The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21

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GOVERNOR HUGHES, Of Arkansas, has
offered a reward of 500 for the arrest Of
each Of the parties who stole the Pulaski
County ballot boxes.
Dock DARGAN, colored, aged nineteen,
was hanged in the Jail at Bennettsville, s.
c., the other day for murder.
DISTRESSING reports have been received
Of ruin wrought by foods in South Caro-
lima.
The French harvest is estimated to bc
10000. 900 hectolitres short and q famine is
feared in Egypt, ~ all hope Of a further
rise in the Nile has been abandoned.
TIE Duke OF Aosta was married to Prin.
cess Letitia Bonaparte, his neice, at Turin,
Italy, on the 1lth. The ceremony was con.
Quoted with much pomp. Cardinal Ali.
monda officiating.
IT has been discovered that Director
Pulitin. Of the secret police Of st. Peters,
burg, Russia, is in the pay Of bandits and
thieves and has been receiving heavy
tribute.
The Portuguese gunboat Bengo has gone
to Tangiers to support Portugal's claim
against the Sultan OF Morocco.
EIGHT persons were killed and FIVE in.
jured by q threshing machine explosion
near Giron, France, the other day.
The executive committee Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company has decided to
recommend dividend of Ia per cent for
the current quarter.
IT Is reported in Berlin that the Russian
Government has persuaded General Bou.
LANCER, Of France, not to visit St Peters.
burg.
VARIOUS Central and Northern Dakota
points reported frost on the 18th. Aber-
deem reports corn injured in some localities
and others far enough advanced to escape.
Flax appears uninjured. At FIardreau
only the vines were injured, corn and fax
being well well out of the way.
COFFEE gambling, similar to that at
Hamburg is going on at Antwerp. Meas
ures are demanded to suppress these op.
erdtions.
FLOODS in the provinces of Lombardy
and Venice have destroyed number Of
bridges and done much damage to proper.
ty. Many persons have been drowned.
THE statement that famine in Egypt is
feared because of the failure of the crops
is officially declared untrue. The Nile is
rising slowly and the crops will be equal
to those Of 1884.
OWING to the illness of his son. upon
whom a painful operation has been per-
formed, Hon. Carl Schurz will not be able
to return to America before the end Of
October.
By the wreck Of the Italian steamer
South America in a collision at the Canary
Islands recently, thirty-six passengers
were drowned and four soamen.
A CABLE message from Rear Admiral
at Yokohama, Japan. announces
that the United States steamer Monocacy
has been declared unfit for general ser.
vice.
WILLIAM REDMOND, Irish Member of
has been sent to prison for
three months for offenses under the Crimes
act.
THE troops of the Ameer of Afghaniston
are said to have had an important victory
over the rebels. Ishak Khan's father.in.
Law was among the captives.
TIE preparations for q German expedi.
bon to search for Emin Bey progress act.
iveiy. Two hundred Thousand marks have
been subscribed for the expense of the
Four hundred Irish stevedores, EN-.
ployed in Glasgow harbor, Scotland, have
been dismissed. They will be replaced by
from Belfast. 1t ives feared
that q riot would ensue.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamer
Nepaul, bound for London from China,
went ashore the other night near Mar
,eilles. All hands were saved. The cap
tain. however, died shortly after from
stroke of apoplexy, which resulted from
the severe shock the accident caused him.
BUSINESS failures CDun's report) for the
seven days ended September Is numbered
IL, compared with 224 the previous week
md 1Ss the corresponding week of last
year.
TEE Chinese of Hawaii threaten relel.
ion. The males of that race number more
han the males of all other races. native
md foreign, on the Sandwich Islands, and
therefore much alarm is felt.
MAJOR BARTRLLOT, engaged in the Stan.
ey relief expedition, has been murdered
~ his native carriers.
THE LATEST.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written to a
friend denouncing as a falsehood the
statement that he believed in free trade
Is he believed in the Protestant religion"
SOME 500 members of the Irish American
Republican League of Chicago visited
General Harrison at Indianapolis on the
18th.
CLEARING house returns for tae week
ended September Is showed an average
Increase Of 81 compared with the corre-
week Of last year. In New York
he increase was So.
BUSINESS was active and prices irrcgu-
ar on the London Stock Exchange during
he week ended September Is. In Paris
'rices declined, three per cent. rentes
howing a decline of thirty ceutimes. In
prices were weak and business
yas dull.
CHARLES A. PERCY. Of Rochester, N. Y,
vent through the whirlpool rapsds at |
Niagara successfully in a boat on the 10th. |
His boat capsized on striking the rapids,
'ur Iighted itself soOu afterwards.
MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE was re.
'orted much better at Hartford, Conn.,, on
be- 10th
CALVERT Bios. extensive wooden factors
t Halifax. Eng, have failed with llabili-
les of $G0U, 600.
THE entire business portion of Florence,
Wis.,, was destroyed by fire recently, caus.
ng total loss Of $IEi,oO0. on which the in.
urance was only $sO,O0O.
ADvIcEs from India say the widow Of a
'rahmin viliaser near Cawnpore recently