The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-09-11
GENERAL NEWS.


The Turkish army is said to consist of
about 500, 600 meI, we'll armed.
The three medical colleges for women
in New York have over $50 students.
Eight newspaper correspondents will
accompany the Prince of Wales to India.
Instruction and degrees are SOW given
to women at the University of Copenha-
gen.
Two sons of Rslston, the late Cxlifor-
mia Bank manager, are at school in BOs-
ton.
Capt. Eads's jetties at the mouth of
the Mississippi are a highly successful
success.
Deposits OF silver of extraordinary
richness at Rifle River, Mich, are re-
ported.
The Postofice Department is now
ready to commence the issue of postal
cards Of the new design.
Heavy rains in the Baraach district of
India will necessitate the replanting of a
large part OF the cotton crop.
Ralston, though a prominent Republi-
can, contributed money to aid the Cali
fornia Democrats at the late election.
Ford county is to build court house
and Jail, and architects and contractors
are invited to make proposals for the
work.
A good showing: The expenditures
of the United States Government were
less during the year 1915 than for any
year since 1861.
New South Wales is preparing for
transmission to Melbourne for exhibition
colonial products, designed for the Phil
adelphia centennial.
The irrepressable American can not be
repressed. The more you try to enslave
him the more he will be free. Even the
girls, the more they are pinned back the
more forward they will appear.
The first of the trials of the negroes
accused of attempting to incite insurrec.
ton in Georgia, resulted in verdict of
acquittal, the prosecution failing to pro-
duce any proof of criminal intent.
Miss Betsey Straw, of Warner, N. H.
who lacks only two months of being lOl
years old, is knitting a pair of wOrsted
stockings for DIR. Lambert, of New York,
and another pair for A. 7. Stewart.
A Bloomington, ILL.,, paper is invited
to pay travelling music teacher $4,000
for the luxury of calling him "a sorrel-
topped Tyre" The singing teacher evil
IDENTIFY understands phonetics, and reads
by sound.
Two lunches of castor beans were
brought to the Vinland postoffice the
other day, says the Lawrence Journal,
that weighed 81 lbs, the largest of which
was two feet long. Some pods had four
and five beans in them.
Life has few more bitter moments
than such As when the enterprising gen.
tlemcn who broke into railroad depot
and carried off the well-filled trunk of a
Chicago drummer" found, on opening
it, that it cOntained-unmatche shoes.
A violent rain storm ut Dubuque
washed a policeman from under shed
where he was taking comfortable
snooze, out into the river. This is ter
rible warning to our guardians of the
night, not to trust to sheds when they
sleep.
Gov. Tilden is now estimated to be
worth four millions Of dollars, all made
by railroad jobbery. As the Governor
is now pretty well fixed, and is really
above want, he can we'll afford to make
war on these smaller fellers who are try
ing to reach his figure out of the canals.
- Wdreriy ~. ~ AdroeG:s.
There has been heavy typhoon in the
China Sea. Several ships were wrecked
and the steamship Gaelic considerably
injured, and Chief Officer Richie and q
seaman named Patterson washed over
board and drowned. There has also
been great damage in the central prov
inces of Japan. Farms have been food
ed and many lives lost. Houses, bridges
and upward of $2,000.OOO in produce
have been destroyed. The rainfall was
seven and one half inches in few days.