The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-23

Ar Eastland, Tex, recently In . quarrel
between John and Thomas Ellison and w.
G. Hardin, Thomas Ellison was killed, and
Hardin fatally, and John Ellison slightly
wounded.
E. F. OusLANp, agent for the Mississippi
Valley railroad at Hollandale, Miss, alb
seconded recently with the company's
money, but was captured.
ALL of the strikers who resumed work in
the shops at Palestine Tex, have been ex-
PEELED from the Knights of Labor order.
GENERAL.
THERE was a rumor on the 10Th that
Greece had declared war against Turkey.
The Sultan has donated e400 to the Pas
teur institute fund.
GENERAL TCHERNAIEFF declares that it
will be impossible to construct and main
tain line of railway from Merv to Box
hara because of the great intervening des-
erts of loose, shifting sands He advocates
such an improvement of the ANU Darea,
which flows midway between these points,
as will permit of its navigation by steam
boats.
The Egyptian Government announces it
il ready to deliver at Suez samples of the
petroleum recently discovered in the Sou
dan.
THE bill Incorporating the company that
will construct tunnel under the Northum-
berland Straits to connect Prince Edward
Island with the mainland at cost of S.
100000, has passed a second reading in the
Canadian Parliament.
INSURGENTS besieged Bakel, in Senegal,
for three days recently, but were finally re-
pulsed by the French.
The Earl of Shaftesbury shot himself
through the brain in London recently. He
was suffering from mental depression ut
the time. He succeeded to the title last
year, at the death Of the well known phi
lanthropist of that name.
DR.. PAUL PAQUIN, the Missouri Veterin-
arian, now in Paris studying under Prof.
Louis Rural World, in which he advocates
the immediate destruction of pleuro-pneu-
monia affected cattle.
AN emissary is said to have left Khar-
toum for Cairo, Egypt, with proposals of
peace from Ell Mahdi's successor.
The Upper House of the Prussian Land
tag has accepted the Ecclesiastical bill
with the amendments offered by DR.. Kopp,
Bishop of Fulda.
THE German Reichstag has adjourned
until May IS.
THE election returns in Peru indicate
that Caceres is elected to the Presidency.
favor
MINISTER McLANE presided at abanquet
in Paris on the 14th in honor of NJ. Pasteur
NJ. De Lesseps made a speech clarifying
the Panama canal.
DIR. j. H. ARNETT, superintendent of the
American Express Company, died at Nj
agara Falls, Ont, recently, from the effects
of stroke of apoplexy. He was seventy
years of age.
THE Dutch Ministry have resigned. he
cause the Chamber of Deputies rejected the
Government proposals modifying the pri-
mary education laws.
THE upper house of the German Diet has
adopted the bill for Germanizing Poland.
THE Austrian Reichsrath, by large ma
jority, has rejected motion to shelve the
bill.
THE deficit in the English budget amounts
to 2l642, 943, a lutte less than at first re-
ported. The taxes on spirits showed large
falling off. There were increased receipts
from the taxes on tea, tobacco and fruits.
THE Mexicans were reported at war with
the Yaqui Indians.
The cholera was reported raging at
Brindisi, Italy. Sixty-eight cases and ten
deaths occurred in one day.
Tur b,cinacc fol ,,roc fnr tho corou IL,
ended the 18th numbered: For the United
States, 1865; for Canada, %; total, lS2. The
failures were 2i5 the previous week.
THE Greek Chamber of Deputies has
voted all tie bills for military prepara-
lions.
THE pig-iron manufacturers of Great
Britain have agreed to restrict the output
in order to maintain prices.
THE French garrison at Bakol, Senegal.
made a successful sortie lately, killing 400
rebels and losing only seven privates.
THE King of the Sandwich Islands has
issued an order that no Chinese should
hereafter be permitted to enter the king
dom without a return certificate.
Mr.. GLADSTONE introduced his Irish land
purchase scheme into the Commons on the
10Th. The scheme involved loan Of $50
100000.
THE mills of the Waycross Lumber Com.
pany at Waltcrtown, Ca, burned the other
day. The loss was estimated at 5000:
insurance, $4,000. Four hundred persons
were thrown out of employment.
THE LATEST.
A TERRIBLE confagration took place in
Strv. Austrian Galicia, on the 18th. Over
500 houses were burned and more than 100
lives lost by falling walls, etc.
THE milk train on the RENSSELAER, q Sar-
atoga railway, near Albany, N. ", col
lided recently with two fiat cars loaded
with huge granite blocks. attached to a sta
engine. Passengers were shaken
up, but no one was seriously injured.
TIE Bishop of Madrid was shot and
fatally wounded by a priest whom he had
dismissed from his charge, on the 18th.
Tie priest afterward attempted suicide,
but was prevented and arrested.
TIE Senate was not in session on the 18th.
The House passed a number of small APP
bills.
SECRETARY MANNING on the 18th was
able to sit up and had recovered the free
use of his limbs.
THE Treasury Department has received
notice that the Canadian Government has
fixed an additional duty of ~ per cent. on
all sugars imported into Canada through