The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24

Gerreti, President Of the Tribunal of Com.
merce Of Naples. He died in great misery
notlong ago. All efforts to save him were
in vain.
IT has been determined that the British
advance in force will not be made for the
relief OF Khartoum until late in November
IT has been decided by the German Gov
eminent that hereafter the purchase Of
stores for the German army will be negoti
ated without the aid or interference Of
middlemen, who are entirely ignored.
Four men have SO far been suspected Of
causing the late explosions in the Canadian
Parliament buildings at Quebec. They
range in age from twenty-one to forty
years and all seemed to have a plentiful
share Of American money, which they had
some difficulty in exchanging for Canadian
money.
IT was lately rumored that the Chinese
Government had concluded a loan of :, Goo,
600 taels with . great German Banking
firm. Half million, according to the ru
NOR, was at once paid into the Canton
Treasury on account.
LATE reports from Russia are to the ef-
feet that new and startling religious
revolution is imminent. The white Gear
has long been the religious as well as the
political head of the State. He is Pope OF
the Popes as well of King Of the Kings.
A set of dissenters has arisen and threat.
ened to overthrow the divine selection idea.
A REWARD of $500 was lately offered
for the conviction of the men who caused
the explosion in the new Parliament build.
ing at Quebec. The corner stones of the
structure are so much out of place that
the whole wall will probably have to be
taken down.
GENERAL DE LIsLE lately telegraphed
from Chu, on the upper Loo Chuan River,
that Colonel Dennier, after brilliant en-.
gagement, carried the heights command.
ing the fortress of Chu Forwing, Point
Dappui, of large intrenched Chinese
camp, defended by five very large case.
mated forts. The Chinese forces were re-.
ported to be very large and their losses
during the engagement, heavy. When
they assumed the offensive the French
artillery covered the earth with Chinese
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killed, including their chief commander.
AFTER the celebration Of mass recently
in st. Peters Church, London. the Bishop
of the diocese and the clergy and congre.
cation, numbering 500. proceeded to the
shrine of Edward the Confessor, in West.
minister Abbey, where they knelt and
prayed for the conversion of England to
the ancient faith. They were not disturbed
by the visitors. The visitors at the Abbey
were much astonished by the proceeding.
AT Libury Centre, on the Canada South.
ern Road, there was recently quite rail-
road wreck. An express going east ran
into a gravel train. The express train
consisted of baggage, express, smoking,
two frst-class cars and two Pullmans.
The smoking car was turned upside down
and thrown into the ditch, breaking it to
fragments. The express engineer, Dan
Cox, was instantly killed. The injured
were Samuel Woods, of Fletcher, head
seriously cut; child of John Callahan, of
Toronto, hands burned by being thrown
on the stove; baggageman of Detroit
badly burned about the body. A wreck
ing train accompanied by surgeons was
from the city at once.
The steamer Neptune, sent out by Cana.
da to explore Hudson's Bay and Straits,
lately returned, having established mum.
her of meteorological stations and dis.
covered new channel through Labrador
to Ungara Bay. The average temperature
for September was thirty-six degrees above
zero. Navigation is practicable for steam.
ers six months in the year.
L. RoEvEIR, the new French Minister of
Commerce, promises to begin his Ministe-
rial career by an investigation of the pres
ent commercial crisis, with view to the
adoption of remedial measures.
MICHIPIcoTEN, on the north shore of Lake
Superior, was lately in possession of
gang of roughs. The respectable people
of the place received notice to quit town.
One night the Canadian Pacific Railway
office was riddled with bullets by a band
of masked men. John Mackenzie, an EN-.
ploye, was shot in the head. Cashier
Burden was fired at in bed, the ball pass.
ing within a few inches of his head. The
picked constabulary to the place and their
labor led to several arrests.
FROM recent estimate by agriculturists
it appears that the vintage of France this
year will be the best sircs 1874 Tue vines
are delicate and full of bloom.
A HUNGARIAN was recently arrested al
Liverpool on board the Lord Give. Thirty
packages of dynamite we're found in his
luggage.