The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-09
GENERAL.

The French Senate has adopted the bill
authorizing the city Of Paris to issue loan
of $50 0OO, 600 to inaugurate and carry on
public improvements for the purpose Of
furnishing work to the unemployed.
A FORCE of British troops with two bat
teries has had severe fight with 500 Bur-
mese rebels strongly entrenched near Sum-
moo. The fight lasted five hours Tho
British, failing to dislodge the rebels, re-
tired. Several officers were killed and
wounded.
Ar Mines, France, recently an audience
of thirty thousand people became enraged
in their disappointment at not witnessing
an advertised bull fight and tore the fit
tings Of the circus to pieces, making bon
fire OF the debris. Troops had . desperate
conflict in restoring order.
EIGHT persons were killed in a railway
accident near Belfast, Ireland. recently.
BEEcHER was warmly received in Lon.
don.
AN explosion Of sewer gas under the Brit
ish House Of Commons caused alarm in
London recently, the explosion at first be-
ing credited to dynamite.
]. II. Dixon, of Bradford, Eng, for whom
ArthurC Preller travelled, was in st. Louis
recently. His purpose was to collect suffi-
Gent proof Of the dead mans identity as to
secure the payment of el,O0O insurance to
his parents.
HERR SUIGNA, Social Democrat and men,
Der of the German Reichstag, has been ex-
PEELED from Berlin.
A PARTY of Mexican revolutionists were
routed at Iona Paieta recently and their
leader captured.
The German imperial revenue for the fis-
cal year 1855 will, it is calculated, fall
100000 marks below the estimate. The
deficiency is attributed to a decrease
amounting to 2O.OO0,0OO marks in revenue
derived from the sugar tax law.
The failures for the first six months of
1886 amount in number to ): ZIG, against e.
OO4 for the first six months Of 1855. The Ii
abilities amount to $50 424. 600 for the first
half of 1885, against s54, -, 600 for the first
half of 1885, showing decline in the num-
Der of failures of SiS, and in the amount of
the liabilities sa4 d, OOO
THE reduction of the public debt during
tho fiscal year ended June 90 amounted to
$50. OOO, OOO against S63, 449, 100 the preceding
year.
THE fishing schooner City Point has been
seized at Shelburne barbor, n. S., for vio-
lation of the customs laws.
AN express train on the Stuttgart & Ber-
lin railway ran into local train the other
day, demolishing the latter and killing and
wounding a large number of persons
None Of the passengers on the express
train were fatally hurt.
IT IS expected that the British Indian
Government will reimpose the import du-
ties owing to the continued decline fin the
rate of exchange.
The British holders of Mexican bonds of
1S43 have resolved to accept nothing less
than 30 per cent face or 20 per cent. with
interest of the value of the bonds
THE election returns in England up to
the night of the I'd showed: Tories, ZOE;
Unionists, IA; Gladstonians, IS. The cleo
especially in London.
WATsON's spinning mills at Kiddermin-
ster, Eng, were destroyed by fire recently.
The loss was 100000. One hundred per.
sons were thrown out of employment.
The peasantry Of Servia have refused
to pay taxes, and have maltreated the tax
collectors in all sections. An outbreak
against King Milan was feared.
THE LATEST.
FRITZ SHAEFrER. LOOMS Bother and
Adolph Spell. three young Germans, went
rowing on the North river at New York on
the 4th. The boat upset and Shaeffer was
drowned. Another boat containing three
men also capszed and Peter Fisher, TWEEN
ty-fve years DID, was drowned.
A "REFORNEp Catholic named Daley
was hustled by Wilkesbarre (Pa.) mob
over the bank on to the edge of the river,
when attempting to deliver an address re.
Gently.
THERE were 155 new cases Of cholera and
46 deaths in the district surrounding Brin-
dist, Italy, on the Sd.
A DRUGGISTS mistake in substituting
acetie for citrie acid was attended with bad
results at Fourth Of July celebration in
Anthony, Kan, recently. The drug was
used in making lemonade of which fifty
persons were badly poisoned and several
likely to die.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
July showed an average increase of 359
compared with the corresponding week of
last year. In New York the increase was
4O.a
BUSINESS was animated on the London
Stock Exchange during the week ended
July 4 Business was also good on the Ger
man Bourse. The Paris Bourse was quiet
The votes cast in Great Britain as re-
ported up to the 4th, numbered: Glad.
stone. 34s, ~; opposition, 81, 752.
The River and Harbor bill was before the
Senate on the Sd. The House was in com.
mittee on the General Deficiency bill.
The exports of specie from New York
the week ended July 3 aggregated $4,044,-
IS, of which s., 81, AZ was in gold for
Europe.
HORACE A. WHITNEY, of New York, CASH
Ter in the United States Treasurer's Office
at Washington, died suddenly the other
morning from apoplexy. He had been in
the Government employ twenty-one years.
CARDINAL JACoBINI has sent q note to n.
De Freycinet, the French Prime Minister,
protesting against the treaty between
France and Corea, which he says sacri-
does the rights Of Catholic missionaries
and residents in Corea- He threatened
that the Holy See would assume protecto
rate over C0rea i1Belf
ON the cattle ranges of Lonoke and
Prairie Counties. Ark, deadly disease re-
Gently developed among the cattle which
were reported dying by scores. The disease
resembled Texas fever.
The Canadian cruiser Terror captured
two more American fishing schooners at
Standpoint, near Shelburne. The schooners
captured were the George n. Gushing and
c. B. Harrington, both of Portland, Me.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON, of the