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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
EUGENE FIELD DEAD.
The Well Known Newspaper Man Dies
Suddenly of Heart Disease.


Suddenly of Heart Disease.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3. - Eugene Field,
poet, story writer and newspaper man,
whose works were read and admired
in all parts of this country, died N
bed in his home at Buena Park, a sub
urb of this city, about 5 o'clock yes
terday morning from heart disease.
Mr. Field had been suffering for sew
eral days from a severe cold and yester-
day had been obliged to cancel an en-
gagement for public reading at Kan
sas City to night No serious results
of his ipdisposition had even been
thought of by his family and immedi-
ate friends.
Last night Mr.. Field retired, after
an evening with his family, feeling ap-
parently better than for long time.
He is supposed to have slept soundly
until daybreak when his son, who oe-
cupied the room with him, heard him
groap. The young man -at out his
hand and found that death had al
ready taken place.
Mr. Fields family and close rela-
tives were at once summoned and the
news sent to this city where the dead
man had a wide acquaintance. The
announcement of his death caused a
shock in all parts of the city.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been completed, but it is the
presentintention to hold it Wednesday.
Eugene Field was the son of Roswell
Martin and Frances Reed Field and
was born in St Louis, September ,,
1850. After finishing his education in
the state university of Missouri in 1871,
adopted the profession of newspaper
writer, beginning with the St Louis
Journal in 1872. His next connection
was with the st. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette
in 1878, after which he returned to st.
Louis to take an editorial position on
the Times-Journal. In 1880 he was on
the staff of the Kansas City Times, but
left that paper in 1881 70 become man.
aging editor of the Denver Tribune.
He came TO Chicago August. 1883, to
accept position on the editorial staff
of the Chicago Morning News NOW
the Record), and his connection with
that paper continued without inter-
ruption to the day of his death. In
addition to his newspaper work Mr..
Field found time to perform much eX-
ira labor in the literary field and
established a reputation as graceful
and clever writer of stories and verse.
He was especially happy in his poems
and stories of juvenile life.
Mr.. Field married October 16, 1873,
Miss Julia Comstock, of ST. Joseph.
Mo, and had seven children. In June,
1898, Knox college conferred upon Mr..
Field the honorary degree of A. VI.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
GENERAL NEWS

JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER has written
a letter to the trustees of Chicago uni
versity in which he states he will give
the university 81, OOO.O 600 for endow-
ment, payable January i, 1896, and a
further sum of g., O0O 600 in amounts
equal to the contributions of others
This makes the total amount of Mr..
Rocsefeller's gifts to the Chicago uni
versity S7.425. 200.
DR. w. I. KIMBERLY. a physician and
politician at Guthrie, Ok, attacked
Charles White, county surveyor, with a
cane recently and nearly killed him,
charging that White had ruined his
home. The doctor was arrested
SELLS Bros. the circus men, have
purchased the interest of the Barnum
heirs in the Barnum- Bailey shows
IN the Zeitout mountains $4,000 Ar
meniaus were reported on the 50th as
being in open revolt against the rule
Of the Turkish sultan. The Turkish
government, in view of the gravity of
the situation. had decided to call out
the army reserves.
A PARTY of twenty young men of
prominent families went in wagons
from Torreon, Mex, to attend dance
At a neighboring ranch and on their
return trip a quarrel took place be-
tween them and a desperate conflict
occurred, five of the party being killed
and ten others seriously wounded
THE fight between Corbett and Fitz-
simmons, it was said on the lst. might
yet take place somewhere outside of
Arkansas, and perhaps on their own
hook, no athletic club having anything
TO do with the matter. The Maher-
O'Donnell and Ryan-Smith fights, which
were to have taken place at Hot
Springs, Ark, have been declared Oft
IN the district court at Guthrie, Ok,
A w. Foote was sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary for burglary.
Foot is a graduate of the Nebraska
state university and was superintend-
ent of schools in a number of towns in
Nebraska and Missouri. After going
10 Oklahoma ne met with reverses-
TIE auxiliary judge of Teeapa, Mex,
obeying the mandate of some of the
saints who appeared to him in a vision,
ordered the burning of two women and
4 child. which order was carried into
effect by ffteeE persons who believed
n the heavenly vision. All the par
ties &c the horrible affair have been ar
rested
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
TRANSMISSISSIPPI CONGRESS.
General Topics to BE Discussed at the
Great Meeting in Omaha

General Topics to BE Discussed at the
Great Meeting in Omaha
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 4.-The eighth
convention of the Transmississippi
Commercial congress meets in this city
Monday, November 25, and will proba-
bly, remain in session four DAYS The
territory embraced in the representa-
tion includes all states and territories
lying west of the Mississippi river and
those portions of Minnesota and Lou
isiana which lie east of it, and the
representatives to the congress are
appointed by the governors of states
and territories and by the mayors of
cities Provision is made for the repre-
sentation of counties aud of business
and commercial bodies. 1t is the pur-
pose of the congress to secure such ma
tional legislation as is calculated tc
promote the business interests and de-
velop the resources of the states and
territories lying west of the Mississippi
river; to increase reciprocal trade
among them; to cultivate acquaint-
ance, fraternal feeling and hearty CO.
operation among the various CONNER
cial bodies represented.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

TEE commissioner of immigration,
in his annual report covering the last
fiscal year, shows total immigration
for the wear 25s, 53l, which is less than
auy year since 1879. OF these las, 600
were males.
Mr. KURISo, the Japanese minister
Mt Washington, called upon President
Cleveland at the white house on the
list and presented to him letter from
the mikado expressing his apprecia-
ton of the good offices exercised by
the United States government to re-
store peace between China and Japan.
THE monthly coinage statement
shows that the coinage executed at
the United States mints during the
month of October to have been as fol-
lows: Gold, S7,2l5. 200: silver. $500. 900;
one cent pieces, S23, 500; total coinage,
Ss.O59. 200.
LIEUT.. r. E. PEARY has been as
signed for duty as a civil engineer in
the department of the United States
yards and docks. He has given up all
thought of reaching the north pole
and will settle down to routine work
in the navy department
ADM RAMSAY. chief of the bureau of
navigation. in his annual report to the
secretary of the navy. shows that dur
ing the past year 3.912 men and 34s ap-
prentices were enlisted in the navy.
Seven hundred and fifty men and 173
apprentices deserted. and of this num-
Der 63s men and l61 apprentices de-
serted in home ports.
THE state department has received
the information by cable from Minis
ter Terrill, at Constantinople. that
certain Kurds and Armenians have
been arrested for the murder of Frank
LEM. the young Pittsburgh, Pa, BIZ
cyclist. who was engaged in making a
tour of the world on his wheel when
he was killed.
Miss FLAGLER, daughter of Gen.
Flagler, whose shooting and killing of
a negro boy who was stealing fruit
several months ago, at Washington,
created a sensation, has been indicted
for manslaughter.
THE interior department believes
that the Indians in Oklahoma who
have leased their lands to whites are
not receiving as much rent as is due
them. and that many of the lea~es made
are illegal. Special agents will be sent
20 investigate and if the departments
theory is correct. the whites will be
elected.
PROF MooRE chief of the weather
bureau. said on the 31st that rain fell
throughout the drought region from
New Mexico to New England and that
the long drought had been broken.
CONsIDERABLEe excitement was caused
at Washington on the 3Oth by report
that an armed British force was
marching through Brazilian territory
10 that part of Venezuela claimed by
Great Britain.
A REPORT from Washington said that
the first volume of the first series of the
rebellion records, covering the cam
paign of the war in Virginia and the
Csrolinas, is completed.
COMMISSIONER LoCHREN, of the pen
sion department, has made his annual
report He estimates the pensions for
1897 at $4,000. OOO The rumber of
pensioners who died during the year
was %. SIG and the number of the new
pensioners added to the rolls was So
is5. During the year 249 persons were
convicted for frauds The commits
sioner SAYS that many disreputable
and Incompetent men are engaged as
Depsion ATTORNEYS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
RICHARD OLSEY. secretary Of State.
G. A. X. COMMITTEES.
COmmsnder-in-Chief Walker Announces
His Selections of Workers.


His Selections OF Workers.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. Com.
mander-in-Chief Ivan y. Walker, of
the &. A. R., to-day announced his ap-
pointment of the following national
committee:
On pensions-Benjamin Brooke, of Phila-
delphia William A. ketcham, of IndianapO-
lis, Ind: Albert ID. Shaw, OF WatertCwn. y.
Y; w. W. Dudley. OF Washington, and 7. E.
ClarksOn. Of Omaha. Neb.
On revision of the installation services-W.
A Weatherbee, OF Newton. Mass: George Ed
ward Allen, OF Providence, r L; Frank A
Seaman. of Knoxville, Tenn.
To formulate a plan for the erection Of a
monument to the loyal women Of the war-Eli
Terrence, Of Minneapolis, Mimi; {. <. Bur-
dette, Of Washington; A. NJ. Warner, Of Gin
cinnati: Washington Gardner. Of Lansing,
Mich: Ira NJ Hedges, of Haverstraw, " Y.
To memOrialize congress TO provide for the
payment OF the expenses OF Memorial day at
national cemeteries in the south Charles L.
Watson, OF Atlanta Ga; =. -. Hurst, OF Chilli
cothe, O.: James II. Kidd, of IoniI, Mich.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
DEEP WATER CANAL.
President Cleveland Names the COmmii
sion to Report on the Project

President Cleveland Names the Commits
SION to Report on the Project.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1.-The president
has made the following appointments:
President James b. Angel. of Michl-
gan university; John L. Russell, of
Massachusetts,, and Lyman Z. Conlev,
of Illinois, to be commissioners to
make inquiry upon the feasibility of
a deep water canal between the
great lakes and the Atlantic ocean un-
der the act approved in March last;
Gland n. Bennett, of Atlanta, Ga, to
be agent to make allotments to the
Indians; Patrick Kiernan, of Olivia,
Mont, to be surveyor-general of Mon
tana; X. W. Perry, first lieutenant in
the revenue cutter service.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
GIANT BIRDS.
Prodirious winged Creatures That OnoS
Inhabited Cape Horn.

Prodigious Winged Creatures A"e
Inhabited Cape Horn.
In that long, narrow triangle Wiic"
forms the southern extremity OF Soutn
America, and which, since the nrs''
visits of Magellan and other early nav
igators, has been associated IN the
imagination of many readers with the
storms of Cape Horn and the mysteries
of TERRA del Fuego, geologists have
lately discovered the remains OF class
of gigantic birds which, in many re-
spects, differed not only from all birds
now living, but from all birds that are
known ever to have existed elsewhere
upon the globe.
These birds, it is believed, could not
fly, and their great jaws were so like
those of some four-footed beast that.
when one of them-an under jaw about
twenty-one inches in length-was ex-
hibited in England two years ago..
many naturalists would not admit that
it had belonged to bird at all, and
asserted that it must be the jaw Of
some animal resembling a gigantic
sloth.
More recent discoveries, however,
have proved that no mistake was made
in ascribing the jaw in question to
bird. Specimens of entire skulls, and
of other parts of the skeletons, have
been found in Patagonia, which show
that long before the records of human.
history begin, and possibly before man
had made his appearance on the earth,
such birds inha bited that country.
Their leg bones were propOrtionate
in size and strength to their jaws.
They had wings. but naturalists think
that these wings, like those of the os-
trich, were not used for flight, but sim
ply as an aid in running.
Gigantic fiightless birds, some even
larger perhaps than those of South
America, are known to have lived in
other parts of the world, but there are
certain peculiarities of structure which
separate the extinct Patagoniau birds
from all others. This gives them a pc
culiar scientific interest. because it has
been found that many of the fourfoot-
ed animals inha biting South America
in ancient times were unlike those of
the other continents
Such discoveries are as full of mean
ing TO the geologist. who is trying to
read in the records of nature the his
tory of the globe. as are the ancient
inscriptions and human remains found
in tOmbs and caves and temples to stu
dents of the early history of man.
Youths Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
TOLD IN FIGURES.

London has 1000 street lamps; Paris,
$4,000, and New York, 5000.
New York has a clergyman who, it is
stated, has married 10000 couples, and
received over 5000 in wedding fees.
The most densely populated country
IN Europe is not Belgium, which has
633 persons to the square mile, but Sax
ony, with COS.
Montana's percentage of divorces to
marriages during 12 months recently
ended was 1926. There were 22S d.
vorces granted in the state during the
year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
ODDITIES IN FLOWERS.

The stamens of the common barberry
will draw back when touched as though
unpleasantly affected by the sensation.
Pure white geraniums, looking as
though they were made of almost trans
parent wax, are grown by English
florists.
In Syria, near Damascus, there is said
to grow a hummingbird plant, the
fower Of which bears close resem-
5lance to the humming bird. The
breast is red, the wings are dark
green. the back yellow, the head and
tail q blush black.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES

EUGENE FIELD, the well kno wn news
paper man and writer. died at his home
at Buena park, Chicago, on the 4th Of
heart disease. The deceased journal
ist was born September 2, 1850
IN Lincoln county, Ok, thieves en-
tered district schoolhouse and stole
the stove, chairs and the window sash
from the windows, and even took up
the floor and hauled it away, leaving
desks and books piled in a heap out
side
A HEAD-END collision occurred on the
Iron Mountain railroad miles north
of Little Rock, Ark, between the
Texas limited passenger train and a
stock train. Both engines were de-
molished and the express messengers
and mail clerks were pinned in the
debris for over an hour and were
taken ont seriously injured. None of
the passengers were hurt.
The steamer Joe Peters was reported
sunk 20 miles below Memphis, Tenn,
near RobinsOnville, Miss.
The Paris Figaro in an article on the
dispute between Great Britain and
Venezuela says: THE Venezuela dis
pute is worth watching owing to the
close proximity of the British and
American fleets there. Prudence rec
ommends that thev should not be left
too long together for the intense
hatred of the Americans toward the
old country is appalling"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued
proclamation designating Thursday,
November 2S, as Thanksgiving day.
News comes from st. Barnabee of
young woman named Drechenel, who
has taken no food for sixty-fve DAYS,
the only thing she can swallow being
a little water or tea. Although very
and the doctors are puzzled about the
case.
The president has made the follow
ing appointments, President James B.
Angel, of Michigan university; John
E Russell, of Massachusetts, and Ly-
man E. Conley, of Illinois, to be COM
missioners to make inquiry upon the
feasibility of deep water canal be-
tween the great lakes and the Atlantic
ocean under the act approved in March
last.
IN his annual report to the secretary
of the navy Surgeon General Tryon
discusses the new medical treatments
at length and gives a favorable opin-
ton of the value of strychnia in the
treatment OF pneumonia. He also says
that anti-toxine has been tried at the
Washington naval hospital with the
most favorab ole results.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
JUMPED THE TRACK.
Fatal Mishsp to Il. & o. Passenger Trai
at Wheeling. W. Va.


WHEELING. w. Va, Nov. 4-The
worst railroad wreck in the immediate
vicinity of Wheeling for many years
occurred shortly before 10 o'clock yes
terday morning at Elm Grove, 5 miles
| east, on the Pittsburgh division of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The Pitts
burgh-Cincinnati express, commonly
known as the cannon ball" jumped
the track on bridge over Wheeling
creek, owing to a broken flange on a
| wheel of the smoking car. The engine,
tender and baggage car kept the track,
while the mail car. smoker and Pull
man parlor car went over a bank about
16 feet high. The day coach turned
completely over and the other two lay
on their sides The cars were COM
pletely demolished, seeming to have
been thrown some distance through the
air.
So far only two deaths have hap
pened. A woman, thought to be Mrs.
Miranda Hare, of Kittaning, Pa, but
not positively identified, owing to the
way she was disfgured, jumped from
the car and was instantly killed. The
s-months-old baby of Lawrence Bart
ley, of Pittsburgh, was sitting on his
fathers lap when the accident oc-
Cured. 1t was so badly injured that
it died in a few minutes, while neither
father nor mother were hurt. They
were coming to Wheeling to attend
the funeral of a relative.
The exact number of injured is hard
TO get reliably. Nine were taken to the
city hospital and three to the Wheel
ing hospital, while a number are at
houses near the scene of the accident.
Ten or a dozen surgeons and the
wrecking crew were summoned at
once. Not less than 10000 people
visited the scene of the wreck, the
Wheeling e Elm Grove running spe-
cial excursion trains, ali crowded. Of
those who were hurt several will die.
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fore the doors of their room closed
upon them. For hunger's sake they ate
their supper first. Then they took a
ballot. and, without hesitation, every
man of the twelve answered: Guilty
of murder in the first degree" But,
however atrocious the crime, however
fiendish the criminal, it is hard to send
a man TO the gallows in one minutes
time. So, for decency's sake. they
talked about the case for period SEEM
ingly about an hour and half.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
THANKSGIVING DAY.
President Cleveland Issues q Proclamation
Designating November 2S for Giving



Thanks.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. President
Cleveland Yesterday issued the follow
ing proclamation designating Thurs
day, November %, as Thanksgiving
day:
The constant goodness and forbearance of
Almighty Cod, which have been vOuchSaied 20
the American people during the year which is
Just past. call for their sincere acknowledge
ment of deyout gratitude. To the end, there
fore. that we may with thankful hearts. unite
in eXtolling the loving care OF our Heavenly
Father.
!. Grover Cleveland. president OF the United
States. do hereby appoint and set apart Thurs
day, the aSth day of the present month of No
vember. as a day OF thanksgiving and prayer,
to be kept and observed by all our people. On
that day let Us forego our usual oc ccupations
and. in our accustomed places Of worship. join
in rendering thanks to the Giver Of every good
and perfect gift for the bounteouS returns
that have rewarded our labors in the
fields and in the busy marts Of trade, for the
peace and order that have prevailed through
out the land. for our protection from peSti-
lence and dire calamity and for the other
blessings that have been showered upon US
from an open hand. And with our thankSgiv-
ing let us humbly beseech the Lord to so in
cline the hearts of our people unto Him that
He will not leave US nor fOrSake US as ma
tion. but will continue to His mercy and
protecting care. guiding US in the path Of ma
tional prosperity and happiness, imbuing US
with rectituGe and virtue, and keeping alive
within a patriotic love for the free inStitu-
tions which have been given to US as our na-
tional heritage And let us also on the day of
our thanksgiving. especially remember the
poor and needy. and by deeds Of charity let US
show the sincerity OF our gratitude.
,rba I bay
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be aflxed.
Done at the city Of Washington this 4th day
Of November, in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-fve, and
in the one hundred and twentieth year Of the
independence OF the United States.
GROVER CLEVELAND, President
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
RACE QUESTION RAISED.
Washington ColOred People Create a Sensa-
tion by Asking Admission to Columbian

Washington CoIOred People Create a Sensa-
tion by Asking Admission to Columbian
University.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-Washington
has always been so much of a southern
city that it has been impossible to
gain admission to its educational in
stitutions for colored students While
1t has been we'll known that further
north there was no discrimination
against colored students at the leading
colleges, at southern universities such
entrance has been wholly impossible.
There is now agitation among the col
ored people to have the officials of the
Columbian university admit colored
students. A formal appeal has been
made to that institution by the Baptist
Ministers union of this city, as well as
bv similar unions in Virginia and
MARYLAND
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A Mate Fall. Overheard.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. Am unfortunate
accident occurred at Portage de Souix,
10 which Second Mate James Mulhern,
Of the Belle of Calhoun, was drowned
The Belle of Calhoun had just landed
at Portage de Souix and Mulhern had
stepped off the boat on to the barge
and in returning he missed his step
and fell between the boat and the
barge. The crew of the boat did all in
their power to recover the body, but
did not succeed and the steamer con-
tinued on its way to st. Louis Null
hern was 60 years of age and had been
on the river long time. He lived in
Hannibal. Mo, with his family.
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DIR. Fraker's Bond Ready.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo-. Nov. A.
The bond of DR.. G. w. Fraker, now in
Richmond, Jail on the charge of at
tempting to swindle insurance COM
panies, has been made up here. Should
it be approved he will be released from
Jail Immediately.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08
FoRGER WARD ARRESTED.
The Government of Honduras Will Give Up
the Memphis Fugitive.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-News has
reached here of the arrest in Teguci-
galpa, the capital of Honduras, of A.
X. Ward, the Memphis, Tenn, forger,
who defrauded people and banks
of SS4O,OO0 Although this gov
ernment has no extradition
treaty with Honduras. the officials
of that country have voluntarily Of
fered to surrender the prisoner to the
officers who will be sent from Tennes-
see to bring him to the United States.
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More south Pole Expeditions.

BERLIN, Nov. 4.-The German COM
mittee on the exploration for the south
pole met yesterday and resolved to
start two vessels from Kerguele island
in furtherance of the work. They al
lot $50, 900 marks for the expenses of
the expedition.