The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-09

The municipal authorities OF Madrid
have extended the right 6f suffrage to
! women.
THI Cuban tobacco crop for this year
will be not only larger than that for many
former years but Of far better quality.
IT was stated that the riot in Montreal
| was due to tho perverseness of the Board
of Aldermen. The better class of French
Canadians were disguised with the work
Of the anti.vaccination mob.
FALSE POINT, INDIA, which was thought
to have had the best harbor between CAL
cutta and Bombay, was struck by q storm
wave September 2, and swept SO COM
pletely that most Of the inhabitants per-
ished.
A BAND Of Mussulman and Christian
brigauds, near Smyrna, have captured .
young Englishman named Fred Charnaud.
They demand $4,000 ransom.
HEAVY floods were reported recently in
the eastern portion of Switzerland. Much
damage was done.
TERKIsH troops fired on the Roumelian
outposts at Mustapha Pasha, q town in
Roumelia, twenty miles northwest of
Adrianople, ON the Goth. A skirmish en-
sued in which the Turks were defeated.
A LARGE fire occurred in Iquique, Ecua-
dor, the other night, and the most import
ant quarter of the town was destroyed.
Very few of the commercial establishments
escaped.
The late Turkish Minister of War,
Ghozei Osman Pasha, was reported guilty
of such extensive entertainments that the
army was half crippled.
FRENCH Canadian mobs were reported
on the SOth tearing down smallpox pla-
cards in Montreal and beating isolated mil
litiamen, but no serious riots were at
tempted. The epidemic was increasing in
virulence. about go deaths occurring in
the city and suburbs in four DAYS.
THE special delivery system of the postal
service was inaugurated in the various
cities on the LIST.
THE Earl of Shaftesbury, the well -known
English philanthropist, died on the LIST.
TIE Stockholm (Sweden) Sereriges It'd
ming has been confiscated for eliminating
the Prince of Wales.
AT the sugar plantation "Aurora," near
Jovellanos, Cuba, recently, four workmen,
who had taken refuge from the rain under
cart. were struck by lightning and killed.
THE rebels Salcedo and Estrada, belong
ing to the party of Limbano Sanchez, were
shot on the 18th ult., at Babecoa, Cuba.
A DISPATCH from Berlin of the LIST says:
The result of the recent interview between
NJ. de Giers and Prince Bismarck will be
to restrain Servia, Greece and Montenegro
from attacking Turkey. Otherwise Aus
tria would certainly make a bold strike for
Salonica and possibly for Constantinople
DISPATCHES received in London on the
LIST from various European capitals indi-
Gated that the crisis resulting from the
Bulgarian Eastern Roumelian Union was
daily becoming more grave.
The London Times correspondent at
Constantinople thus summarizes Turkeys
position: Turkey has no army ready to
march, no stores, no money in the Treas
ury, no administrative energy. She must
submit to the inevitable.
KING MILAN, of Servia, recently held a
reception and was hailed by the populace
as the ruler of Macedonia. Private con-
versations with members of the Skupt-
selma, which was opened on the 1st by the
King, reveals the fact that they are unani-
mously in favor Of the extension of Servia.
The Pope has approved decree of the
Congregation establishing an Episcopal
see in Nebraska and the Rev. DR.. O'Con.
nor, the present Vicar Apostolic, has been
created Bishop of Omaha.
TIE business failures for week ended
October 1 were: United States, III; Cam
ada, %: total, 1876; as compared with 1S5
the week previous. The Western and Pa
cific States furnished over half the casual
ties.
NORRIS & Co., of New Laredo, Mex. un.
dertOok to transfer a large quantity Of
goods shipped to them in bond from Piedras
Negras to New Laredo, recently. They
afterward found the teamsters belonging
to the transport train securely tied to trees
thirty miles north of New Laredo, while
the most valuable portion of their goods
had been carried away by robbers.
ONE thousand dervishes have advanced
to Hafir, which is within eighty miles Of
the furthest British station on the Nile.
THE English War Office has issued the
report of Colonel Ketchuer on the fall of
Khartoum. The Arabs, the Colonel says,
entered the city by the Boori gate which
was not defended. He acquits Faraz of
treachery. Faraz was charged with hav-
ing allowed the Mahdi's troops to enter
the city.