The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-16

IaE English War ONCE has issued the
report Of Colonel Ketchner ON the fab Of
Khartoum. The Arabs, the Colonel says,
entered the city by the Boori gate which
was not defended. He acquits FarAz Of
treachefy. Faras was charged with hav-
ing allowed the Xahdi's troops to enter
the city.
ZONE thousand dervishes have advanced
to Hafir, which Is within eighty miles Of
the furthest British station on the Nile.
SMALL-Pox was reported In several Of
the towns of Ontario. The Salvation Army
was charged with spreading the contagion
by persisting in visiting those afflicted.
The Secretary Of the Knights of Labor
reported an increase OF 100 per cent. II the
membership the past year.
IT was thought the Conservative or
monarchial successes in the recent French
elections would lead to the expulsion of
the Orleanist Princes. Further disorders
occurred in Paris, mobs parading and
threatening the Gdulois newspaper Office.
N. SULLIER, a defeated candidate for
the Chamber of Deputies, has written let
ter to the American Consul at Paris re-
questing certificate of citizenship of the
United States. He says he is sick Of serv-
ing his ungrateful country.
GENERAL JAMAIs' division of the French
army in AMMAN is preparing to occupy
Tonquin. The Black Flags have been re-
organized under Chinese General.
A DISPATCH from Berlin of the eth says:
Germany has dispatched a note to the
Court Of Spain rejecting Spain's claims to
the Carolines.
One of Houston's bullion trains was re.
Gently attacked by robbers while en- route
from the Sierra Mojada mines to Parral, a
station on the Mexican Central Railway.
It was reported that four of the escort
were killed.
AN unofficial report has reached the
United States Minister at Lisbon that fifty
American Methodist missionaries-men,
women and children-under the care of a
Bishop, recently landed on the west coast
of Africa, and were in an utterly destitute
condition. A tract of land was granted
them on which to make q permanent set
Element.
THE returns issued by the English Board
of Trade show that the imports during the
month of September decreased G., 800, 900
and the exports fl,SSO,0OO as compared
with September, 1884.
The trial of the Socialists, Vollmar,
Bebel, Auer, Deetz, Frohme, Viereck,
Helmet, Mueller and Ullrich, which began
at Chemnitz, Germany, September %, was
concluded October Z, the prisoners being
acquitted.
KING MILAN, Of Servia, in a speech de.
livered in the Skuptschina on the 18th. de-
clared that he had fully determined to
fight unless Servia's demand for an extern
sion Of the boundaries over an area equal
to that acquired by Bulgaria in its union
with Eastern Roumelia were granted.
An extensive conflagration took place in
Aldersgate street, London, on the morning
of the Sth. The loss was estimated at over
a million dollars.
A DISPATCH from Rome announces that
the Very Rev. D. j. Quigley, Vicar General
of the diocese of Charleston, s. c., has
been appointed Domestic Prelate, with the
title Of Monsignor. This is the first priest
in the South so honored.
THE funeral services over the body Of
the Earl of Shaftesbury were held in
Westminster Abbey, London, on the Sth,
and were attended by hundreds of poor
people whom he had befriended.
The fisheries of Labrador proved an al
most complete failure this season. The
Government dispatched a vessel
loaded with provisions to relieve the neces.
stiles of the people, who were reported on
the verge of starvation.
The New Zealand Government has re-
newed the mail service between New Zea-
land and San Francisco. The Union Line
steamers will carry the mails via Sydney
and Auckland to Honolulu, and tho
Oceanic Line will carry them between
Honolulu and San Francisco.
THE movement for annexation to the
United States received fresh impetus re-
Gently in Cuba. Many prominent Span
iards favored the movement as the only
way out of otherwise inextricable difficult
ties.
FAILURES for the seven days ended the
Sth numbered: United States, 1S5: Cam
ada, %. Total, eO7, against 1876 the week ,
before.
THE Knights of Labor, in ses sion at
Ont, decided to establish State
and Provincial assemblies.
THE National Zeitung, of Berlin, says
hat Germany will join the bi-metallic con-
ference when England consents to do like
wise.