Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-10-15

GENERAL JAMAIs' division of the French
army in AMMAN is preparing to occupy
Tonquin. The Black Flags have been re-
organized under Chinese General.
| AN attempt was made fhe other night to
blow I'D with dynamite a Czechian club
house in Due, a town in Bohemia. For
tunately no one was injured. A bad feel
! ing was reported as existing between Ger
mans and Czechs.
IT was thought the Conservative or
| monarcbial successes in the recent French
elections would lead to the expulsion of
the Orleanist Princes. Further disorders
occurred in Paris, mobs parading and
threatening the Gaulois newspaper office.
SMALL-pox was reported in several of
the towns of Ontario. The Salvation Army
was charged with spreading the contagion
by persisting in visiting. those afflicted.
! NJ. SULLIER, a defeated candidate for
| the Chamber of Deputies, has written let
ter to the American Consul at Paris re-
questng a certificate of citizenship of the
United States. lie says he is sick of serv-
ing his ungrateful country.
KING MILAN. Of Servia, in a speech de-
livered in the Skuptschina on the eth. de-
clared that he had fully determined to
| fight unless Servia's demand for an extern
! sion of the boundaries over an area equal
to that acquired by Bulgaria in its union
| with Eastern Roumelia were granted.
A DISPATCH from Berlin of the 7tll says:
| Germany has dispatched a note to the
Court of Spain rejecting Spain's claims to
| the Carolines.
| ONE OF Houston's bullion trains was re-
| Gently attacked by robbers while en- route
| from the Sierra Mojada mines to Parral, a
| station on the Mexican Central Railway.
1t was reported that four of the escort
were killed.
AN unofficial report has reached the
United States Minister at Lisbon that fifty
American Methodist missionaries-men,
women and children-under the care of q
Bishop, recently landed on the west coast
OF Africa, and were in an utterly destitute
condition. A tract of land was granted
them on which to make a permanent set
Element.
The returns issued by the English Board
OF Trade show that the imports during the
month of September decreased E., 29O, 900
and the exports fl,SS0,0O0 as compared
with September, 1884.
The trial of the Socialists, Vollmar,
Bebel, .Auer, Deetz, Frohme, Viereck,
Helmet, Mueller and Ullrich, which began
at Chemnitz, Germany, September %, was
concluded October Z, the prisoners being
acquitted.
The Secretary of the Knights of Labor
reported an increase of 700 per cent. in the
membership the past year.
AN extensive confagration took place in
Aldersgate street, London, on the morning
of the Sth. The loss was estimated at over
a million dollars.
A DISPATCH from Rome announces that
the Very Rev. D. j. Quigley, Vicar General
of the diocese of Charleston, S. c., has
been appointed Domestic Prelate, with the
title of Morsgnor. This is the first priest
in the South so honored.
THE funeral services over the body of
the Earl of Shaftesbury were held in
Westminster Abbey, London, on the Sth,
and were attended by hundreds of poor
people whom he had berriended.
The fisheries of Labrador proved an al
most complete failure this season. The
Canadian Government dispatched a vessel
loaded with provisions to relieve the neces-
sites of the people, who were reported on
the verge of starvation.
The New Zealand Government has re-
newed the mail service between New Zea-
land and San Francisco. The Union Line
steamers will carry the mails via Sydney
and Auckland to Honolulu, and the
Oceanic Line will carry them between
Honolulu and San Francisco.
THE movement for annexation to the
United States received fresh impetus re-
Gently in Cuba. Many prominent Span
iards favored the movement as the only
way out of otherwise inextricable difficult
ties.