The Iola register., 1885-08-14

wounded and two others injured. Thirty
or forty shots were fred. The men were
al colored.
GENERAL.
TIE committee appointed to inquire into
the disclosures recently made by the Pail
Mall Gazette reported the charges of inn
morality against the rich classes of London
as substantially true.
IT was recently stated that Count Won
Munster, German Ambassador at London,
had refused the Enthusiastically at Paris.
Count von Hatzfeldt, who desires to va
cate his present position in the German
Foreign Office, will take the place of Count
Won Munster at London.
CHOLERA was reported increasing In
virulence at Marseilles, France.
TEE custom house and several other
buildings at Antafagasta, Bolivia, were
burned recently. The loss was about
81, ,0O0,O 600.
In the whole of Spain on the LIST there
were reported $3.50 new cases and AGA
deaths from cholera. The Military Gov
ernor of Granada has succumbed to the
pestilence. The Correspondence Espana
reports that five persons were suffocated
while house was being fumigated at
Taen.
A STORM Of great violence swept over
the central and northern part of Spain on
the I'd, destroying much property, and in
many places utterly running telegraph
lines. Many persons were reported killed.
RECENT dispatches from Tashkend, in
Asiatic Russia, stated that a great earth.
quake had visited that region. 1t dam
aged most of the houses in the town of
Bisheirzek and ruined the cities of Suluk
and Belvoodsk. In the latter place a
church was shaken to fragments while it
was crowded with worshipers, a large
number of whom were killed. The earth
opened in great assures in Belvoodsk, and
many people were swallowed up. The
number killed altogether amounted to
fifty -four. Sixty.four other persons were
injured.
The Russian Prince Alexander Gegarine,
driven to desperation by heavy losses at
the gambling tables of Monte Carlo, has
committed suicide.
SEVERAL cases of cholera have been
found in the Paris hospitals and number
of other patients with the disease are un.
dergoing private treatment in the city.
The hospitals are actively preparing to
combat the epidemic.
A FRANCo-GERMAN newspaper war
broke out recently consequent upon an ar
ticle in the North German Gazette accusing
the Temps of Paris of getting up Chau-
whistle agitation.
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led by the Whig section of the English
Cabinet, are making overtures for a coali-
tion. By coalition it is intended to obtain
in the new Parliament a majority sufficient
to control the Radicals and Parnellites.
A DISPATCH from Vienna to the London
Telegraph says Austria has formally no.
titled the United States Government that
Mr.. Kelley is not acceptable as American
Minister to Austria, and has expressed the
hope that he will be recalled and another
appointment he made.
THROUGHOUT Spain on the 4th 4, ,2S2 new
cases of cholera were reported and 1870
deaths from that disease. The populace in
Granada brutally assaulted several doctors
who had declined to give more attention to
patients.
A BANQUET was given by Cyrus w. Field
at London on the 9Th in celebration of the
twenty anniversary of the COM
pletion of the first Atlantic cable. Chief
Justice Waite, Senator .Hawley and other
prominent Americans were present.
DURING a heavy thunder storm at Ger
ona, Spain, recently, a church was struck
by lightning during the celebration of the
mass. Two of the worshipers were killed
and fifteen others were badly wounded.
Mr.. FRANCIS, retiring United States Min
lister, had a farewell interview with Count
Kalnoky, Austrian Foreign Minister, Mt
Vienna, on the 4th. Count Kalnoky as
sured Mr.. Francis that the present slight
cloud in the relations of America and Aus
tria would soon disappear.
DETECTIVES have now asceitained that
Robert Farquharson, the defaulting Dub.
lin Manager of the Munster Bank, sailed
for Spain on the night of his fight from
Dublin.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, ex.Minister to
Turkey, has closed his accounts with the
Government.
THERE were 1924 new cases of cholera
reported throughout Spain on the 9th, and
1,6SS deaths.