The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20
GENERAL.

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Santiago de Chilli, which resulted in so
much disorder that it was found necessary
to call the police to preserve the peace.
Stones and other missiles were thrown and
several persons injured.
The German papers admit that Germany
was somewhat to blame in the recent con-
troversy with England, inasmuch as Bis
marck's official dispatch the 9Th of May
last was evidently not delivered to Gran
vile.
THE French, after five days fighting,
carried the Chinese positions around Ke-
lung. Forty Frenchmen were killed and
two hundred wounded.
QUEEN VICTORIA will visit Darmstadt,
the Hessian capital, April /.
THE London Telegraph states the English
Government has rejected the offer of the
United States to negotiate q convention
with British West Indies.
1T was reported in Paris on fairly good
authority that James Stephens and Eugene
ordered to leave tho country.
In the House of Commons in reply to
complaints against the Government giving
any American firm the contract for pumps
for the Suakim- Berbef Railroad, the Sur
veyor General Of Ordinance said he would
be greatly surprised IL any English makers
would undertake the work as quickly as the
American firm had.
GENERAL GRAHAM decreed that the in
reason to apprehend treachery. Hereafter
any unenlisted native found with arms will
be treated as a rebel.
The Russian newspapers were very belli-
cose regarding the action of Great Britain
in Afghanistan.
FURTHER arrests of Fenians were made
in Paris on the 18th.
Two Detroit crooks were sentenced at
Kingston, Ont, recently to fourteen years.
Imprisonment for robbing Jew peddler.
After the robbery they left the peddler
bound to tree, in which condition he froze
to death.
THE commercial agreement with England
was ratified by the Spanish Cortes.
OF the murderers of Nine. Ballerich in
Paris, four were sentenced to the galleys
and one, Gamahut, to the guillotine.
THE new anti-Chinese restriction law
which has gone into effect in British CO.
lumbia, sentences every Chinaman entering
the Province to tax of fifty dollars or six
months at hard labor, and upon every one
assisting to import Cinnamon tax of two
hundred dollars is levied, with the alterna-
tive of six months in the chain gang.
A DECIDEDLY cold wave passed over the
Ottawa Valley, Canada, on the 18th. Mat
tawa reported the temperature 90 degrees
below zero.
CoNsoLs in London on the 10Th touched
96H, the lowest price in six years, but re-
covered at the close of the market.
1t was said that the Chinese lost 1900
men during the defense of Kelung. The
French captured immense quantities of
military stores.
IT is reported that members of the
French Government are convinced of the
necessity of marching upon Pekin. The
Government will shortly ask a grant of
81, 900 900 to dispatch 5000 men to China.
GENERAL Don PRosPERo FERNANDEZ,
President of Costo Rica, died suddenly on
the 18th.
CHARLES BALLERICH has been acquitted
of the charge of attempting to murder the
editor of Cri du Peuple, Paris.
THE death of Sir Curtis Miranda Lamp
son Bart, is announced. He was born in
Vermont in September, 1906.
JOSEPH JOHN JENKINS, a we'll known
painter in water colors, is dead. He was
born at London in 1911.