The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-27

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the tobacco store of Carter & Co., destroy
ing property amounting to 100000.
| THE United States vessel "Alliance" has
been ordered from New Orleans to Central
America to protect American interests.
| HODGE JUNCTION. Tex, was taken pos
fession of recently by tramps, who drove
the railroad men and citizens out with pis-
tolls.
Two ballots for United Senator were cast
without result in the Arkansas Legislature
on the 10Th. In the last Berry had AZ votes
Dunn IS, Newton II, and Fishback 10.
A FIRE broke out the other morning in
Camps drug store at Petersburg, Va, and
rapidly spread to other buildings Loss,
Sc, 200.
THE jury in the case of William A. Bry-
don against the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road, at Baltimore, gave plaintiff a verdict
for $40, 200. The suit was was brought for
the breach of contract for one hundred and
fifty tons of North Branch coal per day for
three years, from July Is, 1875.
ST. JosEPH's Academy, the mother house
of the order of Sisters Of Charity, at EN-
| metsburgh, Nd, and the finest building Of
the kind in the United States, caught fire
the other morning and was destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
THE boiler at Chambers mill, Newton,
Miss, exploded recently, killing Sam Glass,
fireman, and badly injuring r. III. Wilson
and Marion Chambers, the former fatally.
GENERAL.
THE Albanian insurgents have been dis
persed and the tribal chiefs have solemnly
promised to remain quiet and prevent any
further uprisings.
NATIVE spies at Suakim report messen-
gers arrived from Osman Digna's camp
with news that Kassala had fallen.
WHILE the Governor of Athucemas, a
small island on the coast of Morocco con-
tanning a prison settlement belonging to
Spain, was parleying with several Moors
under flag of truce, his party was at
tackled and he himself and several other
officials wounded.
PARNELL, in a speech on the 18th, ad-
vised 1rishmen in all parts of the
world to use Irish manufactures wher-
ever practicable, which he regarded as a
sure means of bringing prosperity to Ire
land.
A DISPATCH from Berlin, dated the 18th
reported two hundred miners imprisoned
in a mine near Saarbruck, consequent upon
an explosion of fire-damp. All of them
were thought to have been suffocated.
ITwas reported in Paris that instructions
had been sent to Patrenotre. the French
Ambassador to China, to renew the peace
negotiations with China.
A SLAVE girl in Khartoum when the city
fell, states severe battle took place be-
tween Gordon's troops and the Arabs a
fortnight before the city fell.
Louis RIEL, the hero of the Red River
rebellion, recently exiled from Manitoba,
was reported creating dissension among
the half breeds in the Northwest British
Territory and an outbreak was imminent.
In the British House of Commons it was
agreed to introduce bills authorizing the
raising of loans of f10,O00.000 in England
for the completion of railways in India and
fIG0,00o for the railway from Cape Town to
Kimberly, South Africa.
INTERIOR reports from Nicaragua and
San Salvador state that troops were mass
ing on the frontier of Honduras and an at
tack would probably soon be made. Hon
duras was reported in u state of insurrec-
ton.
A Reconnaissance from Suakim on the
18th discovered the surrounding country
swarming with rebels.
EX-HEAD CENTER STEPHENS, recently
expelled from France, was reported desti-
tute and sick in Brussels.
THE Cincinnati Southern Railroad an
nounced recently a reduction in freight
rates from New York to Chattanooga,
from S1.I0 for first-class to forty cents.
THE Chamber of Commerce of Limerick,
Ireland, voted to present an address of
welcome to the Prince and Princess of
Wales.
HEAVY snow storms were prevailing in
New Brunswick recently. In Nova Scotia
the railways were blockaded.
THE German Reichstag committee has
fixed a duty ON cotton goods ut l2G marks
per 100 kilos.
PARNELL subscribed e1O to the Stephens
relief fund.
CARDINAL McCLosKEY was seventy five
years old on the 10Th.
GENERAL GRAHAM had a desultory en-
gagement with Osman Digna's Arabs near
Suakim, on the 18th, the result teing, as
reported, that a position was obtained
commanding the Hasheen valley and facili-
tating future operations against Tamai.
THE LATEST.
IN the Senate, on the 2Ist, Mr.. Hawley
attacked Van Wyck on n uueStipu bf uriy-