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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
ANOTHER TARIFF BlUNDER.

Further Evidence of Democratic Incom-
potency Discovered I'm the Senate Bill.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.-Importers
and merchants here claim a serious
blunder has been made in the tariff
bill. Under the proposed law cocoa
nut oil is admitted free of duty, but
copra, which is the raw material of
which the cocoanut oil is manufac-
tured, is subjected to duty of 30 per
cent.
Copra is the raw, sun dried product
of the cocoanut, and cannot be used
for any other purpose than making
cocoanut oil, chiefly used in the manu-
facture of soap. Copra is not prepared
and cannot be used as dessicated CO.
coanut and has always been duty free.
Twelve leading firms have united in
telegraphing protest to Washington
urging correction of what they be-
lieve to be an error made through ig-
norance of the articles being footed.
In their kilograms to Pacific coast con-
gressmen they say:
''Cocoanut oil being on the free list,
it is evidently mistake to place duty
on the raw material, which is only fit
to make it.
please try to place copra on the
free list, as heretofore. 1t is of vital
interest to this country and will result
in South Sea island trade"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Rev. E. E. WILEY, of Sedalia, Mo-,
has been expelled from a local Chau-
tauqua circle because he umpired q
game of baseball.
PROF. GooDELL, of Yale, has accepted
the professorship of Greek in the
American school at Athens. which was
recently offered him.
Mrs. MILLICENT GARREr FAwCETT has
presented to NEWMAN college a col
lection of photographs of babies whose
mothers had had a college education.
Miss A. NJ. HICKS has been principal
of Clinton college, Kentucky, for TWEEN
ty years, but she has just been dis
charged for being faith-cure believer.
Miss SOPHIA A. NoEDHoFF, former
student of medicine at Washington. ac-
cording to foreign papers, has been ap-
pointed physician at the famous WON.
ans clinic of Prof. Won Winkel in
Munich. She is extremely popular.
JANET CARLYLE HANNISG, the only
sister of Carlyle, is living near Toronto.
Can. She is the widow of Robert
Hanning, who. after an unsuccessful
business career in England, emigrated
to Canada and became foreman and
train dispatcher on Canadian railway.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
sBoRN. Secretary O. State.
New Santa Fe Receiver,

CHICAGO, Aug. 17.-Aldace +. Walker
was to-day appointed receiver of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
in place of j. w. Reinhart. resigned.
Judge Caldwell in the United States cir
cult court made the appointment on mo-
ton of Wheeler FL. Peckham, of New
York, counsel for the Union Trust Co.,
trustee for the bondholders. Before
being submitted to the court, the
name of Mr.. Walker had been approved
In advance by the representatives of
the London and Amsterdam commit
tees of Atchison security holders, and
by the general reorganization commit
tee in New York. Mr.. Walkers APP
pointment is entirely agreeable to the
two other receivers and it is believed
there will be entire harmony in the
future conduct of the Atchison system.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
Five Men Seriously Injured.

TRENTON, Mo-, Aug. 17.-Passenger
train No. IL on the Rock Island, the
fast west bound express, crashed into
the dining car just before it reached
the depot yesterday morning at 6:3D,
making sad havoc of the dining car and
seriously injuring five men. 1t was
caused by the yardmaster forgetting 10
set the switch, leaving clear main
track. Conductor W. L. Crawford was
seriously injured internally; Freeman,
4 cook. injured on the head; Benifiel1,
injured on the head; John J. Anderson,
cut on wrist; Perry Coulson, cut on
,ide and head.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
LABOR DAY IN KANSAS.
Gov. LeweIling Issues n Proclamation for
Its Observance.

Gov. Lewelling Issues a Proclamation for
Its Observance.
TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 17.-Gov. Lew
cling yesterday issued the following
proclamation for the observance of
Labor day:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, STATE OF KAN
sAs, TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 1.-THE labor organ
izations OF this and other states having set
apart September 3, 1894, as a day OF rest and
gathering together in their several lodges.
cities and counties, all those in sympathy with
that class (Which comprises almost the entire
population Of Kansas, many honest laborers
are looking. yes, anxiously and honestly look
ing. for work to feed their starving families
and themselves. and with little hope under
present conditions and the fnsatiate greed Of
the favored few In no state is labor more
honored than in Kansas. The whole people
can be best served by bringing about better
condition Of the laboring classes. and this will
be the effort of the great, free, liberty Loving
people of Kansas.
In view Of these facts, and in full sympathy
with the laborers Of all classes, 1. L. d. Lew
cling. governor Of the state OF Kansas, do
hereby proclaim and set apart Monday. Sep
TENDER g. 1894, as Labor day. and respectfully
recommend that the day be observed as holt
day and that business be so far suspended as
TO permit all persons who may desire to par
ticipate In the exercises of that day.
In witness whereof / have hereunto SUBJ
scribed my name and caused TO be Affixed the
great seal OF the state. Done at Topeka, Kan,
this 18th day Of August, 1894.
L. d. LEwELLING, Governor
BY the governor:
r s. OsBOPy Secreta-v ~ State
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
VIEWS OF SENATORS.
Various Opinions Upon the Passage of the
Senate Bill.

Senate Bill.
1T is useless to comment on the PERFORM
ance IN the house. II fifty concludes q long
and disreptuable career. From Mr. Wilson's
lame opening to the speakers unfortunate and
unjust allusion to Mr.. Cochran 1t was all OF .
piece-a struggle in the dust a nauseous swal-
lowing most unsightly exhibition Tie
house dealt with a bill that was not before it
lent itself to ''perhdy and dishonor," as tho
president says-not only did it, but dug down
for q chance. That parliamentary law was vi
olated IS q small affair, for it has not been
usual in this house; but that they should pro-
claim with their voices that they we're to fghs
trusts and moropolies and then go into an sc-
ton which made trust shares go up four points
the very day it was adopted demands that Sc
we're reprobation should accompany false pre-
lenses. As for the little bills rushed through
the subterfuge is too apparent for even a mo-
ment's consideration 1t Is pure humbug-
They pass a bill taxing sugar and coal and
th en- pass dummies pretended to repeal it, and
all the same day."-T. B. Reed.
There is no comparison between this bin
and the Mckinley law. The former is taxation,
while the latter is NATURALIZATION Nc Millan-
The passage OF the senate bill by the house
is the most disgraceful chapter in American
history. The position heretofore assumed by
the house is conceded to be right, even Dy thu
senate, and is now surrendered to some per-
son whose identity even is concealed There
Is no evidence that the senate would not have
agreed On a compromise. In the caucus Mr..
Wilson was asked to name the men who were
holding up the American congress, but he de-
clined to do so. We have. therefore. surren-
dered to i rumor the source OF which cannot
be traced. The walls Of Jericho falling before
o blast Of wind yielded to a force more tangible
than that which sent the house CT representa-
tives scurrying into an abject, cowardly, self
confessed betrayal OF the principles which they
profess. w. Bourke Cochran.
The result is not astonishing. The time
and the method of the surrender to-day sur
prised me. because there was no necessity OF
giving UP al this time. The friends OF the ad-
and the tariff refo1ners in the
house were stampeded by claims OF the demo-
cratic managers in the senate From polit-
zeal standpointit seems TO me that the admin
istration and the house have blundered"-
Nelson W. Aldrich-
Il am not surprised at the result The bill
as passed is a moderate measure that viii do
less harm to the industries OF the country than
the Wilson bill would have done. 1t is proba-
Die the democratic party viii be injured by tho
acceptance OF the senate bill, il it can be in
lured by anything. AS to the prospect for fu-
lure tariff legislation TO repeal the senate bill
do not look for anything for long time
W. b. Allison.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
Soldiers Home at Dodge City.

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. IA report
was made to the governor yesterday by
the board of managers of the Kansas
state soldiers home at Dodge City.
The total number of inmates of the
home. June 30, was 295, of which there
were "A males, IS women, IA children
and 20 officers and attendants. The
board has reduced the per diem cost of
subsistence per capita from 1a1z cents
in 1893 to 1214 cents in 1894. and the
annual cost per capita for subsistence
of inmates from Sf29 last year to S1O1
this year. The home is now filed to
its utmost capacity. and new applica-
tions are arriving daily
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
The Dispensary Law Illegal

COLUMBIA, 5. c., Aug 2O-Judge
Aldrich Saturday afternoon fled his
decision in the case of the state ex rel
George and Holly VS.. the city council
of Aiken. He decides that the dispen-
sary act in its main features is uncon-
Stitutional
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
KANSAS CITIES.

reputation of the Various Towns of the
state That Contain 1000 or More In
habitants.
The table herewith, compiled by the
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture, gives in the order of their
rank the population of Kansas cities
and towns having 1000 or more inhab-
itants in March of the present year, as
enumerated by assessors. The cities
that have become eligible to this list
during the year are Usage Mission,
Frontenac, Caney. Alma and Ellis.
Those dropping out within the year
were Lincoln, Miltonvale, Smith Gen.
ter and Downs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
Old Soldiers at Hutchinson.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. Aug. 14.-Prepara-
tions at Camp Reno for the annual re-
union of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie are complete and ample to accom-
modate the vast crowd expected. All
necessary conveniences have been pro-
vided on the grounds, more than 500
tents. plenty of water and lights, so
tie old soldiers will be we'll cared for
while here. A large number have al
ready arrived and incoming trains are
swelling the crowd fast. Indications
point to very large attendance.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
POPULATION OF KANSAS.
The Increase and Decrease by Counties fo1
1894 as Compared with 1893.

The Increase and Decrease by Counties feR
1894 as Compared with 1898.
The following table shows the pop
ulation of Kansas by counties, from
the assessors enumeration made in
March of the present year; also the
population in 1893. and the increase
and decrease since, compiled by the
state board of agriculture. The in
crease in thirty-two counties has been
1877 and the decrease in seventy-two
counties $4,000, leaving net decrease
for the state largely due to the exodus
into the Cherokee strip of 2s,262. The
largest gain, 4,1s6 was made by John
son, and twelve counties gained more
than 1000 inhabitants each:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
VIII Fight a Sham Battle.

LAWRENCE, Kan, Aug. 1.-THE state
military board has loaned $50 rifles
from horse equipments and fifty-two
tents for the encampment of the In
dams of Haskell institute at Bismarck
grove September "a to 90. There will
be four companies of Indians, under
command of Capt. Herbert Johnson.
On the last day sham battle will be
fought with the assistance of the light
battery of the first brigade, under COM
mand of Lieut.. Phillips. of Topeka.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
S92; no returns for 1898 and 1894.
Death of Thomas Thurston.

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA. - Thomas
Thurston, of Leavenworth, died at a
city hospital yesterday morning. He
is well known in Kansas, having a
checkered career, and came here about
a year ago, looking for a government
job. After some waiting he was given
position at the government printing
Office on recommendation of Senator
Martin, but a few weeks ago he gave
up the position. He served term in
the Kansas penitentiary for shooting
at Col. D. r. Anthony, editor of the
Leavenworth Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
stopped Divorce ProceedInps

KALAMAZOO, Mich, Aug. At. w.
Brainard shot and killed his wife at
Vicksburg yesterday morning and then
killed himself. Mrs. Brainard had re-
Gently commenced divorce proceedings
against her husband and this is the al.
legged Gauss of the double tragedy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24

Grateful Customer am glad to see
you keep your hands as well as your
razor neat and clean.
Tonsorial Artist-Yes, sir. We are
obliged to. A barber can never tell
when he's in danger of catching the
measles or something of that kind from
customer. Shampoo, sir?-Detroit
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
Minister Crittenden Exonerated.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-At the state
department it was declared that the
examination of the charges against ex-
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, consul
general at the City of Mexico, had per-
fectly satisfied the department of his
entire guiltlessness and that it was
proposed to take no action in addition
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
A Retter ProsDect.

Lady Ito friend on a visit)-I hope
you like the room | gave you, Amy,
dear; there is a lovely view of the
mountains
Amy-Nothing could please me bet
ter. dear, except (sighing) the view of
matrimony.-Truth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
Fall River Weaver. Net to Strike.

FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 20-Thc
Fall River weavers LIST night voted,
7SS to 1874, not to STRIFE. The senti-
ment was that it was better to take
a vacation until the market should rise
and the large amount of cloth on hand
could be disposed of.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24
A Desperate Deed.

KEARSEY, n. j., Aug. 2O.-Thomas
Hewitt, an iron molder. made an at
tempt yesterday to kill his wife and
four children. He wounded them all,
but not fatally, and then sprang from
a window and ended his life.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24

When a man snuffs candle with
his fingers it isn't a pinch of snuff
Puck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24


nations, and across worlds. and across
the universe, eternal, omnipotent, I'M
hinderei and unabashed. That hand
that was nailed to the cross holds the
stars in leash of love. That head that
dropped on the bosom in fainting and
death shall make the world quake at
its nod. That voice that groaned in
the last pang shall swear before the
trembling world that time shall be no
longer. Oh, do not insult the common.
sense of the race by telling us that thi3
person was only man, in whose pres
ence the paralytic arm was thrust out
well, and the devils crouched, and the
lepers dropped their sc ales, and the
tempests folded their wings, and the
boys satchel of few loaves made a
banquet for 5000, and the sad process
sion of my text broke up in congratula
ton and hosanna!
Again, ! learn from this subject that
Christ was a sympathiZer. Mark you,
this was city funeral. In the coun-
try, when the bells toll, they know all
about it for five miles around, and
they know what was the matter with
the man, how old he was. and what
were his last expenses. They know
with what temporal prospects he has
left his family. There is no haste,
there is no indecency in the obsequies.
There is nothing done as a mere mat
ter of business. Even the children
come out as the procession passes. and
look sympathetic, and the tree
shadow seem to deepen. and the
brooks weep in sympathy as the pro-
cession goes by. But, mark you, this
that l am speaking of was city funer
al. In great cities the cart jostles the
hearse. and there is mirth, and glad
ness. and Indifference as the weeping
procession goes by. In this city of
The National tribune., 1894-05-10
ROSSVILLE GAP.
The Situation in which Some LIST Ohio Boy
Found Themselves.

The Situation in which Some 1st Ohio Boys
Found Themselves.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In a recent
issue | say, concerning the leaving of Ross
vile Gap, that it was on Tuesday, Sept. %;
which is mistake Of mine or a typOgraph-
ical error, as Tuesday come on the 22d. /
do not want the readers of your paper to
think am trying to make them believe that
| the pickets of the 1st Ohio stayed day
| longer than all the rest of the pickets at or
near Rossville Gap, for l do not. l only
| claim what believe to be true about leav-
| ing. This is why believe our pickets to be
the last to leave Tuesday morning, Sept. %.
We were only detail of three men from
each company, as / believe was the case
with other regiments of the brigade; and,
as l remember now, we were under COM
mand of an officer from one of the other
regiments Just at daybreak the firing on
our left told us the pickets were being
attacked, and we might look out soon for
the same. We had not been posted as pick
cts, but were deployed as skirmishers and
had no reliefs as usual, but all lay down
and watched; and, as we could hear the
rebs in our front, we were not very apt to
want to sleep.
As daylight came we were much surprised
when we looked back from our position On
the hill to where our campfres had been
burning so brightly during the forepart of
the night, and saw nothing but the smolder-
ing embers of the fires, with no living soul
in sight. The army had gone and left US,
and no one seemed to understand what
to do.
A Sergeant soon came along, ordering us
to fall back quietly, and to keep in line as
oil
indications in our front, the rebels were
advancing and we were the only ones left
on the line. We believed then that we
were left as sacrifice for the army, and we
should fall back slowly until we were fully
satisfied that the army had gone entirely;
if so, to keep from the road and try to reach
Chattanooga.
We fell back slowly until we reached our
camp and found out that the troops had left
early in the night, and were likely at OF
near Chattanooga before that time. There
was nothing left for US to do but stay and
be captured or killed. or get out quick.
From here we kept the woods, and away
from the main road, until we reached an
open field near Chattanooga Greek, just east
of the point of Lookout Mountain, and
where we crossed on bridge near an old
lanyard.
There, just on the right of the road, we
found our regiment, where they had thrown
up a protection of logs, rails, and whatever
they could find.
If there was cavalry or any other body
on the road. we did not see them, as we
kept away from the read.
l think it was about 10 o'clock when we
got to our regiment.
Now this is not correction or q denial of
any others rights, but only what 1 believe
is true On our part of the line as / saw and
remember it. CHARLES BANKS, Dover,
Kan
The National tribune., 1894-05-10
STRAWBERRY PLAINS.
Experiences in "A Place Which was L.
Much Named,

Experiences in Place Which was Too
Much Named.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The Plains
were there, the strawberries | never saw.
owing perhaps TO the fact that we were not
there in the right season of the year. We
used to call the Plains the race course, as one
day we would drive the rebs up and the
next day they would drive US back, neither
of Us having force enough 10 make a good
stand and fight. / often think of the
bridge there over the HOlston River. Time
and again it had been destroyed and rebuilt.
After the siege We Grove Longstreet up TO
Bristol, Tenn, near the Virginia line Pass
ing through Greenville, Tenn, on sign on
small frame building / can still remember
reading, "a. johnson, Tailor"
On our return we took the cars part of the
way, when we came to the bridge, which had
just been rebuilt, being high at both ends
and low in the middle. Our old wheezy,
asthmatic locomotive stopped to get good
head Of steam on, and then down the incline
we went at the rate Of 40 miles an hour TO
make up the other side, which if we did not
we would have been in a fix. The cars
were crowded inside and out If we had
run off the track not one would have escaped
alive.
Shortly afterward the bridge was again
destroyed, and among detail under Serg't
Flagg good, brave soldier, belonging to a
fine regiment the I'D Mich was ordered to
put down pontoon bridge, which we pro-
ceeded to do. But it was never finished.
The river was very high at the time. A
northeaster coming on, as the rain fell it
| froze, coating everything with a sheet of ice.
/ got chilled through and through, and /
| firmly believe have never been thoroughly
warm since. Then / have an indistinct
recollection of some men on the other
side of the river dressed in gray making
serious objections to our intentions; in fact
they got rather too demonstrative Night
coming on We repaired to our quarters in q
tumbled-dOwn shed, and / think we gave up
the idea as bad job.-PosT 2, GAR, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
The National tribune., 1894-05-10

| found it full from bottom to top with our
wounded, moaning comrades. On the porch
lay the body of Col. Topping, who had been
killed early in the day. 1t was shipped to
his home in Terre Haute, Ind, for interment.
The rebels used the churches for hospitals,
| and / was told they suffered about as Sc
verely in killed and wounded as we did.
Gen. Pat Cleburne received a wound that
day that disabled him for several weeks.
Kirby Smiths army greatly outnumbered
ours, and was composed of well drilled and
seasoned soldiers, while ours was made up
largely Of raw troops, who for want of time
had been drilled but little, and who knew
absolutely nothing of the manual of arms
And considering the disparity of numbers
and the extreme rawness Of most of our regi-
ments the enemy, although victorious, suf-
fered considerably in killed and wounded.
/ have long entertained the opinion that
historians of the war treat the battle of Rich
Inond, KY, with too much brevity. Smaller
affairs have in many instances received more
attention, and have been written up with
fuller details. But cause for this apparent
slight may be found in the fact that the sec
ond battle of Bull Run was fought on ex-
actly the same day and by vastly larger
armies; and being so near the National
Sdpllal, IT'S Importance GoWeIeu dpoNo anu
overshadowed the smaller engagement IN
Kentucky.
OF the principal officers engaged in the
battle of Richmond, know of but one now
living. Gen. Kirby Smith is dead. Gen.
Nelson was killed in the Gait House in
Louisville by Gen. JEFF c. Davis about a
month after the battle. Gen. Charles Cruft
died in Terre Haute, Ind, several years ago.
Gen. Mahlon d. Manson, the old veteran,
white haired and venerable, is spending the
evening of his life at his old home in Craw-
louisville, Ind.
While our company did not suffer as
severely as some others in our regiment, yet
we lost two killed-Serg't Samuel n. Rule
and John Inman-and IL or Is wounded;
and nearly all were taken prisoners.
l have tried briefly to relate, after the
lapse of nearly 80 years. some of my recol-
lections of the movements and happenings
that fell within the limited range of my
own observation.-T. M. ROBERTSON, Cap
tain, Co. d, 9th Ind. Cav. (71st Reg't), Bra
zil, Ind.