The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-03


Gle, has made formal demand upon the
Amssr Of Afghanistaa for the cession oe
the oasis Of Khoja Saleh.
EIaHrY.1HREE new cases Of cholera and
thirty-seven deaths were reported on the
24th in the various infected districts OF
Italy,
Two masked robbers raided the stage
near Calgary, Manitoba, recently, obtain
ing about $500
ERTHER disorders, but without loss of
life, were reported in Belfast on the 18th,
tho mob confining themselves to stonin6
tire police. Six arrests were made.
The British corvette Diamond took pas
session, in the name of the British Crown,
of the Kermadec islands, in tho South Pa
cific ocean, August 1.
The revulsion of feeling in Bulgaria
when the facts of the kidnapping of Prince
counter revolution was started aud the
conspirators thrown into prison. Alexan-
der was released from the vessel on which
he had been kept prisoner and told to go
where he liked. The people were enthusi-
astic for his return.
DISPATCHES from Tientsin state that tho
Chinese Government has decided to dis
patch troops to the neighborhood of Port
Laaareff as q precautionary measure
against the reported design Of Russia to
seize that place.
THE international canoe race took place
On the 18th over the course by the camp OF
the canoeists, on Grindstone Island, St.
Lawrence river. r W. Gibson, of Albany,
was the winner. The English canoeist was
eighth in the race.
EIGHTY.FOUR new cases of cholera and
thirty-eight deaths were reported in Italy
on the 26th.
The Holland Chambers have passed the
bill increasing the duty on foreign raw
sugars.
A COVENANT between England and Ger
many has been signed. amicably settling
the New Guinea boundary question.
THE Bank of England has advanced the
rate of discount from 81 to 81 per cent
RUSSIAN officials, on the 18th. denied EN-.
phatically that they had any thing to do
with the abduction of Prince Alexander.
The Prince had arrived at Darmstadt. He
resolved to return to Bulgaria on hearing
of the counter revolution.
sleeping car baths in Canada they will he
adopted in this country.
A ST. ANDREWS bay pilot reports the
seizure of the American schooner j. Ken
nedy, of Calais, Me-, for violation of the
revenue laws in trading in two British
ports. She had carried a cargo of coal
from Sydney to st. Andrews.
SIR j. E. GORsT, Under Secretary for
India, stated in the British House of Com
mons that the loss of life caused by the
breaking of the Irrawaddy rivers en-
bankment in Mandalay, Burmab, was only
twenty five. No Europeans had been
drowned.
THE shipping trade Of Glasgow, Scot
land, was reported in a worse condition
than ever before known, and the depres-
sion was entirely due to the low rates of
freight Thrty-fOur steamers and 1913 ships
belonging to that port have been idle for
the last two years.
THE French ship LEtoile, of the Grand
Bank On. F. fleet, was wrecked at Kalano
Island and twelve of her crew drowned.
Another fishing vessel was lost at Port de
Grave, and Captain Hunter, his son and all
hands were drowned.
CoSRADI, recently arrested at SimferO.
pol for spreading heresies, has been re-
leased as result of interposition of Mr.
Lathrop, Uuited States Minister, and or
dered to leave Russia. His offense was
baptising persons of the Lutheran faith.
THE Paris Figaro revives the rumor that
President Grevy's resignation is imminent
on account of his failing health.
ANOTHER strike is brewing among the
miners of the Baltimore G Ohio railroad,
of wages being the cause.
1T is reported that the Halifax On. 81
Sugar Refinery Company is in financial
difficulty. The refinery is one OF the largest
and best known in the world. The concern
has a capital of $1,000, 900 and has been in |
operation only few years.
THE schooner Belle Mitchell, from Chi.
cago to Ogdensburg with corn, went ashore
near Port Colborne, Ont, recently during
a fog. She was on a rocky bottom, but
was making no water.
THE business failures for the week ended
August % in the United States aggregated
Ill and in Canada 30, against total of lS6
the previous week.
The Parnell amendment to the Queen'a |
speech was rejected in the British Com |
mons by 3O4 to Isl.
GLADsToNE's brochure on the home rulo |
question was issued in London on the 27sh. !
THE LATEST.
Two hundred Anarchists met at Cleve- |
and, Ohio, recently and denounced the |
ction of tde Chicago jury in convicting |
he bomb throwers. They threaten trouble. |
A COLLISION occurred on the South Aus
rian railway at Noding recently. 1t is
eported that the killed and wounded |
lumber forty.
PRINCE AIEXANDEs left Lemburg on the |
Sth for Bulgaria. A telegram was sent to
lis father by NJ. Stambulofr saying the Bull
:arian nation and army longingly awaited
he Princes return. Yankotf, Grueotf and |
Tenant, leaders of the revolutionists, who
'orccd the Prince to abdicate, have been
ried by court martial and sentenced, the
wo former to death and the latter to i'm,
risOnment for life. Russia warns Alex
nder against returninguto Bulgaria.
THE citizens of McCulloch County, Tex
ED meeting recently and adopted reso-
Itions ordering all Mexicans not Ameri-
an citizens to leave the county within five
avs or they would be hung. Each Bfexi-
an was served with the notice and left
7ithin the specified time.
Ar Chattanooga, Tenn, the Knights of
.abor recently met in convention aud
candidates for the State Legis-
ature and city Council. This is the first
ction of the kind taken in the South since
IS organization.
THREE Italian laborers employed on the