The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02

A WORTHWHILE gun aboard the British
man-of-war Albatross burst recently, kill
ing two men and fatally injuring two 9th
ers.
ONE Of the Russians bitten by mad wolves
and under Pasteur's care has died in Paris
from hydrophobia. This has caused much
unfavorable comment.
The newspapers in Eastern Prussia as
sert that the Emperor of Russia has signed
q decree expelling non-naturalized Ger
mans from Poland. Laborers without con-
tracts must leave within three days, and
those having contracts within a month.
Mechanics are given three months, land
holders six months and manufacturers
nine months within which to leave the
country.
A DISPATCH from London says that the
Hovas under General Willoughby attacked
5000 French troops in Madagascar and
routed them with heavy loss and pursued
them to Tamatave. The French houses in
Tamatavs were shelled by tho Hovas and
DESTROYED. The Hovas returned to the
capital. Their losses were small.
NJ. DELEssEPs, during an address at .
banquet given him by the municipal au-
thorities at st. Lazaire, France, recently,
said that work on the Penama canal was
making good progress, and declared that
the waterway would be completed in 1889.
QUEEN VICTORIA attended corner stone
laying at the College cf Surgeons, on the
Thames embankment recently.
BRITISH troops have defeated 400 Burmese
near Yemethen, killing sixty and captur-
ing many prisoners and guns and . number
of elephants.
PANAMA advices of March 10 report a
family Of seven persons murdered by q
band of miscreants. who were immediai ely
arrested and ordered to be tried by court
martial.
LIEUTENANT MAUs. in Ais last report,
claims that Captain Crawford was DELHI
erately assassinated by the Mexicans.
The strike begun by the miners at Liege
some time ago was reported extending
rapidly all over Belgium and had practi-
cally assumed q universal demand by the
miners Of the country for an increase Of
wages, accompanied by q decrease in the
hours of labor.
An alarming revolt took place recently
in a prison at Chalons. France.
PATRICK EGAN, of the American branch
Parliamentary Aid Association of America
as reasonable to Ireland.
The Pope's approval Of the work Of the
Baltimore Council has been made public.
Strong grounds are taken in it against di-
vorces and forms of church entertainments
| ut which liquor is used and all such as are
| held on Sunday.
PATRICK KENNY, Secretary of the Lon
don Laborers' Union, and a prominent fig
ure in the late riots, has been arrested for
brutally beating his wife.
BULGARIA mas suspended all Russophito
newspapers within its territory. and ar
| rested thirteen Conservative leaders who
were partisans of Sankof the former
Prime Minister.
Miss SHELBY, an American woman. and
Nine. Valsayre, French woman, fought a
duel with swords recently on the field of
Waterloo, Belgium. Miss Shelby was slight
ly wounded in the arm. The quarrel arose
| over the merits of female doctors.
| In the Canadian House of Commons on
! the 25th q vote was taken on Landay' S
motion censuring the Government for
having executed Riel, which resulted in
| the Government being sustained by ma
jority of 53.
ALARMING dispatches were received from
Brussels OH the 25th. The spread of social
| ism and incendiarism, consequent upon the
minors riot, was causing serious apprehen-
sions of the future. Troops were under
arms in the principal cities.
| JUSTICE Butt, of the English courts. has
| decided that a divorce obtained in Amer
lea from the bonds of n marriage performed
| in England was invalid in England.
| NATIONALIST candidates for the board OF
guardians We're recently badly defeated in
County Kerry, Ireland.
THE belief was general in Europe on the
s6th that war between Greece and Turkey
| was inevitable.
TIE business failures during the seven
days ended March % numbered: United
| States, 1871: Canada, "a; total of 22l
| against 22225 the week previous.
A MOE Of strikers marched recently to
the palace of King Leopold, ut Brussels,
and sang the ''Marseillaise." Beyond this
they created no disturbance. A few arrests
were made for disorderly conduct.
THE brigantine Georgiana of Liverpool
N. S., has been three months on voyage
from st. Thomas to Liverpool, and all
hopes of hearing from her are abandoned.
She 'xas commanded by Captain Nat
Zwicker and a crew of seven men.