The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-10

THH mercantile failures for the six
months ended the 30th Of June were re-
ported by r. g. Dunn & Co, - 6,0o4 -
against $50 for the first ak months of
1884, An increase Of 494. In liabilities,
however, there is . marked elimination,
the amount being for the first half of 1885,
$74, 900 as against $124, 000, 900 in the
first six months of 1884.
The latest Russian advices from Vladi-
woodstock say that Russian steamship
which attempted to enter Port Hamilton
was intercepted and forbidden to enter by
| an English man-of-war. The English
were said to be fortifying the port.
THE official crop report for June spoke Of
the winter wheat harvest as being the worst
for seventeen years.
ANARCHIST Lieske. who murdered Herr
Rumpf, Police Counselor, in January last,
at Frankfort the Main, was convicted
and sentenced to death.
An officer committed suicide in Austria
recently by placing himself in front of the
mouth of a cannon and firing it with q
match stick.
UNDER the agreement between Lord Sal
isbury and Prince Bismarck the German
naval demonstration against Zanzibar has
been countermanded. The German squad
ron has been ordered to abstain from all
appearance of hostility.
WHILE Frank Otteo, Minnie Bolton and
two others were on the bay at Toronto
Ont, the other evening in a sail boat a
strong wind sprang up and drifted the
boat out into the lake where it upset and
the two named were drowned.
TWENTY villages were ignited by light
ming aud burned in the recent storms in
Austria. Six men were killed while try
ing to extinguish the flames.
THE Salisbury Cabinet has decided to en-
tirely abandon coercion in Ireland and rely
upon the strict administration of the gen.
eral law.
ALL survivors of the Inflated steamer
Italia, including the Captain, have been
ordered to remain at Callao pending a
thorough investigation by the Italian Con-
sui.
RECENT advices from Madagascar say
the Hovas were repulsed in the attack upon
Fort Magunda. 1t was denied that the
Prime Minister of the Hovas was strangled
to death. The interior of Madagascar was
threatened with famine, as the rice crop
had been destroyed.
THE Paris Institute has awarded the BIZ
ennial prize of 81 900 to DIR. Brown Sequard,
of New York, for his discoveries in physi-
ology.
THE South American Commission recent
" had an interview with the President of
Chilli. The latter was free and outspoken
in his remarks, saying that he did not be.
lieve in conventions or treaties as making
any great amount of trade, nor did he want
to give or receive any special favors. The
ports of Chilli were open to the vessels of
all foreign nations alike. The President
favored an International silver dollar.
THE east, west and north river districts
of Canton Province, China, were reported
inundated recently. There were many
breaches in the dykes and great loss of
life.
The total number of new cases of cholera
reported in the infected districts of Spain
on the LIST was ,421; total number of deaths,
6S9
J. B. DAMON, keeper of q general store
in Montreal, Can, has failed with $4,000
liabilities and $4,000 assets.
SIX Canadian raftsmen were drowned
near desert settlement on the Gatineau
River, one hundred miles above Ottawa.
They were working on drive when from
some unexplained cause their boat upset.
The election in Woodstock, Eng, re-
suited in the return of Lord Randolph
Churchill. At the close of the polls the
votes stood: Lord Randolph Churchill,
532: Mr.. Corrie Grant, 405.
BOMBAY reports scanty rain fall so far
this season. The prospects are bad. Crops
will be bad in Madras and Bengal, but in
the central provinces satisfactory results
are looked for.
THE business failures for the week ended
July 2 numbered for the United States, 1873;
Canada, 81; total, 204, against 205 the week
previous.
THE Canadian Pacific Railway will prob
ably be completed to the Pacific coast in
about seven weeks. Vancouver will be the
western terminus.
A BAND of thirty Greek brigands, be-
lieved to have been formed by Slav COM
mittee, were arrested while crossing the
frontier from Thessaly.
QUEEN VICTORIA has made Sir Peter
Lumsden Knight Commander of the Bath.
THREE new Chinese ironclads, built at
Kiel, Prussia, have sailed from that port
for China.