The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-04
GENERAL.

The Ursuline Convent at Bally Trucky.
County Waterford, Ireland, was destroyed
| by fire the other day. All the inmates es-
capped.
,, FRENCH papers were praising Spain for
the attitude she had assumed toward Ger
many over the Caroline Islands affair.
An epidemic of yellow fever was re-
ported raging in tine State of Chiopas, on
| the Guatemalan border. The fever was of
| a violent type, destroying entire families.
A NATIVE craft, called bugalow,
loaded with pilgrims, was wrecked in the
Gulf of Alden recently, and one hundred of
its passengers were drowned.
The French nan-of-war Bayard, carry
ing the remains of the late Admiral Cour-
bet from Tonquin, arrived ut Toulon on the
18th.
SIGNoR CLERICo, the Italian Consul at
Monaco, has been arrested on a charge Of
having emhezzled $4,000.
The German flag, which was recently
hoisted on the French island off the Nicto-
rian coast in the South Pacific. has been
removed by order of Prince Bismarck at
the request of France.
THERE was a terrible boiler explosion
recently on the steamer Orgo at Trieste,
Austria. Eight persons were killed and
many injured.
THERE were 1863 new cases of cholera
and 1,47 deaths reported in Spain on the
25th. The plague was thought to be grad
ually decreasing.
THERE were nineteen deaths from small
pox at Montreal on the 25th, being the
largest number recorded since the outbreak
of the disease.
1T was reported that Don Carlos had Of
fered the Spanish Government the services
of 100000 Carlists to indicate Spanish
honor against Germany.
A SERIES of agrarian outrages are re-
ported from Kerry, Ireland. Bands of
masked men make nightly raids upon the
holders of farms from which the former
tenants have been evic:ed and perpetrate
all sorts of outrages. setting fire to DWELL
ings and hamstringing horses and cattle.
THE Earl of Devon has offered to sell his
tenants in Ireland their holdings under the
provisions of the land purchase bill. The
tenants will hold meeting to consider the
offer.
TEN bodies were recovered from the
Vecchia, Italy.
A RIOT took place at Bally Farrissey,
Killarney, Ireland, consequent upon
mob resisting evictions.
A RIOT occurred recently among the SOL
diers stationed at Hermanns.adt, Hun
gary, resulting in the death of one and the
woundng of seventeen.
AN earthquake shock was felt through
out the Canary Islands on the 9th. No
damage was caused by it so far as reported.
UNITED STATES MINISTER Cox, in pre-
senting his credentials at Constantinople
on the Goth, assured the Sultan that the
policy of the United States was not to in
terfere at all in the affairs of other coun-
tries. This policy had been found most
advantageous, and would be always main
tanned.
THERE was a sudden increase in the
cholera mortality at Marseiles on the
eth.
THE business failures for week ended
August - numbered, for the United States,
lG5: for Canada, "a: a total of $50; as COM
pared with la the previous week.
1T was reported in Madrid that Spanish
men-of-war had arrived at zap, the chief
island of the Caroline group, and planted
the Spanish flag, no German vessel being
in sight.
SEVERAL thousand unemployed work.
ingmen assembled in London. recently, and
adopted resolutions demanding that the
Government assist them to emigrate.
The remains of the late Admiral Cour-
bet were inferred Mt the InValidcs, Paris,
on the aSth. The services at the grave
were witnessed by large crowd.
SUBSCRIPTION lists have been opened
throughout Galicia for the benefit of the
exiled Poles. Great animosity is displayed
against Prince Bismarck.