The Iola register., 1886-06-25


Tn Unitsd States man-of.war ksarsags,
ssnporarily The flagship Of Admiral Frank
Lin, b ct Constantinople and will remain .
month. Application has been made for per-
mission for the Kearsage to enter the Black
SEQ. Tho United States steamer Pensacola
win remain at Smyrna
DJEUNNB ALExANDRR PAUL BoTrEAU,
famous French author, died recently in
Paris, aged 56.
DEJIoED PAsHA has been named as Turk
fish Minister of Justice to. succeed Eervia
Pasha, deceased.
BIsHoP DUHARxEI, Of Ottswa, Ont, has
issued q circular denouncing the Knights of
Labor and warning Catholics not to join
the order.
NEARLY all the landlords about Kilrush,
Ireland, have reduced rents from 10 to IS
per cent. The tenants where the landlords
refused a reduction, have declined to pay.
QUEEN VICTORIA has offered the Comte
de Paris the use of Claremont Castle dur
ing his exile from France, but the offer has
been declined as the Comte does not intend
to reside permanently in England.
The Liberal local Government, or seces.
sion party, of Nova Scotia, was successful
at the elections by large majority. The
supporters of the Government claim
twenty mine of the thirty eight seats.
JUAREz SELMAN has been elected Presi-
dent of the Argentine Republic.
TWELVE or fourteen lives were lost and
81, ,OOO, 600 worth of property destroyed by
the fire which recently ravaged Vancou-
yer, B. c. The fire was blown in from the
prairies by q storm.
PRINCE LUIrPoLD, of Bavaria, has re-
ceived kilograms of coincidence from Ger
man and foreign potentates; also tele-
gram from the Emperor William, lament
ing King Ludwig's death. and rendering
his deepest sympathy, ''of which," he says,
tour long friendship will assuredly con-
vince you"
In the inquest in the case of Mccormick,
who was shot in the recent Belfast riots,
Inspector Green testified that the cOnsta-
bles began firing without orders; that he
stopped the firing as soon as possible and
that the riot act had not been read before
the firing. The jury rendered q verdict Of
willful murder against policemen whose
names are unknown.
The increase in imports into America
during the last nine months was s39, 392, :
5ll, while the exports fell off 81, ,662, 1S5 in
the same time.
DURING the recent elections at Santiago,
Chill, q great riot occurred, in which forty
persons were killed and many wounded.
Senior Dinator, prominent member of the
Radical party, was killed. The result Of
the elections was supposed to be in favor
of the Liberals.
The North American Turnerbund has de-
cided to use both English and German in
the Turner schools.
A TELEGRAM from Sargon says that two
French officers have been killed with poi
soned arrows at Thankow. There have
been fresh massacres of Christians in An
nam. The rebels have burned some vii
lagos near Touraine.
A FRENCH transport boisted the flag Of
the republic of France upon one of the ISL
ands of New Hebrides on the morning Of
June 1. The Captain of the vessel ex-
changed visits with the commander of the
British man-of-war stationed there.
A TRAVELLER from Nicaragua stated re-
Gently that a terrible eruption of the vol
cano Mommomtombo occurred May q.
The capital city was wrecked by the earth
quake which followed, and Realjo was in
danger of being buried in ashes. Many
lives were lost and excitement was in.
tense.
AN appalling mortality is reported
among the British troops stationed at As
souan. One hundred and six men of the
desert regiment died in two weeks re-
gently.
A PARTY of Chinese recently boarded
the Dutch steamer Hokieanton, of Riegas,
near Penang, killed the chief engineer and
mate and took prisoners the second engin-
eer and captain and his wife. The engin-
eers were Englishmen.
THE trial of the machinery of the new
Government steamer Atlanta proved very
satisfactory.
AT Colon, United States of Colombia, re-
Gently. the authorities attempted the ar
rest of an unruly sailor of the American
bark Don Justo. The rest of the crew re-
sisted, when they were fired upon by an
augmented force and three of them killed.
Three others were dangerously wounded
A TERRIBLE affray has occurred at Bogo-
tn, the capital of Colombia, between the
guard Of the prison and members of the
National battalion. One general, several
officers and thirty soldiers were killed.
The cholera has appeared at Codigors
on the Po, eight miles from the Adriatic.
At Venice the daily average of new cascs
of the disease is sixteen.
THE LATEST.
CLEARING house returns for week ended