The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12

A DISASTROUS earthquake occurred re
Gently throughout Cashmere. At Serini
gar, the capital, hundred persons rwer
killed ct least, many being entombed in tn
ruins Of houses. Great distress was cause,
by the earthquake and help was urgentl.
needed.
1 THREE masked robbers recently ATTACHES
and overpowered the manager and &C
countant of . branch of the National Banl
of Australia, in Melbourne. After stealing
E1,00o they escaped.
A LOT of carriages imported from tn
United States were recently seized at OF
tawa, Can, it having been discovered b,
the Board of Appraisers that the axle
| used In their construction were .he produc
| of prison labor. The consignment cam
from Cincinnati.
The Spanish Government has grantet
permission to physicians to inoculate peo
pie with cholera virus.
| A. DISPATCH from Tamatave, Madagas
car, dated May 8, states that report wal
had strangled the Prime Minister at An
tananarivo.
THE English Derby race was won by
Lord Hastings bay colt Melton.
The corporation Of London will present
| ex-President Arthur with an address and q
gold casket upon his visit to London, and
| the Lord Mayor will give him banquet.
FIRE in the Philadelphia colliery, neal
Durham, Eng, recently imprisoned 35t
miners. They were all rescued except thir.
teen.
| decided to commence the annual summer
| shut down two weeks earlier this year OF
account of the dizziness of trade.
THE British residents at Serinagur tele.
graphed that no Europeans were killed by
the earthquake.
A DISPATCH from La Libertad, San Sal
vador, says: The natives are flying to the
mountains to avoid being taken for soldiers
CAPTAIN SoRENsoN, of the bark Finn
which arrived at Quebec the other day, re-
ported having met large quantities OF
composed of doors, cabins, masts, ETC.,
which appeared to belong to a ship of large
dimensions.
ADvICEs from Zanzibar state that
treaties of commerce have been concluded
between that country, Italy and Belgium.
THE Cologne Gazette affirms that agita-
tion has decided that ali the financial cir
cles in Germany are in favor of bimetal-
ism, but that the support of the Govern
ment can not be counted upon.
The French Assembly refused to i'm
peach the Ferry Ministry by a vote of 800
to 153.
BIG BEAR recently sent in flag of truce
to General Middleton. The bearer was,
however, killed by shell. Big Bear was
reported as going north, having had three
skirmishes with the Canadians under Cen
eral Strange.
The Partisan newspapers made vio-
lent attack upon the aldermen of London
for refusing a vote of coincidence upon the
death of Victor Hugo. Rochefort called
the aldermen a "band of ignorant, jealous
turtle soup eaters"
THE weekly statement of the Bank of
France shows an increase in gold of 49,
900 francs, and in silver of 4,169, 900
francs.
ARCHBISHOP CRoKE recently returned
home to Dublin. Replying to addresses of
welcome at Kingston, he said he wished to
see Orangeism broken down and the green
flag floating over prosperous people. Irish
men, he declared, would never rest until
they obtained rights to which they were
entitled.
A CYCLONE, disastrous in its conse-
quences, struck Alden the other night. The
damage done was estimated at S250,0O0.
IT was reported at st. Petersburg that
Count Tolstoi, Minister of the Interior, was
about to resign, and that the Minister of
the Imperial Domain would succeed him.
SIR JULIUS BENEDICT, the noted COM
poser, died in London on the 9Th. He was
born in Stuttgart, Germany, November p,
1904, of Jewish parents.
BUSINESS failures for week ended June
4: United States, 1877: Canada, 126: total,
223; compared with 2O6 the week previous.
The failures in every section of the country
were comparatively light except in the
South, where the number noted, 81, was far
in excess of the average.
The young Earl Cairns Lord Garmoyle)
of the celebrated breach of promise suit of
Fortescue VS.. Garmoyle, assumed his place
in the House of Lords on the 9Th, as son
and successor to the title of the late Earl
Cairns.
CONSUL MACKEY, who got into scrape
with an editor at Rio de Sui, Brazil, was
acquitted by the jury.