The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-06

TIM theatsr ct Tinnsvalleh, British In
dia, has been destroyed BY fire. One hum
dred Hindoos were killed and many were
| Infused.
Ar Ottawa, Ont, recently. during wake
on the body Of child, lightning struck the
house, reducing the body to q cinder. Two
young men standing near were instantly
killed and the rest of the people in the
house were rendered unconscious.
A WHITE Bar IN. F.) dispatch states.
what whalers report. that Hudson bay
strait is again frozen over, which is an un-
precedented occurrence at this season. The
report that the temperature is degree
below zero is, however, denied. 1t has not
gone lower than 10 degrees above. The
cold results from immense masses Of Arctic
ice along the coast, and it does not extend
beyond 200 miles from the sea.
RAsUREs, q naturalized American, ar
rested at Piedros- Negroes. Mex. recently,
for stealing horses, was taken out by the
authorities and shot after the American
Consul had demanded his release.
THE Spanish Government agreed to q
resolution offered in the Cortes on the
18th freeing the remaining slaves in the
Island of Cuba.
| A CONVENTION between England and
China has been signed at Pekin. By the
terms of the convention China agrees to
the occupation of Burmah by the English
and promises to encourage trade between
China and Burmah.
The Salisbury Cabinet as announced on
the 2Sth, was as follows: Premier, Earl
Salisbury; Secretary for War, Right
Hon. William Henry Smith: First Lord Of
tho Admiralty, Lord George Hamilton;
Lord High Chancellor. Lord -; Sec
rotary for India, Right Hon. Frederick
Arthur Stanley; Lord President Of the
Council. Viscount Cranbrook; President
of the Local Government Board, Right
Hon. Henry Chaplin; President ofthe Board
of Trade, Right Hon. Edward Stan
hope; Postmaster General. Lord John Man
ners; First Commissioner of Works,
Right Hon. David Plunkett; Attorney Gen
eral, Sir R. E. Webster; Lord Chancellor
of Ireland. Lord Ashbourne.
! KHARToUM, SO Wassis Bey reports, has
been destroyed by the Soudanese rebels.
The peop,e, he declares, are ready to re-
| turn 20 tnolf allegiance.
| HERR SCHWARTZ, the German explorer,
had concluded treaties with several power
full chiefs in the Cameroons country, Al
RIGA, giving Germany the right to estab-
lish protectorates.
| AT Pensance, Eng, recently, a man
named Hawke shot and killed his sister.
her husband, another woman and himself,
a fifth person who was present narrowly
escaping. Hawke was from Australia. No
motive can be assigned for the crime. He
was chatting pleasantly with his relatives,
when he suddenly drew a revolver and
| fred, with the above result.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople says
that Turkey is actively arming. Large
purchases of arms have already been made.
Krupp has received heavy orders for guns
of large calibre. The Turkish Government
has forwarded orders for four hundred
thousand American rifles.
AT the annual meeting of the sharehold-
ers of the Panama canal, at Paris, on the
Goth, De Lesseps. on behalf of the board of
directors, presented report expressing
confidence in the completion of the canal
by June, 1889, within the cost estimated in
1879.
ITALIAN cholera returns of the 29th were
as follows: Bologna, IS new cases. 10
deaths; Manduria, Is new cases, 6 deaths
Ferrara, 10 new cases, 4 deaths; Trieste, 10
new cases, death; Fiume, 3 new cases, 3
deaths, and @ new cases and - deaths
elsewhere.
| ALL the military commanders of North
ern Mexico have received orders to arrest
General Trevino on sight. but it is thought
that he is safe in the United States.
| LIEUTENANT ISRAEL, the African traveller,
has been arrested at Hamburg for fraud.
IT was officially announced in Paris on
the 9th that an international exhibition
would be held in that city in 1850.
! CHINESE pirates have seized the Dutch
steamship Hok, plying between Penang
and Acheen. The pirates killed the captain,
| first mate and chief engineer. The rest of
the crew are held for ransom.
| IN duel recently at Liege. Belgium, be-
tween Artillery Lieutenant Sauvoge and
DR.. Prelle, an army surgeon, four shots
were exchanged, and with his fourth the
lieutenant killed the doctor instantly by
shooting him through the heart.
| IT has transpired that Germany has been
secretly training carrier pigeons in France
for war purposes. General Boulauger has
ordered an inquiry.
| The steam balloon which left Cherbourg,
France, recently, arrived safely in London
with the Rronauts.