The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-08-21

TIE Social Purity Society, Of London,
was agitnting recently for new trial Of
Mrs. Jeffreys. for the purpose Of securing
public disclosure of the names Of poll
ticians and noblemen who freQuented her
house.
CoLoNEL ANGEL RODRIGUEZ Of the party
of Limbano Sanchez and six bandits be-
longing to the party Of Tore Jiminex have
been shot at Mantanxas. They were cap
tured while negotiating for outward pas
sage.
DIR. 2. SIGNoNDY, an experienced tourist
who recently published a book on the dam
ger Of Alpine climbing, has been killed by
falling over precipice after climbing Pic
de la Ney, in the Upper Alps, which had
been considered an impossibility.
Ar the Inventions Exhibition, London,
on the 18th, gold medals were awarded to
the American Watch Company, the Yale
and Towne Lock Company, the Britton
Machine Company, for leveling plates, and
the Randell Company, for embossed leather
covered chairs.
UNDER the scheme of reorganization the
bonded Indebtedness of the Bankers and
Merchants Telegraph Company will be re-
duced from $1O,OoO,OOO to $l,2OO,OO0. A
large share of the new bonds will be taken
by Ed. S. Stokes and his friends.
LETTERS from Suakim say that the
troops ere dying like flies. The officials,
however, will not report such a condition
of affairs.
MRS. MARK PATrIsoN, the fiancee of Sir
Charles Dixie, is in India on a pleasure
trip. On learning of the scandal with
which the name of her intended husband
is connected she Immediately telegraphed
Sir Charles to announce their engagement
public.
The reports of cholera from all of the in.
fected districts of Spain for the 18th showed
6,646 new cases and 100 deaths.
THE French revenue returns for the past
seven months, recently made public, showed
that the protective legislation had failed to
exclude foreign sugars.
GENERAL DELAUNcEY telegraphs from
Anam as follows: "We have fixed our
headquarters at Hal Pbong during the
prevalence of cholera. There were severn
teen deaths from cholera yesterday in Hal
Phong and sixty-six persons are down
with it to-day"
SOME excitement has been caused in
Spain by a report that Germany has oc-
cupied the Caroline Islands in the Pacific,
which are claimed by Spain.
The British Wabash bondholders at .
meeting in London on the 18th resolved to
institute foreclosure proceedings under the
terms of the general and collateral mort
cages, and appoint purchasing commit.
tee, in which all property after the pur-
chase shall be vested. The scheme is to re.
purchase the property and operate under q
new corporation.
THE Montreal Local Board of Health has
declared the smallpox epidemic in that
city.
AN obnoxious tenant on a farm near
Clonkerry, Ireland, was terribly beaten
the other night by raiders who fired pistols
on their departure.
News from Guayaquil, Ecuador, of July
25, is to the effect that the volcano of Coto-
paxie was again in a state of eruption.
One hundred houses had been destroyed.
The loss of life was not known.
= LORD VANE ERNEST died in England re-
Gently. He served with distinction in the
Federal army during the late war in
America.
AN excursion boat was upset in the har-
Dor at Rouen, France, the other day, and
eight persons were drowned.
SERIOUS gales recently on the Scottish
coast wrecked fishing vessels and banks.
A bark's crew was gallantly rescued by
the life boat at Marin.
ADvIcES from st. Paul de Loanda, West
Africa, under date of July Is, report that
a petty King, Coanhama HULA, died re-
Gently and the natives attributing his
death to witchcraft of the whites, massa-
cred twenty Europeans, including three
French missioSaries.
CHArTO, an Apache scout, and two Of
his companions, were killed, recently, in
the State of Sonora, by Lieutenant Davis
and his command. On discovering Indian
signs, Chatto and his companions made
rush for the mountains, but their treach-
cry resulted as above noted. Chatto was
concerned in the McComas massacre and
surprise was expressed at his being en-
gagged as a scout.
The British Parliament was prorogued
on the 4th.
THE importation of rags from France has
been prohibited by the British Government.
THE local Board of Health of Montreal
declares that smallpox is now epidemic
in that city.