The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-09-19

day, for keeping twenty-one cats and dogs
on her premises in Pembroke square,
London. The neighbors considered it .
nuisance.
By q late report all the railroads In
Great Britain stand to-day at an average
cost of $2O4, 900 per mile, and pay Eve per
cent. on the investment. The average
cost of all the railroads in existence in the
United States to-day is &c., 400 per mile.
THE first installment of thirty boats for
the Nile expedition has left England. Que
hundred and thirty more are to follow.
OWING to the depressed condition Of the
numbering trade in Canada number of
voyageurs have determined to accept the
offer of the British Government to join the
Gordon relief expedition under lord VOL
seley. 1t is thought by many British off,
GERS that they will not be able to stand the
Soudan climate.
The Russian Minister at Pekin has not
been instructed to ask for fulfllment Of
the treaty Of 1878, as had been previously
reported.
SAN JACKSON, a colored man who out
ragged q thirteen-year-old white girl re-
Gently near Monticello, Ark, was taken
from Jail by q masked mob and lynched.
THERE has been a rupture in the rela-
tions existing between the Vatican and
the Republic of Costa RIGA. Valfre,
Papel Nuncio, has been ordered to re-
main at Rome.
THE English Government has submitted
proposition to the Egyptian authorities,
offering to take seventy-five per cent. Of
the Alexandria indemnity If it is paid at
once or in instalments, to run over a period
of ten years.
A GREAT ball in honor of the Gar and
Czarina was recently given at Warsaw.
THE United States Consul at Lyons re-
ports to the State Department at WASH
ington that the French wheat crop Of this
year will exceed that of 1888 by thirty
million bushels, and that the crop is excel
lent. The wheat yield of England will
also be abundant. In consequence of the
abundance the price of grain declined
rapidly.
Montreal, who married a handsome Amer
lean girl named Kate Wheeler ten years
ago, has become jealous of an English
coachman, and has entered suit for a sep
aration.
IT has lately come to light that the late
Lord Ampthill, when a Washington at
tache, was so sure that he would suddenly
fall dead from heart disease in some place
where he was not known that he always
n a r,;ad II, biv Urn ;stcoof poclat m carl in
scribed with his address.
THE seed-leaf tobacco crop now being
harvested throughout the country is said
TO be the best and heaviest for many years.
IT has recently come to light that Private
Henry, of the Arctic exploring party, was
discharged from the army once for for
gerry.
The appointment of Viceroy of India has
been conferred upon Lord Dufferin.
TYPHOID fever has broken out in one of
the British regiments at Cairo.
The Social Science Association adjourned
to meet at New Orleans next December.
Their next annual meeting will be held at
Saratoga, September, 1885.
FRANK H. MASON, United States Consul
at Marseilles, lately received the com.
mendation of the State Department for re-
at his post during the cholera cpl.
demic and furnishing valuable informa-
tion.
DURING the first eight months of this
year 112, 512 immigrants entered Canada.
OF these 4S,275 passed through to the
United States.
On a recent date there were 996 cases of
cholera at Naples and 32S deaths. Several
deaths occurred at Avelino, Bergamo,
Campobasso, Cremona and Cimeo. At
Genoa there were twenty-one deaths.
The English Consul at Alexandria re.
ported recently that many families were
reduced to suffering condition for lack of
the indemnity awarded to them, and have
sold their certificates to spectators at q
discount of fifty per cent.
IT was recently reported that the French
had captured Mahonora, in Madagascar,
south of Tamatave.
FOUR students of the Collegiate Institute
at ST. Catharines, Ont, were drowned in
the canal near Port Dalhousie, not long
ago.
THERE has been some excitement lately
about the reported inhnman treatment by
the Spaniards of a former Cuban officer
confined in a dungeon.
THE American and British scientists re-
Gently made an excursion trip to the
Rocky Mountains.
THE death of NJ. Jean Auguoren Banal,
a well-known chemist and physicist, was
lately announced at Paris.
THE LATEST.
THERE are 1900 French soldiers in Ton
quin.
DR.. JEAN AUGUsTIN BARREL, a well.
known chemist and physician of Paris, died
recently.
A SON of King Kalakaua, of the Sand
witch Islands, was stricken with cholera at
Naples.
CHOLERA is dying out in Spain, owing to
the vigiiant quarantine regulations of the
medical authorities.
A BRUTAL murder was recently COM
mitted by prison guards at Lexington, KY,
while they were supervising convicts. Two
of the convicts who were too sick to work
were dashed numerically, kicked and
knocked till they fell senseless. The
guards then tried To hire n negro Tn RIM