The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-25

since escaped from their guards in q camp
near Little Rock have been located in the
Maumelle mountains, eighteen or twenty
miles above Little Rock. They have con-
structed fort out of boulders and are
armed with >:fles.
A BLOCK Of buildings, includin" the Will
lard and Phoenix Hotels, at Hot Springs.
Ark. was destroyed by fire recently. Loss.
O,000; insurance, one-fourth.
GENERAL.
THE Gu'aare, . British bark. and the
Paramatts, an American vessel, collided
near Queenstown, Ireland. Both were
badly damaged, but no lives were lost.
A GREAT socialist meeting was held Mt
! Rotterdam the other day in favor of uni
versal suffrage. The speakers declared
that il tho Government refused to grant
the request the people would agitate the
question, but avoid anything of the nature
of physical force.
Ara meeting of Spaniards at Marseilles
the energy Of Spain in resisting German
aggression. and fund was raised for q
sword for General Salamanca.
THE Maharajah of Cashmere is dead.
A DISPATCH from Regina, N. W. T., says
that Riel has been respited, pending de-
cision of the Privy Council of Great Brit
ain.
CHIEF BURDErT, the Commander of the
G. A. R., has issued an appeal for con-
tributions to the Grant Monument Fund.
The Pal Nall Gazette states that it has
reason to believe that China will protest
against the action of Francs in dethroning
Tientsin treaty.
THE Spanish Government has cancelled
its contract with the Bremen ship-brild-
ers for the construction of large iron-clad
war vessels.
TIE Gear has conferred high decorations
upon the Governor of Esthonia, who is best
known for his severe anti-German meas
ures in the Baltic Provinces.
JUMBO, the $4,000 elephant, was killed
on the railroad track half a mile east of st.
Thomas, Ont, the other night. His keeper
was leading him along the track to load
him when freight train came up behind
unnoticed and ran him down. He was in
jured SO badly that he died in thirty min
utes.
A PANIC prevailed in the London silver
market on the 10th. Prices dropped
to the lowest point recorded for the GEN.
fury.
The Norwegian bark Rogaland, Captain
Hansen, capsized recently while on a voy-
age from ParrsborO, n. s., to Conway.
The second mate, Seaman Hendrinen and
Nilsson and a boy were rescued from a
raft. They were in an exhausted condi-
the crew persisted.
JAMES WHELAN, appointed United States
Consul at Fort Erie, Canada, several weeks
ago, and whose appointment was reported
to be Objectionable to the Canadian Gov
ment on account of his prominence as a
member of the Fenian brotherhood has
been recognized by the Government at
Ottawa.
THE expulsion of Austrians has COM
menced in Warsaw. A large factory dis
missed its German employees and replaced
them with Russians who were expelled
from Prussia.
The Bank of Varde, of Copenhagen.
Denmark, has suspended in consequence of
the loss of its entire capital through frauds.
One of the directors of the bank was one
of the largest defaulters. Several of the
bank officials have been arrested.
THE recent elections to the Saxon Land
ing resulted in an increase of the Social.
issic representation.
The date to which Riel has been re.
preved, SO as the appeal of his case might
be heard before the Imperial Privy Coun-
Gil. is October IS.
BUSINESS failures for week ended the
18th numbered for the United States and
Canada rs, against 2o3 the week previous.
WHAT appeared to be Asiatic cholera, or
a disease almost identical with it, was re.
ported prevalent at Hampton, in Nova
Scotia, a village of about 1000 inhabitants.
THE steamships brenda and Dolphin COL
lided in the Downs, in the English Channel,
recently. Seven OF the latter's crew were
drowned.
GLADSTONE issued his address to the
electors of Midlothian on the 18th. He
claimed all the success of his late admins
tration as due to the wise policy of the
Liberal party, and his Soudan and other
disasters as due to the work of the oppose
ton. The address was somewhat caution
airy when it considered matters of legisla
ton now pending.