The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-15
GEr1ERAI.

GENERAIS
A CROWD Of roughs stoned . picnic party
Of the Royal Irish Society at Belfast re-
Gently. A number Of band men were in.
ju-'ed. The police arrested some OF the as
sailants.
The town OF Hull. Que. opposite Otta-
wa, Ont, was devastated by fire on the
afternoon OF the 5th. About 150 families
were rendered homeless. The loss was
estimated at 500, 600
HENRY WILLARD writes confirming the
statement that he Is about to undertake an
expedition to the South Pole. Dr. Meumery,
director OF the Deutsche Seewafte of Ham,
burg will cooperate with him.
TROOPS recently pursuing Cuban banditti
twice came up with the fu9itives in the
province Of Santa Clara and killed six. It
is thought now that there can not be an or
ganized band in existence.
AN earthquake was reported at Buenos
Ayres on the morning of the 5th.
A sEMIPANIc occurred in the market for
diamond mine shares at London on the 9th
owing to tho banks refusing to make ad-
vances with the shares as security. Some
shares fell five per cent
A TERRIFIC thunder storm accompanied
BY rain, hail and-wind swept through Lam.
ark, Ont, on the 9th, unroofing dwellings
and leveling fences, barns and almost
every thing else. Some farms were left
without fences or outbuildings.
TEE Sultan OF Muscat is dead.
TIE Italian Consul at Zanzibar has hauled
down the Italian flag and suspended rela-
tons with the Sultan.
EDITOR FEDERoFF, Of the st. Petersburg
Novoe Vremya, has been sentenced to six
weeks imprisonment for libelng General
Won Scheltendorf, the Prussian War Min
lister.
TIE schooner Blanche, of Colborne, Ont,
which left Oswego Nays for Brighton has
not reported. and there is no doubt she has
sunk with all hands. The supposition is
that she was struck By q steamer.
TIRE old directors OF the Chicago & North
western have been reelected.
The whole line OF the Nicaragua canal
will be located in Q few days. including
complete through surveys Of the two posi-
BILE locations on the east end known as the
lower route, surveyed by Commander Lull
in 1878, and the upper route, surveyed by
Mr.. Monveal in 1885,.
The Doncastcr (England) spring handi-
cap, straight mile, was dead heat be-
tween Lord Ellesmere's Felix and Lord
Arlington's King Fisher. The stakes were
divided.
The destruction caused by the recent
storm in Canada was widespread. Enor-
nous damage was done to crops just peep
ing from the ground aud young apple
orchards in nearly every locality were de-
stroyed. Hundreds of barns were demol-
ished and outbuildings in scores of cases
were blown away. The loss can not fall
short of $500, 100. Three persons were re-
nrfo lls,1 nd lar n f,ay ariO W
injured.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are raging on
the south shores Of Conception bay, New
found and. At Colbers, nine houses; at
Harbor Grace Junction, seven, and at Seal
Cove seven houses have been burned. At
Little Bay North twenty-six families were
burned out, and one woman and two chill
dren were burned to death.
KING LEOPOLD opened the international
exhibition at Brussels on the 9TH. In his
address he congratulated the people on the
progress Of their industries.
The law providing for Quinquennial ses.
sions Of the Prussian Diet has been offici-
ally published.
SILVER has turned up in South Africa to
a degree to produce new miaing fever.
THE Egyptian cotton crop is reported as
in excellent condition.
THE Montreal CAM street car stables
at Hochelaga were destroyed by fire re-
Gently, 135 horses being burned. Loss,
slCO. 900
The British Board of Trade returns for
May, as compared with those for May, 1857,
show: Imports increased, e2,450, 600; ex-
ports increased, e27SJ,OO0.
IT is semi officially stated in Paris that
England has signed the Suez canal conven-
ton as modified by the Porte.
THE Minneapolis q st. Louis road has
withdrawn from the Western Passenger
Assoc alton.
RUSSIA has imposed tax on petroleum
from all countries, that from America hav-
ing almost ceased.
TIE Italian Chamber of Deputies has
agreed to abolish capital punishment.
By cyclone and thunder storm at Mant-
sell, Nicaragua, the other night eighteen
houses were wrecked and i've persons
killed.
WILLIAM LITTLE, q lumber merchant Of
Montreal, has failed with 81, so, OOO liabli.
ties and s125 600 assets.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June numbered for the
United States, aU1; Canada, %; total, 23j;
compared with 2u5 the previous week and
LIB the corresponding week last year.
The khedive of Egypt has dismissed
Premier Nubar Pasha and summoned Riaz
Pasha to form now Cabinet.