davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
USES OF SAND.
The Wide Utility to Which 1t Can Be Put Ii
the Household.

The Wide Utility to Which 1t Can Be Put In
the Household.
1t has frequently been said that the
eommonest things are the most valua-
BILE to humanity. Air and water and
all the necessities are free. In COM
mon sand we have one of the most val
liable of all household agents. There
is not securing soap of any value in
the markets that does not owe it's chief
excellence to the use of sand as a large
ingredient. In olden times housewives
secured their kitchen floors into snowy
whiteness with pure sand and soap,
and the clever manufacturer of modern
times has utilized the idea and manu-
factured sand soap, one of the most
valuable of modern conveniences. The
old-time kitchen floor, which was
strewn with sand in fanciful figures, is
fast becoming a thing of the past. Our
modern kitchens are no less neat, per-
haps, but they require less care, with
their hardwood floors and oiled boards.
Yet there is probably as much use for
sand in various ways now as ever. The
handsome parlor vases are usually filed
with some such ingredient to weight
them and prevent the light porcelain
from being brushed off the mantel-
piece. We have learned that flowers
will keep better in damp sand than
in water, and a centerpiece of flowers
for the table will be more gracefully
and firmly arranged in jar of wet
sand than in foundation of moss.
The old gardener knew little of the
value of sand in the garden, but the
scientific gardener of modern times
knows that sandy loan properly fer
tilted is the most productive of all
soils, and that pure sand is the very
best earth of all in which he can plant
his cuttings and slips for roofing.
Thus the most barren of all the
earth's products will be found rich in
usefulness. Without good, sharp sand
plaster and mortar of all kinds are i'm
possible, and bed of good sand in the
vicinity of great city becomes ver-
table mine of wealth to the owner
N. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15

An attempt was made to hold up and
rob the northbound Santa Fe train
near Gainesville Tex. Three police
men on the train ordered the men to
throw up their hands. The outlaws
opened fire and for a few minutes an
exciting battle was waged. One rob-
ber was mortally wounded. The others
escaped.
The second annual meeting of the
Texas Equal Right Female Suffrage
association was in session at Fort
Worth on the 7th. Reports of officers
showed the movement for woman suf-
frage to be gaining ground in the state.
STRIKERS burned portion of a wood
en- bridge at Goshen, west of Wheeling
Creek, w. Va, on the 10th. No coal
can be moved, therefore, until the
bridge is repaired.
SIX prominent ladies of Lexington,
KY, who recently took part in an anti
Breckenridge meeting held in the opera
house of that city, have been warned
through letter marked from Pitts
burgh, Pa, that there are skeletons"
in their closets and that they could not
afford to take part in such ''detestable
proceedings against Col. Breckenridge"
The ladies will pay no attention to the
letter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
BITTEN BY A MAD DOG.
Seven People Attacked by a Brute, Tbre
of Whom Will Die.

Seven People Attacked by a Brute, Three
of Whom Will Die.
DALLAS, Tex. June 12.-Yesterday a
st. Bernard dog went mad and ran
amuck. Passing through the town he
killed two dogs and three cats and bit
seven people, three of them probably
fatally. A negro boy was literally
torn to pieces. A lady named Mrs.
Worden was attacked in her house and
terribly mangled. Nick Powers, a
workman at Lemp's ice factory,
was seized by the thigh while
attempting to escape up a ladder and
frightfully lacerated. Jennings Moore,
a salesman, had great shreds of flesh
torn from his arm and side. Mrs. Mary
Arthur, an invalid, lying on a cot in
her home, was attacked and her arms,
limbs and side torn SO that she will
die. A young man from neighboring
town was also badly bitten. Two 9TH
ers, names unknown, were more or
less seriously injured. Policemen f.
nally killed the brute.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
Keen Your Temper.

II you want to live to be one hundred
keep your temper. Never mind where
you keep it, only don't let it see the
light o. day, and the chances are lon
gevity for you. Mrs. Charlotte Bell,
who has just celebrated her 1O3rd birth
day, boasts she has never been angry in
her life, and, owing to this equability,
her days are long in the land, though,
unhappily for her, she is to end them in
the almshouse. Some of US do not con-
slider age worth the price. For there is
a good deal of the Greek in our compo-
sitions, in spite of the mixture of races,
and we Americans would rather die
young than never have tantrum, or a
"crise des nerfs, as they say in French.
Righteous anger is good thing. 1t
generally purifies the atmosphere. even
if it does take an hour or so off the al
lotted span.-Boston Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
MISSOURI RIVER.
It Continues to Rise and tho Sit
uation Is Grave.
POURING INTO FLORENCE LAKE.
River Men Watching the Encroachine
Waters Narrowiy-A Bridge Destroyed
by Fire and q Train Plunged
Into the River.

OMAHA, Neb., June 12.-The rain In
the vicinity has ceased, but the Mis-
souri, river continues to rise steadily.
The positive danger line is Is feet, and
the stage of water is something over IA
feet. The local United States weather
bureau officers declare that if the con-
dition to the north were of a forebod-
ing character they would receive tele.
graphic communication at once, and
the danger at Omaha depends upon
sudden rises to the north. The indica.
tions, however, are for increasing rains
in this vicinity and to the north, which
makes the situation more serious.
The river yesterday was pouring into
Florence lake. This is lake of water
few miles above the city, formerly
the old river bed, and for years the
river has threatened to return to its
ancient channel by this course. This
would result in the destruction of mil
lions of dollars worth of property, as
the old river bed for miles is crowded
with freight yards, big warehouses and
residences.
While the rise of 3 feet would
bring the river to a very dangerous
stage it would take even more to force
it into the old channel, as the property
owners along the route have taken
every precaution to protect their
places with artificial means. Last
night the river men were watching the
encroaching waters narrowly. The
river cannot possibly reach the danger
line before noon to-day at the most
rapid rise.
WENT THROUGH BRIDGE.
WINNIPEG, Man., June IA bad ac-
cident occurred last night to the
westbound express on the Canadian
Pacific road, due here to-day, at the
crossing of Mattawa river, about Is
miles west of Fort William. Fires had
destroyed the trestle bridge, and when
in the center of that structure it gave
way.
The engine and four cars were piled
into the river The diner, one of the
first-class cars and sleeper, remained
on the track. The wrecked cars took
fire and soon the entire train was
burned.
Mrs. Barker was drowned. She was
a first-ciass passenger, en- route to Elk
horn, Man., from Ontario. Express
Messenger Merit Brown, of Toronto, is
missing and is believed to be at the
bottom of the river. The injured are:
Fireman Whitehead, may not recover;
Engineer Elmes, slightly injured; Mrs.
Bickie, of Middleville, Mich, en- route
to Red Deer.
Several others were slightly injured.
The train was running at high speed
when the accident occurred.
The body of Mrs. Barker was found
some distance down the river. All
mail matter, including that from Mon
treal and Toronto posted on Thursday,
was burned, as was also all express
matter and baggage.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS.

THE site for the exhibition of 1896 in
Berlin has been selected, the grounds
covering one hundred and fifty acres
bordering on the Lichten See.
A RED-sKINNED fraud is being exhib-
tied at the Antwerp exhibition as sit
ting Bull" The genuine old chief, it
will be remembered, went to the hap
py hunting grounds many moons since.
An exhibition of gold ores and of
precious metals and stones is being or
ganized at st. Petersburg by the Rus
sian Technical society. The date Of
opening has not yet been arranged.
ONE of the principal special features
of the International exhibition to be
held in Paris in 1900 is to be a repro
duction, in the most realistic fashion,
of the famous palace of the Alhambra.
The first Egyptian National Exhibit
ton of Art and Industry ever held was
opened by the khedive at Alexandria
on April 22. The exhibition is very
fine one of great and varied interest,
and is pronounced a big success.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
STRIKE SITUATION.
Much Trouble Feared at Canal
Dover, O.
AFRAID OF BRIDGES BEING BURNED.
The Four Workmen Taken Prisoners By
Strikers Are Rescued by Deputies
Bridge Blown Up by Dyna-
mite-Quiet at Manown.

MIDvALE, O., June 12.-An was quiet
here last night No miners were in
sight, as troops were expected. The
road is transferring passengers at
burned bridges. The company feared
for the safety of its bridges at Canal
Dover last night, where large crowd
was gathered. Passenger train No. 80
was ordered back to Canal Dover. The
officials were afraid it would get
caught between burned bridges.
The Associated press representative
was told by the New Philadelphia po-
lice that desperate characters are be-
ing enlisted to destroy bridges near
Canal Dover. A message has been re-
ceived here that Gov. Mckinley wired
Sheriff Dole at Massillon that he would
direct troops to guard the bridges
north of Massillon. Sheriff Adams,
this county, has been notified by Gen.
Howe that he has sent to him SOC troops
and Gatling gun battery.
THE FOUR AMERICANS RESCUED.
UNIONTowN, Pa, June 12.-The four
American workmen, who were taken
prisoners by a mob of foreigners at
New Haven on Saturday, were over
taken at Fair Chance and rescued
at noon yesterday by the deputies.
The deputies met with no opposition,
owing to their numbers. When found
the men were still bearing the placards
and were chalkmarked from head to
foot.
BRIDGE BLOWN UP WITH DYNAMITE.
ST. LOUIS, June IA telegram from
Birmingham, Ala, says the big iron
bridge on the Kansas City, Memphis &
Birmingham, at Carbon Hill, was blown
up with dynamite early yesterday
morning. The explosion of the dyna-
mite occurred only few moments be-
fore the morning train reached the
bridge. Bridges at Patton, Mabel Mines
and other points have been burned
within few days and several attempts
have been made to burn a long trestle.
All these acts are charged to strikers
whose purpose it is to prevent the
transportation of coal. The sheriff has
gone to Carbon Hill to make arrests.
QUIET AT MANOwN AND MKEEsPORT
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 12.-The situ-
alton at Manown yesterday was quiet.
About thirty men are at work under
guard of seventy-fve deputies. No vi
olence has been offered by the strikers
and none is expected.
Everything is quiet at McKeesport.
Deputies are still guarding the works,
and no attempt will be made to resume
at present
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
THE SOUTH.

THE other afternoon fifty-two COM
monwealers at Parkersburg, w. Va,
went to the Baltimore & Ohio yards
and took possession of freight train
that was being made up there. They
defed the sheriff. and he telegraphed
for troops and with an increasing force
of deputies he succeeded in arresting
all of the army.
Nor car load of coal had arrived in
Lexington, KY, for the week ended the
Sth and there was a positive coal
famine there.
Gov. MCCoRKLE, of West Virginia. re-
ceived telegram from the sheriff of
Marshall county on the sth stating that
200 strikers had taken possession of a
Baltimore & Ohio train at Boggs run,
near Wheeling, and asked for troops.
The dispatch stated the men had re-
fused to surrender the train, declaring
they would hold it in spite of the sheriff
or military. The telegram also stated
that the number of miners about the
train was constantly increasing. The
governor ordered five companies to the
scene. #
THE old man. supposed to be Ale.
Stewart. who was asphyxiated by gas
in Baltimore, Nd. recently, was said
to be none other than Edward Lille,
at one time one of the most notorious
confidence men, forgers and boarding
house thieves in the country. His
photograph adorns the pages of Grim
inals of America
ISAAC KEMP, negro who murdered
Deputy Sheriff Ned Carver in West
over, Nd. was taken from Jail by
mob of about 400 men and shot 10
death.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
KANSAS POPULISTS.
The Convention and the Candidates fl
Off1ce Before 1t.

The Convention and the Candidates fol
ONCE Before 1t.
TOPEKA, Kan, June 12.-The popu
list state convention, which meets at
Hamilton hall in this city to-day, will
be very remarkable one, in that NO
state official, administration stipen-
diary or member of the central COM
mittee will take part in the de-
liberations. State Bank Commissioner
Breidenthal, who is also chairman of
the central committee, will, of course,
call the convention to order, but as
soon as the temporary chairman is Sc
lected he will step down and out and
give the people full sway.
There is considerable opposition to
the denomination of Gov. Lewelling
and his associates, and it may develop
great strength within the next few
hours.
Numerous booms have been started
for candidates for Lieut.. Gov. Daniels
job. They are nursed by ID. 1. Fur
beck and ]. NJ. Padgett, of Topeka; G..
J. Cole, of Reno county; Judge Price, of
Oskaloosa; Fred j. Close, private secre-
tary to Gov. Lewelling, and lesser
lights. Furbeck seems to be in the
lead, with Cole a close second.
The only person mentioned for con-
gressman-at-large beside w. A. Harris,
the present incumbent, is Mrs. Mary E.
Lease. Mrs. Leases boom. however,
has not developed much strength as
yet, and the present indications are
that Harris will be renominated.
The following is the list of state Of
ficers who will go before the conven-
ton for denomination: Gov. Lorenzo
d. Lewelling, Lieut.-Gov. Percy DAN
iels; Secretary of State Russell S. Os-
born. Auditor Van b. Prather, Treas
urer William Fl. Biddle, Attorney-Gen-
eral John T. Little, Superintendent OF
Public Instruction Henry N. Gaines
and Congressman-at-Large William A.
Harris
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
THE WEST.

On the night of the 5th sixty of the
battered down the doors of the club
house there, emptied out the beer in
the cellar and ended by tipping the
building over.
Gov. RICHARDS. of Montana, has is
sued proclamation forbidding the sun
dance of the Cree Indians at Great
Falls and local authorities are directed
to take steps necessary to enforce inhi-
bition.
INFERENCES from the speeches at the
Ohio state republican convention on
the 9th at Columbus were to the effect
that Foraker was the favorite for the
United States senate and Mckinley for
president
THE prospect of a settlement of the
miners strike by joint conference COM
mittees meeting at Columbus. o.. has
come to naught, so far as the Pitts
burgh, Pa, district is concerned.
By an explosion of gasoline in the
Troy steam laundry at Portland, Ore,
five Cinnamon were burned to death
and four others seriously injured, one
fatally. The building and all its con-
tents were burned.
JUDGE BEATTY, of Boise, Id, has SEN
tenced the 200 Coxeyites arrested sew
eral days ago for stealing Union Pa
cific train. Gen. Scheffier was given
six months and other leaders from
thirty days to four months in the vari-
ous county jails- The rank and file,
13o in number. were given from thirty
TO sixty days in a blockade prison to be
erected on the Idaho & Oregon line.
Judge Beatty said he was inclined to
release any or all Coxeyites excepting
leaders. who would go back to Port
1ano. but that none could go east.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
The Blue Grass Campaign.

LEXINGTON, KY, June 12.-From
5000 to 5000 strangers were here yes
terday to hear w. L. C. Owens and
Evan Settle, the candidates for con-
gress in opposition to Col. Brcckin-
ridge. They spoke in the opera house
to a crowd only measured by the walls.
Owens made several illusions to Col.
Breckenridge, but made no new attack
on him. He said, however, he stood
~ every word uttered in his famous
Paris speech, when he attacked Breck.
inridpe bitterly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15

BY locsl applications, as they cannot reach
thediseased portion of theear. There is only
one way to cure Deafness, and that is by con-
stitutional remedies. Deafness iscaused By
an inf1amed condition of the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube
gets inflamed you have arumDling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed Deafness Is the result, and unless the
Inflammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing viii
be destroyed forever; nine cases out OF ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an inflamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
H Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, 25 cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
THE EAST.

A MOB of strikers attacked the Du-
quesne, Pa, tube works on the 9Th and
drove all the men at work out of the
plant. drew all the fires from the fur
naces and ran the hot metal out on the
floors. There were probably 300 men
hurt during the rioting, some of them
seriously.
4 THE Boot and Shoe Workers Inter-
national union have voted to hold the
next convention in Boston. The plat
form adopted by the American Fedora
ton of Labor at its Chicago convention
was indorsed.
Ex-Gov. RoDMAN NJ. PRICE, of New
Jersey, died at his residence, Oakland,
Bergen county, n. j., on the 7th. He
was participant in raising the Amer
ican flag by Commodore G. G. Sloat at
Monterey, Cal, July :, 1876. He was
formerly an officer of the United States
navy.
. CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June s showed an average de-
crease as compared with the corre-
spending week of last year of 22.2; in
New York the decrease was 27.2; out
side. 100.
ABATTLE took place between deputies
and strikers at Lemont. Pa, on the 10th
and one striker was killed, two others
were reported dying and several were
severely wounded.
MILE. BEATRICE, who is in charge of
she lions in the London zoo at Coney
Island, n. Y, was badly bitten on the
face by the big African lion, Nero, the
other night. At the close of the per-
formance Mile. Beatrice, as final at
traction, attempted to kiss the lion. He
was quiet when she approached, but
without the slightest warning snapped
at her and sunk his fangs into her
cheeks. The audience was considera-
bly, terrified, She struck the lion on the
head with her whip and then slowly
backed out of the cage. The physician
who attended her found that her
wounds were quite serious.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15

McLarrin, the new senator from Mis-
sissippi, is genuine type of the south
ern gentleman. He dresses in broad
cloth, as senator's used to do before the
war, with the waistcoat cut so low as
to reveal large expanse of shirt front,
and he always carries gold-headed
cane. The senator is man of great
personal dignity and distinguished
bearing.
London has feminine fife and drum
corps. 1t is made up of charming girls
who meet at one another's houses and
practice under the guidance of drum
major from a guards regiment.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
COMMERCIAL FIGURES.

THE wine export of France is great
ly overestimated. France imports ten
times as much wine as is exported.
CANADA exports every year over
1900, 600 worth of wood and its manu-
factures and s., 600, 900 worth of cheese.
SERICuLrURE is carried on in almost
every part Of France, and the export is
a most important factor of French
commerce.
The leading products Of Austria are
the food grains, sugar beets, tobacco,
hemp, wine, iron, coal and the precious
metals.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
Going Out of Business.

TOPEKA, Kan, June 12.-Superin
tendent Snider, of the Kansas insur
ance department. has been notified by
the secretary of the Northwestern Live
Stock Insurance Co., of Des Moines
that the company will at once
discontinue writing insurance and
proceed to wind up its af
fairs as rapidly as practicable
The secretary explained that the
step was taken on account of the
tremendous depreciation in the values
of horses, the only class of live stock
on which the company writes insur.
ance. The secretary stated further
that all claims would be settled in full
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
Peculiar Suit Instituted.

ATcHIsoN. Kan, June IA suit
which has created considerable excite
ment was begun in the district court
here yesterday by ]. I. Allensworth,
attorney for Mrs. B. H. Phelps. The
plaintiff asks to be given a judgment
of $4,000 against the city and county
of Atchison for allowing saloons to be
operated therein. thereby maintaining
places where her husband buys whisky
and becomes drunk.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15
Britannia Won.

HARwICH, Eng, June 12.-The Royal
Harwich Yacht club regatta took place
yesterday. The course was around the
ship Wasp and Sunk light ships. The
weather was squally. The Satanita
and the Britannia competed. The
former yacht returned three-fourths of
a length ahead of the Britannia, which
won on time allowance. The American
built yacht Mexican won the race for
the two and one-half raters.