The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-22

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An express train on the Cincinnati Short
Line, between Zion and Vernon, near Louis
vile, was derailed the other night. The
engine turned completely over and fell
down an embankment fifteen feet in height.
The engineer, J. W. Carr, and fireman,
John Hufnagle, were seriously, if not IA
tally injured. Nobody else was seriously
hurt.
GENERAL.
A FIRE occurred at Pimlico, London, in
a hat store. Three persons persisted.
FIVE new cases of cholera at Castle
Neuva. Two at Schargo and one at Pan
calieri were reported from Rome.
ADMIRAL LEsPEs reports that on August
3, with three vessels, he attacked and de-
stroyed the forts at Kelung. August 6 he
destroyed the war materials in store there.
The French were masters of the fort, road
stead and mines.
The Duke of Wellington, son of the hero
of Waterloo, died suddenly at Brighton,
Eng, on the 18th.
DURING severe storm in England and
Scotland recently, several persons were
killed by lightning, among the number
Earl Lauderdale, who was overtaken by
storm while out riding.
A LONDON journal says the child of the
Duchess of Albany widow of Prince Leo
pold) is so delicate that it can hardly be
expected to live.
The scheme to shut down pig-iron fur
naces was likely to become general, in
which event the coke ovens will also close,
the demand for coke coming principally
for its use in pig-iron works.
AUSTRIA was recently excited over cer-
tain mysterious and heavy mail robberies.
NEWS comes from Madrid that Marshal
Serrano was dying at Biarritz.
The Captain of the stranded steamer
Amsterdam calculated she was thirty-six
miles south of where she struck. He at
tributed the disaster to the strong current
sometimes found on the coast of Sable
island.
The Bank of Montreal has been advised
of the departure from London of Samuel
Montague, Rabbi Archer and Benjamin l..
Cohen, who intend to explore the north
west territories of Canada to find homes
for colonies of Russian Hebrews.
THE Salvation Army was mobbed at
Toronto the other night and pelted with
rotten eggs. f .
NOTICE has been given to citizens of
Alsace and Lorraine, that pilgrimage to
Lourdes this season will subject them to
quarantine on their return.
The British ship Deerfield recently an
chored eff the mouth of the Mississippi
with yellow fever on board. The Captain
was advised to take his vessel to Ship
Island.
The French Congress is now engaged in
revising the constitution. 1t rejected an
amendment providing for the choice of
SENATOR'S ny UNIVERSAL suffrage.
The English Government will refer the
matter of representation at the. New Or
leans Worlds Fair to the Manchester Cham.
Der of Commerce.
A STRANGE malady has broken out in st.
Petersburg. The disease is supposed to be
caused by the sting of insects which have
been in contact with diseased cattle.
SOME E,quimaux recently found the
ends of store or provision cask, marked
"Jeannette." A charter party and check
book on the Bank of California were
found, both signed by DeLong; a pair of
oiled trousers of Louis Nore's; also bears
skin which covered something of the size
and shape of human corpse, but the
Esquimaux could not remove the skin to
ascertain what was under it.
CAPoUL, the tenor, is to marry the
daughter of wealthy land owner in Eng
land.
FAILURES for the week number: United
States, 2O3; Canada, Il; total, go; as
against 232 the previous week, showing a
decrease of twelve. The casualties were
heavy in the Pacific States. Other sections
of the country were about up to the aver.
age, and light in Canada. ,... ..#