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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-01
LcOpyright. lOOO. BY R. G. EIehorn.l

copyright, 1900, by r.. c. Eichorn.l
The elements had combined to make
Memorial day one of perfection. All ma
ture bloomed with the fragrance of early
summer, and the trees swayed in majes-
tic splendor, overshadowing the green
swathed hillside graves. Veterans of
1861, together with many of 1898, sur
rounded by sympathizing groups of
of old and young, stood awaiting the
bugle call to attention. A child dressed
in white and holding tiny flag on high
suddenly arose on the edge of the crowd
nearest the soldiers and repeated with
nervous resolution these lines:
And we in our busy waiting
Pause reverent each year to pay
The small but soulful tribute
OF grateful love and pray
!, That the dear All Father may bless you
y With fuller, richer life
- Than that so freely profered
~ In the aid Of noble strife.
u
Once more, brave hearts, we thank you
For this grand free land of ours;
Once more we whisper, God bless you,"
And leave our love with our flowers
The tender tone and beautiful senti-
ment appealed to every heart. Sensa-
tive Alice Mason chung to her fathers
hand and buried her tear stained face
in the folds of his worn blue jacket that
had seen service in the field. And she
would not be comforted until the bugle
call demanded his presence in the front
ranks, then only letting him go when he
promised to take her with him at the
distribution OF flowers.
The soldiers fell in place about the
grave of their comrade. An elderly com
mander, with gray hair and bowed Shout
ders, advanced to the headstone and said,
Here lies the body of n true hearted,
brave and earnest defender of the repub-
lic." Another placed a wreath of ever
green over the tomb as "a symbol of un-
dying love for comrades of the war"
One who had lost his right arm offered a
rose as "a symbol of purity" with the
prayer that future generations might
emulate the unsetish devotion of our he
roes. A third placed a sprig of laurel as
"a symbol of victory and the last token
of affection from comrades in arms"
Laden with flowers for the dead, Alice
and her young companions crowded
round Major Mason to share in the
pleasing ceremony of the hour. May
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-01
WHAT FLOWERS SAY
POETRY AND LANGUAGE OF FLORA'S
RAREST GIFTS.

Symbols Used In the Grand Army
Ceremonies-Mnrtin VnIor and Vir-
tues Typihed-=How the Poets Inter
pref Form and Color.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-01

Some fought their fight but yesterday;
Some back in sixty.One.
II matters not where'er they fought;
Their fighting now is done.
When Freedoms cause was ieopardized
And she for succor cried,
They did not say their country nay,
But nObly fought-and died.
So now we bring our garlands fair
To lay on each dear grave,
And plant with love, each breast above,
The flag that 'lOng shall wave"
We bow the head above the dead
Whose deeds will ever live.
And bloom OF spring today we bring
And TO their mem ries give.
ARTHUR J. BURDlCK.
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
Opinion About Equally Divided BE.
tween Incendiarism and Accident
as the Cause of the Fire.
A BOY Is KILLED BY A BOY
MURDER COMMITTED AT A PALMYRl
POLITICAL MEETING.
Criminal Has Escaped-VigO County
Political COntests-Knights Of CO.
lumbus Installation.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. B.-For the
second time within two weeks Notre Dame
University was visited to-day by costly
fire. Only ten days ago the famous gym
nasium of the university, one of the most
complete in the country, burned to the
ground, entailing a loss of $4,000 due,
beyond a doubt. TO the act of an incen-
diary.
To-day while the students and priests
and nearly all the men connected with the
institution were attending church fire was
fast gaining headway in the sacristy ad-
joining the famous Church of the Sacred
Heart, one of the most noted and finely
finished houses of worship in the United
States. When the fire was discovered 1t
had gained much headway and flames were
leaping from the roof of the building. A
student from Sorin Hall gave the alarm,
and the university fire companies were
soon at the scene, but were unable TO sue
cessfully combat the destructive blaze.
An appeal for aid was sent to South
Dend, and Chief Kerner ordered two COM
ranies to the university. Later. on re-
ceiving second appeal, he sent two more.
and in about three hours the fire was un-
der control. The loss to the university will
run far into the thousands, but President
Morrissey Is eiated because the fire aid
rot spread 10 the church and to Corby
Hall. That the flames were confined to the
saeristy is due to the rain, which fell in
torrents and completely drenched the roofs
OF all the buildings, thus preventing igni-
ton from the blazing cinders which were
carried over the buildings ty the stiff
breeze.
A report soon after the fire was discoy-
cred reached South Bend that Corby Hall
was already in ruins and the church in
poor condition to save. Brave work by the
firemen and heroic help on the part of
students saved the university many thou
sands CT dollars. The faculty cannot ex-
plain the cause of the fire, but are inclined
to think ii was due to carelessness on the
part of choir boys who had burned char.
coal for incense. However, coming so soon
after the burning of the gymnasium makes
il appear as the work of an incendiary,
as was that fire.
The sacristy will be rebuilt at once and
on a more elaborate scale. The loss prob
ably will not exceed $4,000. To-day's fire
was not only the second within ten days,
but the fourth since the beginning OF the
year.
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
A FAMILY AFFAIR.
The Murder of Richard Alexander, of
Arkansas-Relntives Arrested.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo-, Nov. 1S.-Walter
Alexander, the fifteen-year-old son of
Richard Alexander, farmer living across
the line in Arkansas. is under arrest on
suspicion of being implicated in the death
of his father who was shot and killed yes
terday. Young Alexander, who was ar
rested pending an investigation, is said TO
have confessed the crime and to have
implicated his mother, sister and the lat
ter's husband, James Hogan, all of whom
have been arrested and placed in Jail at
Corning, Ark.
Citizens are aroused, and Hogan, whom
they profess to believe is at the bottom
of the affair. will be taken to the county
Jail at Paragould. Ark, for safe keeping.
Alexander was killed with shotgun,
ceiving the contents of both barrels in the
breast and stomach and dying almost i'm
mediately. His family informed the Of
ficers. who had previously been Notified of
the affair, that he had accidentally shot
himself while loading the gun. The ma
ture of the wounds and the report of neigh
bors that the family had quarreled fire.
quently with the dead man led to the de-
tention of the son. Young Alexander, it is
stated, admitted in his confession that
the killing had been planned deliberately,
and that he fired the fatal shot as his
father appeared suddenly around the cor
ner of the house. Alexander was we'll to
do, owning valuable farm lands in the
vicinity of Corning.
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
Movements Are Most Active In Samar.
and Operations Are Under Way to
Crush the Rebel Forces.
YOUNG Is TO BE REINFORCED
HE is CONFRONTED ny TINIO AND
RENEGADE PRIEST.
Grant Has an AII-Day and AII-Night
Engagement with Rebels, and
Takes a Vast Amount of Stores.

MANILA, Nov. 1S-Last week witnessed
a considerable increase in rebel and Ameri-
can activity in the field Many skrmishes
in northern and southern Luzon. The
termination of the rains permits resump-
ton of operations on both sides.
The Americans are undertaking series
of aggressive movements against the in
surgents, notably upon the island of Sa-
mar, against General Lukban, whose forces
hold the entire island with the exception
of three coast towns. each of which is
garrisoned by two companies of the Twen-
ty-ninth Infantry and platoon of artil-
lery.
The rebels are continually shooting into
the garrisoned towns. and forces have
not been sufficient to retaliate effectively
Commerce I'm Samar has been at stand
still, and most of the influential inhabi-
tants have departed. General Hare has ar
rived there with $50 men. He will bring
eight companies of the Second Infantry
from the island of Marinduque as they
may be needed. and will proceed energet-
ically to crush General Lukban. Mean
while United States gunboats will patrol
the coast to prevent the escape of the in
surgent leader. Lukban still holds three
members of the Forty-third Regiment pris-
oners.
All the rifles which the party of Capt
Devereaux Shields, of Company +, Twen-
ty-ninth Volunteer Infantry, lost last Sep
tember in Martinique, at the time of the
capture, have not yet been recovered from
the insurgents. All Of the Marinduaue
garrisons are being continued
The Fourteenth Infantry, which recently
arrived from China. will relieve the Twen-
ty-frst Infantry from duty in Manila. and
the Twenty-hrst will relieve the Thirty
eighth Infantry in southern Luzon, the
Thirty-eighth proceeding to the island OF
Panay. to reinforce the troops there The
Twenty-eighth Infantry will reinforce the
garrisons I'm the island OF Mindanao, par
ticularly at Gagayan, where an armed
truce between the rebels and the Americans
has existed for months past.
General Wheaton. commanding the de-
partment of northern Luzon. is sending re-
Inducements to General Young's provinces,
where the natives. under General Tinio
and Agiipay. the excommunicated Filipino
priest, are showing signs of restlessness,
deserting the domiciles they have occupied
during the rainy season and joining under
compulsion of fear the insurgents in the
mountains.
Notable among the weeks engagements
was General Grants advance with Macca-
bebe and American scouts upon a rebel
stronghold thirty-five miles north of Mani
ia. which was defended by a0 insurgents
armed with rifles. After skirmishing and
lighting for the greater part of a day and
night. the enemy was dislodged from the
mountain fastness. and immense quanti-
CONTINUED on PAGE 2 COL. 81
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
Hypocrisy of DenunciatiOn of Trusts
While the Denunciator Holds or
Has Held stock I'm One.
PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE LAW
CHECKED AND THWARTED By THE
COUNSEL OF THE TRUST.
Oppositfon on Technicalities, Not ON
Merfts-PersOnal Relation OF the
Governor to the Case.

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 1s.-Governor
Roosevelt has prepared the following
memorandum of the charges against Mayor
Van wyck of New York city, in the ice
trust matter:
There are three wholly distinct sides to
the ice trust matter.
I'm the first place, there is the general
question whether the American Ice Com
pany, dealing as 1t does in a necessary of
life to the poor people of New York, was
one into which it was proper for a public
spirited man to enter. This is, of course,
not question of legal action in any shape
or form. Moreover. it is unnecessary to
point out that whether the corporation Is
legal or illegal, proper or improper in char
acter, it is an act of utter hypocrisy on the
part of any public man to denounce trusts
In general and this trust In particular, in
the platform and on the stump, while he.
at the same time, in his private capacity,
holds stock or has held stock in the trust
that he thus denounces. Attention Is called
to this feature simply because an effort
has been made to show that unless legal
action against the trust some of it's
stockholders can be taken, these same
public men are to be exonerated
Second. there is the question whether
trust is in violation of the antitrust law.
This, of course. can only be decided by the
courts On May IS, 1900, the attorney gem
eral instituted proceedings to annul the
certificate of the Ice Company, under this
law. The corporation. through its counsel,
has fought the action at every stage on
technicalities, not on the merits of the
case. The first decision before Judge Ches-
ter was in favor of the State. An ap-
peal has been taken by the defendants.
which was argued weeks ago, and the at
torney general is daily expecting decision
by the appellate division on this appeal.
The defendants obtained a stay of pro-
ceedings pending the appeal. All possible
diligence has been shown by the attorney
general in the effort to secure the annul-
ment of the certificate, and nothing could
have been done by the State to expedite
proceedings which has not been done.
The delay is due, of course, to the course
of the corporation itself, whose stockhold-
ers include the public men above alluded to-.
1--WE now come to the third side of the
matter. the only one in which the Cover
nor. in his official capacity, has any power
whatsoever to act, viz; the charges against
Mayor Van Wyck
"Inasmueh as the question as to whether
the ice corporation is or is not trust or
monopoly is before the courts for decision,
until they have acted, action by the Cover
nor can only. with propriety, be taken
under the Greater New York charter So
far as the charges are brought under this
charter ii makes no difference, as regards
the mayors conduct, whether the afore-
said corporation is or is not trust within
the meaning of the law"
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
PRACTICALLY JUSTIFIED
THE COLORADO ATROCITY BY THE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE.
Tells n Denver Audience "Put Your
self i'm the Place of the Girls Fam
ily.-A Last Trnvesty.

DENVER. Nov 1s.-At a mass meeting
held here to-day strong protests were
made against the action of the Limon mob
that burned John Porter, the negro rapist
and murderer, at the stake. The meeting
was presided over by c. NJ. Hobbs, presi-
dent of the Y NJ c. A., and speeches were
made by Gov. c. S. Thomas. Mayor III. v.
Johnson, of Denver; President Slocum, of
Colorado College; Rabbi Friedman, the
Rev. Mr.. Coyle, Mrs. Sarah Platte Decker,
prominent in national woman's club cir
cles, and others. They all spoke in strong
terms, condemning what was termed the
'Limon atrocity'' and also denounced the
sensational display of newspaper stories
concerning 1t. The audience at times was
stirred almost to riotous demonstrations
of approval. Resolutions adopted admit
the difficulty Of adequately characterizing
the crime for which Porter was punished,
but declare that however much the negro
by his crime merited death, no crime can
justify recourse to such barbarous meth
ods and that while the action of the peo-
pie of Lincoln county is attributed TO ex-
citement and passion, IL is none the less
condemned and discountenanced. Hope is
expressed that law will be speedily en-
acted in Colorado providing effective pun
ishment for such crimes and providing
punishment for any one taking part in a
lynching.
Governor Thomas said: 81 do not be-
lieve the people of this State are any worse
than the people of any other State. This
is as civilized a community as any State
in the Union, and in all of them we hear
of occurrences like this, when the people
have been suddenly aroused to some such
terrible act, when some such horrible
crime as this negros cries to Heaven for
vengeance. For the agonized parents and
whatever they have done, / have no words
of blame or censure. Put ourselves in
their places and We can understand their
wild desire for vengeance.
MY remarks to-day are addressed not so
much to the fact that death has been in
flicted, as to the manner ii is done. / do
not by this mean TO justify lynch law.
No well-regulated citizen can ever justify
a departure from the law. But every
State has these affairs and we are not
an exception
The Governor disclaimed any respon-
sibility for the affair saying that he un-
derstood that Sheriff Freeman had agreed
to leave Porter IN Jail for eight days and
had gone out of town SO believing, only
to return to learn that the sheriff and
his prisoner were on the way to Limon.
This awful offense has been committed
by an entire county," he continued. "All
we can do is to declare that we, as citizens
OF the same State, deplore and condemn
this act of barbarity."
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
He Passed q Good Day Saturday, Slept
Well Saturday Night, and Was
Better Sunday Morning.
MORE WOE FOR POOR SPAIN
HER PARLIAMENT PROMISES To
MAKE CRITICAL TIMES.
General Policy of the Opposftion-Ger-
man Steel Driven from Foreign
Markets by American.

ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. S.-The Rus
sian official world is anxious regarding the
condition of Emperor Nicholas. but there
is a feeling of confidence that he will re-
cover. A Foreign Office official told the
correspondent of the Associated Press last
evening that the bulletins were regarded
as favorable He called attention to the
distinction between typhus in the American
sense of the word and typhus as under
stood in Russia, where the term corre-
spends to typhoid in American terminoi-
ogy. Typhoid is common, the official point
&c out, in all Russian cities, owing to the
defective hygienic arrangements, but is
not feared in this country as 1t is in the
United States.
Moreover" continued the official, "the
Cars general health has been good. Per-
sons who have seen him frequently and al
close quarters during the last few months
give no credence to the stories regarding
his alleged feebleness. They have not OBJ
served the slightest indication OF linger-
ing injury from the saber blow he received
In Japan. They utterly disbelieve the as
sertion, often made abroad, that the Car
is an epileptic."
Considerable surprise is expressed that
his Majesty should have contracted a dis
ease attributed to tainted nourishment.
1t appears, however, that he is imprudent
i'm his diet, does not always follow medical
direction and often drinks any water he
can get when walking or driving. The pos
sibility of his having contracted the dis
ease from milk is also considered Yet
another source of typhoid infection in Rus
sia is quail, there being high medical
authority for the statement that germs
nave been cultured from broiled quails.
The news of the Cars illness is grad
ually reaching the general populace. and
many sympathetic references to his cond-
ton are heard among the people of st.
Petersburg, who are apparently greatly
attached to the person of the monarch.
Special prayers for his recovery were Of
fered to-day in the churches OF ST. Peters
burg, Moscow and Kharko~.
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
DIR. Morrison Says the ENJOYS Have
Forgotten n Phase Of Chinese Law
I'm Discussing Penalties
CHARGES AGAINST FOREIGNERS
EUROPEAN TROOPS ACCUSED OF
ROBBERY AND OUTRAGE.
Effective Policing Of Tfen-Tsfn DIM
cult-Americans Lead Powers I'm
Matter Of Supplies.

PEKING, Nov IL via Shanghai. Nov. IL.
The belief that the note of the powers
to the Chinese commissioners. Prince
Ching and Ii Hung Chang. will be cum
pleted soon, is strengthened by the re-
suits of the recent informal conference
of the ministers of the powers
Mr. Conger, the United States minister,
said to a correspondent of the Associated
Press to-day: 1.-The situation is apparent
ly very favorable TO the early beginning OF
negotiations for a preliminary settlement
/ believe that the next meeting OF the
foreign ENJOYS will virtually settle all
points of difference between the repre-
sentatives OF the powers. who viii lose no
time i'm presenting demands.
What the result will be. IL is impossible
to foreteli. Events have placed China In
a very critical position. Whether she will
be able to preserve her integrity and TO
save her trade relations with the rest OF
the world will depend on what the powers
demand i'm the final settlement, and on her
willingness to accept promptly the con-
ditions proposed.
TT is quite unlikely. II not impossible.
that the Chinese court Will return TO Pc
king before next spring. but / do not an
ticipate any serious delay in the progress
of the negotiations with the Chinese COM
missioners as they are in teiegraphic COM
munication with the court"
Military operations are virtually at
standstill The German and Italian expe-
ditions northward passed through the
Nan-Kau pass unopposed.
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
CROKER's CRUSADE.
First Move Is to Shift the "Red Light
District Police Captain.


NEW YORK, Nov. B-Police Captain
Herlihy. in command of the Elizabeth
street station, and who is the police Of
fetal charged with having insulted the
Rev. Mr.. Paddock, of Bishop Potter's
assistants in charge of the work at the
Pro-Cathedral. was to-day removed from
the station. He was sent to take COM
mand of the steamboat squad. whose cap
tain, Walsh, was sent TO the Elizabeth
street station, whose commander, Titus,
took Herlihy's place at Eldridge street.
The transfer of Herlihy is put down as the
first effect of Bishop Potters letter to
Mayor Van Wyck concerning the preva-
lence of vice on the East Side, which dis
trict the Eldridge and Elizabeth-street sta
tions look after, and which is what is
known as the RED light" district.
A noticeable change was apparent in this
Red light district tonight. There were
fewer of these red lights to be seen in
Allen and other streets of the precinct II
was very quiet, and during the first hours
of the night. despite the injunctions of
Captain Titus, the new captain of the pre-
cinct, not a person was arrested in con-
nection with the new vice crusade
AS soon as Captain Titus took hold Of
the new place, an old one for him, he sent
twenty-seven men in citizens clothing to
look for legal evidence against disorderiy
characters, and especially i'm Allen street
and a few other thoroughfares infested
with those places. He wanted evidence.
he said. which would convict, and he told
his men TO DO their best and get whom
they could well as what they could,
and TO get all they could of both.
Captain Moynihan. Of the West Twen-
tieth-street station, who had notified the
management of the Grand Opera House
Saturday that Only sacred concerts would
be allowed on Sunday nights in the Jheater.
went 10 the building tonight TO watch
Two performers were doing what is called
''song-and-dance act" They were In
street costume. but were singing and
Dancing. and after they had finished Capt
Moynihan arrested them and the manager.
They were charged with violation CT the
Sunday law. Friends bailed them out. The
rolice raided a club on East Ninety-seventh
street ard arrested seventeen men and Two
women and captured q lot OF dice and
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19
TO THE NEW CAPITAL.


LONDON, Nov. 19.-"It il rumored." says
the Peking correspondent OF the Morning
Post. wiring Saturday. that spring ex-
pedition 10 Si-Ngan-Fu is already being dis
cussed as the outcome OF the probable fall
ure of the peace negotiations. Even IL
Prince TuaR and Prince chwang are alb
sent from the present seat OF the Chinese
court Emperor Kwang su IL still helpless.
as he lacks the aid OF a strong and pro-
gressiye adviser. all such officials having
been beheaded.
Gen. Tung Fuh Hsiang. master OF the
military forces. Is dreaded even by ths
Empress dowager. The new Cabinet min
lister. Lu Chuan Lin, Is reputed 10 be an
other Kang Nj. There is danger. therefore.
that terms accepted by the Chinese COM
missioners in Peking will be rejected az
Si-Ngan-Fu.
should the court prepare for further re-
sistance IL would not be necessary for the
allies 10 declare war. but 10 discriminate
between the court and China. The United
States and Russia would probably refuse
10 take part In such measures.
''Since the occupation OF Peking the Ger
man commander has shot more than 100
guilty Boxers
General chaffec's orders do not provide
for dealing with cases OF crimes committed
The Indianapolis journal., 1900-11-19

LONDON. Nov. 19.-Dr. Morrison. wiring
TO the Times from Peking under date OF
Nov Is. says: ''The foreign ENJOYS have
reopened the discussion of the death pen
atty for the princes and other high Of
ficiaIs. IL is evident that the ministers are
weakening, as they have reduced their
proposal from execution 10 the severest
punishment provided by Chinese law. for
getting that princes lie beyond the reach
OF Chinese common law.
"The news from the southern provinces
Is more reassuring. Ii Hung Chang says
that Prince Tuan has fed for safety 20 the
residence Of his father-in-law at NingRai-
Sien. on the Mongolian frontier OF the
province of Kan-Su."