The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23

The crime was one Of great atrocity, the
body being burned.
GENERAL.
| The Paris newspapers were jubilant over
the signing of the Franco Chinese treaty.
| Three regiments were recalled from Ton
quin.
! IT was reported that the African ex.
petition under Joseph Thompson had
reached Uganda, in the region ruled by
King Mtesa. 1t was believed tina. Thomp-
sons presence at Uganda will increase
| General Gordon's chances for safety in
case he should be compelled to try to
escape from Khartoum by going to the
southwark.
| PRINCE BISMARCK has ordered the Bef.
lin correspondent of the Paris newspaper
La France to be expelled from Germany
because of statements in his dispatches to
the effect that the German Chancellor was
intriguing to produce a rupture between
France and England on the Egyptian ques-
| ton.
SEVERAL Servians were wounded by the
military at Stuhlweissenburg, in South
eastern Hungary, in dispensing meeting
recently.
The Gladstone ministry was sustained
| by 303 to 275 in a recent motion to censure
the foreign policy of the English Govern
| ment.
In an attack upon friendly tribes near
Tamanieb recently, Osman Digna and his
| men killed twenty-one of the friendly
Arabs, took forty women prisoners and
| captured many cattle. OF the rebels only
b.; 10
able to muster 5000 men. They are deter
mined to avenge the death of their COM
rades and recover their women.
SECRETARY LINCOLN, General Sheridan,
General Stager, John Mccullough Gen.
eral c. H. Thompkins, Bishop McLain and
others to the number of fifty, went to Pelee
Island, Canada, recently, to fish for black
bass.
CABLEGRAMs report that Woolwich ar
senal narrowly escaped destruction by
dynamite recently, as detonators and ex-
plosives were found under the walls.
A RECENT railroad accident near Paris
caused the death of the engineer and the
injury of thirty-one passengers.
ROMERO, the Mexican Minister, has In
formed the Department of State that he had
eminent of the ratification by the Mexican
Senate of the reciprocity treaty between
the United States and Mexico.
THE Berlin correspondents of the London
Times is authorized to announce the NOR
ganatic marriage of Grand Duke Louis Of
Hesse, at Darmstadt, with Madame Kola-
mirick, legally dissolved.
Ex-SEcRETARY WINDOW, who was in
Paris recently, will sail for home early in
June, after brief visit to England.
THE Tdgbdtt, of Berlin, positively asserts
that Richard Muckle, of the Philadelphia
Leader, will succeed Sargent as United
States Minister to Berlin. Muckle, the
paper says, is an Alsatian by birth, but a
personal friend of Bismarck.
The London Times says: 1t will be idle
for American railroad boards to expect to
get capital from Europe in the future as
easily as in the past, unless it is shown
that they intend to turn over q new leaf
principles.
United States, 1872; Canada, q; total, 200,
an increase of Is.
The late Judah P. Benjamin left behind
no materials for biography. He was &C
customed to say the treasuring up of old
papers caused half the misery of his life.
THE LATEST.
THE repair shops of the New York e.
Harlem Railroad Company at New York
were burned recently. The building COW
cred large area and contained the ma
chine shops and work rooms W here all the
repairing of the rolling stock was done.
Sparks from the burning building set fire
to several small dwellings. Loss, 5000, 200.
The Siamese Embassy left Washington
for New York recently, with the intention
of making a tour of the country.
RECENT advices from Vera Cruz state
that that city was remarkably healthy and
exceptionally clean. The inhabitants did
not fear an epidemic this season, notwith-
standing the fact that yellow fever existed
at certain points below, on the coast.
The King Of Greece entertained the
American Legation at lunch on the 18th.
Schuyler, the American Minister, gave a
garden party to the Diplomatic Corps.
w. G HALLIBURTON, telegraph editor of
the Baltimore Erening News, died sudden.
ly the other evening. He was discovered
in an unconscious condition and before a |
doctor reached him, expired. He was |
forty-two years of age.
The Senate was not in session on the |
18th. The House was occupied with minor |
matters. Business seemed to lag or was |
neglected, for, in the debate upon the ques-
ton of dividing the judicial Districts of |
Missouri, quorum was wanted and the |
House adjourned.
ERNEST HoEFLER, of st. Louis, missing
in New York for several days, had large
amount of money when he disappeared.
Hoefer and his wife only recently returned
from Germany.
LORD ST. LEoNARDs, of England, arrested
on a charge of assaulting a maid servant
of his host, demands a trial by his peers.
The Treasurer of the United States for
warded SS,000,0O0 in legal tenders to the
Assistant Treasurer in New York, recently,
for use in case of necessity.
A NEPHEW of Henry Ward Beecher was
q member Of one of the firms that failed in
New York during the recent panic.
TIE Secretary of the Navy re.
Gently received telegram from Commo-
dore Batcheler, commanding the GaIena
at Key West, Saying the threats against
the life of the Spanish Consul at that place
were made in bar-room by two or three
drunken Cubans, but that neither the Con.
sui nor the authorities there attach much
importance to them.
A DENNIsoN. Tex, special says: A
freight on the Missouri Pacific was derailed
near the city limits and the fireman, en-.
gineer and brakeman seriously injured.
A TORNADO, on the 18th, was reported to
have done considerable damape in the