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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
GOVERNOR ESKR|DGE DEAD.
Discouraged and Disheartened by
Long Illness He takes His
Own Lite
Special to the Register.

PPtNi'fa
Emporia, July 16.-Yesterday morn
ing at about O'Clock Ex-Governor
Eskridge shot himself twice in the left
side with a revolver, inhicting fatal
wounds from which he died at 500.
In private box in which ne kept
all his important papers with lock
to which he had key he had months
ago placed a loaded weapon. This
fact was unknown to his family. Some
days ago he called for the box and
when it was brought to him directed
that it be slipped under the head of
his bed within easy reach when he
should later desire to examine its con-
tents. Some time yesterday in the
absence of watchers from the room he
must have reached for the box, eX-
tracted the revolver and slipped it
under his pillow where it remained
untouched until he found opportunity
to use it.
Suffering as he has latterly suf-
fered the keenest of agony. and with
the conviction that his disease could
only terminate in death, it is easy to
understand the motive of the act and
to sympathize with the strong man
grown weak to desperation from the
torture he had so long endured.
The sad event is an overwhelming
blow to his devoted family and "a
shock tie this entire community in
which he has so long been a leading
spirit.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
He Can Make More Pop.

Joe Often has his new pop factory
building nearly finished and is having
a cement floor laid. The main room
is large and airy and when he gets
moved Mr. Often expects to be able to
double the output of pop right away,
and has plans in view by which he
will improve and increase still farther
He has put in steam engine to furn-
ish power and has a young factory
well under way that promises to grow
each year and eventually become an
important lola industry.
One gas well would furnish free fuel
for a hundred such plants, and by
hustling they could be secured-not
100 pop factories, but 100 different
small factories.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
Strike at LanyOnvIlle.

Sunday morning the furnace men on
the four blocks of the Lanyon Zinc
Company's plant at Lanyonville
walked out and the plant was on dead
fire" all day. The cause for the walk
out was the unpopularity of anew boss
on the furnaces. Big Bill Kennedy,
as everybody knows him, had been
day boss and was transferred to night
boss and new day boss put on. The
men did not like their new boss and
showed this by their action.
There are twenty men oneach block,
so some eighty furnace men, besides
the yard men whose activity depend
on the continued work of the furnace
men, and eventually the whole plant
would be effected. The strike is not a
serious one and will probably be of
short duration.
The REGISTER reporter who went
out to Lanyonville to learn the de-
tails of the strike found that Gas City
was bidding for a strike also. There
was ball game between picked nine
of smelter and town boys and team
from Elsmore. The game was pretty
good, the final score being IL to 10 in
favor of Gas City. 1t wasll to2 upto
the sixth inning when Elsmore spat on
her hands and went after the runs.
To vary the program of the after
noon shepherd dog which had fol-
owed its master to town. engaged in a
controversy with bull dog which
lives at Gas City and has an UNI
broken quarantine against dogs
in good working order. The
bull dog resented the breaking of
the quarantine 10y the shepherd and
they started to dine of sausage but
the boys stopped them.
And speaking of Gas City, the little
burg is growing right along. 1t eX-
tends from the main road east of town
to the railroad and then on south, a
dozen houses being located south OF
the track. +. X. Taylor has up the
frame of a thirteen-room residence al
the north end of the town. The Me.
Rae-Daly and Cherokee Lanyon
smelters are running full time and the
! little town is keeping pace with them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
OPEN NEW OIL DISTRICT
The Approval of Mineral Leases in the
Indian Territory May Bring a
Boom

Independence, Kansas, July 10
The announcement that the Secretary
of the Interior is ready to approve
leases of mineral lands in the Indian
territory is welcome news to many in
this part of the state. A company of
Independence business men headed by
John f. Overfeld, holds lease on
POS, 900 acres of land in the Cherokee
country. This tract they have sub
leased to the Cudahy Oil company of
Chicago, The Cudahy people are to
pay the local company here SIOO,OOO
for the lease as soon as dozen oil
wells have been struck, but the fact
that the company here could not get
the leases approved by the Secretary
of the Interior kept the Cudahy people
from beginning operations. The oil
company has large leases in the Creek
nation and as soon as the leases are
approved they will begin to develop
the country in earnest as they are
confident that it is good oil producing
territory
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contains Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable ply
stefan, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F.. j. Cheney
a. Co., Toledo, o., contains no mer-
curry, and is taken externally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh, Cure be sure that you
get the genuine. 1t is taken externally,
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. j.
Cheney ~ Co. Testimonials is free.
Sold by Druggises, price Toe. per
bottle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
DEMOCRATS SORE
Fear &. A. X. Reunion will be Il Re-
publican Demonstration.

Chicago, July l4.-Partisan politics
has broken into the Grand Army en-
campment plans and threatens to make
trouble for the general committee. The
Democrats claim that the Republicans
are laying plans to turn the national
encampmnn5 into a big Republican
demonstrate and they threaten to
institute proceedings to prevent the
city paying any money for arches or
entertainment.
The democrats claim they have dis
covered dark, deep plot secreted in
the Republican incubator, to be
Matched out when the time comes. The
plot, according to the partisanship, is
to capture the encampment festivities
for the purpose of booming President
Mckinley and Republican state
ticket.
The Democratic fears are based on
the plans of the Republican managers
to:organize large Republican march.
ing club, to be called the Republican
legion. This club is to be made up OF
regiments coming from seven congress
sional districts in Cook county. Yes
terday the Republicans said they were
anxious to organize the club, uniform
the "rooters" and lick them into
marching order so that when President
Mckinley came to the Grand Army
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
Does 1t Payto Buy Cheap.

A cheap remedy for coughs and
colds is all right, but you want some
thing that will relieve and cure the
more severe and dangerous results of
throat and lung troubles What
shall you do? Go to a warmer and
more regular climate? Yes, if pos
sible; II not possible for you, then in
either case take the only remedy that
has been introduced in all civilized
countries with success in severe throat
and lung troubles, "Boschee's Ger
man Syrup" 1t not only heals and
stimulates the Tissues to destroy the
germ disease, but allays infamma-
tion, causes easy eXpectoration, gives
good nights rest and cures the
the patient. Try one bottle. Recon-
mended by all druggists in the world.
Evans Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
WHEN WEBSTER DAVIS SPOKE

Then rose up Webster Davis,
And nodded to the roars,
And gave his helpless hearers
His lecture on the Beers.
Then he sang the "Old Hundred"
In plaintive melody:
"Oh William Jyan Brennings-
Is the candidate for me
mo, no; l don't mean Brennings-
l suffer from the heat
But Wennings Briliam Jyan-
IN save him from defeat
For with him as our leader
our march shall never pause,
Han! Jilliam Bryning Wennans
And his free silver cause
"Hurrah for Dom Kraul Puger
Who has our sympathy,
And William lyman Brenans,
Who'll march to victory"
As on and on he rambled,
The delegates would screech:
1T seems that Debster Wavis
Has kopjes in his speech"
Baltimore American.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20

WILMINGTON, ILL.,, Sept. 2l, 1898
w. B. Caldwell,
DEAR SIR;-I take great pleasure in
adding my testimony as to the efficacy
of Syrup of Pepsin as usual in our
Home, We use it in all cases of Con-
stipation and Indigestion.
Respectfully, Eva j. Sweet, Nurse,
Soldier 5 Widows HON
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20

encampment the Republicans would
be able to furnish him an escort of 10,
600 uniformed men. The Democrats
insist that this would be distinct vi
olation of the agreement that partisan
politics should not enter into anything
connected with the encampment.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
It is not Fashionable.

to die just yet, but you must digest
the food that now pains you, causing
such unpleasant eructation and sick
headache or you Will die just the same.
Ask any one who ever took DR.. Cald-
well'e Syrup Pepsin for Constipation,
Indigestion, Stomach trouble and
Sick Headach. At G. B. Spencer's OF
w, S. Sannel's, Moran, Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
The MINSTREL Wedding.

The following is the ceremony by
whichTom Thumb and Jennie June were
united in marriage at the opera house
the other night.
Clergyman Dearly beloved:-We
are gathered here in the face of this
great company to join together this
man and this woman in the relentless
bonds of paddock; which is an honor
able estate, if there be any real estate
on thereto. But it is adjudged by
men to be very onery, and, therefore,
not to be entered into lightly, but
carefully, soberly, tearfully.. Into
this estate do these two persons come
to be joined. If any one present wants
to get up and warn them, speak now,
or forever after hold your tongue.
81 require and charge you if you
have obtained your marriage license
of any other person than Judge Smith,
do We now confess it, or this marriage
ceremony will be postponed.
''Tom Thumb, wilt thou have this
woman to be thy welded wife? Wilt
-, , !,
'iou nuiiioi iei' ilsVen W ner' Keep
iei III Pin iiione9 al INC year rouiiu'
And, forsaking your own comfort,
think only of hers, so long as your
mother-in-law stays away? Wilt thou
promise no' 10 swear Wnen 'hou 'akeS'
down the stove-pipe? Wilt thou buy
her 'ailor 'il"ue gown anu seal-
sAin 9"'q'o every Se"r' 1T 'no"
PROMISE '5 iiei iio'''o 'orS"Ne ner Nnen
.ile OH coiles uue lor ner Easter
bonnet
~ tn"u s'aS DIT nome anu Keep
mouse "i'iie size "''eii"S 'lle ciuo anu
never, never reProach her III any
WISE 10 -,
Drooi'i' VIII
OiereSlH"n Jennie june VIII .hou
nave thls man 10 De my welded nus
pano' w III 'nou COOK ior MN ana
menu lor iiiii' anu SERVE MN lioV nleuis
three tiiiies ua|' anu keep ms
s'oeAinss Ne"'lE ""rneu' anu 'orsaN-
ing al your inisslon"rS socle'ies'
Keep .mou oniS one serN"nV "s long Us
she WILL sC"S'
" III 'nou ie' MN '"lN occ"Slonal-
~ ProNloinS ie ie's Joun"Ne Vile laS'
Woru'
Bride: 81 will"
Clergyman: "Who giveth this
yonan ia he morried to tbis nor9u
80. W 49,, '''
(ravner s'ePs lor" "ru'
The clergym an then reads and the
bride and groom repeat after him.
"I Tom Thumb. take thee Jennie
ha.o a,1 =. 80 - -, 49,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
Cnred Bronchial TronhIe.

Chas. E. Davis, 1O7l w. Congress
S SH Mbg SroS SsSS roub Ss aa9 o tor
many kinds of medicines without re-
lief, until 1 began taking Foley's
Honey and Tar, which cured me.
Campbell q Bnrrell.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
Died From Taking Prussic Acid,

through mistake. No worse mistake
is that than taking Blood Medicine
for stomach trouble. DR.. Caldwell IS
Syrup Pepsin cures all forms of indi-
gestion, constipation or stomach
trouble. Don't take the wrong kind
of medicine, take Syrup Pepsin. Ask
G. B. Spencer and w. S. Sannel's,
Moran, Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
The List of Wonnded

Who have been healed by Banner
Salve, is very large. 1t heals all
wounds or sores and leaves no scar.
Take no substitute. Campbell &
Burrell.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20

Since the dissolution of Webster
Davis at Kansas City, an Electric
Bitters company is catching the eye
with patent medicine local, headed
"a White man Turned Yellow. "
People think it refers to Davis and
read it carefully.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-06

sasslns and murderers every time you
go out 10 prayer meeting or make par
ish calls How do you like your work
so far?"
"rhere Is plenty Of H." answered
Philip grayely "A minister must be
made Of cast iron and fire brick In or
der to stand the wear and tear Of these
times in which we live. I'd Ike a
week 10 trade ideas with you and talk
over the work Alfred"
You'd get the worst of the bar
gain
II don't know about that. I'm not
doing any thinking lately. But now as
were going TO be only 80 miles apart,
what's to hinder an exchange once in
a while?"
I'm agreeable TO that" replied Phil
ip's chum; ION condition. however, that
you furnish me with O gun and pay
oil surgeons bills when | occupy your
pupit.'
Done" said Philip, with a grin. And
Just then Mrs Strong forbade any
more talk. Alfred staid until the even
Ing train, and when he left he stopped
down and kissed Philips cheek. IT'S
custom we learned when In the Ger
man universities together that sum-
mer after college. you know he ex-
planned, with the slightest possible
blush. when Mrs. Strong came in and
caught him In the act. 1t seemed TO
her however, like an affecting thing
that two big, grown up men like her
husband and his old chum showed
such tender affection for each other
The love OF men for men in the strong
friendship OF school and college life Is
one Of the marks Of human divinity.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-06

OF his own church members made up
another. He had struck again al the
same sore spot which he had wounded
the month before In his attack on the
saloon as an institution he had again
necessarily condemned all those menu
beers OF his church who rented proper
" 20 the whisky element. Again as q
month ago these property holders
went from the hearing Of the sermon
angry that they as well as the saloon
power we're under indictment.
As Philip entered on the weeks
work after that eventful sermon he be-
gan to feel the pressure Of public feel
ing against him. He began to realize
the bitterness Of championing a just
cause alone. He felt the burden OF the
communlty's sin In the matter, and
more than once he felt obliged to come
In from his parish work and 30 up into
his study. there to commune with his
Father. He was growing old very fast
In these first few weeks in his new
parish
Tuesday evening Of that week Philip
had been writing a little while In his
study, where he had gone Immediate
~ after supper. IL was nearly s
o'clock when he happened 10 remem-
Der that he had promised a sick child
in the home Of one OF his parishioners
that ~ would come and see him that
very day
lie came down stairs, put on his hat
and oyercoat and told his wife where
he was going.
Its not far. shall be back in
about half an hour. Sarah"
lie went out. and his wife held the
door open until he was doSn the steps.
She was Just on the point Of shutting
the door as he started down the side
walk when a sharp report rang out
close By. She scr AIMED and flung the
door open again, as by the light OF the
street lamp she saw Philip stagger and
then leap into the street toward an elm
tree which grew almost opposite the
parsonage. When he was about in the
middle OF the street. she was Mortified
10 see n man step out boldly from be-
hind a tree, raise a gun and DELHI
erately fire at Philip again. This time
Phil? fell and did not rise His tall
form lay where the rays OF the street
lamp shone on II. and he had fallen so
that rs his arms stretched out there
he made the figure Of a huge and pros
trate cross.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-06
CHAPTER V

AS people walked up IN Milton the
Wednesday morning after the shoot.
ing Of Philip Strong they grew con.
scious Of the fact, as the news came 10
their knowledge, that they had been
nursing for so years one Of the most
brutal and cowardly institutions on
earth and licensing II to do the very
thing which at last IL had done. For
the time being Milton suffered genu-
Inc shock. Long pent up feeling against
the whisky power burst out, and pub
lie sentiment for once condemned the
source Of the cowardly attempt to muir
der.
Various rumors We're flying about. II
was said that Mr.. Strong had been
stabbed In the back while out making
parish calls in company with his wife
and that she had been wounded by a
pistol shot herself. Il was also said
that he had been shot through the
heart and instantly killed. But all
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-06
ey REV. CHARLES M. SHELDON,
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TIERS.


Chapter 1.--philip Strong a minister
receives two calls, one 10 college
town, where he may live a quiet, schol-
arly life to his liking, the other to a
manufacturing town, where there is
plenty OF work to DO among the labor
ing classes. He accepts the more active
field. ii and III.-PhilIp discovers that
a number OF his wealthy parishIoners
have property rented for saloons and
gambling houses. lie interviews one OF
them and is advised that he had better
not stir w the subject, and Mr.. Win
ter, one Of his most prominent parish
toner's, having property rented for such
purposes, rises from his seat and walks
out OF the church. The next morning
Winter calls on the minister and re-
sents what he calls an insult to himself,
then, threatening to withdraw his sup
port from the church, retires inhigh dud-
geon. The sermon creates great ex-
element, and the next Sunday large
crowd attends Philips church, expect
Ing sensational sermon, but Philip
disappoints them, preaching on DIFF
ferent subject entirely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-16

being sugar, hides, tobacco and coffee.
The list Of exports includes very
large number of articles. among them
being agricultural implements, books,
maps and engravings; corn, meal, -four,
candles, chemicals of various kinds coal,
cotton goods of all classes, and especial
ly cloths; dried fish, gunpowder. build
ers' hardware. electrical machinery
cutlery. pumps and pumping machinery,
steel rails, nails. pipes and fittings. and
numerous other manufactures Of iron
and steel; boots and shoes, harness and
saddles. paper of various grades, rice,
vegetables, manufactures Of wood, and
many other articles.
A comparison Of the growth of exports
to Porto Rico in the months opera
lions of the new law with the growth
in the general exports during the same
comparative methods is especially in
teresting. The total exports from the
United States during the months from
May 1 to October 1, 1900. show an in
crease Of SO per cent over the same
months of 1897. while the exports to
Porto Rico in the months from May
to October I, 1900. show an increase of
25S per cent over the corresponding
months of 1897.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-16
KANSAS NEWS.
A Lawrence Merchant Tells of
His Troubles.
Is Going to Quit Business After
FOrty-four Years.
HE HAS A TALE OF WOE
Thinks the Town is Going to the
Bad Rapidly.
HE HAS A TALE OF WOE
No Business and Future Pros
poets Are Very Poor.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 16.-F. W. Reed,
merchant of this city, has sent out circu-
lars announcing a closing out sale and h >
IlIen9n OF qultflng the city; me e., elpcg
ness in Lawrence for forty-fOur years
After telling of the advantages Gus
toners have buying at his sale this mer-
chant, becomes reminiscent and at the
same time pessimistic- He tells some
pretty bad things on Lawrence.
The following is extract from the
1T has been a hot. dull summer and a
very hot rainy fall so far, and trade has
been exceedingly light, and while every
one seems to be prophesying a. good fail
There are at least six towns in Douglas
county that are doing far better trade
Lawrence. The farmers don't have to
come to town to get their mails as they
used to, rural delivery knocked that out
What / see is the wiser ones than / have
preceded me in getting out of business.
Bullenes Shoe company has quit, Hub
Clothing stone and w. H. Duncan have
quit, the Nortons have sold out so has
Fred klock, Beal, Wiese and others.
There have been more changes and
quitting in the last three years than in the
preceding ten: Our wire mill has gone
in the state in ashes, and no prospect of
rebuilding. the barrel factory going to
move, and so on; only one building of
magnitude built this summer, that
school house that we are taxed to pay
for No one IS investing in the town. and
the city Will be twenty thousand dollars
/, 1901. If that is any reason for remain
ing in business 1 can't see it, and that is
one reason I am selling out. There is not
a street car running today and not paw
ordered more than a year. / know there
viii be k1ckers on this circular for telling
that is what I am telling and every bust
ness man in Lawrence knows it -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-16
REIFF 70 REMAIN.
British Turf Engageme nts Not Can
celed by Jockey Club.

London, Nov. 16-The racing calendar
this afternoon announces that the stew
ards OF the Jockey. club adjourned with
out reporting a. decision in the case of
Wishard, the trainer, and Lester Reiff,
the jockey. In the meantime the fact
that the latter is riding today indicates
the correctness of the Associated Press
forecast of November IA, that Lord Dur
hams charges Of pulling Mr. Richard
Crokers The Scotchman II, at Doncas-
ter, would not be sustained
Both the Reiffs We're much in evidence
at the Derby November meeting today
In the race for the Drakenlov selling
plate Of $50 sovereigns for all ages, Les
ter Reim had the mount on c. Gottrills
Orris Root, the winner of the event
He also rode Schernus, which finished
first in the race for the Elveston Castle
selling plate.
The race for the Doveridge stakes of
sovereigns each starter with $50 SOW
ereigns. was won by Lord TIarewood's
Night Shade ridden by Johnny Reif.