The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-17
GENERA AZ.

gagged to marry Sullivan's daughter. She
did all she could to convict her father and
brother.
GENERAL.
THE German Admiralty have ordered
commanders of men-of-war to limit their
supplies of American pork to what is
necessary for the sustenance of crews dur
ing passage home from foreign stations.
The object of this order is to avoid the
handling of any such pork at German
ports.
IT is asserted that during the past eighteen
months 5000 Springfield rifles, 100000
cartridges and other munitions of war, of a
total value of 50 100000, have been shipped
from this country to China.
ADvICEs from Ekaterinoslay, Russia,
where the demonstrations against the Jews
were made on August and 8, state that
three sotmas of Cossacks had arrived for
the preservation of order. Eighteen out of
one hundred persons arrested for participa-
ting in the demonstration had been placed on
trial before the military tribunal. Many
innocent persons were wounded during the
rioting. Some died. 1t transpired that no
Jews were injured, as they escaped, having
had timely warning of the attacks to be
made upon them.
AT meeting in Paris, the Board of Di-
rectors of the Suez Canal Company, the
British members being present, unanimous
" approved the letter of DeLesseps to
Gladstone, in which DeLesseps informed
the English Prime Minister that he need
not consider himself bound by the terms Of
the agreement in regard to second Suez
canal which he signed.
WHEN the steamship Manitoba from
Glasgow was approaching Quebec through
| the straits at Belle Isle, recently, Rev. Mr..
Sweet, Presbyterian minister. cut his throat
| and jumped overheard. A boat put out
and the body was recovered.
BUSINESS failures the past week 49,, the
same number as the previous week.
A RIOT broke out in the Labor quarter of
Alexandria, Egypt, the other night in con-
sequence of the report that the English
doctors were poisoning natives. The mob
attempted to destroy the ambulances, cry
| ing: death to the Christians The out
break was easily quelled by the British
troops.
THE LATEST.
| THE Quartermaster General having OBJ
tanned authority from the Secretary of
War, has ordered the purchase of one thou
sand additional drab campaign hats in
order that they may receive a further and
more extensive trial by troops in Arizona
and the department of Missouri.
THE First Comptroller of the Treasury
haor tho in racard to
the claims of the States of Tennessee and
New York for balances due from the pro-
ceeds of sales of public lands.
A MASS meeting will be held at Cooper
Institute, New York City, on the 9th, for
the purpose of raising funds for the de-
Tense of O'Donnell, who killed the informer
Carey.
THE reported death of Cetewayo, the
Zulu chief, turns out to be untrue.
THE Louisville Exposition is reported to
be great success both financially and as
an exposition. For the first week in Au-
gust the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
earnings were S269, 40, against S,24 ,I95 last
year, gain of twenty per cent, though
passenger rates are reduced to one fare for
the round trip.
IT is understood that the Government of
New South Wales has consented to allow
the informers in the Phoenix Park murder
cases, who went out on the steamer Pathon,
to land, and have promised to protect them.
THE English doctors now at Alexandria,
Egypt, who had been in India in a cholera
epidemic, report the disease now prevail
ing in Egypt of a distinctly different char
acter from Asiatic cholera.
The value of exports of petroleum and
petroleum products for the twelve months
ended June 80, 1888, was S4,91S,0,9 against
S51 ,232, 106 for the same time last yeBr.
THE strike of the Pan Handle Railroad
photographers inaugurated at Pittsburg, Pa,
is over. All the operators who left their
instruments returned to work, the COM
pany reinstating them with the under.
standing that they leave the Brotherhood.
THE town of Cottage City on Martha's
Vineyard was almost completely destroyed
by fire recently. The loss was over $3.50.
600. The territory burned over embraced
about fifty acres of the heart of the village,
and left hundreds of people homeless.
JONAS CHEEK, keeper of a shooting
: gallery, at Chattanooga, Tenn, was instant.
ly killed the other night by Policeman
James Bailey. Cheek attacked the officer
while the latter was trying to prevent two
men from fighting and inflicted serious
wounds before he was shot.
The Austrian, German and Turkish
Governments are engaged in negotiations
for the complete annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina by Austria.
A DISPATCH received at the Indian De
partment announced the Greek Indian
troubles settled in a manner satisfactory to
all parties, and peace is henceforth assured