The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-24
GENERAL

FIRE recently destroyed the business part
of Portage, prairie town sixty miles west
of Winnipeg on the Canadian Pacific rail.
way. Three weeks before fire had de-
stroyed the fire hall and engines, making
it impossible to check the flames until aid
arrived from Winnipeg on a special IL ain.
The loss was heavy.
IT is reported that the British army is to
| be supplied with Fischof's repeating rifles.
The village of Dessau, near Lubbock, Ger.
many, has been totally destroyed by fire.
Two hundred Burmese insurgents have
been killed in an engagement near Pakola
with British troops.
IT has been reported that cholera has
broken out in Chill.
sHABBY. hungry-lOoking man, appar-
emily workman, flung n stone into the
famous study window of the Emperor's
palace in the Inter den Linden, at Berlin
recently. He was instantly arrested. The
Kaiser was not hit nor scared. The pris-
| oner denied that he seriously meant to in
jure the Emperor.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN denies positively
that he is engaged in getting up filibus-
tering expedition Of any kind.
THE Belgian Government has expelled a
French journalist, NJ. st. Patrick, the edit
or of lie INousquetaire, described as the Or
gan of the Comte de Paris, because it
called upon France to counterbalance the
loss of Alsace and Lorraine by anmexing
Belgium.
JOHN DILLON, the Irish agitator, has been
ordered to give bonds in $4,000 or go to Jail
for six months.
ENGLAND has decided to reduce the
Egyptian standing army to 10000 and the
army of occupation to 5000, thus largely
Egyptian Government.
MERLATTI completed his fifty day fast in
Paris on the 18th. The doctors in attend
ance gave him small quantity of special
ly prepared wine before giving him food.
He was in good condition.
SIR JoHN A. MACDONALD, Premier of
Canada, declares that his Government only
acts according to the treaty of ISIS in the
fishery disputes and follows American pre-
cedent in the three mile limit. He also
says that the want of a comprehensive ex-
tradition treaty is because of reticence at
Washington in looking upon dynamiters
as extraditable criminals.
JOHN DILLON, member of Parliament for
East Mayo, William O'Brien, editor Of
United ireland, Matthew Harris, member Of
Parliament for East Galway, aud David
Sheehy, member of Parliament for South
Galway. were arrested on the 18th in the
town of Loughrea, County Galway, charged
with conspiracy to defraud. The charge
grew out of their acting as trustees for ten.
ants.
DISPATCHES of the 10th from Mandalay
state that Colonel Heyland with body OF
British troops recently pursued 200 Dacoits
and killed 200 of them. Many others were
made prisoners and stores of ammunition
were seized in several places.
IT is rumored in Brussels that the London
police have captured three of the Ostend
mail robbers.
The business failures during the seven
days ended December l6 numbered in the
United States go and in Canada %, a total
of 2SS, against 264 the week previous.
The Mexican Congress has adjourned
until April next. The law forbidding bull
fights was repealed and the sport will be
revived.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, claims that the Bulgarian delega.
ton formally offered him tue crown of Bull
garia.
HEAVY storms were recently reported in
the north of Spain the wreckage of
steamers and smacks being washed ashore.
During a severe storm at Marine a church
was unroofed and five persons persisted