The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-14

village Of Jennings, La, has been de-
stroyed by fire, causing $4,000 loss.
TEE Republicans in the Tenth Virginia
district have renominated Jacob Yost for
Congress.
RErURxs from all but nine counties OF
Arkansas give the Democratic State ticket
q majority of 1880. The other counties
will not materially change this vote. Both
houses of the Legislature are Democratic.
INrxLLIGENcE has been received that
the Hatflelds, of Logan County. who were
charged with the murder of old man Nc
Coy and his family near Pikeville, KY,
have had their trial at jackson and been
acquitted.
LoNGsHoREMEN ON strike at Fernandina,
Fla, became riotous recently and fifty Of
them were arrested.
CONGRESSMAN JAMES E. COBB has been
nominated by the Democrats Of the Fifth
Alabama district.
GENERAL.
NJ. FERRY, in . recent speech, admitted
that the next general election would be a
struggle between the French Republicans
and every thing anti Republican-mon-
archy, empire and Dictatorship. He said
he was in favor of returning to the former
method Of voting, but it depended more
upon union among Republicans to de-
feat Boulangerism.
IT il reported in Ottawa, Can, that the
British Government is taking steps to
establish q naval station at San Juan on
the British Columbia boundary line.
The floods in Bohemia have reached
alarming proportions. At Budweias IL, 000
persons are homeless. The inhabitants
have taken refuge in the hills. The Dam
ube is rising steadily.
A RAILROAD wreck near Dion, France,
on the 9Th resulted in twelve persons being
killed and thirteen severely injured.
MRS. PIERREPoNE MORGAN, of New York,
and some friends while out among the
islands near Kingston. Ont, recently,
were thrown into the water by the capsiz-
Asg of the boat, and Mrs. Morgan lost per-
sonal jewelry to the value of $4,000.
The telegraph operators of the Lake
Shore s. Michigan Southern Railway Com
pany have been ordered to leave the order
of railway telegraphers or their positions.
THE Colorado Railway Association is
discussing the prospect Of low rates from
New York to Colorado to meet the conpe-
tition of the Ocean and Denver and Fort
Worth lines.
SEVERAL vessels were sunk, two SAIL
ors drowned and much damage done in
Havana recently by q cyclone.
ENGLISH capitalists have Joined the
great Austro- Hungarian maize ring, and
the price has taken another big rise.
THE monks Of a prominent monastery
have been expelled from Spain for plotting
in favor of Don Carlos.
AN extensive combination has been
formed by Chicago. st. Paul, Pittsburgh
and New York capitalists for the purpose
of handling, milling and marketing rice,
with the ultimate design of controlling the
entire rice product Of the South.
BRAKEMAN CUMMINGS accidentally ran
against Brakeman Christie on a freight
train while it was passing over Pomquel
bridge, near Halifax, n. S., the other day
and both fell of and were killed.
FLOODS have again invaded the city Of
Leon, Mexico, where several hundred lives
were lost early in the summer.
A REPORT favorable to the project of a
canal from Liverpool to Birmingham,
England, has been made.
AT the trial of Redmond at Arthurs.
town, Ireland, on the 9Th. the police
charged crowd that had assembled out
side the court, dubbed the people with
their rifles and dispersed them violently.
Many were severely injured.
IT was hoped in Shanghai that the inn
migration treaty with America would be
ratified in q moderate form. The discus
sion of the question caused great excite
ment, and there We're several riotous
A mob incensed at the
American Minister'S action, attacked the
official residence at Canton.
THE spinners in the cotton mills at Boil
ton, England, have struck against new
system of weighing cotton.
FROST, which did much damage to crops,
was reported in New England on the 5th.
THE National Marine Underwriters As
has decided not to refuse to in
'ure cotton when well covered, even il
UTE bagging be not used.
THE French Government has ordered an
Of the report that dhows
carrying the French flag are engaged in
he slave trade in Madagascar.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) num-
,ered 254 for the seven days ended Sep
;ember 8.
THE German Catholic congress has
ldopted resolutions in favor of the tenn.
,oral power of the Pope.
NJ. LoNBARDoS, Grecian Minister of the
died in Athens recently.
THREE persons were killed at Matanzas
Cuba, by the recent cyclone.