The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-13

inent lawysr, and B. T. Malone, msr-
chant, growing out Of law suit in which
Battle was attorney. The latter was shot
dead.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, of Lcuisburg, N.
c., made . wager he could drink quart Of
whisky in forty minutes. He did Il In
thirty.one minutes and died two hours
later.
A WAR, waged for three weeks past be-
tween the Nashville & Chattanooga and
Memphis & Charleston Railroads, has
ceased, and an amicable adjustment made.
A COPY Of . photograph of the missing
editor, Conant, of Hdrper's Weekly, has
been sent to Athens Ga. A dispatch from
Athens stated that q man representing
himself as Mr.. Conant, of Harpsr's Weekly,
had been in that city interviewing the peo-
pie a. to the political sentiment there.
GENERAL.
IT was stated that Bismarck had been
asked to arbitrate between Portugal,
France and the International Association.
TIE British steamship Toledo" from
Shields, reports having passed the wreck of
an American vessel, floating bottom up, in
the track of the steamers to and from Eu-
rope. The toledo" encountered a success
sion of gales during the entire passage.
Two American students of the Chemical
Polytechnic College at Zurich, Switzerland,
were drowned in Lake Greiffansee the
other day by falling through the ice while
skating.
THE British steamer Coniston, from Liv-
erpool December "a, in ballast for Balti-
more, with forty passengers, has been
given up by her owners IS lost.
ENGLISH newspapers generally remarked
with satisfaction that O'Donovan Rosa
had received some of his own medicine.
His condition on the Sd was unchanged,
the doctors not thinking it advisable to
probe for the bullet. Evidence was accu-
mulating that Mrs. Dudley, who shot him,
was insane, she having been arrested for
attempting suicide in London.
The Gdulois, of Paris, states that Glenn
enceau was arranging congress of French
and English workingmen, before which he
will advocate the maintenance of the
Anglo French alliance.
IT was reported in Paris that two we'll
known German officers and one Frenchman
were among the killed on the Madhi's side
in the recent battle in the Soudan.
A DECREE has been signed expelling from
France two Anarchists, one German, the
other Belgian.
ANARCHIST proclamations in the Ger
man and Czech languages were placarded
throughout the chief manufacturing towns
of Northern Bohemia recently.
A NAPLES dispatch says that Captain
Mancini, son of the italian Premier, COM
mands column of the Red Sea expedition
which started on the 4th.
THE Manchester Chamber of Commerce
has announced the receipt of news confirm
ing the report that Portugal had annexed
both banks of the Congo River.
SEVERAL head of valuable cattle for
breeding purposes, which arrived at Mon
treal, on the 4th, from the United States
via Rouse's Point, have been seized under
the order prohibiting the Importation Of
horned cattle and swine into Canada.
The Khedive of Egypt has refused to
follow England's advice to allow the Ital-
ians to occupy Massowah without the con-
L
THE express train for Cannes, on which
the Prince of Wales was passenger, came
into collision on the 5th at Avignon with
freight train. The Prince of Wales suffered
nothing more than slight shock from the
accident. Nobody injured.
THE French, it was rumored, intended to
abandon the blockade of Formosa and ap-
ply the blockade to Canton River. The
French commanders have given notice Of
their intention to search all neutral vessels
in Chinese waters for contraband.
The International Postal Congress was
opened on the 4th at Lisbon, Portugal, all
the nations being represented.
By a vote of q to u the Toronto Presby-
terry has decided that a man may marry
his deceased wife's sister.
FEARS were felt for the safety of the
British steamer "Sardony," which left
Victoria, B. c., December 10, with 400 Chi
nese aboard.
FAILURES for week ended February in
the United States numbered 314, Canada
80, total 346, against Sj4 the previous week,
and All the week preceding.
DISPATCHES from London on the 9Th con-
tanned nothing definite concerning the fate
of General Gordon. 1t would take five
weeks for Wolseley to reach Khartoum
from Korti. The report that Khartoum was
surrendered through treachery was con-
frmed.
THE LATEST.
An accident happened ten miles west Of
Creston, Iowa., recently. A Chicago, Bur.