The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-18

THB returns issued by the London Board
Of Trade show that the imports during the
month Of November decreased 9S700c0 ~
compared with those Of November, 1884,
and that the exports decreased 81, GOO,
- compared with those Of the correspond
| ing month last year.
A GIRL who was bitten by . mad dog,
and subsequently, inoculated by Dr. Pas
teur has died Of rabies. DIR. Pasteur ex-
plains that thirty-six days having elapsed
before she was inoculated the period Of in
cubation had expired and the treatment
was too late.
ExeLASp, France and Italy, have jointly
urged Servia to preserve the peace.
The French Canadian workingmen of
Montreal are agitating the question Of inn
portant labor reforms. They demand that
assisted immigration, except for agricul-
taral labor, shall cease.
Miss SUSAN MORSE, daughter of Samuel
F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph,
while en- route for Havana, on the Spanish
mail steamer, disappeared shortly before
the arrival Of the vessel. It was supposed
that she threw herself into the sea in q tenn
porary fit of insanity.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has de-
cided by o vote of 33S to ia to consider the
proposed increase of the duties ON cereals
and cattle.
SENIOR CASTELAR,, IN q recent interview,
admitted that he was not in accord with
Gorilla, and declared himself to be opposed
to a revolution in Spain.
A RECENT telegram from Gibraltar an
nounced that the large Italian steamer
Abyssinia, bound from Genoa for the River
Plate, with 100 passengers, was ashore
near Casabianca. Nothing definite was
known.
RUSSIA was reported making an effort to
/ get q seaport on the Red Sea, and wants to
establish q protectorate over Abyssinia.
IT is stated that the Queen Regent Of
Spain has signed q decree granting am
nesty to political and press offenders includ-
ing all exiles except those who were guilty
Of rebellion while holding military COM
mands. The latter, however, may solicit
clemency. Press prosecutions will be
abandoned and journalists now in prison
released.
Mn. F. A. Chanting, Liberal, who has
been elected to the British Parliament from
Northamptonshire, was born in America
and is a Granddaughter of Rev. DIR. William
Ellery Claiming.
W. E. FORSTER, formerly Secretary for
Ireland, was reported seriously ill.
A DISPATCH from London of the 9th says:
The latest indications place the Liberal
majority over the combined opposition at
six. All the districts except six have been
heard from, and the result is: Liberals,
33i; Conservatives, 2iS; Nationalists, 81; q
Liberal majority over all opposition of
The Mohammedan population of Bull
garis, hitherto neutral, have cast in their
lot with Prince Alexander. The truce with
Servia expired on the 10th and hostilities
were renewed.
KING TnEBAw will be sent into exile at
Arcot, near Madras.
THE Bundesrath has unanimously np-
proved the bill for the construction of the
long spoken of ship canal between the
Baltic, the Elbe and the North Sea. The
canal will cost Germany about $50, 600
marks.
A BUTCHER named Tozzi was arrested at
Rome, Italy, recently charged with the
murder of q rival butcher named Poggi.
Poggi was cnticed into Tozzi's cellar, where
his throat was cut, his blood being caught
in a tub and used in black puddings. The
body was cut up in small pieces and scat
tered in the woods.
Two of the lake barges reported missing
have been discovered; one, the Maxwell, is
ashore near Goodrich, Ont, the other, the
Oneida, is safe in harbor.
A DISPATCH from Berlin OF the 10th stated
that Emperor William was again seriously
sick.
Tue British Government has decided to
reinforce the army in Egypt.
SENTENCE of death has been pronounced
by court martial Upon four Spanish off,
GERS who were convicted of conspiracy for
revolutionary uprising in Carthagena
Immediately after tho death OF King AL
fOnso.
The business failures during the seven
days ended December 10 numbered: For
the United States, 230; and Cor Canada, IL;
a total OF "a, as compared with a total of
259 the week previous. The failures were
increasing in the South and West.
IT was reported that the German Govern
ment would insist on the expulsion of oil
German-Amcricans from the country. 1t
would not tolerate any American or other
colonies in Germany. Men of German
birth living in the country must take their
share OK military and other burdens or
leave.
THE London Times says the powers have
agreed to the union of the Bulsarias.
THE LATEST.
HoS. B. CRATE BROWN, Ex-Governor of
Missouri, died at his residence, Kirkwood,
near ST. Louis, on the 18th, aged fifty-nine
years.
TIE Louisiana Board OF Pardons has |
again refused to commute the death SEN |
tence of Ford and Murphy, tue New Or
leans murslerers.
MAJoR PETER c. Fox, the well known |
died at Dmnviiie. KY, of infiam-
nation of the kidneys on the 13ta.
A MEETING of the creditors of the late |
Archbishop Purcell was held on the 18th at |
Cincinnati. Tie meeting was very excit- |
ing at times, and threats of violence to the |
assignee were freely INDUCED in
by many of the creditors. the meeting
then adjourned for a week.
THE House of Representatives met on the
18th. A large number of departps entail re-
ports were received. Very little business
was done. The Senate was not in session.
COURIER arrived at Silver City on the
night of the 12th with information that
Captain Fountain of troop c Of the Eighth
cavalry and his Scnuts had S,,rpr;saJ tl< |