The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-27

of money, estimated between $4,000 and
&150, 900. Five train hands were also killed
in the fire which resulted from the collision
THE Texas Pacific Land Grant Forfei.
ture bill was passed in the Senate on ths
10Th. The Naval Appropriation bill wa.
under consideration In the House.
GENERAL.
THE wife Of Lowell, the United State.
Minister at London, was seriously iii. Shs
was taken sick at Madrid some time sine.
with typhoid fever and has never fully re.
covered from it.
THE Egyptian financial question hn.
been settled and the payment of indemnity
for losses incurred by the bombardment Of
Alexandria was expected shortly. pr
The coinage of one and FIVE cent coins
has been suspended for the present.
, GREAT excitement was recently created
in London by a mob of unemployed work
ingmen parading through Downing street
ABALLooN corps has started for the Sou.
dan from London.
AT the funeral of Wales, a Socialist, In
Paris recently, mob attacked the German
portion of it. The latter were carrying q
German banner.
DURING the Wales funeral procession in
Paris thieves entered the premises of Ga
briel, in Avenue de pOpera, and rich jew.
els valued at SOC, 600 francs were stolen.
THE troubles between English Free.
masons and the Grand Orients of France
continue. The Prince of Wales, replying
to a recent letter of the French Grand Mas
ter, says: "English Masons always had
the belief that God is the first and great
landmark of genuine Freemasonry. With
out such belief nobody can rightly claim to
inherit the traditions of true Freemasonry."
GoRDoN's body servant arrived at Korti
recently. He said that Gordon, when
Khartoum was betrayed, rushed to the
magazine, for the purpose, it was thought,
of exploding the ammunition, when he was
shot dead. ~ -sG# 2
LIEUTENANT GORDON, of Ottawa, Cam,
gives detailed report of the steamer Nep-
tunes trip up Hudson's Bay. He is of the
opinion that the navigation of the bay and
straits will be found practicable.
GENERAL BUTLER abandoned Gubat on
the 18th, falling back to Abu Klea. Ell
Mahdi, it was reported, was advancing in
great style from Khartoum.
An outbreak of Siberian exiles occurred
in Irkutsk recently. Thirty of the exiles
were killed and nine soldiers. Much I'M
easiness prevailed.
The English Parliament assembled on
the 10Th. The Government explanation of
the Egyptian troubles did not differ from
what was already known. Sir Stafford
Northcote prepared vote of censure,
which was to be debated at an early day.
THERE was general falling back of the
English troops in Egypt. Orders were is
sued to concentrate on Korti.
AT Victoria, B. c., in the House, the bill
to admit women to suffrage was thrown
out by IA to9.
THE wife of Minister Lowell died OH the
10th.
MADAM CHARLOTTE Fl. SAINToN Dolby,
the eminent contralto singer, died recently.
She was born in London in 1921.
The revised version of the Old Testamen:
will be published at Easter.
& In the House of Lords, on the 10th, Earl
Granville presented the Queens message
calling out the reserves and the militia.
The British steamer Preston, from New
York, January 30, for Portsmouth, Eng
land, had not arrived at her destination on
February Goth. Great anxiety was felt for
her safety.
A BOTTLE of gunpowder exploded the
other night near the Parliament House in
Rome, near the entrance which is used by
members. No harm was caused by the ex-
plosion. No clew to the miscreants.
A NUMBER of American and English resi-
dents have formed a committee at Naples
to solicit orders for works of art that re-
main unsold through the absence of Wis
itors on account of the cholera scourge.
The Pope is suffering from renewal of
the intestinal complaint that recently gave
him much troubls.
THE Swiss Bundesrath has resolved up
on the wholesale expulsion from Switzer-
land of foreign Anarchists. rs
FAILURES for the week ended January
10 h number for the United States 253,
Canada 81, total 300, compared with 270 last
week and 545 the week before. Nearly
four-fifths of the business casualties of the
week were furnished by the Western,
Southern and Pacific States.
GENERAL STEWART died at Gakdul Wells
on the 10Th, from the effects of wound
received at the baltic Of Abu Klea.