The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-25
GENERAL.

o lard wheeler, was killed, his body being
terribly scalded by the grease.
GENERAL.
TIE Lower House Of the Hungarian Diet
has adopted measure providing that the
| duration of each Parliament shall be five
| years instead of three as at present.
FIRE broke out in the cotton on the Brit
ish steamer Cymro at Havre, from New
Orleans, recently while the vessel was ly-
ing at the wharf. Eight hundred bales
were destroyed.
| ANXIETY was felt in London regarding
British garrisons at outposts in Egypt
Gus loss of life was feared.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of SAKE Coburg,
father Of the King of Portugal, died on
| the 18th of facial cancer, which had been
aggravated by fall.
ELEVEN Europeans, working for the
| Bombay & Burmah Trading Company, on
learning of the rupture between Burmah
and the Indian Government tried to reach
Manipore. On November 20 they were
overtaken and murdered by Burmese
| troops in steamer belonging to the King,
commanded by palace official named
Thendomoung.
IT was reported in London that Parnell
| and Gladstone would agree on measure Of
home rule for Ireland. The concessions
would be liberal, but would not imperil the
Imperial Confederation.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta reports that q
large party of Shans led by q Buddhist
priest were raiding the Shaaygylen district
| in Southeast British Burmah. The raid
crs looted and burned four large villages.
It was also reported that the town of Sit
laugh had been burned. A flying column
of British troops left Rangoon to punish
| the raiders.
n. ADoLpH DEUCHER, at present Vice
President Of Switzerland, has been elected
President for the year 1856. He is a Radi-
| cal.
TIE Dacoits Of Burmah made raid in
the vicinity Of Mandalay the other night
and fred on the British outposts, wound
| British returned the fire, killing seven Do
colts.
A SENSATION was caused in Paris the
other day by the collapse Of q portion Of
the Point Neuf, which connects lie de la
Cite, on which is situated the cathedral
church of Notre Dame with both sides of
the river Seine. It is the largest bridge in
Paris, and ono Of the Oldest.
BUSINESS failures for week ended Deccm-
Der Is numbered: For the United States,
ss3; Canada, %; total of 255, against 2x7
the week previous. Tho grand total of
failures in the United States from January
| l to December 10 is 1911, against II ,OSS in
| like period in 1884, decline of 3l6 The
totals for fifty weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1851
respectively were 9,5l9, 7,76a and $3.50.
| JoHE MAGEE and q woman supposed to
be his wife were arrested in London re-
Gently for sending threatening letters to
the Prince Of Wales The letters demanded
ESQ, for the purpose Of emigrating to
| America. The pretcnse was that they had
received orders from secret society to
| take the Princes life, and they would have
to obey OF fly to America.
IT was reported in Madrid that the Sui
tan Of Morocco had offered to cede territory
to both Spain and France, in order to gain
their support against the colonixing schemes
| Of Germany.
| THE LATEST.
ApvICks receivedby the steamer Oceanic,
which arrived at San Francisco on tho
18th, say the typhoon in the Philippine ISL
ands November destroyed over 400
houses, including thirteen churches and
ten converts. Eighteen lives were lost
and 500 cattle destroyed.
A COMPANY of the Eighth United States
Cavalry vas ambushed recently by
Apaches near White House, northwest Of
Silver City, N. NJ, and four soldiers and
Surgeon Maddox killed.
PROF. JOuN c. DRAPER, the well known
chemist, died Of pneumonia recently ut
New York
The suit Of the City of St. Louis against
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for
100000 and interest at seven per cent.
from March, 1866, was recently settled by
the company giving to Comptroller Camp
bell its draft on Now York bank for
s7l5,l7G.7S. At the close of the war in
March, 1865, the County of ST. Louis lent
1000 to the old Pacific Railroad COM
pany, whose bridges had been burnt and
its span destroyed during the war.
THE City Bank OF Houston. Tex, closed
its doors recently. The liabilities were said
to be over 81. 100000. The bank had been
| losing money Tor years.
The clearing house returns for week
ended December 10 showed an average in
crease of 36.1 over the corresponding week
| of last year. In New York the increase
was 49,
| A RECENT dispatch from Monterey, Mex
leo, says: All of the revolutionary forces
lately in the field have been disbanded and
have returned to their homes. Several of
the leaders have been appointed to fat
| Government Offices.
The Senate was not in session on the 10Th.
In the House Mr.. Morrison reported reso-
luton providing for the creation of seve-
! raj select committees to take into consid-
Grafton the Presidential Succession bill and
| other matters.
| INTEREST in the Wal!zup poisoning case.
has been revived by afidavits charging the
widow with immortality while in the Gus
tody of the Sheriff of Emporia, Kan.
Friends Of Mrs Walkup maintain that the
afiidavits resulted from the failure of an
attempt to blackmafl..
JOHN HARGRAvEs. provision merchant
Of Liverpool, New York and Chicago, is re-
ported to have suspended payment with Ii
abilities estimated at s3J0,OOO
the French Government has ordered tho
suspension of hostilities in Madagascar SO
as to facilitate negotiations for treaty of
peace, which Admiral Mot is conducting
with the Malagasy officials.
DISPATCHES recently received in st.
Petersburg state that terrible dynamite
explosion occurred IN the Pleijuichin mine,
Siberia Accounts We're conflicting as re-
CARDS the number killed, some placing it at