The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-23
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
THE Tichborne claimant is coming to
America on lecturing tour.
The Budget Committee of the German
Reichstag passed all the naval estimates.
A Man named Delahanty, occupying a
farm at Kilbgegan, in Westmeath, Ireland.
from which tenant had been evicted, was
shot dead the other night.
ACCORDING to official record, the number
of persons killed by earthquakes in
Granada was 695; number injured, 1,4S0.
THE factory of the Norfolk Knitting and
Cotton Manufacturing Company, closed for
four months, has resumed.
THE dissolution of the pool of oil mills of
the Mississippi valley, reported from Vicks-
burg. was q mistake.
A PILE of fertilizers at the factory of
Wilcox, Glib & Co., Charleston, S. c.,
caved in recently, crushing to death two
colored laborers and injuring third.
A SHOCKING crime occurred at Frank
fort-on-the-M Main recently. A Police Com
missioner named Rumpff, who had been
active in the prosecution of Socialists, was
found dead in front of his house, stabbed
in two places. The assassin was unknown.
EARTHQUAKE tremblings We're again felt
in various parts OF Spain on the 1ith. The
storm in the southern provinces continued;
the rivers were greatly swollen. The suffer-
ing of the people who had been rendered
homeless by the earthquake was intense.
PATRICK JAMES SMITH, who recently left
the Irish National party and resigned his
seat in Parliament for Tipperary to accept
Office in the Home Department, died on the
18th at Dublin. He was siXty-one years
old and the author of several books de-
voted to travel and history.
FRANCE and Germany have come to an
understanding on the Egyptian question.
THE famous London banking house of
Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co. is about to be in
corporated as joint stock company, with
a capital of SI,J00,000.
THE police have increased the reward for
the capture of the murderer of Police Com
missioner Rumpf, at Berlin, to $500.
AN Anti-JewiSh riot occurred at Vilko-
wir, Russia, recently. A party of army
recruits made ferocious attack upon the
Jewish residents. One of the latter was
the riot, but the firemen came to the rescue
and dispelled the rioters.
AT Birmingham, Eng, serious riot &C.
Cured recently, owing to the lack of EN-
ployment, which is keenly felt by the OPP
eratives.
BETWEEN thirty and fcrty men were
killed by the explosion of fire damp in
mine at LEVIN, France, recently.
A MEETING of editors in aid of the move
ment for the relief of the poor of Paris was
held on the 18th.
EDMUND YATES, the London journalist,
lost his appeal case. and surrendered to
undergo his six months sentence for libel.
He would rank as a first-class misdemean-
ant, his imprisonment being merely con-
finement.
FAILURES for the week ended January
lG: United States, SS2: Canada, IS: total
420, as compared with n total of 459 the
previous week. The figures were still unu
sually heavy in the Western, Southern and
Middle States.
A SEVERE storm was raging at Nice on
the 10th. The sea had overlooked Quai
Midi and the promenade AnSlaise. The
cellars of hotels and even the villas were
flooded.
The steamer Cuba from Galveston for
Bremen, arrived off Dover on the 18th. The
cargo in the after hold was on fire. She
asked for assistance, which was sent.
a DISPATCH from Paris to the London
Exchange Telegraph Company says that
an Anarchist plot has been discovered at
Lyons. The plot contemplated the seizure
by night of arms belonging to the rifle
society and an immediate proclamation of
n revolution.
FRESH shocks of earthquake We're felt
again on the 10th in Granada.
ADMIRAL PEYRoE, the French Minister,
will resign after the senatorial elections.
GENERAL WoLsELEY telegraphed from
kartee that Major Kitchner had returned
there, having left Galdul the 18th inst.
Major Kltchner reported all quiet when he
left and the troops healthy.
THERE was another revolution reported
in the United States of Colombia. Barran-
quilla was captured by the rebels. Carta-
gena, captured on the 18th, was retaken by
the National forces on the 18th.