The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09
GENERAL.

dent at Cuidsd Reale, Spain, shows forty.
one killed and thirty-eight wounded.
The cavalry barracks in process of erec-
ton at Portsmouth, Eng, suddenly fell the
other morning. The workmen, all of whom
were convicts, were buried in the ruins.
Thirty of them were seriously wounded
and some killed.
SIR MICHAEL COSTA, composer and con-
ductor, died Of apoplexy at Brighton, Eng
land, recently, after a weeks illness. He
was seventy-four years of age.
OsaAN DIGNA threatens to attack Abys.
sinia unless King Johns subjects embrace
Mohammedanism.
AT the Assembly of the Jewish Alliance
in Vienna recently, the President an
nounced that the emigration to America
of the victims of persecution had resulted
in great success. A sum was voted to aid
Jewish colonies in America.
THERE was serious ARRAY at Nice re-
Gently between French and Italians. Many
were wounded. Ten persons were ar
rested.
THIRTY refugees under Mangado, who
recently made an incursion into Navarro,
were pursued by the Spanish troops. The
last reports from Ciudad Real regarding
the railway disaster on the 2Ith place the
number of persons missing at ITO. The
Government adheres to the belief that the
Revolutionary party was responsible for
the outrage.
A PROFOUND sensation was created i'm
Toronto, Ont, on the 30th, through the
discovery of powerful dynamite cartridges,
with wires attached, under the Crown
Land Office, in the Parliament building.
Later in the day two more were discovered
under the steps approaching the Speakers
Chamber.
The troop ship Crocodile, from India,
has arrived at Portsmouth, England. She
had cholera on board during he voyage.
SHIP-BUILDERs at Glasgow, Scotland, to
the number of twelve thousand, quit work
on the announcement of reduction of ten
cent. in their wages.
The British House of Commons, by a
vote of S57 to $40, has adopted an amend
ment to the cattle bill stopping for two
years all importations of leeves from coun-
tries where disease prevails among cattle.
THE increase in sales of public lands dur
ing 1888 over the preceding year was as
follows: Number of entries, SS.3S1; acre
age, IL, 926 ,976; cash received, $3,S771,4 3).
In suppressing the riotous striking la
borers in the diamond fields of South
Africa, the police killed and wounded
several.
FIFTY workmen were buried by falling
wall at Whiteley's building, London, Eng,
the other day.
A DISPATCH from Quebec says the ship
Alantine, of Drammen, Norway, was
wrecked recently in a northeast gale and
sleet storm, five miles north of Woolfsland
station, Msgdalen Island. She broke up
immedia lately and nineteen lives were lost.
The second mate was the only survivor.
The Union Pacific men struck against
the reduction in wages, and the order cut
ting down their pay was rescinded.
WHOLESALE robbery of mails from Brit
ish Columbia to Europe was reported to
have taken place over the Northern Pacific
road.
DISPATCHES dated April 81 state that
everything was quiet ut Khartoum, and
that trade was being carried on safely.
ADMIRAL HEWITT has sent back two hum
dred ba Shi bazoukS, as the King of Abys-
sinia refused to allow them to cross the
frontier.
THE underwriters of London demanded
premium of twenty-five guineas to rein
sure the State Line steamer State of Flor
ida, overdue at that port.
THE French Government has requested
Gorilla, the Spanish agitator, to leave
France and avoid expulsion.
The Bear, the first ship of the Greedy Re
eff Exposition, arrived at st. Johns, N. f.
on the ID, for Goals, and was to sail next
| day.
A MAN has been arrested at Barcelona
Spain, with four dynamite cartridges in
his possession. He confessed he intended
to destroy tie track of the Barcelona g.
Saragossa Railroad.