The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-08-28

e. E. KNOTT, Of Toronto, Cana, real es-
tate and insurance agent and director Of
the Bank of Central Canada, has fed to
New York, leaving large liabilities. He
succeeded in borrowing several large sums
of money before leaving, having been con-
sidered financially sound.
WILLIAM JOHN THoMs, the antiquarian
and since 1868 Deputy Librarian of the
House of Lords, died recently. He was
born in 1903.
A COMMISSIONER has been appointed to
examine the hospitals of Rome and to take
other measures to meet, If possible, an cpl
demic of cholera
IT is announced by high official ssr the
British Foreign Office that the reports Of
an alliance, offensive and defensive, be-
tween England and China are untrue, bus
that England, China and Japan have ar
rived at satisfactory understanding as
to the course to be pursued by each power
in the event of war between England and
Russia.
AN action for libel has been begun
against the leading foreign newspapers in
China for alleging the reported sale of the
Chinese merchant fleet to an American
firm for 5.250,000 taels at the outbreak of
the hostilites with France. 1t was a
bogus transaction.
THE police recently raided Socialists
houses in The Hague and Amsterdam. A
man was arrested in the latter place for
placarding a wall with Socialistic circu-
lars. He was sentenced to one years inn
prisonment. Hundreds of sympathizers
followed him to prison. The crowd carried
with them and displayed fearlessly num-
erous red and black flags.
THIEVES entered the room of William
Flatman, an American cotton merchant, Mt
Liverpool hotel, the other night, and
robbed him of a large sum of money and
some valuable jewelry.
A LONDON dispatch says: 1t is stated
that Maxwell, who murdered Preller in st.
Louis, No., is the son of National school
master at HYDE, near Manchester.
IT is announced by high official of the
British Foreign Office that the reports Of
an alliance. offensive and defensive, be-
tween England and China are untrue, but
that England. China and Japan have ar
rived at a satisfactory understanding as to
the course to be pursued by each power in
the event of war between England and
Russia.
AN action for libel has been begun
against the leading foreign newspapers in
China for alleging the reported sale of the
Chinese merchant feet to an American
firm for $4,000 taels at the outbreak of
the hostilities with France. 1t was bogus
transaction.
near Wyoming, Ont. recently, instantly
killing James Duncan and MORALLY wound
ing Isaac Nav. Maw's nephew had leg
broken and was dangerously scalded. The
engine was lifted bodily from the trucks
and thrown through the side of a barn into
a grain NOW.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta announces
that the ship British Statesman was
foundered. The Captain and twenty-five
of the crew were lost.
KING ALFONSO was so incensed at the
unwarrantable seizure of the Caroline
Islands by Germany that he resigned his
Colonelcy in the German Uhlan regiment.
conferred upon him during his visit to
Germany a few years ago. His acceptance
of this at the time greatly incensed the
French.
A GIRL seven years of age recently died
at Widnes, England, of Asiatic cholera of
the worst type.
A RICH maiden lady of Paris named
Menctray recently disappeared. A female
servant named MERCER told the neighbors
that the lady had entered convent, leav-
ing her to manage the property. The SER
want brought her own relatives to the
house to live. Suspicion being aroused the
police entered the premises and discovered
the lady's body buried in quick lime i'm the
garden. The servant and her companions
tried to escape but were arrested.
8THE repor, of the wreck of the German
corvette Augusta was confirmed. Her crew
of 23S officers and sailors were lost. Her
value was $l,,50,O00. She was lost in q
cyclone i'm the Red Sea.
Six old United States war vessels, the
Minnesota, Susquehanna, Congress, South
Carolina, Iowa, Lottie Grant and Fair
Play, burned to the waters edge off Long
Island recently, causing loss of over one
hundred thousand dollars.
KING ALFONSO instructed the Spanish
Ambassador at London to proceed to Der.
lin and entreat Emperor William to delay
the occupation of the Caroline Islands. H.
feared that he would be depo. I'd by b.,
subjects.