of
her husband at New Orleans, and the
judge set the verdict aside as ridicu-
lousy small
-FOUR men were killed and three bad
ly hurt by boiler explosion at the
Alexandria lumber mill, Knoxville.
Tenn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
German
Syrup

My niece, Emeline Hawley, wa,
taken with splitting blood, and she
became very much alarmed, fearing
that dreaded disease, Consumption.
She tried nearly all kinds of medi-
cine but nothing did her any good.
Finally she took German Syrup and
she told me it did her more good
than anything she ever tried. It
stopped the blood, gave her strength
and ease, and a good appetite. /
had it from her own lips. Mrs
Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn.
Honor to German Syrup. q
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
THE FAST.

IN Philadelphia the Rockford Knit.
ting Co, manufacturers of underwear.
have started their mills on full time.
employing 1e5 hands
VoLTARINE DE CLEYRE is the name of
the new female leader of the New York
anarchists.
GEORGE KEIMM, ex-president of the
Philadelphia & Reading and Of the
Philadelphia Coal & Iron Co., died at
Reading, Pa, recently
len persons were injured, two fatal
ly by collision at the Edgar Thomp-
son steel works, BeSsemer, Pa.
The locked-out Danbury matters are
beginning to show signs of weakening
and many are leaving town daily for
Newark, n. j., and other hating towns
WHILE digging for the foundation of
house on Boyle street. Allegheny.
IA, james Dixon, a contractor. un-
earthed crock containing nearly $500
In gold. 1t is supposed to have been
buried by James Graham, an eccentric
old gentleman, who died fifty wears
ago.
IHE St Nicholas state bank. New
York, was ordered closed by the state
bank superintendent The president
of the bank protested.
The Lehigh Valley men are prepar-
ing for another strike.
A LARGE body of water imprisoned
In the old abandoned colliery worked
by the Harpers in Black Valley. near
Minersville, Pa, thirty years ago. broke
into the Oak Hill colliery and three
miners persisted.
The firm of Schwartz & Graft, COM
posed of Charles w. Schwartz and AL
bert Graf, wholesale dealers in car
pets. mattings and oil cloths. Phila-
delphia, made an assignment without
preferences
DR. HENRY c. F. MEYER. will have to
be tried again at New York, for the
poisoning of Gustave Baum. The re-
port of the sanity experts on the con-
ditiOn of Juror Low, whose mind be-
came deranged, shows that the Juror
will not be able to oficiate.
The Shoe Fly express, leaving
Nashua, \. H., for Aver Junction. col |
lided with a sleigh containing four per-
sons out for a ride. demolishing the We |
hicle and killing three and fatally in
1uring the other occupant
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Goa, barge. SINK I'm tb. ob,o

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 26.--Between
700. 900 and 5000 bushels Of coal are
now along the wharf awaiting for more
water to get away on. The Coal City
sunk four barges at Irville, Ky. The
Danville sunk four boats at a point
down the river between Cairo and Mem
phis Eight other barges of the same
feet. which was towed by the Diamond,
were stranded at this point. The
HEAVIER lost three boats at the same
place. The Jim Wood struck a pier at
the Louisville and Jacksonville bridge
last night and sunk a barge. The total
loss on all will be about $50. 0oO.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
ClippingA.

The Krupp gun works claim to have
manufactured machine which will roll
iron SO thin that it would take 1880
sheets to make an inch.
Col Silloway, who served on Gen.
McClellan's staff in 1862, is said to be
the man who first called the United
States flag ''Old Glory" He now re-
sides in Boston, is rs years of age, and
in poverty.
Capt Horace Bixby. who taught
Mark Twain what he knows of steam
boating, is at present pilot on the
steamer I. G. Sparks, running south
from MemphiA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
Mormons En- Route to Mexico.

DENIsoN, Tex, Dec, ga Mormon
bishop, with a number of converts
from the Indian territory, passed
through here en- route to the new Nor
mon colony in the state of chihuahua,
Mexico. The bishop reports that the
indians accept the new faith readily.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
Keep Your Weather Eye Open.

Fraud loves shining mark Occasionally
spurious limitations spring up of Hostetter'ss
remedy for chills and fever, dyspepsia. con.
stipation,, biliousness, nervousness, neu-
salgla, rheumatism and kidney disorder.
inese limitations are usually fiery local bit
Lers full OF high wines. Look out for the
nrm signature on the genuine label and
vignette of st. George and the dragon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
Edward NJ. Field declared Sane.

BUFFALO,, n. Y, Dec. 96.-Superin.
tendent Andrews has declared Edward
NJ. Field, son of the late CYRUS w.
Field, sane. and he will be taken back
to New York to stand trial for embez-
element of funds of the brokerage firm
of which he was the head.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

Mr.. BEEyTHERE-"Well,I think marriage
at the best is but a lottery" Miss Yellow
leaf (eagerly)-"You don't happen to-
Know know where they sell tickets, do YOUR
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

MRS. PEAcHBLow-"Why does your hus-
band carry such tremendous amount OF
lie insurance, when he's in such perfect
healthf' Mrs. Flicker-'O, lust to tantalizfr
me. Men are naturally cruel. Life.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
FOURTEEN MEN KILLED.

Terrible Accident at Carnegie's New Mill
at Homestead.
PITTSBURGH. Pa. Dec. 23.-In a cave
in at Carnegie's new mill at Homestead
early yesterday morning fourteen
workmen were killed and four badly
hurt Most of the dead bodies have
been recovered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

A cardinal in Rome says that the po-
sition of Mgr. Satolli in this country
cannot be affected by the bitter at
tacks made on him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29

To ERR Is human, and there are some peo-
pie who are remarkably human.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Summary Of the Daily News.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-29
HELD UP.

Train Robbers Go Through n Missouri Pa
cific Train Near the Kansas State Line in
the Indian Territory.