The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-27

ELIZA WooD, . negro woman, Of Jack
son, Tenn, poisoned her mistress, Mn.
Wooten, with arsenic recently. On the
death of Mrs Wooten becoming known an
Infatuated crowd took the negro woman
from jail and hanged her to . tree. shoot
ing into her body.
GENERAL.
SEVEN train loads of pilgrims left Paris
for Lourdes on the 18th.
The report that Captain Lawton's COM
mand had been captured by Mexicans has
been authoritatively denied.
CENTRAL RUSSIA, especially the Moscow
district has been devastated by tornadoes
and waterspouts. Many buildings and
bridges and whole crops have been de-
stroyed.
A SPRING from which flows petroleum OF
fine quality has been discovered at Fer
rand, Auvergne First. in France.
GLADSTONE has written to the mayor OF
Cork saying he can not visit Ireland. He
adds he hopes for a short holiday on the
continent.
In the election in Newton, Lancashire, to
fill the vacancy caused by the elevation to
the peerage of Cross, Mr.. Leigh, COnserva
tive, was elected.
The biography of Boulanger is selling
largely on the Paris boulevards. 1t is sup
posed to be the work of an enemy. whose
intention was to ridicule him by extrava-
CANT lau,iation. Figaro affects to believe
the work was inspired by the General HIM
self, whom it compares with Bernhardt.
The publisher has been notified to stop the
sale.
FIVE seamen were killed recently by an
explosion in the coal bunk on the Queen
of the Pacific at NanaimO.
The Canadian steamer, Francis Smith,
was seized at Mackinac Island on the 10th
for violating the customs laws.
SEVEN train loads of pilgrims left Paris
for Lourdes on the 18th.
The British Afghan commission Is ex-
pected to return to India in September.
FURTHER shocks of earthquake were felt
in the island Of Malta, in the Mediterra-
mean, on the 18th.
The iron masters of England have de-
cided to reduce the output of pig iron 70
per cent.
The centennial anniversary of the death
of Frederick the Great was celebrated
quietly at Pottsdam on the 18th, in &C.
cordance with the wishes of the Emperor.
THE London Socialist Williams. who was
convicted of obstructing the streets and
sentenced to pay a fine Of 800 or go to
prison for two months. has declined to pay
the fine and been sent to prison. The So
cialists have called an indignation meet
ing.
An American named Conradi has been
imprisoned at Simferopol, Russia, for
spreading Jewish heresies.
THREE British schoOners have been seized
by the revenue cutter Corwin for seal fish
ing in Alaska waters.
CHOLERA has made its appearance at Car
niola, Austria.
FIVE Chinese have been killed and Q
hundred wounded in riots in Nagasaki.
Japan, recently.
The President Of Uruguay was shot in the
cheek by an assassin on the night of the
18th, at Montevideo. An infuriated crowd
seized the criminal and beat him to death.
A HOUSE in course of construction col
lapsed at Carlsruhe recently. killing eight
wOrkmen and injurtHg several Others. The
architect has been arrested.
The London Times announces the APP
pointment of two royal commissions, one
to inquire into the agrarian difficulty in
Ireland and the other to inquire into pub
lie works and artificial drainage.
A LARGE quantity of dynamite has been
stolen from mine in Hanover, and it was
feared that it was taken to England by an
archists. A miner was arrested on sus-
picion.
MICHAEL DAvITT denies the receipt of a
cablegram from Parnell calling him home
at once.
The Swiss Bundesrath has adopted
stringent measures to prevent the import
alton of cholera from Italy.
The North German Gazette, of Berlin, states
that Prof. Brackenbush, the German ex-
plorer, has made n large annexation Of
territory in parts of Patagonia in the name
Of Germany.
THE newspapers of the country generally
expressed satisfaction with the verdict
against the anarchist prisoners at Chicago.
THE Central Traffic Association has or
dered the abrogation of switching charges
of $40 per car on grain. This will lower
the tax on the storage Of grain in elevators
for short periods in Chicago.
FORTY houses were burned recently in
Bourg st. Augustine, France.
THERE were sixteen new cases OF cholera
and three deaths in Trieste, Austria, on
the Goth.