The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-05


Vile on the 18th showed marked decrease
in the number of cases. There were eighty.
I'VE new cases and five deaths. Ths
weather was cold, with indications Of
frost.
FIRE at Louisville, KY, on the 2sth de-
stroyed the Ohio Falls oak leather factory,
Loss, $125, 900.
0ENERAI.
MALIGNANT typhoid fever was reported
prevalent at Kingston, Ont.
A FORCE under Colonel Graham has to.
tally defeated the Thibetans at Jelapa
Pass, capturing their camp. Four hundred
Thibetans were killed or wounded. Col.
onel Promhead lost his right arm and
nine Sepoys were wounded. Colonel
Graham was advancing into Thibetan
territory.
A LATE dispatch from Zanzibar says
that three men were killed by natives at
Kellivi. The Germans killed ten of their
assailants. The insurgents seized the
town and rehoisted the Sultan's flag. II
Is reported that all Germans in Lindi have
been murdered and all the Europeans on
the coast are in imminent danger.
THE French court has adjourned the
hearing on the petition to wind up the
business of the Paris. American Exchange
to enable the concern to 60 into voluntary
liquidation which will be arranged under
the supervision of the court.
The. French wheat harvest is declared
expectations.
SEVEN hundred italian laborers created
a riot in the village of Sawyerville, Que,
10 H. h: l:,.n -, -
Eve persons were killed. The laborers had
been defrauded by contractors who had
decamped with the cash. Muck alarm
prevailed, the place being pillaged and the
rioters threatening to cross into the United
States.
IT is reported that an extensive con.
spiracy between ticket agents and con.
dnctors has been discovered by which the
Union Pacific has been greatly defrauded.
1t is claimed that one conductor held up
as many as sixteen tickets on a single
trip, which were returned to a confederate
ticket agent for resale.
In q shipment of wool from Canada to
Philadelphia which was seized recently
were found several fine English blankets
on which a heavy duty is exacted.
THE Spanish Government has ordered
the construction of six cruisers and four
torpedo boats.
CAPTAIN ANGUS HOLMES, of the schooner
Eddie Pierce, laden with $4,000 worth Of
sardines from Eastport, Me-, for New
York, was drowned during the recent gale
Off Cape Cod and the vessel was aban-
doned.
THERE was another cut all around in
east bound passenger rates on the 9th,
and the figures were: st. Louis to New
York via Vandalia, $14.50; Bee Line, $13;
Wabash, $12; Ohio & Mississippi. ST..
FIRE in q hotel at Cronstadt, Russia. the
other day caused the deaths Of fourteen
persons.
ADvICEs have been received from Samoa
that the partisans of King Malletoa have
had an engagement with the army of
King Tamasese and that the latter's forces
were totally defeated. King Tamasese's
army was under command Of the German
officer Brauders.
EIGHTY cases of dynamite exploded on q
wharf at Carthagena. Spain, recently, do.
ing great damage. Nobody was killed.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand British miners
have decided to strike October 90 unless a
general advance of 10 per cent. in wages
should be made.
MICHAEL DAvITT's Irish Wooden Com
pany has declared q dividend of seven per
cent.
seven days ended September q num-
bered for the United States, 1856: Canada,
81: total, go; compared with DDS the pre-
viOus week and 1871 the corresponding week
of last year.
THE st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas rail-
road has been sold to Russell Sage.
THE race for the sculling championship
between Peter Kemp and Hanlan was
rowed on the Paramatta river at Sidney,
N. S. W., on the 2Sth and was won by
Kemp easily by ten lengths.
Two Austrian officers who assembled the
Mangart mountain in the Tyrol without
guides fell over a precipice during a fog
and one was killed.
REPORTS from the Peace river district,
in the extreme British Northwest, state
that the Crees, Beavers and Chippewa
Indians are starving to death because Of
the scarcity of small game. Cannibx;isfn
was reported in one instance.
THE LATEST.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
September % showed an increase of 1914
with the corresponding week of
last year. In New York the increase was
1913
JOHN d. CAPERroN, a printer, and John
Pearce, an old river man, were drowned
just above Louisville, KY, on the night of
the 30th.
On the London Stock Exchange business
was active and prices were firm during
the week ended September %. At Paris
the bourse was fiat. In Germany the