The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-24

THE long continued dronth in the south.
ern provinces of Russia was reported TO
have completely ruined the crops in that
| section.
The Belgian Government, through its
Minister at Washington, has extended an
invitation to this Government to send dele.
gates to the International Congress OF
Botany and Horticulture, which is to be
held at Atwerp from the 1st to the 10th OF
August.
THERE were 1,555 new cases Of cholera
reported in Spain on the 14th and So
death:.
THE semi-annual report of the Direct
Cable Company shows that the receipts
for the first six months of the present year
have been So, 467 less than they were
during the corresponding period in 1884
The falling off was owing to reduction in
the tariff.
THERE were serious fears of riots in
some of the towns of Ireland on the 18th,
consequent upon the failure of the Mum
ster Bank. The bank had branches in the
principal towns of Ireland.
A REPUBLICAN conspiracy was recently
discovered by the Spanish authorities al
| Saragossa. A number of persons were
arrested and the leader, Colonel Magal-
| Ion, was sentenced to be shot.
JUDGE THACHER, of the commission ap.
pointed by the United States Government
| to visit South America with view to the
promotion of commerce with the United
States, and Mr.. Curtis, Secretary of the
1 he
| wreck of the British steamer Guadiana, of
the Abrolhos Basin, June 2, while en- route
| to New York, arrived at London on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from Cairo of the 10Th says:
The Arabs of the upper classes declare Fl
Mahdi is dead. Lupton, with his garrison.
has arrived at Senaar. The famine OF
Kardofan has become terrible and has ex.
tended to Khartoum.
The coasting steamer Perkimen, of Phil.
adelphia, was sunk in seven fathoms oil
water the other night by the collision of
| Pollock Rip with the schooner Abbie c.
Stubs, which was also badly damaged.
ANXIETY over the Afghan situation con.
tinued at Berlin on the 10th. Russian Sc.
curities declined three points.
The Russians have permanently occu-
pied three positions on Persian territory,
lying between Saraks and Pulkilton.
A REPORT from London, of the 10th,
spoke of the relations between Russia and
England as becoming once more strained.
ADMIRAL CALLER and NJ. De Lesseps
have submitted to the French Minister OF
Public Works a scheme for a canal from
Havre to Marseilles, utilizing the rivers
Seine, Saone and Rhone. The canal, it il
proposed, shall be navigable by the larg-
est irnnclads.
BUSINESS failures for week ended July
Is number: United States, 900; Canada,
16; total, 225: as compared with 2S5 the
week previous.
THE Alert, which left Halifax for the re.
lief of the Hudson Bay Station, has beer
compelled to put into st. Johns for repairs
having been seriously damaged by heavy
ice north of Cape Best.
The British House Of Commons negativeG
without division Mr.. Parne.l's motion to in
quire into the conduct of Earl Spencer in
Ireland.
The decree divorcing the Marquis DE-
Caux from Nine. Patti, the great primo
donna, has been pronounced in Paris.
IT was stated recently in Madrid thai
every one of the forty seven nuns who
were inoculated by DIR. Ferran had died Of
cholera.
THE French Chamber of Deputies hal
adopted bill imposing retaliatory dutie,
on Roumanian imports.
A PARTY of Cacerists were defeated a,
Piseo, Peru, July 10, but they got away
with the custom house cash.
THE British steamer Willingale, Captain
Davis, which sailed from Madras Nav d
for Boston, was badly wrecked June 81 of
Cape Gardifui. The Captain and part OF
the crew were drowned.
THE people of Winnipeg celebrated the
return of the Canadian troops by a grand
torchliSht procession and display of fire.
works on the 18th. Many thousands, in
Guiding the military, took part in the pro.
cession. The streets were thronged with
people.
THE French Governor at Cochin Chins
telegraphed recently that the military sit.
uation in Cambodia was really never dan.
gerous and that the French losses since
January amounted to but seventeen killed
and three wounded.
II. F. GAINES, a United States Custom
House official, stated recently in Montreal
that large quantity of whisky was being
struggled into Canada from the United
States between Rouse's Point and Detroit
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