The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-06

TINS London Ooserssr prouounces the sen
tence imposed on Daniel Doherty, the
American who shot and killed Graham.
monstrous. It declares that the judgment
of Justice Stevens was biased by the opin-
ion he had often expressed that drunken
ness increased instead Of lessened the
gravity of offenses.
MICHAEL DAvIrr, speaking in Ireland 70
Gently, repeated his advice to farmers not
to purchase land At the present time. By
waiting, be said, they would be able to Sc
cure the land ON the basis Of o nominal rent
under the present figures.
TIE residence Of F. L. Guy, . Canadian
Pacific conductor at Winnipeg, Mann, was
destroyed by Dire the other night and he
was burned to death.
CAPTAIN McKIxNoN, of the schooner
Ada n. Hall, from the Grand Banks, re-
ports that on December Z he boarded the
schooner Cordelia. unmasted, waterlogged
and abandoned. She il supposed to belong
that name was lost on the Grand Banks il
the gale Of August last with all her crew.
THE Fenians captured the recent Gaelic
Nationalists and priests withdrew and de-
cided to hold a separate meeting.
ADvICEs from MassOwah state that King
John, Of Abyssinia, is advancing upon that
place BY rapid stages. He has under his
command three bodies Of troops. The first
column is marching via Antalo and Algrab,
and the second via Adowah, while the
route of the third column was unknown.
hue ctn
swept over Greece recently. twenty-five
vessels were wrecked.
The Dublin Gazette publishes an order pre-
scribing reduction of judicial rents through
out practically the whole of ireland, rang
ing from six to twenty-five per cent The
aggregate reduction Is estimated at e.
OOO.OOO
LORD LAysDowNE. Governor-General of
Canada, was painfully hurt about the head
recently at Ottawa, Ont, by . fall while
skating.
AGUDULLA, q small port of Porto Rico,
has suffered by huge wave. Fif;y-three
houses were destroyed. The solid ma
sonry in the cemetery and many bodies
were washed out to sea and lost. Many
vessels were storm bound. The wave was
due to a norther.
THE British Foreign Office has semi
officially announced that Lord Randolph
Churchll's visit to Russia is outside the
knowledge Of the Government.
ADvICEs from Auckland. New Zealand,
say that the French have annexed Raiateu.
The native chief refusing to submit, the
gunboa. Scorpion bombarded the villages.
A DESPERATE fight between Orange men
and Catholics occurred at the village OF
Killybearne, near Cookstown, County Ty-
rome, Ireland, recently. The battle was
finally stopped by the police.
SENIOR LEON Torres, who was seized by
bandits in Cuba and held by them for
ransom, has been released on payment Of
$1,000
DIrnTnERIA and typhoid fever have been
causing great mortality in and about Otta-
va, Ont. owing to the polluted condition Of
the water. The epidemic may cause the
postponement of Parliament's opening.
TnE Mexican Government has granted a
concession to q California capitalist for q
great railroad 10 tap the min ng regions on
the western coast and connecting with the
Southern Pacific.
FRANK FULLER, who killed Archbishop
Seghcrs on the Yukon river in Alaska in
December, 1856, has been found guilty of
imprisonment and to ray a fine Of $1,000.
TIE losses by fire in the iron works Of
the country during the past year were
placed at S4,3Sl, OOo, against S3,4l7,5 500 in
1856
The presence OF English and American
men-of-war at Honolulu, it was stated in
private letters. was the only thing that
prevented a native uprising in Hawaii.
CAPTAIN PAINTER and his second mate,
Fischer, have been arrested in Sunderland,
England, charged with gross cruelty to
their crew, causing three to commit sui
eide and another to die from his injuries.
The vessel was the British bark EmbletOn
from San Francisco.
The Austrian railways were reported
blocked by heavy SHOWS on the Goth.
GLADSTONE had an interview with Presi.
dent Carnot, Of France, on the 29th.
LAST years failures (Dun's report) show
a decrease OF two hundred in number. but
large increase of s54, Co., 900 in liabilities
as follows: 1857, number 9,643; liabilities,
Sl67, 5Go.944; average, sl1.39,; 1856, number,
1854; liabilities, SlI4,6I4. 1l9; average, S11,-
65l. The returns for the Dominion of Cam
ada show 3S2 failures with SIG, AS lia-
bilities; average, ll,S63.
THE Temps, Of Paris. publishes an inter
view with MIR. Gladstone. in which the ex-
Premier describes the Irish Land Com
missioners' rent reduction as - ire
mendous deception" and said he was
thunderstruck at the news. He also said
that the Tory Cabinet, having alienated
the tenants, would now ALLEVIATE the land
lords.