The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-06

TEE receipts ct the of3ce Of Internal
Revenue at Louisville. KY. on the 3eth
amounted 70 $161 900, the largest receipts
for one day on record in the United States.
JAMES HoD0Ks WAS elected Mayor Of
Baltimore on the 18th ON the regular DEM
ocratic ticket, defeating Judge George W.
Brown, the Fusionist nominee, by Q ma
iority Of 1000.
| VIOLENT agitations Of the Chinese ques.
tion have broken out in Augusta, Ga.
GENERAL.
| TEE ship building trade on the Clyde Il
generally depressed. Over 70 per cent.
| Of the workmen are out of employment.
Soup kitchens have been opened to relieve
the sufferings Of the poor.
MORE definite reports have reached
Bucharest of the first fight between the
Servians and Bulgarians. 1t was more
| than mere skirmish, as over one hundred
| Bulgarians and Servians were either killed
| or wounded. A pitched battle was immi-
nent.
IT was rumored in Rangoon that q rev.
that King Thebaw had been murdered.
ADvIcEs from Mandalay, dated October
g, say: King Thebaw, of Burmah, scorns
pacific counsels and is certifying every
available point on the proposed line of the
British advance.
The steamship Great Eastern was re.
Gently sold at public suction at London for
E262O0.
TEMPORARY coercive laws have been
published in the official Gazette at Copen.
hagen and force of military and police
have been formed to assist the civil author
titles in carrying the laws into effect.
A DISPATCH from Madrid confirms the
recent statement that the American Gov
eminent has intimated to Spain if the lat
ter's sovereignty of the Caroline Islands
is recognized the American Protestant
mission must be respected and freedom of
religion permitted.
The rumor telegraphed recently that q
revolution had broken out at Mandalay
and King Thebaw had been murdered was
not true.
The Servian Government has replied to
the collective note Of the powers end re-
fuses to disarm Servian troops until the
equilibrium in the Balkans has been re.
stored. The Government was angry be-
cause the Balkan conference is to be held
at Constantinople instead of Vienna or
Pesth.
TIE schooner Surprise arrived at Quay.
mas, Mexico, on the 2Sth, with three cases
of yellow fever on board.
LIE Paris asserts that NJ. De Freycinet,
the Foreign Minister. has arranged with
Lord Salisbury, the British Premier and
Foreign Secretary, for a safeguard for the
French interests in the East in the event Of
war between England and Burmah.
TKE London Standard suggests that the
money subscribed for the Grant memorial
should be devoted to the erection of an
American soldiers hospital similar to the
great foundation at Chelsea.
NETHERBY HALL, the residence of Sir
Frederick Ulrich Graham, near Carlisle,
Eng, was robbed of most of its valuables
by a gang of burglars the other night. The
burglars were halted by the police, when
they drew revolvers and shot three of them,
two fatally.
NJ. DE FREYcINET, the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs, was shot at in Paris re.
Gently by man supposed to be a Corscan.
He was uninjured. The would-be assas-
sin, on being arrested, claimed his motives
were not political. It was thought he was
lunatic.
AN express train on the railway from
Lisbon to Madrid recently left the rails
while on a bridge over a river near the
boundary between Spain and Portugal.
The train fell into the river and several
persons were killed and many wounded.
A BOAT containing a whole family,
father, mother and child, was capsized in
the st. Lawrence, near Montreal, and all
were drowned.
A FEARFUL explosion occurred recently
in the mines at Colquechaca, Bolivia.
Several persons were killed.
BUSINESS failures of tho seven days
ended October 20 numbered: For the
United States, ia; for Canada, %; a total
of 2O1, as compared with ia the week
previous.
PROF. HUXLEY has resigned the Presi.
dency of the ROYAL Society of London on
account of i'll health. He will be succeeded
by Prof. Stokes.
The half-breed prisoners at Regina and
Stony Mountain have forwarded petition
to the Dominion Government begging for
mercy.
The remains of a lion tanner named Stew.
art, with the dead body Of q lion beside
him, have been found in room at small
hamlet just outside of Paris.
THE LATEST.
In the Walkup trial at Emporia, Kan,
on the S1st, the State introduced testimony
impugnicg the evidence of DR.. Scott, Nor
ton and other witnesses. According to the
State Walkup was not at SCOTS Office in
Kansas City at the time mentioned, nor
was he in Dodge City according to Nor
toms evidence in April, 1884, as the EN-
poria records showed that he was present at
the City Council on the dates covering the
| time occupied in the so.called "jamboree''
with the witness.
THE Missouri Board of Prison reporters
say they have no further choice than
Louisiana, No., for o site for a branch
penitentiary, Governor Harmaduke, for
various reasons, having vetoed all their
previous selections for the proposed addi.