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The Iola register., 1902-08-22

agreed as 20 five mines. 1t seems prob
ably complete arrangement will be
reached.
Toledo, Aug. 10.-The Canadian
government has instructed the home
steading agent here to proceed to the
anthracite regions .and offer induce
ments to get thirty thousand or more
strikers to form colony and locate
on homesteads in Canada. The gov
ernment to donate the land in the
wheat belt.
Kansas City, August 14-Surgeons
extracted from the center of the brain
of owen Crawford, of Council Grove,
Kansas, sixteen years old, a bullet
which entered accidentally through
the right eye five years ago. A hole
was cut in the boys skull and
the bullet lifted out. The boy will
recover entirely. Paralysis from
which he has suffered since the acci-
dent has disappeared.
New York, Aug. 14.-M. Santos
Dumont, the aeronaut, sailed for
France on the La Touraine today.
His intended departure was known
only to u few friends and was eX-
planned by the aoronaut himself as
due to the failure of certain persons
to put up the expected $25, 900 prize for
u successful flight in New York He
said he would return to America in
time for the airship contest at the ST.
Louis exposition.
Oyster Bay, Aug. l5--Among those
invited by the President to luncheon
today were Generals Young and
Corbin who will pay their respects to
President Roosevelt before leaving
for Germany to witness the maneouvers
of the Kaiser's army; Ex-Governor
Francis, of Missouri, who wi dis
cuss Worlds Fair affairs and Henry
Warren Of Philadelphia, who is much
interested in Philippine affairs.
Gloucester, Mass, Aug. 19.-The
utmost secrecy is thrown about the
movements OF the leet which is to en-
gage in mimic warfare around New
York. The North Atlantic squadron
was Augmented this morning by seven
torpedo boats. Captain Philsbury s
squadron representing the enemy, it
is said, will try to pass the North
Atlantic fleet ana attack New York,
1t Will be anoiseless, b'oodless war
fare. Owing 20 the cost of powder
not even blank cartridges will be
used. The defending forces on land
will be commanded by General Nc
Arthur. Balloons and wireless
teegraphy will be used.
The Iola register., 1902-08-22
SULTAN FOOLING AGAIN
Turkey Forgetting Some Of '"~ "rom-
ises Made to America.

Constantinople, Aug, 1S.-The nom
execution by the Turkish government
of agreements reached long ago on
several questions affecting the inter-
ests of American citizens has lead to
somewhat strained relations between
the United States legation and the porte.
The United States minister John G.
A. Leishman, has informed the latter
that he will not discuss other matters
until the terms of the settlements al
ready agreed upon are carried out.
Diplomatic circles anticipate further
undue delay, and that this may poss-
IDLY lead to sharp reminder by the
United States.
The Iola register., 1902-08-22
A Cure for Cholera mrantnm

Last May" says Mrs. Curtis
Baker, of BooKwaltcr, Ohio, san in
FAINT child of our neighbor's was suf-
fering from cholera infantum. The
doctor had given up all hopes of re-
covery. | took bottle of Chamber
aims Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy to the house, telling them I
felt sure it would do good if used ac
cording to directions. In two days.
time the child had fully recovered
and is now (nearly a year since)
vigorous, healthy girl. [ have rec
commended this Remedy frequently
and have never know it to fail in any
single instance" For sale by w. L
Crabb & Co., Campbell & Burrell.
Etching hemorrhoids were the
plague Of my life. Was almost wild.
Doan's Ointment cured me quickly
and permanently, after doctors had
failed" G. T., Cornwell, Valley Street,
Saugerties, N. y.
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skull was doubtless that of convict,
as IL was found near the old prison
burying ground and that shale from
the coal mines had been piled above
it, making the strata of antideluvian
soil.
"That is not so," said Concannon
yesterday. 81 was born on the farm
where the skull was found, and know
that locality well. The prison bury
ing ground is also we'll remembered by
me, and it was two and a half miles
away from where the skull was dug
up. There is no doubt about the gen.
uine quality of the skull"
The Iola register., 1902-08-22
LOUISVILLE In 1904
Supreme Lodge X. p. Next Biennial
Session There.


San Francisco, Aug. I14-The SUI.
preme lodge of the knights of Pythias
will hold its next biennial session in
Louisville, KY, in 1904. The Ken
lucky delegates made a strong fight
against st. Louis, the only other
and won by about two to one.
The election of supreme officers oc-
cupied the greater part of the morn
ing and afternoon sessions.
Tracey II. Bangs, of Grand Forks,
N. D., for the past two years supreme
vice chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias, was exalted to the supreme
chancellorship by the unanimous vote
of the supreme lodge.
The Iola register., 1902-08-22
MOVEMENT TO RAISE FUNDS.

Chicago, Aug. 14.-A movement to
organize a committee of 100 or more
citizens to raise funds for the striking
miners in the anthracite coal regions
OF Pennsylvania has been started by
the union carpenters of Chicago.
The Iola register., 1902-08-22
M\v.>.-

This signature is on every box OF the genuine
Laxative BrOmO-Quinine Tablets
the remedy that cures "a cold in one daT
The Iola register., 1902-08-22
INSURGENT VICTORY
RevOlutionists have now Taken Porto
CabellO
BY scripPs-McRae Press Assn.

Washington, Aug. l5-The belief
is general here that the end of the
Castro administration in Venezuela
seems certain. Castro now holds
only Caracas and its port Laguayra,
while three revolutionary armies sur
round him.
The Iola register., 1902-08-22

tom ports, Ciudad de Bolivar, Guiria
Cano, Colorado, Coro, Carupano and
Barcelona.
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all he knows. Milton Edwards, a
boader at the Bartholin house, re-
turned today from Denver where he
fled for fear, he says that Barthoin
would kill him.
Chicago, Aug. 14.-Becoming des-
perate tonight, while being subjected
to vigorous examination by Inspec-
tor Hunt, Oscar Thompson, who is
detained pending investigation of the
Bartholin-M Mitchell murders, confessed
to everything that the police have been
trying to make him tell. When he
had finished Thompson laughed de-
risively and said
"Inspector, that story is a lie. You
wanted me to tell you all these things
[ have admitted all, but l might con.
fess that it is all lie"
Inspector Hunt, who has been lab
oring with Thompson for days, though
for moment that the solution of The
mystery was pouring from Thompson
lips, but the next moment he realized
that Thompson was endeavoring tC
perpetrate a joke.
In making the bogus confession
Thompson said;
Eyes, Bartholin made me go to th,
laundry barn and get the wagon tha
Wednesday night. He made me brinl
it to the house at 1910 Calumet avenu,
and back it up to the curb. Thel
Bartholin came out of the house carry
ing mysterious bundle. He put i
in the wagon. Then we drove to tn,
Englewood prairie and hid the bundl,
in the weeds You have been tellinl
me to tell you that and admit it is tn,
truth. You have told ME the sam,
stories day after day and have pressed
me to confess that they are true.
will tell you that all these things hap
pened, but, Inspector Hunt, will alst
state to you that every word / hav,
spoken is false. Everything | hav,
told you is deliberate falsehood."
The bogus confession came just at tn
very moment when a confession wa
expected and Inspector Hunt wa
greatly disappointed, After Thomp
son was returned to his cell, Inspecto
Hunt said; 81 believe that strange
confession of Thompson's is Thomp
terrible story before long"
The Iola register., 1902-08-22

Chicago, Aug. 15:-Little progress
was made by The police today in solv-
ing the mysteries of the Bartholin
case. Inspector Hunt was convinced
that he would obtain important infor-
nation from John Clany, who was
positively identified by Mrs. Taller
day as one of the men she saw with
the laundry wagon on the morning
following the night of the disappear
ance of Minnie Mitchell. Clafy has
been accustomed to q supply of liquor
and the inspector was OF the opinion
that he would weaken after he had
been deprived of his allowance for u
few days. Late this afternoon he con-
cluded that iClaffy should be about
ready to tell what he knew and had
him called into the Office. The result
was failure: Claify not only re-
fused to admit that he was one of the
men seen by Mrs, Tallerday, but de-
clared with great positiveness that he
was not there at all. When asked
how he explained Mrs. Tallerday's S
Identification OF him, he replied that it
was not for him to explain it. She
had simply made mstake, and that
was her affair and not his. He in
sisted that he was at home in bed at
the time Mrs. Tallerday declared that
she saw him with the laundry wagon,
and denied any connection with the
case. The police could make nothing
whatever out of him and he was
locked up again.
Milton Edwards, who arrived today
from Denver, was able to do no more
than to strengthen the suspicion of the
police regarding the guilt of Thomp-
son. He recited no facts that bore
directly upon the killing of either
Mrs. Bartholin or Minnie Mitchell.
Oscar Thompson still declines to
tell the police anything, and insists
he has told all he knows, and he can
not remember where he was or what
he did on the night of the murder OF
the Mitchell girl.
Thompson admitted to newspaper
man that he no longer denied the
story of Mrs. Tallerday, who makes
the charge that he and Daddy"
Claffy and a:man supposed to be Will
liam Bartholin were quarreling under
her w'ndow at o'clock in the morn
ing after Minnie Mitchell disappeared;
and that with them was Thompson s
laundry wagon, in which it is sup
posed the murdered girls body was
carted to the prairie at Seventy fourth
and State streets.
81 turned in my laundry wagon at
the Agaar's stable the night Minnie
Mitchell was killed about s;3Ooclock"
he said. 81 stopped and had several
drinks at Clancy's saloon, and then /
went to the house on Calumet avenue,
1t must have been about 10 o'clock
when reached there.
81 met Bartholin in the house.
do not known what happened there. |
went TO myIroom, and after that can
not say anything as TO what trans
plred in the house, l may have been
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HE LIED ABOUT IT
Confession of Oscar Thompson in the
BarthOlin Case Fake
BY sorlpps-MoRas Press Association.

BY scripps-MoRas Press Association.
Chicago, Aug. 15.-The police is
still grouping in the dark in the Bar
tholin murder mystery. Their only
hope is that Oscar Thompson will tell
all he knows. Milton Edwards, a
boader at the Bartholin house, re-
turned today from Denver where he
fled for fear, he says that Barthoin
would kill him.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

dinner was given by President Morton, of
Hoboken, at the Waldorf Astoria the other
evening which may have important results in
the work OF archaeological research. President
Morton is prominently identified with one of the
youngest archaeological societies, the Ur Ex-
pedition, equipped TO conduct excavations in the
ancient home of Abraham, and the object of the
dinner was to gather together for mutual coun-
sci some of the men interested in all the differ
ent fields of archaeology, with view to the pos
sibIe unfcaton of their various interests in a
comprehensive central organization that would
furnish adequate funds for them all without in
any way curtailng their independence or inter
fering with their special work. Among those
present at the dinner were such representative
men I'm science and business as S. Bayard Dod
president of the trustees of the Stevens Insti-
tute; Alex c. Humphreys, the well known engi-
neer; Adolf Kutroff, Isidor Straus, George w.
Young, of the United States Mortgage and Trust
Company; Joseph NJ. Wilson, J. S. Gibson, Will
lam A. Jenner F. II. Belts DR.. John P. Peters
who conducted the first expedition TO Nippur;
Dr. William Hayes Ward. of "The Indepen-
dent; Dr. Willis II. Hazard. secretary of the
Ur Expedition Fund: DR.. James B. Mes. field
director of the American School for Oriental
Study and Research. and Professors John Will
Jams White. of Harvard, president Of the Amer
ican Archaeological Institute; Charles F. Chand-
Ter, dean of the Columbia University School Of
Mines; Paul Haupt of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity; f. X. Sanders, of Yale; Samuel I. Curtiss,
of the Chicago Theological Seminary; W. K.
Prentice, of Princeton, and A. v W. Jackson, of
Columbia University.
One of the most marked developments of the
present day is the way in which archaeology is
coming TO revolutionize history by throwing
lirl1r s,f
deemed insoluble. It's excavations have given
to the world enormous number of objects
illustrating the political and social Iife the re-
ngious and artistic ideas, the commerce. the in
dustries. the racial movements and the arch
itecture OF buried nations and races. Already,
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
THEATRE FIRES.

New-York has been fortunate in that fires in
or near the places OF amusement on Manhattan
Island have not been largely destructive of life
for generations. In the seventies the Brooklyn
Theatre was burned while the house was
crowded with spectators, and hundreds of men,
women and children suffered an appalling fate.
But that calamity took place long before the
boundaries of this city included any territory
on Long Island.
When Barnum's Museum, at the southeast
corner of Ann-st and Broadway, vanished in
flame and smoke the mortality among Gagged
beasts and snakes, mummes and mermaids, and
all sorts of curious counterfeits which the
inimitable Yankee Snowman had cunningly
patched up and put together for the deludng
of the credulous, was notable in the extreme
Barnum said again and again that the American
people dearly loved to be humbugged. And it
was plain enough that he dearly loved to hum
bug them, as the book of his "reminiscences, IN
which he frankly revealed his whole bag of
tricks, convinced every reader Humbugs OF
every imaginable kind were destroyed by fire
when the Barnum Museum in Ann-st and the
Barnum show in East Fourteenth-st. many
years later were destroyed but few human
beings perished. When the Park Theatre, at
Twenty-second-st. and Broadway; the first
Fifth Avenue Theatre, in West Twenty-fourth-
ST., and the second Fifth Avenue Theatre, in
West Twenty-eighth-st, fell a prey to fire
there were no audiences within the doors. Most
of the playhouses and other buildings used for
public entertainment which have sunk to ashes
in Gotham at any time in the last half century
have been burned at some hour of the day or
night when they were vacant of tenants, with
the exception of caretakers and watchmen and
a few persons in the offices.
But Manhattan may not always hereafter
have the good fortune Of the past. There are
too many places of amusement in this borough
in which the spectators are compelled to climb
stairs in order to reach seats in the orchestra
sections. There are still too many theatres on
this island in which old, dry scenery, as fn-
fiammable as finder, is stored in such parts of
the buildings as to menace the safety Of every
person within the structures. Some recent fires
may well give warning to needless managers.
1t is generally believed that throughout the
four years of Tammany misrule any mscrupu-
lous manager could violate the Fire Department
regulations. the city ordinances and even the
State laws without danger of interference, pro-
vided his political pull was strong and he
crossed the right palms with gold (certificates)
at the right time. Hereafter regulations, ord-
nances and laws should all be enforced un-
sparingly. Otherwise New-York may ere long
see a repetition of the horrors of the Brooklyn
Theatre fire.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06

facture. These were 81 ton paid to the farm
ers for the beets, and So ton as the expense
of Transforming the beets into marketable gran
ulated sugar worth four cents a pound. The
total cost, 81, deducted from the proceeds, SO,
thus left So net profits to the manufacturers on
every ton of beets. 1t was shown, moreover,
that this was most conservative estimate,
since four cents pound was the minimum price
of sugar-in 1891 1t was 4.04 cents; in 1892. 434,
and in 1893, 4S4-and $50 pounds from the ton
of beets was the minimum yield-at some of the
factories considerably more was actually pro-
duced and in none less-while SO ton was the
maximum of working expenses-the actual
figures in the factories showing an average Of
only 81 90. And ali this, be IL observed. without
the slightest reference to the Mckinley bounty
of two cents a pound on the beet sugar, which.
we may fairly infer from this authoritative let
ter, was, or If continued would have been and
would be, just so much clear profit to the manu-
facturers in addition to the already generous
profits OF So or more on each ton Of beets.
The beet growing farmers may be assured,
then, upon the authority of the beet sugar man.
ufacturers themselves that the granting Of the
most liberal concessions to Cuban sugar would
not necessitate or Justify the slightest reduc-
ton In the price of beets The manufacturers
have declared categorically and in detail, that
even II not only CUBAN DuJ also 1eFLHdH anu
Belgian and Austrian and all other sugar shall
be admitted to this country free of all duty,
they will still be able to pay the farmers $4
ton for their beets and TO make satisfactory
profit for themselves in so doing. This, accord
ing to their own figures. they can do without
the aid of any bounty whatever. 1t is crafty
ing to record this as an indication Of the pros
porous and profitable status of the beet sugar
manufactures. An industry that in a dozen
years can thus outgrow all need of bounty or
protection is one TO be envied for its rapid and
robust growth. The same record also contains
an indubitable assurance to the farmers that
they have nothing TO fear from concessions to
Cuban sugar. They have the woodland in some
cases the written contractor the sugar refners
for It that the price of beets will not be lowered.
In that view of the the farmers opposition
to Cuban reciprocity must vanish-while logical
ly, according to their showing, that of the
beet sugar manufacturers cannot be maintained.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06

whose artistic powers command admiration and
compel audiences; but there is always note
of amused liberation through the house. In a
very few Instances 1t may be that length, fr1zzl-
ness and color have. in combination with the
rarest gifts Of more spiritual sort. created
golden aureole through which emotional women
have been held captive; but the hair was the
merest accessory, which the possessor or IL
himself doubtless contemplated with amuse-
ment but like the sane and sensible In his
audiences. toerated-on his part because 1t
'helped business" There is little cheer to be
got by the inspection of foreign artists now
performing on the American concert stage The
superstition still has sway among the fraternity
1t is gratifying to know. however, that Amer
lean artists or those who have taken up their
residence in America, have seen great light
and have improved their appearance, while los
ing nothing of their hold upon their audiences
and nothing of their eloquence in art. To this
extent there Is an improvement. 1t may be
that the leaven will one day leaven the whole
lump. Then American managers will cable to
their foreign attractions to cut their hair.
instead of cultivating it, and there will be
great feeling of relief among the judicious.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
PERSONAL.

General Fitzhugh Lee Is about to start a
lecture tour of the Southern States his subject
being Peace and War in the United States and
Cuba" He has also agreed to lecture about fifteen
times at various Chautauqua assemblies next sum-
mer.
The new library to be built in Grand Rapids,
Mich. a gift to his native city from Martin A
Ryerson, OF Chicago. besides having a shelf ca
pacity Of two hundred thousand volumes, will
contain two large assembly halls and several study
1t Will cost about 10000. and IT is expect.
ed that the contract will be awarded in time to be-
66mildng readY for occunancy 'by the beginning Of
next winter.
A handsome painting OF the portrait OF the Rev.
Samuel Harris who president OF Bowdoin
College from 1867 to 1871. has recently been pre-
collection the portraits of all Of Bowdoins ex-
presidents except General J. L. Chamberlain. who
is still living.
Bishop c. c. McCabe has sailed for South Amer
ica. to be gone six months. during which time he
Will visit the many Methodist missions In Brazil.
Ecuador and other South American countries
H H Kitson. the Boston sculptor. has been COM
missioned to model statue OF General N P.
in atn the ..Huba The s statue ia '' will cost slSo0S
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen Denison. ''the Barbara
Frietche of Texas" died last week. She raised
above her home IN San Antonio the first federal
flag that hoated in the State. The town of Deni-
son. Tex. named in her honor
NJ. Hamard. the French sculptor has just COM
pleted at Paris the model of a statue of Marshal
Rochambeau. 10 be presented to the city Of Wash
ington as a companion to the statue of Lafayette.
The work of casting the bronze will begin this
week, and 1t is hoped that the finished statue will
be ready to send to the United States next April
Since Second Lieutenant Paul D. Stockly. 21st
Infantry. disappeared IN a Philippine forest on
January Il. 1901. nothing has been heard from him.
The War Department has continued his name on
the army register. but has decided to drop II
shortly. Had not block in the promotion Of sec
ond HeutenantS occurred, II is said that Stockly
would have been dropped before this: at
present It is No. IA on the list.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
BEET SUGAR AND CUBAN SUGAR

Since the chief opposition to reciprocity with
SCuba comes from the beet sugar industry of the
lOnited States 1t will be fitting TO consider what
,wlll be the legitimate effect upon that industry
eof abolishing or reducing the tariff upon Cuban
ssugar, and also what will be the effect upon the
5Ibeet growing farmers who supply the beet sugar
t3actories with their raw material The impress
sion has somehow got abroad that concessions
TO Cuban sugar will so initiate against the beet
gEugar factories of the United States as TO cause
.Ihem 10 close and thus TO deprive the farmers
.sof their market or at least to compel them
greatly TO reduce the price paid TO the farmers
s5or the beets; and on this ground some senti-
i1ment against reciprocity with Cuba seems to
have been worked up among the farmers. Such
ground and such sentiment must be regarded as
;altogether mistaken. Elsewhere in to-day's
Tribune we print instructive letter upon this
subject from Mr.. Albert G. Robinson showing
sfhat the average price now paid TO farmers for
tbeets is about 81 80 a ton. According TO q renu-
'|1able authority cited by Mr. Robinson the aver
age production of beets is less than six tons TO
the acre. That would give gross returns to the
Farmer of a fraction more than so from an
sacre. The cost of cultivation appears to range
Sfrom s14 10 S27 an acre. which, deducted from
,the returns leaves a painfully narrow margin
of profit, and suggests the query whether it will
ever, is apart from the present ISSUE which is
the effect of a reduction of the tariff upon
Cuban sugar-its effect upon the farmer who
grows sugar beets and upon the manufacturer
who transforms the beets into marketable
sugar. Upon this question authoritative infor-
nation is not lacking.
The letter issued two years ago by two lead
ing directors Of the American Beet Sugar Com
pany to which Mr.. Robinson refers and which
we have already quoted from "The New York
Evening Post" set forth that in 1891 93,
when there no tariff raw sugar. the aver
Age price OF granuiated sugar in this country
was more than four cents n pound, and that
that price might. therefore, be taken as the one
10 be expected if we should return to free trade
in sugar with all the world. It also reckoned
s250 pounds Of sugar as the product of ton of
sbeets. That gave $40 the gross amount real
Eized-and realiZable, in the face of free trade
lcompetition-in sugar from a ton OF beets.
fAgainst this sum It then set the costs Of manu-