The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-29

Mate Walker will be tried at Key West in
nesses.
The London Tines correspondent a
Foo Chow telegraphs that an Imperial edict
has been issued ordering the Viceroy with
his official associates to leave Shanghai
and return to Nankiu. Five thousand men
were proceeding to Kulung from the south.
A DECREE has been issued at Neufchatel,
Switzerland, for the expulsion of Colonel
Clibborn, of the Salvation Army.
| ITALIAN troops captured six armed
brigands near Rome the other day. Vii
layers took part in the struggle against
the soldiers.
at Marseilles. Resolutions were passed
censuring the Government for opening
soup kitchens and degrading workingmeu
by proffers of charity instead Of provid
ing employment.
The weekly clearing house exhibit re-
Gently published showed a falling off of 81
per cent. from the corresponding week OF
last year.
The French mail steamer Janais, OF
Hong Kong, Yokohama branch of Mesa
geris Maritime Line, went ashore in fog
on the 18th of July, on the coast of Japan
and was a total loss. No lives were lost.
THE Spanish Supreme Council of Wal
\ has confirmed the fading of the court-mar
tial at Lagrano in June last, sentencing
Zourilla, a cavalry officer, to death, and
three civilians to various terms of penal
servitude, for sharing in revolt.
THREE Abyssinian ENJOYS have arrived
in London, bringing as presents to Queen
| Victoria an elephant and large monkey.
IT was reported at Pekin that France
had reduced her indemnity demand on
China to two hundred million francs.
CLEMENT r. MARKHAM, the English Arc.
tic explorer, in a recent letter warmly de
Tended Greedy. He was very severe on the
stories of cannibalism, saying that decency
demanded silence.
POSTMASTER FAwCETT, of England, has
| informed the various steamship companies
| that the present arrangements for carry
| ing mails to New York will be continued
another year.
| A SALVATION Army riot occurred a,
Worthington, England, the other day,
| which was quelled with much trouble.
BY an accident in an underground ca nal
at Braye, France, seventeen laborers were
| suffocated.
AN Anti-Jewish riot is reported from
/ Southern Russia. The organizers of the
| outbreak sent girl to a bazar kept by
Jews, ostensibly to sell Clothes but in
| structed her to raise an cutlery declaring
| the Jews had robbed her. The girl carried
out her orders and in response to her cries
| a mob attacked the bazaar, crying "Down
with the jews" "Strike them down"
The military dispersed the mob.
CUBANs were collected in large numbers
| in Key West, expecting the arrival of Gen
| erals Gomez and Macco, whose mission
| was unknown, but it was supposed they in
tended organizing an expedition to free
Cuba.
CORNWALL, ex-Secretary of the Dublin
Post-office, was acquitted of the scandalous
| charges brought by the editor of United Ire
land.
EMMA ABBOTT, the prima donna, arrived
| from England on the steamship America
| on the DIST.
MADAME PATTI has signed a contract
with Impresario Mapleson to sing in
America the coming winter, and next
| summer in England.
THE English Privy Council has fixed the
boundary line between Ontario and Mani
toba along the Lake of the Woods and Eng
| lish River.
FAILURES throughout the country the
last seven days reported numbered for the
United States, 1877; Canada, %; total, 219
as against 30 last week.
| THE French Consul at Pekin has lowered
his flag, China absolutely refusing to make
the concessions demanded. Admiral Cour.
bet was ordered to lombard Foo Chow.
THERE was an uuconfirmed report that
Aguero, the Cuban leader, had been cap
tured.
tives of the Zambezi country have revolted
and killed or wounded the entire Portuguese
force. Reinforcements were asked for.
The British Vice Consul was missing.
The steamer Newfield has arrived from
Sable Island, bringing Captain Lucas, OF
the wrecked steamer Amsterdam. All
hopes of floating the Amsterdam have
been abandoned. Most of the cargo has
| been saved.
| The seven young men reported lost on
Lake Ontario turned up safe. They lost
their bearings and were a long time with.
| out food
| THE LATEST.
CAPTAIN j. W. NORMAN, ice master OF
the Thetis of the Greedy relief squadron,
denies that he ever made the statement
that cannibalism existed among Lieuten-
ant Greely's command.
| IT was stated that cattle shippers at Mon
trtal have lost heavily. One firm, it was
said, dropped a quarter of a million dollars
and another ond hundred thousand dollars
during the past three years.
THE Foo Chow arsenel was bombarded
ana destroyed by the French on Saturday.
Seven Chinese boats were sunk and the
| Chinese resistance was feeble.
W. F. STOREY, of the Chicago Times, has
been pronounced an imbecile.
FRED HURST, the noted English runner,
recently died at Wilkesbarre, Pa, from the
effects of wound inflicted by Thomas
| Hazleton.
| A COMMITTEE Of the Ohio Legislature re.
Gently took charge of the body of Mac
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