The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-21

In Nsssst1 Of 81 fstersharg. says IL
frontier disputes between Rnssia and China
must end In war bstwesn those countries.
China has massed u, 600 troops in Nanchu-
ria, and they are being drilled by German
oficcra
RECENTLY q President Roco was pro.
ceeding to open the Argentine Congress an
attempt was made ON his life, man strik-
ing him . blow on the head which rendered
him .senseless. The President was taken
homo and it was thought that he was in no
danger. His assailant was unknown.
ASPANIsH loan Of e124, OOO, 600 has been
authorized ON account of Cuba, to be en-
ployed to consolidate the floating debt Of
the colony, the Cuban revenues to be by
pothecated to secure the repayment of the
loan.
die portion of Spain on the 18th. In Mad
rid alone seventy persons were killed by
falling buildings and two hundred were in
jured The wires were down, but it was be-
lieved the damage and loss of life was wide
spread.
SCHUMACHER & SCHULZ, rice merchants Of
London, failed on tho 18th with liabilities
RlS3,O 600 No assets. The failure was duo
to q falling market.
Sir FREDERICK RoBERTs. commander OF
the British troops in India, has been recalled
to take command of the army in Ireland.
The garrisons in Ulster will be increased.
INCEssANr rains were falling in the north
Of England on the 18th causing rivers to
overflow their banks. Sheffield, After
cliffe, Doncaster and other towns were
partly inundated. At Rotterdam tho rail-
way steel works, many houses and thou
sands of acres of lands were submerged
and 1000 workmen were temporarily out
of employment.
A COURIER from Tuvelana brought news
to Tombstone, Ariz., on the 18th, Of fur
Their murders by Apaches. There was
report that the discharged Government In
dian scouts had joined the hostiles,
The total value of exports Of breadstuffs
the past ten months was $95, 54S, AS, against
$l35, 931 ,429 the same time last year.
The Canadian authorities have refused
to honor permit to trade in foreign ports
issued to fishing schooner by the collector
of customs of Gloucester, Mass.
The Universal Submarine Cable Confer
ence opened at Paris recently, Twenty
four states were represented.
In the Canadian House Of Commons re-
Gently Sir John Mcdonald stated that tho
Government proposed soon to grant am
nesty to the half-breeds engaged in the
Northwest rebellion.
The Mexican National railway has been
completed to Patzcuova in the State of
Michoacan.
STEPHENS, the noted bicyclist, now en-
gagged in making a tour of the world on his
wheel, was arrested recently as he was
crossing the Afghan frontier.
A NEW Soudanese mahdi with fifty Arab
followers recently appeared in the vicinity
Of Jeddeh, cut the telegraph wires and de-
feated a detachment of Turkish troops, kill
ing and wounding many of the soldiers.
Another detachment of troops overthrow
whose heads were exposed ON spikes at the
gates of Jeddeh.
FAILURES in the United States for the
seven days ended May Is numbered 100;
Canada, 20; total, $50. Previous week, 1872.
THREE hundred and twenty persons were
killed and $50 injured by the recent hurri-
cane in Spain.
FOREST fires, said to have been set by
fanatical Indians, were reported in the
neighbOrhood of Amecaimela, village of
Mexico.
A DISPATCH has been received from Bata-
via, East Indies that the ship Ice King,
from the Philippine Islands for Boston, was
sunk by collision with an unknown steamer
May z, off Point Lloyds. The Ice King
was a good ship, 1,19S tons burden She
had cargo of about 1880 tons of sugar.
The ship was valued at about $50, 600 and
crew were reported saved.
The trial of Father Galeste, the priest
who assassinated Mgr. Isquirado. Bishop Of
Madrid, on Palm Sunday, in front of the
cathedral, has been set for the end of May.
The prosecutor will ask, besides the death
penalty against the prisoner, that the sum
of $40, 900 be granted as an indemnity to the
family of the Bishop.
NJ. CARTIER, an official holding high
position in the Belgian State railroads, was
recently murdered in Brussels by his
brother-in-law, NJ. Verharen, who it APP
pears had been endeavoring to borrow a
sum of money from him and when refused
had drawn q revolver and shot him dead.
AT Venice on the 18th there were reported
new cases Of cholera and deaths; at
Bari, new cases and deaths, and at Brin-
disi, l new case and death.
THE Latest.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
May Il showed an average increase of So
compared with tho corresponding week Of
last year. In New York the increase was
81
AMERICAN railroad securities were de-
pressed in London, in sympathy with the
depression in New York, during the week
ended May Is. The depression was alleged
to be due to the labor troubles
A CAT-RIGGED boat named Ada upset ON |
the afternoon of the 10Th inside Coney ISL |
and point. There were several persons on |
board, all Of whom escaped.
The jury at New York, in the case of Al ,
derman Jaehne, on trial for bribery, |
brought in q verdict of guilty.
Dan and Lon Mann, who murdered Mar
shall Campbell and wounded Officer McCor-
mick at Barrow, Fla, recently, were
lynched the next night.
The Senate was not in session on the
18th. The bill to establish q sub-treasury at
Louisville led to q debate in the House on
the wasting of public moneys The bill
was passed by l57 to 81.
The total value of the beef and pork ex-