The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31

TWELVE shocks of earthquake, one o.
which was very severe, were felt in Cash
mere July 16.
TEE Rev. DR.. Walsh, the Archbishop
designate Of Dublin, was received in a pri
vate audience recently by the Pope. Tit
Pope advised him to observe prudence II
Irish politics.
PRINCE HoHENLoHE, the new German
| appointed Governor Of AlsaceLorraine
Lieutenant General Van Schweinitz, the
new German ambassador to Russia, viii
succeed Prince Hohenlohe at Paris.
DISPATCHES from Assouan say: Major
| Grenfeli has telegraphed that messenger,
from Cobra have arrived with the report
that Ell Mahdi died of smallpox on June %
A LIFE boat which put out from Var.
| mouth, Eng, the other night to res.
cue the crew of a stranded vessel ran upor
the sunken wreck and and sank in a few
minutes. Eight persons were drowned.
In the course of a recent debate in the
ion to deliver an encomium upon the high
manly courage displayed by Earl Spencer
in the performance of his duties as Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.
THE Vienna Tdgblatt says the Russian
Government meditates imposing poll tax
of from one hundred to two hundred
roubles upon every foreigner residing
longer than a fortnight in that country.
THE Panslavist political societies were
reported placarding the large towns OF
Russia with inf1ammatory addresses abus-
ing England, with the object of making
war agitation popular.
AT Claraford, near AK (France). re-
Gently, several persons were burned to
death and sixteen houses consumed.
A sHEIKH at Cairo on the 23d declared
that he witnessed the funeral of Ell Mahdi.
THE directors of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company have approved the
proposed lease of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company by the Union Pacific
and Northern Pacific Companies.
THE English Government, on the sug-
gestion of Consul Fawcett, has allowed the
American colony, who have no cemetery
of their own at Constantinople, to use the
British cemetery at Scutari, which was
created during the Crimean war.
THE immense cereal depot of Kalaschni
kow, near st. Petersburg, Russia, burned
recently. The loss reached an enormous
sum.
LORD LoNsDALE and Sir George Chef
wynd met in Rotten row, London, recent
ly, when the latter at once struck Lord
Lonsdale on the head with his riding whip,
knocking his hat into the street. Both men
were on horseback at the time. The trouble
was about a woman.
In Spain on the odd there was a total Of
2,210 new cases of cholera and 94S deaths
Gases were reported at Salamanca and
Barcelona.
PRINCESS BEATRICE, daughter of Queen
Victoria, was married to Prince Henry, of
Battenberg, at st. Mildred's Church, Whip
bingham, a suburb of the city of Newport,
Isle of Wight, on the 23d.
THE Captain of the schooner Annie Matte
reports sighting three vessels off Cape
Horn, completely dismasted, and that
steamer, supposed to be English, succeeded
in saving one. He is ignorant of the fate
of the others, as well as of their names.
FIRE broke out the other day in Carde-
mas, Cuba, and before it was checked seven
sugar houses were destroyed. The total loss
was $500,000, while the insurance amounted
to $4,000.
WHILE the bridal procession was return
ing from the church after the marriage of
Princess Beatrice in the Isle of Wight, a
man suddenly rushed toward the carriage
occupied by the bride, and was at once
seized and locked up. He was undoubtedly
insane.
RECENTLY there was a terrific storm at
were killed and twenty-five injured by
AN earthquake has occurred in the Rung-
pur district, in Bengal, and a village near
Nattore has been engulfed.
Two houses at Cologne, Germany, ten
anted by sixteen families, collapsed re-
Gently. About seventy persons were
buried, of whom many were killed and
injured.
THE directors of the Munster Bank, Ire
land, propose to resume business, and for
this purpose they will issue debentures
bearing five per cent. interest. They have
abandoned all hope of obtaining assistance
from the Government or the Bank of Ire
land.
THE business failures for the week ended
July 90 were: In the United States, 1872; in
Canada, ga totalof 215, as compared
with 2e5 the week previous.